In a way, we are all Winter Olympics winners due to the mascot-related increase in stoat content.

Thank you to the truck driver who yelled “Superman! Clark Kent!” at me in the crosswalk minutes after learning I’m gonna need surgery to reattach this tendon. Very encouraging.

Can’t unbend my thumb after getting it hit at gay dodgeball, continuing my run of only winding up in the ER for slightly goofy reasons (see also: walking head-first into bar at gym, stabbing hand while attempting to open avocado).

Saw The Testament of Ann Lee this weekend and truly can’t recommend enough spending a day having your mental soundtrack alternate between Bad Bunny and 18th century Shaker hymns.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Catching the last day of the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA was 100% worth braving the -15° windchill.

The Iliad? You mean Fated Rivalry?

Plotting my walking route from the subway to plans tomorrow around minimizing time facing the prevailing winds, as one does.

*Grabs mic* “COME ON! FEEL THE ILLINOISE! (PART I: THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION / PART II: CARL SANDBURG VISITS ME IN A DREAM)”

Omg beach weather. 😍

Ok who’s coming with when the rooftop of the David Dinkins Municipal Building opens to the public for the first time ever this summer?!?! www.instagram.com/reel/DURMJSL...

I refuse to acknowledge the illegitimate rodent in Punxsutawney and choose instead to recognize the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia’s Lucy the Lobster. www.todocanada.ca/lucy-the-lob...

Was reminded of this incredible photo archive of nearly every address in NYC c. 1940 and have been getting lost time traveling for the past hour. 1940s.nyc

Extreme sweater weather.

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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I had forgotten Pooh and friends live at the Main Branch of the library. Was really nice to have a moment of pause in the Hundred Acre Wood. ❤️

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yogurt is very underrated as a toast spread, imo.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

First queer dodgeball match/first time playing a team sport since high school/first time playing a team sport absent a PE requirement...uhhh...ever tn! ☄️

One of my defining early political experiences was listening to neighbors brought to tears by the impact of Rahm’s unnecessary and cruel closure of half of Chicago’s mental health clinics. His mayoralty lacked vision, heart, and competence. There are few Democrats I’d want less as President.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

Sunday in the park with graupel!

Quick reminder: If you live, work, or study anywhere in New York *State*, including outside of NYC, you can sign up for free cards for all three of the city’s public library systems! www.nypl.org/library-card... www.queenslibrary.org/get-a-card/r... www.bklynlibrary.org/card/

As dangerously cold temperatures move through New York, we have opened 10 warming centers across all five boroughs to provide safe, heated indoor spaces for New Yorkers in need. Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>

Cooking something low and slow just feels right for a snow day.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

When the first successful polio vaccine was announced on April 12th, 1955, the reaction was so joyous the United States essentially had a spontaneous national holiday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announc...

Babe wake up, seventh kingdom of life just dropped. www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

Fave birthday message so far courtesy of NY’s mobile ID app, mID.

They are consistently proving our worst fears and suspicions. ICE is an irredeemable enterprise. “ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Wait so you’re telling me this whole time the secret to the best, most even texture I’ve ever achieved on tofu was the broiler?

Ever have one of your favorite snacks and then get sad about the fate of the American chestnut? 🥺

Iron & Wine and Bon Iver sad millennial indie snow day in full effect.

This feels like a trap.

Love the versatility of turtlenecks. Am I heading to dinner or to steal a rare sapphire? Maybe both!!!

I just wish someone would invent a protein powder that doesn’t taste like a mixture of chalk, iron tailings, and mild despair.

Anyone want to leave work early to wander an enchanted woodland to the sounds of the new Julianna Barwick/Mary Lattimore album? juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/tragic...

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

It’s out again. 🙃

Just got Verizon service back. Between the outage making using apps impossible, and a malfunctioning keypad, I couldn’t open my building’s front door all afternoon. Why we don’t mandate physical key access to all buildings? What would we do in the event of both phone service and power being cut???

Today’s Verizon outage has me thinking of this excellent, and sobering, piece on Tonga losing its internet after the 2022 volcanic eruption. Our systems have become far too reliant on constant connectivity, and badly need more redundancies. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Just realized with Verizon down and no text messages or calls for 2FA going through I am effectively locked out of digital access to my bank. Good reminder to set up multiple authentication methods for every app I guess?

Since I just moved, I only have a paring knife on me. Running it underneath the cap didn’t work, and I couldn’t safely use it to puncture the side. It’s a pint of indestructible gelato.

I have been trying for *20 minutes* without success to open a plastic Talenti container, at what point do I just slice it open with a knife?? 🙃