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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 10h

Seriously though, the last hour or so of the Judy Alvarez romance storyline is quite unlike any I've encountered in a video game. No explosions, no fire, no guns, just storytelling and emotion. A little bit of game mechanics, but mostly it's just story.

Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 11h

Goddamnit, 2077, why you gotta give me feels? Stupid game, being all art and bullshit.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 16h

These hurtful, threatening times fill me with sadness and anger. But I will not let my anger make me cruel or unfeeling, especially towards those I hold dear. Our enemies have not earned our kindness, but nor have they earned the right to strip us of ours.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

What is making me extra upset about this situation is that the city will get less from the open market than what the urban farm has to pay to get the land. It's just obstreperousness (and hating on ward 9) as mayoral policy.

Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

I'd say cruelty has unintended consequences, but I don't think this is unintended. By using homeless people as pawns like this, he forces people to see them which makes it easier for him to scare-monger in an election year.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Continues to be striking how, since Frey erected the greenway fence to Lake/Nicollet, the crowd has returned en masse to 2900 block of Blaisdell. Frey bleats “you can’t have encampments by home & businesses“ but that’s exactly where he’s pushed these folks. Meanwhile 50 housing vouchers go unfunded.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

My brother died of an overdose over 15 years ago. While this wouldn't have helped in his situation, this will save the lives of others. I'm proud of whatever steps we as a city can take to help prevent the pain that my family went through.

Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 21h

Dear neighbor,

I’m excited to share that the City of Minneapolis has installed a new NARCAN® vending machine in Ward 9. You can find this new vending machine in Phillips at Fire Station 5 (2700 Bloomington Ave South). 1/

Jason taking a phone at fire station 5 and the new NARCAN vending machine

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

Same here tho

Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

Hackers? I adore that movie beyond all reason.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 19h

I have always had affection for this building.

captainheck @captainheck.bsky.social · 20h

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 22h

Erhem. "Meow."

Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1d

I am thinking this is not a kitty.

A back porch with a raccoon eating out of a cat food dish

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 1d

This is the horrifying thing people need to be talking about.

It is not hyperbole to say that if we lose the DFL governorship, more people will die.

If you give even a tiny damn about trans folks & other marginalized people, or want to keep MN safe, DO EVERYTHING to fight this & keep it that way.

Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social · 1d

There is a faction actively trying to kill the DFL in Minneapolis.

Which is obviously unwise to anyone who cares about state and federal elections.

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

Ummmmm fucking hello??? Conflict of interest? @dfl.org does anyone there even care about the implications of this??

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't seen the ads. I live an oddly (video) ad-free life, 95% of my video media is on youtube and we've got a family premium plan.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly see Fateh signs in my area. The occasional Frey sign, but mostly on places like slumlord buildings.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Just telling people "Don't Rank Frey", if they remember anything besides Frey's name, will result in people not filling all 3 choices.

Get a sign! (Link in the thread)

Lynxwyze she/they @lynxwyze.bsky.social · 1d

DID YOU KNOW? Recent polling shows by adding votes for the top 3 mayoral challengers in MPLS, our city gets a new mayor!!! But we need to get the word out to RANK ALL 3! When you’re talking to friends and neighbors, no matter who’s your #1, make sure to encourage them to rank all 3.

Yard sign lists Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton- the 3 top challengers in the MPLS mayor race. Then it reads”RANK ALL 3.”

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

It's on all the websites and executive branch phone lines.

Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Offhand, I can't remember a single junta that's handed power back over afterwards. Oh there might be elections but, funny thing, the military tends to get whoever they want elected. Once the 'military taking over the civilian government' genie is out of the bottle, it doesn't quietly go back in.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

I really can't get over the people calling for a military coup. Like... do they genuinely think the kind of general who would organize a coup would just hand power over after committing treason? Historically, coups end really badly for everyone but the junta.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 2d

I guess if they're dead they're not technically homeless anymore?

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 3d

This week we gave away almost 100 fully-signed #ProgressiveDelivery books while we were at #Monktoberfest, and even more than that at #ETLS25 (but fewer signatures).

We are exactly one month from release day!

And look at this pre-order sales ranking!

A screencap of the “Amazon Hot New Releases” page for Project Management. The cover for the Audible version of the Progressive Delivery book is listed at #1. It is also cheap to pre-order, only $14 or one Audible credit.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 3d

Stained Glass Windows in a House on Irving Avenue (1992)
1800 Irving Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 3d

My players exploded an alchemist's lab during a heist that was taking place while a gala was happening on the floor above them last session. I can't wait to see how they dig themselves out.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5d

Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.

A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 3d

AI knows sportball

screenshot of AI-generated text reading "The Mariners have had a number of talented players over the years, including Ken Griffey Jr., Ichiro Suzuki, and Felix Hernandez. The team’s biggest rival is the Portland Trail Blazers, and games between the two teams are always highly anticipated."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"If it’s not clear by now, allow me to spell it out for you: I JUST WANT TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL REPRODUCTION WITH A FEMALE MEMBER OF MY OWN SPECIES BEFORE THE LIGHT OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS IS EXTINGUISHED FOREVER."

“All I Want for My Birthday Is to Fuck Another Mayfly,” by a Mayfly

I’m going to keep this brief. Tomorrow I will shed my nymphal skin and exoskeleton and burst forth in all of my winged adult mayfly glory. I’ll hav...

buff.ly

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