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Erik Ostrom
@erikostrom.bsky.social
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Musician, improviser, urban biker, web developer, Minneapolitan.
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Loring Park (not the actual park)
Purple red green magenta sky through branches, between apartment buildings
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Loring Park, Minneapolis #NorthernLights #Lights #LightsHashtagSoBreeWontSeeIt
Red and green aurora over a well lit path Red and green aurora over a well lit pond, with high rise apartment buildings Red and green aurora over a well lit pond, with flares from streetlights on the opposite shore You guessed it, red and green northern lights over the pond again, also brush and trees
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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One thing I do when I’m not being mad about local elections is improvise a live orchestral score for Star Trek: The Next Improvisation. We’re live in Saint Paul for the next three weekends!

Tickets: www.thehivecollaborativemn.com/events/star-...
The mostly uniformed, mostly smiling cast of Star Trek: The Next Improvisation. Additional text reads: “The Hive Collaborative, Saint Paul. Fridays and Saturdays, November 7 to 22. 7:00 pm.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Huh, they’re also closed on Veterans Day
A screenshot of business hours that says this bar is only open 10-2 on Fridays and Saturdays. (It also says this Tuesday is Veterans Day, but that’s not relevant.)
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Reading James Baldwin and highlighting half of every other paragraph, is that a normal ratio?
An e-reader showing a page from The Fire Next Time. The highlighted passage reads: “One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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It’s pretty much every day you see a car some driver decided belonged in the bike lane, but it’s not every day you see four in a row!
Three cars parked in a no parking zone next to a restaurant.
November 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Quote with a pic of you where you feel really happy and your vibe is on display
The cast and crew of a theater production onstage after a sold-out closing night. Everyone else looks happy and justifiably proud. I am off to the side, squinting and visibly uncomfortable.
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Aw, come on.
A framed painting mounted in the branches of a tree, which has now been painted over with graffiti tags.
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Somebody REALLY doesn’t like pushing a button to cross the street.
A fixture attached to the sidewalk that used to hold a post with a button on it. A stray electrical cord loops around and ends with nothing attached.
October 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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oh no, it happened again
An unsmiling bearded white man faces the camera, wearing a black bike helmet with an I Voted Early sticker on it. Also a Bicycle Benefits sticker, but that’s not what’s important here.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Got this in the mail today. I would like to know how this mailer promoting progressive candidates got torn up on its way to my mailbox.
A sample ballot recommending votes for Katie Cashman, Adam Schneider, Michael Wilson, Tom Olsen, Andrew Gebo, and Jason Garcia in Minneapolis’s municipal election. Roughly one third of the paper has been roughly torn off, obscuring Cashman’s name almost completely.
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Every time I see this sign I think it says EARMORVE
A stone sign that says ARMORY, between two columns of short horizontal lines that look a little like the letter E.
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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This is a nightmare
Screenshot of a headline that reads, “How Gen Z could cope without parents: ChatGPT”
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Oh.

The sanctuary policy should be expanded but not obeyed, I guess.
Screenshot from the questionnaire: “Do you support the city's sanctuary policy, and should it be expanded? Yes, and it should be expanded.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Update: I’m at Berlin for the first time this week.
The house band at the Cherry Pit’s weekly Bible Study Open Jam. Piano, sax, drums, and you can’t really see Henry on bass.
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I’m at First Avenue for the first time this decade.
A view of Grandaddy, a middle-aged indie rock band, from the balcony.
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Gonna need “this is a commercial” notices on all things that are commercials, thanks
A picture of a TV screen. The screen shows a picture of a hand holding a phone that displays a car buying app, and next to the phone, the name of the app. “This is a commercial,” it says, followed by an advertising tagline and a whole lot of fine print.
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A SPEED LIMIT 30 sign on a pole that’s been bent back and almost flattened to the ground.
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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They aren’t?
A screenshot from Google Street View showing the bike icon painted on the sidewalk-level bike lane.
September 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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If you see this quote with a concert picture you took
A view from the balcony of an audience — maybe a hundred people, mostly white, mostly standing, more men than women, tending towards middle-aged — watching the Cinematic Orchestra at the Queen’s Hall, a former church in Edinburgh, in 2023.
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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My duo with @miketrost.bsky.social is performing for the first time since 2017, this Sunday at @improvagogo.bsky.social. Come see us shake off the dust in real time!
A very ineptly made banner ad with photos of Mike and Erik obviously cropped from a larger image with more people in it. The text says "TROSTROM, 'performing at' Strike Theater 9/28, 10/5, 10/12." The word "Strike" and the dates are pasted on top of the theater name and dates from our 2017 run of shows.
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Legit.
Promotional image of Joo Ji-hoon and (I think) Park Bo-young, from the Korean series Light Shop. He looks like a cool guy with sunglasses. She looks like a nurse. They both look very serious.
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Me every time Naomi publishes a new election post.
September 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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#64 on theatrical release, #7 when it went to home video!

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Screenshot showing the song’s chart positions in 1983 and 1984.
September 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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@dewayneforminneapolis.com hanging out at the @omarfatehmn.com booth at Open Streets West Broadway.
Mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis, a tall bald black man with glasses, gesticulating to someone not visible in this picture at an outdoor street festival. Two women are talking and smiling in the foreground. All of this is in front of a table adorned with balloons and signs for Omar Fateh, another mayoral candidate. The building in the background has a sign that says Juxtaposition.
September 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM