What it looks like on Saturday at the local hill

My 5yo was digging around in his boots this morning. "Whatcha doin?" "Seeing if the heart man came last night to deliver Valentine's candy" ???

Dropping a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED on the team after completing two huge projects that actually open the door to many more problems to be solved

These folks rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbp...

These mRNA vaccines are one of the most incredible things humans have ever invented. This is crazy.

No need. I already investigated bad bunnys performance. It was dope.

Bless

athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking? coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so

I've never listened to bad bunny before. That was so damn good.

I'm a big fan how how much that probably pissed off the bigots.

Never Forget

I just saw a performance performance of this in Madison. Beautiful, deep, amazing. Worth sitting down and watching this for an hour. youtu.be/5UCwuV2tFNk?...

Swim meet purgatory

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

I just reread Sofia Petrovna, some 20 years after reading it in a Russian lit course. All Americans should read it as a cautionary tale of where we're heading as we grow into subjects of a terror state. They lie to us and will turn us against each other.

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Neurobiology Algebraic topology Russian literature Mathematical ecology

I had 90 minutes of freedom to wander around downtown Madison while my kid was at swim camp and thought about this. It was wonderful.

This was only about two time-lapsed minutes of the Alex Pretti memorial ride in Minneapolis today. I'd guess there were at least 5x more people there than this, and probably significantly more than that. Absolutely mind blowing love and support showing up on bikes today.

domestic terrorist, mr. president?

Honestly the longer ICE stays here the more advantage we gain. They have to be gone by spring. If the bike whackos get a shot at patrol it’s OVER.

The Midwestern mind at work: "whoa, I can't believe how warm it is out here". Checks weather app: 18F, feels like 8F.

At work I had Oconomowocayaki - Wisconsin Japanese fusion 😂

Spent the week listening to all the Silver Jews albums. So beautiful and tragic. Capped it off today with Purple Mountains. I can't help but hear Purple Mountains as basically his suicide note. It's so sad.

Suddenly have been figuring out rage against the machine songs instead of peaceful jazz on the guitar. Must be something in the air.

This piece by M. Gessen should have been co-signed by the entire NYT editorial board. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

There's once again a clear video. Don't listen to these lying pieces of shit.

Extreme Cold Warning. AKA a kinda normal winter day where I used to live in Minnesota.

This. Come visit my kitchen table.

If you’re a member of Congress and you’re talking about anything but ICE, what the fuck is wrong with you?

When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Designing a household fiat currency to pay my kids with for doing chores so I can adjust chore prices freely through inflation and my own made up monetary policy.

love to this bro

Seriously - constituents are expressing these sentiments so that their representatives will fucking do something. That's how the whole machine is meant to work.

Ok fine. I'll volunteer to live on Mars

somebody please stop this fucking madness already.

protesters are not “clashing” with federal agents. they are fighting back against a deadly siege.

In Minneapolis

RIP: I went here both during my bachelor party and after my PhD defense.

Saw a (non-music focused) performance today where the performer intentionally induced the crowd to clap on 1&3. That was painful.

There is a video. The gestapo agents were clearly not in danger.

ITMFA

How is this a thing?

Back at work after ~2 weeks off. What is all this stuff?

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

I usually don't feel like my political views are well represented by my representatives, but when the course of our nation is completely changed without even giving them a chance to vote, it's clear that we do not live in a representative democracy.

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?