Man it was premature to show Mr 5 the movie, “Jingle All The Way.” After seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger flying around St. Paul in a Turbo Man costume… Mr 5: Dad can you tell Santa I want a Turbo Man for Christmas? Me:

Getting two different sicknesses from each of my kids who go to a different school. Can’t speak, swallow, hear well, or breathe without pain. Conveniently left out from conversations about having children 🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe cloud services are not so good after all. Cloudflare outage for CDN took many systems offline this morning. GitHub Enterprise Cloud is disabling software companies from functioning this afternoon.

“Easy ways to get explosive diarrhea”

Um Visual Studio 2026 is really good actually. I can finally feed CoPilot my instructions and chat modes! And holy crap SSMS 22 has CoPilot built in too. #VisualStudio #SSMS

It should be illegal to have professional quality Christmas lights decorated on your house and all over your property this early in November

I was hoping it would be cold and rainy again for going trick or treating with the kids 🤦🏻‍♂️ Life in Minnesota I guess. At least it wasn’t snow this year.

Me: *waking up and quickly glancing at news headlines* “The Pentagon ordered the National Guard to create "quick reaction" forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.” Me: *deep before coffee time sigh*

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

I’m sure each generation of parents has to endure movies their kids really love, but are truly terrible. However…whoever green lit the movie “Spooky Buddies” needs to be tried by judge Judy. m.imdb.com/title/tt1792...

Anyone in the Twin Cities area should really get out to see the Halloween Spooktacular at the MN Zoo this year. Some super cool pumpkins on display this year!

Alt text version of image. I will also post text in the thread below. The TL;DR: Kristi Noem is apparently holding a press conference in Minneapolis tomorrow (Friday 10/24) to discuss ICE and immigration.

Being employed at a place that is verbally acknowledging the transition away from Agile practices to a waterfall approach because customers purportedly want, “big reveals” not incremental changes based on actual user feedback. I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the management head count has tripled.

Minnesota, wtf are we even doing?

No money for pediatric brain cancer research, $200 million for a new Trump ballroom www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I’m speechless

Having kids on the spectrum can be challenging at times when it comes to hygiene. My 5 y/o son does ok as long as he has an explanation of why it’s necessary. Exempt from these rules are trimming fingernails and pulling baby teeth. Full meltdown tonight after tooth #2 came out. “I want it back in!”

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I’m not sure how many people in the twin cities realize the extent in which suburban nimby’s are salivating at the chance to call ICE on their neighbors for existing…because someone played their music too loud three years ago, or their kids laugh too much etc

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

If anyone out there in the Bluesky-verse has a recommendation for a SAD lamp I’d greatly appreciate it. My last blood draw already shows my Vitamin D levels are well below the normal range. It’s only a matter of time once clouds show up.

we need to abolish this shit

If you have kids, make sure you’re keeping tabs on the impacts to their IEPs if they had any. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

“…leadership in the Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Center, the Global Health Center, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report team, the Epidemic Intelligence Service…” “…the CDC’s entire Washington office was also cut. This office served as the agency’s conduit to Congress…”

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

I love how Jared Leto curses all movies and franchises to be doomed at the box office

The times are changing

I had a normal checkup today and one of the questions they’re required to ask now in this day and age is, “have you recently been exposed to Measles that you’re aware of?” MEASLES. The thing that should be an afterthought because of socially responsible vaccination efforts. FFS I hate it here 🤦🏻‍♂️

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

wtb functional government that actually represents its people and isn’t actively trying to make everyone live in squalor.

I would not have guessed that owning an Android phone and side loading an app would be be at the forefront of social engineering our democracy. www.wfla.com/news/nationa...

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

I feel like I’m going crazy that the general population public isn’t at an 11/10 outrage level by everything that’s going on. I feel like everyone is just silently watching terrible shit happening and going, “that’s a real shame” with the assumption someone else will handle it eventually.

Friends. I implore you to check your maple syrup bottles this morning because as I found out, what I assumed I was putting on my pancakes was actually a 500ml of Tito’s vodka. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

I just looked at my student loans and holy crap. I’ve been making payments for 14 years now. Only 11% of the principal has been paid off. Applying for income driven repayment is damn near impossible, but I’d have it paid off sooner…but I get penalized for paying off the balance early.

Got the first, “your kindergartener son has been hit at school today” they really delayed informing us it was MULTIPLE kids that hit him. I am livid

It looks like C# has nearly overtaken Java on the TIOBE index. I think as the more popular features like discriminated unions gain traction, C# will pull even further ahead. #csharp #.NET #dotnet #TIOBE

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

That is one hell of a show

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:

My five year old son just told me he wants to get his hair cut at the, “Confessional Salon” and honestly he might be on to a real niche business idea. “Forgive me father, it has been two years since my last application of conditioner”

Is that a correct statement?” he says looking at the anti-vaxxer with no medical qualifications whatsoever

REPORTER: Why do you think we haven't heard more previously about the tie to autism and acetaminophen? TRUMP: Nobody knows. I don't know. When you say it, you get attacked.

Trump: "It doesn't exist with the Amish community, and they don't take all this junk. It doesn't exist."

RFK Jr: "Some of our friends like to say that we should believe all women. But some of these people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades."

Trump wraps up his batshit news conference by again insisting "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL!"

Holy shit RFK Jr just used the idea that we should "believe all women" to defend the idea that vaccines might have caused their kids' autism, I am INCANDESCENT with rage