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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 23h

Tim Curry as Pennywise in IT. My house has a sewer grate in front and each Halloween I have a red balloon attached to the grates. The parents react, not the kids.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agreed to write a letter of support for someone and I am doing so much procrastinating vs write the handful of sentences of praise needed. Praise I’m happy to give!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I appreciate that every Chewy shipment’s box and packing paper are a gift to my cats.

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Bill Emory (he/him) @oldmanemory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

MPD still can’t answer questions about where all the money went. And now, Frey is directing them not to testify before the Council. What are they covering up? What don’t they want the public to know?

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 21/09/2026

pointing out once again that the minneapolis police department have yet to answer these questions on line-by-line budget overspending from 3 months ago. brian o'hara tried getting out of showing up that day, gave no answers. he's gone now, MPD refuse to answer, and frey wants EVEN MORE power

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had my first mani pedi in ages today. Close enough in experience to my favorite Park Slope spot and close enough in distance to my current home that I’m just going to say I have a new mani pedi spot. I haven’t messed up the mani yet - I’m impressed with myself.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is helpful context as to why my beer choice at Leinie Lodge (yes, yes, not the current name) today felt right. I once exclaimed in wonder and excitement at seeing it in a Queens liquor store and the employee and my date cocked their head in confusion at enthusiasm for Mich Golden Light.

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ICE OUT State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BLUESKY BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the first 10 people in line for crop art!

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If, like me, you have a pile of cherry tomatoes waiting to be used, this was tasty and easy - and easily halved. I love a yogurt sauce. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

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Sheet-Pan Garlicky Chicken With Blistered Tomatoes (Published 2023)

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Garden spoils and farmer’s market bounty led me to making two amazing dishes for dinner - an old favorite and a new. Impromptu invited a friend over to share. Ate on the patio. Brilliant end to August. Old fave: smittenkitchen.com/2011/09/roas... New fave: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2321...

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roasted eggplant with tomatoes and mint

Nothing says Last Day of Summer like eggplant bruschetta, except thick rounds of eggplant are the bread here and the topping is so much more exciting than just tomatoes.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I entered five categories in the Creative Activities baked goods competition at the State Fair - and I won second place for blueberry muffins!!

Close up of my second place blueberry muffin in the case in the Creative Activities building. There’s a tag with my name, Minneapolis, and the contest class number 1025 with a red “2” flag in front.

Me in front of the Creative Activities building on drop off day. I’m in a blue dress holding a dish bin full of pastry boxes filled with my submissions. This was taken after about 1.5 hours in line. There was another 30 min or so to go.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm in the airport lounge listening to people who I think are also headed to Cancun talk about all their planned activities. By contrast, I’m only planning to read by the pool. I’ve done excursions in the past. Now I pool.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I really don’t recommend f-ing with the Barbs from Roseville and elsewhere. They’re honorable and formidable with regard to democracy and welcoming immigrants into citizenship.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

While I missed the fun of in-person voting today, the ease of being a permanent absentee voter is unmatched. My partner and I filled out our ballots weeks ago, and I could say to campaigns that called, “I’ve voted!” Plus, he ended up working out of town today and would have missed voting.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12/08/2026

A lot of “vote blue no matter who“ DFLers get to prove if they mean Democrats or cops

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Update: It was found by good neighbors who reached out!! The neighborhood FB group remains one of the only reasons to stay on FB. And now my friend can still do the triathlon on Sunday. We’re headed out for a ride as a palate cleanser.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

MSP: A friend’s bike was stolen yesterday in Standish. AirTag disabled at Lake Hiawatha, it seems. If you see it, please reach out.

Prairie Crow bicycle with front basket. It now has black bar tape.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Listening to baseball on the radio on a blanket in my backyard with the cats. Twins win in a dramatic bottom of the 9th triple by Lewis. Had leftover zucchini, tomato, and basil (all from my garden) galette for dinner. Lovely way to spend a free evening.

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026

Some sausage making info: the engine where all the people are is built to withstand a bomb, so they are relatively safe. You dont want to know how many vehicles they hit each year cos ppl play chicken and how many derailments there are. The real risk is the cargo

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

That free Shakespeare is me! Yes, bring sunscreen. Or come early to get the downstage center seats behind the food truck, which provides the only shade.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s a lot easier to produce a play when I’m not also in it.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today was our first day of tech rehearsal for Shakespeare at the Pub, our free outdoor summer Shakespeare show. The crew started at 7 AM to try to beat the heat in Sociable’s parking lot. Actors worked 8 AM - 12 PM. Frogg Toggs and AC breaks were clutch. And it was a productive day!

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I have load-in for Hamlet tomorrow morning and am up far too late watching this Aurora game.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

and I just think Leo went “yeah no fuck this, they had their chances, there’s no compromising with these people,” and I think the reason this is all so satisfying even to non-Catholics is that we all want to see people like this actually removed from their access to power but it happens so rarely

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/07/2026

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

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Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I have real concerns about how moderate Craig will vote in a seat held by progressives for almost two decades, but we should fear putting someone at the top of the ticket with demonstrated animosity towards other statewide candidates. Will she deliver votes to reelect our AG? Do her supporters care?

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh, this is exciting! A friend lived off the BQE and told me about how he never opened his windows because of the tire dust/exhaust soot. I moved two avenues further off the BQE and thought I’d be better off. I, too, did not open my windows without expecting to clean.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K Views

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@jilltucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This whole thread.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026

At caucus, they asked us, the party faithful, if we should add "abolish ICE" language to the Colorado Democratic Party platform. It passed with 98% approval. 98 fucking percent. That's why we're mad. Because y'all don't match our energy.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Apparently the timeline is cursed tonight but I was at a friend’s backyard barbecue enjoying a beautiful Minnesota summer evening. I’m now trying to catch up on the bad vibes I’ve missed.

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Neelofer Qadir @neelofer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

New York 💕

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...

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Paris Is Burning | FULL MOVIE | New York Drag Ball Classic LGBTQ Documentary

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I volunteered to spend today (peak MN summer Saturday) inside at the Hennepin County convention, but I could bike there. Did a victory lap around Bde Maka Ska on the way home. Delighted that @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social is endorsed for County Attorney.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 13/06/2026

Different delegate, arguing that showing disapproval today is the least the convention can do: A no endorsement is a slap on the wrist. She's gonna win anyway. But I don't like breathing tear gas.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Klobuchar only getting 67% of the vote while being essentially unopposed for months should be a massive wake up call to her and the DFL. Stop voting for Trump cabinet members and judges. Loudly support the LGBTQIA+ community. Start actually campaigning. This is an election, not a coronation.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My uncle died recently I’ve been trying to decide on a memorial donation that honored his son, my cousin who is a teacher. This registry was perfect. I picked five books from this list and am so excited to share the titles with him.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/05/2026

"too little, too late" perfectly describes angie craig only expressing regret - and not even APOLOGIZING - for voting for the laken riley act after operation metro surge ended. minnesota voters are clear-eyed after this winter, and we deserve better leadership than craig has shown

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Had a lovely “MSP is the biggest small town” moment where a grade school BFF went past on her way home from her son’s baseball game as I was out and talking to a neighbor, and she pulled over and we got to have a nice catch-up against my retaining wall.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Do you ever see your cat sleeping and think they’re so cute, but then they fall deeper asleep and their head lolls into the next level of relaxation and a new level of cuteness is unlocked?

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Half off *and* a chance at prizes?! You should click so fast if you aren’t already a member. From Freeloader Friday to Voices of the MN Occupation to a podcast about MN food and drink trends, they are creating and cultivating so much good stuff. Plus I love the totally not required annual report.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/05/2026

Easiest $75 I’ve ever spent. The siege reinforced my passion for supporting local institutions where local folks, not corporations, control their fate. Aaron has made this place better for a long time — not an easy task when your job is the Twins! — so it felt great to hit “buy” this morning.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Could there be a world where I don’t avoid Cedar Ave? I will definitely walk over for this open house tomorrow.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I spent the evening at a play that involved friends/colleagues/future colleagues/other people I’d like to work with one day. It’s a delight to be delighted by good people’s work.

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Grace Riley @graceriley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

After canceling in-person auditions for HAMLET due to the blizzard, we rescheduled them for AEA members and had non-union actors submit videos. In the end, we watched 178 video auditions and 16 in-person. 194 in total! That number keeps growing every year, which is exciting (and hard).

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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I mean… sure, mayor is chief spokesperson, but they’re also supposed to be chief executive.

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