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Anna Cale @real-meaning.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

BOOK CLUB IDEA: a book club where we discuss the books we’d like to read but have no time to as we’re busy and too tired. We also never actually get round to meeting either, just send nice supportive messages saying it’s no problem.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Totally acceptable 🐶🥰

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture in your phone.

A tabby is curled up next to someone wearing a polka dotted dress. The cat’s eyes are closed and she has a look of smug satisfaction on her cute kitty face

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

They have Quark Ice Cream!!!!

Sign on the wall of Pumphouse creamery lists ice cream flavors. This one reads:
“WILD BILBERRY AND QUARK
Wild bilberries grow in Eastern Europe.
Very similar to blueberries. Quark is a cream cheese-like spread.”

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Everyone and their mother is out at Pumphouse for ice cream tonight

Long line of people waiting outside of Pumphouse creamery. The sky is clear and blue

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just in case anyone else was wondering, the song is “Grief and Love” by Sarina Partridge

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I use this technique often, but then I start overthinking it and wondering if I start counting at the thumb or the pinky

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thought I was done, but Laurel pointed me to this video of the second verse of "You Are My Sunshine": bsky.app/profile/ddoc...

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Towards the end of the parade was the Housing and Harm Reduction for All group. In response, the crowd started up a rousing chant of “Fuck Jacob Frey!”

A group marches in the May Day parade with a sign reading “Housing and harm reduction for all”

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Anyone at the Minneapolis May Day ceremony know what song they were singing about grief? Also who was singing?

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Great thread about the Minneapolis May Day Parade. Adding a few photos of my own

A large loon float and a monarch butterfly puppet

A person dressed as a single eye carrying a large book that reads “when given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind”

A large float of an anatomical heart with flowers coming out of the top and people carrying red veins connected to it

An enormous t-rex float with glowing red eyes

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Yes, it’s almost certainly just the light, but I like the idea that St Paul has fancier turkeys. And you’re right: St. Paul turkey pic was about 6:15 in the evening this week. The South Minneapolis pic was at 8:15 am in the fall. That golden hour light really is magical.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

South Minneapolis turkey for comparison

A wild turkey in an urban backyard. Its feathers are a little shiny black, but not iridescent like the St Paul turkey

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Are turkeys in St Paul just shinier? I saw this magnificent guy outside the Germanic-American Institute on Wednesday and couldn’t stop taking pictures. So shiny!

A turkey stands in the grass next to the street facing the camera. It’s feathers are gleaming iridescent red, yellow, and green around its neck

Side view of a wild turkey standing next to the street. It’s chest feathers are iridescent yellows and red

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Years ago, we replaced a toilet and put the old one out for pick up as specified by Minneapolis. @mngwinn.bsky.social was delighted by the fact that this old toilet was on the curb with a sign saying “for solid waste”

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Thank goodness someone is here to fact check the Onion. And the answer is, yes, horses do want cake

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Bruce Springsteen kicks off his Land of Hopes & Dreams Tour in Minneapolis 03/31/26

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Buffing up the Honors and Awards section of my resume...

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I loved fossil hunting there, so many little ordovician fossils eroding out of the hillside (Decorah Shale and Plattville limestone, I think) and lying on the ground for anyone to pick up. www.mprnews.org/story/2013/0...

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Why Lilydale Regional Park is a good place for fossils

What draws so many school groups, families and researchers to Lilydale Regional Park along St. Paul's Mississippi River bluff? Fossils.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

When I volunteered at the Science Museum, that’s where I recommended that people go fossil hunting (that was pre-2013)

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Probably the Lilydale Brickyards. There was a horroble tragedy back in 2013 landslide that killed 2 4th grade kids who were there for a field trip

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Spoooooky Pants 🧛‍♂️ @farnaby.xyz · 07/03/2026

The sixth restaurant can be the smitten kitten glory hole, all you can eat. Donate away!

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Donate to the Smitten Kitten rent relief fund and you can win one of 5 - $50 gift cards to south Minneapolis restaurants! Every $10 donated is one entry. Restaurants are Órale, Hot Plate, ie, Cafe Ena, and El Sazon.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Electrician in DC, he actually helped install the lights at the top of the Washington monument. He couldn’t read, so every night he would sit with my grandma, and grandma go over the blueprints with him. My other grandpa I believe worked for the railroad

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Donate here: gofund.me/125b7b702, then fill out the form to enter cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Rent relief raffle for $50 gift cards to 5 great South Minneapolis restaurants: Orale, Hot Plate, ie, Cafe Ena, and El Sazon. Every $10 donated to the Smitten Kitten rent relief gofundme is 1 entry!

Rent relief raffle. Win a $50 restaurant gift card. Details: between 3/2-3/11 donate $10 to Smitten Kitten’s rent relief gofundme and fill out the linked form as your entry. Donate as much as you like, each $10 is one ticket! Five winners will receive one $50 gift card to one of the following restaurants: El Sazon, Ena, Hot Plate, ie, Orale

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

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Jeremy Be @iamjeremybe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Flyer for the Midtown Global Market's fundraiser to support their workers. It's TODAY, Feb. 22nd, until the Market closes for the day. They have a super cute dish towel decorating station. Bring your kids!

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is the future liberals want: one state providing to its citizens the options of either attending Brandi Carlile *or* watching people whack the hell out of a stump on the former Palmer’s stage on the patio of a queer soccer bar

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 14/02/2026

Minneapolis had three of these within 17 days, so you'll need to be more specific with your headline. "ICE Tried to Justify a Minneapolis Shooting. Its Story Unraveled." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

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ICE Tried to Justify a Minneapolis Shooting. Its Story Unraveled.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

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Megabeth18 @megabeth18.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

66% of 2026 homicides in Minneapolis have been committed by Trumps DHS

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Mendeia @mendeia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Yes sir, here in Minnesota the women are strong, the men are good looking, non binary folks are rocking their outfits, the elders are loud, and the children are above average. We like our queers proud, our women uppity, and our protesters fear no temperature. Fucking bring it." -what I'd say prolly

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EmKay K-A @mkettleson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I think most of us cannot label our feelings “optimistic” because these agents moving elsewhere means they will be kidnapping folks we cannot defend because of proximity. So we are hoping our literal neighbors get some relief, but dreading the story as it moves elsewhere.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Fuck this makes me so mad

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I had the same experience. I was in MD last week due to a family emergency and kept being surprised at how the streets and stores and being in public just felt completely different. It was surreal

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/02/2026

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

(3) Cover with foil and bake at 375° for 45 min. Remove the foil, bake another 10-ish min. If tots aren’t crisping up, broil for the last minute. I often add wild rice, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, corn, green beans, or other veggies. I just didn’t have any this time.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

(2) Add 2-3 tbsp flour and cook. Add some chicken stock Add spinach and frozen peas Add cream. Taste and add more seasonings. Put the filling in a dish and sprinkle shredded cheese on top. Cover with frozen tater tots in whatever arrangement you like

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I wing it everytime. This one was: 1 onion chopped, saute in butter Add chopped carrots and ground bison and cook until bison is browned. Add herbs like thyme, oregano, sage, marjoram, garlic, chili powder, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper. Add more than you think, because there’s a lot of filling.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I’m midwestern but not from Minnesota, so maybe the second? I kind of just throw in a lot of herbs (sage, thyme, oregano), lots of garlic, a very generous handful of chili powder. It’s different every time I make it, but the key is that you need far more herbs and spices than you think.

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Ann Z @annz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also, my tater tots hotdish was damn tasty tonight. The secret is the season the hell out if it.

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