RandBall’s Stu
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me listening to Alice in Chains’ Junkhead while driving to the yard waste site
millennials only want one thing and it's watching Linda Cohn and Karl Ravech calling highlights on SportsCenter for a Mark Buehrle seven-inning, one-run, nine-hit, two strikeout game against the 2003 Kansas City Royals
I would absolutely eat shit in the Criterion Closet and pick Speed 2: Cruise Control. That is a promise.
The lack of opportunity in outstate is a legitimate issue, but I'm going to guess "Come home Braelyn, they're hiring at the concentration camp" won't do the trick.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · yesterdayEdwin Coyour trolled anti-ICE protesters with signs on his truck that read "Welcome ICE" & "Deport Democrats." He wants to see his hometown prosper: “I'd like my kids to be around here. One’s in the Metro and one’s in Sioux Falls. There's nothing here for them." (4) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A cheap date night and fabulous prizes? St. Paul has it all, shitty mayor notwithstanding.
A Meat Raffle *and* Bingo? In This Economy?
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Martin County, home of ham balls, a fearsome horse/human water fountain, and Paul from Cheers.
Minnesota Counties, Ranked: Number 62, Martin County
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if i went back in time to 1950 and told my grandparents that a hamburger costs more than $0.10 they would kill themselves immediately
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3d agoAbsolutely incredible way to respond to a TPUSA college kid who said the price of a Chipotle burrito is too high. No notes from me. Hard to understand how the media company this guy leads could possibly be hemorrhaging subscribers!
Happy Anniversary. It's a day on the dock, not a day off! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgom...
Montgomery Riverfront brawl - Wikipedia
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I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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I saw a couple of mutuals wondering what good a one-month extension on the looming hemp THC ban would do. So I asked someone who knew. midwest-excellence.ghost.io/hemp-chat-wi...
Hemp Chat with Bob Galligan
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thinking back fondly to that time in 2012, 16 years into florida's charter school experiment, after almost 500 charter schools had already failed, when the republican legislature simply made it illegal to examine what happened to someone's last charter when they applied for a new one
Tampa Bay Times@tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 4d ago4 Hillsborough charter schools close amid financial, enrollment challenges
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Abby Sliva@abbysliva.bsky.social · 5d agoWisconsin I love your work
Wild GM Shooter McGavin yells at crowd, tells them to go back to their shanties
Bring Me The News@bringmethenews.bsky.social · 4d agoWild GM Bill Guerin isn’t sweating as two major offseason sagas drag on. Details: https://bringmethesports.com/guerin-preaches-patience-as-hughes-larkin-sagas-stretch-on
"Banger" is probably too hard a word for this one. You are not putting this on your running playlist. This is never going to be a Jock Jam. James Taylor would say it's a little on the gentle side. This song is allergic to guitars.
Hector Swimming Pool Bangers: 'While You See a Chance,' Steve Winwood
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"Banger" is probably too hard a word for this one. You are not putting this on your running playlist. This is never going to be a Jock Jam. James Taylor would say it's a little on the gentle side. This song is allergic to guitars.
Hector Swimming Pool Bangers: 'While You See a Chance,' Steve Winwood
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this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 5d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
We have a very small backyard so I’m pretty grateful the National Treasure thing didn’t happen.
RandBall’s Stu@randballsstu.bsky.social · 5d agoIt's August now so it's time to admit you and I are never going to get our summer projects done.
