I just found out one of my favorite coworkers at a former job passed of cancer. I'm shattered. Why is it always the good ones?

So I'm now on Blacksky if you haven't noticed. It looks like everything transferred over but if people have issues contacting me let me know.

Joy is seeing Hayley Williams call Morgan Wallen out as a racist and telling him to "Meet me at Whole foods b@#ch" if he has a problem with it with her full neurospicy-white-woman-punk-rocker chest.

RTing this because we got hit by this too, and as a tech person I'm wondering who was involved in not having better communications on this change (and how the Mayor has influence in this since he has executive-like powers over the city, from my understanding).

I have loved this man's work since I was a kid.

So, a little over two weeks ago I went on an epic River Run through the Grand Canyon. I didn't have my phone, just a camera, some books, and a journal. But I also have a brain that LOVES music, so my internal radio was on. And this resulted in Playlist from days 2-9 of the 10 day trip.

Here's the thing yall...if we want this, those leaders need support from community organizing and individuals. Otherwise they're gonna burn out from trying to work with powers that be currently in place that are severely hostile for the sake of "civility".

TIL Susan Egan (aka Megara) voiced Rose Quartz.

Me, who's most recent campaign involved me playing a Human Druid by the name of Ori (who had a wooden duck they ended up offering to a God as a vessel...if you know me this tracks) upon finding out that @aabria.bsky.social is playing a damn orc druid. I am so hype for Critical Role Campaign!

My wife showed me the video and I am as fucking heared as Cheryl WTAF?

A Mercury fan definitely moved due to being sandwiched between us and another set of Lynx fans. 🤣

TELL THE REFS HOW MUCH THEY SUUUUUUCKKKK, CHERYL

Phee CLEARLY got pushed and this ref didn't call shit. Reeves was well within her right to get on the ref's asses. This is starting to look like a repeat of last year with the fouls not being called on the other team. #LynxvsMercury #WNBAPlayoffs.

Y'all its a near packed house here!! #MercuryvsLynx #WNBAPlayoffs

The one plus of having a cancelled flight home to MSP from Phoenix: LETS GO LYNX BABY!!

These Grand Conyon River Trip Playlists I did are really cool. Canyon Jam did a really great job in giving good editorial notes so that post-trip Jam (aka me rn) could have some fun. Excited to share the lists and some highlight pics!! 😊

What Jimmy Kimmel said tonight was amazing. He brought up reproductive justice, our new dept of war, housing, healthcare. He called it what it is authoritarianism. And millions of people can't watch it bit.ly/wehavefriendseverywhere

So gonna add an addendum to this since the pronoun was "Black Queen". My below point still stands here that the comment was limiting to Black women and femmes, including trans and non-binary. Black people are so much more WITH our Blackness (though its a special sauce for us!).

I am back from the greatest outdoor trip I have ever taken. The Grand Canyon is so amazing!! I'll share some highlights (and maybe a playlist or three!) later, but I'm still gonna be a little more offline this week to keep the nice high, with one addendum to that now popular thread.

So I've tried to write multiple letter the night before I got on a rafting trip about the DFL Feminist Caucus event and the letters. And I am so angry that I can't even type something to the state DFL (because I'm that pissed). So I'm going to do it here as a thread because I do not have time.

My family will doggedly use the damn locked up Walgreens because capitalism's racist and classist arms shouldn't dictate who needs support.

Folks, #MnState politics: If you have a concern that requires not just rep but legislative leadership, here's a list of who to contact in addition to your reps: House Majority Leader: Lisa Demuth House Whip (as we lost our Minority Leader due to gun violence early in the summer): Athena Hollins

*paperboy chants* COVID VACCINE, get your COVID-19 VACCINE!!

Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that saga in forever but you’re making a good point. And now all those same people are yelling “go touch grass!” at each other.

Hi Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois state governments: Y'all can do this too and probably better. #GreatLakesHealthAlliance

It was a fun moment to really redirect for me and another Black person in real time that it's not "not all black people are crazy" but instead "not all black people handle their inter-generational trauma well."

Any queer/Lynx fan wanna go to the game with @misseleneous.bsky.social ? I can't go so it would be a free ticket. DM me. (Cc'ing @natepentz.bsky.social and @ericamauter.com for RTing)

Deactivating my account and if you are trans, I would implore you to do it for today too.

She did it!!! She broke the super majority!!!

The only time where I will give a pass for journalistic shenanigans in this day and age: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

AKA Democratic powers that be (especially in NYC) not understanding that Millennials coming up, especially in politics, were built on creating community engagement in organic, scrappy, and fun ways (thank you Gen X older siblings for leading with that), with our twist of mixing IRL and internet.

You have to name a problem to be able to solve it. And the problem in Minneapolis isn’t just Jacob. It’s his whole corrupt machine. Appreciate Dr. Davis squarely naming the problem.

Folks, I'm most likely going to miss the Great Minnesota Get Together this year as I tested positive for COVID yesterday and its packing a wallop. Any tips on how to get enjoyment while not being physically there? The state fair is like my favorite thing about being a Minnesotan.

DING DING DING DING

It's the "I'm not a Democrat either, I'm from Detroit" for me!!

I think the saddest part of all this is because Dems are not thinking more about politics and power than people, these mofos have basically doomed us to further hurt. Because like most in power, white people aren't impacted by this....yet.

This. But also, this isn't something that's new. DFL has done this pattern of supporting moderates and not progressives at least since I moved here. The amount of races I've been a part of where the endorsed candidate has lost to the undendorsed candidate has been frustrating.

"when conservatives say they want to protect women and children they mean as a resource, not as people" -a YouTube comment I just saw

And these fools don't realize that this is going to make it open up another world power to basically become the leading medical researcher in the world, and us ending up paying an even more expensive debt for care. 😮‍💨

Your Music Video of the Day: youtu.be/Bw72CQYfHvY

Damn. "True Believer" hits me as a black person who grew up in the South. #hayleywilliams

Alicia Keys: youtu.be/L-Jt1jSimjs Prince (OG): youtu.be/kfVW6UkK5Vw

Me looking at our federal government making generational changes to cut us off from the world and the global economy because the Confederacy is their ideal in "Making America Great Again."

While I agree, I also disagree with the sentiment people are going to take with this phrasing, interpreting "vitriol" as anything between a mild disagreement to standing against the status quo or for my rights so that they can "keep the peace" .

FYI, for those who have biblical criticism for Cynthia Erivo's performance of JCS, Matthew 7:3-5 is right there for you to read.

You don’t have to be competent to fuck up a society. You *do* have to be competent to elevate it.

This thread (and the multiple quotes) remind me of something: it is a lot harder to build something than it is to break it down. There is no “Democratic Stephen Miller” because turning off a hundred switches takes one person, but turning on one hundred programs is going to take thousands.

Years, this man was doing this for YEARS So long that when this started, I took a two year break from twitter and when I logged back in HE WAS STILL GOING

This is really hard because as a Black person all my history is politically tinged. I do wonder what would've happened if Dorothy Dandridge had a doula.