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Jennifer Brooks

@stribrooks.bsky.social
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Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.

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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I probably missed a few laureates. So much Minnesota exceptionalism!
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
👇
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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Nick TenBrink @nick-tenbrink.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Goose Rave #honk
Goose Rave.

Loose gravel sign altered to read Goos Rave.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ahahahahahaaa
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cut into smaller and smaller pieces in the break room…
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Upside: we don't have to argue about how to split a gold medallion 400,000 ways.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 04/10/2026
More than 10,000 marathoners and 12,000 10-mile runners will hit the streets this morning, along with as many as 300,000 spectators.
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Live: A record-setting Twin Cities Marathon weekend heads into its main event
Follow along for live updates throughout the marathon.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If people really, really need cheesy pop culture small talk for some reason, just say "my love language is ____." Boom, your love language is pumpkin spice lattes, congratulations.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Somebody tried to tell me their spirit animal was a pumpkin spice latte the other day. NO!
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Victor Stefanescu @vstef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop: A group of local investors including a longtime former owner is making a play to save Pearson’s Candy, a beloved Minnesota confectioner slated to halt production this week. www.startribune.com/pearsons-can...
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As Pearson’s Candy crafts its last Salted Nut Roll, local investors make a play
A group including former co-owner Larry Hassler is trying to convince the confectioner’s private equity owner to sell.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want to poke it so bad...
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Tarsier's Wow Eyes
Alt: Tarsier with eyes as wide as giant puffballs!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doge has yet to fix me.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh that is sad. Not a lot of info online, but Lewis was only 19. www.facebook.com/RockCountyHi...
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Facebook
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gasp!!!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My favorite bedtime story as a child left me with unrealistic mushroom expectations. I have YET to use one as an umbrella.
He is a bunny, his name is Nicholas. He lives in a hollow tree. And he SETS UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS ABOUT GIANT MUSHROOMS.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Foraged mushrooms are the only mushrooms I don't hate. We used to go camping in the Great Smokies with my brother-in-law's mushroom-foraging aunts. They'd pan-fry them over the campfire and it ruled.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell AI to stay out of my childhood photo album
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are in the pocket of Big Fungus and it is MUSTY in here
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*glares at my yard's sub-par fungi*
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Show me your puffballs!!! (gift link) www.startribune.com/it-finally-r...
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It finally rained. Now mushrooms the size of basketballs are blooming.
Ballooning giant puffballs can be eaten early, but not everyone likes them.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was a thrill to talk snacks with you!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ahem.
Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice!

Bee--

Quite stripey!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am DELIGHTED!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For your urgent consideration.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OK, when I was a kid, my mom took an art class and made a sculpture by filling a cardboard box with balloons and plaster. My sisters and I turned it into a dollhouse and it ruled. A cube full of strange round rooms that connected at weird angles. I desperately wanted/want to live in that house.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Installing glowing red laser eyes WHEN?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good choice. Hope all will be well.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's no number crunching I'd trust more!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The most interesting interest stories!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I need to find the keeper of the cat stats, stat. This is news Minnesota can use!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My flight, which was supposed to land at MSP around noon, still hasn’t boarded at O’Hare.
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84 years
Alt: Titanic “84 years” meme
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ohmmmmmm
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What a glorious day to be flying into, then out of, Chicago
Monster thunder storms have parked themselves over Chicago. Nothing is flying in, nothing is flying out. O’Hare flight delay tracker says the average arrival delay tops 150 minutes. Swell!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will see you all when I get back from weirding out Ohio!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s my sister’s birthday! I made her a Jimothy
Behold the felt ornament of a lil raccoon with a short spine and a can-do attitude
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Stpaulighoul @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reposting for the crop art fans who can’t get enough MN State Fair crop art: three post-fair opportunities to view the crop art:
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fat squirrels taunt me. Give me back my few surviving tomatoes you cute hairy monsters!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well deserved!!
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I would wait in line three hours just to hang out with Ron.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is that a ribbon too???
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That is a LOT of throttling for the first day of school
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
big Last Known Photo energy on that bulletin board
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Star Tribune Going Out @stribgoingout.startribune.com · 03/09/2026
Threading the 2026 MN State Fair 4-H Llama and Alpaca costume contest contestants here because you deserve it 😇
Llama and owner dressed up in a Mamma Mia theme 
Llama and owner dressed up in back to school theme Llama and owner dressed up in curious George theme Llama and owner dressed up as thing 1 and thing 2
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chen May Yee's Minnesota State Fair sketchbook is a delight. [gift link because I love you and I want you to be happy] www.startribune.com/mn-state-fai...
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Illustrated Opinion: The Minnesota State Fair, seen through the eyes of a sketch artist
Notepad in hand, artist Chen May Yee spent hours at the Great Minnesota Get-Together on opening day, capturing the little moments that make it so special.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Furious I didn't make the cut for that list.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Such dorks.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two can play at that game.
Only for Crimewatch Minneapolis would I return to Twitter for the sole purpose of creating my very first list: "Dorks." 

Population: Crimewatch Minneapolis.
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