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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My family overuses my silicone spatulas like Americans overuse cast iron pans

Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Deep Space Nine the Jem’Hadar are created to achieve a specific purpose & will become involuntarily irascible when denied the opportunity to act out their natural orientation. But it was not enough to be able to design a species from scratch /

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are there actually a notable number of youths dressing twee and hipsterish or is this a solely online thing?

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm definitely gonna read Consider the Lobster in Maine next week

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact is Amtrak is at least as fast as flying and pretty much equal to driving whilst being a superior experience to both by lightyears

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Events like this happen strangely often, and then someone hears of an Amtrak delay of, like, an hour and people talk about the unreliability of trains as the reason they drive to Chicago

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/07/2026

From HOME Line, a tale of two cities and their response to the ICE occupation. The mayor of Minneapolis refused to allow a temporary 60-day notice requirement and Council centrists refused to get on board with overriding the veto. Meanwhile, St. Paul's City Council passed their law unanimously.

June saw a notable decline in eviction filings in St. Paul following implementation of the city’s temporary 60-day pre-eviction notice requirement. St. Paul recorded just 74 eviction filings in June, a 69.8% decrease compared to June 2025, while Ramsey County overall saw filings decline by 49.7%. It will take additional months of data to determine the long-term impact of the ordinance, but the initial decrease is significant.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026

Steve Miller said protestors need to be vanquished with any force necessary. This is important evidence. We conclude some actions of DHS constituted crimes against humanity that will have intergenerational consequences here. It is essential to make clear that this was systematic and intentional

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a thread about an all-day academic conference of early research findings about the effects of Operation Metro Surge. Kind of harrowing to seeing the damage of the federal government’s combination ethnic cleansing/ideological terror campaign laid out like this.

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a former Divorced Dad I get defensive of the guys who I know to be wholesome fellas when they’re going through it

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's already dark when I wake up and in no time at all it will still be dark when I ride into work. So here is my post about why dynamo light systems are the absolute best thing thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/l...

thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com

Lights: Transportation Cycling II

In the morning I rode out for work at 6:30 AM. It was still dark. It’s about 5 miles (8km) to work in Downtown Minneapolis. The routes in my neck of the woods consist entirely of regular city…

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blessed first soup of the season day to all who celebrate. I went with Minestrone

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think I wanna buy a freezer so I can make a ton of stock and just have them ready to hand all Fall through Spring

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The newer colloquialism amongst the youths (or at least my daughter) "on god" seems like the next iteration of "by Jove" now that I think about it

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 16/09/2026

Also, the MIT Essential Knowledge book on School Choice, while bending over backward not to take a stance on the various options, is still like "actually comparing like students with like students, public schools normally beat private and many charter schools in student achievement"

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Public schools are universalist programs for all children in the city. Charter & private schools are by nature organized against such a program. It's why the right goes to bat so hard for assorted "choice" models. Libs supporting such policies are no less reactionary

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Even with the sun it never got hot today. Fall is here, brethren, and I made stock all day so I can make shepherds pie tomorrow

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The metaphysician’s method is “the description of natural mysteries by the criticism of analogies” - Farrer

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Going to Portland Maine in a couple weeks. Anyone have any particular recommendations for activities and restaurants?

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I know I might be reading too much into a lead single, but the new M83 track has me feeling a sort of way youtu.be/e_S6qJ6E-8Y?...

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M83 - 'Blister Sunrise' (Official Audio)

YouTube video by M83

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New post up. I've long wanted to republish some Smyth, one of the most curious of the figures I've studied. One of the only truly Marxist synthesizers of the Christian Socialists. Dude was making apologies for Russian political violence in the late-40s adalehunt.substack.com/p/more-odd-t...

"More Odd Than Dangerous: Frederic Hastings Smyth's Eccentric Marxist Anglo-Catholicism" over an image so wild and obscure it defies description. It attempts to illustrate the dialectics of historical Christianity with an eventual Communist synthesis

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

20 years old! What a stunner this record is grizzlybearbrooklyn.bandcamp.com/album/yellow...

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Yellow House, by Grizzly Bear

10 track album

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The recent improvements to 10th Ave SE include a subtle but notable new feature I hope the City continues: Whereas in the past they just stuck a series of flexible delineators on curbs like this, here they went with hard-installed metal poles

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Listening to the Decemberists “Hazards of Love” and it’s a great occasion to be reminded of how powerful Shara Nova’s (My Brightest Diamond) voice is

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I dunno, I feel like transit advocates ourselves should be critical of the Green Line extension if we want to see more and better transit built

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Does anyone in Mpls still make a Pain de mie? Boy do I miss Rustica in its heyday

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Consciousness has no private life” - Merleau-Ponty I’m feeling a congruence between M-P and my boy Wittgenstein on this read through

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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John Maddening! @johnmaddening.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So the State Fairgrounds markedly increased the size of the Como bike lot this year. It’s still not big enough.

A packed-to-the-gills Como bike lot at the Minnesota State Fair

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What was the cause of the period where raw spinach came to replace nearly every other green in so many contexts? Sandwiches and salads in particular

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been reading and annotating Tanner's "Christ the Key" but the pdf is from a shared drive from a friend, who got like 30 notifications in his email of all my notes. Poor guy

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I work at a corporate HQ and I've noticed a few more men wearing outfits. Very few wear shorts here, and biz casual is the norm, sort of. But generally it's a mirror of the social trend toward the relentlessly casual. Maybe it's a Midwestern acceptation to the trend?

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ok #criticalrole is back but first thing’s first: Matt’s new haircut is amazing

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You know you have had real time being poor if you feel like new underwear is a special purchase for which you should feel slightly guilty

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I knew that if I pulled up blueskee I'd see an outpouring of Dolly love, and I was not disappointed

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We can't do this, the parking utilization study showed a high demand for parking here

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hey, Minneapolis! Fighting these data centers is going to take a multi-pronged approach. Put 10/13 on your calendar. Make a public comment in the link below. Another avenue is through our Neighborhood Associations. (I know😬) if we can get a majority to pass resolutions opposing these, it can 1/2

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So curious what little things the Greek can reveal. It's conceptually a big difference to say "do not be conformed to this world" rather than "to this age," which is what it's actually saying Or, given common English usage, to say we offer "rational" worship rather than "reasonable"

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Daughter wanted to watch the Toby Maguire Spider-Man trilogy, and holy cow did it drop off a cliff with the third one. Goodness, how embarrassing a film that one is

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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What’s everyone having for dinner? Instead of pizza we’re having kale, fennel, sausage, and whipped ricotta pie

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