Neville: still available!

glad I scheduled our covid and flu shots on a friday this year because it really wiped us both out.

Not a single one of @ilhanmn.bsky.social’s white colleagues in Minnesota’s congressional delegation joined her in voting against this. (Rep. Omar is the only Minnesota congressperson who is not white.)

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

the mental image that comes to mind when I picture the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

they could describe everything with one single word 😜

Last reminder for tonight's (9/18/25) virtual workshop: we'll be sharing tools and tactics for making our work... not necessarily "better," but more *memorable*, weirder, stickier. Not just for poets! In this moment, this topic could be relevant to comms folks, narrative strategists, zinesters, etc

please do not use these tools. please do not do this to people.

Found out this morning that the night of the shooting, when they were macing homeless people to keep them away from their tents and forcibly removing people, one of the encampment residents lost her child's cremains. The cruelty is unfathomable.

...related, especially on the "what we do about it" note: this is a couple years old now, but I still recommend this resource from @interruptcrim.bsky.social, especially for media folks, politicians, nonprofit leaders, etc. trying to do the right thing in this moment:

“It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric.” - @leximcmenamin.com breaking down a concept critical to understand for anyone serious about the danger of political violence, who is most likely to be harmed, and what we do about it.

hamoudi sabri has responded to the shooting last night at the encampment on his lake st property - "Every Victim Deserves Equal Care — Not Displacement."

Several states have issued orders so that COVID vaccines will be widely available even if the CDC decides to further restrict access this week. However the majority of states have not taken any action to protect COVID vaccines access. Please call your Governor’s office!

I am technically still on a social media break finishing up a big project, but I wanted to pop in to share this one-session virtual workshop I'll be facilitating via @buttonpoetry.bsky.social on Thursday (9/18). Registration info: buttonpoetry.com/product/butt...

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

My former colleague was blacklisted by a TPUSA plant in her CRT/CWS class. The story made it to Fox News, and she had so many death threats that she had to have a police escort on campus.

It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard. Speech for them not for us. Violence for us not for them. The sooner we understand this the better.

As a childfree person with aging parents, this means I am part of the open-faced sandwich generation.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

Good.

Qatar. Syria. Tunisia. Lebanon. Yemen. Gaza. The Israeli military is bombing country after country – six in the span of three days – with total impunity.

Do yourself a favor today.

This is such a good photo and wow, that bear looks squishy. Must. Not. Squish. Bear.

Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete

I’m publicly calling on the @dfl.org to issue a public statement condemning what just happened at the DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. I’m sorry you were forced to experience this horrendous behavior @dexanderson.com.

"Martin was on the phone with someone identified as J.F. at the time of the crash, according to the complaint. According to J.F.'s statement, Martin said she hit something, and he told her to call 911." J.F.C.

Last night Cyndy Martin was elected to a leadership post in the DFL Feminist Caucus for yet another term. The incident Briana describes happened on July 3, 2024. There are zero mentions of any discussion of it in any of the following meeting minutes. People who broach the topic get banned.

It's not just the (Wayzata!) developer and landlord $$ flowing into our local elections, but blatant obstruction of the democratic political process. This is egregious. Renters deserve so much better.

This is such a clear and important thread. It's telling when even our analysis of problems is tainted by individualism; if we simply write these people off, we can let ourselves off the hook for not doing anything to fix the systems that produce misinformation and discourage critical thinking.

A nice thread on Bluesky's two favorite topics, cats & AI skepticism (Also, here's a cat. I recommend rotating yourself 90 degrees before viewing.)

Besides all the creative solutions people are discussing, there’s one thing everyone can do: M A S K

NEW: The Fight for the Roof Depot Continues, Activists Respond to City of Minneapolis' Lack of Effort unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-fig...

For over 2 decades, ICE has operated with unchecked power, tearing families apart and detaining people in horrific conditions. And now, with a $30 billion annual budget and little oversight, ICE’s abuse of power is reaching new extremes. 5 things to know about this rogue agency:

The Minneapolis Foundation is hosting a fund for members of the community to support the victims of today’s shooting at the Church of the Annunciation. Learn more at www.minneapolismn.gov/resident-ser....

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any community out there has lost their sense of humanity.”

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I went to a school like Annunciation growing up. We played against them in volleyball in junior high. A back to school mass means all the students, K-8, and their teachers, were in that church, witnessing this, being traumatized by this.

I missed in the early reporting on this lawsuit last week that it’s led by the Miccosukee Tribe

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

I have more to say later but I need to get this off my chest. Undocumented immigrants get to participate in the DFL endorsement and caucus process. They can’t vote in elections but are allowed to participate in democracy through this process. Stripping away their voices like this is wrong.

a group of statewide establishment democrats have voted to overturn the endorsement of the Minneapolis DFL, but that's not going to stop us. we will join together to elect Omar Fateh as our next mayor and will continue his proven record at supporting renters, trans folks, and the working class

reason 6134058 why "readers are winners."

My gen x siblings introduced me to 10,000 Maniacs when one of them left behind a CD of their MTV Unplugged after they moved out. This week I learned this is a cover of a song by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen (two artists I never heard of until I was grown). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AQB...

a big lessons of 2020 for the uninitiated *should* have been that cops—broadly meaning state agents—use whatever force they want on whoever they want. if you registered that, you may be able to process what we're seeing now with ICE agents and if you didn't know it then, now's the next best time

😍 we just requested our yard sign here in NE! thank you team @omarfatehmn.com

Comrade card for 8/16/2025.

As I wrote earlier this week: "We must also remember that a real surge in crime would not excuse acts of authoritarian consolidation. We must be wary of logics that suggest Trump’s authoritarian maneuvers might be reasonable, if he were more accurately describing conditions on the ground."