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Nerd, former lit major, enjoyer of bitter drinks. "Inauthentic" MPLS Resident. He/Him. Words & things: thatwordyguy.blogspot.com RPG Nonsense: antagonistrelations.blogspot.com/ RPG Bluesky: @antagonistrelation.bsky.social

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how much overtime was accrued by hennepin county sheriff's office deputies doing crowd control at the whipple building?

11.03.2026 23:55 👍 90 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
12 park locations are accepting donations of menstrual products to support women in need during Women's History Month
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is accepting donations for Period Kits MN at recreation centers across the city through April 4.
Period Kits MN is a nonprofit that provides kits with at least a 30-day supply of period products to those experiencing homelessness, unstable housing and extreme poverty.
Access to menstrual products is a basic health need, yet for many individuals and families in our community, these essential items remain financially out of reach.
Period poverty affects those experiencing homelessness, students, park visitors, program participants and neighbors. Donating menstrual products is a tangible way to break down barriers, foster empowerment and affirm dignity of our community members.
Accepted Donation Items
• Tampons (regular and super)
• Pads (regular and overnight)
• Travel size wet wipes (up to 15 count)
• Menstrual cups
Bring your donations to any of the following collection sites now through April 4. Recreation Centers are open Monday-Friday, 3-8 pm, and Saturdays, 12-5 pm.

12 park locations are accepting donations of menstrual products to support women in need during Women's History Month The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is accepting donations for Period Kits MN at recreation centers across the city through April 4. Period Kits MN is a nonprofit that provides kits with at least a 30-day supply of period products to those experiencing homelessness, unstable housing and extreme poverty. Access to menstrual products is a basic health need, yet for many individuals and families in our community, these essential items remain financially out of reach. Period poverty affects those experiencing homelessness, students, park visitors, program participants and neighbors. Donating menstrual products is a tangible way to break down barriers, foster empowerment and affirm dignity of our community members. Accepted Donation Items • Tampons (regular and super) • Pads (regular and overnight) • Travel size wet wipes (up to 15 count) • Menstrual cups Bring your donations to any of the following collection sites now through April 4. Recreation Centers are open Monday-Friday, 3-8 pm, and Saturdays, 12-5 pm.

Hey this is cool, good work Park Board!

11.03.2026 21:16 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

11.03.2026 21:56 👍 5809 🔁 1939 💬 56 📌 48
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hwæt! Uncanny Valley Girlz by ThatWordyGuy hwæt! Uncanny Valley Girlz by ThatWordyGuy

To listen to all the songs on all the mixes, instead use this handy Mixcloud playlist...

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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11.03.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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hwæt! Uncanny Valley Girlz A mix of covers to put on as background music at a gathering where you want people’s ears to prick up and for them to exclaim, “wait, is this a cover of…?” Find more at https://thatwordyguy.blogspot....

I also decided to put the Uncanny Valley Girlz Songs together in a youtube music playlist, but as a reminder, you won't find all the songs there...

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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11.03.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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hwæt! Uncanny Valley Girlz Vol. 3 A third volume of covers to put on as background music at a gathering where you want people’s ears to prick up and for them to exclaim, “wait, is this a cover of…?” Visit https://thatwordyguy.blogspo...

Direct #mixcloud link to hwæt! Uncanny Valley Girlz Vol. 3

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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11.03.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thinking about #covers since this thread, so I put together a 3rd volume of Uncanny Valley Girlz, to play at a gathering where you want people’s ears to prick up & for them to exclaim, “wait, is this a #cover of?”

full track list included in alt text

thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/2026/03/mitt...

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11.03.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks, that means a lot to have your endorsement!

11.03.2026 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The photo shows a selection of games from our board game collection, including Dice Miner, This Game is Killer, Camel Up, Draftosaurus, Just One, Spots, Look at the Stars, Avengers Love Letter, Star Wars Love Letter and Happy City.

The photo shows a selection of games from our board game collection, including Dice Miner, This Game is Killer, Camel Up, Draftosaurus, Just One, Spots, Look at the Stars, Avengers Love Letter, Star Wars Love Letter and Happy City.

Here is a selection of the games I brought to our trial run last week for an idea of the range of games that we'll have to play.

11.03.2026 19:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re excited to announce a new addition to the taproom lineup: Board Game Thursdays! Starting March 26th, we’re inviting you to grab a pint and settle in for some friendly competition. Following our kickoff, we’ll be hosting these game nights every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

It’s completely free to attend, and we’ll have a variety of games provided and ready to play—though you’re always welcome to bring a personal favorite from home. Whether you’re looking to master a new strategy or just want to enjoy a casual round of classics with friends, it’s the perfect way to mid-week recharge.

ALT TEXT: A photograph of a pair of pint glasees of beer with a board game in the background and the Broken Clock Brewing Clock Cooperative logo with the text: 

Board Game Thursday
Free to attend - Games Provided

6:30PM

Every 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the Month

We’re excited to announce a new addition to the taproom lineup: Board Game Thursdays! Starting March 26th, we’re inviting you to grab a pint and settle in for some friendly competition. Following our kickoff, we’ll be hosting these game nights every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM. It’s completely free to attend, and we’ll have a variety of games provided and ready to play—though you’re always welcome to bring a personal favorite from home. Whether you’re looking to master a new strategy or just want to enjoy a casual round of classics with friends, it’s the perfect way to mid-week recharge. ALT TEXT: A photograph of a pair of pint glasees of beer with a board game in the background and the Broken Clock Brewing Clock Cooperative logo with the text: Board Game Thursday Free to attend - Games Provided 6:30PM Every 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the Month

Exciting news! @ladychristyk.bsky.social and I will be hosting a board game meetup at Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month starting on March 26th.

Additional information in alt text.

#boardgame

11.03.2026 19:27 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

For anyone outside Minnesota who saw this man up on television giving interviews to pitch himself for a national stage in politics… listen to what locals were telling you when this man is a monster who takes pleasure in harming others while he dines with rich Republican donors. Do not trust Frey.

11.03.2026 17:13 👍 335 🔁 152 💬 5 📌 3

This is absolute horseshit. @klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov Have some courage and do the right thing, demand this war stop and demand that Trump be impeached. Refuse any Senate business until that happens.

11.03.2026 13:57 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

10.03.2026 13:14 👍 688 🔁 132 💬 43 📌 47

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

09.03.2026 22:43 👍 6467 🔁 1835 💬 112 📌 47

This rules and they should all be forced to use these vehicles. The agents don't want to use them because they want to roll up in rental vehicles with fake plates while wearing masks to murder people in complete anonymity like the cowardly fucking psychopaths they are

09.03.2026 22:02 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

At a certain point, the question of "how will the government pay for XYZ social service????" needs to be answered with "with the seized assets from the now-penniless former president"

09.03.2026 16:32 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
OP standing athwart a bike shrinking from a railcar rendering of a menacing, brick-throwing, frog-being BrickFrog.

OP standing athwart a bike shrinking from a railcar rendering of a menacing, brick-throwing, frog-being BrickFrog.

Venture Bros in the wild!

09.03.2026 14:32 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

But I'm also the one expected to contribute the skritches...

09.03.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I called and left voicemail urging Frey to support the “pause evictions; save lives” legislation. If you live in Minneapolis, please call!

09.03.2026 14:47 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A floofy grey cat sits on a small side table looking perturbed that a man is insisting on trying to work instead of showering her with attention.

His hand is on a mouse that he can just barely move around enough to work and part of a messy home office can be seen in the background.

A floofy grey cat sits on a small side table looking perturbed that a man is insisting on trying to work instead of showering her with attention. His hand is on a mouse that he can just barely move around enough to work and part of a messy home office can be seen in the background.

Do you ever have a coworker who insists on being really involved with a project even though they have no intention of contributing?

#catsky #thedustballs #rescuecats

09.03.2026 14:05 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Man, looking back, I have quite an extensive collection of cover songs which has resulted in eleven different cover mixes (so far)...

#musicsky #coversong #cover

thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/search/label...

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

whoa what the fuck is that Minneapolis line??? that's psychotic.

08.03.2026 18:19 👍 1469 🔁 182 💬 17 📌 2

Also, Klobuchar has continued to vote for Trump nominees! I feel like voting NO on Trump judges and executive nominations feels like a bar so low it might as well be at the Earth's core and yet AKlo cannot even manage that!

08.03.2026 18:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hwæt! Covers

And all the #mixcloud #cover mixes are together in this hwæt! covers playlist...

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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hwæt! ZURÜCK MIX Listening to the 2025 Fini Tribe compilation The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe, I discovered that "Do We Understand Each Other" shared some lyrical fragments with Chris Connelly's later project Damag...

Direct #mixcloud link to hwæt! ZURÜCK MIX

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A heavily modified photograph of an angular stairway in a Brutalist style building. Overlaid on the image is the text: hwæt! ZURÜCK MIX

Original source of the image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Federico-Cairoli-Architectural-Review-Sexto-Panteon-Argentina-Buenos-Aires-Brutalist-Lea-Namer-Revisit5.jpg

This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list:
Schwein - My Sanctuary
The Damage Manual - Mad Dialect
The Legendary Pink Dots - Neon Calculators
Coil - Teenage Lightning 2005
Carter Tutti - Lost Bliss (2015 Version)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Neun Arme / Die Nacht
The Legendary Pink Dots - Gladiators (Version Apocalypse)
Einstürzende Neubauten - neun arme
Chris & Cosey - Lost Bliss
Coil - Teenage Lightning
The Legendary Pink Dots - Neon Gladiators (Version one)/Obsession
Fini Tribe - Do We Understand Each Other (Live at Calton Studios, Edinburgh, 1987)
Pig - My Sanctuary

A heavily modified photograph of an angular stairway in a Brutalist style building. Overlaid on the image is the text: hwæt! ZURÜCK MIX Original source of the image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Federico-Cairoli-Architectural-Review-Sexto-Panteon-Argentina-Buenos-Aires-Brutalist-Lea-Namer-Revisit5.jpg This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Schwein - My Sanctuary The Damage Manual - Mad Dialect The Legendary Pink Dots - Neon Calculators Coil - Teenage Lightning 2005 Carter Tutti - Lost Bliss (2015 Version) Einstürzende Neubauten - Neun Arme / Die Nacht The Legendary Pink Dots - Gladiators (Version Apocalypse) Einstürzende Neubauten - neun arme Chris & Cosey - Lost Bliss Coil - Teenage Lightning The Legendary Pink Dots - Neon Gladiators (Version one)/Obsession Fini Tribe - Do We Understand Each Other (Live at Calton Studios, Edinburgh, 1987) Pig - My Sanctuary

Finally, just this Jan I put together a cover adjacent mix of artists updating their earlier work in different versions, where the original artist or one of their later projects covers the earlier work.

thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/2026/01/mitt...

full track list included in alt text

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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hwæt! It’s Been a Long Way to Carry On… A collection of mostly covers/remixes of Scott Walker's work with his final non-soundtrack track "Lullaby," snuck on the end, though it is a cover itself in its own way... See https://thatwordyguy.bl...

Direct #mixcloud link to hwæt! It’s Been a Long Way to Carry On…

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photograph of the Samuel Beckett Theater Trinity College Dublin heavily manipulated. It's been rotated 90 degrees, turned into grayscale and given a 3D stereoscopic effect.

Overlaid on the image is the following text: hwæt! It’s Been a Long Way to Carry On…

This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list:
Jim Sharp - The Old Man’s Back (Jim Sharp Remix)
The Soundcarriers - The Seventh Seal
Dax Riggs - 30 Century Man
Dot Allison - Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Simon Bonney - Duchess
Zen Mother - Joanna
ØXN - Farmer In the City
Chris Connelly - The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
Jarboe - A Lover Loves
Sondre Leche - The Plague
Marc & the Mambas - Big Louise
Jim Sharp - Epilogue (Jim Sharp Remix)
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Lullaby

A photograph of the Samuel Beckett Theater Trinity College Dublin heavily manipulated. It's been rotated 90 degrees, turned into grayscale and given a 3D stereoscopic effect. Overlaid on the image is the following text: hwæt! It’s Been a Long Way to Carry On… This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Jim Sharp - The Old Man’s Back (Jim Sharp Remix) The Soundcarriers - The Seventh Seal Dax Riggs - 30 Century Man Dot Allison - Montague Terrace (In Blue) Simon Bonney - Duchess Zen Mother - Joanna ØXN - Farmer In the City Chris Connelly - The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Jarboe - A Lover Loves Sondre Leche - The Plague Marc & the Mambas - Big Louise Jim Sharp - Epilogue (Jim Sharp Remix) Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Lullaby

Just last year I put together a mix of Scott Walker covers after seeing the Brutalist, It's Been a Long Way to Carry On...

thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/2025/02/mitt...

full track list included in alt text

#scottwalker

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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hwæt! Cavernous Volume One Continuing my tradition of cover mixes, here is a mix of Nick Cave covers with one Bad Seeds track slipped in, the original version of "Where the Wild Roses Grow" with Blixa on vocals opposite Nick. ...

Direct #mixcloud link to hwæt! Cavernous Volume One

www.mixcloud.com/ThatWordyGuy...

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08.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photograph taken from inside a dormant volcano looking up to a tiny spot of sunlight at the opening above with the following text overlaid on it: hwæt! Cavernous Volume One

This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list:
Mark Lanegan - Brompton Oratory
Cavemen - Nature Boy
Mick Harvey - Come into My Sleep
Cold Specks - We No Who U R
Ssion - Nick the Stripper
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow (Blixa Vocals)
Camille O’Sullivan - jubilee street (live)
Unwoman - Do You Love Me?
Null Device - Red Right Hand
MRT - Carny (Nick Cave Cover)
Rah Bras - Mr. Clarinet
Nell and the Flaming Lips - Weeping
Camille O’Sullivan - Brompton Oratory

A photograph taken from inside a dormant volcano looking up to a tiny spot of sunlight at the opening above with the following text overlaid on it: hwæt! Cavernous Volume One This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Mark Lanegan - Brompton Oratory Cavemen - Nature Boy Mick Harvey - Come into My Sleep Cold Specks - We No Who U R Ssion - Nick the Stripper Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow (Blixa Vocals) Camille O’Sullivan - jubilee street (live) Unwoman - Do You Love Me? Null Device - Red Right Hand MRT - Carny (Nick Cave Cover) Rah Bras - Mr. Clarinet Nell and the Flaming Lips - Weeping Camille O’Sullivan - Brompton Oratory

Back in 2023 I put together a mix of covers of Nick Cave & Birthday Party tracks, hwæt! Cavernous Volume One

thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/2023/05/mitt...

#nickcave

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