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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine playing basketball at 40.

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 12h

Fosston sucks. Property values tell me that.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

Important letter urging the Hill & Lake Press to stop being the Hill & Lake Press.

Heather Silsbee @hsilsbee.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who receives or reads the Hill & Lake Press!
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Please sign & circulate this community letter to the editors in response to several recent instances of demonstrating clear bias for Elizabeth Shaffer's campaign, in violation of basic tenets of journalistic ethics.

Sign on to a Community Letter to the Hill and Lake Press

Dear Hill and Lake editorial board, As neighbors who receive your community newspaper, we are disappointed by your disregard for journalistic ethics. When you become a reporter, you choose to let go ...

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

Absurd!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

Little oven?

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

Why do the richest people in town want to give a socialist mayor unlimited power?

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

POWER GRAB: 6-5 majority of commissioners on this work group say council shouldn't get a confirmation vote for mayor's picks for directors of public works, community planning/economic development, civil rights, health, emergency management, regulatory services, assessor.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

Apply this language to higher levels of government in this country and see how it sounds: "the executive is having his allies push to change the constitution so that he can hire whoever he wants to lead vital executive departments, with no confirmation vote from the legislative branch."

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

POWER GRAB: 6-5 majority of commissioners on this work group say council shouldn't get a confirmation vote for mayor's picks for directors of public works, community planning/economic development, civil rights, health, emergency management, regulatory services, assessor.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

Mayor Frey is an enigma: A 2-term mayor with a message suggesting he's the zero tolerance on encampments candidate, yet he has presided over an endless string of encampment tragedies. The shootings, fires, the wackamole strategy, those are his results. The rhetoric doesn't match reality.

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

And only one won't someone think of the rich people article

Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

They decided new Hennepin is good and uptown lives

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen the hill and lakes press this week?

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 1d

Minneapolis could learn a lot about urban whimsy from Zurich.

Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 1d

The city of #Zürich replaced a parking lot with riverside seating, opened just a few weeks ago. Even on a chilly fall day, if the sun is out it fills up!

Photo of a shallow river, with low white stone seating installed down the edge of the riverbank in the foreground. Lots of people are sitting on the the stones in the sunshine, with bikes parked behind them. A bridge with multiple layers crosses the river in the distance. There are several large grassy sandbars in the river.

A zoomed in photo of stadium seating along a river bank. The whole seating area is visible, and covered in dozens of black and red and white and blue dots that are people. The seating goes up to a retaining wall that supports a covered bridge across the river. Trees and tall buildings are in the distance.

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 2d

How many hundreds -thousands school board members are in the state?

MPR News @mprnews.org · 2d

For more than a decade, Minnesota has allowed transgender student athletes to compete on teams consistent with their gender identity with little controversy. But following pressure from federal officials, some school board members are calling for the state to end that policy.