Motto: "not the John Brown you're thinking of"

Just getting this joke

I didn’t look at the back cover of this book closely when I checked it out, and I don’t think I would have ever guessed what was on there.

Birchbark is owned by Louise Erdrich, who won the Pulitzer for Night Watchman, and her next book, The Sentence, has the main character working at Birchbark (and Erdrich herself is a side character) during the George Floyd protests. Worth a read!

Looking tough for Kansas Republicans to gerrymander Davids out of her seat. sunflowerstatejournal.com/hawkins-on-r...

Shoot, still writing 2025 on my checks

Getting “20 years ago” memories on Facebook and dissolving into dust

Love clowning on Chicago, but our local pizzeria growing up in the Green Bay area also did tavern style

Go pack go

the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go oh hell yeah, making lifelong friends, growing as a person, lots of jokes along the way

What else could I be referring to when I say Beantown

Kansas election trivia - out of all the elections last year, who got the most votes?

I use the aggregator bookmarks.reviews a lot to find new books to read, and I’ve never seen a ratings spread like this lol

You see results this and want to know what the small town drama is. One candidate on the ballot, but they only get 6% of the votes

that's right

My wife and I both assumed we had seen the 60s Frosty the Snowman cartoon a bunch as kids, but putting it on for our daughter, we both have no memory of it. Turns out we were both picturing the narrator of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Villa are going to win the league

Interesting — a veto override in Kansas can only handle a few Republican defections, and it sounds like there might be more than that in the House who won’t back a gerrymander in the spring.

AVCX is great! They put out a really fun variety puzzle last night that was perfect to do during a middle-of-the-night baby feed. It was also my first time solving a pdf in the books app, which worked surprisingly well.

Instilling American pride in my daughter by insisting she call it “pepper pig”

Now that's a competitive countywide race, a 15-way tie

As one of the ~15 people who had a Seeso subscription, I watched this when it came out, and it’s so good

Backlash to the failure to call a special redistricting session in Kansas. Seems like a strong signal they’ll go to the mat for it in the regular session. sunflowerstatejournal.com/house-speake...

It’ll be interesting to see the dynamics of tackling this in the regular session.

Some good redistricting news: Kansas Republicans have abandoned trying to hold a special session to re-gerrymander their congressional map & eliminate Dem Rep. Sharice Davids. They could try again in January's regular session, but they apparently lack the votes in the state House, at least for now

A niche daylight saving problem: our four-week-old needs to eat every three hours, but we couldn’t set an alarm for ourselves for the second 1:30am.

Do you ever think about how lucky we were that Wild Wild West wasn’t a better movie, because steampunk could have gone a lot more mainstream than it did. We all dodged a bullet there

When the KS leg passed this amendment, they said the next section of Article 15 should be 26, but Article 15 only had 13 sections, it was the following one that had 25. It passed the popular vote, and the SOS version of the constitution now lists it as section 14. Someone oughta write a letter.

For some reason the SOS report from 1864 doesn't have statewide results for the constitutional amendment guaranteeing soldiers the right to vote, but every county return I can find was dictator-sham-election in favor of it.

Looks like one chamber in Kansas is ready to call a special session for redistricting. According to the article, though, the House is still around eight signatures short. #ksleg

Had a fun little pattern going on with @puzzmo.com and ruined it

Big things to come at my kid’s preschool

brew crew

One of Kansas's county Register of Deeds has been in office since 1969!

A Kansas gubernatorial candidate launches an ad urging the state legislature to hold a special session to gerrymander congressional district lines.

It’s true and annoying!

Kansas is taking steps towards a redistricting special session.

I lived a few blocks from downtown Ithaca my junior year. The neighborhood was teeming with monks from the nearby Buddhist monastery out for walks, it was rough

Bourbon County, KS voted last year to expand their commission from 3 to 5 seats, and they're doing special elections for D4 and D5 this year. Always seems weird when states allow for half the reps to serve under the old map and half under the new with redistricting.

Isn't telling it what groceries to order the same as ordering the groceries yourself? Or is the idea that it would make the decisions for you? What a joyless existence

Retiring the backpack I’ve had since grad school and cleaning out the pockets. Anyone need a drink token for the Backyard?

I think this chart would be more informative as percent of each group who was long-term unemployed, unless the lesson is that the job prospects for high school dropouts continue to improve as time goes on

My daughter started day care a month ago. I'm reaching acceptance on the fact that I'm going to be at least a little sick constantly for the next few years

I got one and most of the US games off eBay in college when they were dirt cheap. My approach was to lay on the couch and have foam tape on contact points where it'd rest directly on my face. I've still got it in my basement, but I hold no nostalgia for it

Last October, Kansas ticked over 2 million registered voters for the first time in state history. Last month, we did it again! (List cleaning in the spring brought us below 2 million, but we're now back above 2 million!) ike-lab.com/vfile_202509...

Been a while since I've looked at Kansas county commission district lines, and I forgot how interesting some are

Finally

Yesterday's @puzzmo.com was probably the best I'm ever going to do

I guess kudos for someone in the anti-BlueSky discourse referencing actual BlueSky posts, but he's not beating the charge that critics don't like it here because people make fun of them