… aaaaannnnddd THAT’S what a tariff is, folks!

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

Bde Maka Ska on the way home

A second installment of my “Bde Maka Ska from the Passenger Side” series.

For love of God, baptize your gophers, people!

She was dancing at the corner of Summit & Snelling, St Paul.

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

German poster for MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) Directed by Dziga Vertov - BOTD in 1896

John Prine's The Tree of Forgiveness was such a great album — why do I just keep hitting repeat on Egg & Daughter Night? I took this photo 5 years ago this month …

Alright, AI. If you’re trying to butter me up so I’ll cut you some slack … well … nice work, actually. But I’m keeping my eye on you.

How I’m walking out of 2025

British Arrows Awards at the Walker tonight

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Just received this pin which likely came from my great great aunt Mary who worked as a campaigner for women's suffrage in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment. Feels so incredible to hold and feel the history, the visceral sense of how recent this was.

Wait … Pope Leo is replacing Cardinal Dolan with the Hot Priest from Fleabag???

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

The Star Spangled Banner is awfully hard to sing — I think this may be a strong contender for our new national anthem.

I know how this sounds, but the President should resign.

😍🎞️ @citycasttwincities.bsky.social @trylon.org

Down By Law at the Trylon tonight.

Writing the ALT text for this gif, I finally realized why I (and a lot of other film goers) would choose this shot as the best in all cinema.

MNHS has just added to its Emmy-winning “Music Making History” series. The new vid traces Minnesota’s role in the Edmund Fitzgerald story — and how Lightfoot’s song helped “the wives & the sons & the daughters” mourn. It’d also be great as part of the Split Rock Lighthouse visitor experience.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

Reminds me of a “Bussard ramjet” — a method of interstellar space travel first proposed in 1960. Carl Sagan talked about them in his Cosmos series.

If there’s one thing I’ve always said about Donald Trump, it is definitely that Donald Trump certainly does know an awful lot more about cattle ranching than cattle ranchers do, that is for god-damned sure.

This documentary has just won an Emmy Award. Congrats & my deepest respect and gratitude to @pedigreedbunk.bsky.social, his colleagues at MNHS, and the people of the Frogtown neighborhood in St Paul, MN.

Beautifully ruined by fungus as they are, I still passed on buying these binoculars.

All my life, I’ve rejected offers from friends to drag me into the fake elf troll king hero universe thing. No, the universe I’m in now keeps me pretty fucking busy and amused, but thanks nonetheless.

So, what Germany did is own up, as a society, to having committed genocide and resolve to spending the next 1000 years making amends materially and psychologically. NYTimes articles notwithstanding, I’m sure this idea is in the mix. Hey, Germany always picks up when Israel calls.

Finally noticed this sign today. Now I don’t know if unsafe behaviors are okay up here or down there.

Every Venetian blind is a hundred solar telescopes.

Awesome power!

What do little kids like most? Space and dinosaurs. It kind of blows my/their/our minds that one wiped out the other.

A brother of mine married a pagan. I think the pagan coulda done better.

Adios, Epstein files!

Every tree is a thousand solar telescopes.

Did I ever tell you that thing about why dapples of sunlight tend to be perfect circles?

Gaza, Nepal and the Epstein files

This is Charlie. He can't help but sing along when his favorite song comes on. 14/10 please turn it pup (TT: nunnyaaaaaaa)

Kristina R. Gaddy and I will be discussing our new book, Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo today (9/23) at 5:30pm EDT! Join us in person at @umich.edu or on the livestream: bit.ly/4gAREus

This is amazing.

This video is now a decade old, but it's still the most thought-provoking discussion of #AI that I've ever seen. (By @computerphile.bsky.social, which doesn't seem to be active here yet.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdV...

First time I watched this, I got an ad for Liberty Mutual … might have been a canny advertising move … but probably not.

Exercise your free skeech rights while you still can!

As for Bob Dylan suddenly becoming The Invisible Man … it’s almost like he’s … like, some kinda … unusual person.