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Pitt students and faculty have peacefully occupied part of the first floor of the Cathedral of Learning following pro-Palestine protests in NYC and elsewhere. Moderate police presence. The demonstrators plan to remain through Friday.
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@violetvolume That is fucked.
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@FacebookAIslop Oreo or centipede?
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Pittsburgh is home to some of the most change-averse people on the planet.
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@stylianos_k @PghProtests Missed opportunity to say โ€œkeep it upโ€
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While you suckers wait in line I'll be at Red's Good News crushing the city's best smash burger for $7
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Iโ€™m here at Pittsburghโ€™s first Shake Shack location, which has just officially opened. Check out the line:
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@jamieloftusHELP I get immense joy from the old Brit farmer guy who ends every message with "cheers"
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@casschass @wmata Great minds
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The Johnstown Flood is an epic lesson in rich people sucking
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@danielgilman Great job; I'm sure the citizens of Cranberry will be excited to visit this latest addition to StripWorldยฎ
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@ub_illuminated @Indians Wow, your childhood must have been awfully fragile if a name change ruined the whole entire thing โ„๏ธ I hope you can turn to your guardians for comfort
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Wow, subtle
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NEW: A leaked document obtained by WIRED details the locations of tens of thousands of ShotSpotter microphones embedded in communities around the planet. W/ @joeyneverjoe
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Definitive proof Pittsburgh is Appalachia
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Begging, pleading for a trolley line along the overparked Strip-to-Lawrenceville corridor
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Transit Talk: I am once again asking for a T extension along Railroad St.

Railroad St. is paralleled by neglected trackage that would make a perfect site for an extension of the T.

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โ€œI donโ€™t even go downtown anymoreโ€ โ€œThere are no-go zonesโ€ โ€œItโ€™s gotten so bad in Pittsburghโ€
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Homicides are plummeting. In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicidesโ€”for which we have dataโ€”homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard. If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news showโ€”>
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@KatMcKinley The parents' rights people sure are angry about parents' rights
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@NYCHomoCon The writers arenโ€™t actively storming the Capitol
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Who are Pittsburgh's biggest grifters and scammers? I know of some obvious examples, but there are probably tons more
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@ohip13 I get all my Ohio news from the Dubai hawks and money guy
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@atrupar Iโ€™m sorry but the J6 people donโ€™t seem lonely. They clearly feel a real sense of unity of shared grievance enough to form an actual mob
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I strongly disagree with this characterization of my work, and also the PG should have disclosed here that weโ€™re both owned by the same company.
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An incomplete list of things Iโ€™ve been called โ€œgayโ€ for as an adult: Bicycling Having a cat Sewing Gardening Waving someone across the street Driving a Honda? Having a high voice Having a piercing Speaking a foreign language Being a โ€œliberalโ€ Walking? Idk honestly
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3 months
Hell yeah. Thanks to everyone for reading ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป
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Some news: I started today as @PGHCityPaper 's news editor! Feeling super grateful for the opportunity and mindful of my predecessors' awesome work. DMs open for tips!
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Dropped in on a Bhavini Patel campaign call yesterday. A key donor on it has given to both Democrats and Republicans such as Vivek Ramaswamy. Other topics: Modi, Israel, and unseating the Squad. Read below.
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Bhavini Patel courts out-of-state donors with Hindu nationalist ties and pro-Israel agendas

During a call Monday evening, Patel, one of U.S. Rep. Summer Lee's primary opponents, urged local Republican voters to switch parties and encouraged national boosters to donate big before April's...

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Incarcerating people for experiencing homelessness is like citing drivers for breaking down or getting a flat. Itโ€™s pure kicking people when theyโ€™re down.
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Of all the questionable building choices in Lawrenceville, this fake ivy wall might take the cake
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Ceasefire nowโ€”my take for @PGHCityPaper . Whatโ€™s happening in Gaza cannot continue. Read below.
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Opinion: On parking chairs and Palestine

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@TheMessenger Ope seems someone doesn't want you to read this
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After having my head exploded by Chat Pile, Iโ€™m digging into Mamaleek and looking for more in that vein. Any other suggestions for shouty art metal?
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Pittsburgh used to be a seedy river town. I hereby demand we bring that back.
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Floating palaces and โ€œpleasure scowsโ€: Pittsburghโ€™s colorful history of raucous riverboats

Though itโ€™s still possible to dine on the water, get raucous on a floating tiki lounge, or take in a meal and riverfront sights during a Gateway Clipper cruise, the days of big bands on barges and...

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Finally finished this #KnotToScale map of the destruction of Pittsburgh's Lower Hill. It was kind of difficult to work on knowing how many lives were upended. I hope to do more like it for other cities harmed by so-called "urban renewal." What do you think?
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@prem_thakker @demsocsean You get a star sticker for each day you donโ€™t murder children. If you make it a month, weโ€™ll give you an F-35!
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3 years
Footage of @KnollGrind grinding Pittsburgh into dust
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All this Bandcamp stuff is a great reminder to see your favorite bands live when you can, buy their dopest shirt and/or sickest vinyl and tell them they rule if theyโ€™re workin the table ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿป
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@DavidZipper @GM America does love a โ€œworst of both worldsโ€ option
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At a hangar near PIT for the start of the Harris Walz campaign bus trip through PA en route to the convention. More from me and photog Mars Johnson via @PGHCityPaper tk
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5 months
Can we talk about how expensive water has gotten in PGH? Our PWSA bill is fully $30 more than our electric and gas combined.
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@the_transit_guy WVU's People Mover. Very cool solution to a steep, fragmented campus
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If anyone else, especially former staff, has concerns about Shapiro as VP, my DMs are open. Anonymity assured.
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@colin_dunlap Thanks for driving some traffic my way fellow Colin!
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2 years
Just overheard myself being judged for being at a show alone. More for me I guess
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Goddammit I might have to mute the other Colin. I can feel my brain getting smoother. As someone who spent a decade in education in some capacity the latest take is just so beyond asinine.
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Hey Pittsburghโ€ฆ
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Ashley Reese
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Being *sincerely* nativist over a city to the point of telling someone they cannot call a city theyโ€™ve lived in for over a decade their home unless they have the high school degree to prove it is so goofy likeโ€ฆare we not all adults here or what?
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The southern end of Smithfield has possibly the most cuisine diversity in a two-block stretch of Pittsburgh. There's Indian, Thai, Uzbek, Sushi/Korean, tacos, two pizza spots, and good fried chicken at the newsstand
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A moment of peace on campus as demonstrators pray at sunset
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The Route 51 corridor is home to more than 7,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees. I talked with some locals about how the community got to Pittsburgh and put down roots โ€” and the food that helps keep their culture alive here:
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Bhutanese refugees bring a "Himalayan Highway" of unique food and culture to the Route 51 corridor

Eight restaurants abut the PA Route 51 corridor serving Himalayan cuisine, including Himali Kitchen, Everest Kitchen, Namaste Momo Corner, Nepali Asian Restaurant in Carrick, and Taste of the...

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An enduring Pittsburgh mystery for me is the bottles of piss everywhere, like even on steep cobbled backstreets. Is it Amazon?
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Sally Wiggin is a Pittsburgh treasure btw
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I finished it
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4 months
They let me yell about this stuff on the regular now
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As a city with a long history of steamboats and ferries, it's high time to make the Three Rivers part of Pittsburgh's transit network. โ›ด๏ธ
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Former Mattress Factory employees say admin broke the back of a union effort and is now contesting unemployment claims. This was a challenge to reportโ€”at least one of those former employees now faces eviction.
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Though many of the incidents at the center of this story happened last fall, now-former employees say the financial challenges of losing work persist to the present dayโ€ฆ
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@the_transit_guy I know youโ€™ve posted before but this picture physically hurts
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@LayMNs @hungrybowtie Brochures are terrorism...?
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Pittsburgh, I need your help for @PGHCityPaper โ€”where did all the nightclubs go?
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They're heeeeeereโ€”new guidelines, better rates ๐Ÿ“ฐ Pitch me colin @pghcitypaper .com! 1/
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Pittsburgh City Paper Pitch Guidelines

Pittsburgh City Paper is a freelancer-friendly alt-weekly with both a print and digital presence, and we take pitches on a rolling basis. We cover hard...

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@JDale_Shoemaker @ghkelly1969 Great work if you can get it!
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A Pitt cop nearly hit me on my bike on Bayard! Worth noting I have reflective gear and the brightest headlight known to man. So glad these guys have full-sized SUVs with laptops inside ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผ
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@realchrisrufo @GovRonDeSantis Whatโ€™s happening in FL is an unconstitutional disgrace.
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Hey did you know I embroider? I particularly enjoy doing maps. You can even buy them!!!
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@SuhagAShukla You can mischaracterize my reporting to your 30k followers all you want, but the fact remains that the RSS is a paramilitary group. This is my final comment on the matter; you can read the rest in my article
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The Violent Toll of Hindu Nationalism in India

A populist Prime Minister has legitimized Indiaโ€™s more militant groups, and targeted attacks against religious minorities are on the rise.

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@frednashpgh If you read my piece youโ€™ll see what I think of their โ€œjobsโ€
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Does this mean Iโ€™m doing it right?
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@baddantakes Burn After Reading
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My first @PGHCityPaper byline is a trip to Observatory Hill, where a fascinating arts center is taking shape:
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Dude I ran a 2010 MacBook pro for 12+ years and it still works. Writing this from a 2016 one. Skill issue
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Pine Baron
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Itโ€™s awesome how I give Apple $3,000 for a laptop and itโ€™s slick and powerful and fun to use for 2 years, and then all of a sudden itโ€™s a $3,000 paperweight that canโ€™t even open emails. Scumbags.
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Every summer, I ride to Lake Erie with the @mssociety in honor of my hero/late uncle Dave. We do between 130โ€“170mi total whatever the weatherโ€”covering 70mi today in spitting rain is nothing compared to living with MS. Shoutout to all who participated!
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@PImpudus Idk who you are Mr. Hornyposter but if Summer Lee ever solicits money from rightwing paramilitary groups I will most assuredly report it with the quickness
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8 months
Adda Coffee upset dozens of now-former customers by shuttering all their locations yesterday evenign. Employees say the move is illegal union-busting.
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There should be a trolley that goes to Kennywood.
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Hotties for Harris vs. Weird Don and JD โ€œCouchfuckerโ€ Vance is quite a plot twist. This is like Heroes Season 4 @Dan_Shaffer_17
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Josh Sorbe ๐Ÿฅฅ๐ŸŒด
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megan thee stallion just coined HOTTIES FOR HARRIS!? LETโ€™S GOOO โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅโค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅโค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Tomorrow I'll be voting @GaineyForMayor and it'd be super cool if you did, too
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2 years
Hey, we did it! Happy Friday!
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@pgh_scanner That was a great prank in 1997
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@Sassafrass_84 Posting a meme doesn't make what you're saying true nor does paying for a free app
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The student ( @jamesdpaul ) has become the master. Possibly CP's best data journalism ever?
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Pittsburgh City Paper
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4 months
37% of all 33,071 city-planted street trees line the streets of Pittsburgh's top 15 wealthiest neighborhoods. Meanwhile, several lower-income neighborhoods have fewer than 10 ...
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2 months
How do I hate the new Pa. license plate? Let me count the ways:
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3 years
@the_transit_guy Literally any bus route in Pittsburgh but hereโ€™s the 54
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I shouldโ€™ve known other Colin was involved when the homophobes flocked to my TL. Blocked at last. What a shepherd of assholes.
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3 months
Getting testy now after dark. Police down here in riot gear marked as CMU and the city bureau
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@lameypilled โ€œStinky holeโ€ lmao
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@RightWingCope Long nips sink ships
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@healthbyjames Do unvaccinated people not understand theyโ€™re also going to get COVID and probably suffer a great deal more?
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Scabbing is bad. All my homies hate scabs
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3 months
Happy Pride from the Pitt Palestine encampment
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@AndrewBrownPgh Last time I biked through downtown my cowboy hat got swiss cheesed by flying bullets
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Mark Cuban
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@colin_dunlap @bcuban You meant to say โ€œMark , the only thing youโ€™ve ever accomplished is to have two successful brothers. โ€œ
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@FacebookAIslop
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Can anyone name one instance of private equity buying something and making it better?
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@PGHtransit This was obviously taken on the 54C
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This has escalated very quickly
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Ed Gainey's communications director Maria Montano has resigned amid controversy surrounding an Israel boycott petitions she and other public employees and politicos signed.
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My best metal moment in Sweden for sure was doing โ€œHammer Smashed Faceโ€ at karaoke
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@colin_dunlap Didn't take you long to pivot to ad hominem huh
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A non-comprehensive list of spaces in Pittsburgh that I adore: - Carrie Furnace - Hop Farm Brewing - Saint John Lutheran Cemetery - The Cathedral - Bloomfield Beach - White Whale - PNC Park bleachers - Park Place Pub - BBT (Southside) - The Shred Shed - The Button
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Aadam Soorma
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5 months
A non-comprehensive list of spaces in Pittsburgh that I adore: - The Goldmark - 925 DG - Bae Baeโ€™s (back bar) - the 2nd floor at Kickback - The Frick - Umami (esp during Minka) - the walled garden - Fet Fisk (bar) - Diamond Beach - Brillo - Redhawk (Sharpsburg)
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Minnesota rules by the way. The Twin Cities have some of the best food and art in the country.
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@colinwimbles
๐•ฎ๐–”๐–‘๐–Ž๐–“ ๐–‚๐–Ž๐–‘๐–‘๐–Ž๐–†๐–’๐–˜
@colinwimbles
2 years
@RufusVictorious Oh, to be sure. Let me be more specific: old, white yinzers treat small changes to the landscape like affronts to their personal dignity.
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