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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks
@stribrooks.bsky.social
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Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 1d
My dad lobbied hard for “Anouk.”

Anouk freaking Brooks.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah! Yay!!!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 1d
Unstoppably yay now
a group of kittens are standing on their hind legs and saying yay and woo .
Alt: a group of kittens are standing on their hind legs and saying yay and woo .
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 1d
I was the same — I was stuck on yeas and nays until social media taught me how to yay
kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .
Alt: kermit the frog from the muppet show flails his arms and hollers “YAY!!!”
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 3d
You made it to the finish line! That’s pretty great.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 3d
People are amazing. Finish lines are some of my favorite people watching.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 6d
Lest we forget: The greatest music video parody of our age.

youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk
Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version
YouTube video by artistwithouttalent
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
Hee!!!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
Still puppyish!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
Yessss
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
AN HONOR!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
Ahahahaaa
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
I’ve been drooled on by Peanut and I STILL have a hard time believing he’s real.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 7d
A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.
OK, I’m usually pretty good with alt text, but this one may defeat me. Imagine the biggest, wrinkliest black dog. Now imagine a large, violently green ball. Now imagine that Peanut the mastiff has put a ball exactly the size of his enormous maw into his enormous maw, completely filling it like a cork, or a big green baby binky. That is this.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 8d
Popped it on the wall, pretty much as-is! Kills me that they didn't save more of those beautiful building elements -- though I bet most of us brought broken bits of 425 Portland home.

And yeah, the teardown was brutal.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 8d
I went dumpster diving during the destruction and salvaged a few fragments!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d
People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
The gold standard!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
Ahahahaaaaa
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
GASP!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
I think they decided to knock down the flood barriers and wash the Spanish troops right out of there instead. Admittedly, this is based on the five minutes of googling I did after my sister told me about the herring festivities about to go down in Leiden.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
A mayor who would give his right arm for the job!
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
Gonna win me a Wordle with that one
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
The polite thing would be for a mayor to at least offer.
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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d
Or any constituents who would take them up on the offer!
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