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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

As a young boy in 1940s Duluth, Minnesota, Bobby Zimmerman lived around the corner from Albert Woolson, who would soon become the oldest surviving Union soldier from the Civil War. Both played guitar professionally.

map showing houses less than 500 feet apart

Woodson as an old man in the1950s with a young girl, playing a drum as he did in the Civil War

Bob Dylan's home in Duluth, where he lived until age 6

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 4h

One of my favorite tricks is telling people to meet me on 4th Ave (in Manhattan) because it’s so short you can find someone with only that much info.

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 16h

Reupping for today: a thread below on how a Wisconsin county’s myth and image for itself imploded after recent investigations determined the “friendly” Native chief at the center of its identity never existed. www.waupacanow.com/stories/chie...

Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Oct 13

A little thread about how attitudes, and markers, change. In July 2024 I went to see the Chief Waupaca marker and site in Waupaca County, Wisc., expecting to see the problematic marker in brown and instead got a different and nuanced story in blue — including that Chief Waupaca never existed. 1/🧵

Original Chief Waupaca historical marker, Marion, Wisconsin. It tells the story of a “friendly Potawatomi Indian” who accepted white settlers as others in his tribe did not, and that he and two of his sons are buried at the site.

Entry to Chief Waupaca Historical Site, Marion, Wisconsin. I took this in July 2024. I did not hunt or camp.

Current marker at Chief Waupaca Historical Site, Marion, Wisconsin. It tells the story of the myth of Chief Waupaca, where the word Waupaca came from, a detailed history of the Menominee in the region. Taken July 2024.

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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 3d

Sex and/or the City

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4h

Sentence case versus all caps

Two signs on inside of restroom door

Unclean hands spread disease.
Wash hands before returning to work.

WASH HANDS
BEFORE
RETURNING TO WORK!

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Paul-bearer ⚰️ @clrksn.com · 2d

Sharing my clearest photo from tonight’s Bob Mould show at the Turf Club.

An Apple Watch displays a loud environment warning

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Scott Berndt | Author @scottberndtauthor.bsky.social · 4h

You can buy a house in that neighborhood for a fraction of what it costs in other parts of the city.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 5h

Did Contreras get the third out by ... jogging from home to third?

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5h

Dammit!

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5h

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 5h

They name the streets after the wrench they used to put up the sign to make it easier to fix later on.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 6h

Required reading kills the book, more often than not

(I read THE SCARLET LETTER as an adult and of my own free will and loved every word of it. Most people who were assigned it...)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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James R @benchwarmerjim.bsky.social · 6h

mercy!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6h

Casual 81 yd TD from Bijan Robinson

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · Mar 7

11 year old Prince Nelson is interviewed by a local news station at a teachers strike, 1970

*link included

#Prince

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d

the scene that plays out several times a day when you have three cats

a close up of a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigarette .

Alt: The good, the bad, and the ugly in their standoff, with a tabby added to the gif

media.tenor.com

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d

all of diane keaton's glasses need to be preserved by a museum or the library of congress or something

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d

In case I ever get a tattoo

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon

Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay

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Andy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 1d

A-plus sign

Hand-written sign that says “U had yer Lurnin. Lettuce hav Hours”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 9h

Great. Now I’m cursed with the 867-5309 earworm 😡

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

I can connect you with emergency officials in the rural Wisconsin county where I saw this

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No Arguing Allowed @noarguingallowed.bsky.social · 7h

If I was starting a REM reggae cover band, I would call it Dread Letter Office

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

Look, I'll meet you at the corner of 29-5/8ths Avenue and 7-15/16ths Street. I don't see what's so hard about this.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 9h

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 9h

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 10h

Dr. L. H. Cornell (1921)
12 15th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Dr. Cornell, a dentist in Minneapolis, holds his $7,000 Stradivarius violin, said to be the finest violin in the Northwest.

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