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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have a pair of Sony WH-1000 XM3’s that I love. I’ve been using them for years and recently I replaced the foam ear pads since I wore them out. One of my daughters recently bought the modern version and has a favorable opinion as well.

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not on public transit, though, if that’s a consideration, and you need a day pass to park a car ($7 I think)

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Lake Elmo county park has a nice meeting room for $60/hour (in daytime hours) in the cross-country ski center: washingtoncountymn.gov/facilities/f...

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Nordic Center

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am at the rally right now and I heard this with my own ears. Had to double-check with two other people that I heard this correctly because this is the craziest thing I have yet heard in this primary.

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I finally started Seasons of Glass & Iron (I’d been saving it for when I emotionally really needed something beautiful to read) and as always am swooning into the current of @amalelmohtar.com ‘s bone dissloving..ly incandescent prose buy👏 this👏 book 👏 🖤🦷 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Seasons of Glass and Iron

A LibraryReads pick!A Best Book of the Year from Esquire. Most Anticipated from Lit Hub, Book Riot, Portalist, NPR, Men's Health, Trill Mag and Esquire. Feat...

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m also thinking pistachio

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/05/2026

🚨STARBUCKS WORKERS JUST WON THEIR 700TH UNION ELECTION!! A huge congratulations to baristas around the country who are taking on corporate greed and fighting for a better workplace. We make change when we take action! ✊🔥

A group of 6 celebrates the 700th union election win at Starbucks. The group holds balloons that say 700!

A group of five poses and raises fists outside of a Starbucks

Five workers jump in the air and smile in front of their Starbucks store

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/06/2026

you can also learn to sing. it’s an instrument you don’t need to haul around or buy equipment for. you can do it anywhere. and doing it with other people…it’s like a fast track reminder that humans are social creatures and are supposed to be together

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride to all who celebrate love and acceptance. Much love to all you beautiful dolls out there just trying to get by being yourselves. And much love to those unafraid to love someone the hateful might deem wrong. Everyone else: fix your hearts or die. Fuck hate, choose love. Love wins.

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Flan @flanknits.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This benefits a neighborhood school where more than 70% of kids were in hiding at the height of the ICE occupation.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Set out to write a LinkedIn post (I know, I know) about @maximumfun.org and the Max Fun Drive. It ended up getting more philosophical and heartfelt than I expected and I thought you might like to read it.

The more time I spend making podcasts in collaboration with the Maximum Fun network, the more delighted and, frankly, relieved I am to be doing so. This in contrast to working exclusively on my own or as part of a large media organization. Let me tell you why.

All shows at Maximum Fun, including the ones I created and host (Depresh Mode with John Moe, Sleeping with Celebrities) are owned by their creators. If I decided to move to a different network, I could, no problem. If I wanted to make a book or TV show based on my work, no permissions or negotiations necessary. This gives me legal and financial freedom, yes, but it also engenders creative freedom. I can chase an idea I believe in and make it happen without any alignment to corporate goals or the whims of a board of directors or a private equity overlord. That’s the way you’d ideally like to get your content as a consumer. Doesn’t always happen that way. It does at Max Fun.

Maximum Fun is a worker-owned co-op. They have employee/owners, who have a stake in how things work. They are empowered. And that’s why any interaction you have with them feels human. Because it is. Again, I don’t work there, I’m not an employee/owner. I just partner with them for distribution, ads, web stuff, fundraising efforts, all the stuff that is not what I do best, stuff I needn’t sweat because it’s taken care of. On top of that, I work with producers who are incredibly smart and talented and valuable collaborators.

The third leg of the stool is listeners. While we do get some ads, the VAST majority of Max Fun’s revenue and my revenue is from people who hear the shows, enjoy them, recognize that they cost time and money and effort and talent, and are willing to foot the bill. When money comes in, Max Fun takes some to run the network, the rest goes to owners so we can try to make a living and keep making shows.

And yeah, we offer bonus content and gifts, but that’s not why people give. They give because they want to be a part of …

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is so deeply shameful.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 27/02/2026

i am begging the democrats to learn the fucking lesson here

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 26/02/2026

the rent fund for students at my alma mater has $36,000 in rent requests for tomorrow and only $7,500 in the bank if we raised $10,600 with a crystal shrek what kind of crazy thing do i need to do to raise $28,500?

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Donate to Support South High School Families, organized by R S

South High School (Minneapolis, MN) parents are holding a special fundraiser specifically for S… R S needs your support for Support South High School Families

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us. It sucks. We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this. I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

tom homan is a bitch

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Pam Brisse @pamdorra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is awesome - thank you for sharing it! Words I needed to hear today…

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ok y'all. Whats going on is making me cry on the regular. It feels weird to be here at the GRAMMYs - but I want to honor the music of my ancestors by playing it- we gonna do some busking tomorrow, come say hello if you’re in town for the shindig.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

A stack of thin pink books that say OBSTETRIX * NAOMI KRITZER on the spine

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread. cw: suicide

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026

Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world

We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🎧 Gonna start a slowly evolving thread for my folk-funk faves What’s folk-funk? The foundational tracks were mostly released in the 70s It’s jazz-adjacent, funk-inflected, & heavy on drum breaks, acoustic guitar, & groove We start with a “founder” of folk-funk 1/n youtu.be/HY2VfzBWKXM?...

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Terry Callier - You Goin' Miss Your Candyman

YouTube video by Adagiosoulb4flesh

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 16/01/2026

Multiple people have been taken this morning already in Northeast and we don’t have the same capacity on the streets that we’ve had throughout the week. Please come out and help us today and bring a friend we need more people outside so we can protect our neighbors.

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ZachSCARY Johnson @zachstronaut.com · 10/01/2026

The lesson Frey and Walz were supposed to learn in 2020 was that sending riot police to a peaceful protest creates a confrontation that results in some dipshit cops shooting people in the eye with a gas canister which then we have to goddamn pay for in settlements while also our city burns.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It appears the link above finally stopped worrying. If you want to watch the story Bari spiked, you can see it in five parts here:

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.

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Ted Haland @ted-h.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Such a powerful song - wow

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The magazine that brought you "FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense" and "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" bring you Isaac Chotiner's interview with Santa and it is OUTSTANDING. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus

For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/12/2025

Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25/11/2025

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

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Fifteen Years

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

Want to support workers on strike? ✅ Follow us + share our posts about NOT BUYING STARBUCKS! ✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & we'll send you local calls to action throughout the strike: nocontractnocoffee.org ✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17/11/2025

Good morning from DAY FIVE of our national ULP strike! We're ready to escalate if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing & the resolution of 100s of ULPs. RT if you're with us ✊🔥 #NoContractNoCoffee

Group photo of union baristas on ULP strike

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 13/08/2025

Yeah, seriously. Joy is resistance. We have to find the joy wherever we can right now, and lecturing people who have found some brief relief from this hellscape about how bad they are is a real dick move. When they aren't hurting anyone, just shut up and let people enjoy things. Don't be a dick.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 08/08/2025

We're going into the weekend with some NEW UNION STORES!!! 🥳🎉 Congratulations to Starbucks workers who just voted to unionize at these locations! ☕️COLUMBUS, OH - Olentangy River Rd. ☕️BEAUMONT, TX - Dowlen & Folsom ☕️DES MOINES, IA - 3830 Merle Hay Rd.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/07/2025

These are NOT isolated issues. We’re sounding the alarm to customers, and demanding Starbucks finalize fair contracts with us to address these constant problems in our stores!

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