Erik E Erik
@erikeerik.bsky.social
Silent films, foreign action films, soccer/fútbol and vinyl enthusiast. Public education employee, Minneapolis dad.
your Minneapolis Park Police: good at breaking up citizens doing noise demos outside ICE and CBP hotels, bad at keeping ICE and CBP agents away from citizens at Minneapolis parks
Piss on these fucking turds.
Piss on these fucking turds.
This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/
February 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
your Minneapolis Park Police: good at breaking up citizens doing noise demos outside ICE and CBP hotels, bad at keeping ICE and CBP agents away from citizens at Minneapolis parks
Piss on these fucking turds.
Piss on these fucking turds.
Rewatched Who Framed Roger Rabbit with my son and, yes, Bob Hoskins obviously rules and his performance should go in the National Film Registry and everyone knows this.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Rewatched Who Framed Roger Rabbit with my son and, yes, Bob Hoskins obviously rules and his performance should go in the National Film Registry and everyone knows this.
I know there’s been a lot of Weird Al content from my feed lately, but let me do just one pitch:
January 31, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I know there’s been a lot of Weird Al content from my feed lately, but let me do just one pitch:
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Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
Packing meals in a church
For homebound Minneapolis families
Accompanied by three women in their 70s
Who are discussing what, exactly, Signal is and how to add it to their Smartphones
For homebound Minneapolis families
Accompanied by three women in their 70s
Who are discussing what, exactly, Signal is and how to add it to their Smartphones
a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a microphone in front of him
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January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Packing meals in a church
For homebound Minneapolis families
Accompanied by three women in their 70s
Who are discussing what, exactly, Signal is and how to add it to their Smartphones
For homebound Minneapolis families
Accompanied by three women in their 70s
Who are discussing what, exactly, Signal is and how to add it to their Smartphones
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when you structure your entire political narrative around invincibility, it turns out that backing down even slightly is in fact a massive thing.
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
when you structure your entire political narrative around invincibility, it turns out that backing down even slightly is in fact a massive thing.
Maybe being in community with others in Whittier Park at -6F will fix me.
January 25, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Maybe being in community with others in Whittier Park at -6F will fix me.
Maybe we make it through this to the other side (feel free to insert ‘Mpls’, ‘US’ or just ‘society’ here) but, when I look back, there will be days I wasn’t sure we would, and today was definitely one of those.
Deep breath, do it again tomorrow.
Deep breath, do it again tomorrow.
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Maybe we make it through this to the other side (feel free to insert ‘Mpls’, ‘US’ or just ‘society’ here) but, when I look back, there will be days I wasn’t sure we would, and today was definitely one of those.
Deep breath, do it again tomorrow.
Deep breath, do it again tomorrow.
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ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
Getting around to putting these together now: soldering the main and ground to each plug, connecting each to the RCA cables, then putting shrink tubing to finish and hold them together.
That sensation when everything is finished and it works and sounds great— I have godlike power
That sensation when everything is finished and it works and sounds great— I have godlike power
January 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Getting around to putting these together now: soldering the main and ground to each plug, connecting each to the RCA cables, then putting shrink tubing to finish and hold them together.
That sensation when everything is finished and it works and sounds great— I have godlike power
That sensation when everything is finished and it works and sounds great— I have godlike power
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“this is america, not a warzone!”
the “warzone”: an iraqi grandmothers front garden
the “warzone”: an iraqi grandmothers front garden
January 18, 2026 at 1:44 AM
“this is america, not a warzone!”
the “warzone”: an iraqi grandmothers front garden
the “warzone”: an iraqi grandmothers front garden
Watched the Kino Lorber version of 1926’s Son of the Sheik tonight, and my working theory is that Rudolph Valentino was the silent era’s Bruce Lee: looked great, died tragically young, had screen charisma but never had that great movie that took full advantage of his skills.
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Watched the Kino Lorber version of 1926’s Son of the Sheik tonight, and my working theory is that Rudolph Valentino was the silent era’s Bruce Lee: looked great, died tragically young, had screen charisma but never had that great movie that took full advantage of his skills.
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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sign in loring park - “NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US - WE HAVE TO SAVE EACH OTHER - NO MAGA - NO ICE”
January 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
sign in loring park - “NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US - WE HAVE TO SAVE EACH OTHER - NO MAGA - NO ICE”
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I say “why is it always us?” but it’s because we love and stand up for our neighbors and they fucking know it
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I say “why is it always us?” but it’s because we love and stand up for our neighbors and they fucking know it
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100% of FIFA Peace Prize recipients have been involved in an illegal coup.
January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
100% of FIFA Peace Prize recipients have been involved in an illegal coup.
I could go on and on about its personal significance to me, but Carl Sagan’s impact on both actual scientific progress and popular science content are just unimpeachable.
January 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I could go on and on about its personal significance to me, but Carl Sagan’s impact on both actual scientific progress and popular science content are just unimpeachable.
The best Halloween movie is Haxan. The best 4th of July movie is Jaws. The best Christmas movie is Lord of the Rings. And the best New Years Eve movie is Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.
Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.
Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The best Halloween movie is Haxan. The best 4th of July movie is Jaws. The best Christmas movie is Lord of the Rings. And the best New Years Eve movie is Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.
Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.
Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.
How I am walking out of 2025
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 AM
How I am walking out of 2025
Digging out the SNES and cleaning 25 years of cartridge grime out of Super Mario All-Stars to play with the kid on New Year’s Eve.
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Digging out the SNES and cleaning 25 years of cartridge grime out of Super Mario All-Stars to play with the kid on New Year’s Eve.
I played concert band in high school, and when they first handed out the sheet music for the theme to this movie, I shouted “Finally! Some Iron Maiden!” and that awesome joke didn’t get even one laugh.
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I played concert band in high school, and when they first handed out the sheet music for the theme to this movie, I shouted “Finally! Some Iron Maiden!” and that awesome joke didn’t get even one laugh.
There’s a tipping point in home ownership where you responsibility ask “if I didn’t need this tool in my first 16 years, do I really need it now?”
So yes, I bought the soldering iron to fix some loose wires in my ancient home stereo
So yes, I bought the soldering iron to fix some loose wires in my ancient home stereo
December 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
There’s a tipping point in home ownership where you responsibility ask “if I didn’t need this tool in my first 16 years, do I really need it now?”
So yes, I bought the soldering iron to fix some loose wires in my ancient home stereo
So yes, I bought the soldering iron to fix some loose wires in my ancient home stereo
Episode II’s dialogue gets widely mocked, and I have been complicit in this, but I’m currently on a beach vacation and realize Anakin *was* right about sand.
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Episode II’s dialogue gets widely mocked, and I have been complicit in this, but I’m currently on a beach vacation and realize Anakin *was* right about sand.