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Tim Lyles
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I'm a guitarist and teacher in the Twin Cities, MN, born in Mississippi, and grew up in Memphis, TN. I like lots of music.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Mood.
Bernie Sanders looking grumpy with hands folded at inaugural.
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Back in my day, there was so much toilet paper and eggs that we would throw them at the houses of our enemies.
January 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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"John Hurt had a hairless left arm." — David Lynch
January 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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David Lynch illustration
January 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Vintage advertisement for 8 track cassettes from Columbia House -"11 albums for $1 (plus shipping and handling)"
January 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Charles Person, Freedom Rider
January 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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January 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Sam Moore of Sam & Dave RIP
January 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Geometric cubist-style illustration of Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 by NYC artist Adam Lister
January 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Vintage black-and-white photo of middle-aged lady and her large poodle, each under their own salon hair dryer, c. 1960 by British photographer John Drysdale
January 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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A stylistic painting of a goose by a woman's legs by CA artist Kenton Nelson
January 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Unlike you, I got my news from a reliable source
January 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Alexander Smirnov
January 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Vintage color poster art from 1960s of teens on a beach, one with a yellow robe, a towel, and bar of soap, with the slogan "Keep Clean"
January 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Vintage comic book frame of a robot holding a chair from M-11 (Earth-616) Menace #11 (January, 1954) Marvel Comics
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Black-and-white 1963 vintage photo of a worker preparing an Explorer XVII Satellite
January 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Canada as 51st state= frown; MN as a Canadian province= perhaps
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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A two color red and white illustration of a bird perched on a branch with a swirl of sky and clouds surrounding it for Eternal Cloud of Self by Christopher J. Roe
January 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A colorful portrait of the head of a young woman by artist Lui Ferreyra, using discrete shapes of bright color as highlights and shadows.
January 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A red-haired child rides on the back of a koi fish while fireflies fly around in artist Kazuhisa Uragami Tysu’s illustration “Koi Pond” for the United Commons Record label.
January 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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January 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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“As my police body-worn camera shows, thousands upon thousands of people seemingly determined to get past us by any means necessary. At some point during the fighting, I was dragged from the line of officers and into the crowd. I heard someone scream, “I got one.” As I was swarmed by a violent mob, they ripped off my badge, they grabbed and stripped me of my radio, they seized ammunition that was secured to my body. They began to beat me with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects. At one point, I came face-to-face with an attacker who repeatedly lunged for me and attempted to remove my firearm. I heard chanting from some in the crowd, “Get his gun and kill him with his own gun.” I was aware enough to recognize I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm. I was electrocuted again, and again, and again, with a taser. I’m sure I was screaming, but I don’t think I could even hear my own voice. I was grabbed, beaten, tased, all while be called a traitor to my country. I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm as I heard chants of, “Kill him with his own gun.” I could still hear those words in my head today. What makes the struggle harder and more painful is to know so many of my fellow citizens, including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend, are downplaying or outright denying what happened. I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. But nothing, truly nothing, has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny events of that day. And in doing so betray their oath of office, those very members whose lives, offices, staff members I was fighting so desperately to defend.” — Former D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone
January 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM