why isn't granularify a word though

Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!

guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.

we seem to have deprived them entirely of the footage they were obviously hoping for

In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger

It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.

As a newish Swiftie (since the Eras tour), I can confirm that converts are the absolute worst. Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.

Get you a neighbor like me who runs around in the dense jungle of a backyard in the dark w/a head lamp or iphone light at 10:00 at night yelling and chasing one of her dogs who is chasing/trying to murder a [fill in the blank urban wildlife that this night happens to be a possum] instead of peeing

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Minnesota wyd 🧐

I like how the BBC news update at the top of the hour just casually dropped in mention about discovery of a "rogue planet" gobbling up space gas and floating "freely through the cosmos on its own" without any mention of whether it's on its way to put us out of our misery or what

Never not worth reading a @dieworkwear.bsky.social thread thru to the end.

Homeless….homeless…..home…less….i don’t know, let’s bulldoze their tents???

Hell yeah

Fucking finally yes exactly this. And of course it would be the most delightful Ed Yong, one of the best sci comm folks on the planet to say it just right. It's not about more/better science-comm or trying harder to get Pam or Dennis in outstate MN to care about science/research.

awoooooooo-ing here the first Weds of the month should really be my deadman switch because regardless of anything else, including that I'm just mostly away from the bsky firehose these days, I feel compelled to howl as my proof of life every 1st weds.

awooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

For anyone needing a gif of Cheryl Reeves tonight

Jesus I feel gaslit watching the commentary (lack of) on the absolute fuckery that went on in the MN v PHX game tonight and just like what fucking game was everyone else watching?

Taking tiny breaks to watch Downton Abbey (and Doctor Who) absolutely helped keep me sane during my PhD. I’m starting a rewatch of Downton tonight and it is so soothing.

completely unrelated to prior post: Jazz88 just slid into my minding-my-own-business making late dinner and doing dishes with Willie Nelson doing a version of “Do You Realize?” and now here’s me crying my face off in the kitchen.

“It’s not turtles all the way down, it’s hornets” - she says as she cleans out the hummingbird feeder and finds another dozen of the assholes having drunk themselves to death

Malcolm Gladwell is the perfect face of this bullshit, because he is the epitome of a person dumb people think is smart. Because he takes complex issues and reduces them to glib "one neat trick" stories. lyz.substack.com/p/help-help-...

The Wheel of Time is so many much pretty people. Sigh. Yum.

How is it that the gun lobby is so powerful that kids are now at risk for death but the pharmaceutical lobby is so weak that kids are now at risk for death?

“If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong.”

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“Morrissey lyrics” strangely left out of conversations about ‘kidults’ unable to leave their childhood passions behind

This is a morning I'm feeling pretty "you're doing amazing sweetie." I like that for me.

🐺AWOOOOOO🚨

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging

The fine folks at Sociable Cider Werks (1500 Fillmore, just north of Broadway and east of Central) are hosting a blood drive today at 2:00pm in hopes it may help any of the kids and others shot today.

It is horrifying, but the Minneapolis Star Tribune has an excellent live feed going on the school shooting for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date. Be warned, there are some truly awful details in there.

"Concentration camps are an American tradition. They aren’t uniquely American, but rather stretch across the history of the modern world whenever and wherever states...detain civilians without trial based on group identity." A well-written, historically-informed piece by @lollardfish.bsky.social

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

Cabbages did better than I expected given I gave up early trying to control the ubiquitous cabbage/brassica worms, even if a couple of them look like oversized Brussels sprouts…and then there were 3!!! The culprit looking pleased with herself (and lucky for her apparently cabbage is fine for dogs😭)

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

I got my dad set up with Audible audiobooks and now he’s sitting in his chair and listening to Jack Reacher and my mom is irked that he can ignore her so much better because he’s got headphones in

"Among Americans younger than 65, almost half of deaths wouldn’t happen if we had a death rate that matched our [nation] peers" Really great (and distressing) analysis and write-up in Slate by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & @astokespop.bsky.social!

Tangentially - a US national park employee was recently fired for being part of a group who temporarily hung a giant trans flag from El Capitan. apnews.com/article/yose...

Crossing the Canadian border at Grand Portage/Pigeon River. Imagine a rainbow/Pride sign on US govt anything anymore (you can’t because they would kill it with fire and fire everyone who ever worked in that building).

Lake Superior is soooo trans (complimentary) - look at all the melding blues, pinks and white.

Man TWO items of good news? In THIS economy??

The only sad thing about this is that I can't celebrate this moment with my wife but I'll raise a glass from afar. We won, fuck you.

I can't live in a country where I can't access the medication that allowed me to go from a perennial psych inpatient to a thriving member of society. My choices if that happens are leave the US, risk jail, or institutionalization. You're not getting me to vote for that.

okay, 24 hours later, I'm STILL laughing about this one.