Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026True; everything you think of as Paris is within the Blvd Périphérique. 010
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. 3298
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is a deep cut; Rivera arrived to the Twins as part of the fallout of Calvin Griffith's selloff of the team's talent (Larry Hisle, Lyman Bostock). His nickname "Bombo" gave Jesus Rivera a marketing hook that his play didn't live up to. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Minneapolis, 4 whiteshoe lawyers lunching at Stock & Bond, who use the skyway and park their beemers in the IDS garage; in St Paul, a mining lobbyist who lives in a cabin outside Babbit when the leg isn't in session, and was only in town because he heard the Lamplighter had reopened. 140
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124952677
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Aw, geez. One a them Hautman boys won it again, fer sure.startribune.comMinnesota artist wins his fourth U.S. duck stamp competitionCelebrated wildlife artist Robert Hautman of Delano won the annual competition. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He's not going grey or bald, but his greased-back Nazi fade combined with his FACE, well, he could pass for 50. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026MN Supreme Court rules City of Oak Grove can buy Shark Repellent.startribune.comMinnesota Supreme Court rules Twin Cities suburb can use paper voter rosters in November electionSome say the decision opens the door for other cities across Minnesota to return to the old paper poll books. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're past security, you should be fine if you're flying direct, and don't have to take your carry on full of brisket through security at a second airport. Will be confiscated unless frozen solid. If making a connection where you end up outside security, CHECK the brisket. 021
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Terminator 7: Skynet, but stupid: Claude strikes Claude. You have an elevator pitch, man. Get yourself to Hollywood. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Anytime a pepper is wrinkly like that, consider it a bright flashing "WARNING" sign. Or an invitation, depending on your preference. 011
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianS.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Spider-Man is the same in every universe. 252752388
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This 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...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 992005769
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianCasey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Good lordkstp.comTree trimmer charged with crushing coworker while playing shadow puppets in Apple ValleyA tree trimmer is charged with manslaughter after he allegedly killed his coworker in Apple Valley while playing shadow puppets with heavy equipment. 1113
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo. 15837227
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Zuck would cause much less damage to the world if he moved to a one-room cabin in the mountains, spent 90% of his time surviving, and 90% of the rest writing his nutty manifesto out longhand, regardless of what he did with the last 1%. 180
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Well, there's 40 minutes I'll never get back. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A takeout menu? That's nuthin'! I got yer deconstruction right here, pal: youtu.be/bGfHnJ1KTA0?...youtu.beCritique of "Monkey Farter"YouTube video by Ze Frank 010
Reposted by Floyd the Barberianquick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Pull 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! 251
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/07/2026One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP. 27693248
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianMelissa 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...minnesotareformer.comCNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge • Minnesota ReformerMany of the federal prosecutors would wind up departing in protest. 07230
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Cliche, but if you're a reader, Powell's is a temple. If your stay extends to the weekend, hit the Portland Saturday market. Or the farmer's market at PSU; cherries may still be in season. Find food & funkiness in SE Portland, esp along Hawthorne Av. Plus biking, food trucks, bridges, Oldtown. 041
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Thanks for putting yourself through this on a rare decent summer day in Mpls. 020
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026How finely does one need to grind Hillbilly to make Loaf? 100
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Appalachian Oysters are like Rocky Mountain Oysters, only sheep-based. 040
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianCasey G. @caseyg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Happy 1st Minnesota Day to those that celebrate. 13511
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026While on vacation in Dublin, I had a bartender tell me that only Australians were as loud as Americans. 3770
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Same. Old and tired, but still a football giant. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Cripes. I was on my way to work, no opportunity to stay with it. Obv, not much came of it. Maybe practice? Prob 8+ MPD squads, 2 MPD SWAT trucks, mostly paused outside Tacos El Kevin. Two units S of 38 turned left on 39th. I pulled over, posted, and went on my way. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Enormous police presence around Portland and 38th Street. Multiple squad cars wagons look to be heading towards Chicago. 141
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026www.maptap.gg May 28 100🎯 95🏅 92🎓 98🎯 98🎯 Final score: 967maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Cheap Target plastic shelf hauled out of the garage. Any horizontal surface in a crisis. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'd like to think there's a base level of interest in decent beer so that craft breweries will remain an option. I lived through Macro beer: 95+% AB, Miller, Schlitz, Strohs, Olympia, plus locals that produced like Macros. Breweries like Schells and Anchor Steam were unicorns. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026SNAP- Snacking on Nutritious Abundant People. 010
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Working his way down the list of available relatives, to altruistic strangers, to cadavers, to mutant pigs. Godspeed to him and the one that lasts. 000
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026This goes back a long way. Largelly an inferiority thing. Annoying last century marketing campaign branding Minneapolis as the "MinneApple" (tiny NYC); stealing other cities' neighborhood names for our own (North Loop). 110
Reposted by Floyd the BarberianNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Minneapolis 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. 151148284
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Really, just replace the last word phrase with "Grogu." As in, "Romeo and Grogu," or "Gods and Grogus." 110
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026MN resident here. Martin only had success here because of the colossal incompetence of the MN GOP: A series of dismal party chairs left them near bankrupt, and their candidates for statewide office have been borderline insane. Shit, a party *planner* could have had Martin's track record. 073
Floyd the Barberian @scampmn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The only good idea in this list is the inspector general. If not appointed by the President, you have something. But creating leverage over the court kills judicial independence, so adding pressure points from Congress is a bad idea. A Court beholden to Congress is just a Congress in black robes. 000
Reposted by Floyd the Barberiankath-55-1.bsky.social @kath-55-1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Fucking rude asshole! 052
