I had a lovely and chill party tonight. Extrovert batteries topped up.

Leaving aside all the other batshittery in this, do they not realize that gas supplies can also be turned off really easily? Gas appliances don't have a portal into the methane dimension (which, as an aside, I do have on bean burrito night).

Very gone, now a building is there that's part of HCMC.

Park is still there, but the fence and gate are long gone.

The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high

Moving houses like this wasn't common, but it wasn't rare either. Over the decades, at least three houses on my block were moved. The latest that I know of was in the early 1980s.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

House Being Relocated (1978) Source: Hennepin County Library The house, originally located at 2429 9th St. S, was being relocated to 2014 25th Ave. S.

Apparently, the PA Supreme Court has ruled that using Google products means the govt doesn't need a warrant to access your online info because of their privacy policy.

Minnehaha, an Ice Chamber Source: Hennepin County Library.

Yet it would set in motion the chain of events that led Glicken's mentor, Johnston, to stand on that ridge Sunday morning, May 18. For years, Glicken felt grief and survivor's guilt over Johnston's loss. But the same mountain that took away would also give him purpose, a focus for his career. End.

One picture can set off a story. Even if you've told some of it before, there's always an angle that can help put a new eye on things. Take this one. It's May 10, 1980, eight days before the eruption. USGS's Dan Miller captures a snowy Mount St. Helens from the Coldwater II station, 5 1/2 mi NW.

This is no joke. Absolutely nobody can stop today. Please be careful out there, it’s just sheets of ice

Knight: in my role as vigilante crime fighter, i protect gotham from the threat of the joker, the riddler and cat woman Knight: which, as you know, are the secret criminal aliases of Douglas Adams, Philip K Dick, and Diane Duane King: what Knight: but perhaps I've said too much

Built in 1920 as a warehouse, there are train tracks still about a block away. Still there now, though the trolley overhead lines are now light poles and the tracks are long gone.

The first 3 words you see will define your 2026. Friend Butter Boobs

Considering making a few "how sci-fi tech works" videos using my animation background.

MPR is really telling us all to stay home.

I really hope Artist & Craftsman Supply emerges from bankruptcy. They were the best working artist store I've been to.

The old permit cards are kinda funny. Some buildings have entries for what seem like incredibly minor changes, and others have like 2 entries and "WRECKING" stamped on them. Neither of those two entries are wrecking permits, so when it was built and knocked down will remain a mystery.

Usually I give dates of wrecking (the wrecking was marked complete in 1971), but one thing caught my eye. I'm guessing there was some kind of foundation problem because "Raise part of bldg" and "Hold [brick] building" are pretty unusual entries.

Still here. Renovated a bit at some point (1989, possibly) and houses low-income folks in Elliot Park.

Our younger adult child, in their infinite wisdom, decided to follow up our annual family viewing of Muppet Christmas Carol with.... The Day After Alone. In the middle of the night. So now they know why our generation is real fucking weird about some things.

Excuse me, @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social , I'm reading the Danger Gal Dossier and I got to Jester and I have a question... A *helium* fire? Um... Different physics in 2043, I see! :D

I always forget how bonkers Kung Fun Hustle is. It's like my brain refuses to retain the information on just how zany this movie is in a self-defense mechanism. I love it.

#OnThisDay Dec 25 1874: After drinking at a local saloon, firemen of St. Paul Engine House No. 3 brawl with each other in "a very disgraceful fight," leaving 2 seriously injured, more badly bruised, and 5 arrested for assault. Hope Breakfast Bar now occupies the city's oldest extant civic building.

The least believable thing about Die Hard is that we see a 747 landing but inside it's obviously a narrow body, 4 abreast configuration. Also that was a transcontinental flight in 1988, the air would have been thick enough with cigarette smoke you couldn't have seen the aft bulkhead.

Brooklet, Upper Bank River Road Source: Hennepin County Library. Between West Lake St. & Minnehaha

I love that my kids find John McClane lighting a cigarette in the airport more boggling than almost anything else. Well, that and the uncommented workplace sexual harassment.

In 2002, these houses were boarded up and presumably not great inside (though I don't see condemnation notices on the doors so dunno). Now? Well, take a look.

At first I just assumed this was bulldozed. "A Texaco station? Gotta be gone. Wrecked in 1994 and a vacant blight on Chicago Ave, how city hall likes it." But no. It's not a Texaco station anymore of course, it's a used car dealership, but the building is still there.

They saved this house, turned it into a duplex after this photo was taken. This feels like redevelopment done right, building things for the people who live here and not for the corporations. It probably would have been easier to tear down and replace, but the historical designation saved this block

This building is still there (built ca. 1952) but the facade is utterly soulless fake brick now. What charm this building had in being from an era has been erased.

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For years, I've been using the Mood Sewing circle skirt calculator, but today I discovered they have a BUNCH of other free patterns, including cosplay options! blog.moodfabrics.com/mdf015-the-a... (also, I have gotten some amazing, one-of-a-kind fabrics at Mood)

I think I have the chronology right here. This building suffered a fire in 1935/36 and was rebuilt into the Greyhound Bus Depot, now better known as First Ave, a truly awesome music venue. Behind it is the Pantages Vaudeville, then was a movie theater, renovated & reopened as stage theater in 2002.

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

It's my 10 year HRT anniversary today!

Soo Line Safety Campaign at Shoreham Shops (1947) 2603 Madison St. NE (Rosse) Source: Hennepin County Library L to R: Sigurd 'Doc' Brain, First Aid Supervisor at the Soo Line company's Shoreham shops, points out a sign to new employee and recently returned veteran, Gabriel Rosse, whose holding ...

This. "It's hard not to look at these pictures and conclude that there'd been a war, and that we lost. Part of the problem was urban renewal, which scoured the city in the late 50s and 60s; what wasn't lost then was knocked to rubble during the boom of the last two decades."

Robert E. Kahn, 86, born today in 1938, co-created the packet-switching protocols that underpin Internet communication. He helped build ARPANET, the first network linking computers nationwide, & developed TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, the standard for data communication today. It used telephone lines!

This photo is pretty old. Judging by the hats and the width of the falls, I'd guess 1950 at the latest?

Still there, and absolutely gorgeous

Experimenting in public is important. Someone might want to go on a date without being revealed to the world, experiment with gender-expansive clothing, want to try going out goth, or eat a cheeseburger. We all do things we don't want our families to know right away and it's how we grow.

I was looking through old permits, like I do, and came across a whole ton of cards with wrecking on them, all in the 60s and all around 17th St E. It was for the freeway, and they were all for apartments, multi-unit buildings, etc. The freeways displaced the maximum number of people for the space.

I played around with Google maps for a bit, and I think I matched this view pretty well. I think it was painted from basically what is now the sculpture garden, looking across Lyndale Ave and the entrance to the Lowry Hill Tunnel. I don't think this was ever the reality of how it looked there, tho.

I don't know why, but this building still being there genuinely surprised me. It's been added on to pretty extensively, but you can clearly see the original building there. The only one that's surprised me more is just how old the church at 1534 E 24th is. It doesn't look like a building from 1886

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: