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Stefan Shepherd

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Fiscal analyst about town. Believes there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure. Was: AZ. Now: MN -- yes, I'm aware it will be colder here, that’s a feature, not a bug. (he/him/cis/het)

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Some “Somebody Somewhere” throw pillow vibes there…

06.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does that (wildly speculatively, of course) that it’s bad luck or bad safety checks. (Could be both of I suppose.)

30.11.2024 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Castles ‘n Coasters always seemed barely a step up from a state (or county) fair. Kinda surprised it hasn’t happened before now.

30.11.2024 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

!!!

28.11.2024 17:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hopefully the remains have been scarfed up regardless.

28.11.2024 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There must be an annotated list somewhere online that has all such LFLs in St Paul etc. I feel like there are 3-4 in my own half-mile by half-mile neighborhood.

27.11.2024 20:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Just completed a nice rucking workout* outside and I feel great!

*walk from Kowalski’s with food I forgot to get from Trader Joe’s on the weekend

27.11.2024 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of tree where scars from branch trimming look like two eyes and a mouth pursed to the right. (That’s from the tree’s perspective. Left from the viewer’s.)

Picture of tree where scars from branch trimming look like two eyes and a mouth pursed to the right. (That’s from the tree’s perspective. Left from the viewer’s.)

This tree looks like they’re a little bit puzzled by the question they’ve just been asked.

20.11.2024 00:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Depending on your parental tolerance for swears, Logan Lucky.

19.11.2024 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was able to read it FWIW

15.11.2024 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

St Vincent hands down! (Though I do like St. Etienne too.) St Vincent SHREDS.

14.11.2024 01:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Take care of yourself and feel better soon!

12.11.2024 23:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ella Jenkins was/is the GOAT. She deserved all the roses.

11.11.2024 13:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s the one with pretzel crust, right? If it weren’t for that crust I’d be ten pounds heavier.

10.11.2024 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Squirrel staring at camera, sitting on an Adirondack chair upon which a Halloween skeleton is also draped.

Squirrel staring at camera, sitting on an Adirondack chair upon which a Halloween skeleton is also draped.

Not going to mess with that squirrel AT ALL.

09.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

07.11.2024 03:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi, moved here (St. Paul) this summer, but went to grad school here many years ago and lived in Rochester a number of years before that.

07.11.2024 03:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’re ok so long as you didn’t bring another clunky spreadsheet

06.11.2024 01:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There are many who aren’t sure if their “If you’re in line” joke was noted here on Bluesky. If you can, please volunteer your time to “cure” those jokes to make sure they’ve been counted.

06.11.2024 00:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m sure Jeremy the owner would give you a fair assessment if I’m being too generous to the sporting nature of the crowd.

05.11.2024 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We like it. Definitely smaller than source in terms of space, haven’t been to Level Up so can’t compare. Red 6’s game nights have a good crowd. I’m sure they would treat a 9-year-old well, though will be high school on up otherwise

05.11.2024 16:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My kid likes Red 6, but is older and tends to buy prerelease decks rather than slowly buying individual packs

05.11.2024 16:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right next to the tattoo parlor! Twenty years ago that might have seemed slightly odd and now it just seems on point.

05.11.2024 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only prediction I’ll think about today is that of my uncle, born in Germany in the early 1930s, who while I sat at his dinner table in summer 2016 said in halting but forceful English to me, “Trump is a bad, bad man.” I still think about that monthly.

Anyway, vote today if you haven’t yet.

05.11.2024 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They were available for early voting at the Ramsey County main site

05.11.2024 01:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As they had not yet started saying 15 or so years ago, 10/10, no notes

04.11.2024 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, if Mark ever gets some free time from keeping Wilco’s Loft running smoothly, he’s more than welcome to make another album.

04.11.2024 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stone. Cold. Classic. The whole album really, but especially that song and video.

04.11.2024 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It does seem like polling has become so complex and requires so many adjustments based on assumptions that it is now the equivalent of a cheap fitness tracker’s HRV — useful perhaps for determining changes over time but not great at all for point in time accuracy.

03.11.2024 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pretty sunset on St. Paul city street.

Pretty sunset on St. Paul city street.

Good job by the sunset crew this evening in St. Paul.

02.11.2024 23:16 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0