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@sessileraptor.bsky.social
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Old fart. Here for a long time not a good time. Has cats, likes tabletop RPGs and history.

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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If this was a sane country that wasn’t being run by grifters and “free market” zealots, the government would just give the states money to directly hire social workers to help disabled people find housing. But everything is geared to sending tax dollars into the pockets of the wealthy so we don’t.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 07/10/2026
As Minneapolis seeks a new MPD leader, let's revisit the outspoken chief who attempted reform in the 1980s.
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Reexamining the Legacy of Tony Bouza, the In-Your-Face Progressive Reformer Who Once Led MPD - Racket
As Minneapolis seeks a new MPD leader, it's instructive to revisit the outspoken chief who attempted reform in the 1980s.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Holy shit not only is the guy still active but people are still recognizing him as the grilled cheese guy in random threads that have nothing to do with grilled cheese. Never change Reddit.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Although Wargames hacking scenes hold up well because every one involves the characters either looking through a desk to find a written down password or using social engineering to figure it out. Still the most reliable methods today.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You should avoid blocking the walkway to the street because in the in the winter that’s where we shovel a path so people don’t have to either clamber over the snow piles or walk all the way to the corner. Also in the summer there might be a boulevard garden that you want to avoid walking on.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A quick interlude to show you, Cats
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the evening crowd!
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I swear that book was Harris thinking “You drove a dump truck full of money up to my house and you want another Hannibal book huh? Gonna regret that…” and writing the most batshit insane fanfic he could just so people would stop bugging him about Lector.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
youtu.be/YNE3D78lx2A?...
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Homer Are You Just Holding Onto The Can? - Channel Simpsons
YouTube video by Premier Vidz
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One time on the farm I spent about 45 minutes with a hacksaw cutting a spoke out of the wheel on an old manure spreader to free the goat who had stuck his head through it. Can you guess what he did before I even reached the gate out of the field?
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We delay turning on the furnace not because of bragging rights or anything but because we want the cats to depend on our body warmth for as long as possible. Soon as the furnace is on they’re all about the cat bed next to the heating vent.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As @zachweinersmith.bsky.social puts it.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Give them a musket just like the founding fathers intended.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And normal people just kinda have to hang tight and hope that the superheroes can deal with whatever the situation is, be it an alien invasion or some giant dude who wants to eat the earth or another dude who wants to eat the sun or Atlantis invading the surface world (again). 2/2
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Say what you will about the wisdom of this approach but it is 110% accurate to the canon of comic books in general. At one point in Garth Ennis’s Hitman comic for DC the main characters were all laying low in their favorite bar during such an apocalypse because they literally happen once a year 1/2
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like the only other option is to tell the restaurants in the area “Nose in parking or sidewalk seating, pick one because you can’t have both.” And just, if there’s sidewalk seating then that block is parallel parking only, or perhaps no parking and you get space for bollards and more seating.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah they recently redid the main road near me. Converted it from 4 lanes to 2 lanes plus a turn lane and put in wider sidewalks and a grass verge separating the sidewalk from the road and it’s so much more pleasant to walk now. Used to have cars zipping by an arm’s length away.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perpendicular parking and sidewalk seating, two things that do not go great together. A place near me had a drunken driver plow into the patio seating and kill a customer and a waitress. When they reopened the outdoor seating area it was separated from the parking lot by solid concrete barriers.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s a picture opposite me, of my primitive ancestry, who stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free. Though I respect that a lot, I’d be fired if that were my job, after killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts. They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse in your Soul.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Curses, where could The Basketweaver be hiding? Someplace where he can work on his fiendish plans undisturbed and yet announces his obsession…. The old Longaberger corporate headquarters out on state route 16! To the Ratmobile!”
The former corporate headquarters of the Longaberger company, looking exactly like a giant woven wooden basket of the type you might carry in a market.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Given the prevalence of phone cameras it would be too easy to document and it would definitely go viral. But the wider problem that it represents is still with us, that frats can just do whatever they want as long there aren’t any dead bodies at the end of it, and everyone else has to just deal. 3/3
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was just “LoL WTF what do you mean they throw beer cans at you, they can’t do that!” But apparently they could and everyone just sorta took it because the college wouldn’t do anything if you reported it. This was about 35 years ago so I doubt that particular tradition is still alive. 2/3
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I went to a small college that didn’t have frats, but while in conversation with a friend who went to the local university he mentioned in passing that sometimes when you walked by fraternity row the guys sitting on the porches would throw empty beer cans at you and that was kinda annoying. 1/3
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My “Guaranteed no Cannibalism” t-shirt is getting a lot of questions that are already answered by the shirt.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the purposes of the election Sherrod Brown will be spelled “Jon Husted” and the reverse, please vote accordingly.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Or find a copy of Harlan Ellison’s 1990 speech and essay “Xenogenesis” in which he details a selection of the horrors that had been visited on sci fi and fantasy writers by “fans”
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And how much of this stuff do you go through in a month? Because for me buying a bottle of novelty condiment would be committing to a couple of months of black food at the minimum. (Assuming it was ketchup) Ranch I’d still have it in the fridge for the next Halloween.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rapes and deal with them internally precisely because of a history of local cops being terrible at handling college rape cases. I don’t know.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just as dismissive and interested in making the case go away than the college is. To them students are just an ever shifting blob of drunken bad decision makers that they have to deal with every time they go to a party off campus. In fact it might be the case that the school can avoid reporting
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On the one hand it’s absurd that the college can somehow choose to handle a crime internally. On the other hand I don’t exactly expect the local police to leap into action like TV cop show characters and tirelessly pursue the case until the perp is brought to justice. They’re likely to be
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you could make any 5 people vanish from history, completely removing everything they accomplished and leaving no trace that they ever existed, who would the other 4 be? Milton Friedman. Ayn Rand. Lewis Powell. Ronald Reagan.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 27/09/2026
The Independent Restaurant Coalition is urging the FTC to block Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Restaurant Depot.
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Sysco-Restaurant Depot Merger Is a Rotten Deal for Restaurants - Racket
The Independent Restaurant Coalition is urging the FTC to block Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Restaurant Depot.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even back when I was a teen in the 80s I was barely aware of anything that was going on in country music. If it wasn’t playing on the rock stations I tended to listen to, I wouldn’t have known about it.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re betting on horse races you should have to do it at the track in a room filled with guys in threadbare suits who are all smoking and who look 30 years older than their actual age, as god intended.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had some terrible days with wildfire smoke here in Minnesota but the county I work for spent a bunch of Covid era money on upgrading the HVAC filtration in all its buildings as much as possible so we were well prepared to weather the issue.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was helping someone at the library to fill out the forms to travel to the Dominican Republic and the DRs forms and website were not user friendly or clearly written. I definitely wished for an old school travel agent who had experience with this stuff.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
100 percent have noticed this in local reporting. I don’t even watch the news and it’s only on at work but I caught a couple of instances where it was obvious the reporter was just regurgitating a police statement that credited flock for the arrest.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Luv me husband, luv me country, luv owning human beings as property, simple as.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The worst thing is that letting your workers take care of basic bodily functions can’t possibly reduce your productivity by *that* much. I’m sure they have the data in front of them and know that it would be a trivial issue, but they *can* wring a tiny bit more profit from the workers, so they do
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WSJ “GOP candidate pushes boundaries around the narrative of small government and a return to traditional values.” Candidate “We should overturn the 13th amendment and enslave every non white in the world.”
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frankly surprised that the story didn’t involve the ancestor marrying an “Indian Princess” which is why the op is 1/64th Comanche.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Obviously the ideologues on the right were thinking long term about overturning, but I seriously believe that if the corporate arms of both parties had their way we’d have issues like abortion always in the balance and requiring the base to vote in lockstep even as everything else goes to shit.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think just like there were a number of cynical lawmakers on the right who were happy to dangle overturning Roe in front of the base to keep them voting, there are many dems who think the same way and were content to keep abortion as something that was always under threat to keep voters in line
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Every media outlet was 24/7 on the case with “concerns about Biden’s health” every time Biden so much as closed his eyes for a second too long but trump can fall asleep (face drooping in the classic stroke symptom) and audibly shit himself in the middle of a news conference to complete radio silence
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was going to say that they’re slowly increasing the size of the bag in preparation for the next time trump needs to run away from the slightest possibility of danger, instead of smuggling him out in the catering truck she’ll carry him out in her purse.
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sessileraptor.bsky.social @sessileraptor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How the fuck do you just get handed 40 million in gold without having to justify… “Between November 2025 and March of this year” Ah ok that tracks.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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