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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Just completed a nice rucking workout* outside and I feel great! *walk from Kowalski’s with food I forgot to get from Trader Joe’s on the weekend

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This tree looks like they’re a little bit puzzled by the question they’ve just been asked.

Picture of tree where scars from branch trimming look like two eyes and a mouth pursed to the right. (That’s from the tree’s perspective. Left from the viewer’s.)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Ella Jenkins was/is the GOAT. She deserved all the roses.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Not going to mess with that squirrel AT ALL.

Squirrel staring at camera, sitting on an Adirondack chair upon which a Halloween skeleton is also draped.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

There are many who aren’t sure if their “If you’re in line” joke was noted here on Bluesky. If you can, please volunteer your time to “cure” those jokes to make sure they’ve been counted.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The only prediction I’ll think about today is that of my uncle, born in Germany in the early 1930s, who while I sat at his dinner table in summer 2016 said in halting but forceful English to me, “Trump is a bad, bad man.” I still think about that monthly. Anyway, vote today if you haven’t yet.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

As they had not yet started saying 15 or so years ago, 10/10, no notes

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Good job by the sunset crew this evening in St. Paul.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I’m reading “Pride and Prejudice” and I think that I’m going to make reading Jane Austen the week before a major election a new ritual. A lovely tonic.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Could Shohei Ohtani - and *only* Shohei Ohtani - win the World Series? Because that seems like the optimal result for me.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

I’ve got too many podcasts to listen to, but if you think I’m going to turn off Pulp’s “Common People” on the radio, you’d be wrong. (Also, pretty sure you can guess my age from this skeet.)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Who is this MNUFC team playing so efficiently and what have they done with the often frustrating team I’m used to seeing?

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I sang in a public choir on Friday night, so I’ve checked that box on my “Things to do in Minnesota” bingo card. (It was fun! I’ll do it again!)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Instead of another debate, how about they compete to see who can complete an escape room first?

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Lying on the floor of this house we’re staying in and noticed these spotlights, interpreted them as googly eyes and now I can’t see them as anything else please help me

Ceiling lights that look like googly eyes. You can’t unsee it now either, right?

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Yesterday’s MN State Fair food: a cup of Martha’s Cookies (probably shouldn’t have tried to eat it all, but, you know, Martha’s); Sweet Corn & Hot Honey Cake (Farmer’s Union; fine but presentation underwhelming); and the Union’s Honey Lavender Lemonade (good but I shouldn’t waste calories on drinks)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Shout-out to the wild turkey strolling along Summit Avenue yesterday morning perfectly within the bike lane for as long as I watched them.

Wild turkey walking in bike lane along Summit Avenue in Saint Paul.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Seeing as the original is probably my all time favorite tweet, I couldn’t not share this.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Hey MSP peeps, can anyone recommend a good running club for older, slower people like, erm, me? At this point, anything faster than a 10-minute pace is pushing it. Vibe and good natured people more important than the training. Thanks in advance…

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

At a windshield repair place and their TV is: 1) tuned to the Euros, and 2) at a very low volume. For these blessings I want to smash lots of car windows then refer them here.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Me, a transplant just arrived from the desert, sowing last week, enjoying the rain: Haha, fuck yeah! Me, unloading the moving van this morning in the occasional downpour, reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

My wife was doing a crossword puzzle & the clue was something like “MTV named this Phil Collins hit one of the top 100 videos of the 80s.” She asked me what it might be, and I said probably either “Sussudio” or “In the Air Tonight”…. 1/x

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Going some very old files and found this clipping. Still one of the best headlines ever (though it doesn’t make sense unless you read the article attached to it).

1993 Pioneer Press article with headline “Twins get walloped 15-2” and a sub header “Winfield needs two.” In the article itself, Twins manager Tom Kelly is quoted as saying “Now we have to see the headline, ‘Twins get walloped 15-2’ instead of ‘Winfield gets 3000th.’ I don’t think the headline writers will write ‘Winfield needs two.’”

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Even if the eclipse were simply an excuse to sit in a field with other people and recline on a blanket and eat snacks I’d be fully onboard with it.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

This makes the silent HGTV channel at the gym make so much more sense

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Pi(e) Day final tally: 6 slices of pie at $3.14 each, 2 pizzas at $3.14 each (plus toppings). I placed the pizza order around 3pm, and by the time I picked up the pizzas at 6:15, the place had a hand-scrawled piece paper taped to the door: “NO PIZZA” like it was a horror film.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

“Ship of Fools” and “The Whole of the Moon” are perfect songs, albeit very different. RIP Karl.

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Hello. One reins something in. One does not reign something in. cc: people making the screenplay text on screen for the Oscars

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Did they just… spell “reining” wrong in that screenplay bit? #Oscars

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Who’s got two thumbs and a brand new Laser Loon SPPL library card? This guy!

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Post 10 bands/musicians you’ve been obsessed with at some point in your life, in no particular order: Billy Joel They Might Be Giants Talking Heads R.E.M. Matthew Sweet Spoon Wilco New Pornographers Kacey Musgraves The Beths *I tried to put these in rough choronological order of interest

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Cleaning out newspaper clippings my mom saved going back to, like, junior high (I was a very achievement-oriented kid), and can’t stop laughing at this - I’m on the right here. Like, did the photographer take one picture? Were they related to Tim (on the right)? Or was this the best they had?

Picture of two high school kids in park; kid on left has a great smile and open eyes while kid on right (me) is leaning over with a pained smile and closed eyes.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

My lukewarm take (pun unintended) on the Tracy Chapman / Luke Combs "Fast Car" duet last night: it was a little bit less than the sum of its parts. I mean, there are few perfect songs, but "Fast Car"? Perfect song.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

So glad @jefito.bsky.social is back with Jefitoblog, and while I said my piece about the new Billy Joel track in less than 10 words, Jeff takes about 1,300. (Jeff's is better.) I agree with it all -- it's a good track, average for Joel, and earns its weight by the context of its release.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

The new Billy Joel track is pretty darn good. That's it, that's the skeet.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

One of the things I've appreciated over the years is Wilco not giving up but in fact leaning further into their Chicago roots. Their brand-new video, filmed at a Windy City skating rink, is particularly joyful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZte...

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Wilco "Meant To Be" Official Music Video // The Rink, Chicago 🪩🛼

Wilco's new album Cousin is available worldwide via dBpm Records: https://wilco.lnk.to/CousinLOCATION: The Rink, Chicago // rinkchicago.comSKATERS: Chris Ro...

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

This thread, along with the thread *it* quote-posts, is useful reading for what to pay attention to (and when) w/r/t legislative bills. Especially in January, the amount of electronic ink spent on bills that won't go anywhere is... frustratingly large.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Shortest day of the year. Minnesota people: The days only get longer from here on out! Yaaay! Arizona people: The days only get longer from here on out! Waaah!

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

As someone who'll be moving to Minnesota in the not-too-distant future, I'll buy something with the new flag design, so I guess that's a thumbs up? (Definitely better than the outgoing one to be sure.)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Oh, this has immediately brightened my day.

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Saw "Barbie" Friday night -- didn't entirely cohere, but really enjoyed the movie; loved the production design, dance numbers, and the last line. (I preferred Gerwig's "Little Women," though.)

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Given that people took "tweet" and applied it to posts here ("skeets"), will "-eet" be the social media equivalent of "-gate"? Are Threads posts called "threets"? Is Mastodon doomed to fail because they're called "toots" instead of "teets" or "meets" or -- really, this is the best -- "deets"?

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

When did the meaning of "moral support" become equivalent to "morale support"? Like, at one point did lending moral support mean encouraging someone else not to, like, kill someone? And now it means something like, for example, "hey, sorry your parenting day sucked. Hope tomorrow's better."

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

Thanks to @maura.bsky.social, I've been anticipating Fall Out Boy's "sequel" to "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the result is... good? It's good! Not sequential like the original, but it definitively channels its spirit. music.apple.com/us/album/we-didnt-s…

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We Didn’t Start The Fire - Single by Fall Out Boy

Album · 2023 · 1 Song

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

"Sidewalk" by Built to Spill -- still undefeated!

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

I'm biased because I love the band, but The Beths' bassist Benjamin Sinclair writes a brilliant blog covering the bands' tours called Breakfast and Travel Updates and I just felt like more people need to know about it. So now you do. www.breakfastandtravelupdates.com

breakfastandtravelupdates.com

Breakfast and Travel Updates

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

I assume they are in fact actual tacos, but I also like the idea of it being a band called Friday Shrimp Tacos

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Stefan Shepherd @stefanshepherd.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Now that the days are getting shorter, those of us in the desert won’t have to worry much longer about hot afternoons, right? RIGHT?

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