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Kieran Vriezen
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Nurse, hobby photographer, and Minnesotan Millennial just doing my best.
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The sky is pretty #twincities #northernlights
Northern lights above dark trees. The lights are mostly red with a little green Northern lights above dark trees. There is also the silhouette of a chimney in the lower left corner. The lights are mostly green with a bit of red.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Seen in the wild in St. Paul, MN
A crowd of protesters, someone is holding a sign in the background saying "Tom Homan is a bitch" with a black and white illustration of Homan cowering
June 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Some quintessential #MN protest signs #NoKings
A protest sign with an image of Kris Lindahl with his arms outstretched. The text says "we are this pissed." Various other signs and American flags are in the background. A protest crowd is marching. One person holds a protest sign with a laser loon lasering a crown on a blue background. The text says "ope no kings" Beneath is another sign with the text"when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." In the background is also a pride flag with the trans and intersex components included.
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Some exceptional protest signs
#MN #NoKings
Two colorful protest signs held by two people. The sign on the left says "No kings (except drag kings)" and the sign on the right says "I only bow to queens" with a glittery drawing of a drag queen.
June 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It's a bit dreary, but the crowd at the TC Gemini Women's Rugby game is not dissuaded.
The TC Gemini and Boston Banshees logos are displayed on a screen. Both have been recolored in pride/trans colors.
June 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Walked with the Minnesota Nurses Association for our informational picket this morning! We want safe staffing ratios!

Join us again from 2p-5p this afternoon for another round!
#unionstrong #picketingforpatientcare #patientsbeforeprofits #safestaffingsaveslives #safestaffingnow
A group of nurses are walking along a sidewalk in front of a terracotta colored building. The nurses are mostly wearing red, some in navy scrubs. They carry signs on wooden stakes. The signs have one side with "patients over profits" printed twice. The other side has "safe staffing" with handwritten messages below. A nurse in the foreground carries a megaphone by her side.
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I also took a dewy iris photo today!
A photograph of a yellow iris. The flower is centered in the frame, greenery in the background. There is morning dew on the iris.
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Another that comes to mind:
A scene from Doctor Who, with actor David Tennant in the TARDIS with an emotional look on his face. He has just said "I don't want to go," as he is about to regenerate into the next Doctor
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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A still from the funeral scene in Love Actually. The shot is a close up of actor Liam Neeson's distraught face as his character carries his wife's casket from the church. In the still you can see some of the casket on his shoulder, his hand gripping the bottom. Another pallbearer is in the background.
May 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Did you know the Twin Cities has a women's rugby league? Watching the TC Gemini play a home game at TCO stadium on a beautiful Friday night.
A digital scoreboard shows the logo of the TC Gemini. The logo is two green snakes facing each other with their tongues out. The text TC Gemini is below. The background is a blue sky.
May 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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An old photo, but one I enjoy. Taken at Longfellow Gardens.
#birds
An iridescent greem hummingbird sits on a single yellow flower with a long stem. The bird is in profile facing left. The background is green and on the left side of the image are more yellow flowers.
April 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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With a bonus car fire (?) in the parking ramp!
A parking ramp at Target Field has dark smoke coming off the roof
April 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Crashing the economy to own the libs
A meme that uses a picture from Trump's first term. The image depicts Trump standing with his arms slightly out, palms facing the viewer and fingers spread. He is in a room in the White House. The original picture had an array of McDonald's burgers/sandwiches one a table in the foreground. This meme instead has images of the stock market values in red depicting falling values superimposed in the foreground.
April 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I saved this screenshot of the text in my notes on my phone. The 2020 election hadn't happened yet, and I wanted to remember this article, these predictions, for what seemed like Trump's inevitable 2nd term. 2/x
A screenshot of an article with the following text: A second Trump term? It will involve all of the following. Shock troops on the streets. Disappearances becoming everyday events. Critics and dissidents being tortured in hidden jails. Expression and thought being monitored for any negative portrayal of the fascists. Hated minorities institutionally dehumanized and resegregated. It will involve levels of such horrific violence and brutality that Americans still cannot understand or grasp precisely because they have been lucky enough to have never yet personally experienced them. So leave it to us. We survivors. We dispossessed ones. The exiles and orphans of modernity. The ones who have never felt like we belonged. The gift we always could have given you was to protect you from this. But even the good Americans never gave us room as true equals in their promised land. That is how America got here
March 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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She's beauty, she's grace
A golden colored dog lays upside down/twisted on a tan couch. There is a blue ball by her face. She is asleep, but one wonders how on earth this position is comfortable for her.
March 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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My favorite sign at the Golden Valley, MN #teslatakedown, for my fellow #overwatch players.
A person stands in front of a tree with a protest sign. The sign is white with black lettering on a wooden stick. The sign reads: "Elon Musk is a bronze Torbjorn main"
March 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Once again posting one of @crystalcrabby.bsky.social and @aramsden.bsky.social's children for likes
A black and white photo of a dog. The dog is in side profile. He is a German shepherd/husky mix. His ears are pointed straight up, his mouth slightly open in a smile showing some teeth and his tongue. He is wearing a bandana and collar around his neck.
March 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Posting pics of my friends' cat for clout:
(@crystalcrabby.bsky.social and @aramsden.bsky.social)
A brown and white cat sits in a side profile, with one paw on a green blanket
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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She may not listen to me, but at least she's cute
#dogs
A medium sized female dog lays on a bed with her paws crossed and dangling over the edge. She is a tan/sable color with brown eyes, black around her muzzle with some grey, and white fur on her paws and neck. Her collar has a brass square tag dangling.
March 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Every time I go to Costco now, I stare longingly at these 15lb boxes of goat cubes, wishing my chest freezer was bigger.
Stacks of boxes of bone in goat cubes.
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Some of my favorite protest signs at the #50501 protest today with @maddydoll.bsky.social and @maddyswife.bsky.social
A person holds a protest sign with images of Canadian geese. The sign text reads "fuck aboot & find oot!" A person holds a protest sign with a hand drawn picture of the muppet Beaker. The sign text reads: "this is the only orange muppet I trust to tell me about science"
March 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I was worried all the snow would be melted off the trees before I got home from work, but I was in luck.
#winter #minnesota
A driveway cuts through a snowy wooded yard, with snow stuck to the trees.
March 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park

(Mine is steam vents at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park)
A fence above steam vents at Halemaʻumaʻu crater
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Eating popcorn is not a solo activity in this house. (Not pictured, a second dog to the left of my knee)
A black and tan hound mix dog rests his head and left paw on a leg in grey sweatpants on a couch.
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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View from the top of Ka'iwa Ridge Trail (Lanikai Pillbox)
#hiking #photography #hawaii
A hiking trail goes across a ridge/bluff with green slopes. There are other distant ridges/mountains in the background
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM