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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 16h

As I’ve said, he skated through HS with an assist from some light nepotism, and in a just world, he’d be the sales manager at one of his hometown’s car dealerships, holding down a barstool at whatever bar he can drive his pontoon to. But he’d probably still be on wife no. 3. Instead, we have this.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 21h

Okay redneck looking guy with the mullet and high vis vest at the gas station in my red ass exurb, I see your Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives license plates, your Stihl and Smokey the Bear stickers, you seem pretty cool

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My baby is now a freshman in high school and when I’m anxious or sad I dive back into my memories of her snuggled into my lap as I read her books. I can’t imagine squandering that opportunity.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who spends way too much time thinking about Iron Range econ dev, I’d very much like to know why Lee County, IA as a mill location. I’d also like to know if taconite rail transport to SE IA is more cost efficient than using the existing rail-to-freighters method of the other MN mines.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My local school board election is going hard on the anti-trans stuff and I keep thinking about how none of the yard signs I see accompany any up ballot candidate signs. Will the average right wing elder millennial Mama Bear be motivated to actually show up & vote?

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026

admitting you were wrong about something costs you absolutely nothing and i wish more people understood that. i train people for a living, i get things wrong live and in real time in front of people to whom it matters a lot for their jobs, acknowledgement is always better than denial.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/09/2026

this does, unfortunately, explain a lot of american politics

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My brain at 3:45 AM: Remember Joe Camel? That whole thing was really weird, right? Why did Joe Camel have blue eyes? Do camels have blue eyes? More importantly, why did the camels have fingers?!

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve just been introduced to the concept of a gameday house via an interior design sourcing group chat and have fallen down a wealthy SEC alum 2nd/3rd property rabbit hole and my conclusion is that some people have just plain too much money

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think if you’re going to wade into enveloping your brand in Nordic culture you need to go all-in and make lutefisk flavored chips. Subsistence farming flavored chips. Hightailing it to Mpls to work as a rail yard laborer & dying of tuberculosis flavored chips (shout out to my great-grandfather).

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pulled up next to a line of nine huge fishing boats all in a row at a stoplight today - all Iowa plates, probably headed to Lake Vermilion - and did a mental calculation of the value of all the gas in their tanks. Woooo dawgie that better be some good walleye.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 11/09/2026

the lake street taco tour is next saturday, september 19 from 12-8. then you can go to powderhorn porchfest after, from 4-10. it's a perfect southside day where you can support this cultural corridor lakestreettacotour.com ppna.org/porchfest

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Taco Tour on Lake Street | Discover Tacos Today!

Join the Taco Tour on Lake Street on Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 12 - 8 PM for music, food, and fun. Explore local tacos, enjoy entertainment.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know it’s not popular to get on here and be anti-doom but I drove to NW MN today and back from the metro and saw only three Demuth signs (all at the same bait shop) & zero Tafoya signs. IDK WTF the latest is w/ the USPS stuff but that’s a serious lack of juice in a reliably red part of MN

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell

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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Komatsu repair guy holding a small orange kitten wearing a tiny construction safety hat (the kitten is wearing the safety hat, the guy has Komatsu baseball cap)

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've talked a lot about mercy today and it's hard for me to imagine someone that embodied that idea in American public life more than Dolly Parton. She represented the conviction that dignity is disclosed most clearly in how we regard people who can offer us little in return.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

when celebrities and ultra rich people wonder why they’re universally disliked, a reminder that dolly parton is the template — • be talented ✅ • use money to benefit those in most need ✅ • use platform to speak for the marginalized ✅ it’s not hard to be a good person. be like dolly.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/08/2026

The US has built a mythology internally that relies on the entire world to sustain, but to admit this would be to shatter the narrative we have that We Are The Greatest and The Rest Of the World Needs Us And Sometimes We Deign To Help Them.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Feel like shit just want her back

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Something about me is that I’ve never been to Florida (and I intend to keep it that way)

A map of the states of the U.S. showing Florida as a never-visited state

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Natalie Harp. Locker room. Catering truck. Territory of Hormuz. Love notes. THAADs empty. Trump Jesus. Pool vandals. Bombing of Oman. Laura Loomer pro-Ukraine. Pete Hegseth Presidential run.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A thing about midlife I wasn’t prepared for is the number of funerals You spend your 20s going to wedding after wedding and then 20 years later you start attending funeral after funeral

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this is the median voter

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sometimes the hot stove is Ricky the super hot guy that you find out (too late) is a meth head (who leaves unhinged poetry under your wiper blades and threatens you in your supermarket check out line) And sometimes the hot stove is (for some reason) Nancy Mace

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On the third day of vacation she forgot to apply sunscreen to her legs and sunburned the back of her thighs onto her butt cheeks and now cannot sit down On the third day of vacation she was a dumbass

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why did Peggy Flanagan win by so much? How about because Barb from Roseville went to church and Feds put her in a database?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/08/2026

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is my pitch to you, as a professional, to embrace color. Did you know that both Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams offer color consultations? You don’t need to hire me, they’ll do it for free.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My OB, before stitching me up postpartum: “you’re not going to have a career in porn, but I can make you pretty again”. (I’ve said too much)

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bad news about building single family homes - we tariffed Canadian lumber & Chinese tools, harassed Mexican labor, & raised the interest rate on mortgages to 6.75%

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Morgzoi @theshehergayguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A New Yorkers guide to St Cloud Minnesota

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Never buying another Taylor or Earthbound Organics product again

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

MSP & MN folks, is there a good place to donate extremely good condition vintage items? I don’t want to send these late 60s items to the thrift store if there’s a theatre dept somewhere that can use them. My MIL tagged & dated two bins full of 40s-80s vintage clothing before her passing, I have more

A stack of vintage afghans from the late 1960s

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/07/2026

part of what makes the last decade so destabilizing is the disappearance of the presumption of regularity, i think. that’s a term of art for the courts, but it applies for the rest of us, too, and it’s as destabilizing as any other thing trump has done.

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@wxdave.bsky.social thought you’d appreciate this - I found a monarch caterpillar while weeding the garden a couple of weeks ago. Daughter brought it inside, made it a cozy little home, and it hatched yesterday!

A mason jar monarch butterfly house filled with milkweed and a freshly hatched butterfly inside

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Incredible things happening in the world of wallpaper right now (for people lacking good taste)

A watercolor-esque wallpaper pattern depicting the Blue Horizon Refinery

A wallpaper pattern depicting the Houston skyline

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 23/07/2026

Wildland firefighters are used to camping in remote locations, so Ely's Memorial High School is likely comfortable by comparison. And unlike their other assignments, they'll have to relocate soon to make room for football practice.

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Wildland firefighters from around the country set up camp at Ely high school

Dozens of firefighters from around the country have set up camp at Memorial High School in Ely to help fight Minnesota wildfires.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Unbothered by smoke No concerns of cyclosporiasis from his salad bar Completely thriving

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I want to meet these gardeners, because I’m in 4b and most of my lettuce looks like this, and what’s under shade cloth and hasn’t already bolted is bitter as hell. I’m going to shine in September though, watch out (I weeded after I took this pic, the situation was dire)

Some extra lettuce heads that I planted outside of shade cloth bolting in the morning sun, bordered by weeds that hadn’t been touched in a month

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