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Mestin Dendarin

@crawlbin.bsky.social
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i like music, bicycles, making pies, and sleeping

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money. That's how you can tell. Anyone interested in "how Dems lost the working class" hot takes - here ya go: It's the broke-ness, not the woke-ness.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Went to the Minnesota Arboretum today and saw these lovelies
The Morrigan, a scarecrow version at least. It's a burlap costume with bark covering the torso and a dress full of decaying leavesThe back side of a scarecrow with a long pinecone wig, and a dress made from ripped up plastic bags with lettering all over themA shiny black owllet perched on a flannel arm. The owl has bright orange eyes and a high black collarYellow leaved trees with the sun peeking through
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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The way rape has been politicized since Trump came back to power is terrifying. Giving so much power to known unrepentant rapists has emboldened so much sexual violence. Its terrifying.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Awooooo!
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026
Anyway, if you have to cut off family, I know damn good and well that it wasn't done casually. Speaking as a Mom--do what you have to, to live your live with as much peace and happiness as you can. Your parents ought to want that for you, it's not your fault if they don't.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't use wayfinding on my bike - I memorize routes to a new place, sometimes look at pictures that will help my memory. and look at my phone if i get confused. sometimes I even ask people I see if I'm where I think I am! some people are better at this, but we all improve with practice
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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you."
Season 11 / Episode 21
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"trans people are saying . . . you get to be visible and unique!" and you will find love as you become yourself
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Giving the water of life to my beloved new cilantro, hours before I rip it to shreds and cram it down my mouth
A bunch of cilantro in a tall glass jar of water. The cilantro is leaning over but clearly looking better
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.
slate.com
What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault
It’s not what you might imagine.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A neighborhood cat who I've met before was crying out my window so I dried her off and now she's cuddling with me
A black and white cat, small, probably female, is sitting on my lap while I'm on the porch. There's a voter registration card also on my lap so don't forget to vote!
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cold miso soup in a flask
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This beautiful song by Obanjayar reminds of Friday, I'm in Love - you know it's obviously poppy and kinda obvious but it's so well done you love it anyway youtu.be/mLrQ_A7mVsw?...
youtu.be
Obongjayar - Just My Luck
YouTube video by ObongjayarVEVO
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Halloween!
I made a spider web on the porch! It's hanging between the railing and the top plus a support beam. It's made from ripped up white sheet and clearly looks homemade but hopefully cute :)
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Equinox day!
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this is how I feel about spring ... after fall comes my favorite season, winter, but spring precedes the horrible summer. which is now over :) All hail Autumn, the herald of Winter!
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i would let the pizza crusts dry out on top of the fridge and gnaw on them for a snack. granted, this was early high school, so not sure I was a 'kid' at that point.
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birdo 🏳️‍🌈 @mercurymn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
democratic candidates know they won’t get more votes if they throw trans people under the bus; they just actually hate trans people and want them under there
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 18/09/2026
Another piece we are proud to run because other places wouldn't publish it: @sesmith.lol 's feature about sex workers and how they navigate rapidly shifting algorithms—and why that's bad for everyone:
f.mtr.cool
Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm
No seriously, fuck the algorithm.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look at the resistance locals in Texas are putting up against the Big Bend wall! it's really similar to what happened here in Minneapolis: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
texasmonthly.com
Inside West Texans’ Relentless Fight Against Big Bend Border Wall Contractors
Man camps housing border-barrier construction workers have arrived in far West Texas. Local businesses are taking sides on whether to serve the newcomers.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I didn't even hear about this attack until today
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 16/09/2026
Folks don't hate the NFL enough, tbh
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cyclists sharing the road: holy shit holy shit please don’t kill me holy shit is it safe to go holy shit please don’t kill me im just trying to get home Drivers sharing the road: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY RIGHT NOW I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU I WILL BREAK EVERY TRAFFIC SAFETY RULE TO SAVE 5 SECONDS
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I want hormone options that let you try a different gender for a night, a week, a year and forever. I want gender to be so negotiable, you're weird if you don't try some. 15 dicks? sure! foot vagina that gives you a thrill with every step? yes! maximalize the human potential for pleasure
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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A donkey, who in US symbolism typically represents a democrat or the democratic party, is standing in a doorway shaking a first at a woman wearing the colors of the trans pride flag and a black eye. She is slightly hunched and caring a bag. The donkey is shouting, in comic sans "Bitch you better not leave! What are you going to live in the streets and vote for nobody? You'll regret this! I'LL SEE YOU IN THE CAMPS BITCH!"

There's a hand written caption along the bottom reading "Vote Blue No Matter How Many Times He Hits You"

Alt text is making me crazy today, why can't we just attach it to a file? I'm spend more time describing this one frame over and over than I spent drawing it. Also the entry field keeps slipping behind my screen keyboard. 

Anyway the art is sloppy and rushed and I wished I'd included the phrase "I'm the best you'll ever have" into the donkey's rant.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the only reason I have any money is because I haven't owned a car in 15 years. it's awful that in most American cities, it's super-hard to not own a car. thankfully, I was able to choose Minneapolis where it's not bad.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm ok with some stake holders
static.klipy.com
Buffy Summers: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Alt: Buffy The Vampire Slayer is twirling a deadly wooden stake, looking tough and ready to slay
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i think this is key to why parenting is hard and so many parents fail. the kids can't push back enough (and some parents regard the pushback as immoral) - the power goes to your head, and you don't see them as human. every decision kids make that's contrary to your preference is a betrayal
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don't think enough is being said about the American right wing embracing the Neonazi party in Germany.
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
theguardian.com
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
The reason patriarchal societies demand sex workers existence is because they see sex work as mindless, animal slavery instead of a natural option that anyone can choose in a labor force. Steinem's anti-SW response was to assume that other forms of wage slavery were better.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Personally I believe that confronting one's own fears and anxieties related to sex and sexuality has value for every individual and that talking more openly about sex is entirely justified based on that alone.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption," said Talarico. "In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we'll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices."
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Paul C. @clrksn.com · 20/01/2025
Feeling this today.
I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

BY DANEZ SMITH

O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& it’s so sad, you know? You’re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that can’t shine.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Did Central just have a tornado siren? The weather app says it's storming but there's no rain, and just a light wind . . . So confused
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 31/08/2026
4/ Would be remiss if I didn’t thank @ziibiing.com; learning more every day about how her direct, clear-headed activism moved mountains (of mutual aid) that supported so many targets of fascism & orgs big and small. Minnesota owes her a lot.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please can I go outside?
A spider looking out the window on the front door between the pane and a curtain
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Familiar and terrible things happening in Connecticut: ctmirror.org/2026/08/30/i...
ctmirror.org
In Danbury, some are hiding from ICE. Others are following them.
Over the past year, members of Danbury Unites for Immigrants have prepared for the kind of worst-case scenario that played out last week.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
if i had my druthers, you onry rascals wouldn't act like pots calling the kettle black
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry did so many amazing things, but one lesser known thing I loved him for was narrating the Old Kingdom series of necromancer books by Garth Nix. He was incredible! I listened to those books over and over like bedtime stories for years.
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Micah @deadserious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me recap: the MPD is 30 million over budget, helped Lang plan his riot, set up barricades for him, let him drive multiple vehicles into a crowded area, one of the cop had their foot run over, and now we can’t press charges because the cops are in on it in the first place.
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QT 🔞 @forbiddenqt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Legitimately a saved photo because I related to it so much. Fuck.
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
kxan.com
Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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Mestin Dendarin @crawlbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Farewell, Dolly. You brought so much beauty to this world. You were an incredible song-writer, singer and such a giving person. thank you, thank you, thank you
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UncleRicoReturns @unclericotnt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My, my, my the more time flies the more shit stays the same. A cartoon from the 1930s.
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