a mascot stands in front of a banner that says touchdown on it Alt: The Minnesota Golden Gopher mascot spinning his own head around like a benevolent upper-Midwest demon to celebrate a UMN touchdown

Hmmm probably closest to a wolverine (booooo)

But let me point out to you a family resemblance between our beloved Penfold (original animated edition) and this dude

Oh no I accidentally embroiled myself in someone else’s grudge match

And now I am invested

LET’S DONATE SOME MORE MONEY TO UMN FOR IMMIGRANTS, YOU GUYS

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GOPHERS BY DEFINITION ARE BETTER WITH TREE-CHOPPING TECHNOLOGY THAN BADGERS

There’s this German who works in Formula 1 who insists on being called “Dr. Marko” because he has a law degree and it honestly discredits the whole enterprise (of law, Formula 1 is always already discredited)

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A screenshot that’s mostly just Spencer Hall’s face and, most importantly, beard, but that also confirms a donation of $73.91 to New American Pathways

Here’s my screencap of @edsbs.bsky.social ‘s face to prove I did what I said I did. Go Gophers, go neighbors. Let’s rock this thing. fundraise.givesmart.com/form/9bJ4vg?...

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

I just donated $72 (plus fees) to count toward the University of Minnesota totals. I’m supporting UMN out of gratitude for the courageous neighborliness shown by Minnesotans this winter. $72 is to commemorate this story published by @sahanjournal.bsky.social today sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

So, my immigration folks may not know this, but there’s this MASSIVE annual fundraiser in which people donate to New American Pathways — a refugee-resettlement org turned immigrant-serving org — for the greater glory of college sports (or, if you prefer, Protect Trans Kids University).

You guys I just realized I mentally deflated the lyrics of PDA by Interpol to offer merely one hundred couches, when it’s actually two hundred, and this is an abundance parable right

The garlic fries they had at Coors circa 2002

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We don’t talk enough about how Daniel Pinkwater cracked this www.amazon.com/Bad-Bears-Bi... (this is part of an incredibly intertextual set of books which includes the Larry series, in which the zoo bears are identified as “Bear Number One, Bear Number Three, and Roy”)

I love her more than life itself but I cannot wait for the day she discovers Chill

Ahahahahah this is very well targeted

Oh no. I do love EP. This is fighting UMN for primacy.

I’m happily waving our state’s weird pennant flag at will in this thread, to be fair

Ooooh bad beat, your girl grew up in Ohio

PTKU making a strong showing but to be honest? My heart is telling me to show up for UMN

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Indeed, she was stalking the wild traytable

A gray-and-white kitten sits on the Washington Nationals cap worn by her human, who is standing up.

I’m not entirely sure how this picture proves the above thesis but I know it absolutely does

As a Washington Nationals fan this in fact triggers my affection

Commitment to the bit is the highest virtue.

OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE I AM ABSOLUTELY BREATHLESS

YOOOOO obviously this year of all years UMN deserves to punch above its weight. This is VERY compelling

My tinybaby Italian son who just wants to recite lap times and do crimes? Never

I adore the specificity and Spencerficity of this take even though I’m at best 1 for 3

I do think that the Vols as a team name dovetails nicely with NAP!

I regret to inform you that I grew up in Cincinnati when UC had a real basketball team. I can never root for Kentucky.

Unfortunately, someone has wisely determined that letting the cat onto the traytable is more likely to be a bad idea than not, given that it is so often occupied by food or laptop

::flutters in best coquette::

NB I do actually have a little Southern Belle DNA but it got pretty successfully quashed by my mom (the inheritor of said DNA) who is the only woman who has ever in my hearing unironically said that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

I wish I had the triumphant little MRRP she made the last time she was crying at the closed bedroom door and then IT OPENED (because I was prepared to go through it and then quickly close it again)

A gray and white kitten stalks the wild traytable (out of frame)

This is a cat who absolutely thinks everything she cannot do is an insult to her personally