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In a moment of pedantry, and I'm hardly an expert so maybe it's foolhardy know-it-all-ness (a synonym for pedantry). Everett has been in ABQ long enough to know you'd put in green chile (ie NM Hatch chile) in that cornbread. Pffft jalapeño. Am very much enjoying No Line Changes.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 7h

...bit (more) crazy. I think he thinks there is an untapped well of white Minnesotans who will outnumber the every-kind-of-Minnesotan coalition that made the community response to the surge function. I think he really wants those images. (I'd say good luck, DJT, but really, just please go away.)

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 7h

Or an Anti-Jacket? Or people spelling out "we hate [whatever]" on frozen lakes/ driving ICE agents to people's houses or making them casseroles so he gets a strib article about 38% of MN directly aiding the feds or something. I thinnk the visual richness of resistance has got to make him a little

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 7h

Aside from wanting to shoot Americans in the streets, gotta wonder if Trump's the Feds Will be With You Post is also hoping for Greater Content Than All Other Content About Metro Surge. Like, whatever his idea of the opposite of Minnesotans appearing out of nowhere with whistles is?

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 12h

OK, DJT, once more in case you need a refresher:

A yellow button with a stylized loon in flight. Text reads Leave Minnedota Aloon.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that made me think it vould be less Feelings and Unfortunately More Experiences. His trying to encourage Minnesotans who *don't* love their neighbors (and there ard some, we know it) to do whatever it is he hopes they'll do is the Actual Worst.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 8h

...name, since being an Albuquerque Turkey sounds both boss and also silly. (The Goatheads can stay as they are.)

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 8h

@ashheardwrites.bsky.social there are two hockey teams for which one can buy tix in ABQ, The Goatheads (ECHL, named for a thornyass burr that can puncture bike tires) and juniors team NM Ice Wolves. Honestly, despite the peak NM-ness of the jersey, the Ice Wolves really should reconsider their...

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 9h

Yeeeaaahhh this seems pretty straightforward.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 9h

There are few things I dread more than making cold phone calls to strangers, but I'm out of state working rn so can't door knock. I do not want Ms. Ashamed-Of-Being-Minnesotan elected to the Senate, though, and Flanagan's website says phone banking is a campaign priority, sooo... who's with me?

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 9h

I have no idea if Peggy is running a good campaign or not. I do know that she did well all over the state in the primary, not just the metro. And for folks worried about the campaign, sign up to door knock and Get Out The Vote (GOTV). Do all we can to get folks to vote. Text family and friends.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 10h

100% yes. Four young adults at the pub after work/in the student union bar were like... awright ye know we could, aye, ye se we coooouulllldddd eff ye think about it, it would be a piece o piss, awright... and next thing you know it's either the theft of s major heritage piece or... Irn Bru heist.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 10h

Eyes out for a whole lotta jittery drunk people trying to be unobtrusive about their comedy Irn Bru heist.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 12h

OK, DJT, once more in case you need a refresher:

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 13h

It's kids day at balloon fiesta and there are a lot of cute animal buddies around who are probably piloted by frighteningly competent balloonists, so.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 13h

Only you can fly a balloon using carefully controlled fire.

A Smokey the Bear hot air balloon surrounded by other, less forest safety oriented balloons.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 13h

ok so about Tommy Tubberville and his whole pilots thing...

Two racoon hot air balloons and a hot air balloon.

A hot air balloon that looks like a kong dog toy. Or something.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 13h

ABQ NM knows what's up.

A window at Burque Bakehouse with a COFFEEE sign snd a NO ICE sign.

A hot air balloon aloft against a blue sky. It looks like a startled cartoon frog.

A hot air balloon that looks like a startled cartoon frog aloft in a blue sky.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 13h

Shittiest IP reboot out there.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 14h

Once again I gotta ask. Is the Target C-Suite full of Walmart sleeper agents or what?

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 14h

"Well I've got an accordion now. But I've got two broken arms." Quote from a family convo.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 21h

It is bonkers that I could read that post and go "oh god that guy." This sucks.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 23h

Truly, like the difference between a mustang and a B-class bomber. It was lumbering in flight. Or a brown vs a grizzly bear. Just a big birb.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

100% the most dreary.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I saw an actual raven in the real life flesh today and oh my goodness guys they really are BIG.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, we all know about the performative cruelty of the state and all, but this is just all that knowledge and worse.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, it's an exhausted parent joke? Bud...

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone is mistaking needs and wants here.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hamthello Richard Henry the Third the Fifth Remains of the Night of the Living Dead

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The worst but most effective reassurance right there.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also... that guy totally has trained whatever he's using on his voice already, so this is performance tech bro faux flummoxed twitter engagement conversation happening right here. Gross.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Awful refusal to engage with child aside... His wife having to assign "read to the baby" like it's a chore speaks volumes. And who is cuddling with that kid while the dadbot reads?

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do you get to book tour there? Or do you get to mostly admire it from aloft?

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get real confused because it's also "I am a dogsled/ sled dog fan" "6-7."

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone got a good "practicing my German but don't nesc want a German practicing podcast" podcast rec? What's the Vibe Check of German podcasts?

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Eric @ericandredion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“They’re Here” is part of the THEY LIVE cinematic universe. Just dropped the metaphor about aliens.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

science.org

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Awwww! That's so nice.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

o my gosh thx for that (no thanks for that)

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Marcus Foligno is a hockey fox.

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cmon Wold get it together

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