The quality of a lot of these things that are available to poorer people is also much lower than 25 years ago. Shirts and pants are way worse & last less long, cars repairs can be hundreds of dollars just for a lightbulb replacement, and new houses are basically hardboard over worse lumber.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

I've seen this confirmed by people who've worked in Congress. This wasn't a "gang of 8," this was to establish plausible deniability for Senators who aren't facing reelection anytime soon.

Engaging in the most Midwestern activity: standing in a bar packed to capacity hearing people talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social Cyberpunk Red GM screen looks sick as hell under blacklight. It was pretty good with just the flashlight, some neat glowy bits. When I broke out the 60W LED stage blacklight I think you could have seen it from space, though.

The @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social Cyberpunk Red GM screen looks sick as hell under blacklight. It was pretty good with just the flashlight, some neat glowy bits. When I broke out the 60W LED stage blacklight I think you could have seen it from space, though.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

This building is still there but has been changed so much it looks like a new building altogether. They added a loading dock, made the roof higher, moved the entrance, and squared off the front to house my favorite local coffee roaster and shop, Code Blu.

GDI, I just watched Master and Commander like 2 months ago. Why am I jonesing for it again?

Twin Cities, Do you want this working popcorn machine and cart? Passing on at no charge. It’s a fun addition to gatherings. Was always a hit at funeral home community events. Would love it to a new home within the month!

Knocked down in 1973, after years as a movie theater and then a decade+ as a church.

The replies write themselves

My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web. To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

I've decided to replay 2077 with a new V, there's a few things I got locked out of the first time through. I'm trying corpo life path and so far I'm extremely underwhelmed and don't get why people are all "this is the One True V". It's....fine, I guess, so far. But I liked Nomad a lot from the jump.

When I was in art school, a lot of students could do standing and action poses but seated or leaning looked weird and weightless, whereas I couldn't do an action pose to save my life but leaning drunkenly on a bar I could nail. Given that phase of my life, that kinda checks out honestly.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different. shutting the fuck up is free.

This building became Eat Street Crossing.

The UPS plane crash is horrific, apparently people on the ground are injured or worse. Please don't speculate. Afaik, we have no concrete information as yet, they are still literally putting out fires. I'm sure atc recordings will come out soon (and hopefully have nothing useful).

BREAKING: Video shows crash of UPS Flight 2976 while taking off from Louisville International Airport in Kentucky

Even if you don't get to vote for something "fun" like mayor or governor, vote for your school board, oh my God. There are so many awful people backed by big money trying to steal seats so they can ban books and abuse children. No, I'm not exaggerating.

"Noone told me code would be delivered thiiiis way" *clapclapclapclapclap*

It’s our book birthday! You can now buy the Progressive Delivery book and join the conversation about adding the user to the software development lifecycle! progressivedelivery.com/pre-order-pr...

this is the coolest online has ever been

There goes one of the last relatively affordable sit-down dining options in the core of downtown.

No one gets to look like they did in their 20s all their life, but one of the things I am finding gratifying (and also, a bit of a relief) is that as I age I'm finding people my age continue to be beautiful. It makes leaving youth behind easier, although I still miss the knees of my 20s.

Very bad news. Teen Vogue was doing work other journalists were not.

This is the definition of lawful evil, taking a rule meant to ensure that SNAP recipients aren't charged more and twisting it to make sure they go hungry.

Wrapped up the D&D campaign after a year, or at least got it to a satisfactory 'between chapters' point. Next up is going to be a Cyberpunk adventure and then maybe back to the D&D campaign? We ended the campaign after "parent trapping" the twin halflings' parents.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I’ll bet you never heard of an incredible weather event that happened 34 years ago on this very date, one so rarely mentioned yet so epic in scale, seemingly unknown to younger Minnesotas who lean forward with anticipation and excitement as survivors begin the tale of a Halloween blizzard that

Watchdog Sleeps Through Burglary (1938) 4809 Garfield Ave. Source: Hennepin County Library. Bumpy, 7-year-old Sheepdog owned by G. W. Farrar (not pictured), slept while a burglar crept inches from his nose and took $10 from his master. Mrs. Farrar awoke in time to scream and discourage the ...

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. A strange-looking alien with artificial antennae made from tin foil emerged. "Greetings, Earthlings!! We come in..." It consulted a device. "In trick or treat?"

Hot glue incident while crafting. Second degree burns on one's fingers really sucks.

Run Lola Run is one of my very favorite movies. So fucking stylish, so very 1998, and Franka Potente. The music, the visuals, just everything.

I low-key hate Halloween now. I used to dress up and stuff, but now if I leave my house looking normal people compliment me on my great 'woman' costume.

#Invidious is an open-source, ad-free alternative frontend to YouTube. Worth looking into if you're sick of YouTube's shit. (And, no, I don't care if it hurts my "revenue.") invidious.io There are public instances here that you can use right now: docs.invidious.io/instances/ #opensource #youtube

"Have you ever heard the tale of Blizzardus The Wise?"

Private equity strikes again. A once-prosperous local company bought and nuked by bean counters in the name of the holy balance sheet.

I'm almost 50 and the phrases, "I'll give you something to cry about," and, "I brought you into this world and I'll take you out of it," still give me flashbacks.

I just wanna say that running an in-person d&d game for 8 players is one of my favorite things I've done. It's fucking hard, but it uses every tiny bit of game running skill I've ever picked up.

Finished the main game in 2077 (the Star ending) and I don't think a video game has made me cry as much as this fucking game did. This. Fucking. Game.

Channeling this Fate character, who is the most hyperactive ADHD character I've ever played, literally leaves me more hyper afterwards.

Every time I think about this I ponder the US Embassy in Moscow. adst.org/2022/09/a-ta...

Hundreds of neighbors came out today for whistles and training at Powderhorn Park. Minneapolis neighbors are getting organized.

I think very often people do not realize the sheer *scale* of government, particularly the US government.

I'm reading Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions by DeGrace and Stahl. Pub date 1990. I was stopped by this:

I think about this a lot.

Sexy WW2 fleet