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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tuning into the White Sox Latin broadcast.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Having worked in financial services for many years, feeling vindicated that everyone is finally as annoyed by the name "Fifth Third Bank" as I am.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our marriage occasionally hits one snag: how many extra innings do we stay for? Me: one. Dan: infinite.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ascended to a new plane of baseball fandom after watching the home bun promotion live.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 2001 I was in college, living in Janet Greig Post Hall, suite 9, room 11, colloquially called “Post 9-11.” Commentary about societal change was particularly jarring for me that year.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Attempting to manifest fall into being on this 95 degree day by purchasing pumpkin bars and Oktoberfest.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This guy’s ready to record and post the most whimsical joke of the season.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
After years of travel trial and error, I’ve determined koozies are the perfect souvenir. They are cheap, light, and indestructible. Easy to pack and easy to squish into a kitchen drawer back home. Fun reminders and conversation starters year round!
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Confusion at a minor league Harry Potter theme night - do you have to lower the hood of your wizard cloak during the national anthem?
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Midwestern practicality.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Put a dime on Rockefeller’s grave, which the cemetery docent guaranteed would bring me unfathomable wealth, so here’s your last chance to get on my good side before I become a billionaire.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Everyone’s worried about The Mist, but let’s not discount The Terror.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Looking forward to another Cubs/Cards matchup.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
To mildly curmudgeonly, is there any point in lighting fireworks at 2:00 on a mostly sunny day? Like, can you even see them?
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ugh, Hollywood is going to write a romantic comedy where the Iranian yogurt IS the issue.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Minnesotans are so unfailingly polite that no one dared to steal an unassigned seat under the overhang.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Twins broadcast played Nelly while announcing the Cardinals lineup, which was a nice touch to help the visitors feel welcome.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The most important preparation for visiting friends you see once a year is looking at last year's pictures to ensure you don't wear the same shirt.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One of the intra-inning hot dog racers is a young woman from Spain and I can’t imagine a better crash course in American culture.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Minor League baseball game national anthems showcase the widest possible range of human vocal talent.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This brewery brings your check in a Goosebumps book but joke’s on them, I’m staying until I read the whole thing.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A beautiful night for the literal worst alcohol I’ve ever consumed because it was on sale (and my college town bars frequently had $1 Pucker shot specials).
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Butterfly garden tranquility.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
We’re in a space-themed brewery with Futurama, Firefly, and Lord of the Rings playing on separate tvs, plus tons of Star Trek and NASA stuff, so Dan is fretting over which subset of nerd friends to text first.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Listening to the ESPN commercial explaining how to use your ESPN plus account to watch MLB tv.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I enjoy drinking in cities that are thematically coherent.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Most important call of the game: "Fred Hoiberg, still hot."
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reddit remains undefeated.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We’re allotted one floating holiday at work, intended for personal religious observances, so I’m saving it up for The Day.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There's a recipe we make a couple times a year that calls for a tablespoon of sherry. I've always used a sherry substitute because I assumed it was prohibitively expensive, based solely on the fact that they're always drinking sherry on Frasier.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Starting a business consulting service so I can be the one who gets paid to say “you should migrate all your documents [on/off] SharePoint” every three years.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! Now off to work on my putting.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Thanks to NPR's excerpts from the Vatican's Christmas Mass, I now know what Latin sounds like with a Chicago accent.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas exclusively to the two guys on a ladder hanging lights at the drive through liquor store at 9 pm on Xmas Eve.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This bookstore has disorganized piles, literal cat fights, and one customer loudly demanding information about ham radios. Five stars.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Window seating in St. Louis provides the perfect opportunity to work on my research into the correlation between parallel parking difficulties and temp tag expiredness.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We go to St. Louis for a week every December. I always have Dan make a list of places he wants to go, including his old favorites and any new finds that have caught his eye. This year he added 50 places, so I'm looking forward to eating seven meals a day.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Okay, there is literally nothing about my sensibilities, tastes, or interactions with the world that reflects an age of 20. My only suspicion is that listening to recent recordings of Yuja Wang playing Rachmaninoff or Hillary Hahn playing Bach is being credited as a new release?
Spotify thinks my listening age is 20 so don’t worry, everyone can ignore their terrible listening ages.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Peak St. Louis menu warning.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I missed the beginning of the Science Friday story about immigration to Chicago and the three minutes before I realized they were talking about carp, not people, were a wild ride.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Dan rushes out the door, proclaiming the neighbor texted and needs urgent help. What is the one emergency Dan is qualified to deal with on a Sunday night? TELESCOPE ALIGNMENT.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rapid City is undefeated for interactive statues.
Dan poses with a tyrannosaurus in the foreground and an apatosaurus in the background. Dan, trachadon, me, American flag waving resplendently, cloudy gray sky.  Me breaking up a fight between a tyrannosaurus and a triceratops. Me riding a stegosaurus
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Had a few beers and took a self-guided tour of the president statues in Rapid City.
Dan high fives a statue of Jimmy CarterI give a thumbs down to a statue of GWB giving a thumbs upI tower over a statue of diminutive James MadisonDan helps a Truman statue hoist the classic newspaper
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I planned to reread The Stand this October, but we only had this dime store “now a tv miniseries” edition with Gary Sinise on the cover so I made Dan go to the library and get a newer paperback version.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Relieved to finally get notice that our office is doing the usual flu shot clinic this year, rather than switching to the HHS preferred prevention method of raw milk enemas and push ups.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Soon the only entertainment I consume will be "physical books published before 2022."
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Discussing Ditka vs the National Guard.
The SNL Ditka sketch cast, contemplating bratwurst and fascism.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If we're doing random personal experiences in place of data for City Discourse: in the past year, I've been to the downtowns of Detroit, Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Louisville and more unsettling than all of them combined was Peoria, Illinois.
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Okay I ran into this creepy guy last time I was in DC - can’t be too careful!
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Alison @alisononel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Just logged a better than average run despite the terrible AQI, which makes me think I would have been a pretty good smoker.
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