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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 26/09/2026

It really is! Totally recommend the crop art exhibit btw — You can get up close to the crop art and take your time with no lines!

closeup of the loon from that Guernica-interpretation crop art. Wild rice wing feathers

bas-relief moonscape made of 90,000 grains of quinoa

shiny landscape made of dyed and natural rye straw. looks metallic!

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 26/09/2026

that was my breakfast! here is our table (cropped out most of kiddo’s face, but left his “yum” smile in)

tablescape with plate-sized pancakes and bacon. Maria’s iconic red-painted chairs with wicker seats are visible in background

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 06/09/2026

Ooh, how about Rebecca Stead? “When You Reach Me” blew my mind when I read it to my kids.

Covers of Rebecca Stead’s books:

Anything
The Experiment
The Lost Library
The List of Things That Will Not Change
Bob
Goodbye Stranger
Liar & Spy
When You Reach Me (has Newbery Award)
First Light

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 30/08/2026

Result is that more lines fit on the screen before running off the bottom, but they still run off the bottom (and I cannot read them as easily bc they are too small now) 👵🏻

screenshot showing lines running off bottom of screen

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 30/08/2026

~Bluesky iOS app question~ Lately when I compose a longer post, the upper text is fixed and lines >9 disappear behind the icon bar and screen keyboard (see pic). I can stop typing and swipe up to display the last few lines but it springs back on releasing. Typing blind, hard to fix errors. Help?

Screenshot taken while composing this very post, demonstrating that the post’s later lines drop below the virtual keyboard and can’t be seen while composing them.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 18/08/2026

My 20-year-old college sophomore is about to move into their first apartment with a kitchen, and to mark that occasion, today they cashed in on a present I promised to a baking-obsessed child long, long ago. The weightiest part of the decision: “Feather Pink”

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 24/07/2026

Is it this one? Looks like you have to be the owner to post about it, and that there are special rules for ebikes. Might be worth making a burner account

This is a screenshot of a facebook group called “Twin Cities Stolen Bikes 2.0”

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 17/07/2026

Spending the bad air days doing indoor chores. Finally got to my absolute favorite part of yearly cleaning out the (home) schoolroom. (I’ve already done pencils)

On a table, left: Big plastic bin of jumbled pens, markers, dry erase markers. Foreground: Paper with many different-colored test scribbles. Background: a small whiteboard also with test scribbles, and a desk organizer beginning to be filled up only with pens and markers that still work.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 16/07/2026

Here in Minnesota it’s apocalyptic. 483 in Minneapolis, but check out this number from Grand Marais:

Airnow.gov displaying an AQI for Grand Marais, MN of 974 “Hazardous”

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 08/07/2026

Just got back from lunch with someone I’ve known from the Internet for… 28 years and change? Since the days of listservs. We’d never met in person, she was to drive cross country thru Mpls, & messaged me last month to see if we could get together. Internet friends are real-life friends!

Two white women sit side by side in a restaurant booth. The older woman has long dark braids, eyeglasses, and a dark blue tee shirt with a pink cartoon axolotl on it. The younger, genX woman (me) has shoulder length curly hair, eyeglasses, a pink patterned sleeveless dress (pockets), and an awkward selfie smile.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 26/06/2026

I don’t know why I am surprised 😂

In the latest political quiz, my closest match is Pope Leo XIV

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 10/06/2026

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. QT with yours

A photo I took in my neighborhood of a sky after a storm, intense pink and purple divided by a rainbow, crossed by a few power lines stretching from a utility pole in the distance, and a furled American flag piercing the purple sky near the edge of the photo.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 25/05/2026

Repost with a favorite photo of yourself

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 08/05/2026

(or somebody did, if I recall correctly it was a Christmas present, which means I probably owned it simultaneously with

She’s So Unusual (vinyl) by Cyndi Lauper

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 08/05/2026

Even when I was growing up in suburban Ohio, I must have known where I belonged

Purple Rain (vinyl), Prince and the Revolution

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 01/05/2026

post your warning sign (caption: “Sartre’s alternative title”)

Sign in English on a door at the Pau-Pyrenées airport, reading “ANY EXIT IS DEFINITIVE”

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 17/04/2026

I haven't seen this Pope Leo quote appear on Bluesky yet. It's from the NYT Live feature, April 13, 5:30 a.m., reported by Motoko Rich. "Asked directly about Trump's comments on Truth Social, Leo said: 'It's ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more."

Asked directly about Trump's comments on Truth Social, Leo said: "It's ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more."

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 15/04/2026

Full disclosure, I only read the books

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 02/04/2026

Manifesting www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

Jonathan Groff as King George from Hamilton: THEY WILL TEAR EACH OTHER INTO PIECES

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 15/03/2026

Yes, this is very obvious. Here’s Vance using it on his official visit www.rawstory.com/media-librar...

JD Vance at a podium with the old, no-longer-actually-the-state-flag flag of MN. and also some vehicles labeled ICE.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 10/03/2026

Enjoying this timeline juxtaposition

Screenshot. Adjacent skeets reading:

“I hope the Day That It Happens happens very SOON”

and

“CLOWN EVENT STILL POSSIBLE”

itself quoting

“CLOWN EVENT STILL POSSIBLE”

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 25/02/2026

Anyway, I spent Monday mostly indoors marveling at snow, and my bonus day I went to the Met. I didn’t have good enough boots to walk in Central Park. The paths seemed to have been groomed like a ski trail rather than plowed, and were slick. Maybe that was a choice! Looked pretty, though.

A Central Park pathway, plowed to packed snow, with snow frosting the trees, deep snow al around. Blue sky behind.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 07/02/2026

It’s not in Minneapolis, it’s in an unincorporated area called (confusingly) Fort Snelling, MN.

Map showing an outline of Fort Snelling, MN and a pin at the Whipple building

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 31/01/2026

And the police department later distanced themselves from report that they had intervened. I guess we can’t have people thinking they’ll side with town residents against criming feds:

The Saint Peter Police Department was contacted regarding a resident who had an interaction with federal immigration authorities. The Saint Peter Police Department did not participate in, coordinate with, or intervene in any federal enforcement activity related to this incident.

Shortly after the call was received, federal immigration authorities dropped the individual off at the Police Department. Police Chief Grochow then ensured the resident was safely transported home and offered assistance, as we would for any member of our community who experiences distress or needs support.

The Saint Peter Police Department is committed to treating all residents with dignity and respect and to providing assistance when requested or needed in our community.

This statement is intended to clarify the City’s role in this matter. No further information is available at this time.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 26/01/2026

The playbook for today. Looking forward to the 3rd edition now.

Front cover of the Annotated Teacher’s Edition of “Northern Lights: The Stories of Minnesota’s Past” rev. 2nd ed., a 6th grade textbook published by the Minnesota Historical Society.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 13/01/2026

Must be going swimmingly for them, to need to call in reinforcements already

Strib headline: Live: 1,000 more federal officers heading to Minnesota, according to reports. From Monday evening 1/12/26

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 10/01/2026

Raffi and Jesse Welles collab make it happen

Tweet from children’s music maker Raffi that says “regime change in america” followed by a US flag emoji

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 09/01/2026

This is the place at Kent State University where Jeffrey Miller was felled by a bullet fired by OH NG members during a student protest. You may have seen a more famous photo from the same perspective.

In the foreground, an asphalt roadway. A rectangular area of the roadway, perhaps the size of a single bed, is subtly outlined by a raised band of lighter-colored paving material. Six black metal bollards with glass windows near their tops, stand guard: one at the head and one the foot and one at either side. In the midground, gently rolling green grass, a lone leafy tree, a corner of a utilitarian brick university building. In the background a longer expanse of green grass and trees.
Photo (2007) from Wikipedia, uploaded and placed in the public domain by the creator, M. Stewart.

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 23/11/2025

Need to workshop it a bit Awooo = joy Helicopter: need collective eyeroll, communal expression of being fed up (but: together)

comic strip: 2 individuals

Person 1: Let’s not talk about politics anymore, I can’t bear it
Person 2: same

beat

Person 1: THE THING IS THOUGH
Person 2: THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 22/11/2025

🙄 cannot even imagine living with this kind of mentality quietly, let alone broadcasting it.

screenshot from FB post by “twin cities crime watch” claiming that they “put out a call to action for our followers to contact the federal administration to end TPS for Somalis in MN due to their massive fraud and crime” followed by a pic of a Trump tweet claiming he’s ending TPS for Somalis in MN

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? For hopefully obvious reasons, as soon as I calculated the year, this came immediately to mind:

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 12/11/2025

If all our electronics stop working tomorrow, welp, fellas, it’s been good to know ya

pink and green northern lights over a row of houses

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 12/11/2025

I actually got to see the northern lights from my South Mpls backyard!

pink watercolor sky with a night tree in the foreground

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 01/11/2025

Doug only one of my kids got only *one* in his bucket but he gave it to me!

hand holding a red raspberry Tootsie Roll Pop

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 07/08/2025

With my nearly-19-y-old, about to see Cabaret at the Guthrie. Last minute replacement seats: front row, all the way to the right

View from the front row of the Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theatre. The surface of the stage is at eye level with a raised platform in the middle distance. Seats are visible in the background, just starting to fill up.

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