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Amanda C 🥄

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Bureaucromancer. I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 7h
Taking a beat to appreciate Fat Bear Week. Likely the all-time most successful government social media campaign by every metric. NASA has to send people to space to get the same amount of attention. Remarkable work from NPS every year to coordinate the public observation of fat bears.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h
Again, he doesn’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop deluding ourselves about that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
McCall's Costumes unlicensed Dr. Strange Men's Costume Multisize will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
Bootleg strange pattern
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if we keep inventing new terrifying names for our problems then no one can be mad if we don't do anything about them
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ABSOLUTELY SCREAM CACKLING at this search prompt and image combo on the new trashbasket america.gov
Screenshot of the america.gov website. A search box offers an example prompt of "How can I invest in my child's future?" over an image of a young ice-staking child sprawled out face-down after falling on a frozen pond.
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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.
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Jac Mac @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it is truly maddening to go most of your life hearing there are no jobs or no money when you look around your neighborhood and see so many things that need cleaning or fixing while your government blows endless cash on venture capital fabulists promising to ensure even fewer jobs and more misery
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Starting the new season of Bake Off and I know it’s all been filmed but also I hope they get the baker using a wheelchair a station that’s an appropriate height, similar to the bakers who are standing.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.
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Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)
Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
JUST THIS MORNING, I saw both this and a note on social media companies rejecting ads about some Elon thing. Organize! Work together! CALL THEIR BLUFF. Shame doesn't work, they do not feel it. Starve them of oxygen, say no to their shit, and be as loud as you can TOGETHER.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Were there easter eggs in there you didn’t get the first time?”
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Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) Nervous
Alt: Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) from “Succession,” looking up nervously from a folder as the person he’s talking to says that he’s read Mein Kampf “a couple of times.”
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This “advice” is pretty much describing what civic tech was and was growing towards before DOGE rolled in and tossed it all.
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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People think politics is something that happens to other people on the television.
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have recurring annual calendar events for certain "grief seasons," even for things that happened almost a decade ago. It's good to have a reminder for my brain about what's happening in my body, especially years after the fact when I might not be as focused on specific dates as an anniversary.
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices
Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 16/09/2026
Nearly all of whom would cheerfully have been paid $9.5 billion *to* work.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This essay by @anildash.com is very much worth reading today: “Many wonder how, or if, the United States will find its way out of authoritarianism. The only possible way is if people are joyfully running towards a better option, not fearfully backing away from the worst of what they face today.”
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today's task took a smidge longer (5 min) due to looking up a YouTube video, which I think completely balances out how it lingered for *almost six months* aaaaaa
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?!
An ad for a drug that grows “new bone,” with a woman earnestly engaging with a dog who looks like it wants bones.
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR JUDGE REINHOLD!
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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know the U says they don't have an "official" tagline, I but I kind of dig "Try Everything. Be Anything." What is amazing about the U is the scale and scope of majors that students have to choose from. Unlike states such as Iowa which splits programs between UIowa and ISU, the U truly has it all.
University of Minnesota home page with the words "Try everything. Be anything."
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week, in the shuffle of cars and pedestrians leaving a funeral at Ft. Snelling, a man on a bike was frustrated with a car driving slowly on his side of the road. He yelled some of the most heinous, shocking shit at what was clearly a crowd of mourners. Here's what I hope happens:
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026
It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.
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Peer Warmlines and Specialized Support
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The world was not yet ready
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nathan fielder vs elizabeth holmes is like what if wario had his own wario
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you can tell Claude writes great code because every website in 2026 has an ever-increasing frequency of timeouts, blank pages, weird errors, and downtime. imagine a carpenter telling you "use this or get left behind" and they hand you a hammer that hits your hand instead of the nail 20% of the time
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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THESE ARE THE TWO ACTUAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH TEACHERS AND THIS BULLETIN BOARD IS OUTSIDE BETWEEN THEIR ROOMS HEELLLLLLLLLLP OMFG
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sherwin-Williams seems to really be going through it right now, huh
Screenshot of the Sherwin-Williams web page for the Sept 2026 color of the month “Rock Bottom,” with a photo of a room with dark green-gray walls and warm-colored furniture.
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Always delighted to find out something like this isn’t actually a sketch from “30 Rock”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is a fascinating initiative and I will be so interested to see if it juices coverage and the stability of news orgs in California
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IT WAS WORSE TODAY.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 31/08/2026
I too remember when I had a toddler
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Me this year, reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" for the first time.
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ahh, signs of the new school year. Buses puttering down the street, kids in backpacks, and whole FLEET of cars fully parked in the "Drop off and go, no parking" lane in front of the building. Also saw a parent car try to creep through a crosswalk where the patrol had the flags down! Great!
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Elon Musk: Haha I’ve done it. Surely I am now THE most embarrassing man in the world! Graham Linehan: Hello. Elon Musk: Shit!
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We’re starting day 3 of 12 of the Minnesota State Fair, and I’m catching up on the french fry drama. Thanks @viamarsala18.bsky.social ! www.reddit.com/r/minnesotas...
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From the minnesotastatefair community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the minnesotastatefair community
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college football enthusiast @tacoenthusiast.swifties.social · 29/08/2026
The all-name team has some tremendous depth this year
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/08/2026
Sucks that the Univ of Minnesota libraries are closed to the public. If the past several years have taught us anything, it’s that knowledge is necessary to fighting stupid bad fascists. So here’s a helpful doc on how to assist good U people who want knowledge freed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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UMN Libraries Public Access
THE CONTEXT After slowly closing parts of campus off to the public over a handful of years, in January of 2026 amidst Operation Metro Surge, the University of Minnesota’s upper administration decided...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Re-upping the greatest MN state fair tip about a cookie fix!
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 26/08/2026
Northeast Minneapolis excellence
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Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Need to put up some kind of alert sign by my front door, like “House wards are active, solicitors will be hexed.”
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