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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.
Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece.  In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance.  The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom.  The piece is edged in a wavy border.  You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet.  Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets.  The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face.  She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green.  Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos."Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game.  The screen has a black background.  The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left.  the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails.  Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds.  The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat:  red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category."Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground.  He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer.  The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky  is above.  The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry.  Most of these were painted.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hey sorry I missed your text are you guys still growing stronger from the things that did not kill you
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/08/2026
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-p…
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Google Reader obviously
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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I drank one beer at 2 PM and laid down and pulled the earth over me like a blanket and snow fell and grass grew and I turned into a little hill
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪
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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
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halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Powerful. We may not know exactly, “but we know enough”
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/01/2026
"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.
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Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way
Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The revolution will be mindful. And it you can be a part of it, even if this is not the generation where the illusion shatters everywhere.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We could just be here together in reflection and wonder. No bombs, no ads, no predatory corporations. Just work and play and care and gratitude and sometimes sadness and pain. With grace, we could be getting more skilled, more open, more wise for the fleeting hourglasses of our own lives.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 03/10/2025
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees…” [prisonjournalismproject.org]
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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Elon Musk is floating the idea of a third party to change American politics. In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold. The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC…
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Garrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 07/03/2025
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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 22/02/2025
Be ungovernable Comic by @chazhutton.bsky.social
Each attempt to design a path is countered by the apparition of a « desire path » crossing the lawn
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
Elon Musk & @elonmusk
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The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters.
That's what it's all about.
Truth.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Incredible follow-up on Hurricane Helene victims from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
just as odin gained the gift of wisdom through self-mortification, so also will we be blessed by touching the stove
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/01/2025
please meet my beautiful son, Life’s Rich Pageant
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
Vincent D'Onofrio &
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Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure
this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and
see the stars for the first time.
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Crazy that blue sky has 20 million users. That's pretty close to half the amount of records nickelback sold
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Reader, I do not know the demons that haunt your dreams, the frustrations and insults of life that have brought you to your knees, the sadness you battle in your heart. But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it. Today, I got such a peek.
The lucky author holds a single, roasted cacao bean with 1/2 the shell removed so we can see the pure chocolate inside. Behind his hand is a roasting tray filled with beans. 

The smell. THE SMELL. This photo shows an aluminum roasting tray filled with a layer of cacao beans. When roasting, the aroma of the fermentation suddenly gives way to the overwhelming joy of fresh brownies. Yes, there is a spirit watching over us all.
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halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Working in education with NPS in Alaska in 2008, the message on climate change data was you see it in the coldest places, coldest time of year, coldest part of the day, ie when you isolated changes in average winter-season nighttime lows, the change was punching you in the face even in pre-2010 data
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Judge Anon @judgeanon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Finding out that Lake Superior "Never gives up its dead" because it's so cold that the colonies of bacteria that decompose corpses can't survive in it so those bodies never fill up with gas and surface, all because I looked up the lyrics of a 1976 folk song, is what the internet should be more like.
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KIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
me when you get me a little treat
Screenshot of a opossum holding a cupcake and eating it in the hands of a guy

credit: nathanthecatlady on IG
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halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
“There in the place of fracturing—bodies, unions, families, democracies—is where we encounter the urgent need for goodness, and it is asking something of us.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/11/2024
Tony Hawk posted a photo from the 70s of a girl skateboarding in the rain to his Instagram: “New fav mystery skater unlocked.” Jeremy Markovich found tracked down who she was. [ncrabbithole.com]
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Tony Hawk wanted to track down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979. We found her.
A photographer snapped a shot of Shaunda Shane skating down her street in Fayetteville when she was 10. How did the world’s most famous skateboarder see that picture 45 years later?
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halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
learn from childhood how to be spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean be lonely youtu.be/_Vvdtaaprzw
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A Message to Young People from Andrei Tarkovsky
YouTube video by CRITERION
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