My Duolingo just updated with the new energy system, and after a 1331-day streak, I think I'm done. It's so hostile.

I just would prefer to have the money we're going to spend rebuilding the east wing available for like... passenger rail or student debt cancellation

tired: "no kings" protest in Canada wired: "no tyrants" protest in Canada inspired: "no, really, no kings" protest in Canada

good @hankgreen.bsky.social content that reminded me of the Minnesota lore about how Wisconsinites always claim that Wisconsin has MORE than 10,000 lakes, but actually Wisconsin just has a legal definition of "lake" that counts smaller bodies of water than Minnesota's does youtu.be/q4I7Y4kYhKQ?...

frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis

if you live in a major city and use uber more than once a month then I think less of you. once a month is pushing it

[fully sobbing] IT STARTED OUT LIKE A SONG youtu.be/Ams0ROhWX0w?...

direct rail service to Hidden Beach is how we beat fascism

happy "thanksgiving"

he LOVED What Not to Wear and he knits little booties whenever someone has a baby. that's two green flags but he deserves it

Classic "I'm from east of Chicago" Midwest map. Possibly an "I'm from Chicago" Midwest map. We humble west of Chicago folk know better.

hey by the way fuck ice

my favorites of the 20s so far (alphabetical): All of Us Strangers Anatomy of a Fall The Brutalist Hamnet Monster One Battle After Another Sound of Metal

"Americans are so stupid they don't even know how to speak French" yes baby girl because French n'est pas une langue nationale in the United States. Montreal is not in Indiana <3

screaming crying throwing up

Customer: THE ACT OF DOING SOMETHING OF GREAT SKILL DMV: SLAY Verdict: DENIED

as ever, I am so proud to be a graduate of Des Moines Public Schools

Honey, do you need anything from the condiment sow?

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

me since i watched one battle after another: i wish i was watching one battle after another

even the comments on this post are deranged. I don't think I can even remember the last new thing I watched that had a sex scene at all. It's possible Hamnet did, very briefly? if it did I'm sure it was exquisite and devastating

personally I am allergic to ibuprofen and thus exclusively use tylenol for basic pain management, which I think is what they call "gold star neurodivergence"

i am still thinking about "hey puss how is she"

this is how every institution in Toronto sounds all the time. every TTC campaign is like this. hyper-defensive and seemingly written by aliens

cowboys are a type of horse girl btw

seated for Hamnet, warming up the tear ducts

went to see Conner O'Malley tonight and a good 40% of the audience was 32-year-old men with dad beards wearing baseball caps <3

this photo is positively screaming Wayzata, just chucking West Elm throw pillows at my face, yelling about its college buddy's wedding reception in Eau Claire

it happened to me: local tenor can't pick an octave trying to sing along in Gaga's alto keys

I just hate seeing Melissa Hortman's name being dragged into this. It's the right point to make, but it makes me feel sick that that evil little snake gets to be a footnote in her legacy

me during the moment

a Liesel to cleanse your palate

:)

if we can recognize that Dallas/Ft. Worth is the border between the South and the Southwest, then we must also recognize that St. Paul/Minneapolis is the border between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest

in the future the world will be ruled not by countries or corporations, but by a series of enormous polycules with competing views on housing policy

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

You're telling me this Atlantic accent is trans?

“I don’t want to hear these people talk. Spin the wheel.” - my 5 yo daughter watching the first few minutes of Wheel of Fortune

who up suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

omfg the final lip sync of France All Stars 😵😵😵

there's a scene in Riven where you're backtracking along a path you've taken before, and at one point you click into the next area and suddenly there's a little girl standing there, and when I say I jumped out of my skin...

I hate "grows to a crescendo" so much!!! stop saying this!! the crescendo is the act of growing not the result of growing!!!! ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

she is seriously one of the most unlikeable people in America and I hope the rest of the country finds out about her and she gets bullied mercilessly by hordes of very online DSA kids every day for the rest of her life

controversial but I think that expecting politicians to listen to policy experts when crafting policy is good actually and yes this is about fare free transit

Whenever I bring someone to Des Moines I drag them to this library and go "see?? see???"

now don't be mad at me but if Dexter and Harrison Morgan weren't father and son........

a problem with leftist housing discourse is that the leftists who care abt housing the most spend years studying it, and invariably that leads them to the empirically correct conclusion that the most urgent problem is supply... which causes the rest of the leftists to stop listening and mock them