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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 3h

Sex work is work

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The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 4h

My electrical engineering prof in undergrad had a homemade box in his office that had no labels, just four numerical LCD characters. It was always displaying a different set of number. None of us knew what it meant and he refused to tell us

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 4h

Could be fun to use one like one of those old numbers radio stations. Just have it occasionally spitting out streams of numbers for which only you know the purpose

Mike Hicks @mulad.bsky.social · 4h

Hmm. A receipt printer might be a fun thing for adding notes to myself on the fridge or door.

I know some people use them as a task management tool, and this would be in a similar vein

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 7h

"In doing so, Cockerell achieved what prior generations of academics and bureaucrats could not, and ushered in a new vibrant era of street life in the capital city

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 7h

"No design feature has so hampered the early century growth of Northern cities as the skyway[1]. We present evidence that through purposeful disinvestment and subsequent condemnation of the Alliance Center, Cockerell dealt an irrecoverable blow to St Paul's skyways, leading to their eventual demise

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 7h

Osterberg, John et al. "Tactical Disinvestment - Madison Equities and the Revitalization of Saint Paul". Journal of Tactical Urbanism. 2047.

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 7h

If my nerd friends had heard this in high school, we would have never stopped making insufferable "going to the gym makes you stupid" jokes

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 8h

Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Asking for a friend

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NOW can we abolish ICE? @marshviper.bsky.social · 8h

"excessive" chemical munitions? "Excessive"??! What would be the right amount of chemical munitions for people to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands?

Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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david schlenk pumpkins @schlazor.bsky.social · 8h

lamb of dog, who slepps away the sins of the world

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 10h

Paula Brart, hall art

A sort of modpodge portrait of Sadie Ward in a glass case in the Ramsey County municipal building basement

Art tag describing the medium of the portrait as "Brart (recycled bras)"

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 20h

A computer should answer you in the form of a terse jargon-dense help file, or with a seg fault, all other answers are from the devil

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 20h

If the chatbot in the computer ever tries to answer your questions with a sense of familiarity or agreeableness, you need to smash that computer with a baseball bat, the computer is not your friend

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

Please subscribe to my breakfast newsletter "elementwise, an ice cream sandwich is indistinguishable from sugar cereal"

Dan 🏳️‍🌈 @helloeveryth.ing · 1d

Once you realize a sundae is basically just an unmixed shake you can do anything in your life

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

It was nice. Lots of familiar SPBC faces, and BikeMN folks. We even had a project manager from public works join us. Lots of good observations about what will make it a better place to ride

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

Lady and the Tramp screenshot where two cute dogs are eating spaghetti and a large Italian man is playing the accordion

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

If you are here, all our CEOs belong to the same radical cell of RTO Octoberists, who are dedicated to overthrowing the International Work From Homers of the World

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back to The Office On Mondays to all who celebrate

✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 20d

RTO is just an expensive solution to the Male CEO Loneliness Epidemic. Your boss is in the CEO group chat with the boys saying "why won't my friends / employees hang out with me?". C-suites will literally make their employees drive to Burnsville rather than go to therapy.

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · Mar 31

In 1874, Aaron Goodrich wrote a 500 page hatergram about how Christopher Columbus was a fraud and a huckster who'd gotten 300 years of unearned press, he couldn't captain a ship to save his life, and he was a horrible monster who enslaved abused and killed indigenous people

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

Got frustrated trying to type a long sentence into a poorly responsive web form and think I bruised one of my typing thumbs

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

A long time ago, my brother and I were making music with adopted stage names of Measles and Mumps, anyways, here's a Measles song about assholes like Charlie Kirk

on.soundcloud.com/VeK5XyCEwPcG...

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

Trump doing some sort of Omelas Sin Eater bit is maybe one of his stranger turns

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Just want to take this opportunity to remind my tens of thousands of followers that so called organic produce is a psyop by the raccoon Illuminati to sell you fruit that will go bad and end up in the garbage can faster

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

people really think like this huh

Ed
@ed3d.net
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accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.
I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

Biking about a better Summit, with @bikemn.bsky.social

A bunch of bicyclists in a parking lot, with JJ Hill House in the background

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