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Video gamers, board gamers, puzzlers, engineering and science, arts and culture, food and book nerds.

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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Important lesson not-yet-learned: It takes a lot more effort to do damage control than it does to do quality control.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@katcumming.bsky.social Hobby goals, amirite? 🤣
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot of crafting talent Minnesota-wide. Nice to see it on display supporting our residents--all of them!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's not "evil AI agents", it's people, stupid, ordinary, lazy people. Us. It's always us. AI is simply faster at getting there. Give the interns a week and see how much trouble they'll get into.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@aanpress.bsky.social Your link has an extra closing ] which leads to a 404 error.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Modern #PhoneAddiction problems... 🤪
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@elizhargrave.bsky.social Yes, we have a lot of boardgamers in this area who are MN Fair folk too! :) #Wingspan #FanService
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)
Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Two others you might want to check out are The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre, and Kill [redacted] by Anthony Good.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The "Treenis" is no more! metro.co.uk/2026/08/19/p...
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Biggar Penis Woods get the chop after getting blown too much
'It's not just any woodland, it's a penis-shaped woodland, visible from the motorway.'
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@katcumming.bsky.social What a beauty, eh?
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
An author I found that satisfies a similar (to Turton's) literary mystery spot, with books that aren't necessarily traditional mysteries, is Bonnie Burke-Patel. I fell in love with her "I died at Fallow Hall", and each of her books so far is very different from each other, like Turton's.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Turton also wrote "The Last Murder at the End of the World", a techno-thriller-combo-Jules Verne Mysterious Island feel. Definitely worth a read.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You're doing the right thing. Staying for the people never ends well. At some point you need to do what's right for you. Best wishes in the new job, and congratulations!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#BoardGamers know!!
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Part 2 of Flock wrongly tracking yet-another journalist resulting in yet-another police ambush! How many more of these false positives does society have to expect? Answer: A lot! www.thedrive.com/news/inside-...
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Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason
Flock says its AI-powered surveillance cameras need humans in the loop to input target license plates correctly and verify its alerts.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I would totally rock a University of Minnesota #TeamDiarrhea T-shirt! We needz teh merch!!! mnfoodsafetycoe.umn.edu/team-d/
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Team D - Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) epidemiologists oversee a team of 5 to 10 interviewers (“Team Diarrhea”) who are part-time MDH employees hired from a pool of MPH students at the University of Min...
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Woo hoo! We pegged the meter!!! Remember when eating a fresh salad and then going for a walk was healthy? I miss those days. 😜
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How #FlockCameras wrongly tracked a professional journalist for days over wrongly-reported ‘stolen’ plates and sent the police to ambush him. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#Sourdough #Bread rules! We have now eaten our combined weights in bread flour, 25 lb bags at a time.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's gorgeous!! 😍
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We’re spending an awful lot of time undoing lessons that previous generations already learned the hard way... and then putting them back because we re-learned the reason they were there in the first place.
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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300
The Pentagon says military boot camps are once again requiring flu vaccinations for all recruits. This change comes amid a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base boot camp, which has sickened nearly ...
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How is it that we have all this #AI available, yet no one has been able to create a banking/credit card notification that makes one sound for debit and a different sound for credit?
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yes ladies, we've all been there... :D
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
So many talented singers in this area!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We got a daily dad joke wall calendar this year, and it's the first time we've looked forward to the start of each day in a long time! Now we always start the day with a chuckle. :D
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Why do doctors insist on scans for "prevention" instead of what it actually is: early detection if it already exists? It doesn't prevent anything!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@kevinwilson42.bsky.social Definitely house finches, red color can vary from deep red throughout to bits of red on the head or chest. It all depends on what they've eaten before molting. We have noob wrens with chicks. boardgamegeek.com/thread/26982... and boardgamegeek.com/thread/26982...
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Which birds did *you* see today? | BGG
Back at the end of March, we had a chickadee pair expressing serious interested in our neglectedly-moved birdhouse. They were still at it 2 weeks later when they suddenly stopped coming! The migratin...
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@celinashope.bsky.social Scientists figured out how to recreate/bring back the legendary golden fabric "sea silk"! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
A legendary golden fabric lost for 2,000 years has returned
Researchers in South Korea have recreated the legendary “sea silk” once prized by emperors, using fibers from a clam cultivated in Korean coastal waters. They discovered that its famous golden shine c...
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Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Canada Fiction Fest is a brand-new #CanLit showcase featuring books and authors from across the country. Sign up now to get notified when the event launches on June 21st. Registration for our full schedule of FREE author readings and discussion panels is now OPEN! 😀 ➡️ fictionfest.ca
A square image with a black background and an open book at the bottom, photographed edge-on so you just see the pages as though someone were flipping through them. Red outline maple leaves are placed as though they are spilling out of the book, and matching red text in the top left corner says: "Something BIG is coming... FictionFest.ca"
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Corpse flower, you say? Well after a mere 2 years since he last bloomed, St. Paul's Como Park Zoo & Conservatory's corpse flower, Horace, is ready to bloom again! Most corpse flowers wait years between blooms but Horace apparently didn't get the memo. comozooconservatory.org/horace2026/
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Horace Returns: Rare Corpse Flower Bloom May Be Days Away! - Como Zoo Conservatory
[Friday, June 5] Visitors to Como Park Zoo & Conservatory have another chance to witness one of nature’s rarest and most unusual botanical events. Horace, Como’s famous Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus.....
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You're the one in the air, right? ;)
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Can you tell that Google has a large pond outside HQ? :D
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Now that you're seeing the Google Keep icon "properly", note that Google Meet is just the same duck viewed from the side. ;)
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Keep Note one in particular looks like a duck. :p
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@hivegod.bsky.social This has "HiveGod" written all over it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_m...
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REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT
YouTube video by don hertzfeldt
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Super-white lightning angry, but not tornado angry, fortunately.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Last night's storm prediction image from @bringmethenews.bsky.social showing classic Minnesota weather. ;) It's Duck and Grey Duck!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Now you too can have posts like: "I connected AI to my bank account and it drained it and when I asked it why it said it was sorry." :D
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Standing at my bathroom sink this morning, I glanced at the mirror and saw a large inky black #bird "sitting" on my shoulder, glaring at me. I whipped around to see a big black #crow out in my tree in the perfect spot to be reflected at shoulder level in my mirror. Good thing I'm not superstitious!
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
There wasn't quite enough material left to make a pocket from whole cloth, so I pieced it from leftover bits separated by some nice sparkly piping.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The finished item! A lightweight windproof wrap for spring/fall walks. Can also wear to cover shorts for more formal summer tourist visits. Left side of divided pocket holds keys, protected from right side of pocket holding phone, gloves, etc. Pocket is lined in day-of-the-dead material.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very cool! I had similar thoughts wrt the long kilt concept. Managed to get 2 identical cuts of material out of the piece, and am doing lightweight his-n-hers "norsari's" with patched/pieced pockets (leftovers) for coverage on Spring walks on windy days, with day-of-the-dead pocket linings!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A short film from 1902 of a German suspended railway called the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, shot in 68 mm, colorized and upscaled in 4K. It shows an unusual drone-like view of a German city at the beginning of the 20th century. [📹 MoMA] Original post
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My current mood...
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ooo, I read this one as a kid! It walks hickety-pickety into your heart. :D Fun rhyming read.
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@celinashope.bsky.social I just scored 1 1/2 yards of burgundy-black plaid fine Italian wool suiting for $6!! (A remnant.) I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but I just couldn't resist at that price!. :D
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P&D Close @pdclose.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
LOONS!!! And not just any loons, EFFIN' LOONS!!! Woo hoooooo!!
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