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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 32m

Wow. Just goes to show that no matter how happy a relationship looks, you never know what's going on inside.

floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 17h

Incredibly funny to find this text—sent while Caitlin Clark was going giga viral during Women’s NCAA March Madness—and do your due diligence, but check only the NBA and Men’s NCAA game schedule. It’s one of the most Republican ways to crater your public profile ever devised

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 23h

Once I was in line at French Meadow when a woman came in and just started just screaming inarticulate, crazy nonsense at the host. He smiled and nodded politely until the woman blew back outside. I said "yeesh, sorry you have to deal with that kind of thing" and he goes "oh, so that's the owner..."

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this Pope quoted Gandalf in his first encyclical titled "Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But arts businesses in the AI era might end up looking like the unrecoverable devastation of writing businesses in the internet era Social media caused a total collapse of publishers' business models, leading to an 85% drop in news & book employment that shows no sign of abating

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts

a graph showing music as a % of consumer spending, with album sales rising through the 90s before crashing in the 2000s and being replaced with concert revenue

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The under construction bit (yellow) of the Urban Doom Loop is almost done—will there be time to ride it in good weather this fall…? maybe

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve always enjoyed the misunderstanding that they are supposed to be a couple. In fact, they are a father and daughter, and you, dear viewer, are picking her up for a date.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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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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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t understand these numbers at all. Minnesota state law allows you to have your ballot *automatically mailed to you* as soon as voting opens. I fill it out and send it back right away! How is this such an extreme minority act?

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

86% of babies report being blown away by the sudden and frankly inexplicable reappearance of mommy’s face

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think if you help a wild animal out, when you turn it loose, it should turn around and give a sign of thanks before it scampers off. That should be standard

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Realizing I fucked my entire life up by becoming a [redacted] when I could be throwing Lebanese Hummus Workshops with the bean club instead

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/09/2026

Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.

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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals

A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You're working on a tarmac, sinking your big ass auger into the concrete, when suddenly it cuts like butter through a segment underground. That's unexpected… You peer down and see you've just drilled through a 2-ft pipe filled with wires. Your boss calls. Every plane for 250 miles has been grounded

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My neighbor yesterday, unprompted: God BLESS America!! Me: Uh, sure! Neighbor: What are you, some kinda fifth generation bolshevik? What did they teach you in law school? Don’t you know it’s National Squirrel Day? We should always be a little nutty—that’s why I said that about America.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A single gallon of premium gas down the street in Portland costs almost as it does to fully charge our EVs. Imagine getting 12 - 14 gallons of gas for about $7… and never having to get an oil change, exhaust repair, or spark plugs…

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sometimes at museums I make a point not to look at placards, and just take everything directly for what it is. This leads to some amazingly wrong guesses, where something I clock as modern and hilarious, is in fact, millennia old and hilarious.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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gustavo64.bsky.social @gustavo64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cairo (Kay roh), IL

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Paul Mogush @paulmogush.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Buena (BYU-nuh) Vista County/University, IA

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Ted Remington @tedremington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tripoli (tri-POH-luh), IA

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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bois D'Arc (BOH-dark), MO

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Ian, in the Year of the Bean🫛🫘 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Madrid, IA (MAH-drid)

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finally starting a list. I’m sure I’m missing some so please add to it.

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just learned this is pronounced “aa-loo-weez” lol

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

robbinsdale ward 4 candidate melodie neff is giving out foot rubs in a BAR?!? this has got to be a campaign finance violation of some kind. i demand it be one

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A stacked bar chart titled "The US has more data centre capacity than the next fourteen countries combined". The horizontal axis displays capacity in gigawatts (GW) ranging from 0 GW to 100 GW.

United States: Dominates the chart with 32.0 GW in operational capacity and a massive pipeline addition bringing total projected capacity to over 100 GW (labeled as 70.6 GW addition).

Other Countries: China, India, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, South Korea, Indonesia, Ireland, Netherlands, and Brazil follow with significantly smaller total capacities, all under 10 GW combined total per country.

Callout Note: An arrow points to the United Kingdom bar with text noting "UK is projected to have just 4% of US capacity".

Source: Source: Cushman & Wakefield; analysis by Computer Weekly

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AI doesn’t have autonomy because it’s simply a series of electronic signals being triggered through an elaborate series of mostly silicon structures by external inputs. But not me. My structures are mostly carbon

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My original list of Missed Connections is being whittled away! - One fixed (36th at Bde Maka Ska) - One now-planned fix (Hennepin and Lake) - One may potentially be fixed soon by the Park Board (Hennepin and Greenway) medium.com/@bennetthart...

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Missed Connections

A few tiny gaps are holding back the best of the Minneapolis bike network from reaching its full potential.

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everything's kinda conscious, I think. Rocks are, but only barely more than an atom. Plants are, way more than rocks, but not enough that I feel bad eating them. Animals are, so I don't eat them, but some are more than others. Don't know if I feel bad about bugs. Fungi are but don't care about death

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