This 🧵 is amazing and also why kids have to be bored in groups. My 6th grade bestie and I tried to write a sequel to Grease and drew our own Montgomery Ward catalog with pages and pages of appliances and sales copy. But this is art.

Twin Cities BlueSky is the best BlueSky

He’s the Cities97 music director now

This is freaking incredible

Prof Elaine Auyoung contributed to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century ("The Drama of Comparison: Alex Woloch on Jane Austen"):

You can really tell the locals from the outsiders in the comments and quotes. People will say what they need to say, but we have a very long history of actions that tell us what "safety" looks like to the MPD.

This feels like a sign of the apocalypse, the long-dead, never-born store rising from its grave. Dislike.

(I wonder if a group of activist men who happen to be retired would be called "grandpas" & also if USAToday asked each woman if she was a grandma & I never love it, per se, when people are reduced to their reproductive roles but also I'm exhausted & am just so grateful that 🤷‍♀️ I'm just grateful.)

Sigh, more losses from the garage: a socket wrench set and binoculars. Me: How did he carry all that stuff? Husband: Put it on top of our fucking snowblower

Me, nodding along to this whole thread: "I can see it."

Dear Mr. Onion, I have signed up all of my extended family (except the ones I think are secret Trumpers) for Onion subscriptions for Christmas, thus ending my holiday shopping season on the 2nd day of Advent. Thank you for your service.

All the leftovers are frozen; Thanksgiving weekend is officially over.

What do you good people like to put in your eggnog? I've been trying an assortment over the last few years and tonight it's amaretto. Pretty tasty!

So evil. These people will be traumatized all their lives.

My dog weirdly seems to enjoy this

Our Google Nest inside the garage captured useless video of the guy wandering around, sitting in our car, looking for something interesting. But it failed to do its one job, which was to send us a notification that I left the garage door open.

I left my garage door open last night and someone took our electric snowblower. This is considerably dampening my snow enthusiasm.

Still life with pie (I was too full last night)

My mom keeps calling it "ChatGBT" and there is no way in hell I am correcting her

Update: it works but possibly has too much cooked milk taste

My mom is 78 and has lived in South Dakota for the last 50+ years but she still goes hard for her hometown. I already knew she was a huge Jack White fan but I wasn't expecting the big cheer for Eminem. #Detroit4Eva

Happy Thanksgiving (to everyone who wants one)! We're trying something new with the potatoes this year. Wish me luck!

That is one of the prettiest Weimaraners I've ever seen

❤️🍰 HBD to my BFF, aka @rexparker.bsky.social, seen here already being kinda Minnesotan. 🎉❤️ xo miss you

"Sanctuary City" We don't have law enforcement here, just heavily armed rogue militias that answer to no one.

It's on

This is also correct.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Now that BlueSky is in its pie era, allow me to share a recipe for the actual best pie, courtesy of Al's Oasis outside Chamberlain, South Dakota. agupdate.com/tristateneig...

I know we all know this, but oh my God nobody who knows anything about LLMs thinks they're conscious. Media has failed us so hard on AI.

Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?

Neighbors' bumper sticker report (when you see that flag you have to investigate)

Whole Foods Uptown fog report

Sweet lord of winter weather, please make all activities be cancelled tonight. Amen.

If you're that type of person, get your cheaper state fair tickets today. I'm that type of person and it gave me a significant mood boost. www.mnstatefair.org/tickets/admi...

This guy fucking rules. I need to throw a lasagna party.

Some people say Road House is a bad movie, but I could a bad movie do this?

Super fun show with The Beths tonight!

“To be honest that task sucked, so I’ve been fucking off instead” is the Turing moment.

this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"

So sad. He was such a big part of the Minneapolis Sound, and it keeps slipping away.

Good point, and also so much fodder for the TBR pile!

Police Defund Minneapolis Again

I know everyone is telling you where to give money, but I'm really excited about this program. Making music together is so powerful and healing, and singing with others can be a great expression of solidarity—something incarcerated people really need. www.givemn.org/organization...

As someone who enjoys literary fairies and has to write about open source every day I am just

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw Devo Elvis Costello & the Imposters with Charlie Sexton Paul McCartney Ron Sexsmith Avett Brothers

Every single day ICE agents are threatening people and terrorizing communities. We’ve seen ICE pepper spray babies, disappear US citizens, slam distraught mothers and fathers to the ground—now they’re terrorizing St. Paul. ICE is out of control and should be abolished.