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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve never seen a USPS utility truck and trailer before. It was filled with construction barricades and orange cones. And there’s no license plate?

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Minnesota, everyone had one of these in their car, and you could buy them at most gas stations, which was also a place you could reliably ask for directions. Hudson Maps even had a store on Nicollet!

Red, spiral bound book cover that reads
HUDSON'S STREET ATLAS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITY METROPOLITAN AREA

AREA INCLUDES
186 MUNICIPALITIES
129 SECTIONAL STREET MAPS
20,562 STREET LISTINGS

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Given what the AI labeler says about this account, they probably don’t care

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They're out here doing this fuckshit, meanwhile they have high-use pages and forms that look like this. Start with the fucking basics!

State department's passport application portal. All the text and background colors are on the left half of the page. The right half is blank. There are so many design issues that I'm listing them at the end so you can skip it if you trust me that it's really bad.
Still here? Okay, so the color palette is yellow and blue, theres an image of a bunch of what must be passport-related docs spread out on a white surface. There are three columns of text, the first of which has a slightly arched top that cuts off the corner edges of the header. Turns out that is meant to convey that you need to hover over each column to see added info for each column. The three columns are Fill Out Online and Print (in title case, which is not the USDS style guideline), Report Lost or Stolen, and Check Status. The text that appears above Report Lost or Stolen is black on a dark yellow background, which I'd be surprised if it meets color contrast minimums. You have to hover on a column to see that there's an action button for each of them. That button says the same thing in each column: Submit. That's not the expected action here, though.
Also the buttons look like they're from the 90s, but not in a cool way.

PDF of the Application for a US Passport. It looks like it's in 6 pt font with line spacing at .8.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alan is in finest form, though

Alan Cumming in red leather long kilt, red patent leather boots, red animal print blouse, red glasses, and a red beret

Alan Cumming in black tuxedo jacket, long black a line skirt, black lace tights, black patent leather chunky heel oxfords, black sequined high neck top with cut outs, and round black glasses

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s bothering me way more than it should that Chicago Avenue is pointing the wrong way at the Midtown Exchange DMV

Suspended wire sculpture with a metal sign that says Chicago Avenue. The sign is pointing east but Chicago Avenue is west of this location.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why surround yourself with folks like this if you yourself lack the courage of your convictions? I’m posting the QT-ed images above so I can add alt

Post from the band Beoga:
We have made the decision to depart as Ed Sheeran's band on the remaining US Loop tour, following the silencing of Macklemore by zionist
lobbies. We are a traditional Irish band who never saw ourselves playing in stadiums of that size and that opportunity is not lost on us. We have been friends with Ed for over 10 years now and will continue to be. We believe in dialogue as a means of progressing the plight of the Palestinian People.

Part two:
As musicians, playing to those crowds every night is the stuff of dreams but to play in venues that silence anyone advocating for a
Free Palestine is simply not an option for us. It's important that everyone knows that the real enemy is the zionist lobby. They have worked tirelessly to silence artists who want to speak freely about a genocide happening before our eyes, for fear of retribution.
Research how much Robert Kraft has done to fight the BDS movement. That will give you a
sense of what we've all been up against. We were there for Macklemore's performance and speech. We fully supported his message, so did most of the audience in Met Life Stadium which terrifies the lobbies. Go back and read the transcript if you’re in doubt.

Part three:
We are Irish people who understand colonialism. As founding members of the Irish Artists For Palestine movement, we are committed activists for justice and will continue to be. This whole episode is once again serving tr distract from the real issue, over 1000 Palestinians have been killed since the
most recent so-called ceasefire.
Up the workers.
Free Palestine.
BEOGA

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I assume I'll hear back from these folks in about a week, if the pattern holds. I have to respect their calm demeanor in the face of all those knife emojis.

Text exchange that begins on September 2:
Them: Your case is a book with the last chapter missing. Ten minutes and we finish it.
Morning or afternoon?"

Me (in all caps and ending with three knife emojis): "TEN MINUTES AND WE FINISH IT"
Follow up messages from them 9 days later: "You ever get a message, think you replied but, you really replied in your head? That's what I'll assume happened here <smile>
Now or tomorrow easier?"
Me (again in all caps, but this time with a knife between each word) TEN MINUTES AND WE FINISH IT

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So fucking tired of it. Don't worry, I will still hear about it incessantly on other platforms!

Your muted words

gemini in text & tags

claude in text & tags

grok in text & tags

openai in text & tags

chatgpt in text & tags

LLMs in text & tags

LLM in text & tags

"artificial intelligence" in text & tags

AI in text & tags

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you ever see this bike at that store, that’s me!

Coral e-bike that says “Key West” on the side. It’s in front of a cluttered garage.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gotta balance out that glamour shot with most unfortunate school photo

School ID from 1992/93, Minneapolis South High. Extremely grinning white girl with wedge shaped hair

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Big year to be 51, I guess, because I too was 19 in 1994. How can you tell? was it the Monet poster? The blockbuster video box? The Camels? the French New Wave-inspired eye liner?

Dark haired white woman leaning forward on a couch, resting her chin on her hand.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Definitely one of the major downsides of changing professions is not getting acknowledged in people’s books anymore. This might be my last one, but also my proudest.

Acknowledgements with this passage highlighted: Macalester College librarians were also critical to the project: Dave Collins, Connie Karlen, and especially Alexis Logsdon, who encouraged me to think about genealogy as a method.

Book cover: Portraits of Unbelonging: photographic journeys across borders by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh wait, I thought this thing was a protractor?

a clear plastic half circle with a hollow middle with markerts in inches and centimeters, what I thought was called a protractor?

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reminds me of the late, great Gilly the Doberman 🥹

Doberman with bugged out eyes and flattened ears

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last four Friday--this one is honestly wild. Two of these were at a cabin weekend and weren't my choices. I wonder if you can guess which two.

Letterboxd recent activity: A Mighty Wind, Argo, Paddington 2, Black Girl (dir. Ousmane Sembene)

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These three icons rule my days. Why are they so similar??? 😩

Figma icon, an F made up of 5 of the 7 roy g biv colors, but not in order. The top of the F is 2 half ovals that join in the middle. The rest of the shapes are another half oval, a circle, and a teardrop.

Apple photos icon, a pinwheel of semi-translucent ovals in the colors of the spectrum. These are at least in roy g biv order.

Slack icon. It's made of four ovals and four teardrops arranged in a circle. The ovals and teardrops are paired up in four colors: blue, green, yellow, and red.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Look at how cute this is! They didn’t have to do that! But they did and I love it!

Dinner menu with an illustration of a ship in red, white and black. Caption reads “ SS ILE DE FRANCE FRANCE COMPANGIE GENERALE
TRANSATLANTIQUE 1926-1959 44,356 TONS 23.5 KNOTS
The beautiful lle De France was one of the first ships on the scene to aid passengers from the capsizing Italian
Liner SS Andrea Doria. She was destroyed at the end of her life being used as a sinking ship in the movie "The Last Voyage"”
Then a heading that says “burgers” in a deco/new Yorker magazine font.
“ALL burgers include one choice: Fresh fries, deli style slaw or Carrot Stampot
UPGRADES: POUTINE or ONION RINGS
$4.95 • SPECIALTY POUTINE $8.95 • ADD A FRIED EGG TO ANY BURGER FOR $1.25
SKIP THE SIDE AND SUBSTITUTE A WHITE
STAR SHAKE FOR ONLY $5.50”

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So, I don’t have a car now but at least my hair looks a little cute?

Middle aged white woman with dark, silvery, shaggy, chin length hair

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is me in my purest form: post swim, under a blanket, with Steely Dan and Van Halen playing for some reason.

Legs on a chaise lounge under a patterned blanket. There’s a municipal pool in the background

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My photographer grandpa worked in sales, like his dad, until he was trained in photography in the service during WWII. Then he and a buddy absconded with the equipment and started a business together! Here he is in a most iconic image.

Man in a WWII army uniform standing next to a large format camera on a tripod. Behind him is an airplane with the image of a lounging woman with her top open and the words “sleepy time gal.” This is one of my most treasured photographs of my grandfather.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You helped me be less scared of lizards and that was really nice 🦎

White woman (me) in a blue dress and a wide brimmed hat. There’s a lizard on her near the shoulder.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. Not difficult to choose 50, but here’s one. (Would have picked Voodoo but I guess it came out in ‘00)

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Went to see Laraaji tonight at Westminster church on Nicollet Mall. What a stunning building!

A circular stained glass window made up of many smaller circles. The main colors are blue, red, and yellow

A circular stained glass window made up of mushroom shaped sections. The main color is yellow

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I have a burner account on FB so I can get/give stuff on buy nothing. It’s never not jarring to see how people make use of reaction emojis on strangers’ posts. (And in case you’re thinking that the angry person is just exceptionally anti-NNO due to cops being there, I assure you that’s not it)

Post in a neighborhood FB group:

Hi everyone! We're new here! My wife and I just moved into our home near [redacted]. And looking for some neighborhood recommendations for:
Handyman
Plumber
Electrician
Stucco specialist
Landscaper (grading mostly)
Roof and gutter specialist
Carpenter
Thanks and we look forward to seeing some of you on the National night out gatherings!

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’ve been saying this! But I’m also someone who made downtown way bigger than the average person, apparently

Side by side maps of Minneapolis labeled “my downtown” and “everyone’s downtown”. My downtown is bigger than everyone’s

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This copy from the restaurant’s website, however, is ridiculous. "Families arrived in America carrying recipes, techniques and traditions from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.” Uh, I think you forgot a few places where people came from (never mind who was already here).

Appalachia Resttaurant web copy:

SOME STORIES TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME.
The foodways of Appalachia began long before Appalachia itself.
Families arrived in America carrying recipes, techniques and traditions from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. In the mountains of Eastern America, those traditions met unfamiliar landscapes, different seasons and new ingredients.
Over time, they became something else.
Not British. Not American. Something in between.
Appalachia is inspired by that evolution.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What a lovely question! Really hard to choose but this is one I probably first saw as a teenager and I’m fortunate to be a 15 minute bike ride away from seeing it any time, for free. This level of extreme perspective was (and is) just 🤯 collections.artsmia.org/art/1554/ped...

A Mesa in the distance that is extremely minimalist as seen through the socket of a bone on the ground.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The only other thing that didn’t suck today is I learned the Swiss soccer coach is a certified zaddy

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I don’t think I could handle having a zaddy therapist

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sounded steep to me, too, but I looked at the TB app and yeah, it is $6.19-$6.49 for a chalupa and $2.69 for the cheapest small drink. Obviously you can do various combos for better deals, but the bigger point that everything is expensive now, even your go-to cheap meal, still stands.

Chalupa Supreme $6.19
Steak Fajita Street Chalupas $6.49

Variety of small drinks from Taco Bell, all priced $2.69

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I mean, maybe not. But maybe?

B/w photo of middle aged Orson Welles with a beard looking up and to his left.

George Michael circa 2000 (I’m guessing) with perfect eyebrows and a very clipped beard

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just grabbing my mini-share from my CSA and I got to sing along with Brass Solidarity 😍

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Found this on LinkedIn, of all places

GOB from Arrested Development with a steak knife between his teeth and playing cards in both hands. Caption is “This is the energy the entire AI industry gives off”

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Latest geoguessr finds. Rwanda, Tunisia, Tunisia, not sure on the last one.

Larger than life size sculpture in a roundabout of a man in yellow overalls and hat, with a miner’s headlamp on the hat. He’s holding two big stacks of cash up in the air and is holding a flat, round tray on the opposite hip. There’s a box that says Koruta on each side of him. Under him it says Muhanga District, cagebanque.

Graffiti mural on a white wall, with two figures in red, one with a red mask. The latter is seen above a laurel and between the letters AC and AB and the numbers 13 and 12. To the left it says “Molti Medici, molto anore” which Google Translate tells me means “many very fierce enemies”

Person squatting on the bed of a truck with an awning that reads “PMRB. D’LOVER BOY”

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Casually mentioned the ad slogan “let your fingers do the walking” to my son last night and he was like “what the fuck does that even mean?!” And honestly, he has a point. (He also didn’t know that the yellow pages was for businesses and the white pages were for home numbers)

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m comms-adjacent (content strategy) and I keep this postcard on the wall by my desk :)

Postcard collab between Field Notes and Hatch Show Print that read, in increasingly smaller and more crowded type:
SHORT and SIMPLE
IS ALWAYS PREFERABLE TO VERBOSE & COMPLICATED WHEN IT COMES TO CREATING POSTERS AND OTHER PRINTED MATERIALS THAT MUST DELIVER A MESSAGE VERY QUICKLY IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS FULL OF DISTRACTIONS

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The face when someone asks you to define something that you know damn well has no bearing on the law

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I don’t know who all of you were there, but good job, journos, with the questions. Also, this was his face when asked to define antifa

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve tried to post this three times, so maybe I shouldn’t even try, but: I had to put my sweet old lady dog down today. We adopted her in 2020 when she was 6. She’d never lived with people before (puppy mill 😞), but she was immediately the most spoiled dog in the world 😍 RIP, Gilly 💔

Panting Doberman wearing a jaunty gold and blue scarf

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

RIP, David Hockney. One of the first modern painters I got into as a teen. Here’s a collage I sent a fellow Hockney-loving friend a couple months ago

A blond haired white man, David Hockney, barefoot in a white suit with the pants rolled up. He’s reclining on his side with his head propped up by one hand. He has a wry smile on his face. Around him are various organic shapes in shades of purple, including a lightning bolt and a watercolor mountain scape

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Need to shake off the ick of AI talk, so here’s some art I made tonight. I secretly believe collage is one of the most AI-proof media because it only knows how to be random on accident, not on purpose.

Collage with illustration of a mourning dove under a slightly transparent piece of handcrafted paper, a photo of Robin Williams on stage in the 70s, and a quote by Henri Bergson: "A veil slides between us and nature, indeed between us and our own consciousness: thick for the ordinary man, almost transparent for the artist and the poet.
Which deity has woven it, and was it done hostilely or beneficently? It was a matter of life, and life requires that we understand things in relation to our needs”

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

For graduation, my son wanted to honor Nex Benedict, who would have graduated high school this year if they were still alive. Nex was almost the exact same age as him (like, within a few days). I was so proud to see him walk across the stage to receive his diploma with this message in his cap.

Graduation cap decorated with buttons and appliqués and the words “mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living”

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who helped me figure out how to make this work! Finished recording and making the “liner notes” tonight!

Typewriter and quote from Blackbird by the Beatles

Back of cassette tape with collage insert: a bird on a backdrop of pink sea plants

Collage with song lyric quotes, butterflies, a typewriter, and flowers

Collage with track list, a zapata quote, a map of Brooklyn, a brain scan, and a pair of hairy legs sticking up in the air wearing a big tulle skirt.

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