Bill Connell
@wjcstp.bsky.social
chili oil aficionado
working the bass for Sidewalk Diamonds
married to a mortician
I try and try and try with you people.
stpmn
working the bass for Sidewalk Diamonds
married to a mortician
I try and try and try with you people.
stpmn
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those billions of dollars data center build outs are really paying out dividends
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
those billions of dollars data center build outs are really paying out dividends
I just saw multiple professional people in a business meeting ask if a capybara was a real animal.
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I just saw multiple professional people in a business meeting ask if a capybara was a real animal.
New bass day! It's a Danelectro Rumor from the early 2000s, a very cheap bass at the time but with a built-in chorus effect and sparkly red paint.
It's decently made for a fairly cheap guitar and plays pretty well after some new strings and a home setup.
It's decently made for a fairly cheap guitar and plays pretty well after some new strings and a home setup.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
New bass day! It's a Danelectro Rumor from the early 2000s, a very cheap bass at the time but with a built-in chorus effect and sparkly red paint.
It's decently made for a fairly cheap guitar and plays pretty well after some new strings and a home setup.
It's decently made for a fairly cheap guitar and plays pretty well after some new strings and a home setup.
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Time for a new starting word!
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Time for a new starting word!
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Time for a new starting word!
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This photograph had better win a goddamn Pulitzer
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This photograph had better win a goddamn Pulitzer
Only an absolute moron would lift a finger for that guy without cash up front.
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Only an absolute moron would lift a finger for that guy without cash up front.
My wife is dressed and waiting for trick or treaters (none so far)
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My wife is dressed and waiting for trick or treaters (none so far)
If you need a Halloween soundtrack
Sunn O))) – Black One [Vinyl]
YouTube video by O L M
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If you need a Halloween soundtrack
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door holding also causes an operator to have to call in for support so they can get lunch and bathroom breaks. They have to maintain a schedule and that schedule is tight for breaks. So don’t hold a door. Let the operator have a good day of work. (3/3)
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
door holding also causes an operator to have to call in for support so they can get lunch and bathroom breaks. They have to maintain a schedule and that schedule is tight for breaks. So don’t hold a door. Let the operator have a good day of work. (3/3)
If you're looking to buy a classic car you might think to shop in the spring, but you can get better deals now, when people are dreading paying for another year of winter storage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you're looking to buy a classic car you might think to shop in the spring, but you can get better deals now, when people are dreading paying for another year of winter storage.
Tearing down part of the White House is a particularly depressing thing, out of the many atrocities these idiots have committed. I just can’t believe there’s no due process for preventing that from happening in the first place.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tearing down part of the White House is a particularly depressing thing, out of the many atrocities these idiots have committed. I just can’t believe there’s no due process for preventing that from happening in the first place.
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have you heard the news? there's good rockin tonight
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
have you heard the news? there's good rockin tonight
Tonight! It’s going to be a gray, wet day in the Twin Cities, and the best cure is huddling together with friends around the warm glow of amplifiers.
Next Tuesday! The Hobbled, Creekside Ruffians, Sidewalk Diamonds at Pilllar Forum
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
Music: Creekside Ruffians - 10/21/2025
Date: October 21st, 2025 Cost: $10 Advance, $12 Day of Show Lineup: The Hobbled, Creekside Ruffians, Sidewalk Diamonds Time: Doors 6:00, Music 6:30 Please have ID and purchase confirmation email ready...
www.pilllar.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tonight! It’s going to be a gray, wet day in the Twin Cities, and the best cure is huddling together with friends around the warm glow of amplifiers.
prepare for the grand Brientrance or some shit
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
prepare for the grand Brientrance or some shit
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Carry on the morals
Carry on the cause
Carry on the cause
September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Carry on the morals
Carry on the cause
Carry on the cause
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The twist of the knife here is the e-bike story. Last year, 479 people died in vehicle crashes in Minnesota, and tens of thousands more are injured annually. We’d be in a much better situation if the same pearl-clutching happened for that.
You can count The Minnesota Star Tribune among the Sunday newspapers that did not put protest news on the front page
October 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The twist of the knife here is the e-bike story. Last year, 479 people died in vehicle crashes in Minnesota, and tens of thousands more are injured annually. We’d be in a much better situation if the same pearl-clutching happened for that.
Another sighting of the elusive DeLorean that lives somewhere in the neighborhood (sadly I was too slow for a photo)
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Another sighting of the elusive DeLorean that lives somewhere in the neighborhood (sadly I was too slow for a photo)
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I'm grateful that Kara straight up posts AI slop as if it was an actual newsworthy image. Hopefully more people will realize she is not a journalist bsky.app/profile/kara...
October 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm grateful that Kara straight up posts AI slop as if it was an actual newsworthy image. Hopefully more people will realize she is not a journalist bsky.app/profile/kara...
Here’s the thing: it sucks to ride on sidewalks. If anyone over 12 is biking on a sidewalk it’s an infrastructure failure.
Hit by an e-bike, she can no longer taste or smell. Cities are trying to protect pedestrians like her.
After hearing Janet Stotko’s story, the city of Hastings passed an ordinance prohibiting e-bikes on sidewalks.
www.startribune.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Here’s the thing: it sucks to ride on sidewalks. If anyone over 12 is biking on a sidewalk it’s an infrastructure failure.
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Not sure if Cows were more of an upper Midwest band, but they were always a blast to see live and I still regularly play their ‘92 album
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Not sure if Cows were more of an upper Midwest band, but they were always a blast to see live and I still regularly play their ‘92 album
Next Tuesday! The Hobbled, Creekside Ruffians, Sidewalk Diamonds at Pilllar Forum
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
Music: Creekside Ruffians - 10/21/2025
Date: October 21st, 2025 Cost: $10 Advance, $12 Day of Show Lineup: The Hobbled, Creekside Ruffians, Sidewalk Diamonds Time: Doors 6:00, Music 6:30 Please have ID and purchase confirmation email ready...
www.pilllar.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Next Tuesday! The Hobbled, Creekside Ruffians, Sidewalk Diamonds at Pilllar Forum
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
Wash away the cares of the day with an exquisite evening of rock and still get home for a reasonable bedtime.
If you're going into a bunker for the presumed apocalypse, you don't want to spend that time locked up with the worst twats on the planet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."
"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."
Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
www.bbc.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you're going into a bunker for the presumed apocalypse, you don't want to spend that time locked up with the worst twats on the planet
I played in the Entry that night! Our band was Flood, and I remember crossing over to see who was in the mainroom and being underwhelmed. I later became a big fan but never got to see them play again.
On this date: October 14, 1991. Nirvana played at First Avenue approximately three weeks after “Nevermind” was released.
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I played in the Entry that night! Our band was Flood, and I remember crossing over to see who was in the mainroom and being underwhelmed. I later became a big fan but never got to see them play again.