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A. Torch
@torcho.bsky.social
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Activist, Surrealist artist, vintage shopkeeper, anti-racist. Music is life-giving.
#Jazz #Punk #CraftBeer
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#surrealism #yourbackseat #twinpeaks #STL
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Happy 16th Anniversary to @2ndshiftbrewing.bsky.social STL! Some of the best folks in the #craftbeer biz. Cheers! 🍺
Brewligans beer New England IPA with Citra and Centennial hops, hand crafted in St Louis. MO on The Hill.
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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‘Wheat Stacks, Snow Effects’, Claude Monet (1891) Getty LA collection.
Two stacks of wheat, snow on the ground, subtle snow effects on mostly one side of the wheat stacks. Bright, sunlight glimmering. Impressionist style painting.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I’ve noticed some old videos have vanished from the net. Somewhere there’s a great live performance of Little Stevie Wonder when he was about 15. Not the Ed Sullivan show. Not Fingertips part 1; but another where he’s playing the piano so wildly he falls & someone helps him back up to re-center.
Motown revue of Stevie Wonder.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Saturday morning coffee. #shopSTL #shopsmall #route66
Donut Drive-In in STL Route 66
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Well, that’s a life-long story. 😳
🐈‍⬛ 🦅
A bald eagle dropped a cat through their car windshield, destroying the windshield. And perhaps the cat.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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They got musked.
The British Royal trombone player fell down and the rest of the band did not care.
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I love @2ndshiftbrewing.bsky.social STL and their in-house artist Candyce! 😄
Retro cans, Cat Spit. Unicorn Killer and others! Party day this say day at the brewery in Sublette.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Wow! This is the first time I heard this story that Des Peres, MO would not let black folks live there in the 1960s. Robert Hyland of KMOX fame had to pull strings to get Cardinals player Bill White to get a house there. 🫠 #stlco
Bill White on a baseball card. 1960.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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He had to get out before noon. It was now or never, so I’m a softy. He seems happy.
Tan and white terrier mix dog. Sitting nicely.
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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“Blooper”.
Rescue dog
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Should that be “weak”, w e a k ?
Forbes spelling is not correct
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Vegetarian options at the Afghan Kabob House on Watson rd #stl #eatLocal
VEGETERIAN DAAL Lentils cooked with onions, tomatoes, and cilantro 16 KORMA NAKKHOD Chick pea curry served with rice or naan 11 BORANI BANDINJAN Eggplant cooked with garlic & tomatoes topped with yogurt & dried mint. Served with rice or naan 12 SABZI Spinach sauteed with fresh cilantro, garlic, herbs and spices served with naan or rice 12 GULPEE Cauliflower cooked with onions fresh tomatoes, herbs and spices, served with naan or rice
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The miniature museum on Gravois was missed this time, but another business 3 blocks down was run into by a vehicle. I think that would be 5 cars into buildings on that stretch in the past 2 years. Maybe I have lost count…? 🧐 #stl
Building smashed by a car on Gravois near Taft Ave.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Another Epstein/Trump Survivor breaks her silence tonight on MS (formerly MSNBC). She was sent to Mar-a-lago to be trafficked. She is still shaking, it’s horrific.
Survivor speaking
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Sounds like the older variants of corn (maize) are needed. The comment section sheds a little more light. I don’t know if this is an acceptable name either so I’ll leave the first comment below:
@j….. poster says: I'm Native American and my tribe has been trying to reclaim our ancestral corn. Your first attempt to make the pudding isn't because of recipe vagueness or wrong technique. It's simply because modern GMO cornmeal isn't anything like ….
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I wonder if Higgins has ever let a wandering teen live with him like …. um, Speaker Johnson and disgraced Matt Gaetz? #trump
Johnson sort of adopted a homeless kid he found, lived with the 14 year old. Matt G also took in a boy he found.
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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It’s looking good on HR bill 4405. So far only one NAY. #epstein 🍊
Epstein bill motion. Only one no with only a couple voters remaining.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Retiring a few protest signs that got beat-up in the rain this year. New ones for the winter, switching to plasticore. #goodtrouble
There is a Class War, join the fight.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“Shaka….. When the energy comes down.”
“Make the donuts?”
“Make the donuts… when the energy comes down.” #STNG 🤔
Carbon from Star Trek speaking in odd metaphors. Donald just demented.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“Shaka….. When the energy comes down.”
“Make the donuts?”
“Make the donuts… when the energy comes down.” #STNG 🤔
Darmok on Star Trek Next Gen with Picard. Speaking in riddles
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Hmm, I’m sure most of Texas will be happy to go back with Mexico, right? Then we can have a Gulf of Oklahoma.
Stress fracture in the earth. California fault lines, diagonal through Texas. New Madrid area also problematic.
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Such an odd looking name/rebranding. If you aren’t a news junkie, some might think it’s an MS advocacy related group. 🫠
MS Now. The new name for MSNBC News
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Your #backseat for the night is a 1937 DeSoto. #yourbackseat
Plush, beige colored couch-like long seat, probably could fit 6 average humans. Maybe a tiny kitten too.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The Garden Shop on Hampton still has some bulbs and a few other ornamental, late year plants available. #stl
Blue Trophy Hyacinth bulbs
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Seems like several folks/animals were called Bubba. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HuffPost states : Mark Epstein told Newsweek that the Bubba referred to in that email is not Clinton, and Mark Epstein's rep told the Advocate that the Bubba in the email refers to a "private individual who is not a public figure."
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM