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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Has the word “dubious” shifted meaning In recent years? I always understood it as a quality/veracity of a thing (eg. “the company’s actions were of dubious legality”), but have been hearing it a lot recently as a quality of a person passing judgement (“I am dubious about his talent). Like skeptical

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every “AI employee quits company because the product is too powerful and scary” should be considered a PR stunt by that company until proven otherwise

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that I live in Northern MN I’ve realized how difficult it is to attend from here. Unlike other parts of the state there is no public or chartered transit to get you there, so your cost is 5 hours of driving and at least $100 in gas, parking, & tickets just to get in the gate.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026

thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When discussing political theory, it’s important to distinguish between someone who supports republicanism (“small r” republican), and someone who supports the Republican Party (“hard r” Republican)

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 25/08/2026

"a second, even stupider version of Roko's Basilisk has hit the timeline."

Andrew Card Notifying George Bush About 9/11

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today I saw a guy driving a red cadillac deville, real butch-looking with a shaved head dark sunglasses, chomping a big cigar. License plate was “Mr SCARY”, and somehow the r was lower case? I assume the devil

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

one of the highlights of the summer so far is seeing a bumblebee drinking from the water that naturally pools at the base of every leaf on a cup plant.

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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Abolish ICE. Demand that your representatives support abolishing ICE.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It has been in the upper 90s here the past few days, in a place where most people don’t have AC. Until recently it was rare to get above like 85 at all, and it would always drop to like 60 at night. And now you can’t open your doors amd windows because of this shit.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I met my wife working for a nonprofit that removed buckthorn, so I can vouch that this method works.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What are some good Kentucky foods and drinks that one might consume in celebration for the loss of a great evil? Please give me ideas so I don’t just drink only bourbon

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I hate this punitive approach. If the penalty is a fee then it is just a negligible cost of booking for a wealthy person, and a barrier for poor folks who would otherwise go.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Talking to an old neighbor with a bird bath, who saw a crow bring dead mice to dunk in the water as it ate them. He observed it every day for a week, and then made sure to tell me that he “asked gpt if this was real.” Bro, you just saw it. It is real.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🧵 Once again, a Hispanic landscaper was also intentionally targeted and shot by the San Diego Islamic Center shooters (he survived). 🧵 Institutionalized Islamophobia makes Muslims more vulnerable (and to many, more “acceptable”) targets, which is heinous and true. HOWEVER: 1/4

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get in.” Ah yes, that famously safe mode of transport: a rocket.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Pete designs great jerseys and you should buy one, especially if, like I was, you are trying to replace your incredibly cursed Jimmy Butler Timberwolves jersey

Sam, wearing a retro-style timberwolves jersey that says “Abolish Ice” in the classic timberwolves font

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Iconic that NASA woke up the #Artemis II crew with Pink Pony Club

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 03/03/2026

"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It’s day 72 of the ICE occupation of MSP. We received some DMs after yesterday’s post asking how to help with rent relief: check out the rent relief funds at StandWithMinnesota.com

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Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Imagine living in MN right now, having $100 free to donate, and deciding that Amy Klobuchar’s campaign is the best use of your funds.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Tide might be turning. Keep pushing. Keep calling, donating, protesting, all of it. Don’t stop, especially if Trump starts throwing them overboard. Don’t stop until they’re all gone

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In the last months especially I’ve had pretty constant undercurrents of rage and grief in me. Sometimes when it feels too much I hop in my car and listen to music from artists like Billy Bragg, & it feels a little more conquerable. Anyway, he just wrote a song about Minneapolis. Thank you, Billy.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Phillips neighborhoods are being targeted because it has the highest percent of residents who are not US Citizens. This fund will help feed, provide basic necessities and allow our immigrant neighbors to stay housed for 65+ families (and counting). gofund.me/4eaa6ea75

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Donate to Support Phillips Families in Urgent Need, organized by Alexandria Gomez

We are a small collective of friends and community organizers working direct… Alexandria Gomez needs your support for Support Phillips Families in Urgent Need

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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

this is SO REAL you have no idea how stressed people are about keeping the roofs over their heads that are keeping them (relatively) safe. please send cash to rent funds! www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong www.standwithminnesota.com (click "rent relief funds" on this one)

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Hopkins Strong Relief Fund — Hopkins Education Foundation

In response to urgent community needs, the Hopkins Education Foundation and Hopkins School District have partnered for the #HopkinsStrong Emergency Relief Fund to help students and families in this ti...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Twin Cities local here -- Strib is literally owned by a billionaire. Strongly urge contributions to these outlets instead: @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com @mprnews.org

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 10/01/2026

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

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Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org

There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Someone once tried to convince me that an airport ground crew uses the same hose to remove the plane’s sewage as they do to fill up the drinking water.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 15/12/2025

Multiple staff members of Planned Parenthoods in Minnesota have expressed discontent with executive leaders and top managers. They characterized the work environment as disrespectful and chaotic.

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Staff complaints, financial pressures roil Planned Parenthood in Minnesota

Planned Parenthood faces external pressures from federal budget cuts and hostile state governments. But current and former employees at the organization’s Minnesota-based Midwest affiliate complain th...

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Now that winter (and snow) is fully here, if you have a pride flag on your home you gotta clear your sidewalk. Like 20% of people will form political opinions based on nothing more than “this type of person was nice/willing to pull their weight once”.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Complete dissolution of border patrol and ICE, followed by criminal trials aimed at removing these monsters from society, followed by redistribution of agents’ personal assets as reparations to victims, followed by a denazification process to prevent the cancer from taking hold again.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

There’s a proposal to build an enormous data center in a neighboring town, and I have never seen a level of unity like the opposition to it. Politically this is a very purple area but people on the left right and center are coming together in opposition. www.pineknotnews.com/story/2025/1...

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Data center opposition continues to blossom

It took just five days. On Oct. 7, Saul and Emily Helgeson started a Facebook group titled "Stop the Hermantown Data Center," which they described as a centralized group for all things regarding the "...

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder & joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily & I must return the gift. ~Robin W. Kimmerer 🖤🤍 #StunDay #ClassicMono #Mammals 🌿

In monochrome portrait is the lovely "Daisy" the Mule Deer fawn, resting backlit in the dappled afternoon light on a hillside above me so we're just about at eye level with her and those long lashes and enormous ears. I would also call this her 'fluffy' coat, IYKYK. Zen in black and white.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Google’s AI overview for the search “kodiak bear size” features a diagram that compares it to the abominable snowman

Google search results featuring the AI blurb and picture of a bear next to a hand drawn abominable snowman.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12/09/2025

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Great write up on the piece of media that has consistently fed my curiosity more than any other.There’s no better way to learn something than to find in it that contagious joy of discovery, and no better way to live than to seek discovery in the way this show exemplified.

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Update: they are technically still covering them (maybe?), but won’t cover covid shots specifically at CVS. They will still cover flu shots there though, so this is just some pre-compliance bullshit

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

As of this morning, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota is not covering Covid vaccines. Had one of the new ones scheduled with CVS, who just called me to say they couldn’t do it. I’m even one of the approved risk groups listed by the vichy CDC, but it seems they don’t care. @bluecrossmn.bsky.social

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Sam Kavanaugh @samkavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

One of my little moments of joy today: the dragonflies are migrating overhead, and the nighthawks have followed.

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