*Paul McCartney and Wings voice*

What's your new year's resolution? Mine is 3840x2160

Gateway Park at Christmas Minneapolis Ernest A. Kjorlie, photographer 1937 Image: Hennepin History Museum via Minnesota Digital Library; collection.mndigital.org/catalog/hchm...

For your calendars: Saturday, December 27, 2025 is the last day that The Minnesota Star Tribune will print the newspaper at its plant in downtown Minneapolis. Sunday, January 4, 2026 is the last day the Northstar Commuter Rail will run, connecting the northern exurbs to downtown Minneapolis.

Wow...always be skeptical with these things but if this stuff checks out, Dahlia and Zodiac could be solved. Especially if the drawing described actually exists (and the Times claims to have seen it).

Reminds me of Van Gogh's iconic shoes as in this painting, which could very well date to same time as those that recently washed ashore harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

If anything is said to concern redemption, or be redemptive, I immediately lose interest.

Hi @metrotransitmn.bsky.social the announcement on eastbound Green Line trains at Prospect Park Station still says you can transfer there to the Route 6 bus. At Westgate Station the announcement says you can transfer to E Line, not Route 6. Not sure about Stadium Village, I wasn't paying attention.

For #Dinkytown aficianados, Lileks's old web page on the U of M campus has been down a long time but is accessible via the Wayback Machine. Some good stuff there.

avatar is just crash with smurf cats

phone booth (no phone), south Minneapolis

wearing a Keep Saint Paul Boring shirt to Matt's is a statement

I was walking along, carefully watching my step on snow over ice, when I saw where a couple turkeys had slipped.

Oh yay! They filmed it in Middle Ages grey because no colours existed before 1750.

One thing I love is obsolete technology being encoded in our language. Words like “footage” and “rewind” and “dial (as a phone)” that literally describe a physicality that doesn’t exist anymore, yet lingers linguistically. Anybody have any other examples?

A prominent local business is open today when they're usually closed! To Witt: bsky.app/profile/elec...

sometimes i am putting away groceries and my brain goes “Amerigo Vespucci” no explanation

shoutout to all the retail outlets that are closed Mondays including when Monday falls on one of the last two or three shopping days before Xmas

Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

data analysis:

Because of course they are

RTing b/c Chris forgot the #pullabunsky hashtag (again!)

Classic U of MN area holiday decor

Datapoint: The Finnish Bistro in Saint Paul is now out of pulla buns. They only get a few per day unless you order ahead.

Did you know: The Washington Ave. pedestrian bridge at the U was designed by Ralph Rapson in 1960. He originally planned to put shops and a bookstore inside the walkway.

The trees on top of Gold Medal Park are beautifully lit.

*leonard cohen voice*

It's still pretty dark to be honest.

I ran across this innocent-sounding phrase three times during 15 minutes of scrolling and realized it is always part of something annoying.

Today’s mood.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Tinker Tailor Sneak Right Past Ya There

I hope this person works in derivatives

“On the morning of Oct. 12, 1981, high school bands from across Minnesota all arrived in downtown Minneapolis…In the end, there were 2,512 musicians, 496 flag carriers and 76 drum majors (beating the past record for largest band, set at Richard Nixon’s inauguration).” Gift link

Radio K holiday card. Year unknown. From Go Johnny Go.

Spy thriller where the climactic scene is loading bags onto a UHaul in the middle lane at MSP Terminal 2

The Clash steps @ Camden Market Stables.

When quiet, reticent, softspoken men have beards, I can never tell if it's because they have a beard.

The Trader Joe's/Whole Foods/World Market parking lot in Maple Grove is the worst lot in the metro

Lake of the Isles

Stairs That Are Famous Because of a Movie - Odessa steps ("Batteship Potemkin") - Philadelphia Museum of Art steps ("Rocky") - ???

Eisenstein shoots scenes of the sailor rebellion aboard a real battleship (usually identified as the Twelve Apostles, but disputed). He makes extensive use of Odesa locations, including the Odesa Steps—which has become the city's most famous landmark because of this movie. 4/9

Dec. 21, 1925: "Battleship Potemkin," Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking movie that celebrates a naval mutiny in Czarist Russian times as a stirring portent of the Bolshevik Revolution, premieres in Moscow. The defining masterpiece of the silent era is far from an instant sensation. 1/9

We've hit the bottom! Lowest solar noon of the year. Time to start gaining daylight again tomorrow. #HappySolstice

Stockholm winter solstice Today’s Sunrise 8.44 Sunset 14.29 59.3 N

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