And ofc in the houses that do exist to rent that have lots of space, more than 3 adults living together to split the rent who aren't married or related by family structure puts you at risk of getting kicked out later by being in violation of zoning. 4 adults in a massive 4 bedroom house? No can do!
If you don't have that downpayment money, or plans to be in town long enough to make it worthwhile to purchase rather than rent, or extra cash or time to deal with all the headaches of homeownership... SOL I guess. 😔
I bought my first house because I needed more space to work from home while still having a roommate (3 bedroom apartments being reallly slim pickings anywhere in central LNK). I had money for a downpayment luckily, and the mortgage ended up being less than the rent on our previous two bedroom apt.
Something my younger friends have told me is that house parties are basically dead because it's becoming increasingly unaffordable to rent a cheap house. When I moved to Omaha, I had friends renting houses in midtown for $900. That price has tripled or quarupled in ~20 years.
screenshot of Mac's "upgrade to macOS Tahoe" prompt
my productivity and creativity are doing just fine thanks. what you mean is will I let you send alerts asking if I need the computer's help every time I'm trying to work in a document. or cleaning up a photo. or in Garageband. anywhere. big nope, only upgrade on pain of death at this point
A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.
On the left: Image of a figure skater on a pink background. On the right: text that reads “The sports organization that stood up to Alberta. Skate Canada won’t host events in jurisdictions with anti-trans policies. FIFA and the Olympics should do the same.
Figure skating has long been a space for LGBTQ2S+ athletes to shine. Now Skate Canada is taking a stand: no events in Alberta until trans athletes can compete freely. Mel Woods explores what happens when values meet policy: https://thewalrus.ca/the-sports-organization-that-stood-up-to-alberta/
For the past few weeks, in addition to solidarity fundraising, I've been compiling letters from across the world to MPLS (1000 so far) They've been shared in a variety of ways already, but today we launched this website. It's a tiny thing, but so too is every act of love.
loveletterstominnesota.com
oops! Thanks for the heads up, I forgot to give Ghost CMS my money when my free trial ended. It's back up now!
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
I think we should just shut down the entire concept of generating images using AI. Outlaw it, or as close as you can come to doing so.
I know it's not possible to eliminate it completely, but we definitely can stop companies from scaling it up to "industrial-scale abuse".
I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
The basketball moms are organizing
The dorky pastors are organizing
The preschool parents are organizing
The dive bar regulars are organizing
The book clubs are organizing
The taekwando dojongs are organizing
The uncles group chat is organizing
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
Ernie was the rare one who is both a top-tier shitposter and also an amazing legislator. He once sent me a letter from a typewriter (!) in which he quoted Popeye: I YAM WHAT I YAM
DOGE actually *signed a contract* to steal Social Security data for an explicitly illegal purchase
The good news? We’re winning universal childcare faster than anyone expected. The bad news? Ms. Rachel and I have to find some new song inspiration…
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lol
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Cute angry ceramic frog.
The frog has “resist” written in the patterns on its back.
The frogs will rise.
2 cute frogs mugs.
One of the frog mugs has “resist” written in the spot pattern on its back.
My 2 new frog mugs, face and butt view.
#frogmug
I think this Stack o’ Frogs vase experiment is a success, and I plan to try more groupings of frogs!
#frogart #ceramics
