I do not understand people who claim that the prologue/epilogue aren't part of the actual book. Context, it turns out, is pretty important when you're telling a story.

Something I wrote for World Autism Awareness Day 8 years ago.

Not to kick a person when they're literally down but I was taught that once you commit to the steal, you don't look for the throw.

Call me crazy but I have always felt that people in positions of power should be held to higher standards.

I was in a phone call so it's late but.... AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

My official statement on Trans Visibility Day:

IANAL, but I don't see how this doesn't get thrown out for lack of standing. Fucking administration looking for anything to punish our state. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

***Drink each time someone misidentifies Saint Paul as Minneapolis*** I CAN’T FEEL MY TEETH DO I STILL HAVE THEM?!?!?

Helicopter Fuck Off

Frey's a Republican. So is Anders Folk.

Yes, there's cognitive benefits here, but you know what else that's been gutted or dropped that has proven school benefits? The arts. Whoever decided school's only purpose was to crank out workers instead of well rounded citizens, classes in the arts consistently get cut, to society's detriment.

I knew this was coming, but it's time. apnews.com/article/moha...

I can't stop thinking about this. In my limited experience, most security vulnerabilities were software based, so why the panic about hardware. Why insist on manufacturing here? The cynic in me thinks they want to force US companies to provide a hardware backdoor for surveillance.

These petty fuckers... apnews.com/article/pent...

Wait wait wait... So because there are malicious attacks against various infrastructure targets (as there have been since the dawn of Al Gore's Internet), they're blackmailing the consumer brands because they think foreign black hats want to crack my gaming PC? Fuck. These. Idiots.

Last day for public comment on "Rethinking I-94"! You have until 1 minute before midnight to make your feelings known about MnDOT excluding freeway removal from consideration, defining environmental & health harms in ways that ignore tire particle pollution, pretending ebikes don't exist etc...

Still have time for comments!

"Mexico will pay for the wall." These guys are delusional.

What the fuck is this? None of these people even sound real and their copy sounds like a MadLib of optimistic bullshit.

At $5 million each, those three little words probably have had an outsized damaging effect on the U's reputation. It's almost impressive if it weren't so fucking stupid.

I guess we're not allowed to have nice things.

My house has an empty bedroom from now til June, if you know anybody seeking a temporary place to stay (between leases maybe?) lmk

Two minutes of pure joy.

I love this idea. It could be Saint Paul's own version of The Argonath.

Yes but who will even notice?

This is a fun story about how they had to find a last-second sub for the lead role in an opera. He got to the opera hall less than half an hour before curtain, and while he'd sung the role before and knew the music, he didn't know the staging and had no rehearsal time. www.wrr101.org/2026/03/the-...

Honestly, my Dr Forester glasses means I can safely travel St Patrick's Day without even realizing that wearing green is just covered by default.

One last Irish themed post: If you haven't watched Derry Girls yet please do. Treat yourself. It's ridiculously good.

This was a dressing down. The follow up is going to be a doozy.

Mamdani just doesn't miss. This is a masterclass on how to transform a simple holiday greeting into a moving tribute to empathy, solidarity, and citizenship. Definitely worth a couple minutes of your time.

FFS, I am dumbfounded how many times Liverpool give up a goal in the closing minutes of a game. If they could've protected their lead in half of those chances, they would be in a comfortable position for Champions next year.

Ope... Too true.

I've long held that Firefly was best as just a single season and had it got a second season, it likely would've further tarnished any fond memories I have of the show. This announcement doesn't change that feeling one bit. It remains problematic on several levels.

Hey there. Just a reminder that the feds love releasing people from the Whipple Bldg in this kind of weather. Snow removal is needed down there if you can get there safely so that Havenwatch can get to those in need. Pass it on

Snow sighting 55106

I wrote about the lack of “rethinking” that went into the “rethinking 94” process. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

If you use LLMs/GenAI for pretty much anything at this point I think less of you. It is a technology being used so out of its element that it only makes things worse now.

Nekima on the Target boycott.

I'm glad to see that Marathon is getting some good press. There's a strong contingent of Destiny players that wants this game to fail because they blame the studio for pulling resources from Destiny. I believe that a healthy Marathon game is good for both Bungie and Destiny.

Oh. My. God. Who the fuck is in charge of this clown car??? Yeah yeah, Schumer/Jeffries, but the chucklefucks have policy people, right??? Is there anyone in the room who will tell them what a dumb fucking idea this is???

I will travel back in time and destroy whatever butterfly flapped its wings at the wrong time to get us away from this particular hellscape.

Need a positive distraction to look forward to? UK's National Theater is streaming the full performance of their recent run of The Importance of Being Earnest featuring Sharon D. Clarke and Ncuti Gatwa between March 12-18 on YouTube!

I was in DC when he was elected and the whole city was in celebration. People were rejoicing and dancing on U Street. The feeling in the district was absolutely electric. I was high fiving total strangers as we passed. I've never seen such community joy like that.

This is in my wheelhouse, though in the interests of accuracy, I will also be in my bathrobe.

OH YEAH!

So a kazoo is no bueno, but you can bring a fucking trombone???

What a list! Glad they didn't include all the players ranked between 31-40 after they fell into that black hole. And you really can't rank anyone between Trek Kryen and Mann Nhisor. Randy "the Big Unit" Johnson, who definitely played for LA, deserves those two spots too.

Today is Bandcamp Friday.