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stpaulfly

@stpaulfly.bsky.social

Data center engineer who loves to fly fish, ride gravel bikes and bounce to hardcore punk.

created October 18, 2024

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Profile picture Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestiniansAndIranians🇵🇸🇮🇷 (@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social) reposted

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

2/9/2025, 8:29:15 PM | 11889 3345 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only worthwhile update MS Office ever saw was the Focused tab in Outlook. Saves a day of going through shit after a vacay 🙂

2/9/2025, 11:59:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please don't make me change my mind and learn to love AI

1/9/2025, 5:24:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same look I get when I put on a new pair of socks

1/9/2025, 4:20:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kind of a run-on sentence

30/8/2025, 6:57:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not sure how deep one has to go into the case of Bud Light for this look like a good idea.

30/8/2025, 6:56:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had hope as I read all the hysterical posts this morning. Now back to my weekend drudgery....

30/8/2025, 2:17:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lyz (@lyz.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t worry, RFK is using leeches to balance his humors

30/8/2025, 12:51:31 PM | 539 53 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smug looking SOB, if you ask me

30/8/2025, 11:29:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I visit a data center occasionally for work and they offer chips, cookies and sodas in their break room. And yeah, I usually load a few of each into my bag before I leave. Abuse? I say no.

28/8/2025, 8:04:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

The Battle of DC (2025, Colourised)

National Guard troops spread mulch around the Tidal Basin on Tuesday morning in Washington. (Tom Brenner/For the Washington Post )
27/8/2025, 5:27:30 PM | 1796 428 | View on Bluesky | view

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I chose drugs

25/8/2025, 9:53:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Peak apple season in MN and they give you a mushy, bruised up Red Delicious? Pass the damn Sweet Tangos!

25/8/2025, 9:43:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loved Gauntlet

25/8/2025, 6:34:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Pros And Cons Of Using AI For Schoolwork https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-using-ai-for-schoolwork/

PRO: Frees kids up for extra shifts at the plant CON: Nagging guilt it was actually AI that earned that C-
25/8/2025, 6:00:22 PM | 1019 153 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dammit

25/8/2025, 12:40:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy Monday....geeze

25/8/2025, 12:25:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's over....

24/8/2025, 11:09:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kellalena (@kellalena.bsky.social) reposted

Flattery will get me into your white van.

24/8/2025, 5:54:36 PM | 178 53 | View on Bluesky | view

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Face it, they were proud boys all the time.... Wish these guys would get back in their parents' basements

23/8/2025, 1:03:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was introduced to her on Your Show of Shows reruns and have been taken ever since

22/8/2025, 11:30:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jake Rudh (@jakerudh.bsky.social) reposted

I’m psyched to present “The Best of 1993” Click twitch.tv/djjakerudh anytime between 8pm - 1am central to join us live for 5+ hours of some of the best classic alternative music videos from that year.

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22/8/2025, 11:24:00 PM | 29 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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A team lacking skill and center depth as much as the Wild do had no choice. I'm a little surprised he didn't get an offer sheet elsewhere, but happy they retained him. Now, to get him off the 4th line....

22/8/2025, 6:11:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My mom, who talks endlessly about her doctor visits when we chat, the other day is like yeah spent the other day in the ER with irregular heart rhythms.

20/8/2025, 12:41:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I fucking couldn't stand his character on that show

18/8/2025, 7:16:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a far cry from waiting until 1030 for the main act to show up drunk at the Met Center in the 80s

18/8/2025, 2:01:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Make a band food: Husker Fondue

17/8/2025, 9:21:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More surprised anyone followed a court order anymore

14/8/2025, 5:20:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is no longer a question... we're there.

14/8/2025, 3:37:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Their harmonies, even as a young band, still move me

13/8/2025, 4:11:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know that those bootlickers have made it here

10/8/2025, 9:42:03 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh sweet...

10/8/2025, 7:15:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow that is pretty low turnout. I've missed the last several but wouldn't mind going to the next one. I went to Cretin right before it merged with Derham Hall and there is still some comraderie amongst the pre merger kids on both sides.

10/8/2025, 1:48:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just started season 4 with the GF. Sorry it has to end.

10/8/2025, 3:13:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was gonna say, that's the F'in twine ball??

10/8/2025, 3:10:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No way in hell there were that many slim, trim, perfectly outfitted people back then.

8/8/2025, 5:24:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Feels like some bad AI-generated shit here

8/8/2025, 5:22:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA: your kids, not my kids

8/8/2025, 1:30:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm more in tune with SE MN and it's hard to tell at this point. Support is tipping but not sure how far

5/8/2025, 1:41:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My GFs high school instituted a cell phone ban last year and then never enforced it. Hope other districts and more successful.

5/8/2025, 1:38:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I keep waiting for this, but they seem more concerned with culture wars than their pocketbooks.

5/8/2025, 1:35:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Barnabas, you old dog

4/8/2025, 8:05:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sorrowscopes (@sorrowscopes.bsky.social) reposted

Aries: We’re not going to sugar-coat this, you’re going to have to fight a goose for your lunch this week.

3/8/2025, 6:03:35 PM | 423 81 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much how I was taught to make them in 1991 by a wise old bartender. Never made em with sour though. Maybe cuz Twin Cities.

2/8/2025, 10:30:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love this idea, but don't many states have independent commissions setup for that purpose? CA for example.

31/7/2025, 10:43:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Would love to see a piece on Kiviharju

30/7/2025, 9:31:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Drink my Leftover Beer

29/7/2025, 7:13:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ha! What percentage of Bluesky knows what UHF even is?

28/7/2025, 10:47:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A great spirit who loves her penguins

28/7/2025, 10:45:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was lucky enough to get the local broadcast of this show on a UHF channel when it first came out. Never heard my dad laugh harder.

28/7/2025, 10:44:58 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ceej (@ceej.online) reposted

absolutely no question in my mind he's married to a chatbot

28/7/2025, 5:14:15 PM | 3493 387 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perfect album that came out when you were 16

27/7/2025, 6:13:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That season was moving with so much promise and then fell apart.

27/7/2025, 5:27:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm using that

27/7/2025, 5:18:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol @ hoagie night

25/7/2025, 1:03:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sometimes we do anything for sex....even accepting a fanny pack partner

25/7/2025, 1:00:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mike Douglass with Freddie Prinze would have been awesome...and James Earl Jones

25/7/2025, 1:57:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A guilty pleasure 🙂

25/7/2025, 1:50:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone in my group's Teams chat is talking about Hulk Hogan, and I keep having to remind them of the passing of the great Chuck Mangione

24/7/2025, 5:35:59 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first section my friends grabbed in the latest Twin Cities Reader or City Pages? issue was the encounter section to see if they might have been mentioned

24/7/2025, 12:39:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted

dipshit

Andrew Yang @AndrewYang • 3m RIP Ozzy Osbourne, a true American original. There's a new version of this
22/7/2025, 9:39:07 PM | 2967 302 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bats and I have a bad history (think, staples in my head), but I'll admit that is pretty cute.

22/7/2025, 11:36:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Randy ballad-like song that moves me most is Revelation Mother Earth.

22/7/2025, 9:14:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As someone who came to adore his Black Sabbath and solo work with RRhodes, I thought he got a little too ballad-y. Just a preference, I guess.

22/7/2025, 8:42:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think Pong would do it for me anymore

22/7/2025, 8:24:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like this was the unfortunate side of Ozzy

22/7/2025, 8:16:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like every MAGA congressperson when asked to comment on the latest crazy Trump tweet

22/7/2025, 12:20:55 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clever 🙂

20/7/2025, 5:39:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next week: the president is within his power to fire jay Powell.

17/7/2025, 8:48:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rodolfo Del Angel-Romero (@infinityfunnies.bsky.social) reposted

This clip aged like fine wine.

4/7/2025, 3:10:28 PM | 5044 2194 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gutless

16/7/2025, 2:38:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was watching the Fugitive and the Avengers...every afternoon before my bartending shift started. Learned to love the old shows.

16/7/2025, 12:28:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gabe OrtĂ­z (@tusk81.bsky.social) reposted

Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

15/7/2025, 1:57:15 AM | 124 23 | View on Bluesky | view

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He and Whiskey Pete waking up after a 5 day bender apparently

13/7/2025, 10:53:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Newspaper headlines used to be so much better....and more accurate

12/7/2025, 12:28:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The owls though! Yeah, gonna hit up the local post office today.

11/7/2025, 11:58:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck your damn veggies

11/7/2025, 11:49:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile, in America, dig, you bleepers dig!!!

10/7/2025, 8:19:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If so, I'm out.

9/7/2025, 6:19:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WIRED (@wired.com) reposted

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end—at least if Cloudflare gets its way. The IT infrastructure firm has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program.

6/7/2025, 11:56:09 PM | 1002 210 | View on Bluesky | view

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The pea soup with human body parts was a cool culinary addition

6/7/2025, 11:13:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They took @perilinpink.bsky.social to another level. Nice work, WI

6/7/2025, 5:42:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every Popeye episode

5/7/2025, 2:55:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had one of these for years....awesome memory

5/7/2025, 10:47:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably gonna start drinking again on that merry day.

4/7/2025, 11:55:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not with guys like you working on our behalf ..

3/7/2025, 5:25:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indentured servitude is back, baby

3/7/2025, 3:22:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I once had to go to a urine screening for a new job after coming off an 8 day bender and I was literally the bad guy

3/7/2025, 2:51:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've always hated the blanket use of the term hero to describe everyone in law enforcement. There are plenty of sick fucks in every line of work....these guys included.

3/7/2025, 1:45:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw those and thought I'd died and gone to frozen dessert heaven.

3/7/2025, 1:33:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're making me feel guilty for all the times I poured scalding water down the tap drains to wash those buggers out.

2/7/2025, 11:56:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just returned from a trip to the beach and can verify.

2/7/2025, 7:37:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Dad Carrying 2-Person Inner Tube Up Waterslide Steps Like Christ Bearing Cross

Dad Carrying 2-Person Inner Tube Up Waterslide Steps Like Christ Bearing Cross
2/7/2025, 7:00:15 PM | 2390 216 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guys like him have always been my faves on the Wild. Granny, PMB...anyone who overcomes stature with sheer skill and some speed.

2/7/2025, 7:32:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love to report anything from HR as phishing.

1/7/2025, 5:09:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ObsidianShiv (@obsidianshiv.bsky.social) reposted

Me: *at an ass wiping competition* Announcer: omg. He's doing the crescent swipe... BACK TO FRONT! HIS BALLS ARE CLEAN. HIS BALLS ARE CLEAN. NEVER IN MY 22 YEARS...

30/6/2025, 4:56:55 AM | 36 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Milunic (@deadmet.bsky.social) reposted

Yankee Fans welcome Ted Cruz to New York. Proud of my homies!

26/6/2025, 12:47:02 PM | 3711 711 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll never rip Yanks fans again. I've been so wrong

27/6/2025, 2:37:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Looch afternoon drill is the best

26/6/2025, 8:33:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love that voice. Pure ambrosia.

26/6/2025, 5:05:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view