This death metal piece could be the best story I've heard on NPR all year www.npr.org/2025/12/28/n...

Been decades since I pulled a tab but in the early ‘80s while a KARE11 investigative intern, I figured how how they could rigged, thanks to collecting baseball cards. Pulltabs, like baseball cards, are (or were) mechanically cut from sheets then boxed. I guessed that pattern repeated in-box. 1/

Happy Solstice everyone!!

Someone much more clever than I am pointed out that Frosty the Snowman could be considered a golem, so I ran with that.

Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.

Speaking in baby talk to the dog then realizing Teams is unmuted

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Glorious hair in this World Series

"What the fuck man?" "Fuck you, motherfucker"

This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Beth El Synagogue (1936) 1349 Penn Ave. N Source: Hennepin County Library. Synagogue later moved to 5225 Barry St. W

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

Tomato results: "Sweet 100" cherries great as usual "Mr Stripey" I got a few good ones, good flavor I forget what the yellow ones were called but they tasted great and produced a lot of fruit! Early Girl: lots of fruit but not as exciting flavor (at least for snacking).

Horn and bassoon representation!

The blazing star finally bloomed!

Twins trade tally: Carlos Correa Jhoan Duran Griffin Jax Louis Varland Brock Stewart Willi Castro Harrison Bader Chris Paddack Danny Coulombe Ty France They traded 40% of the roster, including the five best relievers and five players with 2+ years of team control remaining.

I hope Outman refers to his fielding and not his plate performance

#StarTrekTNG "Will I Dream" Data hosts a genius alien cyberneticist who attempts to perform a positronic “mind meld.” Ro and Barclay secretly enter each other into a tango dance competition where they become opposing finalists. Transporter chief: Jim Davis.

Lots of blooms now! Royal Catchfly is my favorite. It has such a unique red color!

Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax: "if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."

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thank you to the 30+ transplants (!) who chatted with me about their advice for making friends in the twin cities:

Ever wondered what a trumpet would sound like in jelly? Well, am I about to answer your question...

Love the purple and yellow color combo

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.

Roses look like this for 1 day only

maria’s cafe corn pancakes are the best food in the cities. maybe anywhere. every food in the world should just be maria’s corn pancakes

Here come the pumpkins 🎃

Is this good for my screens

These peonies just volunteered in my garden

It's the weekend, baby

Monarch eggs! I hope they last long enough to hatch...

I'm just trying to grow some tomatoes here

A touching pregame tribute on the @Phillies broadcast 🤣

the ancient texts

Audacity of Hoop www.nytimes.com/athletic/635...

Twins' announced attendance: 10,240 That's the lowest announced attendance in the history of Target Field, aside from COVID-impacted seasons.

‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related. ‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’ ‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy." ‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."

Stock Market 🤝 Timberwolves

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

Circling back on this…

having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.