Today is the day! Fellowship board is apple, cheese, almond croissant, cashews, sesame sticks, and nice crispy bacon.

here is a lil something: i'm opening up three patreon posts, one new and two old, to the public. 💛 come take a look, and share if you feel inspired! including sharing with your people who aren't on blewski (or social media at all!). i'll link them below:

If you were looking for a new patreon to support I highly recommend tommy.

Reading the original Hunger Games books and then jumping right into Sunrise on the Reaping is just one emotional gut punch after another.

Okay, hang on. Wait a minute. Cheese sauce on the bread and then shredded cheese?!

Can't wait for a day of 'shouldn't a LLM be good at teaching language?' takes. LLMs are really fancy autocorrect and cannot teach anything outside of 'this word comes after this word a lot'.

Minnesota cities as Muppets: Stillwater:

I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...

I worked retail for over 10 years and have now been in an office for over 3, given that I was raised with & around practicing Christians I had assumed that eventually I would like Christmas again but I am finding it the opposite - my hate for this holiday is only growing.

Good luck to everyone who has to be back in the office with people who are coughing/sneezing/congested but 'feel fine and aren't contagious'.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Like a fool I assumed that the use of 'crash' here meant that two drivers hit each other with their cars and the pedestrian was hit in that mess, but no a driver killed a man.

If anyone in the neighborhood is thinking of starting up a gym habit at the YWCA on Selby and wants a gym buddy let me know! I am an evening/afternoon goer, if you are looking for a morning buddy I cannot help you - I am far too crabby in the morning to subject anyone to that.

Happy coffee with leftover pie while it's snowing to all who celebrate.

I wasn't expecting to get as emotional as I did at the first notes of music for The Princess Bride at the MN orchestra.

Once again reading Ursula K Le Guin blog posts and once again needed to share each and every one.

All of the pie talk has solidified my need to make a pumpkin cheesecake pie.

Recipe PSA: the recipes on packaging are the most tested recipes on the planet.

dont read The Bad Thing Part Three, read @hels.bsky.social on turkey carcasses, you'll be much happier www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared

Pretty much anything that looks like a super good deal this weekend is going to be a low quality slop item

the DFL has a problem with cyndy martin holding multiple leadership roles - like CD8 chair, and CBRC and code of conduct - while facing criminal vehicular homicide charge. she doesn't appear contrite. she appears defiant. she has evaded responsibility from the start taylordahlin.com/f/the-dfls-c...

I don't understand the men who feel lost in their identity, like they don't know who to be, like they don't know how to find love. There's a whole manual that tells you. It's called Lord of the Rings. Just be Samwise Gamgee. They even made movies about Sam. They're pretty good movies.

I was at the protest today: SPPD was on site when I got there, but their numbers continued to swell. The crowd was loud af but not at all violent- nor were they impeding agents "doing their jobs" or residents. SPPD was in good spirits- many were smiling and laughing. The protesters were told to +

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people. It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

Look at me, I am the parent now (if you need it). You absolutely do not have spend holidays with people who hurt you and the quoted thread has some notes for you.

As we are now T minus 3.5 days from Thanksgiving, if you need to deploy Operation Avoid The Boundary Tramplers, tonight is when you post where they snoop about a headache or a queasy kid, or a funny noise from your car, or your pet acting strange, or a serious work issue or an unexpected paper.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

"Death of the artist" means when Amy Tan says "I did not intentionally put numerological symbolism in Joy Luck Club" you can go "ok but unconscious-you is very clever and it's in there anyhow." It does not mean "it doesn't matter if JKR is a terrible person."

It's telling that one of the letters in MyVillager complaing about the Summit bike path mentions e-bikes speed - not as a concern for other riders on a bike path but as 'these unregulated vehicles... racing down a new separated strip of asphalt in front of their homes'.

10/10, would recommend supporting Shepherd on patreon.

Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.

NASA astronaut films Northern Lights from space. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

MSP folks: I have a question about the Bro-Tex raid from someone who works at a different manufacturing facility. When ICE showed up, did they come through the front door, through the back door/loading dock, or through both at once?

This week I limited myself to only bluesky for social media and it's kinda wild how much time/effort I put into other things.

Have been watching some lecturers on Frankenstein and it's (Minnesota) interesting how many people refer to Victor as a Scientist when he was a student who didn't even finish his schooling.

Anyone planning a Lord of the Rings marathon day with a themed menu? What are your ideas for it? I think I'm going to do a charcuterie board for each movie with a soup/stew as a main dish in the afternoon.

Hey Science people 🧪, anyone know if there have there been papers written or studies done on the effect of non-stop christmas pop music to people? I certainly feel like I'm still recovering from 10 years of of working retail

movie posters featuring the muppets: thread

we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves

Don Black tried some shit like this, went to jail for a bit, learned some computer stuff, and created stormfront.

This is all that is running through my head the more I am learning about the dorks behind the 'AI' bullshit.

This is a very good book. Also, probably a good idea to get an e-copy if you interested in it and into that sort of thing. At one point I was laying in bed reading the hardcover version and half dropped it on my face - do not recommend that.

Love working at a company that is frantically working on "modernizing" by using "the cloud" a bunch with all these outages happening. It's so fun.

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Heads up fellow 64A folks

I just had a conversation with last month about how these things are bad because they cut off another connection point. We were chatting about community and one point was about how if these things were here we would not have had that conversation.

If anyone else is reading or has read this book please message me so I have someone to yell "these fucking guys" with.

I'm really fucking mad that Flanagan sent an email from this fucking guy the other day

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