Hope this gift link works: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/a...

A female Northern Cardinal takes flight from the boardwalk.

My father was an alcoholic (but I didn’t have a drunk father).

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

The list grows ever longer.

Nickel- to quarter-sized hail fell for a couple minutes at the State Fairgrounds a few minutes ago. The Back to the 50s carshow is taking place today through this weekend. #mnwx

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10 (IG: aussies_exploregon)

Asking for a colleague-- any recommendations on dealing with a journal that has citation limits? What do you do with all of those extra citations? Put them in a supplemental file? I have a vague memory of dealing with this before but can't track anything down in my messy email. #medlibs

And yet a few days from the solstice.

The old US Coast Guard boat launch in Grand Marais at sunset.

UPDATE - I was able to get a space to do this. I am going to be hosting a bus stop bench painting party on June 28th! Paint a bench, and then take it home to put at a bus stop by you! I have created a signup form to gauge interest! Please fill this out if you want in! forms.gle/a9Y1dBig5WZR...

New St. Paul bookstore just dropped. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.

Not only does Michael's work on both Twilight and The RiffTrax Experiments make for an insane coincidence, he almost certainly has the largest collection of moose antlers out of anyone on the set! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfG...

Venus and Jupiter in the post-sunset sky, from 9500 feet over southern Ontario.

The smaller the pencil gets, the larger the crowd. You don't need fancy mathematical modeling to see where this is headed. When the last nubbin of the pencil is sharpened away, the entire population of the world will be present to witness it. Imagine all the people. The world will live as one.

Lady slippers at Eloise Butler

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNM... via a routine inspection "The Minnesota Department of Agriculture...has issued a consumer advisory for certain ice cream & non-dairy frozen dessert products produced by Milkjam Creamery in Minneapolis, MN, due to the potential presence of metal fragments"

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

The therapy dog after I share all my problems.

Here’s a hummingbird on a branch yep

"It takes two to tango but one to fake a back injury to avoid dance lessons."

"What is the charge? Eating a carrot? A succulent home grown carrot?"

April 2026 was a busy month in the cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crime game for President Trump and his administration.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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

George Floyd was murdered 6 years ago on May 25th - Memorial Day. The 6th annual Rise & Remember Festival will take place at George Floyd Square on Monday, the first year Memorial Day has landed on the 25th since. Thought i'd share some of my past photos: chaddavis.photography/sets/rise-an...

"Tastes great!" "A delicate equipoise of fizzy nothingness!" "Tastes great!" "A delicate equipoise of fizzy nothingness!"

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Odysseus: *rubbing his face and moaning something about Calypso*

Ents of the Southwest

People are making Smaug references about this rock and, yes, I see it 🐲

Good morning

Wildfires are an even bigger part of life in northern Minnesota. We can all do our part to help.

The man is wearing an Army Air Corp A-1 flight jacket whose button-front closure predates widespread usage of zippers. His zippered shirt is a style popularized at the start of the 1930s. Rockwell's use of these details signifies the man's military past and current status as a worker.

Oh wow, y’all. Please see this incredible thread Z put together. 📚🍲

Amid a political hate campaign and an ICE surge, immigrant mental health is crashing hard. Depression, anxiety, traumatic stress all spiking. Learn why events in Minnesota make a leading immigrant advocate more hopeful than ever. maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...

The house stands adjourned until 2027. A million things happened this year but we also must celebrate what didn’t happen. Despite repeated attempts, there was no successful action to limit trans rights. We held the line and will continue to o uphold the deeply rooted value of trans inclusion.

A Sandhill Crane couple guides their colts over the metal bridge. This is the same couple that raised a Canada Goose several years ago. I can tell as the male Sandhill Crane is missing part of a toe on his left foot.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege

🌩️ Severe storms target Minnesota tonight followed by another round of nocturnal storms tomorrow night. Read more on our latest blog: https://weatherloon.com/blog/minnesota-weather/2026/05/17/severe-storms-likely-tonight #mnwx #severeweather

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Last night, a Chinese rocket dumped its fuel of the central US. I was teaching a Milky Way photography class and was lucky to see it happen and get photos of it. This is one of the photos.

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

We want to hear from you! The National Weather Service is planning to modernize its Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) network by harnessing new technology, optimizing observation sites and leveraging high-quality commercial data. Weigh in here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

“We have found, to our consternation, considerable groupthink within the professoriate on matters that are otherwise widely debated. This academic monoculture stifles heterodox viewpoints on disputed questions such as the safety of vaccines, the square root of four, and the earth’s topology.”

📱| Minneapolis, Minnesota (2019) Help nominated Minneapolis for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: www.mnominate.org