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St Paul-ite. Used to do the roller derbies. Product manager on Edge at Microsoft. Refenestrations only. It’s in my contract.

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You read Ducks yet, @johnmaddening.bsky.social ? Can’t recall. We have it upstairs.

20.02.2026 05:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Our Kid grew into her adulthood knowing no other JLs but the ones served in the dollar bar next to those lanes.

I prefer their other burgers, but the Nook is amazing.

18.02.2026 13:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look. We like taking about technical matters.

13.02.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have neighbors everywhere

12.02.2026 17:53 👍 201 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 4

So if you are curious why many of us here don’t seem excited about Homan’s announcement, understand it for what it is. The problem isn’t fixed; they just want to go somewhere where Minnesotans aren’t.

I think they will find other communities just as resilient.

12.02.2026 17:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, I am happy that Minnesota may see a reduction in ICE agents in the coming weeks.

But they aren’t going away. They are just being sent somewhere until the next surge.

Some other community is going to fear for their neighbors and themselves.

12.02.2026 17:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I have tamales in the fridge from The Lady. They will be delicious.

I am sort of sad that I have to share with @facilitatorsher.bsky.social tomorrow.

I don’t have to share, but house peace must be kept.

I guess.

12.02.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t not love speed limit driving. It’s icy out there!

11.02.2026 19:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They have them playing national competitions as well. It is such a communication-led sport that the commentators need them to work out what’s happening in between stones.

Also, wait until team play. You are going to hear a lot of ‘HARD!!!’

10.02.2026 03:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gene and the other members of the Lost Dogs fronted the bands that kept me around a while longer than I might have. River on Fire remains one of my all time favorites. And that one you sang is dear as well.

Thank you, Andy!

10.02.2026 02:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s curling on right now.

08.02.2026 14:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dara's Guide to Handling Reality Minneapolis, inside the economic blockade zone where we are pioneering nonviolence, whistle edition

A pretty good write up of what it is like in the Twin Cities right now, particularly around school buses and dropoffs. PNW friends, I encourage you to read and share.

deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz...

02.02.2026 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The proper response in this case is, “Ope. Apparently "Ope" IS a thing in Ohio, I just live in a weird tiny pocket where no one uses it”

28.01.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are a lot of things I wish people from other states knew, and here's one: most of the churches here are VERY MUCH part of the resistance to the occupation.

27.01.2026 17:40 👍 434 🔁 97 💬 8 📌 6

I had a chance to see this performed at Sci Fi Reading Hour over at BLB. One of my recent favorites.

26.01.2026 23:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With much respect to the people who have posted "Parable of the Sower", I give you a different take on surviving disasters as a Minnesotan community: @naomikritzer.bsky.social's The Year Without Sunshine

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

26.01.2026 23:18 👍 77 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 1

Oh, that is great!

26.01.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved that book. When you took Schickele’s PDQ shtick and put it on paper, it seemed studied and reasoned and then you looked at it again and cracked up.

26.01.2026 15:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bitches have no idea that Minnesotans are dressed in our most expensive clothing today. You know, WOOL.

23.01.2026 19:15 👍 44 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

It was pretty cold. In typical MN fashion, a lot of people were handing out chemical hand and foot warmers.

But we were all dressed for it. You don’t go to something like this and not have at least 3-4 layers on.

23.01.2026 23:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Being in it was something. It took us a little while to get started, but we could we see more people coming in as we waited for the parade to begin.

23.01.2026 23:13 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Look. It wasn’t that cold out.

23.01.2026 23:11 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

22.01.2026 03:05 👍 9086 🔁 3058 💬 164 📌 145
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

08.01.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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07.01.2026 20:02 👍 33168 🔁 8740 💬 1604 📌 433

I can see that; I LIKE the world that they’ve created for everyone to live in - I just like the characters they’ve created for it more.

31.12.2025 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was bewildering to me. I understand that Jesse had a completed story arc and that starting Jesse’s powers back to zero would seem ham-fisted (seeing as it had a strong castlevania element to discovery), BUT.

A full story with Jesse at max power? And a reason to investigate? I’d buy that.

31.12.2025 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I absolutely cannot wait. Control was the last game I finished front to back where I gladly stayed up FAR TOO LATE and regretted none of it.

12.12.2025 14:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Broomgate: A Curling Scandal | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out. Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curl...

Technically the mid-2010s: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

11.12.2025 11:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Niklas Edin Greatest Curling Shot EVER!
Niklas Edin Greatest Curling Shot EVER! YouTube video by World Curling

For anyone who finds this: youtu.be/1iEnf3brmYs?...

This is absolutely insane. In the talk, I discussed how angular momentum is generally arrested in the last couple of feet as forward momentum fades.

Not in this case.

11.12.2025 04:15 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0