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Tom Elko

@tomelko.bsky.social

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All-season camping enthusiast, canoe dancer, communicator. Social impact at seiche.works.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Oct 3

This seems fine but I'd like to get my hands on a printing press.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 8d

Regular fall reminder for leaf peeping on the North Shore: You can see pretty leaves on both sides of the road if you turn left off Hwy 61. It's called the Superior National Forest. It's great.

www.startribune.com/up-the-north...

‘More and more and more’ leaf-peepers stress state parks along North Shore

State parks such as Tettegouche are seeing double their typical weekend visitors.

www.startribune.com

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 9d

It's Billy String Cheese Incident for me.

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 10d

Cinematic. Theatrical, perhaps.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 12d

Is that bad lighting? I'm not a lighting expert, but it doesn't look like good lighting.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 12d

Skoal Kodiak

Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 12d

#MNUFC is promising a "surprise live on-field performance" at halftime on Saturday, by a "nationally acclaimed, Minnesotan, fan favorite recording artist."

Who's it going to be? Wrong answers only.

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Derrick O'Keefe @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 14d

THE GOOD CANADIAN premieres today on CBC & APTN, also available on CBC Gem & APTN Lumi. I hope you will take the time to watch this important movie that connects the dots between the injustices faced by Indigenous people. Proud to have been a researcher on this project.

#truthandreconciliation

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 19d

London Fog?

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 19d

I met the guy who cloned a sheep inside of Moos.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 20d

Fun story featuring @brianquarstad.bsky.social!

It’s Joncacaf @jonarnoldfc.bsky.social · 20d

Minnesota loves its loons. No, really. A lot.

While it seems like a no-brainer in hindsight, the state bird was the perfect uniting symbol for #MNUFC from its launch through the present.

I spoke to Dr. Bill McGuire, Brian Quarstad & a loon expert to learn more: www.mlssoccer.com/news/minneso...

Minnesota United FC: Uniting the state through an iconic symbol | MLSSoccer.com

Maybe you just have to be from Minnesota to really get it. Plenty of soccer teams have a pregame ritual. A cherished old pop song here. A boom-boom clap there. Minnesota United, though, kick off with ...

www.mlssoccer.com

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 21d

@zerodice.bsky.social

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Jon @jonmbauer.bsky.social · 22d

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 22d

so, so (complimentary)

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 23d

This is just to say

You can have
the plums
that are in
the icebox

Really, help yourself
so many plums

The interior of a refrigerator with a very large glass bowl full of plums and other items.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 25d

A full double rainbow stretches across a rainy sky.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 25d

When the things you turn to for distraction are also bad.

Andy Greder @andygreder.bsky.social · 25d

News: #MNUFC players Kelvin Yeboah (hamstring) and Carlos Harvey (knee) have regular-season ending injuries, head coach Eric Ramsay said Friday.

Context: #Loons have four matches left over the next month before beginning MLS Cup Playoffs. A big blow coming off US Open Cup exit.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 27d

In 2019 Heath sat Darwin Quintero, our top scorer, until the 70th minute. We lost 2-1.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 28d

Really counting on the coach to start our best player this time.

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · 28d

Kidnapping of Virginia Piper | MNopedia

On July 27, 1972, two armed, masked men walked into the Orono home of Virginia Lewis Piper and walked out with the forty-nine-year-old woman handcuffed and blindfolded. The next day, her husband, Harr...

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · Sep 11

If Tony Sanneh came around today he'd be a $75m center back subject to a bidding war between Real Madrid, Barcelona, Man City & PSG.

6-foot-3, built like a brick shithouse, but somehow the softest feet and a pure liquid athlete.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.

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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

US inflation accelerated in August at a speed that is likely to keep the Fed cautious about lowering borrowing costs too quickly once it restarts cuts as soon as next week. Monthly CPI rose 0.4% and is up 2.9% YoY. Core prices rose 0.3% or 3.1% annually

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is incredible.

jeff @fittedsweats.bsky.social · Sep 10

This documents every time Husker Du and/or The Replacements played on the same day that the Minnesota Vikings did. Your drivers license could be taken away if you don’t read this.

The Replacements, Husker Du, & The Minnesota Vikings

Wait, what?

open.substack.com

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Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ah, yes, biking to Aveda on that road can't be easy.

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Sep 9

Rollingstone.

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Sep 8

Was not kidding.

Tom Elko @tomelko.bsky.social · Oct 3

This seems fine but I'd like to get my hands on a printing press.