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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026

She doesn’t know she’s about to go get shots.

Minerva the cat rests her white chin on my hands. Her face is very close to the camera, giving it a fish bowl effect.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 27/09/2026

There’s a haunted doll at trivia.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 26/09/2026

Anyway, my favorite sunset pic I've ever taken: Busan, South Korea, September 2010. Haeundae Beach.

The sun's rays are peeking through the clouds and the skyscrapers as the sun sets, creating a lighting effect where half the beach is lit up and half (in the foreground) is in shadow.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 26/09/2026

A bunch of people got stuck in the merch line so I wandered around to the other side and oh hey hi

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 25/09/2026

Really excited to get to see @amberrl.bsky.social’s crop art IN A MUSEUM! The crop art exhibit is here until the end of November!

Amber, a white woman with long curly hair, stands in front of her crop art piece, which is tens of thousands of pieces of quinoa creating an image of the moon.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/09/2026

No, it's Truffel and Nudel.

a screencap of a TikTok video with the caption Truffel is trying Nudel's food.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 18/09/2026

I am *losing it at Vetaw's comment.

"I'm devastated," Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, one of the city's most vocal advocates for maintaining the unit, said in an interview. "These horses can see and do things that regular officers can't. They were a unique tool that I was glad Minneapolis had."

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026

what's this then. Wage growth has gone down.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026

Cub Foods is similar to Target: best price is $4.99/lb. The Aldi in St. Cloud has the best price, at $4.29/lb, but you have to buy in bulk. I have to eat beef for my anemia (it's the best way I've found to fix my issues). If there was $2/lb beef, I'd find it.

A five lb package of ground beef on sale for $21.45 at Aldi, which is 17% off. It works out to 4.29/lb.

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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/lb

a 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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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026

Ken told me on August 1st to give him a call the following Monday, August 3rd. I called him twice that day and again the following day. He did not call me back. He has not responded to my texts either.

“Hi Ken! Do you have time on Monday to chat? That might be easier than playing phone tag.”

Ken: “sure just call when you can on Monday, and if I don’t pick up I will call you back. My schedule is crazy.”

Me: Torallt! My Saturday ended up brig super filly so I apologies for missing your calls.”

August 14th: I sent a message about another Dem being transphobic.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026

Minneapolis is the greatest city in the world.

Several vehicles are stopped at a red light. One of them is belching fire. There’s a guy sitting on the back of what appears to be a T Rex. It is the Southside Battletrain, out for an evening drive.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/09/2026

i feel like this story from my cousin is illustrative of where American Evangelicalism has been for a long time and how the bigoted elements were there from the beginning, while more empathetic elements have been pushed out.

I was a sophomore in college when 9/11 happened. My majors were lit/writing and political science. The next semester I decided to write a persuasive essay on why Islam was incompatible with democracy of the American variety and why our form of gov’t couldn’t take root in Islamic countries—the idea was that our political freedoms were born of Christianity. My professor told me my premise was so bad and wrong that it was a waste of time to write the paper. He also tried to humiliate me as a bigot in front of the class. This was at a Christian liberal arts school and he was considered a conservative prof. He wanted me to say Islam was a religion of peace and only perversions of Islam were violent, likening it to bad actors in Christianity. That was wrong then and now—it is exactly the opposite. I took the hit on my grade and wrote the paper anyway. I cried over the public humiliation and the bad grade. But 25 years later and I wouldn’t change the premise, just how much I cared what the prof and my classmates thought of me

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/09/2026

I love Riverside Plaza. The space was envisioned as reflecting the diversity inside through the different colored panels on the outside.

Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis, which has 1300 apartments across 6 buildings of varying heights. The buildings form a series of landscaped courtyards, featuring fountains, a clock tower, terraces, playgrounds, and various other amenities. Each building has a different height, intended to reflect the diversity of its population.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11/09/2026

he deleted it but i have a screenshot

rich burroughs: do you think they [trans kids] just wander in and get surgery on a whim? you would do yourself a favor by doing some research about how this actually works. it's very rare and when it happens it's usually older teens.

Thsi guy: You should really jump off a tall building without a parachute.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 07/09/2026

I love that the MN GOP has decided to make this flag central to their campaign. Like. How out of touch can you be?

Lisa DeMuth’s booth with the old MN flag.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 07/09/2026

Yesterday, I got to see Zack and my DFL friends @bundleofsticks7.bsky.social and @ayanajsk.bsky.social at Keith Ellison’s Labor Day picnic.

Four people posing for a photo: Ayana, a black woman, Zack, a white man, Dex, a white nonbinary person, and Brian, also a white nonbinary person.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/09/2026

At Keith Ellison’s annual Labor Day picnic in Minneapolis.

A big crowd in a picnic shelter. Amy Klobuchar is standing in front of big green banner that says “afford your life.”

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 05/09/2026

Two weirdos reporting for duty

A tabby cat being weird in her cat tower

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 04/09/2026

so this is weird but also marketing campaign? I have never once engaged with this "Thistle and Spire" lingerie brand and I do not wear lingerie, but they keep getting advertised to me, probably because every time I see them, I pause and go "Is that a vulva?"

A thistle and spire ad featuring lacey green lingerie labeled "Minna thong" and the model's very clear vaginal lips peeking out.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 04/09/2026

to no one's surprise, I am *very* Midwestern.

A heat map of the US that demonstrates my dialect. It's bright red around Minnesota and green around the Southwest and then cool blues through most of the south, extending up into the NE, which are the areas I sound least like.

The map is from mydialect.us.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 04/09/2026

i decided to take this quiz and uhhhhh

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/08/2026

Just got confirmation that my first ever piece of Crop Art is at the fair! The second E in STEVE is mine!

A crop art piece with the names of all the statewide DFL candidates this year: PEGGY & AMY & BEN & STEVE & KEITH & ZACK

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/08/2026

Told them to make it colorful and they did a great job. A+

A big bouquet of colorful flowers, with a pink rose in the middle.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/08/2026

I stopped and talked to Ghostie and his human for a while. Ghostie’s appetite is declining fast - the only thing he will eat is Churus. Poor buddy.

Ghostie the all white cat sits loafed in the grass

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/08/2026

I saw the coolest auroras last fall in forest lake

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 25/08/2026

I need more Dems to stand ten toes down for the trans community this way.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/08/2026

okay, turns out I just needed to look at OxKnit:

a button up knit shirt with a black cat looking surprised on it in a repeated pattern.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/08/2026

This might be my fave message I’ve gotten on Grindr so far

That’s cool I live in spring lake park you are trans

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/08/2026

Well that was tremendous fun.

Josh Johnson stands in his characteristic gray hoodie and the rest of the band camp crew on stage at the Orpheum.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/08/2026

Finally got my @curlworks.net birds framed and up on my wall.

A yellow and orange picture of cartoon birds, in small frames, above a Ducks Who Are Not Ducks print.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/08/2026

A new magazine is launching and pitching themselves as the replacement for Lavender Magazine. Considering Lavender closed suddenly in July, declaring that gays have won and we don't need to fight anymore, I felt the need to send them an email.

Hi Andy et al,

As you may know, the way that Lavender closed its doors in July left a sour taste in the mouths of a ton of the LGBT community in Minnesota, with the proclamation that "Today Lavender is 31 years old and the rights have been uniformly achieved and systematized. Gays can go into any restaurant or bar as a group, have dinner, drinks, and no one would say another word. We have arrived!!!"

Considering that Minnesota is a trans refuge state because our rights are not universal in the US, this read as wildly out of touch and very white and cisgender focused. As you are pitching yourselves as the replacement for Lavender Magazine, and have brought Lavender people on board, I want to know what reparative steps you will be taking to ensure that the trans community in Minnesota feels represented by this venture.

We are a massive part of the community here, and the way Lavender left things off really frustrated us. We don't have rights for all.

Thanks!
Dex Anderson (they/them)

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/08/2026

i love when the people to block make themselves known so easily!

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If LGBT people on the left cared about fighting against all anti LGBT institutions they wouldn't simp for Islam.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13/08/2026

my brother and his wife have been married for 21 years today. Wanna see something hilarious? That's me 21 years ago, at 19 years old, trying *extremely hard* to be a girl.

my brother's wedding picture with our family. I'm in a. black strapless dress second from the left, holding my brother's arm and a bouquet. Ive got long, curly hair, a pearl necklace, and make up on. I look very uncomfortable.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12/08/2026

Very happy to be sending Ilhan back to congress!

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/08/2026

this one is killing me. you look like it just tried to kiss you and you turned it down

daniel in a Team Ilhan shirt looking confused as he pushes a llama away with one arm while feeding another, smaller llama with the other hand.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 07/08/2026

Minerva was having a dream this afternoon.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/08/2026

I emailed the author and got this completely unacceptable reply. What I can't fathom is why he didn't contact Ash's mom and ask her how he should refer to her son.

Good day, Dex –

Thank you for your email and sharing the points you raise.

The story has one paragraph from CaringBridge merely as a supporting source. The bulk of the story was based on police and fire accounts, historical data and a small amount from a GoFundMe page.

The name I use is the one provided by police. The story also includes the name Ralallo-Korbel chooses to go by, Ash.

As for the lack of pronouns, the publicly available police and fire accounts also chose not to use pronouns.

Again, thank you for writing and expressing yourself so clearly, and thank you for reading startribune.com.

Paul

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/08/2026

This is a politics of fear, not ideas. It's notable that a 32 hour work week - a 4 day work week! - is listed among the "scary" things the DSA stands for. What's so scary about permanent 3 day weekends? I assure you, the 40 hour work week scared the shit out of the capitalists and now it's the norm.

Centrist Democrats say their purpose is to make progressives understand the risks of some of the more radical planks of the official D.S.A. platform: defunding the “Department of War,” taking “steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system,” enacting “reparations” and establishing a 32-hour workweek.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/08/2026

their strategy for the past, what, four elections? Has been "we're not the Republicans" and that isn't enough. Too many people understand at this point that "we're not Republicans [but we'll vote like them]" is the message, and that's simply not acceptable anymore.

Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.

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