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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whoa, Mandela Effect in action: Watching 1408 for the first time, and I swear I remember the marketing being about a haunted motel-type room instead of an NYC hotel.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Medication is making my stomach hurt, and my left arm has become a hell of scorching red welts after a gnat got into my shirt sleeve or something. Whoever's torturing a doll of me today can knock it the fuck off.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of my favorite music is stuff I had no idea I wanted when I first heard it. What good is infinite recombinations of things I've already listened to?

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I *have* heard it a few times while surfing the radio on road trips. It's just kind of a nothing song? Like, I remember the central hook of the title/lyrics being about a guy cheating on the narrator, but I can't recall the tune at all. A lot of country today is like that.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A mystery: this morning there was a shiny empty Bud can on the roof outside my window. Who put it there? Simplest explanation is the next door neighbors hucked it out their window. If true, I hope it doesn't become a habit . . .

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

pasta three meals a day is fine if they’re different shapes

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight, in Cooking to Feel Control in My Life: A giant skillet full of cheese and the last of the summer veggies everyone's trying to get rid of.

Close-up of a skillet full of zucchini slices, tomatoes, mushrooms and SO MUCH melted cheddar.

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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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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feels like a good time to also point out that a city near you might run Met Live broadcasts. Tickets are pricey as far as movie seats go, but there's no way my broke hayseed ass would've made it to the opera otherwise!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Answer, according to the chart: "A VARIETY OF HUMAN-SIZED HEIGHTS. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT."

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know this is either a fake or a terrible sign of things to come, etc. On the other hand, the part of my brain tickled by nonsense is just repeating "Chousedeburger" and giggling.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the first Big Sweater/Soup for Dinner day of the season, and you better believe I'm ready for it. I just wish I had an old house in the misty forest, in which to contemplate mortality and the passing of time, while I drink barrels of tea.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh. So he just dressed like Buckaroo Banzai all the time, then.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

thinking about her 😍

still of Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck saying "I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just saw someone say "i don't think it's about gender. it's about control." and boy do i have shocking news for you about gender

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been pondering a haunted-house book I'm in the middle of reading. Is there like, a fictional ghost equivalent of "a face that knows what a cell phone is?" Just, the way some of the ghosts in the story are described - it's like you can picture the CGI effects.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kinda bummed they lead with "rock-inspired" and then immediately walk it back & say it's not a musical. It's a straitlaced British Christian fairytale for babies - fuck it up! Have some actual fun with it! Make it anachronistic, who cares?

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If the word "draught" is pronounced "draft," does that mean "naughty" is supposed to be pronounced "nafty?" . . . . . omigod is that where we get the word "nasty"??? - Tonight's Insomnia Thought

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now remember, the liquid death only physically heals a corpse's wounds, you gotta have the life water to bring him back fully!

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In other news, please look at this photo of a 16-year-old Willem Dafoe playing Charlie Brown in a production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I sympathize with you, Chubby Emotional Support Pitbull Sitting on the Sidewalk at a Small-Town Festival and Quietly Going out of Your Mind with Desire. That kettle corn vendor stand *does* smell fucking amazing right now.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Leo: They broke the mold when they made you. Mostly so no one could ever, ever use it again and have this shit happen twice, but still, they broke it.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/09/2026

Jesus Christ: · According to Miami Herald deputy investigations editor Carol Marbin Miller, the reporter who broke the news of Ron Desantis diverting $10 million in child welfare funds to defeat a statewide marijuana legalization referendum is gone. Their replacement at Tallahassee is also gone.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

Once you've granted the idea that it's dangerous to allow trans kids to play organized sports, you're already 99% of the way to agreeing to bathroom bans. You've stipulated to the transphobes' central argument.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐🧊❌👑 @michaeljriser.com · 08/09/2026

This went up at michaeljriser.com a week ago, and it was a long time coming (sorry, @bryanpedersen.bsky.social), but I got there eventually. I'd love if you gave it a read. If you like what you see, please also consider signing up for the newsletter or giving the piece a share. Everything helps!

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Bill Paxton's Frailty & the Murderous Mandate of MAGA

If causing human beings to actively murder one another is God "subtly at work out in the world", it makes one wonder what the author of those words might consider an unsubtle version of God's work to ...

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1. Stuff like this makes me tear up a little. 2. That's a really creative use of fabric pattern to simulate the loon's spots! Great job!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Eh. I remember this quiz from when it was on the NYT website, and it never gave me the same answer twice. I guess that must be how "Minnesotan who moved around a bit" shakes out. I agree that I absolutely do not sound Southern, however.

Heat map of U.S. dialects. It says I sound most like a Seattleite and least like a New Orleanian.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mad at myself for forgetting the author/title of an essay I read way back around the release of "Maleficent." The essay made some great points about how attempts to reclaim fairytale villains often come across like an abusive parent self-justifying their actions.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Finally got around to seeing "The Sheep Detectives," and now I just GOTTA know more about Nancy, the village's unseen and apparently quite bored neon sign maker.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

rebel loon made out of pull tabs and meat raffle tickets, a staple of minnesota dive bars. this is such beautiful, perfect energy on every level. (worth noting that those meat raffle cards are from small towns in rural minnesota)

Rebel loon made out of blue meat raffle tickets and black and white pull tabs

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hell yes, GIVE THE POKEMON AARDMAN TEETH!

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"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?’”

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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Huh. That's a new one for me in a video game. I seduced an NPC completely by accident, by saying (so I thought) that I didn't want to see her. From obliviousness to implied off-screen boning in seconds flat - ya know what, thank you for that, Pentiment!

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s going to be really interesting to see how many Metro Surge related, anti-ICE art pieces are on display at the MN State Fair this year. And I expect it will go beyond the Crop Art. Don’t sleep on the Arts & Crafts building.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My personal "If I had $1 million" is too depressing and hard to rhyme. "Well, I'd keep that shit in cash in a secure location . . . Meanwhile I'd keep clocking in to work just like always."

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18/08/2026

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FROG!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Without getting too preachy about this, "suicidal empathy" is pretty much the core idea of Christianity: a religion built around a Christ who submits to death on a cross, because of his love for others.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Big ups to whoever changed the laundromat radio from the usual AM church station to 70s hits. The Ramones are surprisingly refreshing at 8 a.m. 👍👍

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the little legs kicking

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