✨ Shiny new link for the benefit concert at the Hook & Ladder Theater & Lounge this Thursday: thehookmpls.com/shows/still-... If you're in the cities, come check out the show!

📢 UPDATE: Nearly $20K in unmet needs. Please share widely! DONATE: NeighborReliefFund.org 💸🏘 We're hustling to prevent evictions + a mass exodus of our immigrant neighbors. So far, you helped over 250 families stay in their homes. The need persists and many other rent relief resources have closed.

More of this everywhere.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

NEW POST IS UP: ICE Said It Would Handle Shootings by Its Own Agents. MPD Held the Perimeters and Helped ICE Leave the Scene. This is the second story in a series analyzing more than 2,000 public records from MPD during Operation Metro Surge.

This 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we’re excited to announce the Pride in Policy legislative package with @aishaforward10.com and @aurinmpls.bsky.social! This is a set of ordinances, policies and directives to staff that ensure the City supports and protects our 2SLGBTQIA+ community. 1/

I appreciate Maggie Lorenz taking the time to address this and talk about some of the site’s cultural significance to our Dakota relatives. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...

New day, new Air Quality Alert about ozone in the metro that will last until tomorrow night. *heavy sigh* I am just an asthmatic, looking at sunny summer days, wishing I could go outside and breathe.

✨ Shiny new link for the benefit concert at the Hook & Ladder Theater & Lounge this Thursday: thehookmpls.com/shows/still-... If you're in the cities, come check out the show!

📢 UPDATE: Nearly $20K in unmet needs. Please share widely! DONATE: NeighborReliefFund.org 💸🏘 We're hustling to prevent evictions + a mass exodus of our immigrant neighbors. So far, you helped over 250 families stay in their homes. The need persists and many other rent relief resources have closed.

Yet another great reason not to use AI agents... Or Microsoft products.

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

Had a lot of fun going on the Newcomer podcast and talking about the AI bubble youtu.be/wOBTi8dAb1Y?...

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month started not as a celebration, but an uprising. And with three nationwide book banning bills currently circulating through the House and Senate (H.R. 2616, H.R. 8705, and H.R 7661), there is still plenty for us to fight back against in the ongoing quest for queer liberation. 🧵

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

All that money made by oil companies, and they don't monitor or maintain unused oil wells. "The United States could have more than 3.2 million orphaned and abandoned wells that cause huge impacts on the environment." Not to mention those in the seabed that are leaking into the ocean. #pollution

"My guilty pleasure as I was laying sick in bed today: reading through the CoPilot subreddit and seeing people wake up to the reality of having become addicted to a tool where the dealer has decided that the free sample period is over." scholar.social/@gedankenstu...

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

I just want to note that EVs don't fully solve this problem because a lot of PM2.5 and PM10 pollution comes from brake dust and tires.

With Sega (my former beloved) now jumping on the AI slop train, I'm seeing people say well everyone usea AI now at least for code! No, they don't. And here are 3 starter packs of game devs who don't use ANY AI The slop is not inevitable go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

If you've been outdoors all weekend, you may just now be seeing new reports of crazy allegations against Brian O'Hara. Difficult to believe Mayor Frey didn't know there was a real problem when he renominated him. www.startribune.com/document-det...

same group that produced this incredible commentary on ai hype globalvoices.org/2026/04/26/b...

Oh I missed this: Atlanta City Councilmember @kelseabondatl.bsky.social has introduced a resolution calling for official City communications channels to stop posting Generative AI slop. Also, Zuckerberg sucks for removing the ability to pause reels on my Instagram app

"I just couldn’t go back to life as usual, because what I witnessed there wasn’t a war. I witnessed a level of destruction I had never experienced before. What I witnessed was really a genocide."

Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I side eye anyone using AI slop images in their decks. Don't do it. Your deck looks the same as anyone else's, it's uncanny valley distracting, and you'd be better off without the image, or just doing stick figures.

Hm.

Another way to frame double dipping is FRAUD. MPLS police committing FRAUD in their hour reporting while going 10s of millions over budget seems like a big deal?

GEO Group (and DHS) think they have the power to forbid a member of Congress from speaking to people locked up in Delaney Hall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Happy Pride (part 2.5 and 3) to our nonbinary and lesbian homies 🫶 🏳️‍🌈

A dark day for the hard-working, recent-Pulitzer-winning folks that make the Strib hum. racketmn.com/read-star-tr...

Guess who’s back.. back again.. Horace, the corpse flower, blooming!

Free breakfast, lunch, and weekend/summer lunches are an investment that pays off in a healthier, more stable, and better educated population down the line.

SPPD is pulling over neighbors observing ICE blocks away from my house. Mayor Her so far has not allowed any investigation of ICE/SPPD collusion. Collusion is state murder.

Minnesota PSA from your friendly, neighborhood asthmatic: Most of the state is currently in an Air Quality Alert through 11pm on Sunday. 😮‍💨 Ozone can't be filtered by N95 masks, so the safest move is to stay in and avoid prolonged exposure, especially for kids, elders, and folks with heart disease.

When federal agents approach you, you can’t be sure what their real agenda is or what they hope to learn. Often, they try to pressure people who are only distantly adjacent to political activity. So even if you think you have no reason for concern, read this FAQ. crimethinc.com/InformantFAQ

I am not alone. You are not alone. We just need to say it out loud and often. The best outcome is that we change laws and social norms. The worst outcome is that we move the Overton window towards sanity in transportation planning. Say it. #BanCars

Girl Goebbels

please remember that this is a rehearsal for november

I’m just a girl, standing in front of an AI data center, running for Congress to ban them: archive.is/PtGlO

We should do this in Minneapolis and St Paul.

You betcha.

Minnesota PSA from your friendly, neighborhood asthmatic: Most of the state is currently in an Air Quality Alert through 11pm on Sunday. 😮‍💨 Ozone can't be filtered by N95 masks, so the safest move is to stay in and avoid prolonged exposure, especially for kids, elders, and folks with heart disease.

All because a marketer used culturally insensitive AI outputs.

"Rather than simply chart their personal transmasculine nonbinary journey, @newlevant.bsky.social augments their memoir with a rigorous, sweeping survey of LGBTQ+ history." #PrideMonth #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/05/quee...

We’ve got the loon! Stop by and say hi❤️

The Minneapolis City Council is hosting a Pride Month Ceremony, Breakfast, and Drag Show (likely the first one ever) on June 11, 2026 at Minneapolis City Hall (8:00AM). We hope to see you there! More details will come.

I won’t be participating in big tech propaganda, thanks

Fuck this. No. Permanently close the wannabe CoreCivic Concentration Camp, raze it to the ground, and #AbolishICE