Xopher Besinger
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Ocean waves...I promise that I will eventually stop posting
Hanging up my hi-vis, my last patrol was this morning, for me at least the surge is over
about 3 hours ago
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Its too bad I didn't go anywhere today becuz my hair looks really good
3 days ago
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On today's episode of "Is that sound on the record or is it the washing machine?" The correct answer is: the washing machine
3 days ago
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My dad on RL Burnside "sounds like Jimi Hendrix on a bad day" My mother on the Pogues SNL performance "my god his teeth! Look at his teeth!" RIP Shane
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over 2 years ago
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Today was first time in almost 3 months I haven't patrolled or given a ride before I went to the office and I legit couldn't remember the route I used to take
7 days ago
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William Gibson
8 days ago
When I was 14 I was reading Naked Lunch.
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Happy St Patrick's Day, Brits out of Ireland, US out of Minnesota, free Palestine
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8 days ago
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Rob Delaney
9 days ago
Iāve just been invited to join the Hormuz Peace Board because I punched a woman in my HOA
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DC Pierson
10 days ago
Thomas Pynchon cutaway or we riot
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I didn't really like Sinners but I loved the ancient to the future performance
10 days ago
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My dad taped routinely taped SNL in this era he made me watch the Neil performance, not becuz he liked it but becuz he thought it was bad in the same way stuff I liked was bad
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10 days ago
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Patrick Monaghan
10 days ago
The Pop Group āShe Is Beyond Good and Evilā (Official Video, Radar Records, 1979)
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The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good & Evil (Official Video)
YouTube video by MarkStewartMusic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9BjtT0_KsE
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Dog ate my bookmark
11 days ago
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Gonna become an Ideal Copy truther
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The Ideal Copy - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSJ2_k1NqtbIoNy8F0cUWPK_hGA4zyOBU&si=E2GiDnjGq-Cm5ULF
13 days ago
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This admin's approach to war with Iran is the same as their approach in MN, they assume it will be so easy that they have no plan when it isn't
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14 days ago
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Rarely but sometimes I have the free coffee at work and my reaction is always the same "Christ you people drink this shit?"
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Dane Owens
15 days ago
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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hannah gais
15 days ago
The This American Life episode on ICE and the governmentās internal chaos was genuinely a great listen.
www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-littl...
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Give a Little Whistle - This American Life
Two lawyers who work for ICE lift the curtain on what is happening inside our immigration system.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-little-whistle
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bakoon
16 days ago
remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination
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A small thing (& probably weather related as well) but hearing & seeing kids playing on our street for the first time in a long while
16 days ago
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SUNDAY IS FOR JESUS
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West Virginia Snake Handler Revival āThey Shall Take Up Serpentsā, by Sublime Frequencies
12 track album
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/west-virginia-snake-handler-revival-they-shall-take-up-serpents
17 days ago
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"We Got Adderall From Carl: an oral history of Malachi Constant"
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17 days ago
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Call me Ishmael, dude
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18 days ago
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Ned Raggett
19 days ago
Just a quick update for the curious that given the total amount of purchases, this has now raised at least nearly $65,000 for Letters Charity, and of course possibly more if people pay over the amount. Great to see! A few hours left, who wants to see it get to $100K? Spread the word!
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I also just realized Steve did this, then a month later Rid of Me and then a month after that In Utero
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19 days ago
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Flags should never touch the ground
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi
12 track album
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
19 days ago
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byron coley
20 days ago
really cool guided tour of richartd hell's lower east side apartment from the nyt no firewall
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Look Inside Richard Hellās East Village Tenement Apartment (Gift Article)
The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/04/realestate/richard-hell-east-village-apartment-tour.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.zDSL.KsrTvrigKLUS&smid=url-share
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Michaelangelo Matos
21 days ago
For
@racketmn.com
, I wrote about The Gathering for Good, the huge fundraiser Mancini's Char House & Lounge--yes, that one--held two weeks ago for ICE victims in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood. One of my best, huge thanks to everyone involved.
racketmn.com/yes-that-man...
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Yes, That Manciniās: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket
āThe Gathering for Goodā brought the West 7th neighborhood together.
https://racketmn.com/yes-that-mancinis-how-a-legendary-st-paul-steakhouse-raised-35k-for-the-resistance
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Bluesky has the juice
24 days ago
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Andrea Pitzer
27 days ago
Being important and popular in New York City means more to Trump than anything in the world, and Mamdani knows it.
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J G Ballard bot
27 days ago
I see the future as a kind of planetary suburbia, an infinity of boredom interrupted by unpredictable acts of violence.
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Andrea Feldman
29 days ago
In my continued quest to find YouTube videos so obscure they evade the ad algorithm, I give you a complete Red Krayola concert from 1982. As one commenter describes this: āMonochrome Set meets Beefheart meets Flipper meets Pere Ubu?ā (Mayo Thompson was in Ubu, soā¦)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcw...
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Red Crayola - Live Germany October 1982 (Full Show)
YouTube video by TravisBickle1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcw5ij45iY
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Seems bad!
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30 days ago
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"Food" Thoyd
about 1 month ago
Happy 30th to a real one
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I am not sure which is worse: having to work on my day off due to the Supreme Court ruling or reading the takes of people who became Import Experts 10 minutes ago...yr right it's reading the takes
about 1 month ago
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No line at the sandwich place this AM usually it's Hot Doug's deep by 8:15 so that's something
about 1 month ago
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Hey
@jonkrawczynski.bsky.social
maybe something to ask Lore & Rodriguez to comment on considering the effect ICE has had locally
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about 1 month ago
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Wes Burdine
about 1 month ago
Just a big hug to all the anarchists in the Twin Cities who get dismissed all the time but knew exactly what to do when shit went down here.
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David Brauer
about 1 month ago
It aināt over til Minnesota has ICEās battle flag
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Annie loves Mpls
about 1 month ago
Elliot Payne on MPR right now: I'll believe it when I see it. I'll see you in the streets. We need restitution. Stanning politicians is a mistake. But dammit
@elliottpayne.org
@jchavezmpls.bsky.social
@ilhanmn.bsky.social
make it really hard for me to stick to that. They have shown up for us.
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about 1 month ago
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They say the surge is over but I'll believe it when I see it. I am never going to forgive this country I am just so utterly ashamed
about 1 month ago
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Iron Spike
about 1 month ago
Rockwell would have painted this.
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Rob Delaney
about 1 month ago
Please read & share this excellent account.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis
ICEĀ have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/in-south-minneapolis
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I was hoping he would have leveraged his lame duck status to fight for us but obviously that was too much to ask
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about 1 month ago
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cozy fan tutte
about 1 month ago
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Green Day has an ancillary guitar player AND a guitar player who is behind the amps?
about 1 month ago
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ICE agents at Jimmy's Bar is so insanely on brand
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about 2 months ago
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I almost forgot how much I hate Fridays
about 2 months ago
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Maggie Vail
about 2 months ago
Good morning! We are raising funds today for rent relief for families in East St Paul, MN who have been impacted by the federal government's siege there. We have a brand new, limited edition shirt available TODAY ONLY for it.
bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
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