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Night Mayor of Minneapolis @TwinCitiesDSA he/him

Minneapolis, MN

Joined June 2008

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Ian 🌹

2 months

🚨🌌RAISING MONEY FOR ABORTIONS 2024🌌🚨 @OurJusticeRJ is holding our annual Fund-a-thon and I'm trying to raise at least $1500 this year for 𝒟𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝒽 𝒜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 for people seeking Abortions.

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Ian Ringgenberg's fundraising page for NNAF Fund-a-Thon

I came here to fund Abortions and chew bubblegum... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

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1 year

If you can run a half marathon in less than 1hr 55min you have the chance to do something extremely funny.

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I am delighted to share that I am officially the Guinness World Record holder for fastest half marathon dressed as a witch. Inspired by @jk_rowling , I ran with a special message wrapped around my broomstick. #ThisWitchDoesntBurn #IStandWithJKRowling

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[guy who eats like shit, has a pot of coffee every morning and 3 hazy IPAs every night]: "Wow, being in your mid 30s is rough."

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2 years

If Donald Trump had made NFT's for the Mar-A-Lago nuclear secrets, then he would technically still own them, even after their confiscation by the FBI. #Web3 #NFT

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Kaytie, you're a damn legend. We're all raising one in your honor this week.

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If you can run a half marathon in less than 1hr 55min you have the chance to do something extremely funny.

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We will crowd fund to get Guinness to approve it

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5 years

I'm sorry, you're telling me you want this so-called 'library' to let doctors and lawyers rent books for free as well?

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4 years

In honor of our universities relying on the flawless decision making of 30,000 undergraduates in order to open, please quote tweet this with the dumbest decision you witnessed in college.

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4 years

One of these gingers bucked a powerful family name to create his own path and inspire a nation. The other one is Joe Kennedy III.

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They call it a wildcat strike because you snap the ball directly to the workers.

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1 year

The funniest moment in cinematic history is when Joseph Gordon-Levitt finally got to make a movie about whatever he wanted and he made it about a guy who jacks off too much, but in a way that was somehow not relatable to anyone who has ever jacked off.

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At KOMЯADE brewing, we have always stood for the troublemakers, the rebels, those who refuse to do what they're told. We're proud to give back to the community with our charity - Nothing to Lose But Their Grains. That said we don't think a union is a good fit for our culture...

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*trying to go viral in urbanism twitter* Stunning. This is Dayton Ohio in 1938, and here it is today.

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You made this email no reply, so I wanted to let you know here that this sucks @lyft and I'm sorry that you got addicted to paying workers sub-minimum wages. I hope you can learn to follow laws like every other industry!

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Women will go 30 years without touching a video game and then have their life completely derailed by The Sims or Stardew Valley.

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5 years

Happy Labor Day to all workers

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1 year

Kaytie wants you all to be nice about it and donate to the Trevor Project and you know she can outrun your ass, so it's probably best to do it.

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Kaytie Innamorati, Ph.D

1 year

Thanks everyone for the support. I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to put a GWR run together so quickly. Just a note though, in our celebration- let's be ecstatic about what was accomplished and not taunt or name call. Donate to the @TrevorProject instead!!!

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3 years

Can't stop thinking about the Neo-Andean architectural movement in Bolivia

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The Minnesota flag should be a wolf in a flannel shirt driving a snowplow and underneath it says "You gotta live somewhere"

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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a hit song here because it's about the most upper-midwest thing possible (being murdered by a lake)

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Well, we've uhh... We've made it gang.

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The idea of Winnipeg freaks me out. 7 hours north of the cities, they plopped down a metro of 800k people and we just don't talk about it, like it's fucking Crastor's Keep.

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@elaifresh *extremely it's my fault voice* "I don't even think it's my fault..."

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2 years

Let's hear it for radishes: the silly little dirt egg that tastes like a witch's kiss!

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2 years

Wow, this blew up. While you're here, check out sweet corn. It's in season right now and it's delicious. You can't buy it online, but there's probably a truck selling it on the shoulder of your nearest highway.

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@jon_bois Jon, I just finished and I liked it so much. In case you didn't encounter it in your research, I thought you'd want to know that Kirk Cousins has a tube of 700 rocks in his driveway and he removes one each month so he can visualize his own mortality.

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How Kirk Cousins confronts his own mortality ... with 720 stones

"Oh, it's a little morbid," the Vikings quarterback says. Let Cousins explain his new monthly ritual.

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2 months

Anyone have advice on how to keep my joints from hurting as I get older that doesn't involve exercise, stretching, remembering to take vitamins, getting good posture, or any of the other things that would actually help?

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2 years

I feel like a crazy person reading these articles about China's Zero COVID policy as though I wouldn't immediately prefer the response that allows me to live 90% of my life normally with occasional strict lockdowns rather than not living normally for two years now!

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Wow, this is crazy to see.

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5 years

I need everyone outside of Minnesota to know how fuckin cool it is that @BernieSanders has New Power Generation opening for him tomorrow.

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3 years

@milfnokids Let me posit a hypothetical alternative: sleeps like 11 fucking hours a day

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3 years

People who live outside of the Upper Midwest and don't have Menards: where do you go to buy two bulk tubs of Red Vines, a Makita circular saw with laser cutting guide, and oh also lemme get a few cubic feet of red landscaping rock while I'm here, why not

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@GoodTake_Jake I do not know this person or if she's on here, but she's a real one.

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@reneechristine8 When I run over a trans pride flag it is like a boost pad in Mario kart

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1 year

@erikstrobl If the GeForce doesn't fit, you must acquit!!

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1 year

I gotta admit, it's pretty funny that the Minneapolis left said "we think it's possible for our city to take collective responsibility for clearing snow off sidewalks, just as we do for roads" and the city admin said "say no more, fam!" and stopped clearing the roads.

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3 years

I'm not here to preach moral victories, but it's important for folks outside MN to understand that the movement against the dept of public safety involved: -Multiple mailers a week for months lying about what the amendment does -A year of work stoppage and slow down by police

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4 years

You can evict families in a pandemic, bulldoze and steal everything a person living in a tent owns, harbor and 'coach' killer cops, but when a Brugger's gets fucked up... that's when Walz and Frey jump into action.

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Two years ago in June, Betsy and I went to the west coast on a two week roadtrip after her first year of treatment. One year ago, I promised Betsy I'd take her cremains back to the ocean. Three months ago this week she passed away. Today, I start the drive to fulfill my promise.

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2 years

Guy who stays in his seat until the end of the credits to cheer for the union bugs.

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Ian 🌹

4 years

Michael Fairbanks announced the White Earth Ojibwe endorsement of Bernie Sanders! #NotMeUs

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3 years

@richiejfloyd Post some pro-Lula shit and let's get really crazy

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1 year

It's unbelievably sad that the response to a man being found dead on campus has revolved so exclusively on how we could have made sure he didn't die within sight of polite society.

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Parents ask for more security after body found in classroom at the U of M

Officials say a body was found inside a classroom in Appleby Hall Tuesday morning, but no foul play is suspected.

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1 year

Love it when my sheets come out in a Gordian knot. They got topologists working in shifts on this duvet.

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The idea that an Americano tastes the same as a drip coffee is European gaslighting.

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My dad was doing his ritual of pretending to put Surly in the cart at the liquor store to antagonize me and I said "Don't you dare bring that scab beer into my house" and a very nice person next to me said "oh hi Ian, I thought that was you but didn't know until you said that"

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The reason that the mayors of every major American city refuse to curb the abuses of police is because the attempt would reveal their political authority isn't recognized and it would create a legitimacy crisis they wish to avoid.

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It is preposterous to claim there is a "dangerous and dystopian ghost city in Minneapolis." It is actually a couple of miles east of here.

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4 years

I find myself wondering if the liberal mayors of our liberal cities do not call off the police because they know that the police would decline to listen, and it's more comforting to believe that they have the power but chose not to use it, than to know that they no longer do.

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9 months

Hey, Minnesota, don't forget to file your M1PR. I just got a thousand bucks back for 20 minutes of paperwork. Both renters and homeowners can do this.

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3 years

centrists on the cities vs centrists on the suburbs

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I can't stand the "shorts and sweatshirt" look. There's an order of operations to getting warm and long pants always comes before long sleeves.

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4 years

@WarrenIsDead Me: "Wow, I love this character" FH: "Cool. Cool. He's space Hitler now"

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4 years

It's 2019, I'm watching football, and a Bernie commercial plays with 3 prominently displayed DSA flags. You just love to see it.

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1 year

Just wanna share some memories. Our second date, where we went to the UAW line and then got German food in Hudson.

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"This is the gayest generation in American history"

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Downtown Minneapolis is depressing in the same way as when your buddy invites you down to his "Man Cave" and it's just a half finished basement with a framed poster of a football and a chest freezer.

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@AGoldmund My parents both grew up on farms and whenever I didn't like a chore, my mom would describe in detail what it means to clean out a hog lot, meaning you use a hose and shovel to move massive amounts of pig shit.

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5 years

@bombsfall Literally removed a room of my house without warning. This is taken from the kitchen.

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Inspiring: After this Public University Found an Unhoused Person Getting Warm At A Hot Air Vent, They Built a Plywood Wall Around the Vent #UMNProud

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2 years

Robin is the first Black Democratic Socialist to be elected to Minneapolis City Council three times in one month.

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NEW: Democratic Socialist Robin Wonsley Worlobah was once again declared the winner in the Second Ward on the Minneapolis City Council after a recount.

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When my house got broken into in 2018, the cops did no investigation. They suggested I visit pawn shops to see if I could find any of my major electronics and when I asked how to secure my home with my door frame split open they suggested "put something heavy in front of it"

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Kyle Stokes

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Staffing shortages may mean Minneapolis Police "might soon be in a situation where we’re just not going to investigate property crimes anymore," MPD Chief @_BrianOHara told @Harpers — and he acknowledged the Northside would suffer most from that ⤵️⤵️

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2 years

It's always the same graph.

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For my sophomore year of college in 2005, I complained that I felt claustrophobic under the standard bed loft kits at ISU. So my father designed, and we built together, a pulley driven loft that could be raised in the day and deployed from night.

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2 years

Holy shit. Holy fucking shit.

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6 years

The sin of capitalism can pretty much be summed up by the baby formula in a locked case at my grocery store.

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2 years

I'm calling on the Supreme Court to overturn this Gerrymander and restore democracy to "Maplewood"

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3 years

Hey, so uh.... I got the job.

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2 years

I know it's fun to point out that Jacob Frey has sole authority over MPD, but I think we need to be honest: MPD does not recognize any civilian authority as legitimate.

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1 year

Got a new idea for a neighborhood

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10 months

My report on 72 hours within the St. Paul border for @RacketMN

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What's the Deal With St. Paul? - Racket

After spending 72 hours in the other city, this Racket reader has some ideas.

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2 years

I'm not the first to say it, but the material basis for things like CRT panic is that there's a generation of parents confused about why their kids always argue with them, and they would like there to be legislation to stop it.

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Insider Tech Business

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Elon Musk says his teenage daughter doesn't want to be associated with him because of what he calls 'full-on communism' taught in schools and widespread hatred of the wealthy

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3 years

I just want to outlive my health insurance company.

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1 year

@kay_tee_eye @GoodTake_Jake Kaytie "TERF Slayer", you have fulfilled the prophecy. Thank you.

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3 years

Seeing a lot of people doing a "Friendsgiving" on the weekend before the holiday. I want to clarify that a true Friendsgiving is when you dodge all family commitments to chill with the buds on the holiday. Otherwise you and your pals are just having a turkey dinner.

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4 years

@surlybrewing Union busting is disgusting.

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I really have to hand it to the right wing of the DFL, It makes me physically ill to have DSA accused of being "steeped in Jew-hatred" when so many of my Jewish comrades are the loudest on keeping this organization committed to the cause of Palestinian liberation.

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The most toxic people in the universe will move to the Midwest and spend the next 4 decades of their life blaming the fact that everyone hates their fucking guts on "Midwest Passive Aggression".

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1 year

<Cool-as-shit Plow Wolf flag

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Twin Cities Lib

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Ugly racist flag < North Star Flag

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1 year

That's right. It's Lutheran Sushi.

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If you know, you know

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7 years

People say "How come I never see you at the club?" I say "How come I never see you at the picket line?"

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"Blank Check" had a great bit about this but I still cringe whenever I think about the existence of that movie and any piece of advertising associated with it.

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5 years

Can strike support be a date? Y/N

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What's your favorite 9/11 cultural overreaction? Mine is the renaming of a Bud Light ad campaign to not mock American heroism.

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1 year

BUNNICULA YOU MOTHERFUCKER

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I suspect that the State Fair is like skiing -- if you don't start a kid, you'll just never really be an expert at it.

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Sheila Nezhad

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. @IlhanMN knows that being an authentic, values-driven leader is more important than protecting the establishment. I'm honored to have her endorsement, and look forward to working with her as Mayor to build a Minneapolis where everyone's needs are met, and everyone is safe.

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2 years

@derzquist This episode is brought to you by Taft-Hartley. Taft-Hartley is a leading provider of management tools for union avoidance nationwide.

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Holy shit, we just got scolded for TALKING AT A BASEBALL GAME. Let's go white Minnesota!! Excellence in action!!!

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1 year

A mental exercise that I find useful for myself is to imagine that the city was going to dig up an area called "the arsenic triangle" and install a public works facility in Linden Hills or Lowry Hill and imagine the way those residents would wield power to prevent it.

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Several protestors yelling at Council President Andrea Jenkins, who responds by saying "This project will not kill anyone." She is threatening to have public removed from the chamber.

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3 months

calling a metal band from Wisconsin nü glarus

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2 months

NOAA is reporting that after today's recorded precipitation, Twin Cities residents are primed to go "Sicko Mode" on the next 60 degree day. Patio drinking, shorts, kids playing in the street -- we might see any of these in upcoming forecasts.

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"you loved college because you lived in a walkable community" I paid $180 in rent to live with my 4 best friends. We drank until 3am every night and I was told I had social value because I thought big thoughts and wrote them down. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the urbanism for me.

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5 years

When you see another person in the google doc, but it's actually you in a second tab

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2 years

@kenklippenstein It's not easy waking up to my job as "VR Leg Engineer" but with another billion dollars, I'm confident my team can deliver.

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Betsy passed away a year ago today. It's hard to believe she's been gone that long. Spare a thought for her memory today, and the unplugable hole in the hearts of so many who loved her.

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2 years

So... I wrote a thing.

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What’s the Deal with Winnipeg? - Racket

A viral tweet leads to this Racket Reader Investigation into our nearest major Canadian city.

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4 years

Solidarity to Des Moines Solidarity to Atlanta Solidarity to DC Solidarity to Houston Solidarity to Denver Solidarity to Milwaukee Solidarity to Louisville Solidarity to NYC Solidarity to LA

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Today would have been Betsy's 37th birthday. Take a picture of a cat or hug a loved one for me.

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