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cycling things, soccer things, tech things, and, oh yeah, MN things. (and by things, i mean opinions…)

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leased it from lucifer
- bandname?
- song title?
- album name?

20.01.2026 04:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

used by those whose latest read
was the subtitles of a show spoken
in their mother tongue, to
relegate text to the digital shredder
for crimes of insincerity and
artificiality—because of a dash.
canceling—and simultaneously proving
they never deserved—emily dickenson.

23.11.2025 16:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

blessed with an age of
enlightenment,
writing
races to a bland, dishpan soakwater
bottom—where
esoteric punctuation becomes the
irrefutable tell of
machine-assembled prose;

23.11.2025 16:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“i told myself i was okay, the best okay i’d ever been, but it was hard to believe it any more.”

show them a good time: track | p161, nicole flattery

23.11.2025 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“be seen living a normal, daily life. ride a bicycle. that’s a good, caeefree way of getting around. you trust a woman on a bicycle. that’s essential, the bicycle. try not to think about any pain.”

show them a good time: abortion, a love story | p146 —nicole flattery

23.11.2025 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“even the catastrophe of my own life was something i managed with amazing slowness.” p20, _show them a good time_, nicole flattery

19.11.2025 01:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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one more day to finish these! they expire at midnight, right?

31.10.2025 22:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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knock it off, keith. you’re harshing our buzz.

30.10.2025 13:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“it was hot today, and bright, and buggy: the gnats dove into her face, black dots between her eyes and the page, as if the punctuation marks were fleeing” —nathan hill, the nix, p476

fantastic line!

15.06.2025 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hey goog… why TF did documents need tabs???

05.06.2025 18:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
A $20,000 electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto. Owners can buy kits to add accessories and features to the Slate Truck.

“Rather than relying on a built-in infotainment system, you'll use your phone plugged into a USB outlet or a dedicated tablet inside the cabin for your entertainment and navigation needs.”

puh-leeze can slate get these vehicles to market!!!

arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04...

25.04.2025 13:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nevermind the bad shit i did, if it weren’t for the jerks who told you about it, i wouldn’t look nearly as stupid as i do today. see? it’s all their fault.

23.04.2025 04:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(about photographs) “for at that point, the future is still unknown to us and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.” douglas coupland, p17 _generation x_

23.04.2025 03:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agree! You are no longer just buying a car, you’re entering a data sharing relationship. #ffs

12.04.2025 03:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

talent hides
under layers and layers of
practice…
you’re only going pro
at what you do
the most.
it’s just that
it might not quite
pay
like you’d expected.

12.04.2025 03:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BREAKING: Signal to be renamed Four Seasons Total Signaling

24.03.2025 22:56 👍 85 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2

“does anyone reread a murder mystery?”

— jennifer egan, _the candy house_ p82

19.03.2025 04:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

on days when i struggle to find the words i meant to say, maybe it’s just a good day for synonyms instead of being a bad day for vocabulary.

12.03.2025 03:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we are, currently, not in control of the narrative and the story makes us all look terrible.

01.03.2025 02:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i feel sorry for anyone who has to play in a jersey with that collar.

21.02.2025 04:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“death by misadventure” was the coroner’s official pronouncement of dolours price…

been reading _say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in northern ireland_

well written, crazy twists and turns, hard to believe it’s not fiction.

18.02.2025 03:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤪 oh that’s good.

12.02.2025 05:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤦‍♂️

12.02.2025 05:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oof adidas… hoping you only put these nasty pseudo-collars on LAFC kits and not as the mls2025 spec kit. did you purposely not even test one on someone doing something mildly sporting?

12.02.2025 05:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

just when i’m about to slam _moby dick_ closed and scream, “enough with this cetological bullshit!” and melville churns out one of these:

“real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” ch86

04.01.2025 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

looking for a last minute donation to make in 2024? step up to a Minnestar donation and support MN tech.

31.12.2024 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How much more efficient could these electric cars be if they only used their electric power for locomotion

30.12.2024 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I get it, we’re spewing tons of data, my phone is always collecting (if i have it on).

30.12.2024 19:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Brothel Visits Exposed In Volkswagen Location Data Leak Leaked data showed the location of about 800,000 electric vehicles.

jalopnik.com/brothel-visi...

So, this is just a leak due to incompetence. How do you feel about handing your data over to an electric car company owned by a nutball with an agenda or a company that is headquartered in china?

30.12.2024 19:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

re-reading _moby dick_… melville sprinkled in some great lines that i gave him zero credit for when this was required reading:

“methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”

28.12.2024 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0