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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 03/10/2026

Slate wins today's headline competition: Digger Wants to Be the Next Dr. Strangelove, but I Couldn’t Learn to Stop Worrying and Love This Bomb

slate.com

Tom Cruise’s New Movie Is a Disaster of Almost Apocalyptic Proportions

Digger isn’t what it seems. It’s something much worse.

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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 01/10/2026

A Saturday night tradition, now with even more to dream about 💜 Hockey Night in Canada is back December 5 as the 2026 Walter Cup Champion Montréal Victoire host PWHL Hamilton at 7 PM ET!

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 29/09/2026

Not that specific offer, but I do remember similar offers from what feels like a lifetime ago. Maybe two lifetimes.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 29/09/2026

At Lowe's right now and this post is still living rent free in my mind.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 28/09/2026

I just assume it's SEO: Siamese Engagement Optimization.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 26/09/2026

I only know the legend, but it's that one of the producers on Der Kommissar heard the hook in Super Freak and wanted to use it in his very next project.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 26/09/2026

My favorite trivia bit about this song is not just that the central riff is a borrowing from Rick James' "Super Freak" but that the two songs were released just a few months apart in 1981.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 23/09/2026

The satellite imagery for the park is pretty trippy. It's on my short list of geolocation puzzle ideas.

Aerial view of Field of Corn from April 2024.

Aerial view of Field of Corn from September 2021.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 23/09/2026

This, and the Euthyphro lines in "No Church in the Wild", each amazed professors when I went back to school in the early 2010s. As if hip hop just wasn't a font of creativity, they just didn't expect it.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 21/09/2026

There is a small co-brand on the back right "pocket"

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 20/09/2026

Also making the issue about himself is pretty on-brand for a rich white guy.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/09/2026

Way more durable than anything the Bell Beaker culture crafted at their peak.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/09/2026

That article was pure oxytocin for the linguist/philosopher parts of my brain. Thank you!

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/09/2026

Holy sh... I'm totally using this analogy. With credit, always.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/09/2026

"Made with Care" They want you to believe this so they made sure the AI listed it twice.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 16/09/2026

When relaxed, a bike commuter's perception expands to take in more of the outside world. For a relaxed car commuter, the world narrows to what's inside the car. A stressed bike commuter focuses on their body and the bike. A stressed car commuter is forced to take in more of the outside world.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 16/09/2026

Not sure if this comforting information, but when I was in school we did research on commuting styles and found that bike commuters and car commuters handle stress in polar opposite ways.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 15/09/2026

If realizing that MnDOT has only been around for 50 years makes you feel old; you should really schedule your periodic colon cancer screening.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 15/09/2026

I do like it more than most people.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 14/09/2026

On the second time did you ask, "Love Will Tear Us Apart, again?"

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 10/09/2026

"ABSOLUTELY NOT TRANSFERABLE" Welcome to the 21st Century, George. *right click, save*

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/09/2026

September has begun, which means a new batch of Bellingcat challenges is ready for you to try. This month, we’re taking a new angle, with our researcher @godin.bsky.social testing your ability to interpret imagery captured from orbit. Take on the challenges here: challenge.bellingcat.com

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 06/09/2026

BRB, sharing with my roller derby peeps.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 05/09/2026

Also, as I've said elsewhere, the state trooper's uniform is wrong for Minnesota.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 05/09/2026

Oh I did not realize that there is an entire category for Thai peppers. That might need to be a goal for 2027.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 05/09/2026

That's not Minnesota. Minnesota state troopers wear maroon red pants.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 31/08/2026

If it was your own personal siren wouldn't that make it a BaWoo?

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 30/08/2026

Yeah I've been getting the $150 price point for years and been pretty happy with the results. Sure it's 2-3 year old technology, but I'm also not jumping out balloons in the stratosphere. My action isn't cutting edge so my action cameras don't need to be cutting edge.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 30/08/2026

I've been buying used action cameras from MPB (www.mpb.com) for about five years now. That'll be a more durable option than mounting a smartphone. Then you'll just need a mount that fits your near/far needs.

mpb.com

MPB | Buy or Sell Used Cameras & Lenses

MPB is the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video gear. The simple, safe and circular way to trade, upgrade and get paid.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 26/08/2026

Oh, wow, thanks for the heads up. We've been getting the Costco's 12-packs and it looks like they raised the price by $2 to $16. They're also low/out in a bunch of metro locations so there might be some messy macro-level issue right now.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 25/08/2026

John Menard is a weird duck, which includes some very direct control over what gets sold in the stores and where.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 23/08/2026

Alternatively, I do wish this fate upon them.

Single panel comic from The Parking Lot is Full, by Jack McClaren and Pat Spacek.

Main image has a solitary person in a trench coat looking past the fourth wall, wide eyed with panic. Around them are uniformly dressed characters, darker, also in trench coats but also wearing hats. The ones facing the main character are all focused on moving past them. The ones behind the character are looking back at the main character with the ones farther to the right looking more fantastical and ghoulish.

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Little-known Fact #839: There are only twenty-three people alive today, and you're one of them; everyone else you know just *looks* human to lull you into not searching for the other twenty-two. Lonely? You *should* be.

Copyright 2000, The Parking Lot is Full

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 22/08/2026

Not the same category, but two days ago LinkedIn suggested a job as a buyer for a large liquor store in Houston, TX. Cool? But, no. (Though did have a moment of wondering if they were expanding into the metro area. That'd be wild.)

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 21/08/2026

The legal concept is 'escheat' and it ensures that if no person can be found as an owner that the state acts as owner of last resort. In Minnesota it's a mix of the Dept. of Commerce, Attorney General, and the State Executive Council that manage what is, essentially, unclaimed property.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 21/08/2026

Short term the property reverts to the state. They have an obligation to find any relatives who would legally inherit it. If no heirs are found it remains the property of the state with varying outcomes depending on the situation.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 21/08/2026

That's beautiful! A shame it's gotta hide in a box somewhere.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 21/08/2026

Agreed - COVID shortages meant I had a sedan for a few years but once supplies were back I immediately got a hatchback again. They make the reality of owning a car suck less.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 20/08/2026

Lyndale corridor on the table the same week that the CC Club went up for sale. Coincidence?

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 20/08/2026

A friend asked me if my bike was 'analog' and it took me a few beats to realize they were asking if it had power assistance or if it was a bicycle. (part of my confusion: I've had the bike since 2005)

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 19/08/2026

Not sure which is weirder for me, either uttering "Roblox-specific domain knowledge" for the first time in my life or the realization that I'm definitely not the first person to use that phrase in a sentence.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 19/08/2026

So, all things being equal (lack of control/consent, degree of gore involved) I'd say the video game violence is worse. No limits to what's done to the victim, fewer content restrictions in the medium, and the intended target market all feel like contributing factors in that.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 19/08/2026

Now for the huge caveat: This reaction means I heavily curate my experiences with both of them. TV gore is likely more memorable because it happens most often when I don't control the presentation. I have far more control over which video games I consume.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 19/08/2026

This is anecdotal, but that sounds okay in this circumstance. I have hyperphantasia to the point where people talking about injuries cause a kind of pain in my mind while I visualize it. A similar kind of pain happens sometimes with video games, but is far more likely to happen with television.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/08/2026

They were dusting for Prince.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 18/08/2026

I guess stargates are the new hot thing for Minnesota's richest few.

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 17/08/2026

Looks like they're called a few things, though I would call them a "belt stay" though online shops seem to call them "belt keepers" instead. Plenty of metal ones with varying levels of ornamentation. (Also, in a pinch: velco cable wrap)

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bjmacke @strangelove.net · 17/08/2026

So, funny enough, it's not a cut-and-dry answer. We did have, and lose, the Ford F-150 plant in St. Paul as part of the general decline of auto manufacturing in the US. And while not part of the metro area, the Iron Range decline was tied heavily to the Rust Belt.

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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Friendly Reminder It's OK to simply disregard others' bad takes. You're permitted to pass them over in silence

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