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@mn-papa-bear.bsky.social
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MN father of Nordic/Somali kids, husband of naturalized refugee, former S. Mpls resident, current small scale farmer and technical engineering manager. My opinions here are exclusively my own.

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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As a half burned out, middle aged, middle manager, who came up doing every technical job on the way myself at one point, I struggle every day not to unleash my inner Jackson Lamb on all the fresh faces trying to find their way in information technology.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BINGO
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
While I'm sure this has been considered by others something about 'Agentic AI' just struck me. Humans are terrible at expressing their design intent to other humans like programmers, engineers, designers, or architects with years of experience deciphering client wishes.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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btmkhgg.bsky.social @btmkhgg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is the single most important thing for the American electorate to understand right now. All other policy preferences, political aesthetic tastes, dear and darling issues are moot and access to them can only be restored on the other end of a lasting small d democratic victory for the country.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Jeff Browndyke @jeffbrowndyke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It has only been 18 1/2 weeks since the cold-blooded, state-sanctioned execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. His murderers still have yet to be brought to any sort of justice. Complacency is cowardice. Complacency is tactic collusion. Complacency is the death of our Constitutional rights.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is so apt:
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I've lived this too many times
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Story after story on this, and all I can think about is: Who are the people constantly taking the other sides of these bets? How have they convinced themselves to continue participating in a betting market where some of the participants inevitably will have insider information they do not?
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Are you even supposed to be there today?
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My representative, Pete Stauber can indeed, go f**k himself. youtube.com/shorts/ZwQw6...
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Starting a fundraiser to find a backbone for poor Petey. #boundarywaters #uspolitics
YouTube video by Anna Connelly | @annaconnellyiscool
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Today the children and I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. I didn't even realize until I arrived how it's built around the preserved Lorraine Motel, and features the rooms and balcony where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr stayed and was assassinated.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/02/2026
We've let the wrong people define masculinity. It’s time we take it back. Real masculinity is doing what's right, and doing it with kindness, empathy and compassion. @principlesfirst.bsky.social
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ZFLTG @siarapita.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I wish I'd found this sooner, but I have to share it now: youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I feel like that's a sacrifice we should be willing to make 🤣
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Quack
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Hamlet of Melnibone @hamlet10.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I keep thinking about Oskar Schindler. If his story ended in 1942, history would remember him as just another piece of shit Nazi. But he changed his path, and we remember him for the 1000+ people he saved. It’s not too late for most people to get back on the right path.
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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Bankrupt American farmers who lose their land are an indicator of plans to control the food supply. Those who buy up that land will not have people's best interests at heart. Controlling the food supply = controlling the population. I never thought I'd be living through a western country doing this.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/02/2026
Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
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Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
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Coherent Light @coherentlight.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The whole system of family farming is circling the drain. Thank goodness for people willing to at least discuss policies with folks like @petebuttigieg.bsky.social who want to help. youtu.be/L7RNCdikLwk?...
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Pete Talks With Wisconsin Dairy Farmers
YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What the rest of the country needs to know is those days don’t exist in Minnesota right now. Every single day we hear about them terrorizing one of our neighbors, tear gassing the helpers, and driving around our city like maniacs
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Great video. Thanks Vic.
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🌍 J.Sharp 🇺🇦 Freedom 🔶️ Democracy 🔷️ Justice 🇪🇺 @jsharp1436.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Damnit.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/01/2026
They won’t reveal who Alex Pretti’s murderer is because he’s probably a pardoned J6 proud boy.
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johnwthompson.bsky.social @johnwthompson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Make no mistake who else is to blame
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If your political party is making the argument that a guy with a gun is not allowed to defend a woman from a mob of masked men or else he's a "terrorist", I regret to inform you that you're the Baddies.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is an extraordinary article that should be shared as widely as possible. Thank you Mr. Serwer
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It would be true to form for when this collection of assholes had to pick someone to blame it'll be the woman in the group.
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mn-papa-bear.bsky.social @mn-papa-bear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And we (Minnesota) are a target because we didn't support him, and contributed the VP candidate...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A CHILD'S NOTE ABOUT ICE RAIDS TO FRIEND 💔
If ICE takes me dont Forget about me I will be in El Salvador. youre my best friend, the brother I Never had. I cry every Night thinking that they will come for me at School. Att
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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING

PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY

WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET,

MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS

YOU ONLY WEAR

WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING.

DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS.

DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING."

DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP.

TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR,

LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON."

NOT METAPHOR.

NOT HYPERBOLE.

A THREAT DRESSED UP IN

A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK.

PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR

WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY

ON SOMEONE'S NECK.

PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED.

UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL.

UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS 
STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH.

YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY,

WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE

YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND"

IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND.

THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE

THAT ONLY EXISTS

BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH.

THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING.

THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T

WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.

THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT.

IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE- GOOD.

GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
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capster.bsky.social @capster.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 25/01/2026
Those blaming failure to "reduce tensions" by telling protestors to stay home want you to be ok with/forget that masked federal thugs just murdered a man in broad daylight It's not a time to reduce tension. It's a time to stand up in overwhelming numbers They SHOULD be afraid of what happens next
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Vibes only @brazuca.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here is a good opinion:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.
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