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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 08/10/2026

And the media who headlines it

ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 23h

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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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even secondhand! Four years in and I just got the “I need a new clarinet” pitch at dinner the other night, I am not excited to purchase outright after a monthly rental fee

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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

Even more questions on why Iowa! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Broking said Mesabi intends to submit permit applications for the new plant to the state by the end of the year. But it's also considering building outside Minnesota. The company currently has about 20 jobs posted for a proposed DRI and steel plant in Paducah, Ky.
Broking told MPR News that Mesabi is exploring several locations for possible "downstream facilities," including on the Iron Range.
But he told the Itasca County Board that in order for Mesabi to make such a large investment in Minnesota, the company needs a faster state-level environmental permitting process.
"For an investment where we're going to decarbonize the steel industry, where everything that we're doing is about sustainability, there must be a way to get things like this done efficiently," Broking said.
In addition, Broking said the company needs more competitive state incentives, and the return of mineral leases that Minnesota stripped from Essar after it failed to meet contractual agreements.

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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

She’s already lost the pep in her step now that it costs $108 to fill the tank of her (white) Tahoe and she’s had to slum it at Aldi and forego her Target “grocery” shopping trips. Is an MPA endorsement really going to motivate her to go vote? (I hope not.)

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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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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just bought a R&B sofa but haven’t taken delivery yet - the frame is a “benchmade hardwood frame” which should mean kiln dried hardwood. I’m an ID but don’t work much w/ furnishings so I grilled every sales rep; R&B staff had the most knowledge of production out of all the showrooms I visited

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

She’s trying so hard to dog whistle an insult toward Twin Cities residents and their reaction to Metro Surge but you can’t thread that needle by applying the Minnesota label instead of “the Cities”. She is so dumb.

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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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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks! Is it CTE? Is it from him being raised by an alcoholic? Por qué no los dos?

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ye olde prickle factory @pricklipear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My dad was a defensive lineman in college, back when the helmets were basically the equivalent of a Twins nacho helmet My sister and I do a little “ope, just Dad’s CTE showing up again” bit when his fuse is short (almost all the time) bc we have to make light of something depressing

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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

My niece is doing her residency in FL, working in infectious diseases, and I feel like there’s a real opportunity there for that sort of thing Beautiful state but now I’m just obstinate about the whole place

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

Okay but if you bought the Dremel multi, that thing will be useful again. I had a plumbing leak next to MDF cabinet panels and the Dremel + sanding head was key when repairing the panel

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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

Alex no Just go to any bar in Polk County

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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

1-2 weeks at a time this summer. It started with avoiding scrolling in order to keep myself in a better place mentally and evolved into significantly less interest in posting anymore.

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

I just did my bedroom, en suite, and closet in SW Jasper this summer and I love it. I wanted it to feel like being in the middle of a black spruce bog.

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

Full disclosure: my kitchen, dining, and living room are BM Revere Pewter. Greige! It has its place - SE facing windows, no run of drywall over 48”. Not enough real estate to pull off a stronger color in an open space. But the adjoining rooms are color, just cohesive.

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

A free template from Canva is almost always a superior design and takes less time. Using AI is choosing an inferior product when something accessible and mid-but-works already existed!

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