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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 15h

Minneapolis after dark

view down Marquette avenue downtown with yellow and pink lights in the rain, west streets, someone walking

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Jess Myers @puckmyers.bsky.social · 16h

Overheard at the rink in Dallas just now:

"Is this a paper-less pressbox?"

"You're in Texas. This is just barely a firearm-less pressbox."

🤠

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 16h

if you are at the league of women voters ward 2 forum come get free bike lights from east bank neighborhoods! vince says they have so many!!

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 22h

Don't bother looking until they get this thing right.

Scene from the 1974 Academy Award Snubbed film "Zardoz."

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 23h

Kinda giving up on rural Minnesota? There's a US Senate seat up for grabs.

Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Family farms like John’s are the backbone of rural communities—and Trump's trade war is crushing them.

Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

America’s soybean farmers are at risk thanks to Trump’s tariffs.

Watch our newest ad—now live in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky.

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 23h

Lovely ode to Minneapolis from the Strib's Eric Roper: www.startribune.com/roper-doomsd...

Roper: Doomsday docs aside, Minneapolis’ lush urbanity makes it a special place to call home

The city blossoms in the warmer months, even when bad headlines drown out what makes it great.

www.startribune.com

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Freealonzo @freealonzo.bsky.social · 1d

University Avenue sunrise.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

That's fine, but I'm a "and a host of others" man.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite use of this word was in the mid-1970s by a college housemate who railed against the Milwaukee Brewers, (who had started out as the Seattle Pilots in 1969.)

"How can ya love a team like that? There's just no fuc*in' lore, man!"

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

When did everyone stop
saying "lore"?

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot that I took a picture fwiw...

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

I passed on the hides but did pick up a pair of boots and a pair of shoes cheap.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped by the Thorogood Boots factory outlet in Merrill, WI last week and noticed that they were were selling half hides of 2nd quality boot leather for only $50. My understanding that they source their leather from the Seidel tannery in Milwaukee. Nice stuff but way too thick for books.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I had no idea. You'd think at least one of them would change their name to "Oh, Clare."

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Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer81.bsky.social · 1d

There's 3 Eau Claire Rivers in Wisconsin, hence this place's odd name. It's an especially gorgeous park now with the Fall colors and in the late Winter/early Spring when the water's real high

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 1d

Since WCCO TV is owned by the CBS News and Stations Division, I don't think I'll be wasting my time watching until they clean up their act.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

I’ve come to the conclusion that you could file a pretty good disclosure complaint against Kupchella under Mn Statute 10A.201, subdivision 6 … except the new law is limited to state candidates. Would be good to extend to at least cities of the first class. www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cit...

Sec. 10A.201 MN Statutes

www.revisor.mn.gov

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 2d

In observance of all the TV stations interrupting local news to broadcast the US President's live remarks to the Israeli Knesset, here's a rusty old Rambler.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 2d

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The Fred Smith Concrete Park in Phillips is a stereo cameraperson's dream come true.

Glass and concrete figures of oxen, horses, dogs and people. The tall figure represents Paul Bunyan, and another shows a man driving a wagon while wearing a vintage Standard Oil gas pump crown on his head.

Multiple figures and poses, mostly facing the camera.

A team of clydesdales pulling a beer wagon.

Detail showing two clydesdales with concrete hames and telephone wire insulators as manes.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 2d

Time for some 3-D Fun Pix of our quick Wisconsin trip.
You'll need red/blue glasses to see the stereo images.

Taken with a regular camera with two exposures offset left to right. Color separations, removing the red and green/blue channels of the separate images is done in Photoshop. #birds
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