I can only assume the fireworks being set off nearby are to celebrate Vegas losing the Stanley Cup final

The weather this weekend has been so incredible, my garden will never look so tidy the rest of the summer as it does today.

I got a new phone yesterday and it has largely come as an easy transition because I had some experience using Jane's, but every so often a tiny settings difference crops up and I must immediately whine that everything is terrible and I hate change and need it to be fixed.

The American people can dismantle a lot of this administration's works by hand. It's held together mostly by flim flam and inertia.

I've just realized the way my sister and I message about Grogu promo videos is the same way my BTS friends talk about BTS. Grogu is my bias

Sounds at the park tonight are a mix of the basketball players' speakers playing rap, the skateboarders clattering around, and the Morris dancers' accordion & bells; who wouldn't want to live in a city?

Just now learned that Widow's Bay was created by Katie Dippold of "dressed as the babadook at a grown-ups drinking wine party" fame. A true genius.

jason chavez: “trans people will always be here. there is no executive order, no federal rollback, no act of hate will ever change that. this federal administration will have to face full weight of minneapolis and the people that love minneapolis before they break us and come after our neighbors.”

So close!! It's actually "*no one* deserves death by the state." 💕

My AFSCME council is hiring field reps to support rad Minnesota workers like me in our locals! We 💚 our C5 field reps afscmemn.org/news/job-ope...

Far be it from me to criticize the writers of Alchemy of Souls Part 2, but if my hair looked like this I would personally not tell a competitor that the tinge of grey at her temples signified she was getting old and losing her touch.

Questioning my decision to go on the Everything Collected To Make Me Made and Sad Place (Internet) during my break this morning instead of purely read my Cold War spy novels.

Feeling very fashionable having eaten this same meal including the cocktail at Hai Hai for my birthday

Hate when a new dumb guy I didn't know about says a thing and I have to hear about it

Finally saw Project Hail Mary, a movie that it turns out was engineered to make me specifically cry for an hour and a half straight over space and cooperation and friendship.

Solidarity with this unknown person who was also shopping at at Costco yesterday 🩵

That said TERFs need to get outta the whole league, tyvm ✌🏻

No time like the present to share this banger from Mastodon that no one saw

Sorry Detroit but yesssss we're free!!

Just learned about Jade Iginla in the PWHL draft and as someone who doesn't follow NCAA hockey much I feel like Yoda has revealed to me there is another Skywalker.

Oh thank goodness, Pannek's locked down 🙏 these three are all who I said I'd choose for protection but KP was the one I care about keeping most.

I only have to make surveys for the union maybe twice a year but now one of our members has seen from behind the scenes that these are truly my absolute best effort design attempts and declared she'll do it next time. This is solidarity 🫡

Thank you to www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse... for helping me find my early morning nemesis. Bird-lovers out there doing heroic work so I can accurately aim my sleepy rage at the American Cardinal.

We* really needed this rain** * I **don't want to do the yard work I ought to get done

My hot tip for watching a scary show: when the music gets creepy just take your glasses off and they can't get you

Minneapolis, let’s help our neighbors in New Jersey.

when someone asks me to go out after 9pm

It turns out my mom is the one person who wanted LESS of Pedro Pascal's face in the movie because she saw him and thought "oh right, it's just the guy from the last of us" and "once he put the helmet on the magic was back." One point Disney.

I decided to try an espresso tonic for my post-ophthalmologist treat and I have to say... I think for me it's two great tastes that don't taste great together

New Jersey we see you. Stay strong, keep saying no.

Hey Network, my staff union MACE is seeking donations from our greater community to support Khalid Abdi's young family. Those donations will go directly where they will have the greatest impact. gofund.me/7a0e6e036

On my own tonight so I'm eating a gyro platter and checking out Widow's Bay before hopefully a little sewing

I looked up a part of the Five Little Peppers for an eye problems reference. It turns out the whole section is 4/5 kids has measles and one goes blind and when they start to recover the mom is like "oh they're not dead!"; meanwhile the well kid was visiting all over town. Let's not bring that back!!

(TW for suicide) I recently watched some old hockey fights on YouTube while looking up something related and what we cheered these guys on to do, even in the 2000s... knowing now the impact on their mental health, I can't believe it. Sorry to have lost another former player too soon.

My heart is with our union brother’s family, coworkers and loved ones at this time. I am heartbroken by this news. This violence and Islamophobia has no place in our communities.

We shouldn’t really have a system where a department head can just “waive” regulations

These days for fave soft cheese it's Délice de Bourgogne, and for a hard cheese Ossau Iraty is, despite being a sheep's cheese, GOATed

Read the sequel to this book before the first one and I keep forgetting the twist is meant to be a twist, not a matter of dramatic irony where I know but the protagonist doesn't. Still a great one though!

Pineda always!! It was so great the first time this spring we went and found the door just open for everyone to walk in and out 🥹

Learning from Instagram comments on a GBBO clip, apparently British people think Americans love banoffee pie while the Americans are left to say "I have never once seen it outside of the bake-off episodes where they claim it's American." Per Wikipedia it's due to marketing in the 1980s!

[Goose honking] “WHOSE EVERYDAY LIFE??” www.startribune.com/peggy-flanag...

@crownofteabags.bsky.social are you aware that Offside News calls their annual awards the Veseys, named after Jimmy Vesey "for literally no reason whatsoever"?? The respect he deserves 🙏

incredibly popular meme from a dream i had

Speaking of religion, I learned that one time Mormons came to our door my wife told them "we're Unitarian Universalists so we're full up on God." Which is not the MOST UU thing to say only because that is reserved for telling people Rod Serling was a Unitarian.

Love a quiz! I got William Ellery Channing which is a) pretty accurate, and b) one of like three guys whose name I knew in the results because I'm not really into theology, so I call that a win.

Did some messing around with a little gelli plate, craft paint, and some scrap papers I'd saved for collaging. None of it came out how I planned and that was quite fun!

Bluesky is what you make it. End of conversation.

Re the latest round of "Bluesky is bad" discourse: I enjoy talking to kind people and I don't like exciting roiling conversations that make me feel bad. There, now you don't have to write a long thread trying to "gotcha" me, and we can all move along to use our free time in ways we choose 🫡

Made it!! I laughed, I cried, I cheered... it really was like a three-episode arc on the big screen, complimentary.