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Chris Steller
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MINNEAPOLIS ALSO: SAINT PAUL This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it.
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Now playing on Crap From The Past: "MINNESOTA" by Northern Light
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Now playing on Crap From The Past: "PULLING MUSSELS (FROM THE SHELL)" by Squeeze
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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the Strib (finally) published my correction of some funky Frey housing math that was featured in Deena’s profile of him pre-election. better late than never, i suppose
As someone who has paid close attention to housing policy for the past two decades, something jumped out when I was reading Deena Winter's profile of Frey before the election ("Can Jacob Frey triumph over his critics one more time?" Oct. 25). The article claimed one of Frey's wins was that the number of affordable units built annually in the city had "nearly tripled" from 2018 to 2022. This choice of years seemed odd to me given that it's now 2025, so 1 dug a little deeper into the city's official reports on this issue, which are titled "The Way Home." 2018 saw 593 affordable units closed, 2022 had 919. How could that be considered a "tripling" in any sense? Well, it turns out some misleading math was deployed here. Instead of comparing 2018 to 2022 directly, the average from 2011-2018 was used, needlessly dragging down the baseline with years where we were still recovering from the housing crisis. On top of that, by choosing the 919 units in 2022 as the endpoint, this talking point conveniently leaves out that 2023-24 only saw 992 units combined - for an annual average of 496 affordable units closed. Instead of our current state of affordable housing production being a near-tripling of 2018, we have seen a 16% decline. We should absolutely celebrate wins when they happen, but misrepresenting data to turn clear struggles into victory laps does a disservice to all of us still focused on finding solutions. Ryan Kennedy, Minneapolis
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I blame @swiftonsecurity.com for this genius idea
A back of a door show holder filled with cables and cable ties
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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AirBnB implies the existence of EarthBnB, WaterBnB, and FireBnB.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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FILMMAKER-A-MONTH: DECEMBER

TERRY GILLIAM

Born: November 22, 1940 in Minneapolis, MN
First feature film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Most recent feature film: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Celebrating the birth of animator and filmmaker Terry Gilliam 83 years after his arrival in a Fetus Frightening Room somewhere in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

#TerryGilliam #MontyPython
November 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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BRAZIL (1985) — 8:00 pm ET — 2h 22m
(TCM 85th Birthday Tribute: Terry Gilliam)

Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond; directed by Terry Gilliam

A clerk in a bureaucratic future world becomes an enemy of the state when he falls in love.

#TCM #TCMParty
Brazil (1985)
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November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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You absolutely do not have to hand it to anyone ever throughout history.
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Got 'em by two miles.
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International border states of the United States - Wikipedia
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November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The guards on the NJ side face each other so one can shoot the other if he tries to defect.
Short land border between nj an de.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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this is where I post from if you even care
A tiny little house with two windows on a busy street corner with the word PSYCHIC in large letters on the side and HUT on the front above the door. There is also a phone number: 832-944-2623.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Can I mute with wild cards? N*zi would cover two.
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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On Fridays we dance!
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Or how in San Francisco they refer to Rice-a-Roni as “the treat”.
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Like how here in America we refer to American cheese as just “cheese”.
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I've heard that in Ireland they just say "pub"
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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stevequick.bsky.social
So, what's the shortest border between any two states? New Jersey/Delaware is my guess.
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I’d just like to salute the availability of that data set.
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Coin telephone, c. 1960s
Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España

Seen on display last Saturday as part of a numismatics exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
A photo of a wall-mounted pay telephone with a silver exterior, black handset and rotary dial. There is a narrow window into the enclosure that allows viewing of the coins inserted, I presume?
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Sevilla Santa Justa Station, Spain
Nov. 1, 2025
1:06 pm
An interior view of a train station looking down a set of tracks that recede into the distance along with a set of ceiling arches. Travelers await a train along a platform. Clocks and signage. Grey and silver colors predominate. Image: me
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The Girl Who Lives on Notting Hill
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“59 Times the Dub”
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I grew up on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, crossing the Mississippi into Iowa all the time... so I was surprised the first time I crossed a border that wasn't a river... I was like, "This is just an imaginary line?!"
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM