just got my lease renewal and rent is only going up $30, hallelujah

This @ourstreetsmn.org new Policy Specialist job opening is 🔥! Bring Back Sixth, anti-displacement, highway removal--among lots of other good things. Spread the word to qualified folks you may know! www.ourstreetsmn.org/about/policy...

I need some leaks about the Lynx signing some players @terryhorstman.bsky.social @hansen13.bsky.social @cassidyhett.bsky.social

narrowly escaped the kindle fiasco with my 2014 kindle voyage. but I’m sure its forced demise is coming someday.

Idk why I continue to refresh the W transactions page at 11:48pm and look for Gopher portal signs instead of sleep, but here I am

Very dumb take but I hope the Lynx protect Kosu; one of Lan, Dorka, or Shepard; Collier, Kayla, & Carrington I like how Kosu plays (Ik she played only 24 min but think she’s got a ton of potential). And I know I’m a crazy hater for leaving 3/5 of the ‘24 & ‘25 vet starters unprotected…

I really can't recommend Aldi enough to people who find themselves bursting into tears at the grocery store over food prices. I somehow got almost two weeks of groceries for $146 today, including canned drinks. Yes, it was more beans and pasta than usual, but getting out for under $150 was magical.

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.

Map for sharing concerns in identified neighborhood traffic calming areas! engage.publiccoordinate.com/en/project/m...

I know I have some Lynx fans following me here.. Who would you take at #2 #Lynx

Damn, I just found out Andrew Bird is playing at Orchestra Hall in November and tried to buy a ticket and it’s sold out 😭

“People sympathetic to my views” vs. “dedicated public safety advocates.” Similar “experts vs plebeians” framing as the 60-day notice to evict vote explanation email. Almost like supporting the “public safety” facility is a necessary condition for being an advocate 🙄 It’s gonna be a long 4 years 😭

Some MPLS neighbors and I have been raising funds for mutual aid to keep our community housed. And now, join our Mutual Madness men's and women's brackets! Suggested $15/bracket donation to a trusted mutual aid fund to enter, have fun & help protect our neighbors. form.jotform.com/260738546284...

I’m so nervous this is going to be too cropped but here we go. #knitsky Pattern is friendship pullover by Aimee Sher

Imagine if LLMs had been designed, from the ground up, with some updated version of the Three Laws of Robotics? It’s not as if this wasn’t considered — literally — decades ago. This is what happens when computer scientists go to school and don’t take enough literature and philosophy classes.

WNBA-WNBPA CBA meeting now going into the fifth hour. Ask us anything

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

CM Shaffer: It’s important to listen to expert landlords who know more than us plebeians. How unfortunate that some CMs grant more epistemic power to these LLs & non-profits than the people they’re supposed to be benefiting.

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We are opening up our amazing Artist in Residence fellowship again. If you know any formerly incarcerated artists or artists otherwise directly impacted by state repression, please share. It's an incredible opportunity with a wonderful organization. civilrightscorps.org/artist-in-re...

Nair > shaving for shedding long winter leg hair. Never going back.

speaker: "We have not died for our neighbors to be evicted." and, well. goddamn.

Final score Michigan State 76 Minnesota 61 Gophers couldn't keep up with Michigan State's physicality and the refs let them play. The Gophers drop into fifth place in the Big Ten a half game behind Ohio State.

Aerial ski jumping, the new cat TV.

🎵shedding time🎵

I am kind of surprised that I haven’t seen any articles about Minnesota couples breaking up due to differing risk tolerances or one person getting fed up by the other’s inaction, etc. I guess that’s probably good? But I do wonder…There’s been at least a little friction in my own relationship. 🤷‍♀️

Gopher WBB is beating Ohio State right now with 5 minutes left in Q4. Live audio here: gophersports.com/watch/?Live=...

IME, before you apply for SIJS, you need to have a state court find that your parent(s) abused, abandoned or neglected you. In MN we’d do it in probate guardianship proceedings. It absolutely sucks and we also generally had to attempt to serve the probate court papers internationally. 😭

Gopher Women’s Basketball (now ranked #23!!) is playing #10 Ohio State on Wed @ 7pm. Tix: gophersports.evenue.net/event/WBB25/...

Please keep in mind that ICE still hasn't left Minnesota and many of our neighbors are still living in fear. If you're able, please consider donating to one of the many aid funds listed at standwithminnesota.com. Thank you again! 💖

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Friends, I learned today I have another set of neighbors who need help :( Young couple w a v giggly toddler, bought their condo last year. She works PT from home, his jobsite already got raided by ICE once, they're gonna miss their mortgage on the 15th. Amount needed: $2000 Venmo: Caz-A

I haven’t knitted in about a decade but started this sweater, “Friendship Pullover,” a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommend knitting as a self care activity. There is something about making a tangible object & the repetitive nature of the stitching that’s very soothing.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

you can’t wait for a nonprofit to save you when you see ICE kidnapping your neighbor or harassing parents at your kids school

if mpls actually got the nobel peace prize it would be so annoying for us. the city government would tout it for years like they had anything to do with it. the rest of the state would resent us. the president genuinely might nuke us

Holy shit??? “Almost run off the road by ICE agents. After being stopped and handcuffed, agents TOOK MONEY FROM HIS WALLET. He is a lawful permanent resident.”

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

There was an abduction in front of my apartment this morning. Afterwards, a Hennepin County Sheriff car drove by. Around 10-15 of us screamed at them for help, seeking assistance with the abandoned, window-smashed car. Some ran after them. They continued driving. 😑

Even my grandparents’ & mom’s tiny little precinct in Itasca County/district 3A, (about as far north and outstate as it gets), approved an Abolish ICE resolution. Mom says 8 other precincts that they know of up there passed it too. They had more people attend than ever. We’re gonna win.

I think one of the reasons folks have such a spectacularly bad time at caucuses is because people sell it to newcomers as fun, folksy neighborhood-level politics. People come in with (largely) miscalibrated expectations & so are even more disappointed.

28th and Garfield

People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.

cat pictures for morale.

I've found myself trying to help a group of 4 families trying to pay rent for February. They need $5500. I can cover most of it, but I'm starting to get tapped out. If anyone can help contribute anything, I'd appreciate it. Venmo: @eikleinbaum

Need is met! 🫶🏻

Only need $420 more!!

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

Smh