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Laurel Krahn

@windowseat.bsky.social

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Polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 critic, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, grey-ace, Minnesotan. Masked & vaxxed. Tired. (She/her) Widow as of 11/12/24 💔 Contact, links, help: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn Sports talk: wintwins.bsky.social

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Jun 28

New pinned post/thread. 🧵

Contact info, wishlist, ways to send support:
linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn

My husband of 19 years @kevingaustin.bsky.social passed away suddenly on 11/11/24; our cats died that year too & my parents in the year before that & it is A LOT. 💔

I do post about other stuff too...

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matthew @pahuski.com · 3h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 29m

What I would like to see:

- bury Columbus Day
- celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day
- add a new, separate holiday: Columbo Day

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 20m

hey buddy

The Sparkles of Dr. Caligari @dragonsworn.net · 1h

The incredibly rare giant furry inchworm in his natural habitat

Charlie, a brindle corgi, stretched out flat and floppy on the back of a plushy orange sofa. He looks like a legless worm with giant ears. How does he balance up there? Nobody knows.

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 7h

Treat Yo'self

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

www.youtube.com

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 6h

Truly ridiculous human being.

Prince - Johnny B. Good - Acoustic

YouTube video by Roy Canuti

www.youtube.com

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 7h

RIP david johansen you'd have loved cool whip on aisle 26 across from the frozen potatoes

ceej @ceej.online · 15h

the midwest

grocery store sign that reads “COOL WHIP IS
LOCATED IN AISLE 26
ACROSS FROM THE FROZEN POTATOES!” there’s also a sticker that reads “HOT! HOT!! HOT!!!”

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 7h

oh no

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7h

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

www.rightmove.co.uk

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 7h

Music for you.

Prince - Dear Mr. Man (Live At Webster Hall - April 20, 2004)

YouTube video by princevevo

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

Well. Fuck. This unleashed it all. 😭

Gavin Creel singing Stephen Sondheim’s “What Can You Lose” from Dick Tracy.

“This is my favorite Sondheim song ever written,” Gavin says in the January 2011 video. “For me, in my heart, this is the greatest.”

Gavin Creel | What Can You Lose

YouTube video by BartonGMiami

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 9h

I loved this soundtrack.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · May 18

Occasional reminder: Dick Tracy (1990) includes music by Sondheim, sung by Madonna (and Mandy Patinkin), in a movie starring Warren Beatty and featuring Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Catherine O’Hara.

It’s the sort of thing that sounds like a fever dream if you don’t know about it.

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 17h

Walked by a guy, hunky, in gym clothes, with his bro, hunky, also in gym clothes, who said, in the most SoCal accent possible, “It’s not a kind of sitch where you normally RSVP but I don’t want to be rude so I’m going to fucking RSVP” & I hope this is a new Jane Austen project.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 22h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck Columbus it's Mrs Columbo Day

TV Guide cover featuring Kate Mulgrew as Mrs Columbo and the caption Here comes Columbo's wife.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 11h

New Matilda picture was just posted.

www.instagram.com/matilda.muno...

Izandra 🔪🩸 @izandra.bsky.social · 11h

Seattle’s closer Andrés Muñoz is a super cat dad. His girl is Matilda and has her own IG account.

Muñoz pitching in Seattle’s navy and silver uniform. A photoshopped white Persian cat with a Seattle baseball cap sits near his back foot.

A navy baseball mitt with an embroidered cross-looking white Persian cat and the name “Matilda”

A navy baseball mitt with white kitty paws embroidered on it

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 11h

hey buddy

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 19h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 11h

hey buddies

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11h

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 11h

These leaves will be clogging the storm drains in a couple weeks but they are incredible against the blue evening sky

Evening walk
A blue cloudless sky
Leaves revealing their reddish colors on the top part of a tree

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13h

Belated PSA for non-baseball fans on here:

If people start yelling "DUMPER" or "BIG DUMPER" or things having to do with dumps, it's probably a baseball thing. (Unless it isn't.) (There is a big baseball game happening on FOX. Mariners vs. Blue Jays.)

a baseball player swings his bat at a ball in front of a crowd with a banner that says coca cola

Alt: words BIG DUMPER with a baseball player (Cal Raleigh) swinging the bat hard and probably hitting a homerun

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13h

"Diane Keaton hated it when her mother, a housewife and amateur photographer, told her she had a pretty smile. And she hated it when a teacher complimented her on a pretty dress. 'I was old enough to understand that pretty was a poor cousin to beautiful,” she writes. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13h

I was going to do something productive today and instead I wrote 7K+ words of fanfic. I mean, it's productive in one particular area I guess . . .

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13h

Good thread.

This Minneapolis resident will be ranking (for mayor, in this order):

1. DeWayne Davis
2. Omar Fateh
3. Jazz Hampton

Let's go, we need a new mayor.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 19h

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 20h

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, how cool. Congratulations, David!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

When Trump was elected, I decided I would try to put my column writing energy towards somewhere local. I wanted to write in my communities about stuff that was happening.

Not all plans work out, but this one seems to be so far. I am looking forward to a slightly more formal process.

Meet the 4 new contributing columnists we’re adding to our refreshed roster

Strib Voices is welcoming writers who will focus on Gen Z perspectives, menopause, disabilities and other issues. They will join four voices from our inaugural group returning for a second year.

www.startribune.com

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