Santa Erik Riese

@santaerik.bsky.social

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Ludic Rheologist. Cooperative systems design. Gamer.(not video games) Curious. Reader, mostly paper. Beard pro. Poet. Goddess. (He/They/She) Living on Dakota land near Bdote. Heart of US.

The stump of a 59" Silver Maple felled on 29 July, '26. The image includes the photographer's purse, skirt and shoes at the lower edge.
St. Paul forester finishes felling a 59" Silver Maple onto a pile of the tree's tertiary branches that had been removed yesterday.
Golden Oyster Mushrooms and moss growing on a tree trunk.
Santa Erik about to pilot his bike towing a trailer loaded with six fullsize brakes of hay.
An Earth flag flies above a Bennington flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_flag?wprov=sfla1 ) on the front of a stucco house in Minneapolis.
Photo of Donald Trump wearing a gold tie sitting in the Oval Office scoffing. A white banner directly over his head comprises 40% of the frame. On the banner: "News" ( in blue) (In black) "Trump announces Iran meeting in Qatar"
Under international law, established by the UN Genocide Convention, genocide is defined as any of five specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These five criteria are: Killing: Murdering members of the targeted group. Causing Serious Harm: Inflicting severe bodily or mental harm, including torture or sexual violence, upon members of the group. Inflicting Destructive Conditions: Deliberately imposing living conditions calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction (e.g., withholding food, water, or medical care). Preventing Births: Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (forced sterilization or contraception). Transferring Children: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. United States Ho... +3 For an act to legally qualify as genocide, it must be accompanied by the specific intent to destroy the targeted group, rather than a random or isolated attack. w Wikipedia +1
Frame from Walt Kelly's Pogo with the main characters singing "Deck us all with Boston Charlie . . . " a parody of "Deck the Halls"
Below a Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz: "The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn't a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war. The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can't build the nuclear bomb that they weren't building for the not war that the United States started. Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous. If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States." - Mohamad Safa
Swag at the MaxFun Meetup in the Twin Cities
Front cover of a paper bound book. Ariadne: A Novel of Ancient Crete By June Rachuy Brindle
An image of DJ Trump in profile with this text: In the end, he will have: stolen years of our lives poisoned our families, friendships, and communities destroyed our institutions courts, justice, elections, and the rule of law turned Americans against Americans humiliated us on the world stage weakened our alliances while our enemies celebrate and taken a 250-year democracy and treated it like his personal property And that's why you NEVER hand power to a malignant narcissist not in politics, not at work, not in your home, not anywhere. Hold him accountable. No immunity. No excuses.
Rock the Garden on Boom island. Stage a video screen in background, backs of audience in the foreground.
An image of a Tweet From Neal Brennan @nealbrennan Electing a Republican to represent you in government is like hiring a wedding planner who hates weddings and planning. 10:59 PM 06 Apr 20 Twitter Web App
3 video. 3cm green Origami crane rides a 6cm red Origami dragon. The crane rocks slightly in between the wings of the dragon.
A small cluster of snowdrops flowering in a leafless Minneapolis on 23 March, 2026.
1952 b&w photo of poet Phebe Dale (Hanson) Santa Erik's mother.
A large hawk wings thru still bare tree tops against a blue sky.
Thirty five year old American Chestnut in my back yard. Tree is dark green in mid August heat.
Image of a poem of Sid Ghosh's book, Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole. What Is My ahimsa, my American ahimsa is broken. Your British came to get my soul. Of everything they took, my life has only violence left. Have that and I will be nonviolent.
Screen shot of search for Emily Dickinson showing the only authenticated photograph of Emily in the winter of 1847-48 at Mount Holyoke. Her birthday is 10 Dec, 1830.
Picture of the night sky with clear bands on turquoise, lavender, rose, and purple above a thin strip of urban lights for scale.
Fall colours on the Mississippi looking west at Marshall/Lake St. bridge from St.Paul.
Crescent moon rises followed by Venus just before sunrise in Minneapolis. The image shows an indigo blue sky. A house on the left and a lilac bush in the right foreground in silhouette
Viewing the sky to the east at sunrise. Pink, purple and orange clouds illuminated above my backyard at 0730 on 17*Oct*25.
A half kilo orange and yellow chicken-of-the-woods mushroom (laetiporus) emerges from a stump on a field of grass.
Grifola Frondrosa known as hen-of-the-woods, ram's head, sheep's head, or miatake growing on a tree trunk base with oak leaves. Grass extends into the distance on the right of the image.
Close up of a beautiful three tiered oyster mushroom on live tree bark. Green grass reaches into the distance on the right of the picture
Cover art from Roxy Music Avalon. Image depicts a sunset on the horizon of a lake. The water is calm and reflects a darkening blue sky. In the immediate foreground the back of a helmeted figure holding a helmeted bird of prey. Above the horizon in orange letters the words: ROXY MUSIC.
Full moon shadow on unmade bed. The moon is obscured by a lacy white curtain which produces a variegated pattern on the bedsheets and pillow cases.
Inline skater holding a rainbow flag stand on the Midtown Greenway Sabo Bridge with downtown Minneapolis skyline in background
Hi Lauren, I write to let you know that I am withdrawing from the Park Board District 4 race. Thank you so much to all my neighbors, supporters, and donors - your belief in me has kept me going this long after the Minneapolis DFL convention. Thank you too to the residents of District 4 for giving me their time. I have loved getting to know you all and learning about issues facing our parks, from buckthorn removal to vehicle miles traveled. This is a difficult decision for me - I was so excited about this race leading up to the convention. My team and I had put in the work, and we knew that on convention day we would either block the endorsement or get it ourselves. As many of you know, Jason Garcia received the endorsement after a protracted and disputed mayoral endorsement process and an exodus of delegates that would have voted for me. That day instantly created more work for my team and me, and frankly, left me with a bad taste in my mouth that has been hard to shake. I love this city and our parks, but there are limits to what one person can physically, mentally, and emotionally take on. Politics in Minneapolis feels needlessly divisive right now. I urge everyone to consider that when we call folks we do not agree with "socialists" or "conservatives", we otherize people with whom we often share similar broad goals but who have different strategies and ideas for how to get there. I believe that solutions that stem from dialogue across differences are better than litmus tests that must be 100% adhered to. I am the fourth candidate now to drop out of the District 4 park board race, and the fourth park board candidate to drop out after the contentious city convention. I hope that, together with these other candidates, my departure from this race can raise awareness around the implications of this state of affairs. If you donated to my campaign, thank you - we will be returning as much of your donation as possible, after donating to park board candidates
A poster pinned with an Origami crane and two photos, one of several folded models one with hands folding a sheet of paper. Partial Poster text: "Wet Paint Classes Origami events and class with Erik Riese. Origami: Foundations of Folding Thursday, July 31 3-4pm $16.00." also mentioned is the remaining skill share on Thursday August 14th 4-5pm. Wet Paint's address 1684 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105 Phone (651) 698-6431
Alt Text: CLIP OUT THIS PROGRAM SAVE IT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE! Frank Matulewicz Presents: 'A Program for the People' 1. Efficient and capable administration based on elimination of waste and needless contracts and expenditures to lower the tax burden, without curtail-ing aid to the unemployed and underprivileged. 2. Eliminate juggling of funds alloted in the budget for WPA and welfare purposes. 3. Utilize Federal agencies, such as WPA, FHA, NYA, and PWA to create more jobs and provide the city with necessary improvements, such as a new City Hall and an efficient sewage system. 4. Distribute jobs equally and fairly in the Department of Public Works. Assist employed work-ers by making city purchases only from employers who recognize the right of collective bargaining under the Wagner Act. 5. Enforce the Bill of Rights guaranteeing the people their constitutional privileges of freedom of speech, assembly and press. Protect the right of work-ers to picket without interference by the police. 6. Develop and put into effect a city recreation program with careful planning to provide adequate recreation for young and old. 7. Develop and put into effect a modern health program to make available to all the people the modern advancements in medicine. 8. Strive for better control over public utilities and insist on the reduction of exhorbitant gas rates. 9. Recommend the introduction of such changes in the city Charter as shall be beneficial to the City and its residents.
Close up of several lengths of dead linden branches that fell from our boulevard tree in the rain last night. Moss, lichen, and fungus all populate the various bark and stripped branches.
Matthew Forsythe's Cover of the The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories by Gianni Rodari (©1973) from the 2025 updated translation by Jack Zipes. The subtle, stylized, colorful image includes a wolf, a stag, a giant's foot, a hooded child carrying a basket, fish, a snake, and the title woven together with gradated colors of blue, pink, green, pink, and grey.
Matthew Forsythe's Cover of the The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories by Gianni Rodari (©1973) from the 2025 updated translation by Jack Zipes. The subtle, stylized, colorful image includes a wolf, a stag, a giant's foot, a hooded child carrying a basket, fish, a snake, and the title woven together with gradated colors of blue, pink, green, pink, and grey.
Google streetview of 2456 W 24th Street in Minneapolis. Also, a red outlined bird's eye of the street with a red pin on the selected address.
A 6x11" sheet of paper with a quick drawing. The words "MERRY Cruise-Mas" and "Christmas at Sea" across the top. Four haphazard arcs criss-cross the page. Each arc is a different color, purple, pink, green, blue. Each is labeled"an arc" "another arc" "another arc" & "This is becoming An - arc - y" One arc shows Moma Kerry's"Hallmark" pass for Wes Brown and Vermeer tears. One shows Donna & Rob Thinking about Nikki DeLoach & Paul Campbell. Another arc says, "Happy Sweet 16 NATE UR GREAT in green and red pencil. The final arc shows Gail and Alice in 10th grade. The bottom left corner includes a Kelly green SantaErik rubber stamp. A dark blue portrait-oriented rectangle meant to look like a door with a Christmas wreath on it is on the right side of the page under the words, "Portal to chaos!"
Blue poster with white text: CALL THESE REPS TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THE "BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL". AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani CA-22, David Valadao CA-40, Young Kim CA-41, Ken Calvert CO-08, Gabe Evans FL-07, Cory Mills FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar IA-01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks IA-02, Ashley Hinson IA-03, Zach Nunn MI-07, Tom Barrett MO-02, Ann Wagner NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr. NY-17, Mike Lawler OH-07, Max Miller OH-10, Mike Turner OH-15, Mike Carey PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie PA-08, Rob Bresnahan PA-10, Scott Perry TN-05, Andy Ogles TX-15, Monica De La Cruz VA-01, Rob Wittman VA-02, Jen Kiggans WI-01, Bryan Steil WI-03, Derrick Van Orden 501
Tiny white phalus shaped mushrooms seem to emerge from wood chips. Some green plants balance the image
Cream colored shelf fungi growing from a still standing dead elm or ash tree. Possibly Dryad's Saddle or Elm Oyster.
Deep purple and lavender iris flowers against a rich green lawn.
66. All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.
A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.
Ground level image of Galanthus (Snowdrops) a beautiful, early blooming white flower that hangs in delicate pear-shaped lobes that open in day and close after dark. A dramatic blue sky is seen in the background.
Ground level view of a small cluster of Snowdrops - a beautiful white flower of genus Galanthus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanthus?wprov=sfla1
Bird's eye view of a stoneware bowl in greenware state. The interior is carved using the mishima technique. The design reveals neurons in black against a red/grey surface.
A mature Barred Owl looks directly at the photographer while perching at the apex of a round arch garden gate. Dawn light enhances the greens.
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, a mercenary contractor. He is sitting in front of a wall of blurred books.
These Are the Cities Marco Polo Left Behind cities invisible on road of silk, scattered into time, cities that dazzled eye and mind, cities possessed by passion for wealth, dense cities of desire, and the lost cities of youth, those of mirrors and illusion. And not behind, the one where we all live, *inferno of the living,* in welter of contradiction, just city and unjust city wrapped one within the other. Crammed into time until the city pleads: *Learn who and what are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.* A just city for its children. Visible, shining, on road of silk. - JOYCE KENNEDY *italics by Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities*
adrienne maree brown from an article about emergent strategy in non-profits.
Triangular pile of blusky profile circles, 13 across the base, SantaErik a top. A christmas tree of folk I interact with. Machine generated by DMing christmastree to
The artist, wearing green skirt, red top, and red&white striped knee-high socks, is reflected in the window of DUNN BROTHERS FINE COFFEES. Careful inspection reveals four paper snowflakes taped to the inside of the window.
Three origami dragons of varying sizes stand on an oak table with a 60 cm ruler for scale.
Freedom From Pants riders July 4, 2015.
A thirty year old American Chestnut is silhouetted against the pink, purple, lavender, gray, blue, and white sunrise on Dakota land. 6Nov24. The day after fascism won power thru a ballot in US.
In the foreground a white shed wall and a silhouetted American Chestnut. In the background a purple, blue, indigo, lavender, and pink sunrise.