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A Real Joel Dehn

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Gadabout and affable scamp | It's pronounced "deen" | he/him | MPLS, MN | What's new with you? Really? That's cool! Good for you.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026
h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.
Fucking with Amazon "customer personalization"
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Jake Lunt Davies @jakeld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More B2 concept sketches as seen in the Art of Andor by @philszostak.bsky.social Getting into utilitarian shapes and a rotating rack system of tools. Following the previous post, the next key sketch that will form B2 is top middle. More to follow #starwars #andor #conceptdesign #droid #b2emo
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a game I infrequently play, but I have very fond memories from back in the day, especially when they let us craft fan-made missions. (Long live "Nausicaans In The Valley Of Wind.") But I hope they can implement some cool new systems to make it even more fun.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those goddamn Martians from Sesame Street. They floated like ghosts, their enormous maws gaped and flapped open and closed. They did not know our ways, from radios to walls -- my God, they came through the walls! We had no defense against them! I can still hear them in my dreams, yip yip yip yip yip
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Yip Yips Sesame Street Characters
Alt: Yip Yips Martians. Yip yip yip is what they say before they devour your flesh. "Flesh? flesh? flesh? Yum yum yum yum yum..." Dear lord in heaven, put distance between you and these abominations if you can, and if you don't, pray that your firearm still works. But not for them, they don't comprehend bullets. Take yourself out before they devour your mind. "Mind? Mind? Mind? yip yip yip yip yip yip"
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seconded.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I always loved how Phil leaned heavily into this meme.
Jurassic Park credits:

DINOSAUR SUPERVISOR
PHIL TIPPETT
Phil, this wasn't f
amateur hour. PEOPLE DIED
BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SUPERVISION. THERE WERE RAPTORS ALL UP IN THE KITCHEN PHIL. IN THE GOD DAMN KITCHEN.
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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The gist of the Jack Smith hearing was that Republicans will fabricate evidence to entrap opponents and they were upset that Jack Smith had the audacity to investigate Republicans in Congress for possibly abetting Trump's 1/6 insurrection, in other words for doing his job.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lego pieces as... a kind of moveable type?
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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just last night I remembered another reason why you all need to make sure you get out to vote this year. In 2024, Wisconsin beat us in voter turnout and that is *unacceptable*. We can't let that happen again. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Wisconsin squeaks past Minnesota for the top spot in voter turnout
The Minnesota Secretary of State confirms Wisconsin narrowly surpassed Minnesota with voter turnout in the 2024 election.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF.
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Skye's Mighty Movie Explosion Flight
Alt: In the Paw Patrol movies, they saddle the most profitable pup with a sad backstory and more dialogue than their canine colleagues, then graft a plot ripped from profitable movies onto it (field tested in the TV series). My kid still like the franchise, and so I have seen Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie more than six times. Here, Skye deals with feelings of inadequacy as the team tries to tap into the profits of a superhero blockbuster.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If folks in the Democratic party cannot find it within themselves to be absolute staunch supporters of trans people's rights because trans people are people who have inherent worth, then they should at least do it because if we give up on trans people, then we're literally giving up on democracy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He's either screaming like a madman at someone or he pulled a quad standing up.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OK. I mentioned this before, won't belabor it, but this paragraph is art. I would wager a not-inconsiderable sum that Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Augustine, and Lon Chaney have never been cited in a single paragraph before. (And hopefully never will again.)
Plaintiff has sued Wizards for $10M because he believes he created and exclusively owns the
idea for a “wereshark” and that Wizards has infringed upon his creation. By way of relevant
background, lycanthropic monsters – werewolves and the like – have been found in folklore and
fiction since antiquity. Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves
1 Plaintiff Lap-Sun Chan named “Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast LLC” as the Defendant, but Dungeons
and Dragons is a game published and owned by Wizards of the Coast, LLC, not a distinct entity.
2 See Chan v. Ramdhaney, Case No. 1:22-cv-03708 (S.D.N.Y 2022) 3 See Eng v. Podolnick, No. 1:14-cv-04675 (S.D.N.Y 2014) (dismissed for failure to comply with order requiring Plaintiff to
“file an amended complaint not containing the stricken portions or any other racist, anti-Semitic, or insulting language”).came to the silver screen first in Werewolf of London (1935) and then Lon Chaney’s definitive
performance in The Wolf Man (1941), and have essentially never left it since. And animal
shapeshifting has not been limited to wolves. Greek mythology is replete with humans (or humanshaped gods) who transform into animals or monsters. In Tlingit folklore, Kóoshdaa are wereotters. Celtic mythology includes selkies (were-seals) and kelpies (shape-shifting water-horses that
live in lochs). DC Comics has featured numerous shark-human hybrids since its Silver Age,
including Guppy (a small-time criminal in Nightwing’s rogues’ gallery, first appearance in 2018),
King Shark (the son of a shark god and a human mother, first appearance in 1994), and Karshon (a
mutated shark, first appearance in Green Lantern 24, October 1963). Other examples abound.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026
My friend who lives in Emmer's district did a little recon for me. Cheapest beef in his area is $4.39/lb at Target, more than twice what Emmer claimed. I did some looking online and Coborn's, the local grocer in his district, is $7.99/lb - more than 4x Emmer's claim.
Private label four brothers ground chuck: 7.99/lba tube of greater omaha 86/14 ground round: 7.99/lb

Four Brothers USDA certified Hereford 85/15, 16oz (1lb) is 7.99.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
TIL about the US's Jet Age Gundam, from one of Stephen Schwartz's long and fascinating threads about our atomic history. (Also included: the predecessors to The Venture Brothers' X-1 nuclear aircraft.)
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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've said this before, THE MOST IMPORTANT RACE IN MINNESOTA IS ATTORNEY GENERAL. This absolutely cannot happen. That lame ad currently airing about Ron Schutz & hate groups is NOT going to be sufficient. There is much work to do to combat the whole "Fraud" propaganda. Need more ads on Ellisons wins.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? "To my big brother, George, the richest man in town," toasted the war hero and younger brother, and the whole town joyfully agreed.
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It's a Wonderful Life: George Bailey
Alt: It's a Wonderful Life: George Bailey had lassoed the moon, and, standing next to his beautiful and awesome wife and holding his adorable fourth child, was finally getting some goddamn respect and recognition around here.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/09/2026
There have to be consequences again. Any corporation who takes advantage of this miserable policy and poisons the environment should be nationalized by the next administration.
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Ron de Beaulieu @rondebeaulieu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Did you know that at Hennepin County Library they bring in therapy animals so that children can practice reading out loud to a guaranteed non-judgmental listener? Yesterday my kid read Supergirl to a golden retriever named Rosie. Very positive experience, highly recommend.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/09/2026
story on the vandalism at alex pretti's memorial: minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Caretakers clean Alex Pretti memorial site after vandalism • Minnesota Reformer
Early Friday morning, caretakers arrived at Alex Pretti’s memorial, finding it doused in two gallons of synthetic motor oil. Motor oil is not flammable, and much of the memorial remains unharmed. Volu...
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In honor of Hasbro telling certain people to cease and desist:
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 12/09/2026
I believe this is the most recent time this vital question was addressed definitively x.com/Joshstrangeh...

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@csammis
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Dec 21, 2020
In Lisa The Vegetarian when Ralph says “Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking!”: I believed since the 90s that he was saying in a Ralphesque way that he’s really good at sleeping. Now I’m informed by ppl that he’s just saying he dreams about being a Viking. 🤷‍♂️ Thoughts??
Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
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Dec 21, 2020
Yes, again, it's the simplest answer - Ralph dreams of being a Viking.
Mike Scully
@scullymike
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Dec 21, 2020
I was in the room when it was pitched and laughed because I thought it meant he was great at sleeping
Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
Wow, ha, I guess that's also now canon! Do you remember who pitched it? Maybe they could say for sure. I think we may have been out of the room writing a script at the time so I have zero authority to weigh in on this, it's just my opinion. Maybe 
@DavidMirkin
 knows?
3:21 PM · Dec 21, 2020
Relevant

David Mirkin
@DaveMirkin
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Dec 21, 2020
Simple: Ralph dreams he's a Viking. Ralph was never written with the ability to understand a complex & obscure metaphor like saying he is a Viking at something, meaning he is great at it. If I knew Scully had misunderstood a joke like that, I would have fired him instantly.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think even conservatives realize they may have overdone it in making such a big deal about Charlie Kirk’s death, which is why they’ve been so muted about the recent passing of Mitch McConnell.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧵 Again, the Trump/MAGA movement & fellow travelers are a revolutionary movement that seeks revanchist reactionary objectives. The best way to understand how they operate is: Revolutionary Warfare=Guerrilla Warfare+Political Action or RW=GW+PA. 1/
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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cowardice, pure and simple. But if you can’t bring yourself to say “protect trans kids,” the very least you can say is “I think it’s weird you want to inspect little girls’ genitals before they can play sports.”
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 09/09/2026
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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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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My oddest paid gig — probably not THAT odd — was driving a shuttle bus for history professors between their hotel and where they needed to go on campus for a conference. Pro: One young prof taught me about the Tulsa Massacre (this was around 2000). Con: Hiring prof screwed me out of half my money.
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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Label Label Production Office Minneapolis Institute of Art
A small rectangular label reading LABEL PRODUCTION OFFICE, photographed Sept. 6, 2026 at 3:37 p.m. A view of a full door set into a wall, upon which the label is seen in the upper half.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Only one U.S. president has been born at a time when there were 50 U.S. States.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This guy wanted to charge the ICE cop who blindly fired his gun into a house with a child inside, then lied to justify the shooting. DHS also tried to deport a witness, and publicly slandered the man who was shot. Trump's people blocked the prosecution, then fired the prosecutor for going public.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Personally, if the '90s are returning, I'm hoping for a Babylon 5 reboot, a widespread readoption of webrings and websites instead of apps, and a new Portishead album.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From 2024. It's happening.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A+ business idea: start a company that takes money from rich Republican donors to boost local candidates. Don't do a great job. Shrug shoulders, keep most of their money.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For about three seconds I really thought this was a photo of a skyscape over a Gothic Scottish castle
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
The world will zoom well past its target for global temperature rise in the next few years, a new United Nations report warned, exposing people and ecosystems to profound climate impacts that nations had pledged to avoid.
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The world is certain to overshoot a critical climate threshold, U.N. warns
In a first-of-its-kind report, leading scientists describe a narrowing path for coming back from catastrophic warming.
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?" Seems like it just came out yesterday, because... didn't it?
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George Clooney in a Suit
Alt: George Clooney in a suit in a hotel bar facing Jennifer Lopez, and he won't be in that suit for much longer. It's a shame there aren't more gifs of Out Of Sight on this here website, not shots of the cast also including Don Cheadle and Steve Zahn at early career beats, not beautifully composed shots by Steven Soderbergh like a lens flare carefully stalking Clooney as he walks from a robbed bank to his car, not captions with acres of hilarious dialogue adapted by Scott Frank, not cameos of Catherine Keener, Albert Brooks, or Michael Keaton... Still, Clooney does a good nod here, freshly broken from his ER head jerk thing. 1998 bitches! Just like five years ago, right?
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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.
Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece.  In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance.  The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom.  The piece is edged in a wavy border.  You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet.  Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets.  The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face.  She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green.  Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos."Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game.  The screen has a black background.  The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left.  the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails.  Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds.  The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat:  red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category."Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground.  He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer.  The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky  is above.  The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry.  Most of these were painted.
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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Flu season is almost upon us. Stay safe, folks
An image depicting handshake alternatives and the resulting germ
Transfer reductions:

High Five: 50% less bacteria transferred

Fist Bump: 78% less transferred

Sweep the Leg (martial arts takedown move): 100% less transferred.
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The horrifying realization that Coyote Vs Acme delighted me as a 90s style legal thriller for the same reason Roger Rabbit delighted old people as a 50s noir.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The moon has a glamour about her that is astounding and yet makes her impossible to photograph with a cell phone camera well. Anyway, total eclipse of the moon! The Earth's big ass is hogging all of the sun's light.
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