Just completed a nice rucking workout* outside and I feel great! *walk from Kowalski’s with food I forgot to get from Trader Joe’s on the weekend

This tree looks like they’re a little bit puzzled by the question they’ve just been asked.

Ella Jenkins was/is the GOAT. She deserved all the roses.

Not going to mess with that squirrel AT ALL.

There are many who aren’t sure if their “If you’re in line” joke was noted here on Bluesky. If you can, please volunteer your time to “cure” those jokes to make sure they’ve been counted.

The only prediction I’ll think about today is that of my uncle, born in Germany in the early 1930s, who while I sat at his dinner table in summer 2016 said in halting but forceful English to me, “Trump is a bad, bad man.” I still think about that monthly. Anyway, vote today if you haven’t yet.

As they had not yet started saying 15 or so years ago, 10/10, no notes

Good job by the sunset crew this evening in St. Paul.

I’m reading “Pride and Prejudice” and I think that I’m going to make reading Jane Austen the week before a major election a new ritual. A lovely tonic.

Could Shohei Ohtani - and *only* Shohei Ohtani - win the World Series? Because that seems like the optimal result for me.

I’ve got too many podcasts to listen to, but if you think I’m going to turn off Pulp’s “Common People” on the radio, you’d be wrong. (Also, pretty sure you can guess my age from this skeet.)

Who is this MNUFC team playing so efficiently and what have they done with the often frustrating team I’m used to seeing?

I sang in a public choir on Friday night, so I’ve checked that box on my “Things to do in Minnesota” bingo card. (It was fun! I’ll do it again!)

Instead of another debate, how about they compete to see who can complete an escape room first?

Lying on the floor of this house we’re staying in and noticed these spotlights, interpreted them as googly eyes and now I can’t see them as anything else please help me

Yesterday’s MN State Fair food: a cup of Martha’s Cookies (probably shouldn’t have tried to eat it all, but, you know, Martha’s); Sweet Corn & Hot Honey Cake (Farmer’s Union; fine but presentation underwhelming); and the Union’s Honey Lavender Lemonade (good but I shouldn’t waste calories on drinks)

Shout-out to the wild turkey strolling along Summit Avenue yesterday morning perfectly within the bike lane for as long as I watched them.

Seeing as the original is probably my all time favorite tweet, I couldn’t not share this.

Hey MSP peeps, can anyone recommend a good running club for older, slower people like, erm, me? At this point, anything faster than a 10-minute pace is pushing it. Vibe and good natured people more important than the training. Thanks in advance…

At a windshield repair place and their TV is: 1) tuned to the Euros, and 2) at a very low volume. For these blessings I want to smash lots of car windows then refer them here.

Me, a transplant just arrived from the desert, sowing last week, enjoying the rain: Haha, fuck yeah! Me, unloading the moving van this morning in the occasional downpour, reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

My wife was doing a crossword puzzle & the clue was something like “MTV named this Phil Collins hit one of the top 100 videos of the 80s.” She asked me what it might be, and I said probably either “Sussudio” or “In the Air Tonight”…. 1/x

Going some very old files and found this clipping. Still one of the best headlines ever (though it doesn’t make sense unless you read the article attached to it).

Even if the eclipse were simply an excuse to sit in a field with other people and recline on a blanket and eat snacks I’d be fully onboard with it.

This makes the silent HGTV channel at the gym make so much more sense

Pi(e) Day final tally: 6 slices of pie at $3.14 each, 2 pizzas at $3.14 each (plus toppings). I placed the pizza order around 3pm, and by the time I picked up the pizzas at 6:15, the place had a hand-scrawled piece paper taped to the door: “NO PIZZA” like it was a horror film.

“Ship of Fools” and “The Whole of the Moon” are perfect songs, albeit very different. RIP Karl.

Hello. One reins something in. One does not reign something in. cc: people making the screenplay text on screen for the Oscars

Did they just… spell “reining” wrong in that screenplay bit? #Oscars

Who’s got two thumbs and a brand new Laser Loon SPPL library card? This guy!

One last time, with feeling. 2024.xoxofest.com

Post 10 bands/musicians you’ve been obsessed with at some point in your life, in no particular order: Billy Joel They Might Be Giants Talking Heads R.E.M. Matthew Sweet Spoon Wilco New Pornographers Kacey Musgraves The Beths *I tried to put these in rough choronological order of interest

Cleaning out newspaper clippings my mom saved going back to, like, junior high (I was a very achievement-oriented kid), and can’t stop laughing at this - I’m on the right here. Like, did the photographer take one picture? Were they related to Tim (on the right)? Or was this the best they had?

My lukewarm take (pun unintended) on the Tracy Chapman / Luke Combs "Fast Car" duet last night: it was a little bit less than the sum of its parts. I mean, there are few perfect songs, but "Fast Car"? Perfect song.

So glad @jefito.bsky.social is back with Jefitoblog, and while I said my piece about the new Billy Joel track in less than 10 words, Jeff takes about 1,300. (Jeff's is better.) I agree with it all -- it's a good track, average for Joel, and earns its weight by the context of its release.

The new Billy Joel track is pretty darn good. That's it, that's the skeet.

One of the things I've appreciated over the years is Wilco not giving up but in fact leaning further into their Chicago roots. Their brand-new video, filmed at a Windy City skating rink, is particularly joyful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZte...

This thread, along with the thread *it* quote-posts, is useful reading for what to pay attention to (and when) w/r/t legislative bills. Especially in January, the amount of electronic ink spent on bills that won't go anywhere is... frustratingly large.

Shortest day of the year. Minnesota people: The days only get longer from here on out! Yaaay! Arizona people: The days only get longer from here on out! Waaah!

As someone who'll be moving to Minnesota in the not-too-distant future, I'll buy something with the new flag design, so I guess that's a thumbs up? (Definitely better than the outgoing one to be sure.)

Oh, this has immediately brightened my day.

Saw "Barbie" Friday night -- didn't entirely cohere, but really enjoyed the movie; loved the production design, dance numbers, and the last line. (I preferred Gerwig's "Little Women," though.)

Given that people took "tweet" and applied it to posts here ("skeets"), will "-eet" be the social media equivalent of "-gate"? Are Threads posts called "threets"? Is Mastodon doomed to fail because they're called "toots" instead of "teets" or "meets" or -- really, this is the best -- "deets"?

When did the meaning of "moral support" become equivalent to "morale support"? Like, at one point did lending moral support mean encouraging someone else not to, like, kill someone? And now it means something like, for example, "hey, sorry your parenting day sucked. Hope tomorrow's better."

Thanks to @maura.bsky.social, I've been anticipating Fall Out Boy's "sequel" to "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the result is... good? It's good! Not sequential like the original, but it definitively channels its spirit. https://music.apple.com/us/album/we-didnt-start-the-fire-single/1694092593

"Sidewalk" by Built to Spill -- still undefeated!

I'm biased because I love the band, but The Beths' bassist Benjamin Sinclair writes a brilliant blog covering the bands' tours called Breakfast and Travel Updates and I just felt like more people need to know about it. So now you do. https://www.breakfastandtravelupdates.com/

I assume they are in fact actual tacos, but I also like the idea of it being a band called Friday Shrimp Tacos

Now that the days are getting shorter, those of us in the desert won’t have to worry much longer about hot afternoons, right? RIGHT?

Hello? Hello. Hello!