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Stacey Burns

@wentrogue.bsky.social

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Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder." Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 6d

And I say that as a diehard DFL caucus goer, voter, sicko, etc

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I *was* getting that vibe from the article but that may have been the Strib’s simplistic framing

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 4h

I know there are many pro-choice Catholics; Melissa Hortman was one. I’d like to think that most of these folks are, but I’d be shocked if that were the case. Abortion rights supporters don’t repeatedly refer to themselves as “prolife.” But as you say, it doesn’t really matter.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h

"I defended Lance Armstrong so you can definitely trust my opinion on morally repugnant figures" is the Sally Jenkins brand

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 7h

Save the planet. Ask me your stupid questions instead of ai and give me $10. I'll get it right 20-40% of the time and I require very little water

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 7h

Laundromats should hang up posters of Bebe with this quote the way movie theaters play that PSA from Melvin Van Peebles telling patrons to put their phones away and watch the film.

“You paid your bread; let’s watch the whole thing. Together. Don’t make me mad.”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 9h

If the DFL were smart…

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Doubtful Ghost 👻 @doubtful-guest.bsky.social · 9h

Is bribery illegal? I have a degree from Yale Law School.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖞𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕯️ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · 2d

please stop selling good songs to bad commercials! we don't wanna see "take on me" in a medicine commercial or "I want you to want me" in a commercial about butter

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 10h

everyone is saying

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

It takes longer to taxi to the gate at ORD than it took to fly here from Cedar Rapids, this comment is only a slight exaggeration from the truth

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Andy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 11h

A-plus sign

Hand-written sign that says “U had yer Lurnin. Lettuce hav Hours”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

In case I ever get a tattoo

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon

Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11h

all of diane keaton's glasses need to be preserved by a museum or the library of congress or something

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11h

The eponymous "Simpsons", featuring the titular family of the same name

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

the scene that plays out several times a day when you have three cats

a close up of a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigarette .

Alt: The good, the bad, and the ugly in their standoff, with a tabby added to the gif

media.tenor.com

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

ohhhhhhhhhh! what balm!

Have you settled on a name yet? It took us a few days with Willie (we knew Lola’s name immediately because she was obviously a Lola, and Gerald came from the shelter with his perfect name.)

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

Minnesota and Texas are true rivals in terms of chauvinism. I’d love to know the percentage of each population with state-shaped tattoos etched into their bodies.

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

“If you’re pro-life you really need to be voting for gun reform,” says one very sincere parent

You really need to be thinking about what a nonsense term that is, actually

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11h

Strib article about Annunciation families coping with ongoing trauma of last month’s massacre finally spells out that these families are “pro-life” by which they mean anti-abortion by which they mean lacking perspective and compassion beyond what’s in front of them

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 12h

“The whole situation has led to distrust and Facebook arguments.”

Oh, I can imagine.

Also: it costs an average of $22K a year to send an infant to daycare in Minnesota; the next nearest childcare center is 25 miles from Slayton.

Also too: UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE WHEN?

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13h

Incredible own-throat-slitting in Murray County, Minnesota, where a church evicted a Slayton child care center, and the county was set to approve a $750,000 loan … until Slayton’s commissioner changed her mind. She later declined to comment. www.startribune.com/minnesota-co...

This Minnesota county is on the verge of losing its only child care center

Officials in the town of Slayton worry about a lack of day care affecting the local workforce and economy. It’s a stark example of a crisis playing out across rural Minnesota.

www.startribune.com

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna tell my kids this was the Parthenon

The former Star Trubune building, now demolished, which in no way resembles the Parthenon

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 12h

so I refined my search terms

Search two, AI results at head of search:

The phrase "minnesota star tribune parthenon centuries free of scaffolding" is the result of conflating two separate events that were both covered by the Star Tribune. It refers to the removal of scaffolding from the actual Parthenon in Greece and the 2016 removal of scaffolding from the Minnesota State Capitol building.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 12h

I was trying to find this story online because the print headline amused me ever so slightly, which is how I learned that Google (via AI) is out there informing people that the former Strib building looked like the Parthenon.