Come back home. I thought we were going to watch Paddington 2 but she keeps demanding Daniel Tiger.

ENOUGH!!! RALLY ROUND THE BELL!! SCHOOL WALKIOUT MONDAY AT 12 TELL EVERYONE

I'm planning to have an all-time Ian day tomorrow: tubing down the apple river and going to the cedar lake speedway.

Not as bad as it might have been, but plenty of grist for the mill.

Going to tour a house that was flipped so hard it's listed at 300% of the price it was sold at 8 months ago and there are no interior pictures on the listing. Watch this space.

Disney's Dinosaur (2000) was so thoroughly boring that my group of 14 year olds walked out 45 minutes in. Only time I recall doing that.

Was trying to clear up space in my google account, which ended up mostly consisting of downloading 10 GB worth of an action thriller my niece and I produced over multiple years called "Spy Surfer" wherein we pantomime being on surfboards while doing espionage activities on each other.

Update from country western dancing night: I still cannot dance.

About to be living demaciado

Me, gearing up for Taco Bell's inevitable discounts to win back their diarrhea-stricken customers

Today I voted against contracting with the drone company Skydio and I was proud the City Council voted down working with a company that contracts with ICE. Metro Surge was a test of our constitutional rights. Opening up the door to further erosions of our civil liberties would be a massive mistake.

Four days until two week vacation 😮‍💨

This computer is on its way to a new home with someone who has the expertise to get 'er up and running, thanks to the power of bloosky. Appreciate everyone who took an interest and I am only sorry I didn't have 4 computers to give away to everyone who asked.

A salted nut fell into my A-frame tank on this hot summer's day and now I know what they were crooning about in all those country music songs.

Year of the Bean.

I was daydreaming yesterday about becoming a guy who makes and bottles a really strong ginger beer. I'd call it "Pappy's Tonic" or something and it'd have a guy wearing a barrel on the label. Maybe I'd start to wear a barrel too.

A place where I feel pretty alienated from a lot of otherwise political allies on this website is that I just don't think that the things politicians say on social media matters very much.

I'm auramogging in this one.

The baseball event of the season: The @djgloverepair.bsky.social All-Star Game Watch Party

this one has me extremely upset

Got my first babysitting gig on Friday. Excited for my career change.

I hate when Wirecutter reviews hot dogs or socks or whatever. There are no wires even tangentially involved here. Stay in your lane.

I will be in NYC next week (Monday-Friday), staying in Downtown Brooklyn, and need your advice on things to do and see and eat. Bonus points if it's "extremely Ian shit" Already on my list: -Tenement Museum -Museum of the Moving Image -Tickets to "Oh, Mary!"

Like Stump Party without the stump, like Giant Sub Party without the sub. @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social @normcharlatan.bsky.social

What's even worse is when I show up on the set of "JEOPARDY!" and it's just a bunch of randos drinking.

I love pub trivia, but boy it's a bummer when you just want to go to the pub and there's trivia going on.

It's too hot everywhere now. Not just outside anymore. It's now too hot inside.

Been listening to a lot of Summoning the last couple days. I'm not even sure how much I like Summoning, I just think it's cool that they exist. I want to play an RPG that feels like Summoning sounds.

Tough to go from a brief illness at a time when diarrhea is in the headlines like this. Just hard for all his close confidants, knowing what picture it'll paint in everyone's mind.

My parents are about to throw away an Apple II Plus in the DFW area that was working when last booted in the early 90s. Anyone into retro computers have an idea of how I would match it with an interested hobbyist?

For the first time ever, my rural Texas family watched a soccer game together. Four generations in one household, gathered around, watching the beautiful game. Everyone agreed it sucked and we can't wait for the NFL season.

Went to Prairie Meadows for the first time in 20 years. Made $40 on being a horse expert.

Got so high before the movies, I could understand what da minions were saying.

Ames experience: ran into an old professor from graduate school dining on a patio and ran over to say hi. Only afterward did Rob tell me that I had interrupted her dinner with the former ISU president. 🙃

Good way to turn a 3.5 hour drive into an 8 hour drive, but it got me 5 new counties.

It's over for you hoes.

Good. Good. Now let's see the numbers among DSA members.

Almost half way to Stump Party.

calling @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social in ur night mayor capacity

For every beloved mutual that I don't know IRL, I generally have another mutual that I regularly confuse you with. You're all paired up with a buddy with a similar aura or pfp. It's just like how I can't remember which band is Chicago and which is Boston, because they're both cities.

Imagine the mission to raid the Army Corps base to activate the Duluth lift bridge so the St Croix Federation can sell Mesabi ore to the Brotherhood of Steel against the wishes of the Duluth Syndicate. Gold in these hills, I tell ya.

They should set a Fallout game in Minnesota. Target Corporate is run by a warlord and his 'red shirts' conduct raids for supplies. There's a ghoul running a bait shop on MN-371 that gives you quests. There's a fishing mini-game in Bde Maka Ska.

I wonder if younger generations have any of us "compulsive highlighter" readers -- you know, those of us who double click on text as we read. I bet that doesn't play with a phone-native reader.

Got lunch with an old friend who teaches math out East. He runs the correlation every year between homework scores (take home) and test scores (in-person). This year, the correlation went negative -- the better you did on homework, the worse you did on the tests.

Probably a bad time to admit this, but I don't really understand how I'm supposed to turn left from a protected bike lane. Do you merge into traffic a half block early or cross the intersection and then take the crosswalk?

"13% of people love flying a kite" I bet 13% of people also had these on them when asked for their opinion...

Even Garfield and Friends Screens isn't sitting out the discourse on this one, huh?