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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson

@mkettleson.bsky.social

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She/They #Minnesota now. Whole decades in #OrangeCountyCA, #WheatonIL, & #OmahaNE. Invested in people, community, data, the scientific method, history, & the future. Real justice is distributive not punitive. Born in St Paul, but love Minneapolis too.

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · Nov 17

The key to sanity — whether in difficult times or in easy times — is to keep your eyes on your best path forward, keep taking your own next indicated step, and keep taking the hands of those willing to walk that path together

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 9h

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 · 9h

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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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, we had a cat who brought mice in, one at a time, to play with. (Never found a dead one; we took the scared little live ones back outside.)

EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 13h

“managing my own overwhelm” without “adding to their overwhelm” = “grace”

EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 13h

to me, “grace” used to be a “faith” concept primarily.

now I am aware of my ASD (diagnosed) as I deal with ASD behaviors in my parents in their late 80s & in my kids who range in age from mid-20s to early 40s

& “grace” is about being the one who models absorbing pain w/o enabling abuse.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 22h

The algorithm just assumes that people who like certain videos will also like other videos that other people who like the first videos like. Not too sinister!

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 23h

I know I said that the Full Moon was the least interesting phase to photograph.

And YET....here you are, anyway, from last night. Is it a super shot? Idk but it is a supermoon

#photography #astrophotography

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know that I expected to still be marching against the same genocide two years later. It is a heavy thing that nothing has been able to stop it yet.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

Today.

Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 4d

In the Twin Cities, the Free Palestine Coalition is having a march starting at the federal building in downtown Minneapolis on October 7 at 5pm.

Protest graphic posted by MN Christians for a Free Palestine. The graphic shows a crowd with Palestine flags and signs. The text says “two years on, end the genocide! Tuesday, October 7 at 5pm; Federal Building 300 S 4th St Minneapolis”

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Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 1d

So, in some good news, it appears that Lauren Groff, Ann Patchett, and Elizabeth Strout all have new books out in 2026.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

I think most religious traditions have within them the seeds of empire and of resistance to empire. One of the ways I look for who to emulate is what a person or part of that tradition does when the empire seeds are being cultivated.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

this is a disgusting and beautiful thread that makes me feel less alone in the world

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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david schlenk pumpkins @schlazor.bsky.social · 2d

photographs of the sunset

Beach in the foreground with a hotel on the left and general commerce to the right but mostly it’s the sky and it’s on fire from the sunset.

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 2d

The art of the deal?

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Lord Baron McCabre @lordbaronmccabre.bsky.social · 2d

In much lighter posts.

The most orange-ist orange that ever did orange right now today as of this post.

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 2d

Or hashtag?

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 2d

We have that kinda cat eating our outdoor-cat food too!

EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 2d

I am actually pretty grateful that we get to balance our trauma and horror at the loss of all of our rights in the MAGA-power-at-all-costs thing with infatuation and joy in the New-Heights-Life-of-a-Showgirl thing. There is nothing like fear and uncertainty to set us all up to fall a little in love.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 3d

I want to talk for a moment about a genealogy project that led me to the Fergus Falls State Hospital records, a place people used to be forcibly committed to.

(Added Alt text on image from op)

This journey started because I was looking for the original hometown of a Ukrainian immigrant to MN.

"I'm gay, very much a liberal Democrat, but compassion fatigue is a big thing," he said. "I don't want to walk on the street [to avoid homeless people]. I want to walk on the sidewalk."

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:

1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...

How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State

A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley.

truthout.org

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 4d

It takes so much work to boil down wonky details to something understandable. This is such important work and I’m grateful for it

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TikTok video by Erin Maye Quade

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3d

“As white Christian nationalists jump off the Zionist bandwagon, we’ll witness a real rise in antisemitism. Because white Christian nationalists are incapable of differentiating Zionism from Judaism.”
soulaccompaniment.substack.com/p/67-getting...

[67] Getting Clear.

On the day after Rosh Hashannah, a Jewish friend of mine reached out.

soulaccompaniment.substack.com

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EmKay Kettleson-Anderson @mkettleson.bsky.social · 3d

Why my kid who lives there went camping in Grand Marais this weekend!

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 5d

Dear sweet crickets ...

Yeosang of Ateez has a solo song out, here is the M/V. Not to be objectifying but yes the man is JACKED holy shit.

I'm just gonna rewatch this.

Respectfully.

Very respectfully.

youtu.be/J2I21hGkbqo

ATEEZ(에이티즈) 여상 'Legacy' | ATEEZ Present

YouTube video by ATEEZ

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