crying in the club* * at my desk in the attic while I frantically write a second habeas petition for a client I got released once already two months ago who was detained by ICE this morning

Who Digitized your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

I'm a prison librarian and our book club class is covering Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Today one of my students said that his daughter is also getting a copy so they can have their own mini book club over the phone, and I just 🥹. Books are such a powerful tool for fostering connection. 📚📜

it wasn’t just liam—

I make things because the process of making feeds my soul, and I give the things I make to others so they can be enjoyed and used. If I *couldn't* do that, I would probably spend a lot more time being bad at stuff and making kinda crap art, experimenting and so on.

If I have to have this song stuck in my head, you do too: Hot Pants for Men by Udo West m.soundcloud.com/udowest/hotp...

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

LOOK AT THE COOL TOY I GET TO PLAY WITH AT WORK TODAY

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

I blame Reagan for everything.

I can only hope to have a life so frictionless that I need to start inventing things to feel victimized like the way MN racists have with the fucking flag

Dispatches from Minnesota: Hennepin County Medical Center, is an incredibly important hospital in the Twin Cities & for the entire Upper Midwest. They specialize in trauma medicine,and don't turn anybody away if they don't have insurance or can't pay. Its future is at risk because of Trump.

FRIENDLY REMINDER that tomorrow is April Fool's Day and that everyone is tired. Maybe hold your pranks, or at a MINIMUM think very carefully about who you might embarrass, shame, or disappoint with your joke.

Dispatches from Minnesota: everywhere you look today, people are showing up with love and community and strength and beauty and anger and tenderness. www.youtube.com/live/KKnRODQ...

Okay so apparently there's Cursive Discourse happening again, so it's time for me to hop back up on my little soapbox: I'm an archivist, and a not-insignificant part of my job is reading old/crappy handwriting. I also don't think it's necessary for kids to learn cursive (1 of ?)

Hoop skirts required

How do we know they were ICE agents & not just kidnappers? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yeah man rental assistance is helpful but it takes time for people to receive it if you’re gonna make them jump through hoops hence why extending the time frame would in fact also help

Homelessness is a policy choice, not an individual failure.

But Minneapolis can’t delay notice of an eviction by 30 days because of the impact it would have on landlords and non-profits must be nice to have political leaders actually willing to do something to keep people housed

Dispatches from Minnesota: apparently we are being awarded with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. It's genuinely lovely, and I personally am humbled that my modest contributions are part of this (1 of ?)

It has gone under the radar, but the University of Minnesota has selected a new brand tagline: "Leave a Future" Ummm ... it kind of makes the old "Driven to Discover" tagline look like a work of genius. I've got another tagline to run by them: "Uff da" umarcomm.umn.edu/brand

Fuck ICE

"Ally" is what someone else deems you, not a label you can don to pass through the world unchallenged. Self-annointed allies often end up being disappointing flavors of other -isms & so tender about how they see themselves that anything less than adoration sends them quickly & radically rightward.

The numbers will go up until morale improves

I wanted so badly for Target to be on the right side of this. They're a MN company! They were the largest fiscal sponsor of Twin Cities Pride! And they also have finally agreed to do the thibgs they volunteered to do...back in 2021.

good morning, hey btw this was secretly a subskeet because it's true for you, too. perfection is not a prerequisite for love. you are worth loving just as you are. 💙

Uhhhhhhh guys I take three prescriptions and two are at least partially for off-label uses. In fact that's how my providers and I picked them -- we prioritized drugs that helped with the problem at hand *and* were likely to come with benefits for other issues.

Things in Minnesota have resumed to the point where Trump-appointed judges can act like Trump-appointed judges again

Who do I talk to about getting "ICE-hating harpy" on a t-shirt?

BIRRIA ON EVERYTHING! I've never been disappointed by anything stuffed with birria and cheese.

Happy "None of Us Will Be Shoveling This Snow" Day for all who celebrate, which is all of us.

I wonder what you'd see if you look at data for Minnesota in the last 5 months. What would we say about our fellow Minnesotans, and what would we say about other Americans?

Dispatches from Minnesota: A small victory today, my local taco truck reappeared.

Nothing floated here will bring people back. Why would I shop somewhere that actively disrespects me and the people I care about? Why would I shop at a store that cares so little for its employees that it allows a militia to beat up workers at their jobs (one of them a minor child)?

Dispatches from Minnesota: I can't even find words for how royally fucked everything coming out of our federal administration is. It feels like they're engaging in war crimes abroad to distract from the war they're waging against their own citizens.

a reminder that because shit is so fucked, your nervous system (and mine ofc) is really amped up, and that means everything you take in is turned up to 11, in terms of how you process and understand it. worth giving yourself some breaks regularly.

i must not discourse. discourse is the mind-killer. discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will permit it to pass over me and through me because i have shit to do. when the discourse has gone there will be nothing. only all the shit i have to do will remain.

The dildo store is out here doing more than Mayor of Minneapolis yet again. @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social has secured a match of up to $250K in Rental Relief Funds from the Wilson Foundation. Donate & share! LFG!!! ❤️‍🔥 www.gofundme.com/f/smitten-ki...

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

What are your plans this weekend? How are you going to serve your community? How are you going to feed your soul to survive the week ahead? So far my plans involve Too Good To Go bakery, a discount grocery store, and making art.

To the folks who are newly following, welcome and I'm sorry in advance. One day I'll go back to my usual Bluesky diet of DnD memes and asking other digital archivists highly niche questions.

the rent fund for students at my alma mater has $36,000 in rent requests for tomorrow and only $7,500 in the bank if we raised $10,600 with a crystal shrek what kind of crazy thing do i need to do to raise $28,500?

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love!” Literally.

“If you just did what I told you to do, then I wouldn’t get angry and have to hit you” - Feds to MN

The Republican party is just the 'Pretend To Beat Up Minnesota While Minnesota Continues To Make You Eat Shit' Party until further notice

Coffee helped a little. What really helped was going out and doing stuff to support my community. MN might be largely on its own, but there are so many more of us than there are of them. We know from experience that we can do difficult things together, and we can do this too.

Me, anytime I post something seen by more than 13 people