Laurel Krahn

Laurel Krahn

@windowseat.bsky.social

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Polymath, web pioneer, former TV critic, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, ace, Minneapolis resident. Still careful about COVID. (She/her)

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This Ms. Marvel POP is adorable (& currently on sale for $4.99): amzn.to/45URYz6

There’s a 120 foot long dead tree blocking the channel my parents’ home is on (on Lake Minnetonka) & neither the DNR or the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District can help even with recommendations on who one could hire to remove the tree. So weird. We’re just on our own to figure it out, I guess.

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The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

Are there viable affordable options for renting a dumpster for a week in south Minneapolis? I feel like it would be awkward AF here on Bryant Avenue S and wonder if hiring people to haul away junk is a better option. I dunno. We have too much stuff & too few spoons to deal with it.

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Regular people are going to remember how Trump emboldened the worst people in their families and communities by the time the election rolls around and it's going to be bad for Trump. Four years is just long enough for them to forget, but they'll remember quickly. I've been saying this for years.

i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

One major party candidate is more unfit and unsuitable than the other by A LOT, but it is not the one being discussed everywhere and this seems like a problem. (There are so very many problems.)

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did she shoot them

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deleted

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deletedwww.theguardian.com Error messages shown on Facebook and Twitter pages for South Dakota governor plagued by dog-killing admission

Just tried Sky Follower Bridge again, to see if it could help me find more folks I followed on the bird app over here. There are extensions for Chrome & for Firefox. Handy! (I no longer follow everyone, instead tend to put people on a list at first.) github.com/kawamataryo/...

GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky.github.com Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge

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1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

Posted a thread on the bad place plugging this place again. What are your favorite guides or tools to share with folks to try to get them here? I mostly just plug what features are now available & point out that lots of folks from there have moved here. (Also may mention bad things re bad place.)

I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna put versions of this song in a thread for as long as I remember to do it (& find fun versions) because we all need a little more joy in our lives. #TMBGBirdhouseThread

I should really listen to some version of “Birdhouse in Your Soul” every day, seems like it would be good for me. (You may also consider this a They Might Be Giants appreciation post. <3 )

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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

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"Again" implies we ever stopped.

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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I had a very nice visit with Rachel Hutton from the StarTribune. Thanks to her for the great write up. strib.gift/ch851wd6e

Minnesota’s go-to guy for baseball-glove repair revives a rare artstrib.gift Nationally, there’s nothing like his memorabilia-filled workshop-slash-baseball-geek hub.

A link from someone who is on team "give every good song a full brass section" and I would love folks who are part of that team to share more performances. <3

I'm really fond of this radio session of the Mountain Goats' "This Year" for that reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Iu...

The Mountain Goats - This Year (opbmusic)www.youtube.com Subscribe to receive all our session videos!The Mountain Goats play "This Year" at the Aladdin Theater for opbmusic, Portland, OR, 12-16-12. Full session at:...

I should really listen to some version of “Birdhouse in Your Soul” every day, seems like it would be good for me. (You may also consider this a They Might Be Giants appreciation post. <3 )

It is Doc Severinsen’s 97th birthday today, something I didn’t realize when I initially posted a link to the video but maybe that’s what prompted the clip to circulate elsewhere.

A clip from that time They Might Be Giants performed “Birdhouse in Your Soul” on the Tonight Show with Doc & the band is going around the other place & made me realize I somehow missed this performance back then. It is amazing. youtu.be/_zkRjrGmTl4

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 04/03/1990)youtu.be There's another copy of this on youtube but it seems to be of slightly lower quality. This is ripped straight from the Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns DVD. Thi...

Folks who go to the estate sale for my folks’ stuff (that isn’t sold at auction) might be able to buy choice stuff like this framed poster that hung in my room when I was a kid.

Both the TMBG post and the comment on Project 2025 post are getting likes and reposts and I’m rooting for the TMBG with Doc and the band clip to be more popular.

I’ve seen posts going around spelling out what the Project 2025 plan is, with the assumption that anyone who sees it will reject it & go against anyone espousing it but I know of far too many evangelicals who’d see it & think it is awesome & become more motivated to vote for people who are for it.

We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

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Y'all need to buy @swordsjew.bsky.social new book, which I am referencing here cause I don't think you fully understand the depth and breadth of the evangelical right's depraved, evil agenda and stranglehold on the country. Talia lays it all out. It is *essential* reading for all Americans.

Project 2025 is a creation of Evangelicals and it's the core mission of the evangelical right. It's what major evangelical organizations have been building towards for decades. It's not fringe. (I just fact checked a whole book a out this.)

Wild Faithwww.hachettebookgroup.com From the author of Culture Warlords, a sweeping investigation of the Christian-right that scrutinizes the toxic religious and political forces that are shapi...

A clip from that time They Might Be Giants performed “Birdhouse in Your Soul” on the Tonight Show with Doc & the band is going around the other place & made me realize I somehow missed this performance back then. It is amazing. youtu.be/_zkRjrGmTl4

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 04/03/1990)youtu.be There's another copy of this on youtube but it seems to be of slightly lower quality. This is ripped straight from the Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns DVD. Thi...

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OK, so this week: - UK Tories wiped out (I know, I know) - Iran votes in a reform PM (I know, I know) - France does this Sometimes, folks, there are glimmers.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

The corner of my brother’s bedroom when he was very little had this apple tree. Green paint on wall, fake apples affixed to the wall as well as hanging from the ceiling on fishing line. (Would you believe they found a few of the apples still on fishing line in the house? Of course they did.)

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A) Incredible B) Would be even better if it included the spoken-word preamble

For some wonderful reason the ice cream truck in the neighborhood my wife grew up in barrels around the corner playing the theme to The A-Team.

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apparently a single company controls 95 percent of the ice cream truck music box market. and all the songs on it are public domain!? thehustle.co/the-company-...

The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck musicthehustle.co How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.

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Icymi: I made a feed that collects posts about seeing a cybertruck for the first time because I enjoy them (the posts not the car) so much

My First Cybertruck

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