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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My chapter of MAPE has filed an Unfair Labor Practice claim against our employer, Macalester College, for bad-faith bargaining. Learn more about our fight for a first contract at macalestermape.carrd.co or instagram.com/macalester.mape

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

From now on this is solely a Boards of Canada meme account

The meme where the young woman is yelling into a young man’s ear. She is saying, “See, it samples John Hogue talking about how Nostradamus predicted 9/11. Isn’t it beautiful?” and “Let’s walk down the aisle to the song about PCP addicts killing people”

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Comments on new BoC video do not disappoint www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Nl...

@viva-la-neon-clippy 4 days ago
this feels like the final boss of the boards of canada universe

@elpooryoricc 6 days ago
props to BoC for featuring smaller artists like God

@shyguyisaac504 6 days ago
I missed my funeral for this

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My union is picketing 5/14 at 5pm while the trustees are on campus. Macalester St. & Summit Ave We’ve been working without a contract for 11 mos. Mgmt won’t even budge on non-economic proposals like codifying our current terms of employment in a contract. Join us! Especially if you’re a Mac alum

Join us for an Info Picket!
Thursday, May 14 5-6:30pm
Macalester St. & Summit Ave.
Staff, students, faculty, alumni, community members and other supporters welcome!

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Macalester chapter of my union is encouraging folks (especially alums) to donate $25.15 during Give to Mac Days today/tomorrow. Why that amount? It’s the hourly living wage for Saint Paul, and many Mac staff are paid less! www.macalester.edu/giving

Are you participating in Give to Macalester Days?
Consider donating $25.15!
$25.15 is the living wage in Saint Paul according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator.
Consider donating $25.15 in support of fair and timely contracts for
MUWU, MAPE, and IOUE Local 70.

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It’s Sports Day at my daughter’s school, so her mom provided her with the only sports-related apparel in our household.

A child photographed from the neck down wearing an adult-sized t-shirt featuring BOBSON DUGNUTT, one of the baseball players from the Fighting Baseball video game.

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Hey remember when it got so dAnGeRoUs here that this guy had to evacuate Whatever happened to him? I hope he’s safe!!

Bluesky post from Aaron Rupar • @atrupar.com
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
7:47 PM • Jan 9, 2026 ® Everybody can reply
12K reposts
824 quotes
38K likes 602 saves

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

[Goes on at great length, wrongly] Anyway, I don't like to talk about this, [a bunch of people get justifiably mad] Ugh, why are you all yelling at me

Post from amanda moore @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
Anyway, I don't really like to talk about this because it's a very emotional and sensitive topic for people, and it's hard when you're in the moment.
But I promise you the people I have gone city to city with are extremely dedicated to this, and many of us have decided it's time to go home.

Reply from amanda moore @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
Muting this now. Godspeed.

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Fortunately I was able to uncensor the image

HSCO officer holds a large blue labubu doll aloft while more lie strewn at his feet

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I know we have zero control over such things but I’m really hoping this becomes one of her core memories.

My daughter and me playing my drums in downtown Minneapolis as part of the Twin Cities Drum Collective's anti-ICE noise protest

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Happy 75th birthday to my drumfather. This photo was taken in my birth year when Phil was 25. He turns 75 today. If my math is correct, that means I’m 25 years old.

Photo of Phil Collins in 1976. He’s wearing a gray hoodie and red baseball cap, with a beard and longish hair.

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I’d like to walk back my past criticism of democrats for not doing enough to fight fascism; I had not seen this effort by HollywoodDemocrats.com

secure.actblue.com
Please chip in any amount now to run billboards telling ICE agents: "Break State Law. Go to Jail."
$215,508.27 Raised
GOAL $220,000
ICE agents who break state or local laws must be held accountable. So we're putting them on notice with billboards that say "ICE AGENTS:
BREAK STATE LAW. GO TO JAIL."
Support your community. Call 911 to report illegal ICE activity

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Not Knowing What Else To Do, Man Posts Picture of Daughter and Cats

My 7-year-old daughter crouched on the floor, looking at the camera and smiling, next to her two cats Lloyd & Crosby, who are spooning each other in their cat bed

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Once you decide that human rights should be conditional on how that human voted, you too can be "past" empthy like this evolved individual

jvb1217.bsky.social 9 hours ago
This is just horrifying but I'm about be unkind. How's that whole we supported Trump because "the Democrats left us" bullshit treating you? As black Muslims what did you all think was going to happen?

In response to my quoting this person's previous post and writing "Liberal empathy," they responded:
jvb1217.bsky.social 9 hours ago
This is just horrifying but I'm about be unkind. How's that whole we supported Trump because "the Democrats left us" bullshit treating you? As black Muslims what did you all think was going to happen?

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

If only there were somewhere for this person to park

A car is parking the bike lane with a large red arrow pointing to an available parking spot directly next to the car parked in the bike lane

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For example eastbound drivers w/a green light, rather than wait for the bus to clear the stop, will either block the intersection or pass the bus by driving into the oncoming turn lane—usually at full speed bc they have the green! Insanity

Drawing of an eastbound driver passing an eastbound B Line bus by driving into the oncoming turn lane

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This is pretty close to the set I have (mine has a few more pieces). A distant relative sold it to me for a steal

A blue Ludwig Vistalite drum kit, photographed from behind the kit

A blue Ludwig Vistalite drum kit, photographed from in front of the kit

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Once again taking this opportunity to post this under-appreciated classic

Album cover of Body Exit Mind (1992) by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In my alley, surrounded by light pollution, but still

Photo of the reddish northern lights above a utility pole and house

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“This model of political engagement removes from you the burden of being an omniscient being w/the ability to predict the future. … What could you do w/that free time? You could think about what kind of world you want to see. Then you could fight to make that world a reality.”

Some of this analysis is conducted by professional pollsters and political consultants and campaign managers and candidates. Some of it is conducted by pundits and commentators and the press. Much of it, though, is conducted by regular voters. Conversations among political junkies become a mini-version of a Face The Nation panel. Discussions of who our preferred political party should nominate and what that candidate should say and how they should campaign and how they should win over other people take on the quality of an interminable Nate Silver post. Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant and then imagining what tactical choices can dominate the 4-D chessboard of public opinion. Critiques of parties and candidates and issues are freighted with a meta-heaviness in which the things are judged not simply for what they are, but for how we think they will interact with the infinite other quantum ripples of the world to produce a political outcome.

$At the risk of stepping too firmly on The Rake of Obviousness, I want to suggest a different mental model of politics-a different way of engaging with the political process. It is this: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing. Note that this model of political engagement removes from you the burden of being an omniscient being with the ability to predict the future. Whereas in the other model you are required to spend a great deal of time gaming out probabilities about how each and every word and action and position will interact with every other word and action and position in the world and what thoughts those refractive combinations will produce inside the minds of people you don't know, the model that I am suggesting does not require that. You can wipe that off your schedule. Now you have a lot more free time. What could you do with that free time? You could think about what kind of world you want to see. Then you could fight to make that world a reality.$