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Joey McAllister

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Mostly organic material and a series of vibrations registering as sound. Abides in the liminal space between the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, where nothing is quite real and anything is possible. Drums, mandolin. Rarely at the same time.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · Oct 11

The universe winds down. That's how it's made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

~ John M. Ford

Electrolite: De vermis.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

Just maybe, y’know, don’t turn into a McCarthy character.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

Many do! Love what you love!

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

We never should’ve invented boats. The oceans are there for a reason.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

Can you EVEN IMAGINE living in a society where differently gendered people take on community roles that are best suited for their entire experiences and are respected for their specialities?

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

We should do table rugs again.

Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 4h

Gabriël Metsu, a contemporary of Vermeer, depicts a fashionably-dressed man writing a letter with a quill pen, his face and hands highlighted by light streaming in from the open window. A richly decorated Persian rug covers the table (1666, Nat Gallery Ireland)

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Bigots

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

Finds Them and Kills Them as a band name feels like cultural appropriation so I’m just going to say that someone for whom that is not cultural appropriation should absolutely start that band because that name is rad as hell.

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 10h

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

I’ve recently read the first four Ivy & Bean books with 4yo. Looking forward to the next one.

So.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

About 10 years ago, someone about 10 years younger than me told me his favorite author was Cormac McCarthy.

His story is not mine to tell, but let’s just say that his life since then has been the life of a young Cormac McCarthy fan.

I do not have a cold @septicshockingpink.bsky.social · 5h

everyone at a certain age just starts reading books called, like, 'the nice man in the cosy book cafe with finger warmers and fresh bread'. no one over fifty has time for blood meridian.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 11h

We’ve got it all backwards. Youth lit should be all Thomas Hardy and On the Beach, because the youth can handle it - everything feels that dire to them. Grownups should get more cute little stories that end well.

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I do not have a cold @septicshockingpink.bsky.social · 5h

everyone at a certain age just starts reading books called, like, 'the nice man in the cosy book cafe with finger warmers and fresh bread'. no one over fifty has time for blood meridian.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 6h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5h

[Professor Farnsworth voice]: "Good news, everyone !"

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 9h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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watertigernyc @watertigernyc.bsky.social · 1d

I missed Caturday, so enjoy this.

A close up of a cat, with a man in the background. The tweet says, "I have absolutely no idea who this dude is. Just wandered in."

Someone replies, "Choosing to read this from the POV of the cat"

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 7h

That does sound like baseball.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 8h

The Strib’s Karen Tolkkinen has devoted column after column after column to her stubborn belief that trans kids are destroying opportunities for girls to compete in sports at school.

It’s her weird mission. She’s fucking obsessed.

Anyway, great letter from Max Maher today.

Karen Tolkkinen's column "Transgender athletes should not compete with girls, but everyone deserves a place to play" (StarTribune.com, Oct. 9) builds its case on emotion, not evi-dence. She acknowledges that "nobody knows how common" transgender athletes are in Minnesota, yet argues for restrictive policies anyway. That's not fairness; that's fear.

There's also no evidence that transgender participation has taken opportunities from anyone. The Minnesota State High School League already reviews eligibility case by case to ensure both inclusion and competitive balance. The system is working as intended - quietly and responsibly.

The idea that girls are being forced to sacrifice is a political talking point, not a measurable fact. What's really being asked of us is whether we believe every student deserves a place to belong, even those whose identity or experience we may not fully understand.

High school sports were never just about winning. They teach teamwork, discipline and self-respect, lessons that lose meaning if we start excluding students who simply want to play. Protecting opportunity for all young people is how we strengthen fairness, not weaken it.

MAX MAHER, Plymouth

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 20h

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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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 12h

if you restrict basically basically all literature written in the past 50 years to one class called “Contemporary Literature” and then not let students take it until their senior year of high school, you doing them an immense disservice and are going to make them hate reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15h

don't make it your whole personality but the thing you're supposed to like is sometimes definitely not something you're ever, ever going to like, even if it's well-constructed and diligently executed

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 16h

James Thurber’s ‘13 Clocks’ is the best fairytale ever written.

And no, I will not be taking any questions at this time.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 18h

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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