I still check the shelves regularly because I swear there was a brief revival and I still hope it happens again. No milk. Straight from the box.

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

Friends, I am partnering w @ziibiing.com to raise a family's rent by 4pm (Twin Cities time) TODAY to prevent an eviction notice from being filed against a mom, grandma, and two kids in St Paul public schools We need to raise $1276 more. I will personally match any donation you Venmo @wrigleyfield

If I say something about “sex trafficking dogs” on a coworker’s post about their “latest litter” being available soon, will I be fired or will it go perfectly fine? Probably fine, yeah?

Every time some neighbor’s plump indoor/outdoor cat saunters ego first into my backyard, they pause as if awaiting praise and concern for their outdoor status. Then, my lighting fast dog who actually lived on the mean streets tries to murder them, and the look on their poor little soft ass faces 🤣

I'm gonna be traveling quite a bit this summer, which means I won't have much capacity to organize public transit trips to the outdoors. So I'm going to start a website on how you can use MN transit agencies to get outdoors, and send emails with itinerary ideas, ~2x/mo. mnwheels.beehiiv.com

If I ever move again I’m going to first interview all the neighbors on their backyard fire habits. I’m so sick of being trapped in my house. This is getting ridiculous. Four evenings in the last week between three different neighbors. None of them use properly dried wood. All smoke.

🚨 A hummingbird is making a nest outside of my bedroom window! These picture are taken through binoculars so they’re not great but I have a crystal clear view. I am so delighted by this. I’m never leaving my bed.

One of my new Signal Friends had just moved to MN in November. She said she wanted to start biking so I put some spare bobbles on this bad boy. It’s been waiting for a purpose in my garage. Flowers in sidewalk cracks and such.

I recently told someone about how my grandpa’s autobody shop was originally in a cave on Wabasha and they wondered if he was maybe mobbed up. I’d never thought that. But I just asked my mom and she told me this crazy story about a poker game that got robbed. Highlights include: they took hostages,

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

Update: the downstairs neighbor at the house in question is burning STUFF in his charcoal grill, under cloak of darkness. It smells terrible.

My dog loves the water, but he just stands around like a bear waiting for a fish to jump into his mouth.

An IRL friend just invited me to do something and I had to say “thanks but I’m going to hang out with an internet friend” Really blurring lines here.

I just realized I’m living the story line of The Burbs a bit, I am Tom Hanks. I’ve spent my week off trying to figure out what happened with the death at the neighbors because there is zero news about it. I’m monitoring activity and creating a worst case story. The other neighbor told me how to

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Does anyone have thoughts on or experience with bike events and e-bikes? Specifically, I registered for Babes in Bikeland and if my health demands it, I’ll be on my e-bike. Do I just pull myself from the finish?

I want to ride this pup in circles around the “bikes will not replace us” people.

Craziest thing mine ever did was a couple weeks after my hysterectomy, I got my period. I stood there staring at the toilet wondering if I’d dreamt the surgery, or perhaps they forgot to take my uterus out. Completely lost my grip on reality for a minute.

I was on my e-bike yesterday and had to traverse the direction that I struggle with most due to lack of direct infrastructure. So I took the lane on Cretin between I94 and Marshall. I was traffic calming and it was liberating. Knowing I can easily bike 20mph is so empowering.

Absolute cottonwood mayhem in the late evening light. Protect your eyeballs on the bikes.

Sartini’s Subs, Saint Paul Park, late 80’s.

3. Don’t forget to hydrate 🫡

Years ago at a double-wide trailer bar in rural WI there was a soccer mom with a high and tight Lutheran hair cut. Surrounded by kids (at the bar!). A song came on and she cleared the tiny dance floor when she dropped into some breakdancing. Swept the floor. Inspiring. A sleeper agent awakened.

I made it. She is risen.

As a bday gift to myself I bought a print/digital subscription to My Villager. My first delivery has a 4 page insert from the dishonest twats at “Save Our Street” and I feel like I’ve been delivered the counter to The Onion. These people are a stain on our city.

A Minneapolis neighborhood school created a @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social registry of books to send home with kids for the summer, and Moon Palace is selling them at a 20 percent discount! Order the books for local students at this link by May 29 moonpalacebooks.com/gift-registr...

Belly buttons: I’d like to share that a few years ago I woke up from surgery with someone else’s belly button and I was beside myself, I felt violated. Then, during metro surge, something happened and my old button appeared. I was like fuck yeah welcome back bud! But then had to quickly move on.

364 keeps you out of prison. The underage white man who drove drunk and killed my friend got the same, with work release to continue college classes so as not to derail his life. My friend was the son of Mexican immigrants, working multiple jobs to pay his way through college. Terminally derailed.

My history professor. I went from academic suspension to the dean’s list. I ended up at my major before I knew I was doing so, by chasing the enthusiasm for learning I found in his classes. My first day in my first class with him he handed out a slip of paper and then left for ten minutes while we

He still hogs the considerably smaller bed. I have no readily available pics because he hasn’t joined me in years. He gets real uneasy in the wild. We once woke up surrounded by howling beasts and he just stood over my body staring at me two inches from my face, like girl we in danger!

Dear diary, I just edited someone’s draft, after which they told me they used AI to write it. I feel like I should be informed when I’m polishing a turd as opposed to giving a person feedback. I’d have approached it differently.

MN folks - could you please take a minute to write to the Gov and Lt Gov to ask them to revoke mining permits to Twin Metals? Please and thank you. act.sierraclub.org/actions/Minn...

I signed up for a brain fog and perimenopause webinar at work. My calendar just alerted me to it starting in ten minutes. Turns out it started 50 minutes ago. I can’t wait to have ten days off of work after tomorrow, to hopefully regrow my brain.

Seattle's "number 1 and number 2 priority" is being addressed with four new public bathrooms opening in Pioneer Square. Officials cut the ceremonial toilet paper on Friday. Story: www.theurbanist.org/wilson-rolls...

I deleted my “cops are here” post because I’m sad to report there has been a tragedy.

I fell over on my bike in the sand at Crosby Farm because I couldn’t get my shoe unclipped in time. It’s been years since I’ve smashed into the ground like that 🤣

Dear bike friends, if my tubeless seal broke last fall because I never properly maintained them, and then I let them sit flat all winter, can I just add sealant now or did I create a much larger project?

I’m not sure my imagination is big enough to envision all the amazing things Minneapolis could do if it wasn’t forced to spend so much of its energy fighting its abusive institutions of power. This is all horrifying. Let the people flourish. Mayor Frey is a terrible person and a worse mayor.

Minneapolis bike friends: The Midtown Greenway will be detoured at 10th Ave from May 19-22nd for bridge work. Be VERY careful if you have to take this detour on 28th St westbound as I already know of at least 2 people who've been hit by drivers not looking for Westbound bike/scooter traffic.

Name a song with “girl” in the title but replace girl with squirrel: The Squirrel From Ipanema, Stan Getz

Not exactly the same issue but I need to share the shots fired this morning, from my friend who is temporarily relocated to Germany.

#OnThisDay May 11 1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the United States after the bill is signed by President Polk. Because there are few roads and the telegraph lines reach only as far as La Crosse, WI, word doesn't reach Saint Paul by steamboat until May 13.

My sister gave me an early birthday gift. We’re both bad at holding back gifts. What a fun find!

My sister is a person of whimsy who loves fungi and her bday is coming up, so I just snuck these solar lights into the far side of her huge yard while she’s out. I hope she doesn’t notice until dark and freaks out with wonder. I picture her running out in her pajamas to investigate. I can’t wait.

I almost certainly can’t make this tonight but I hope there are more this summer. Sharing for anyone else who has been looking for the same.

If you’re trying to ride the B Line or 72 between Snelling and Dale, it’s still on Selby today. Go to your normal stop. Detour starts 5/11, but the Transit app and Google Maps show it on Marshall today - ignore that!

If you just saw a fun looking gal biking out of the north side of downtown StP, in a place she should not have been biking (picture 4 lanes of traffic where there’s cars merging in from interstate speeds)… I can explain. But more importantly, I survived.

things just keep happening and don't stop happening

So cool to see all the photos and footage from the return of “ICE OUT Protest Art Projections” at the Witch’s Hat water tower from earlier this week!