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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even more amazing: Minneapolis is 1.3 times the size of Paris (yes, France, not Texas) yet Paris has 2 million residents, where Minneapolis does not even have 500K. Imagine the Paris Metro swapped into the red map.

Silhouette of the city of Paris laid over a silhouette of the city of Minneapolis.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anytime a pepper is wrinkly like that, consider it a bright flashing "WARNING" sign. Or an invitation, depending on your preference.

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spider-Man is the same in every universe.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pull up a chair sonny boy and let me tell you about the summer of 1988... -44 days at or above 90 -4 days at 100 or more -Precipitation lowest ever on record - 6.6 inches for WHOLE STATE -St Cloud had wells go dry -Corn crop throughout the state a total loss -June average temp at 70+ It was EVIL!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.

Smoke is seen in the distance across an expanse of water caused by a fast-moving wildfire near Lacanau in southwestern France. In the foreground a middle aged couple are seen from behind relaxing on their beach loungers under a sun umbrella - as if it’s an entirely normal holiday. It is a very good visual depiction of life continuing amidst extreme climate change.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/07/2026

"During a conference call after Good was killed, then-Commander Gregory Bovino of the Border Patrol stunned prosecutors with his language about subduing Minnesota: 'We’re going to pacify this place, we’re going to roll ‘em up.'" minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/23/c...

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CNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer

Many of the federal prosecutors would wind up departing in protest.

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Casey G. @caseyg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy 1st Minnesota Day to those that celebrate.

Painting of the 1st Minnesota charging confederates.

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Enormous police presence around Portland and 38th Street. Multiple squad cars wagons look to be heading towards Chicago.

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you see this, post something orange.

Two people, back to camera, in winter coats, wearing orange safety vests and orange Monarch wings.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

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kath-55-1.bsky.social @kath-55-1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Fucking rude asshole!

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is going to be a challenge, the building is a tank, so much concrete so that it would be totally silent and shake from the subway, it is bombproof. It is also very sad a wonderful building that I spent so much time in. And dont get me started about embodied carbon…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A budget is a moral document. Trump cuts taxes for the rich, programs for everyone else — while ballooning the already bloated war budget and raiding the treasury for himself and his family. And he hopes we’re all too dumb/apathetic to notice.

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's bad when even lakefront homeowners are posting their dissatisfaction.

Large red banner (est. 5' x 20') on wrought iron fence along property line of lakefront home in Minneapolis: "Send Barron".

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"I have come here to kick ass and eat berries...and I am all out of berries."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

out to dinner with a friend in the suburbs server mentions they're fundraising for staff affected by ICE surge. no pressure, he says, hesitantly. i say i get it. i live on the south side. server pauses. says he's son of immigrants. shows us how he carries his passport at work. he's scared.

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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Apparently the FBI's Epstein redaction machine was set to redact "don't" (Don T) for some reason. That would appear to run afoul of The Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405)

https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1qwi0r2/to_not_suggest_whose_shortened_name_is_not_in_the/

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Derek Johnson @derekjjohnson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

With apologies to John, Paul, George, and Ringo… It’s was 50 years ago today When Minnesota learned how to play The beautiful game we’ve come to love But not the really stinky goalie glove So may I introduce to you The team you’ve know all these years Minnesota Kicks Professional Soccer Teeeaaaam

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A “gunman … ready to go” ya say? Running around down the streets of a Midwestern city amid unrest ya say?

Trump social media post that the protester killed at Minneapolis was a “gunman… ready to go.” And much more of course.

Picture of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse carrying a gun during the 2020 riots in the Wisconsin

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Taking notes on this whole thread.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Gov. Tim Walz references the 1st Minnesota regiment, credited with saving the Union at Gettysburg: “I think now we may be in that moment, that the nation's looking to us, to hold the line on democracy, to hold the line on decency, to hold the line on accountability...” youtube.com/shorts/DZXdZ...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz quotes ‘1984’ in aftermath of fatal shooting of woman by ICE agent

YouTube video by MPR News

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Mexican restaurant La Madre in Minneapolis is giving away free whistles.

A glass on a counter with green and red/pink colored whistles inside it and a sign on it that says “free :)”

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. Nuts. On the bright side, "there's got to be a morning after..."

IMDb: Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Nielsen (I), Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens (I), Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson (I), Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin (I), Arthur O'Connell and Eric Shea (I) in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

2 years ago today In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness. 📸 Gie Knaeps #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My only excuse for not only missing this, but not even hearing about it until now, is that I would have been busy at work, deep in the throes of Y2K prep at the time.

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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

designing a new timberwolves jersey after every win 🐺 record: 7-4

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Why does receiving this email at 6PM the day before the election make me think someone got some bad polling data?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/10/2025

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have taken the freedom of speech that was in the Constitution and which you were probably using for peaceful protest Forgive me the courts said they were so agitating and so irritating

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Lydia Millard, candidate for Minneapolis city council ward 10, rolls down the window of her Limo to briefly engage with the public:

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Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I have intentionally avoided all but the first three (chronologically) Star Wars movies, with the exception of Rogue One and the Christmas Special, if that counts.

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