I urge you to keep things like this in your awareness when discussing labor, class, and the rights & dignity of workers. It's not the *work* that degrades, it's the treatment and compensation. And whatever the task in question, whether house work, sex work, whatever, someone out there needs it done.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

If you visit Minneapolis, go somewhere else for your Jucy Lucy.

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

Minnesotan: Didja know it snowed on Halloween 1991? Me: Haha. Yes, yes, even I, a stranger in your land, am aware of the blizzard. Minnesotan: Didja know a guy who made 1-minute tour videos raised a buncha Kickstarter money and then absconded to Australia? Me: … is this a Berenstein Bears thing?

Wow.

Chicago’s drinking culture is pretty intense, but it pales in comparison to Minnesota’s, which adds this almost frightening veneer of casualness to it. Wisconsin’s makes Minnesota’s look like a pre-school dance recital.

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

high-proof proof

A Star Trek show with with men wearing dress, an atypical Klingon in Starfleet, a person with a disability visible and atypical women in positions they typically haven’t had in Trek before?!?!? How dare they?!? How woke! The Next Generation is wildly woke.

Only at a wedding in Wisconsin, morning after the ceremony, did I ever hear the term “breakfast keg.”

...if you're a trans person who speaks out about how horrible Newsom is on trans issues, you get *flooded* with ppl telling you to "vote blue no matter who". to which I say: fuck you! would you vote for a politician who says he wants to roll back your rights? www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

I'd never heard of this Mr Minneapolis One Minute Tour guy and, uh.... Isn't Mr. Minneapolis a title given out by a gay organization? Regardless, fuck (alleged) Kickstarter scammers who (allegedly) use the money to move to another continent instead of making the thing they said they were gonna make

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

I miss going to goth clubs and dancing until I was delirious.

My back and hips were angry before I did a bunch of outdoor stuff and standing around and walking and now I want one of those oil baths they have on Tatooine for the droids, only with warm water and not boiling hot oil.

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The building Danny's Fine Food and Liquor was in is now part of a local "Christian College" so wackadoo that they think the Wells Fargo tower is demonic and don't include it on their logo (which is otherwise the skyline ca 2000).

This is so crazy-making. She was the president of the College Women's Club and she's still bloody credited only as her husband's wife. Nnnng. I fucking hate the past sometimes.

Welp. Batten down the hatches, mateys, there be a storm a-brewin'.

Apparently more confirmed ICE are at Matt's today.

Depending on when, the vast majority (75%+) of the Spartan population were slaves without rights. That's really what these people are after.

Bruce Springsteen charts his first major U.K. hit in more than a decade as “Streets of Minneapolis” debuts at #92 on the Official Singles chart. The track also rises to #1 on both the Official Singles Sales and Official Singles Downloads charts, marking his first leader on those tallies.

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

I was at a campaign event yesterday & a politician friend made this very important point to me: we can talk about all the different MN elections in Nov, but none of them is as close and crucial to fighting fascism than reelecting Keith Ellison

Ironic statement given that he laid the groundwork for what's happening. Most of the powers the feds are using have their genesis in the "War on Terror"

We lost another legend this weekend. Lily White (Timothy Lober) hosted Pumps & Pearls for decades. It was one of the main stepping stones for people getting into drag. Such a gorgeous performer & gracious friend. The final P&P will be this Thursday night.

If you haven't had the lemon ricotta pancakes, let me tell you that's a great deal.

He was in the Navy 27 years. He had a plane accident in 1946 after running out of gas (but only causing minor damage). Died in 2006, had 3 children & a step daughter. Lived out in Washington State, his wife was from the state. They died within a few months of each other after being married 40 years

Since December 2025, “Operation Metro Surge” has had a devastating impact on Minneapolis. It’s disrupted our local economy, broken families apart, and worsened already existing disparities our neighbors face. An additional 76,200 people citywide may now be experiencing food insecurity. 1/

Nerd alert. In universe, this is supposed to be a belaying pin, which sailing ships used to tie off to or hold excess rope. Now, why they have them in the engineering section of a starship I dunno, fan theories include cable management or sex toys This knowledge replaced my freshman year of college

I am currently giggling with the delight of managing a good color/pattern harmony. Poor @silmaria.bsky.social is understandably dubious about a curtain pattern that has undeniable grandma/maximalist vibes. But look at it play with the art.

City Sportsmen Speed Food to Aid Gamebirds (1932) Source: Hennepin County Library Minneapolis sportsmen are shown delivering the first in a series of truckloads of feed for starving wildfowl in Sherburne County.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

Some individuals believe it’s the responsibility of go fund me to keep people afloat from an occupation rather than those who represent you in government. The cameras may have left Minneapolis, but our communities still need help. 5/

So we all know that ICE hasn't really left, right? They're just moving out of the metro where there fewer eyes and whistles. The Hampton in Brooklyn Park is packed with SUVs. Good grief

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

The death penalty results is so many miscarriages of justice that any truly civilized nation would stop using it, not expand it.

Born to be a poet, forced to be a soldier, because of a king

UPS: 1 Turkeys: ∞ youtube.com/shorts/3_2qF...

When the city said they made no agreements for the "drawdown" I thought it was suspiciously specific wording. Apparently they did make agreements, just not with a specific quid pro quo.

ICE needs security forces? ICE agents will be out and about? They're not leaving? Being out and about means you have to be there. Now they're going to have security forces? ICE will have bodyguards? It almost sounds like they're adding more people.

City limits sign University Avenue, Saint Paul April 19, 1929 Detail of image via Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...

This is one of the most depressing things I've ever read

We can do this!

“A 2010 study found the average Wikipedia contributor was in their mid-twenties; today, many of those same editors are now in their forties or fifties.”

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

lesbians reskeet if you agree

the number of fortune 500 companies that have been telling their six remaining human employees “before you do anything, ask yourself: ‘could AI have done that?’” is nonzero. i’ll tell you that for free. congratulations to everyone who was working real hard to destabilize the concept of “truth.”

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this