A bee shake
@velvetwaterfront.bsky.social
A thirty-something trying their best in Minneapolis. I watch movies, cook, and play GAA
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Now that TikTok has changed ownership in the U.S., it's as good a time as ever to again say how much I truly hate algospeak euphemisms like "unalived" and whatnot. I wish people would knock that off.
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Now that TikTok has changed ownership in the U.S., it's as good a time as ever to again say how much I truly hate algospeak euphemisms like "unalived" and whatnot. I wish people would knock that off.
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Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
January 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
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There’s video of them ICE murder that just happened in Minneapolis. 5 agents wrestling a man to the ground. A shot goes off and then an agent pulls and fires multiple times into the man as he lays there. It’s so fucked. So so fucked.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
There’s video of them ICE murder that just happened in Minneapolis. 5 agents wrestling a man to the ground. A shot goes off and then an agent pulls and fires multiple times into the man as he lays there. It’s so fucked. So so fucked.
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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The median Minneapolis moderate right now is like “GET THESE CRIMINAL GHOULS OUT OF OUR CITY” and working arm-in-arm with DSA. People not from here cannot comprehend the degree of factional rancor that instantly evaporated when the men with masks showed up
January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The median Minneapolis moderate right now is like “GET THESE CRIMINAL GHOULS OUT OF OUR CITY” and working arm-in-arm with DSA. People not from here cannot comprehend the degree of factional rancor that instantly evaporated when the men with masks showed up
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them
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A lot of non-Minnesotans are asking how they can help people in the Twin Cities. Here's a very easy way that will cost you absolutely nothing.
Do not vent in the replies to videos or other posts from Minnesotans.
We're all on edge, and your rageposting and doomposting isn't what we need right now.
Do not vent in the replies to videos or other posts from Minnesotans.
We're all on edge, and your rageposting and doomposting isn't what we need right now.
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
A lot of non-Minnesotans are asking how they can help people in the Twin Cities. Here's a very easy way that will cost you absolutely nothing.
Do not vent in the replies to videos or other posts from Minnesotans.
We're all on edge, and your rageposting and doomposting isn't what we need right now.
Do not vent in the replies to videos or other posts from Minnesotans.
We're all on edge, and your rageposting and doomposting isn't what we need right now.
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There’s reports that there will be 1,000 more agents coming to our city. We need that same surge in residents out patrolling our streets. Even if you can’t patrol, come work from a coffee shop on one of cultural corridors so you can be there to show up for our neighbors.
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 AM
There’s reports that there will be 1,000 more agents coming to our city. We need that same surge in residents out patrolling our streets. Even if you can’t patrol, come work from a coffee shop on one of cultural corridors so you can be there to show up for our neighbors.
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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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the US will do anything but redesign roads to make speeding harder.
Oh, well, when you say it like that, how could I or anyone possibly object, it seems as inevitable as it does innocent, and that's why I love American newspapers
A Police Drone Might Be Behind Your Next Ticket
Law enforcement is expanding the use of remotely controlled drones despite concerns of civil liberties groups.
www.wsj.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
the US will do anything but redesign roads to make speeding harder.
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Gen Z sees what was taken from them
December 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Gen Z sees what was taken from them
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One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the best to ever do it
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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 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
It's that time of year again. That time when I insist on putting basketball on TV during Christmas at the Midwestern in-laws place when the NFL is also on
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's that time of year again. That time when I insist on putting basketball on TV during Christmas at the Midwestern in-laws place when the NFL is also on
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we’re scrolling around HBO and found AZTEC BATMAN and i need everyone to see Conquistador El Joker
December 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
we’re scrolling around HBO and found AZTEC BATMAN and i need everyone to see Conquistador El Joker
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
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my activated lizard brain:
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
my activated lizard brain:
Dude on the left is getting a free case of whatever beer he wants from me if I see him outside a liquor store for sure
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Dude on the left is getting a free case of whatever beer he wants from me if I see him outside a liquor store for sure
The fact that Marshawn Lynch emphatically states "The Holocaust. It happened" in Bottoms (a film that, like most teen comedies, doesn't and shouldn't care to explore immigration dynamics) as if it's a statement that a teacher would have to clarify is evidence enough to me of a generational divide
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that Marshawn Lynch emphatically states "The Holocaust. It happened" in Bottoms (a film that, like most teen comedies, doesn't and shouldn't care to explore immigration dynamics) as if it's a statement that a teacher would have to clarify is evidence enough to me of a generational divide
There are a lot of terrible people in Hollywood. By all accounts that I know, Rob Reiner was a genuinely good person and a real mensch. He aimed to make his sets functional workplaces where people felt comfortable and safe (insane that that's rare). RIP to an icon who made some of my favorite films
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
There are a lot of terrible people in Hollywood. By all accounts that I know, Rob Reiner was a genuinely good person and a real mensch. He aimed to make his sets functional workplaces where people felt comfortable and safe (insane that that's rare). RIP to an icon who made some of my favorite films
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