People this is IMPORTANT Minnesota is updating their flag there are 2123 submissions, including some drawn in crayon I'm going to need everyone to tag yourselves immediately Dibs on LASERLOON serc.mnhs.org/flags - ThreadSky

elpie.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’ll have dibs on this one.

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cageyratfish.bsky.social•480 days ago

@robcruickshank.bsky.social !!

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robcruickshank.bsky.social•480 days ago

Oh yeah, that is on my radar! Current status: in a cabin on the north shore, curtains pulled against lasers.

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cageyratfish.bsky.social•480 days ago

oh, enjoy!

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robcruickshank.bsky.social•480 days ago

I'll try! Original plan was to pick up Sarah in Duluth, and hang out up here, but her dad wound up in the hospital, so I'm driving down there. I think he's ok, but he'll be in for the weekend.

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cageyratfish.bsky.social•480 days ago

Oh no, I hope he'll be ok. Safe travels!

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robcruickshank.bsky.social•480 days ago

Thanks! He's pretty tough, but he *is* 98. So far not looking as bad as initially feared.

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biolard.bsky.social•480 days ago

gott be whatever this mess is

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boehninglab.bsky.social•480 days ago

I'm STARMAN

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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social•480 days ago

This reminds me of that time Fish and Wildlife in (state?) thought poachers had killed a bald eagle bc of the puncture wound in its skull, but after they handed it off to some scientists, they were told it wasn't a bullet hole: it had been made by a loon's beak.

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sasha-feather.bsky.social•479 days ago

this is great!! F608 is a reference to the childrens' game Duck Duck Gray duck (in other areas it's duck duck goose)

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superbfinch.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m medium oak wood grain.

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markuseichhorn.bsky.social•479 days ago

I'm backing Supergoose, the leader the world needs right now.

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cherdt.bsky.social•479 days ago

I'm F2018. It's night. It's dark. It's cold. Zoom in, appreciate the horizontal marker strokes. Precision. The marker may have started running dry towards the center of the flag due to the artist's commitment to 100% coverage.

They say no two snowflakes are alike. Except in Minnesota.

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camarowrx.bsky.social•480 days ago

There is so much going on here. Lincoln. Hockey. Walleye. I can't even.

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depthbuffer.bsky.social•479 days ago

Beat me to it. I want this one

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brooklynannauthor.com•480 days ago

I'm the psychedelic one:

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bobcatmoran.bsky.social•479 days ago

Personally a big fan of F1598, the state as a fishing bobber:

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napaaqtuk.bsky.social•480 days ago

I am team dogcow, 100%. (yes I took a screenshot to show it's a submission and not a random grab from my camera)

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napaaqtuk.bsky.social•480 days ago

Ugh, someone already took that one. OK, this one is me, half a day late and still in draft form.

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

That is RELATABLE

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sbarolo.bsky.social•480 days ago

With that much annotation you might as well just write “imagine an awesome looking flag” on a piece of paper and submit it

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napaaqtuk.bsky.social•480 days ago

So you've seen my submissions...

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sbarolo.bsky.social•480 days ago

They sound awesome to be fair

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

There already is a submission that is just "I'm more of an idea guy"

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Profound

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ampolter.bsky.social•480 days ago

I love this one? Huge "graphic design is my passion but not my training" energy, which, same!

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karenbdc.bsky.social•480 days ago

Someone spilled milk (upper left)???? That's all I see when I look at that! There's a lot going on in this one.

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ampolter.bsky.social•480 days ago

I think maybe snow? Could be a lot of things though!

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karenbdc.bsky.social•480 days ago

Minnesota: land of milk and fish!
😀

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karenbdc.bsky.social•480 days ago

Where muffins grow on trees.

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sledford.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m California.

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mannyares.bsky.social•479 days ago

I would vote for this one assuming it is flannel. However I was devastated to see no flags with Prince what is even Minnesota?

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daylab.bsky.social•480 days ago

I'm liking this one.

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peiferlabunc.bsky.social•480 days ago

Thank you very much for this thread--from the bottom of my native Minnesotan heart

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psbrookes.bsky.social•480 days ago

When you're a lazy MAGA bootlicker and can't even be bothered to Photoshop out "28th Virginia Infantry" 😏

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ampolter.bsky.social•480 days ago

Oh I think this is the flag a Minnesota took from VA in the civil war and every so often Virginia asks for it back and Minnesota says ❤️no❤️.

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psbrookes.bsky.social•480 days ago

Thx. See previous response
https://bsky.app/profile/psbrookes.bsky.social/post/3kds5ed2vnz24

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bbwolfevox.com•479 days ago

It is, indeed!

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bbwolfevox.com•479 days ago

(But it would still be an amazingly terrible choice for our state flag)

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punkrockscience.bsky.social•480 days ago

This is pretty much completely the opposite, I think. Union soldiers took that flag from dead traitors in battle and brought it home to display, where it remains, over bootlicker protests. That’s why it’s important that it *has* the Virginia bits.

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1967ers.bsky.social•480 days ago

Isn’t this a reference to the flag a Minnesota regiment captured 150-odd years ago and the state refuses to give back to whichever southern state badly wants it?

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psbrookes.bsky.social•480 days ago

Yes, my bad. Sorry. Visceral reaction assuming anyone posting that flag on social media must be an idiot. Hangover from the hellbird site.

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

Understandable! It is a deep cut

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dahosek.bsky.social•480 days ago

Even without the wiki, I had a guess about the meaning, but yeah, it’s one of those things, like dressing up as Hitler, which takes some finesse to pull off as humor.

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

Indeedily!

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1967ers.bsky.social•480 days ago

Excellent. Half-remembered anecdote still bore a faint resemblance to accuracy.

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

The 'Come and Make Us!' flag, correct.

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korota.bsky.social•479 days ago

I will only accept the Imperial Aquiloon. Everything else is heresy worthy of Exterminatus.

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racheln76.bsky.social•480 days ago

I would like to see a tiny fizzy drink can.

When my daughter watched Inside Out (beginning set in Minnesota), she REALLY wanted to go there.

Except because they all had US accents (obv) she heard it as Mini Soda. So that is exactly where she wanted to go 😂. The place with the tiny colas. 😂

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depthbuffer.bsky.social•479 days ago

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Megalosota

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

I also appreciate Mixed Media Turtle

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Oh, I really like this one

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manitobation.bsky.social•480 days ago

ohhh me too!

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manitobation.bsky.social•480 days ago

I like this one

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sutherlandbl.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m a fan of the “barn quilt square” genre of these. (Honestly I unironically like the third one)

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nyheim.bsky.social•476 days ago

That third one is my current top-runner aswell after scrolling through the first 200.

So different from the rest of the US, and so much cool symbolism.

(I may be biased 🇳🇴)

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nowbaxter.bsky.social•480 days ago

How about butterflies emerge from
mushroom pinecones before they turn into loons- Minnesota!

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notphlogiston.bsky.social•480 days ago

Trying to decide if they have/haven’t watched the CGP Grey episode on flags: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4w6808wJcU

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nyheim.bsky.social•476 days ago

Seems like quite a few of those who submitted suggestions atleast didnt

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louisenicholas.bsky.social•480 days ago

I am in love with F1717

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hellomrkearns.bsky.social•440 days ago

F41: This picture of someone's table.

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phytoseiid.bsky.social•480 days ago

I found this.

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phytoseiid.bsky.social•480 days ago

They took a photo of their computer screen using their phone to save this digital drawing and then uploaded it. It's...it's amazing.

BAYG.

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phytoseiid.bsky.social•480 days ago

Someone has submitted a photo of the tails side of the Minnesota state quarter!

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phytoseiid.bsky.social•480 days ago

There's one that's just a blurry close up of someone's dining room table top. Yesssss.

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Glorious

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phytoseiid.bsky.social•480 days ago

It's the "before" photo for all of the hand drawn/crayon/photos of actual flags - before they put the art on the table.

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Either that or it's a creative nod to the timber industry which I assume the state had or has!

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bugwebs.bsky.social•476 days ago

Can't remember when twitter last offered me this good content.

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bbwolfevox.com•479 days ago

I still back the doom loon, whose neck says 1858 (the year minnesota became a state) in braille

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bakosblog.vercel.app•480 days ago

Me personally, I'm a Purple Monero person

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bakosblog.vercel.app•480 days ago

This one's just canada

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jjdebenedictis.bsky.social•480 days ago

"Canada, but even colder"

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ja.meswebber.com•480 days ago

I want them to have a flag of a photograph of a painting

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ja.meswebber.com•480 days ago

I've changed my mind, I want Boogieboard Bigfoot

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gimbaled.bsky.social•480 days ago

legitimately excellent

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lillyfoxx.bsky.social•479 days ago

I claim existential crisis duck

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claricewillow.bsky.social•478 days ago

Tagging myself as F41: a piece of wood.

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gpike.bsky.social•480 days ago

https://21588026.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/21588026/Imported%20images/6b1f457aeeac45794b5fff8096f51417c7f973ea5a09fd8043e743ee33f71175.jpg

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mjsutterer.bsky.social•480 days ago

Awww i liked laser loon.

I’ll take mosquito republic

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mjsutterer.bsky.social•480 days ago

Also honorable mentions to tater-tot hot dish (F340) and a photo of a dog (F156) both of which would be excellent Minnesota state flags.

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mjsutterer.bsky.social•480 days ago

“Don’t Turd On Me” is now what I’m going to think every time I see one of those yellow “no step on snek” flags.

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bunnyloveerin.bsky.social•480 days ago

This one goes hard

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uniondesign.bsky.social•480 days ago

What do you mean a flag design is not the same as a “sweatshirt I wear on laundry day” design?

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uniondesign.bsky.social•480 days ago

Let’s just print this on hockey jerseys and put it on flag poles

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uniondesign.bsky.social•480 days ago

Has anyone submitted this yet?

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khajiitkennedy.bsky.social•478 days ago

Lazer loon pt2 (674) is my fav

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burgesslab.bsky.social•479 days ago

I am going with the common eeloon

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ryedog.bsky.social•479 days ago

Lazerloon blasting the ghost walleye MUST WIN.

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sydneyeashton.bsky.social•480 days ago

A lot of these are amazing but this one looks like my desk (many multi-colored post it notes)

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ejfphd.bsky.social•480 days ago

The land of 10,000 post-its

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ubergreen.bsky.social•480 days ago

there's more than one!

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gimbaled.bsky.social•480 days ago

I feel like I need to know more about this phenomenon…

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queclecumber.bsky.social•480 days ago

It's a beer!

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gimbaled.bsky.social•477 days ago

🤯

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neurocentric.bsky.social•480 days ago

I think it's just that their eyes are freakishly red. Great minds

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

This was the hidden prize for the intrepid!!

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annekosseffjones.bsky.social•480 days ago

I still have a lot of questions about there being more than one loon laser eye submission!

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

It may have been inspired by one of the submissions from back when New Zealand was redoing their flag. A kiwi bird blasting lasers from its eyes, that got spread around online.

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lyndonhood.bsky.social•480 days ago

I saw a post with at least three and I believe you are very correct about the source.

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

I went to Google a copy, and found that the flag has its own Wikipedia entry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Kiwi_flag

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annekosseffjones.bsky.social•479 days ago

Thank you for that FASCINATING context😆!

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fortunasaga.com•479 days ago

Thank you you for sharing this bit of internet loveliness that passed me by the first time

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natalie-t.bsky.social•480 days ago

I gotta say though I see you hating on the crayon but what… joy*… to see such engagement in democracy???
*is joy what this feeling is? I cannot tell.

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natalie-t.bsky.social•480 days ago

Oh this is a gift. I am grumpy fish plotting the demise of…. Something … as seen through a port hole.

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lisavipes.bsky.social•480 days ago

I choose Uncomfortably Close Loon.

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

Stabbing distance ✖️👁

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lisavipes.bsky.social•480 days ago

Now I'm thinking about this!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52779727.amp

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•479 days ago

Love a stabby bird!

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homelessrobot.bsky.social•440 days ago

You either owe thus bird money or it's asking if you know where to get blow.

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rszasz.bsky.social•479 days ago

The 1858 in braille is a nice touch.

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rszasz.bsky.social•479 days ago

My braille is lacking, what does it say?

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lisavipes.bsky.social•479 days ago

Oh shoot, did the alt text not save?

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rszasz.bsky.social•479 days ago

#1#8#5#8

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rszasz.bsky.social•479 days ago

No, I mean it has braille along its neck,

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lisavipes.bsky.social•479 days ago

Ah, much like the flying loon, the joke totally went over my head!

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checarina.bsky.social•479 days ago

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lisavipes.bsky.social•479 days ago

🤣

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lisavipes.bsky.social•480 days ago

The fact that there are 15 loon-themed submissions on the first page is delightful!

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clutchscience.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m going with “I can draw three things, but I’m not great at the third one”

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fortunasaga.com•479 days ago

I really like the wolf that's pressing its head against an invisible wall.

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clutchscience.bsky.social•479 days ago

Inside you are two wolves, and they’re cramped as hell

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crystalizing.bsky.social•479 days ago

I like this one

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docfreeride.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m the ”Minnesota Republic” with a scary ass mosquito, obviously.

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docfreeride.bsky.social•480 days ago

Submission F59

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zanadu.bsky.social•480 days ago

i am vibing this...

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aimeeogdenwrites.com•480 days ago

I’m “what do you MEAN there’s a difference between a flag and a postcard”

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racicotleanne.bsky.social•480 days ago

Biblically accurate state flag

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xanboni.bsky.social•480 days ago

I quite like the "bayg" one

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kronogarrett.bsky.social•479 days ago

Anyone who writes the state’s name on the flag needs to be forcibly relocated to North Dakota.

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anarmandameg.bsky.social•480 days ago

this is my favorite personally

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vickyagain.bsky.social•480 days ago

i think it's so extra that f32 did a whole mockup...is the whole mockup supposed to be the flag babe? T_T

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anarmandameg.bsky.social•479 days ago

they should put the entire image on the flags, yes

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alidavis.bsky.social•480 days ago

I am a genuine fan of Just Raptured out of a Canoe.

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milesbuckingham.bsky.social•480 days ago

Baby, I'm a Corn Star 4 Eva

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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•480 days ago

I love Corn Star

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alidavis.bsky.social•480 days ago

Corn star!

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littleedie.bsky.social•480 days ago

Appreciating the frankness of Nemo On Meth.

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virgotex.bsky.social•480 days ago

Minnesota: Third-lowest Sperm Count in The Whole Darn Country

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virgotex.bsky.social•480 days ago

True fact: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12676592/#:~:text=Mean%20counts%20were%2058.7%2C%20102.9,Minnesota%2C%20and%20California%2C%20respectively.

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littleedie.bsky.social•480 days ago

A magnificent tribute to true heroes.

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alidavis.bsky.social•480 days ago

Haaaaa!

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txvoodoo.bsky.social•480 days ago

OT: that meth-y clownfish looks like a Snowflake Clown!

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littleedie.bsky.social•479 days ago

the snowflakes are cocaine, right?

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txvoodoo.bsky.social•479 days ago

hahaha

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cjayewong.bsky.social•480 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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littleedie.bsky.social•480 days ago

A Frank Gehry Christmas is pretty satisfying to the eye.

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littleedie.bsky.social•480 days ago

Big ups to The Land of One N

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carolhmack.com•479 days ago

This is my choice.

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carolhmack.com•479 days ago

There are so many!

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neurocentric.bsky.social•480 days ago

Conjoined twin loon

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ashokhotnik.bsky.social•480 days ago

Okay that's got to be a prank...
It's a prank, right?

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circaliz.bsky.social•480 days ago

They've been working on these to combat the cobra chickens.

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ashokhotnik.bsky.social•480 days ago

Now I will never travel to Minnesota.

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

Open video in two windows, turn up volume, and hit play to hear the voice of your new god.

https://youtu.be/f-gykT7Rkk0?si=XVJituWe1GUSQ6qI

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kurtfraser.bsky.social•480 days ago

why are so many green and blue?

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

As I understand it a lot of Minnesota is lakes (blue) and I assume the rest of it is the space in between the lakes (green)

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kurtfraser.bsky.social•480 days ago

omg TIL there has been an alt flag since 1989 that is blue and green https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/07/05/help-minnesota-design-a-new-state-flag

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

Wow educating yourself. Couldn't be me

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sciencebanshee.bsky.social•480 days ago

I feel like I've seen enough and welcome our new migratory overlords

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bensaunders.bsky.social•480 days ago

The shadow included in the photo. 10/10 no notes

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ampolter.bsky.social•480 days ago

This is just Ohio's flag? It's not exactly the same but it's not NOT the same

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shrewshrew.bsky.social•480 days ago

Ew imagine wanting to emulate Ohio

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dahosek.bsky.social•480 days ago

My favorite is someone submitted the California State Flag, complete with “Republic of California” on it.

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

There's one that's just ask the flags of all the states.

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bensaunders.bsky.social•480 days ago

God that’s awful

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sbarolo.bsky.social•480 days ago

I’m partial to this one, which includes a drawing of a different flag

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anarmandameg.bsky.social•480 days ago

Several of them contain other states' flags which i find very funny

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sbarolo.bsky.social•480 days ago

The flag seems to be from a country that used to be 6 British colonies but is now 5 states

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

I kind of like this one

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

No notes, A+

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

OH MY GOD, there's so many hilarious ones, I can't choose.
F156 - A photo of someone's dog
F223 - Flag of the California republic
F253 - Minnesota on an acid trip
F336 - Socialist State of Minnesota
F340 - Hotdish
F445 - Morse Code
F710 - Red-black plaid
F1013 - O'Keefe's pink lady's slipper

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•480 days ago

F1167 - EVERY STATE FLAG

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brianhawkins.bsky.social•480 days ago

I certainly identify with “we wish we were Canada”

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xanboni.bsky.social•480 days ago

It's blue, so...sad Canada?

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lizasupica.bsky.social•480 days ago

It me

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brucearthursaz.bsky.social•480 days ago

The "grumpy fish" would be my personal flag.

But this, submission #F437, is actually my favorite so far (only went a few screenfuls into the many, many submissions; are Minnesotans snowed in already, and designing flags is how they're passing the winter?) for an actual state flag design: