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Interesting zoom coming up from @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social. I’m very curious how AI art will come up, or not. loft.org/events/loft-...

Opening night artist talk with @michaelkareken.bsky.social at the Minnesota Marine Art Musuem.

"If we are only peaceable venues pacifying the preexisting views of our publics or ourselves, then surely we are not educating."

“By layering environmental issues with social justice messaging, my art emphasizes our alienation from the environment and each other, our willingness to waste, and our subsequent need for healing.” — Erik Jon Olson Don’t miss your chance to see “Erik Jon Olson: Waste Not” mmam.org/erik-jon-ols...

Impeccable vibe

Kowsar Mohamed is great. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

5 days + 5 reasons to attend Seasonal Saturday at MMAM on August 9. Day 2/5: Art-making Inspired by the exhibition, “Erik Jon Olson: Waste Not” make a one-of-a kind print with recycled materials mmam.org/calendar2/20...

Minneapolis Animal Care and Control is offering free animal adoption events every Wednesday through September thanks to a grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/august/macc-adoption-event-fall-2025/

One of these days a smart fundraiser will write on why the wealth transfer never happens at large and why it’s been theorized since the early 90s. Health care and recessions every decade-ish are largely the reasons. Anecdotes do, generationally they don’t.

@deveric.net how many hits you playing Saturday

Oh this is interesting for Mpls park board

@deveric.net Birfday

That’s a good hockey game

I told you we’d be back

The La Crosse Distilling cream metal container is so adorable

The U of MN is planning on selling the Les Bolstad Golf Course. All the M Club folks just got an email. The second image is from the Board of Regents meeting packet happening in 6 days: click.ecommunications2.umn.edu?qs=658a8df6b...

First Mississippi Sippin’ concert at the @mnmarineartmuseum.bsky.social of the summer

The only smashing I'm doing is to bells

I just asked a Madison museum development director for recommendations on where to get soup for lunch. This campaign to become soup city mayor is gonna take many cities and their support

Don’t miss your chance to experience the moving of the 1275-foot-long, “Grand Panorama,” at the MMAM! Due to its immense size, only 40 feet can be displayed at a time. Join us on May 27 at 2pm, to watch the panorama advance to the next scene. mmam.org/a-spectacle-...

Looks brutal

Our own Jon Swanson, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions hosts a workshop tomorrow on making a trug gardening basket. Pretty neat. Still has a little space left to join at @mnmarineartmuseum.bsky.social: mmam.org/calendar2/20...

Sunday is our Annual Report to the Community at @mnmarineartmuseum.bsky.social 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM You best believe we'll have pie and ice cream for all folks to see. And yes, because it is International Museum Day, admission is waived. mmam.org/calendar2/20...

@olsenforparks.bsky.social good speech

ran into rep aisha gomez who is unhappy about having to leave the mayday parade for the ward 8 convention for the record, josh bassais’ campaign refused to move the convention

If you’re at a DFL convention, wearing throwback wolves gear with blue is like wearing a cooler band t-shirt to the band you’re watching

Listening in about #SeituJones speak on boat building and more at @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social

Important

Thank you News 8 Now / News 8000 for featuring the exhibition, "A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World." www.news8000.com/news/local-n...

Naz Reid

First day completed at the @mnmarineartmuseum.bsky.social as their new director of development. It rained. Felt auspicious.

Uptown vote to preserve parking is another failure by the Minneapolis Park Board The choice of surface parking over green space ignored five years of community engagement and planning. by Bill Lindeke www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Naz Reid

Oof Bandit Stuff got stuck in customs #bostonmarathon qr.me-qr.com/HIz2yFLc

Minnesotans should make this sell out Otherwise what are we even doing

It don’t matter Stole our Lakers Foul takers Conduct capers Wolves in 6

Listen I don’t care if the flight leaves in 20 minutes I’m not waiting in a line to rush to sit in my seat

Emily is running Boston this weekend and the only hard decision I have is which version do I pack

My buddy @dansheehan.bsky.social is always a must read: www.reallyveryhuman.com/dumb-phone-d...

Hold up, those private school kids at Cathedral get tax dollars for buses? www.startribune.com/walz-propose...

Important front yard update @nazreid.bsky.social

Wild to hear on @mprnews.org a fellow former North Melrose person with Ana Pottratz Acosta. Graduated between my two older brothers. Always a smaller world than I ever thought possible

Now live here