🧵 Ranked Choice Voting is Wonderful Even When my Preferred Candidate Loses: a thread (and meta-level takeaway from the St. Paul Mayoral election ...that also applies across the river to that other place they call Minneapolis)

Watching sunset hit the clouds at Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater spring) was also amazing - the native oak savanah and prairie grasses are so peaceful in autumn as twilight begins.

So much color this afternoon! Wirth park near tee #8

If you’re feeling froggy, better leap

Not sure how this was possible. (And sincerely hope no one was seriously injured.)

In unrelated news, not paying for media feels good.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of jazz vinyl. The videos have names like “Jazz Kissa”, “Velvet Night”, “Elegant Morning”, and “Breezy Noon”. [youtube.com]

Here's what the Mpls. Fire Dept. sent out about the big fire in NE this morning. This was as of about 9am.

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RIP North Wind Lumber & Woodworks

Good night sun. I hope everyone had some serene moments this weekend.

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

Glorious night for a match. Go Loons!

Straight. Into. My. Veins.

kinda crazy how the Song of the Summer is this six-hour supercut of "Marquee Moon" renditions that Keith linked me @usefulnoise.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC9C...

Mask up minneapolis! Good advice to safely rinse your nose, throat, sinuses as they protect your lungs.

If you don’t think you have time for smol smosh potatoes, you can speed up the spuds in the microwave for 3 minutes before you grill it all to perfection.

More of the roll out with the @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social crew - sharing space with so many lovely people was 💯

It was hot and excellent to roll out with amazing positive energy and people of all ages. Thanks DeejayNeko and @deveric.net for the soundtrack

So glad the stone arch bridge is open again. Now let’s do Plymouth!

Please enjoy this serene night time photo of a public park in Minneapolis

Please enjoy this tree by the lake. What a sky, too

if any of my locals are looking for a job my workplace is hiring for a supervisor for our delivery team. We do all our in-city deliveries by bicycle, and I'd love it if our new delivery supervisor was a bike person. If you're a bike person / have a bike person network please share!

Following a rich white man to war because you didn’t like the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the stupidest things ever.

The band is HEYARLO and you should seek them out. music.apple.com/us/album/cha... www.heyarlo.com

Great music tonight at Indeed!

It is the official position of the U.S. gov't that working-class Latinos objecting to a military invasion of their neighborhood is an insurrectionary rebellion against the U.S. government, but an invasion of the U.S. Capitol & an attempt to lynch the Vice President is not. Got it.

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Eid Mubarak - may everyone’s celebrations be joyful and communities gather to foster peace and prosperity for all.

Boy if you wanted a smooth serving of a warrant and due process of law you would have left the ICE fellas at home. If you wanted to pick a big messy fight with political opponents, well I’d bring the goon squad and a tank.

So the big trucks are likely B.E.A.R variants of a "bearcat". See this thread for some excellent photo-journalism bsky.app/profile/mnsp...

Good evening all you good people.

I noticed that one of the bearcats had an Illinois license plate. There was also a plate from Nebraska.

Taco Tuesday

No particular reason to post this…

Does anyone know where all this heavy gear (mrap?) is kept? Is it staged in Minneapolis metro area permanently or trucked/flown in on demand?

What an absolute waste of the people’s money and time to stage today’s parade of excessive payroll, heavy equipment and weaponry down Lake Street. Effective government would have sent two FBI vans and one local escort instead of this.

I get there's a lot right now, but i'd like to share this. I’ve spent the last 5 years doing my best to cover Minneapolis by taking photos daily. It’s my hope that seeing the thousands of photos in chronological order will provide a unique look back. chaddavis.photography/minneapolis-...

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

Spent some good time at GFS - there is a path towards better no matter how hard or long it takes. I hope your Memorial Day is a good one as well.

So grateful for all the amazing people in NE this weekend. Art was everywhere, on people’s yards, in the air, in the studios, walking the streets….

I think it’s wild how much money we’ve thrown or will throw at making crossing Hiawatha slightly safer - Sabo bridge, redoing Lake St crossing, now 46th and 26th - when the actual issue is building a highway through an urban neighborhood. Just rip the damn thing out and make it a normal boulevard.

Amen, Bruce www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHW...

The green is in

It only takes a moment for the light to return.