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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I find the flaws in this series are also much easier to explain than the reasons to love it. My favorite part is the found family sibling dynamic between the mc and a woman who turns herself into a cowcatcher?? IDK

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Legit! It’s the sort of series I want to see lovingly picked apart by a WisCon panel, because the flaws are more interesting in context. Like how the big titty crab lady’s tits are part of a costume she wears for an audience that values extreme displays over authenticity, in a capitalist hellscape

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(Yes this is partly about Dungeon Crawler Carl, which I’ve inhaled completely over the past month and a half and love. The cishettery of it all sticks out like a Slap Chopped thumb in a story that’s explosively imaginative in so many other ways.)

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It started hyperbolic but got real specific by the end, oops!

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“He or she” is your intergalactic linguistic standard? Only one alien species has a third gender, and it’s a joke? Burying your only space gays? DON’T MAKE ME GET THE SPRAY BOTTLE, MATTHEW

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sci-fi written by cishet authors can be so jarring. Like you’re telling me you dreamt up a whole universe of aliens, but every species has separate bathrooms for men and women? The sentient ooze is a lady ooze? The spacefaring tentacle monarch is in a heterosexual marriage? Okay Matt.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This creature is a dingleberry on the butthole of my patience, and I love him dearly

Chad the tuxedo cat perched on the corner of the kitchen countertop, staring directly at the camera with perfectly circular eyes and an expression of boundless hope for snacks. This was moments after we got him back inside from a surprise late-night chase through the neighbor’s pollinator garden.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

I just want to build a new society built around a common understanding: If you have more money than you could ever spend and you still want more, you are a fundamentally broken human who needs supportive intervention before you are fit to participate in a healthy, functioning community.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was not a billionaire, because multi-millionaires who are good people like her never get past that last finish line. Not when there are kids who need books to read and sick people who need vaccines.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was, frankly, why red states should not be abandoned to the fascism of their government and the destitution of said government's economic choices. Her father's name was Robert Lee for fuck's sake, and yet look at the good she chose to add to the world.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't forget to vote! If you live in Minneapolis or St. Paul and hit a down-ballot race you've done no research on, my blog has a roundup (with my recommendations but also links to info) and you can find links to all my primary season posts here: naomikritzer.com/2026/08/06/p...

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Primary Election 2026 Sample Ballot / Index of Posts

Minnesota’s primary election is TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, which is this coming Tuesday as I post this. For the convenience of everyone looking up races from the voting booth (or the people who ar…

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

POV: You’re walking up the stairs in my house when you hear the faint melody of wind and circus music echoing through an empty head

The view from below as a tuxedo cat named Chad lounges atop the half-wall that boxes in our stairwell. His body is curved awkwardly to fit around a corner, his cheek mushed against the railing and one leg dangling down the wall, as if he’s melted under the light from the solar tube in the ceiling.

This is his new favorite spot in the house.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Katydids keep gathering in the space between our window panes, so I made it a disco

A small calico cat named Zelda perched atop a cat tree next to a window with a window AC unit installed. She’s watching bugs in the space between the overlapping window panes.

A closer look at the space between the window panes, which has been decorated (on the inside of the window) with a tiny disco ball charm, glittery washi tape, a watercolor illustration of a bar with a katydid bartender, and a sign reading “Katydid club. Open all night, pants optional.” A katydid is standing between the panes of glass, positioned like he’s approaching the bar.

A close-up of the bar. It has 3 stools, a backlit shelf of bottles, and a freshly poured mixed drink on the bar top. The katydid bartender is washing a glass. Under the bar is a penis graffiti and a forgotten yellow umbrella.

A katydid shaking its ass under the disco ball

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yes!! I painted a worn out section of the porch floor two years ago! Never wound up sealing it because my dad derailed the project by dying (the jerk), but it’s held up shockingly well so far

Chad the tuxedo cat strolling across the freshly painted rainbow on the porch floor. Each board is a different color, and there are like 20 of them and it took forever

October Von Spoopypants, a large fluffy cat, flopped on his back on the rainbow porch floor, using the “Welcome! Roll for initiative” mat at the door as a pillow. The floor is dirty, but the colors are still bright!

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

When I was a kid someone told me “Your favorite color can’t be ‘rainbow’” and it took me 30 years to realize yes the fuck it can 🌈

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I KNOW SOMETIMES I JUST STAND IN THERE AND SMILE

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month from my ridiculously gay upstairs bathroom-in-progress, which is on track to be finished by the end of this month!!

Our new upstairs bathroom, which is still being finished. There’s no flooring yet, and the bathtub is covered with plywood for protection, but the tiled walls are a nearly finished: a rainbow of 10 different colors of stripes with white in between them. It’s so happy and gay and I love it so much already!!

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We now have an under bed storage bin full of paper media dating 1931-1939, all pulled out of the dormer walls and ceiling! I’m not sure which is my favorite, the puff piece about Eleanor Roosevelt meeting a chicken or the issue of Real Detective Magazine advertising “14 pages of crime photos!”

A St Paul Dispatch Pictures page featuring a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt meeting a large chicken! Caption: “Native Dignity of this twelve-pound, 18-month-old rooster evoked a hearty laugh from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt when the First Lady visited the
Agriculture department's research center at Beltsville, Md. The bird was held for her inspection by Dr. C. W. Knox, senior poultry breeder at the center.”

A full color 1931 issue id Real Detective magazine, with a shocked looking woman on the cover. It advertises “Exposing Hollywood’s ‘Love Bazaar,’” “Amazing confessions of a convict,” and “14 pages of crime pictures.” It’s wrinkled and fragile enough that I haven’t opened it beyond the first few pages.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Week 4 of construction. My sleep is broken from 8am power tool sounds, but my god, it’s starting to look like a bathroom. Chad is a dedicated volunteer site supervisor who has charmed the crew and multiple city inspectors. He’s only had to be rescued out of the floor three times!

One side of the framed in bathroom, where a nice deep soaking tub now sits on plywood subfloor. It’s fully plumbed and has a big arched shower niche framed in for storage.

The little storage room on the other side of the bathroom wall, which has a low, sloped ceiling only suitable for short people. There’s a light fixture in this room for the first time in its 113 years of existence! It’s also set up for a small ductless washer/dryer combo unit.

Chad the tuxedo cat lounging on the dining room table. There’s a fine dusting of sawdust on one side of his face because he was giving the city inspector a tour of the job site.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My dad used to borrow favorite movies from me and forget to return them for years at a time, so after he died I retrieved a collection of my own DVDs from his house. Tonight we opened one, and the disc was missing. MOTHERFUCKER STILL WON’T GIVE ME BACK MY COPY OF HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

LOTS of Swedes settled in MN! Looks like a previous owner of my house named LJ Peterson may have been one of them

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"Oh, Father Toni, my mother is getting better"

A finely illustrated cartoon in the Swedish newspaper: a smiling girl opening an iron gate to two visitors. They’re all wearing clothes from the 1700s.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

They opened up the ceiling expecting to have loose insulation rain down, but it turns out the dormer isn’t open to the rest of the roof, just sitting on top of it, and insulated mostly by Swedish newspapers

The mostly gutted dormer in my house. The original roof cuts a diagonal line through the wall. Overhead, the edge of the old roof protrudes into the space. They didn’t connect the dormer roof to the original roof, just built on top of it

Looking up over the original roof, which is covered in newspapers

A 1932 Swedish newspaper called Vagledaren

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The company we hired specializes in renovating old homes, and chatting with the demo crew is fascinating! I’m learning about all the weird transitional materials used in my home when the attic was finished

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Oof yeah, that’s tough! At least if you need to renovate one for accessibility you’ll have another one to use in the meantime?

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Found in the wall: this 1938 newspaper campaign ad for Martin A. Hogan, a congressional candidate who lost with only 8% of the votes. 8% was also the early polling number for 2016 presidential joke candidate Deez Nuts. It could be said that Mr. Hogan was the Deez Nuts of the Great Depression.

A 1938 newspaper ad that reads “ Martin A Hogan: Democratic candidate for Congress, third district of Minnesota. Mr. Hogan is a liberal. He is fearless and able. He is worthy of support of the voters of all parties.” The man in the photo has a bad haircut and no smile.

A screenshot from the historical voting records the year that Mr. Hogan lost. Of the three candidates that ran for the third district, republican John G Alexander got 53,442 votes, farmer-labor candidate Henry G Teagan got 50,505 votes, and Mr. Martin got 14,073 votes.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This week we started construction to add a second bathroom to the house. I’ve been planning this project for a decade but somehow never realized that contractors making demo noises in my house at 8am would mean I can’t sleep past 8am. Anyway, this is days 1 and 2 of progress.

The upstairs landing of my home yesterday, with most of the landing and the alcove beyond it divided off by a temporary wall made of two by fours and plastic sheeting. The light from the windows in the alcove is shining through the plastic.

Day two, the alcove and stair landing from the opposite direction inside the plastic sheeting. The alcove has been stripped bare of its plaster walls, exposing the bones of the original studs and the slope of the roof where the dormer ends. There are bits of newspaper and something fuzzy and gray as insulation still left in spots. Where windows once were, there is now only chipboard screwed in place.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Co-pilot Wallace now has his own rainbow seatbelt cover! It goes with the rainbow seatbelt covers I made for the other front seats but is Wallace sized.

A small pink stuffed elephant named Wallace sitting in his crocheted car seat on the center console of my new car, now with his own rainbow seatbelt cover!

Two adult human sized rainbow seatbelt covers, made in mosaic crochet. One has a squared off edge, and the other has a scalloped edge.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The last protest I was able to attend was for trans rights, in fall 2019. It was my dad’s last protest, and the visceral sense of belonging from standing with him that day still feeds my heart when I remember it. If you’re out there marching today, I hope you take that feeling home with you.

An old white guy named Jim standing proudly on the Lake Street bridge on a sunny day, smiling broadly and holding a handmade sign that says “Support trans rights, support trans families.”

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My spouse has had 2 ambulance rides in 3 weeks and is wearing a heart monitor. My sleep is fucked from stress + construction noise nextdoor. Still feel guilty not attending the protest. If asked “Where were you when…?” guess I’ll say we were home, surviving the shit our neighbors were protesting.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Me too. I got Wallace during a driving lesson in 2016. We stopped at a garage sale to celebrate me finally not being a nervous wreck behind the wheel, and there he was, 25 cents and invaluable! He’s supervised most of my driving for the last decade and is a good little friend. 🥰

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Co-pilot Wallace is ready to hit the road!

Wallace the stuffed elephant in his car seat, which is now installed on the armrest between the driver and passenger seats in my car

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Is there a name for the thing where life gets so stressful that your sanity hinges on a silly little project? Anyway, I made the stuffed elephant who lives in my car his own little car seat

A small crocheted car seat in bright blue yarn. It has a headrest!

Front view of a small pink stuffed elephant named Wallace sitting in the car seat. He’s secured to the seat with a miniature 3-point seatbelt and looks ready for adventure.

A side view of Wallace belted into his car seat. His seatbelt is a recycled fabric belt, the kind you use to keep your pants up.

A back view of Wallace in his car seat. There’s a magazine pocket on the seat back. It’s currently holding a zine about geology.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Donated my car today. Thanks for a decade of safe trips, Mabel 💚

My Facebook post:

Today we said goodbye to my beloved green 2012 Hyundai Accent hatchback, Mabel Sprout Hyundai. I learned to drive late, so Mabel was my first car. In the 10 years I had her, she carried Lyft passengers and real estate clients, hauled lumber and thrifted treasures, hosted road trips, parallel parked in front of hundreds of houses, saw my family safely through tumultuous times and bad weather, and ferried half a dozen unhappy cats to and from the vet.

I’ll never forget the time Mabel got stuck on an icy patch and a bunch of smiling gym bros jogged out of a nearby kickboxing gym, PICKED HER UP, and set her down on clear pavement. She really was a roller skate! The best roller skate.

Mabel was donated to the Newgate School, where in her retirement she will help future mechanics learn the trade. She is survived by an electric blue 2016 Subaru Crosstrek named Magnus Burnsides Subluru, who will carry on her legacy of safe and colorful travels. (green and blue heart emojis side by side)

One of the last photos of my car: A bright green hatchback named Mabel, parked in the lot at the place I donated her today. There’s a dent on her side that’s covered by a green bandaid bumper sticker and her hood is a little bit sun bleached, but she’s not looking bad for a 14 year old Minnesota car

One of my first pictures of Mabel: a selfie I took with her the day I bought her in 2016. We were so young!

Mabel parked in a wooded area along Great River Road, surrounded by fallen leaves and trees turning yellow

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Did you know that if your medication is lost in a house fire, health insurance can refuse to replace it right away because you’re “not due for a refill yet???” Fuck’s sake, America.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I got to drop off some groceries for Anya’s family today. Her dad is back with them and in good spirits!

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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

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Twin Cities Geek @twincitiesgeek.com · 04/02/2026

A siren against a dark cloudy sky with the text "It is Wednesday my dudes"

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Updating my client handouts has been fun and normal

Screenshot from the handout I give my buyers about showings:
“Special 2026 ICE occupation edition FAQ

What if we have showings scheduled but I’m too exhausted from *gestures at everything*?
That’s a legitimate reason to cancel! We all need extra grace right now. Don’t overthink it, just let me know.

What happens if we run into an ICE altercation during showings?
If you’re in a position to stop and help our neighbors, I will join you. If you need to remove yourself from the situation for your own safety, I will do everything in my power to keep you safe.

If ICE comes to the door of a house we’re touring, do you have to let them in?
I am literally not allowed to let them in because I don’t have the seller’s permission (smiley face with hearts around it)”

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