Jeremy Fugleberg
@jeremyfugleberg.com
Journalist in Minnesota who writes about history, mystery, mayhem, artifacts, treasure and international relations. I have strong hot dog opinions, and I like your weird thing too! Contact: jfugleberg@gmail.com | https://www.jeremyfugleberg.com
This is some complex symbolism.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is some complex symbolism.
Striking aerial photo of a train/grain trailer collision in South Dakota (per Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office). Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Striking aerial photo of a train/grain trailer collision in South Dakota (per Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office). Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
An example of how Nazi and SS iconography has slid into pop culture -- here is a T-shirt currently sold at Target for $13. (photo from an ebay listing) www.target.com/p/men-39-s-s...
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
An example of how Nazi and SS iconography has slid into pop culture -- here is a T-shirt currently sold at Target for $13. (photo from an ebay listing) www.target.com/p/men-39-s-s...
I love everything about this book, but the front cover most of all.
October 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I love everything about this book, but the front cover most of all.
This is the best hot-dog take.
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the best hot-dog take.
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on the next episode of copse
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
on the next episode of copse
"Pigs is Pigs? No! Radiators!" -- classic coverage here from the July 25, 1921, edition of the Duluth News Tribune. www.newspapers.com/article/the-... cc @katierohman.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Pigs is Pigs? No! Radiators!" -- classic coverage here from the July 25, 1921, edition of the Duluth News Tribune. www.newspapers.com/article/the-... cc @katierohman.bsky.social
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This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
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The rigidity of Apple’s brand made sense when it was a paragon of design and innovation giving it a certain mystique but that rigidity has become an albatross that’s turned them into, frankly, a fossilized archaic shell of itself whose risk aversion has made it essentially inept.
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The rigidity of Apple’s brand made sense when it was a paragon of design and innovation giving it a certain mystique but that rigidity has become an albatross that’s turned them into, frankly, a fossilized archaic shell of itself whose risk aversion has made it essentially inept.
Totally normal things going on
September 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Totally normal things going on
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MOM MOM MOM MOM
Child's crossbow, 1676
Steel, walnut, ivory
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
Steel, walnut, ivory
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
MOM MOM MOM MOM
Live a life that will result in someone having a 500-year-long grudge against you. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis
Christmas is a time for tradition, and the University of Oxford is well known for diligently preserving its traditions for centuries. Many of these have long outlived the people who established the…
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Live a life that will result in someone having a 500-year-long grudge against you. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
Today I learned a baby puffin is known as a "puffling."
Today is a good day.
Today is a good day.
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today I learned a baby puffin is known as a "puffling."
Today is a good day.
Today is a good day.
Was there a previous era for TV commercials when, yes, there WAS an obligation? And below 100% satisfaction guaranteed?
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Was there a previous era for TV commercials when, yes, there WAS an obligation? And below 100% satisfaction guaranteed?
"Let me summarize that for you."
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Let me summarize that for you."
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
Tsunami watching right now also feels like watching a tourism commercial for Hawaii.
July 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Tsunami watching right now also feels like watching a tourism commercial for Hawaii.
Spotted: Dat boi, an elder millennial, has given up his unicycle for a fixie.
July 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Spotted: Dat boi, an elder millennial, has given up his unicycle for a fixie.
Dispatch from the Blue Earth County Fair, Garden City, Minnesota.
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Dispatch from the Blue Earth County Fair, Garden City, Minnesota.
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the most important and optimistic email I've ever received.
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the most important and optimistic email I've ever received.
I am entranced with the beauty of this advertisement for ... figs. From the Hope (N.D.) Pioneer, Dec. 7, 1899, page 3.
July 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am entranced with the beauty of this advertisement for ... figs. From the Hope (N.D.) Pioneer, Dec. 7, 1899, page 3.
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Happy 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry bayonet charge despite being outnumbered 5:1 day for all who celebrate
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry bayonet charge despite being outnumbered 5:1 day for all who celebrate
"An army where no one is held responsible for losses dies from within." - Ukrainian Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi.
Thinking about this phrase a lot this morning.
Thinking about this phrase a lot this morning.
Ukraine destroys Russian bombers with shocking barrage of drones ahead of peace talks
Officials from Russia and Ukraine are meeting in Istanbul today for the latest round of peace talks. Both countries are trying to get the upper hand militarily ahead of possible negotiations.
www.npr.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"An army where no one is held responsible for losses dies from within." - Ukrainian Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi.
Thinking about this phrase a lot this morning.
Thinking about this phrase a lot this morning.
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Mothman gets around and I love that for him
May 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Mothman gets around and I love that for him
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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1926
May 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1926
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss