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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s so good! Especially with “everything on it” — feels like it would be overwhelming, but it all works.

Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I regret to inform everyone that the best, most underrated sweet treat at the fair (Sparkling Apple Cider Float) is now made with “Apple Soda” and kinda sucks. RIP to a reliable real one, enshittification comes for us all

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The secret to winning elections is to let your most able to talk to normal people talk to people. No, not your most passionate. Your most able to talk to normal people. We don't always need you at a 10. And yet you're always at a 14.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

important rhetorical nit-pick here — don’t claim in one line that it (paraphrasing here) “only creates community in that it makes strangers physically stand near each other” then claim that it serves as a brunch discussion starter (“brunch” used in the derogatory sense, but is that not community?)

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Make 90% of those cuts from the first half which is pure bloviating. Reframe the whole piece away from “why does this suck” and towards “why was I annoyed by it despite the joy it clearly, earnestly brings others?” (which in all honesty does seem to be the perspective by the end) And — small but

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

*professional editor hat* I read through the whole thing and by the very end I actually thought there were some thoughtful insights into like… the aesthetics of community vs actual community building, the importance of art that challenges us, etc. But my god. Cut the piece in half, at least.

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Lynxwyze she/they @lynxwyze.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

1 last additional day added for Rebel Turkey merch! We're so close to our goal. Please share just one more time, and make sure you got yours! givebutter.com/rebelturkey-...

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Stan-Eric Rebel Turkey Pre-Sale

100% of proceeds to keeping our neighbors in the neighborhood!

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Due South Thompson” sounds like the name of an old blues singer but I don’t want to give her that positive association

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

neighborhood mutual aid effort, or end the night’s activity by having everyone make mass calls to electeds or ICE-enabling businesses (eg: one event had all 100+ people leave voicemails for Enterprise, which was — is? — renting cars out to the agency here in Mpls)

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One thing I love about the Minneapolis singing resistance groups is that they tend to go a bit above and beyond what could easily lapse into performative (pun acknowledged but not intended) activism — for example, many local singing resistance activities will ask for each attendee to donate to a

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I don’t want to be sycophantic or parasocial but I feel like I’ve found a friend here. Finally someone who understands.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Cannot believe I missed round 1, but you better believe I’m all in seeing this through to the end from this point forward

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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Minnesota's antifascist DNA stretches back to the Civil War, if not earlier. But if you want to learn about the heroes who fought Nazis here a generation ago you can watch this.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Okay, rude I know it’s cold; you don’t *also* have to remind me it’s ICEy out.

Screenshot of a phone lock screen with a temperature readout of -15 degrees Fahrenheit. Below the temperature, a label saying “Extreme Cold Warning” appears, but it cuts off so it simply reads “Extreme Cold War…”

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The problem with “we don’t fight culture war stuff” is that when the right turns *everything* into culture war stuff, then you don’t have to fight anything at all.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The bridge, especially when the organ *really* kicks in. youtu.be/crvv47_MTK0?...

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Menomena - Muscle'n Flo

YouTube video by kikthecan

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 18/01/2026

One of the MOST significant things about this — and an important lesson to highlight, not obscure, for national/international readers — is how widespread local opposition is. I’ve never seen more normal folks involved. The overwhelming broad consensus local support lifts me up when I let it.

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little john @littlejohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I just hate it

Screenshot of a plane tracker app showing cop helicopter N119SP making seemingly endless tight, low circles over the spot where ICE murdered Renee Good

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 08/01/2026

saw this in uptown minneapolis this morning and am not really sure what it means

hamm’s box unfolded and trimmed with “OBAMA & LOCAL NEWS” written on it in permanent marker

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

WATCH: Trump’s goons kick over a Renee Good memorial😳 “Really, you f*ckin’ punk? That’s why we’re here… Renee Good is a mother.” (H/T @covie93.bsky.social )

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I don’t share NYT much anymore but this is a perfect example of how to maintain standards of objective reporting while not kowtowing to the official narrative (because the objective facts clearly contradict it).

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Derek Johnson @derekjjohnson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

In the past 7 months, the Twin Cities have seen the assassination of State Rep Melissa Hortman & her husband and the attempted murder of State Sen John Hoffman and his wife, the mass shooting of children at Annunciation Church, and now the murder of an innocent women by an ICE agent. It hurts.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

easy there, partner — looks like you were about to fedpost. the future we need can’t come to pass if the good people building it are in the hoosegow. leave them ornery thoughts in the holster

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roddy chops @rod-learmonth.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

**warning upsetting violence** but i have to share after the DHS statement on what took place. this was cold-blooded murder by ICE on a neighborhood street. none of them in danger, none of them harmed. driver killed after three shots through the windshield. all i have in me is rage right now.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Sexx Laws, Hell Yes, Pay No Mind (Snoozer) Basically, if it’s a less-remembered single from the first half of his career, it’s probably very specifically My Jam™️

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

it also has the connective thread of not just music, but the whole concept of “DIY” and “Independent” artistic ethos, which could be really helpful. The limitations are that it’s a bit outdated (early ‘00s) and pretty white/male-centric. But otherwise a solid resource!

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Our Band Could Be Your Life is a great book to show both direct history and trickle-down influence — it’s a collection of short (20-40 page) histories of underground bands that largely starts with ‘80s hardcore and proceeds to the alternative and and indie scenes that took influence from them. And

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Did they get rid of the setting where you can toggle between the two? I know when we had a Disney+ subscription that was an option.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (Honestly, pretty accurate)

Dual-image meme.

First image is a screenshot of a headline saying “Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye join forces for new project”

Second image is a screenshot from The Simpsons showing Homer opening the door to a group of neighbors, apprehensively saying “uh, this isn’t going to be spoken word, is it?”

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Setting aside competition shows (Top Chef, Iron Chef) and food culture shows (Anthony Bourdain’s ouvre, etc), it’s gotta be Good Eats. Both for information value and entertainment value, it’s always been in my Q Zone

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It was pretty brilliant above our house in South Minneapolis about 10 minutes ago — you might not have missed it all!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It gave us the great Disco Elysium Vance video:

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Progressives did a good job defending some (potentially) hard council races and did great at picking up park board seats. Obviously lots of sadness around the Mayoral, but overall “Not as good as we hoped, not as bad as we feared” seems to be the prevailing interpretation.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Park Board much further left, but still with a contingent of cranks City Council slightly more moderate (no longer a veto-proof progressive majority), but still largely progressive. Mayor obviously stays as-is. I have a lot of personal stake in some losses (Ward 5/7), but on the balance,

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We won every precinct with a total of 62.05% of the vote! Thank you Ward 12, I look forward to representing and serving you for the next 4 years. A progressive vision for supporting everyday people and working families is what I will work to deliver with you. 🤍

Thank you Ward 12, re-elected to minneapolis city council graphic with photo of Aurin.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

TL;DR: race is still anyone’s game, but it’s an uphill battle for non-Frey contenders after this first-round ballot drop.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I think the *majority* of Hampton/Davis votes will go to Fateh, but there’s a very strong (and not very online) contingent of “preferably not Frey, but definitely not Fateh” voters in our city. I wouldn’t be shocked if a significant percentage of Hampton voters in particular ranked Frey 2nd or 3rd.

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Given that Wilson was pushed hard as the second-choice All of MPLS candidate, it’s likely going to Warren. But Ward 5 can be chaotic so I’m not calling it until it’s called, ya know

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 04/11/2025

🚨EARLY EXITS: all your enemies are voting in high percentages and will get their way over the next four years unless you show up to the polls and bring several friends.

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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Minneapolis and Saint Paul, go to the polls prepared tomorrow! All these races matter. Here’s @naomikritzer.bsky.social indexed election election guide. naomikritzer.com

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Will Tell Stories For Food

Naomi Kritzer's blog

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clumsy_machinist @clumsy-machinist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Can’t believe the amount of illicit things I’ve found in my kids Halloween candy. Razor blades, fentanyl, mixed-use multi-family housing in an exclusively single family zone

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Team Aurin is joining forces with our neighbors, Arya Cafè & Asian Duck Cafe, to run a food drive and Community Collection Hub for the Minnehaha Food Shelf. From Nov. 1st – 30th, you can drop off essentials for our neighbors at (Arya Cafè, 4603 Minnehaha Ave) daily from 7am–9pm!

Aurin for Ward 12, Arya Cafè, Asian Duck Cafe

Food & Supply Drive, November 1st - 30th

Drop off: Arya Cafè, 4603 Minnehaha Avenue

Most Needed Food Items:
Cooking Oil | Flour | Sugar | Rice | Beans
Canned Meat (Chicken, Tuna, Salmon)
Food that travels well | Can Openers

Personal Care Essentials:
Toothbrushes (single pack) | Toothpaste
Soap | Menstrual Care (Tampons & Pads)
Toilet Paper | Laundry Detergent

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Uncle 3: Lead his church’s choir for 20 years. Cheated on his wife with a section lead the whole time. Uncle 4: Investigated for murder by the FBI (no connection found) Uncle 5: Lived a full life of miscellaneous get-rich-quick schemes around Puerto Rico

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Uncle 1: Former bigwig in a Chicago suburb public school district. Trained by an NC-style whole-hog BBQ pit master. Uncle 2: Pro jeweler. Lost his wife to cancer, remarried, divorced, moved down South

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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

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Performative Competency @machetemonkey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I always feel a little odd going there cuz I’d rather support a local spot over a chain, but they do admittedly do a *really* good job. I dunno if it’s just this particular franchise (never been to another location) or what, but it’s always been super solid.

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