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a guy drops one piece of ham in the snow and he never hears the end of it. co-owner/editor of @racketmn.com, em@racketmn.com. (she/they)
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i don't *hate* the santa cruz but for modern lil guys i think i kind of prefer the ford maverick! (comes in the correct color, too!) www.carvana.com/vehicle/lt/3...
This is tonight. Learn about New Bern with @kellyrogers.bsky.social; Discover Des Moines with @story4more.bsky.social; Meet Perkasie with @biketrouble.bsky.social Great lineup!
Yeah I’m a @racketmn.com simp but you’re not getting regular analysis like this anywhere else.
there actually used to be a couple of rita's locations around here in the burbs, i think there still are!
they should make her read this at mass at annunciation
it's so hard to see someone else living your dream
Great news: You're Not From Here returns to Black Hart on Wednesday 9/3! Come, make friends (but only if you want), and learn about Perkasie, New Bern, and Des Moines. Feat @biketrouble.bsky.social re: their recent Racket piece on transplant social tactics! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2025/08/your...
an underrated part of the state fair food guide that @racketmn.com did is that tim walz got a writing credit for reviewing the bison meatball sub
If you’re feeling paralyzed by this, wanting to act but not knowing what to do, go give blood. www.mbc.org/donate-blood/
The garbage truck should have music just like the ice cream truck does.
hello, lifetime network?
they’re perfect✨
i have to assume but they didn’t have names attached!
btw these were my favorite pieces in the creative activities building this year
everyone say thank you to @nissamitchell.com for drinking one million beers! (ok 25, but still)
sacrifices must be made!!!
there is no system on earth more efficient than what the teens are doing at the mouth trap cheese curds stand
HAHA wow extremely, thank you
haha for the most part we all eat all of them! there are some exceptions but everyone likes to lob their opinions into the mix
hahaha alllll thanks to @littlebrumble.bsky.social’s mind
genuinely one of my favorite days of the year. thank you for supporting @racketmn.com and helping us live the dream!!!
Being in @racketmn.com is still the coolest thing that has ever happened to me.
I try to share links to our stories with the most striking passage or quote, but this piece has far too many to do that. It's also hard to say what speaks louder: the photos or photographer Adriana Loureiro Fernández's words. Beautiful. Haunting. Make the time: www.propublica.org/article/ceco...
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Racket's Year in Review for year 4 is REALLY GOOD, very specific and actually helpful to indie publishers as opposed to certain legacy media alum who put out useless lessons like "churn is bad" Thanks @racketmn.com and nice work 🏆 racketmn.com/rackets-year...
As federal authorities crack down on homeless encampments in D.C., revisit our reporting on the possessions people lose in sweeps — and how these losses can traumatize them, exacerbate health issues and undermine efforts to find housing.
brendan rocks and this is a shitty unfair awful situation. if ya can:
HAHA of all the birthday-havers we knew nothing about this was the most shameful
vinegary bitches unite!!!
interesting! we did not have that problem during our visit, both the lengua and carnitas were super juicy (we left a pile of napkins behind on the table to prove it)
oh i forgot to mention this but they also have a really nice little seating area out front and that's where i would sit if there are open tables ok that's everything go get these tacos!!!
missed headline opportunity
life changing!!!
never thought i'd see the day, but...... i had lunch at d's🥲
Come to our birthday party!
please, i insist, enjoy these outtakes from knox’s photo shoot
every year i am just bowled tf over at the support folks show for racket. thanks to y’all we keep doing better and better, it defies my understanding of business!!! thank you so much for being here. and YES knox is my boss and YES he wears a tie to work
PLEASE SHARE: Missing Child - Victoria Alexandria Jackson. The Minneapolis Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Victoria Alexandria Jackson , a missing 12-year-old girl. VICTORIA was last seen walking from Minnehaha Falls on August 2nd around 8:00 p.m.
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Kevan's > Wally's > Maverick's
they’re so fun to do, i hope your readers love ‘em!
they absolutely will be!
right????
at the powderhorn art fair this weekend there was a young girl selling some original work for $1 each alongside her dad’s prints. i mean… how could i resist these
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg "Click to view full size")
here are some film photos of my loved ones that i took in glacier national park :) our national parks are very good imo!!! worth protecting at all costs some would say!!!
How Textile Center's long-running garage sale evolved into this year-round secondhand store:
thinking about what if Blastoise shot out beer
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
not the point but i love the terrified egg so much... what is he running from......
Lovely night at the track!
i've gotta give @jayboller.bsky.social credit for that one!
i have seen SO MANY book-related events at local breweries this year, so i chatted with some folks about why books and beers go together and what makes these fairs and fests work
a while ago, i said: wouldn't it be fun if the racket team spent a few weeks eating through st. paul's dumpling passport and wrote about it? to which @usefulnoise.bsky.social replied: what are you, a lil tiny baby? i can do that in one weekend. that's more or less how he said it iirc. anyway...
also my primary costco, and how i learned what blue gentian is!
pov you just told a reallllllly funny joke
BUXTON CYCLE HOLY SHIT
my hot take about minnesota drivers is that for the most part y’all zipper merge fine! you’re much worse at not blocking the box and getting the fuck outta the way for emergency vehicles!!!
i’m so so sorry, taylor! what an absolutely adorable guy🖤
renting movies is fun imo!
Happy Friday! Wanna hear an hourlong conversation about having cancer?
they are completely random lol, i like a grab bag approach (and i have a spreadsheet where they're listed alphabetically so i know what's there)
i JUST learned about it when bry and i were googling around for these guns! have you ever been?
huge sucker for all the aliens
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did you know you can just buy random lego pieces and add them to whatever toy you want? anyway….
the strib actually kind of figured it out! (gift link)
indeed brewing does something kinda like it! new.smm.org/visit/events...
My editor @abigailrosenthal.bsky.social and I have put together a little list of Texas-based orgs for @chron.com that you can donate to, as well as local donation drives you can drop stuff off at to help out with flood relief in Central Texas: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
oh no!!! i’m hoping for a speedy recovery for you—being injured when you want to be out there is The Worst
it’s not!!! the 50k intrigues me but mentally idk about doing that loop a second time—you’re tougher than i lol
yesterday i ran the 25k in the afton trail race and i’m still floating from it!! longest organized run i’ve ever done (plus 2k feet of elevation), in the rain and mud, with some of the friendliest folks around. trail running kicks so much ass!!!!
omg!!! ok no excuses (from me), next year we are DOING IT
yeah it's not necessarily easy or natural to do, and it does take time!
thank you for your rambling!
i believed you!!!
thank you!!! everyone was so generous and thoughtful
hahaha i believe i replied to lauren with something like "....seriously?"
thank you to the 30+ transplants (!) who chatted with me about their advice for making friends in the twin cities:
The thing about Goldy that you don’t really appreciate until he’s been in your wedding venue? How much larger he is in any space that is not a football stadium.
haha a little easter egg for the folks who zoom in
seriously though!!!
one of my broomball teammates took this picture of the baja yesterday and i can’t get over it
some say they're equally important!
honored to be one of the 10 hotties featured in @chrisdstedman.bsky.social's mutual aid write up😈
Greatest city on planet Earth.
Thank you all for reading and supporting the Second Best Website in Minnesota. You could be reading the best but you'll settle for us, and we respect that.
are you a transplant to the twin cities who's been able to make friends here? shoot me a DM, i wanna bother you about something
A key moment in this @racketmn.com piece by @spencer-white.bsky.social is when a teen asks some friends to come to a meeting and a bunch do. So many stories of activism/advocacy start NOT with some eureka moment of perfect moral clarity, but with relationships + down-to-earth invitations like that.
I know you've been waitin' for a new Brunch Buds
big year at da movies
we're old, unfortunately
three of my almost-ranked movies are on here (LOTR, battle royale, nice guys)
underrated! a modern classic!!!
i haven't read the novel because i like the movie so much (but it is in my to-read pile!)
this was really hard!!!
doin' beers: the nation's gayest beer column™
at least toby keith is dead this time
HA yes i forgot to mention the creepily lifelike pillow