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Ulrike

@ulidig.bsky.social
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I like birds, books, and podcasts. She/her. I block engagement farmers and report scammers.

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All this used to be fields @solveforgenx.bsky.social · 5h
Eric Schmitt just invented the Gotchme Question
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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 4h
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 4h
#Iowa 🤣🤣🤣
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.
After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.
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Digital Prophet @digitalprophet.online · 9h
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13h
This is hilarious. It’s not just that Sen. Schmitt gets the team names wrong; he confuses a women’s college basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the Iowa Hawkeyes, in Maryland, for a men’s NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks, in Atlanta. Hawkeyes != Hawks.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 11h
#Iowa
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Swenson @swenson.bsky.social · 13h
All the agony over farmers and truckers and diesel prices got me wondering why no agony over school busses. That’s got to be hitting public education budgets pretty hard.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 14h
Oh, good. An unnecessary tax break for a project that will never come to fruition.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking my "don't reblog substack links" rule because the post itself is hilarious! (Don't click substack links, folks.)
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am advising you to keep saying this in public
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two of those four "close races" are in #Iowa, specifically, #IA-03 and #IA-02.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actually, he said, "I duh no I lub Iwuh." Also, I live here, and if he'd reduced prices, the Republicans wouldn't have to work at all to win. $6.50 diesel and *another* 300,000 tons of tariff-free Argentine beef imports are what's tanking them, though the cancer rates aren't helping. #Iowa
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think something can be mildly squicky, but otherwise, I agree 100%. And, a lot of conservative politics these days seems to be weirdos trying to make things that squick them out illegal instead of just going, "Not for me."
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 28/09/2026
Today, as every day, is a great day not to use AI and to shun all work that uses it.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sierra Nevada Graziers cheeses. Nationwide distribution, but so far, illnesses have only occurred in: CA, CO, GA, KY, MI, NV, OR, TN, and UT.
Labels for four varieties of Sierra Nevada Graziers cheeses: Raw Medium Cheddar (orange), Raw Sharp Cheddar (red), Raw Monterey Jack (blue), and Raw Jalapeño Jack (green).
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Words to live by.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Multiple brands, including Target's Good & Gather, sold in Illinois, Indiana, #Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lior brand sold in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and Illinois.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trending has been almost nothing but ragebait and idiotic hot takes this week.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My new laptop battery is thinner than the old one. Does that mean it holds fewer electricities?
A new, flat battery held parallel to a very puffy old battery.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yay!
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh, no. Please don't listen to Steve Deace. Please don't come to Iowa to campaign. Whatever you do, please, please don't brag about Argentine beef while you're here!
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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎙️ this podcast does not exist: you have $50 💰
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's 9/25, which means that over on Tumblr, they're celebrate Dolly Day. Happy #DollyDay, everyone. Remember what she taught us.
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Dolly Parton Smiling in Bubble Bath
Alt: Dolly Parton Smiling in Bubble Bath
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The discourse is unnecessary. This take and Franchesca Ramsey's on IG fully cover the entire issue. Everything else is just noise and artificial outrage.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two in one week!
Hey, it's Alice. We're asking Iowans what they think about the U.S.-Israel relationship. Where do you stand? Stop2End
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me reading your posts
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Love U Back And More
Alt: Melissa McCarthy making heart hands.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As soon as I saw this article, I immediately looked for, and found, @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social on Bluesky. Unfortunately, he's not active here. Anyway, check out Rex Junior!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Hi everyone telling me about the coming economic crash! That sounds like the perfect time to enact a green new deal. "But we won't have the resources" ... I mean, do you remember what precipitated the first new deal?
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The fact that states like Iowa haven't already been doing this is idiocy. Even without any extraneous complications, Iowa has the ability to produce a LOT of electricity dirt (ha!) cheap.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A juvenile Turkey Vulture just flew by so close to my window that I could see that its head was black, not red, with the naked eye!
View from my window after the vulture flew by.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I never read Discworld before, and I've been working my way through the Night Watch books. Oof, why are they still so relevant?
Cover of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love the audio editions. If you prefer DRM-free audiobooks, here's the Libro.fm link. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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The Vanished Sister Audiobook on Libro.fm
Charlotte Holmes—aka Sherlock Holmes—becomes entangled in a puzzling missing person case that hits close to home for her beloved Mrs. Watson in this Victorian-set mystery from the USA Today bestsellin...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Thread. This was a journey. Literally.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a two-year-old in the back just sighed, "what a day" and everyone did a polite/panicked titter in response
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/09/2026
I talk about this a good bit in the article, but in case it wasn’t clear: a mainline megachurch, while not unprecedented (they used to be more of a thing), is striking to behold in 2026. It feels like it couldn’t exist in this political era. But there it is, with thousands in the pews.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Harvested my first pawpaws today. Last year, the critters got them first. Four whole ones and one with bites out that I stuck in the bird feeder to see if anyone with feathers likes them. I saw 9 more on the trees that weren't ready.
Four pawpaw fruits on a worn step.Two pawpaw halves lying in a tray feeder with peanuts and sunflower seeds.A person digging into a pawpaw half with a spoon.
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lololol
Ashley Hinson here! I have an update that's too important to share over text.

Use your personal link to read it: [link redacted]

Stop to end
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just assume any senstor who suggests that a Democrat-majority legislature should "work with Trump" and "let him save face" is compromised ala Susan Collins. You have the authority to stop Trump and choose not to? You're obviously corrupt.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 22/09/2026
If you *haven’t* read any of our books yet, may we suggest a few? How about an anti-colonial spacefaring yarn where the plants are people too? Grab THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social! hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-...
A copy of The Final Chronicle of Yeneh by Jo Miles, cover art by Kim Herbst
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is tremendously funny that a group of out-of-state professors who were appointed by a conservative governor suddenly pretend they have faculty governance rights, by doing things like taking votes of no confidence when they don't like how their political project is going.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve seen this thread about twenty times in the last two hours and nobody seems to have noticed that it’s from a complete rando and cites no sources?
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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please. I’m begging y’all. Don’t share stuff just cos you want it to be true. The level of mis/disinformation on social media is bad enough without adding to it. (I have no idea if it’s true or not either - but the absence of verifiable information is quite something)
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was trapped in a waiting room with the CBS morning show at 8:00 a.m. Guess what they were talking about.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would not get too excited about this poll. -Registered (not likely) voters -partisan breakdown was 29% Democrat, 35% Republican, and 32% independent, which is nothing like a typical Iowa midterm electorate. Looks like they undersampled Ds and Rs and oversampled independents. -no weighting
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have no idea what the partisan breakdown of Iowa's electorate will be this year but it's going to be better for Ds than 2022 for sure. In 2022, approximately 34% of Iowans who cast ballots were Ds, 41.6% were Rs, 23.5% were no-party Iowa's 2018 electorate was 34.5% D, 37% R, 27.7% no-party
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