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Ash Chudgar
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Minneapolis mongrel, plural being, neuroqueer husband, cat fan. Communication coach and consultant by trade. he/him or they/them. More: chudgar.com
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Stay strong, Minnesota! The heavens themselves are cheering us on with the glorious sunset tonight! 🌅
January 11, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Today ICE agents took my picture and ran away! They must find me both handsome and intimidating
January 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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He has never won Minnesota and he never will. THESE COLORS DON’T RUN
A Minnesota flag flies above the Capitol against a bright blue sky on Feb. 14, 2025, above thousands of Minnesotans protesting the fascist federal regime
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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The NYT’s “quote of the day” today is a wrenching one from our City Council president
Screenshot of New York Times “Quote of the Day: Fatal Shooting by ICE is Latest Blow to Minnesota,” Jan. 9, 2026: “’More than anything, I feel like we’re prepared as a city for events like these. And sadly, it’s because we have been through many events like these.’ ELLIOTT PAYNE, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, as he drove to join thousands of people at a vigil on Wednesday evening after Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman, was killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.”
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Why don’t rabbits just hibernate? I see our neighbor buns, whom we have watched grow up all summer, digging in the snow for bits of bitter frozen plants. It seems so unpleasant & I worry about them
A very fluffy rabbit hunkers down along the snow. Photo by my husband
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Look at this winter freakin wonderland
December 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Today my husband @chugarden.bsky.social and I did identical Wordles independently, both in 4. On our 9th wedding anniversary!! Here are our first three words

ASTER
ROUND
CRIMP
Two phones with Wordle grids on them, both displaying ASTER ROUND CRIMP
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I zoomed in on this so fast @reforest-kelley.bsky.social
A sticker of Kira punching Damar
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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🎵 Frost in my whiskers 🎶
A person in a winter coat and hat (me) shows off the frost in their whiskers after they walked a half-mile from the bus stop
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is a heck of a sunset, Twin Cities!
Winter, 5 above, low mid-century houses repose in snow. A shoal of low mackerel clouds glows vermilion from below, while the sky behind them is gold
December 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Photographer for the Center Forward Committee is doing some remarkable work for Angie Craig here. If you look closely you can see a bale of hay behind Old Glory
Photo of a campaign mailer from the “Center Forward Project.” Under a photograph of Angie Craig (white teeth, denim jacket) among people of various ages (largely white), all clustered around a bunch of hay (agricultural) bedecked with a giant American flag. The copy reads, “While Most Spend Their Time in Washington Playing Games - Angie Craig has Always Stood with Us. Angie Craig is the Fighter We Need in Minnesota.”
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Weekly gratitude practice. What’s everyone grateful for?

I’m grateful for seeing a squirrel startle a bunny in the snow this morning
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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There’s a piano sheet music version of this that I practice every year. Every time I am dumbstruck by how miraculous jazz musicians are, to make this incomprehensibly complicated beauty. I could never, I barely can follow along
A piano transcription of Vince Guaraldi’s jazz version of “O Tannenbaum”
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Thanksgiving at our place. Warmth to you and yours!
A small orange cat looks up at a man dressed in a RealTree camo onesie. He has a bowlback mandolin in his lap, and his stocking feet are propped up by a cheery fireplace fire
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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So @chugarden.bsky.social harvested the Brussels sprouts from under the snow and now they are thawing out. Seems like the thawing of the sprouts might be a pleasant holiday tradition
Some stalks of Brussels sprouts with leaves still attached, occupying most of a bathtub
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This is awesome! Gentle reminder from a Ward 1 resident: Elliott has two Ts 😊
Screenshot saying “Elliot Payne, Council President, Ward 1”
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I love this. Post music you are practicing! Here is what I am working on before bed every night
Sheer music for the first song in Schumann’s *Dichterliebe* for low voice (in F major)
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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In case you need some tiny pink beans, here is Debbie
An orange cat lies in a padded box that is suctioned to a window. Her little pink toes are pressed against the glass. She has green eyes
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I typed in “old” on the emoji picker and this is what came up (tap the photo for the full experience):
Emoji: a black telephone recorder, a red touch-tone telephone, a pager, a 3.5” floppy disk, a VHS cassette, an old-timey iron key, and a fax machine
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“Why does this matter to the Catholic League?” Great question, glad you asked:
Screenshot of an article by Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, titled “MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN”: Why does this matter to the Catholic League? For too long, the media and the chattering class have said that the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal was due to “pedophile priests.” Wrong. The data clearly show that the vast majority of priestly victims were male (81 percent) and that 78 percent were postpubescent. Why is this important? Because it means the molesters were homosexuals. When males have sex with males who are postpubsecent, that’s called homosexuality, not pedophilia.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Scary scene on Central just north of Lowry: apparently a semi hit this school bus coming around the corner. Bystanders say kids were on the bus but were ok
A school bus with a wrecked front end rests partially on the sidewalk Another angle of the wrecked bus, with an MPD cruiser in front
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As a CSA survivor AND a Swift scholar, I find this especially loathsome:

“He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of Lilliput. ‘Gulliver’s playfulness had unintended consequences,’ Mr. Epstein said. ‘That is what happens with wealth. There are unexpected burdens’”
Screenshot from a 2007 NYT story. Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and trind explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of Lilliput. "Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits."
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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This is how someone decided to name their shoe brand
A black shoebox with distressed white text that reads “BROKEN HOMME”
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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“Deer are the sad sacks of American wildlife, so beautiful, so defenseless, so numerous, so dim. Their chief predator is cars.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
@Deer are the sad sacks of American wildlife, so beautiful, so defenseless, so numerous, so dim. Their chief predator is cars.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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