Continued split system a/c woes meant we slept with windows open last night. Question for you open window sleepers—do you manage to sleep through cacophony of birdsong at 4:30ish? Or do we just have insane number of birds outside our windows?

Move over butt dial, now we have thighaling

My phone learned a new trick that is pretty awful—when it’s in the pocket of my slippery shorts, it has figured out my thigh can make calls and do other things! Mostly affecting my poor mom lol. Reminder to self to make sure my phone is locked before pocketing

When my kid was little he demanded I give him all the tiny pancakes from drips that resulted while making the regular sized ones. “I get to eat all the baby pancakes” I did make several once to delight him, but this is a feat:

Pedro Pascal saying the Jucy Lucy he ate at Matt’s was the best burger he’s ever had and he thinks about it every day lowers my opinion of him a tiny bit TBH 🤣

GOD what if he just DID this for the next TWO YEARS Went around to public access channels and dunked and dunked and dunked Don't tell me dude isn't set for life, he could afford that victory lap of spite

Clive led us to two little treat libraries today, and they both had premium treats! Lucky boys

Between seasons shedding and forgetting

Gift article with a great explanation of how bad the already bad odds of winning an asylum claim have gotten. Immigration courts granted just 2 of 982 recent cases for asylum, closed courtrooms, and replaced experienced immigration judges with Trump supporters www.startribune.com/hope-fades-i...

Nightmarish process photos in case some of you think I fabricated the whole thing out of onion skins (I did not lol). I cobbled together Fairchild’s head, then I made the veil (and covered everything else) with plaster of Paris cloth before covering with crops. It was fun to do!

Sharing my process photo for Veiled Fairchild 🤣 bsky.app/profile/stpa...

What did I do to get followed by bots today?

Currently 64°F in the house. I know I shouldn’t turn the heat on, but I really want to lol

@stpauligrrrl.bsky.social I love that our Fairchilds are right next to each other!

The Kickoff to Summer has kicked off at the state fairgrounds. At this point, you may be asking yourself: How’s the Pronto Pup line?

There is a Second Glance Crop Art exhibit in the Grandstand and I am SO HAPPY!!

Went to the fair and saw my Veiled Fairchild crop art and actual Fairchild, unveiled. (no that is not potato sausage it’s a giant donut)

New little treat library just dropped! Clive next dragged us to the usual one for a second treato, but the boys are only willing to pose nicely once without looking glum. OK fine Felix looks glum in the first pic too but I think it’s just his haircut

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

Gonna need a friend to give me an Angine de Poitrine ticket for first Ave since I’m a bot apparently and also my friends who tried for me are also bots now thanks AXS

Partially painted gnome in my local buy nothing group

Turns out I can tune out tv news until I hear a surprising mispronunciation lol. I just heard Raul Castro’s first name pronounced in one syllable (Rall) on a local news show (which I have on because apparently my crop art is in a teaser for the MN State Fair Kickoff to Summer)

Found out my friend, who is my age, has never seen The Facts of Life. And you really sound like you're lying describing things that happened. "Tootie wore rollerskates THE WHOLE SEASON" "Tootie crashed out over Jermaine Jackson" "Cousin Jeri just wants you to buy her merch"

Not sure how Turkey courting goes, but this couple has stayed across the street from each other all day, sometimes swapping sides. Felix and Clive are getting fed up with them at any rate

The very pretty turkey came across the street to show me his feathers

This turkey knows what’s up #iceout

Felix wouldn’t stop barking out the window so I investigated and found this turkey. Sound on for gobbles

"And this session sent one of the clearest signals in recent Minnesota history: We will mourn gun violence, but we will not confront it... Remembrance matters. But remembrance is hollow when it arrives absent the courage to change." -Shelisa Dumuth

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

We were sitting at a cafe in Ferrara when a guy biked up with his cat in a carrier in his bike basket. The cat then sat on a chair at the table while he had coffee with his friends.

Venice is a bizarre city that feels like a theme park, but I really liked these columns from the 13th century. Especially the first one of a woman eating a chicken leg.

I would have stepped right over these small bricks in the sidewalk if my Italian friend hadn’t pointed them out. They are memorials for Jews who had lived in Ferrara and Florence before being sent to Auschwitz. Only one made it out alive. Franca was 28 and Marcello was 15 when they were killed.

Every citizen of Minneapolis, please step up 💥

Back on my niçoise salade bullshit

@anginedepoitrine.bsky.social sad to be blocked by axs as a bot while trying to get first Ave tix 😭 c’est dommage

Sad- waited in the angine de poitrine presale line and no tix

This is awesome. Teddy and I were in the same judicial clerk cohort at the MN Court of Appeals and she is a wonderful human! www.startribune.com/walz-names-t...

Here’s a sneak preview of my score for The Pilgrim! I will be recording a studio version in June and hope to release it before the end of the year

Hey check out High on Stress for some great Minneapolis rock music—I love this review of Time Will Tell You: (with alt text)

Everyone’s calendars are filling quick but just wanted to give you a heads up

The boys in front of the little free treat library. Clive is thrilled and Felix looks so angry lol

That’s at Landbridge Ecological biz. Its a Tricone drill bit. It’s the end of a industry drill bit like they use for geothermal, oil, etc type holes I believe.

Kind of looks like the cutters on the head of a tunnel boring machine

This is a sculpture of a drill head of the like used in oil drilling, from a series by Monira Al Qadiri, envisioning such devices as otherworldly creatures. This one seems to have been commissioned for Northern Spark in 2017 www.koeniggalerie.com/blogs/public...

I don't know how much it broke through to people who weren't on the ground in the Twin Cities during Metro Surge, but ICE agents were so horned up for violence that they did shit like shoot through closed doors and into childrens' bedrooms. It was all a power fantasy come to life for them.

He does this all the time

If you think it’s a great time to go for a walk because it’s a lovely 62 degrees F, think again

Three reactive dogs converged in my neighborhood this morning. One couldn’t turn back because there was a sprinkler covering the sidewalk, so we all just froze when we spotted each other lol. Hiding and passing behind a car FTW (Clive was there too but he’s a very good boy who doesn’t get involved)

Iinterlibrary loan making it possible to retrieve even obscure published material within days or weeks is one of America's true academic superpowers. But even a slightly malformed citation has always been a challenge. One that doesn't exist still requires sending someone to the stacks to look.

I started softball a few weeks ago after a year off due to an injury. I have been bummed that I couldn’t find my newer cleats, and I’ve had to wear my old ones that are full of holes. Tonight I remembered my softball backpack has a zippered pocket for shoes lol. Love to have this brain