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timboerger.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, bowler (sometimes). Strong opinions on coffee, gin cocktails and sandwiches. Hopelessly idealistic. Mostly harmless. He/him
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I wish I could be on Bluesky more often, but the news has been such a rollercoaster that it's best for my mental health to just stay away for now. I'm already on survival mode and just checking in on days like today spikes my anxiety.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Besides being an incredibly stupid thing to do, what do they mean by "permanent modern digital records"? Because unless they engraved everything in granite and put it in a mile deep bunker (and if so, I still don't fully trust it), permanent is over-promising.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The flipside of Minnesota Nice is an ice-cold, relentless vengeance that will abide for generations if necessary without hesitation or remorse

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

I was never a programmer but I know from my years in tech that this is batshit insane. I can't imagine the hubris to believe you can take legacy code of this magnitude and think you can rush rebuilding it without it crashing and burning.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

These are the kinds of "rules" I would expect if you want to be a humorless asshole. Not eating soup in public? WTF is wrong with you, that shit is delicious. And if you're not man enough to enjoy a milkshake, then you should seriously reexamine your life.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

What's the over/under on when we give Alaska back to the Russians?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

No lies detected. I'm over here in St Paul like it's fucking Newark, NJ.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Never thought I'd fall down the economics on Blue sky rabbit hole, but here we are.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I got a tip: "Of local interest, the Grain Belt Beer Sign is front paged on Wikipedia right now."

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Issue 3 of Trollbreath Magazine is live! You can read all the non-fiction now, free at the website, including a new column called "Rogue Thoughts" by Christopher Mark Rose. Enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Minnesota is Baja Canada.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my next book, comes out on March 4! That's in 11 days! I'm going on a five-city US tour for it! All tour stops & ticket-booking deets here: us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...

submitted 56 days ago • 41 comments

My sister bought it! You all should, it's brilliant. @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social is on here.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Holy shit, this is the worst kit I've ever seen. Looks like someone took a paint roller on a shirt and called it a day. The kindest description I've seen is "the spilled milk". How you go from the starry night kit to this, I have no idea.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like McConnell is having his Lee Atwater moment.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty sad to see Senator Smith not run, but Peggy Flanagan is seriously good, fierce, and a champion for equality. I have no hesitations voting for her.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think you can really call what Frodo and co. did a 'Fellowship'. None of those hobbits had to pass a grueling application progress or talk about Early Career Research goals. And only one of them submitted a book or paper at the end of it.

submitted 70 days ago • 20 comments

This is the exact reasoning Andrew Jackson used to justify resettlement that led to the Trail of Tears. www.gilderlehrman.org/history-reso...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments