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Santa Erik Riese

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Ludic Rheologist. Cooperative systems design. Gamer.(not video games) Curious. Reader, mostly paper. Beard pro. Poet. Goddess. (He/They/She) Living on Dakota land near Bdote. Heart of US.

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · May 2

The middle stanza of #61 from the Tao Te Ching. (Trans. by Stephen Mitchell Harper & Row 1988)

Sounds like one of the truly great men!

A great nation is like a great man:

When he makes a mistake, he realizes it

Having realized it, he admits it.

Having admitted it, he corrects it.

He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers.

He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 1d

Loved the song. Loved Dan's take!
Eager to hear what y'all thought about FMC & BWL. (Finding Mr. Christmas & Baked With Love)

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, sums him up with clarity and accuracy.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! Love it from over across the river too!

Fall colours on the Mississippi looking west at Marshall/Lake St. bridge from St.Paul.

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 4d

I noticed that yesterday!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 8d

This episode helped me confirm my fifth minute abandonment of this movie. Thanks for your review.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 11d

Just as glorious today as yesterday.

Crescent moon rises followed by Venus just before sunrise in Minneapolis. The image shows an indigo blue sky. A house on the left and a lilac bush in the right foreground in silhouette

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 12d

Absolute kakistocrats. If I were religious I'd call this evil. But, as a reader and thinker, I'll say it's socialism.
The influence of these socialist ideas based on direct misunderstanding of facts and language is this woman's motivation. I doubt she realizes how malignant she is to our community.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 12d

Caught the glory of sunrise today. So reminiscent of my twenty years being awake at sunrise while delivering the news in Lynnhurst.

Viewing the sky to the east at sunrise. Pink, purple and orange clouds illuminated above my backyard at 0730 on 17*Oct*25.

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 12d

It's a great way to reduce the surplus.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 12d

Read this in hardcover when it came out. I finished it but remember being less than satisfied. I really wanted more on hospitality and the power of hosting.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 12d

Oooh, exciting!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, and it's from Milwaukee, starts with a wildly inaccurate caption, quotes my friend Chris Montana, who lives in Louisiana, and doesn't yet know that George Floyd was murdered.

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 17d

This is the face of kakistocracy.

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 20d

What would they teach?‽‽

The history of Christianity's impact on USofA is only positive if you're white, male, rich, European, and willing to exploit other humans and the sacred land we live on.

#morality #facts #nuance #community #jesus #christ

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20d

Minneapolis friends, it is really disturbing to me how many signs I see iin support of Becka Thompson. She is racist, thin-skinned, allergic to nuance and deep thinking, and has proved herself to be utterly ineffective and bullheaded on the Park Board. Why would she be any different on City Council?

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 20d

Where are the Real Republicans‽
How have we come to anti-dem so fast?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 24d

This is fascism people. We're living through a fascist regime. youtu.be/j8v9fP5YC6A

Fascism Hatches In America

YouTube video by Law & Society

youtu.be

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 23d

👆🏼 👆🏼 👆🏼 🎅🏼

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 23d

For goodness sake!

If ICE and the regime were targeting the "worst of the worst," they'd be bundling themselves and their bosses into these concentration facilities. Kakistocrats are going to let the "worst of the worst" lead! It's in their remit and their name!

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Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 25d

Go MO!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 27d

RAGE is tinder.
HOPE is fuel!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · 27d

That's a beautiful pair!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · Sep 28

Subtly downgrade a band:

The Talking Lips

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Sep 28

Subtly downgrade a band:

Pas Mal Jovi

CraftyArtGentleman @craftyartgentleman.bsky.social · Sep 22

subtly downgrade a band

The Velveteen Underground

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · Sep 27

I thought I'd heard you mention it!

Santa Erik Riese @santaerik.bsky.social · Sep 27

Top score on the Bechdel Test.
100% Zero men except for flashback photos. Just rewatched this because I'd been thinking about it so much.
(@aduralde.bsky.social do you remember this film?)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0102...

Strangers in Good Company (1990) ⭐ 7.6 | Adventure, Drama

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

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