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Flying Viking, the new Zamperla junior coaster. truly atrocious capacity (I waited 50 godforsaken minutes for this) and weirdly rough, but it fills the kiddie coaster/beginner family coaster niche the park was lacking

Flying Viking, a yellow Zamperla junior coaster, viewed as it crests its lift hill from a cross a small pond lined with cafe tables

Flying Viking passing its station above a small (closed) log flume

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Monster, my love, the first Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster outside of Europe and one of the best coasters in the Midwest. which is a very high bar! I never ever ever thought Adventureland would get something this good. Just as great today as it was when it opened 🎢

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Dragon Slayer, the S&S Free Spin that replaced Dragon, the abominable old Hopkins looping coaster. This is easily better than Dragon, but only takes up a small portion of its former lot. Hope to see more there soon

Dragon Slayer, a red S&S 4D Free Spin with seats that flip upside-down independent of the rest of the car.

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Phoenix, a fun little Maurer spinner. Really good addition to what was formerly a sleepy corner at the front of the park

Phoenix, a black Maurer spinning coaster from 2019 rising over a park path and bench

one of Phoenix's spinning red cars in the helix toward the end of the ride

haven't been here since right after they added Monster so I have some catching up to do

caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my parents dropped me off at Adventureland while they run errands lmao

the entrance to Adventureland amusement park in Des Moines. A giant A behind the word Adventureland, all in front of a little train station

Adventureland's entrance plaza - a faux town square themed to idyllic small town America, with a carousel in the foreground and a ferris wheel in the background

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Nancy 10/3/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 6

Sluggo happily strolls down the street, wearing his terrible new hat. Nancy hides from him, still disgusted by what she sees.

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

downtown-to-downtown heavy rail in the 94 trench with stops at Snelling and the U is the dream 🙏

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

helping my parents move today. none of the movers are hot and I have bigger muscles than them 🎉🥳🎊

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 01/10/2026

still a horrible decision by the city to allow private vehicles here. this should only be open for transit like the 18, the last thing we need is another north-south street for drivers to speed in and out of downtown. i think a bottleneck was good for eat street which already has too many cars on it

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ok fine here's number 11-20:

La Bola Negra
Challengers
A Different Man
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Poor Things
Problemista
Sound of Metal
Tár
Wild Horse Nine

topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my top 10 of the 2020s (so far) (in alphabetical order because I'm a coward):

All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Brutalist
Club Kid
Hamnet
Monster
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma

I found an assignment I did in 3rd grade where we had to say what we would do if we were president, and I said "I would be in the Democratic party. There would be no gun rights"

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Iowa is a progressive state being held hostage by a hostile band of white supremacists btw

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no wonder everyone's brain is melting, you can't go 2 minutes without a republican screaming nazi shit at you

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i'm in Des Moines visiting my parents and my god the political ads

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"Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" is crazy, like imagine if there was a song in Kimberly Akimbo called "Millie Bobby Brown is a Freak Bitch"

topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh definitely language jones for me

topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

far be it from me to mourn a Starbucks, but they're inexplicably closing our neighborhood Starbucks (that is literally always busy) and I just feel awful for all the nice cool queer people who work there

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nothing ruins an afternoon like interacting with a straight man who just parked his pickup in the middle of the sidewalk

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how could I forget about Reservation Dogs (2021)!!! 😩

omg how could I forget about Somebody Somewhere (2022)!!

It was so hard to trim it down to 10!

honorable mentions: What We Do in the Shadows (2019) Please Like Me (2013) Steven Universe (2013) Search Party (2016) Broad City (2014)

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my top 10 shows of the 21st century (today) (not including miniseries): BoJack Horseman (2014) Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) Battlestar Galactica (2004) Fleabag (2016) Bob's Burgers (2011) 30 Rock (2006) Hacks (2021) Better Call Saul (2015) Succession (2018) The Pitt (2025)

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I recently had an employment worker tell me I should be applying to 40-50 jobs *per day*

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I worked at our writing center all three years I was allowed to in college. Every 19-year-old on the planet has smart, valuable, insightful things to say that only they can say, and a lot of the time literally all they need to get there is 30 minutes talking through their prompt with a peer

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i did the même my9games.net/en

Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Pokemon Blue
Portal
Riven
Mass Effect
Parkitect
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

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that's actually a compliment to both cities

I'm going to des moines next week for 6 days, does that count 😛

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does it change anything if I tell you I lived in Cape Town for 2 months when I was 21

am i allowed to live outside the gay village or would that make me Inauthentic

TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i moved to Toronto from Minneapolis, does that make me a transplant or an immigrant 🤔

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I don’t understand why you’re all getting so worked up over this

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topher @scjsundae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I agree, people who were born in Puerto Rico should not be allowed to live in New York

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lowkey my second choice would have been Club Kid, if only to convince A24 to campaign it for Best Picture

I'm happy La Bola Negra won the TIFF People's Choice Award, but it also means I have to wait until December to see The Debut 😭

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same here! it's one of my all-time favorites

if you've seen In Bruges, this is very much its spiritual sister. I think Malkovich has a good shot at the Oscar!

I'm such a little slut for Martin McDonagh and Wild Horse Nine was another direct hit for me. Incredible career capstone performance from John Malkovich.

Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich in Wild Horse znine