Gus Dahlberg
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Domestic relations attorney. Dad Band warbler. Public school parent. Lifelong nerd. Leave the world better than you found it.
Columbus, OH. #Crew96
this machine begs for luck
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Columbus, OH. #Crew96
this machine begs for luck
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This was always a concern for us as our kids were growing up, for the baseball/softballers, in particular. I think we handled it okay but I was always amazed at how far some parents were willing to push their kids.
Thinking alot about this with a middleschooler involved in multiple sports that are demanding an increasing amount of time and commitment www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/b...
As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This was always a concern for us as our kids were growing up, for the baseball/softballers, in particular. I think we handled it okay but I was always amazed at how far some parents were willing to push their kids.
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Columbus: this is a clear signal that Trump will be sending his Gestapo our way in large numbers come mid-March. We need to be prepared for it. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for Somali immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.
Somali immigrants in the U.S. with TPS must leave the country by March 17, she said. nbcnews.to/3LscuRW
Somali immigrants in the U.S. with TPS must leave the country by March 17, she said. nbcnews.to/3LscuRW
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Columbus: this is a clear signal that Trump will be sending his Gestapo our way in large numbers come mid-March. We need to be prepared for it. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
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yes, "other people exist, they might disagree with you, you should have a strategy for dealing with them" is "standing up for being mealy mouthed."
go outside and talk to a real person for once
go outside and talk to a real person for once
still standing up for being mealy-mouthed in an era where the republican president is a brain melted fascist ogre who says things every single day that were politically unspeakable not even ten years before is a complete failure of imagination
January 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
yes, "other people exist, they might disagree with you, you should have a strategy for dealing with them" is "standing up for being mealy mouthed."
go outside and talk to a real person for once
go outside and talk to a real person for once
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
after unwisely watching the MPLS shooting video, thinking that might be enough internet for me for one day. Will probably just read the newspaper later.
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
after unwisely watching the MPLS shooting video, thinking that might be enough internet for me for one day. Will probably just read the newspaper later.
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It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
I know we keep saying it but WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I know we keep saying it but WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK
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Another day, another gazillion false claims by bigots against Americans from Somalia who take care of children.
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Another day, another gazillion false claims by bigots against Americans from Somalia who take care of children.
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
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This is powerful footage because of what it depicts, but also because of the way the arrest interrupts our expectations of the on-the-street interview; which makes the arrest more shocking both for its brazenness and the way it impacts the viewer.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is powerful footage because of what it depicts, but also because of the way the arrest interrupts our expectations of the on-the-street interview; which makes the arrest more shocking both for its brazenness and the way it impacts the viewer.
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I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Do you dispute their description of maduro’s rule?
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
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I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
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NYT editorial board, in an extensive and reflective piece, calls the period we are now living in "a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
NYT editorial board, in an extensive and reflective piece, calls the period we are now living in "a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson grew up evangelical but isn’t anymore; the film was “a way for me to take both of those perspectives inside me and get them talking with each other”. [kottke.org]
Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man
Along with Sinners and One Battle After Another,1 Wake Up Dead Man is one of my favorite films of the year. So I enjoyed director Rian Johnson breaking down the investigative scene in the bar in this Vanity Fair video.
kottke.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson grew up evangelical but isn’t anymore; the film was “a way for me to take both of those perspectives inside me and get them talking with each other”. [kottke.org]
this is going around elsewhere and it's obviously stupid beyond imagination, but I confess that my mouth dropped open in wonder at the allegation that the 1990s - the decade that birthed THE MATRIX, X-FILES and Oliver Stone's JFK, among other such wondrous conspiratorial delights, was "optimistic"
Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
December 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
this is going around elsewhere and it's obviously stupid beyond imagination, but I confess that my mouth dropped open in wonder at the allegation that the 1990s - the decade that birthed THE MATRIX, X-FILES and Oliver Stone's JFK, among other such wondrous conspiratorial delights, was "optimistic"
timely read for me today, both on its own terms and in the larger context of "what other devices are you maybe using as a crutch in your writing?"
A late counterproposal, to a suggestion that I write "more traditional" songs. I will probably continue to edit this post as I think through the issue. But I provide some I think new and unique takes on the matter.
stlenox.com/2025/12/29/t...
stlenox.com/2025/12/29/t...
The Tyranny of Rhyme and Metaphor in Songwriting
A number of years ago, when I was beginning to write my own songs, a fellow songwriter confronted me very seriously about my writing, telling me that I should have a go at writing more “tradi…
stlenox.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
timely read for me today, both on its own terms and in the larger context of "what other devices are you maybe using as a crutch in your writing?"
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Reading this at the same time I’m rewatching WAKE UP DEAD MAN and at the exact moment of Blanc’s first appearance in the church, fantastic lighting through the church windows as they have the sun shine on O’Connor at a particular moment in his monologue. Gorgeous.
DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reading this at the same time I’m rewatching WAKE UP DEAD MAN and at the exact moment of Blanc’s first appearance in the church, fantastic lighting through the church windows as they have the sun shine on O’Connor at a particular moment in his monologue. Gorgeous.
Best bit.
It's a Wonderful Life "I Love You Truly"
YouTube video by Steven Bishel
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Best bit.
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Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex
I like this. Hooray for the collar! #crew96
Columbus Crew 2026 Home Kit Leaked - Full Look - Footy Headlines share.google/Gm1VOldzWXdJ...
Columbus Crew 2026 Home Kit Leaked - Full Look
Update: Footy Headlines can give you a full look at the new Columbus Crew 2026 home uniform, which marks a clear return to classic club aesthetics by drawing direct inspiration from the Crew’s 2012-13...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I like this. Hooray for the collar! #crew96
As is tradition, here's the greatest video of John Denver and a talking piano-playing dog singing the very best Christmas song that has ever been or ever will be written, praise be and pass the eggnog.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Bluesky. Next year all our troubles will seem miles away.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Bluesky. Next year all our troubles will seem miles away.
John Denver and Rowlf the Dog - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
YouTube video by Enrico Banson
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As is tradition, here's the greatest video of John Denver and a talking piano-playing dog singing the very best Christmas song that has ever been or ever will be written, praise be and pass the eggnog.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Bluesky. Next year all our troubles will seem miles away.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Bluesky. Next year all our troubles will seem miles away.
fucking hell, I just went to put a thing on my calendar for next month and discovered that Past Me thought it would be funny to put on a reminder for the exact day Present Me would cross the @brimleyline.bsky.social
it was not funny, btw
it was not funny, btw
December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
fucking hell, I just went to put a thing on my calendar for next month and discovered that Past Me thought it would be funny to put on a reminder for the exact day Present Me would cross the @brimleyline.bsky.social
it was not funny, btw
it was not funny, btw
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I never thought the Leopards would eat My Face, cries ardent supporter & opportunistic political hack of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
Even Ramaswamy getting queasy with the right-wing obsession with “heritage.”
“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
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“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
www.foxnews.com/media/vivek-...
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I never thought the Leopards would eat My Face, cries ardent supporter & opportunistic political hack of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party