I can't stop thinking about this mansion on Lake Harriet that belonged to a modern art collector. This is the front and back of THE SAME BUILDING.

It’s so warm in my office, and yet…

Any Minneapolis folks looking for a large home or mixed-use/office space? My latest listing is a home I've literally dreamt about--HUGE 6 bed/3 bath/2 car home with flexible zoning, just off Lake Street. matrix.commondataplatform.com/matrix/share...

okay. yeah, “labubu.” i hear you. but listen: i am 40 years old and if i have to learn about another thing i will die

i hope this email doesn’t find you at all. i hope you got out. i hope you’re free

I cannot with this creature and her complete disregard for physics

I was prepared to have a middle schooler, but not to have partial custody of a trombone. Why trombone. Why is it in my living room barking at me.

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work theonion.com/relaxin...

We had my dad’s much-belated memorial service today, and I got a room full of people to repeat in unison the comforting affirmations my dad told us every night as kids. I didn’t really understand how lucky we were to grow up with “Those Things” until now.

I’m rearranging my office. Chad is helping.

im also a hyperrealistic head on legs but you don’t see me selling out like this

Of course AI is fucking racist!!Tech isn’t magically pristine, it mirrors the biases of the HUMANS who created it—and AI does everything faster and stupider! We bake our own imperfections into everything we make!!!

Don’t have to redline if the AI just does the racism for you.

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Look at this majestic predator

Baby’s first antique tool restoration 💖

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

A friend of my dad and stepmom sent me their wedding photos in case we want some for Dad’s memorial service, and OOF. I forgot my +1 was my shitty college boyfriend, a man with such main character syndrome that he brought his own shitty abstract paintings to someone else’s wedding to show them off.

Steps

Take a minute to think about how ancestral and generational trauma might impact people self medicating, how ongoing genocide and settler colonialism might influence substance use disorder, how white-centric treatment and recovery might be inadequate or counterproductive. Please help my friends.

I fitted the legs and main benchtop of my workbench together for the first time, and all of a sudden it transformed from a little project I’m noodling away at for funzies into a huge piece of hobby-specific furniture??

My review of Sunrise on the Reaping is the way the book ended and I immediately shouted “Jesus Christ, Suzanne!”

I slept for 17 hours and woke up with no memory of this

My spouse made me a Le Poisson Steve 😭

My spouse has just informed me that every day at breakfast, Chad and Nimbus let the other cats eat first and spend the 30 seconds it takes to get their own food having an animated slap-fight. Every single day. “It’s their morning ritual, slapping each other in the face.”

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

How many disassembled 1915 player pianos can you fit in your car? My answer is half

i crave the salmon xanax water

Over at @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social, a few blocks away from Moon Palace, we had our best sales day *ever* on Indie Bookstore Day on Saturday. Shit absolutely rocked. Our shelves are bare.

Not-so-casual reminder that cities are NOT protected from tornadoes, that’s a pernicious myth. science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natur...

Oh my god yall

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

so they're mycoblogging

Chad has taken to joining me in the workshop. He doesn’t understand my new hobby, or how to use a hand plane, or what wood is, but he’s very supportive.

Le Poisson Steve is stuck in my head so thoroughly that it’s expanded to fill every nook and crevice that depression would normally hide in. I can feel an intrusive thought start to form, then get drowned out by “STEVE (waaaAAAaaa) le poisson STEVE (poisson Steve)” Thank you, fish Steve

Building a workbench (I hope)

Loving this new puzzle game 368chickens.com

Chad escaped his loving home twice today, forcing my spouse to chase him across the yard. Then he trapped himself in a plastic bag and ran across the house wearing it like a ghost costume. Big day for Chad.

This is not nearly big enough!! Furries are social animals that need to be kept in pairs (AT MINIMUM), and this enclosure could barely fit one juvenile furry. Unless you’re free roaming your furries and only using this as a travel crate, don’t bother. It doesn’t even have high-speed internet! SMDH.

Cowboy is getting admitted to a rescue in the morning! This is the next step in his journey to become the spoiled housecat he was clearly destined to be. Earlier tonight he yelled at me about his food bowl being “empty” because he’d knocked all the kibble on the floor. He’s gonna do so good 💖

Sorry clients, I can’t go on showings tonight, Toby needs to hold paws while he naps

my phone just scared the absolute FUCK out of me by recognizing a "face" in the background of this picture. i don't have my contacts in and i just sat frozen in terror until it focused correctly and it was just a pair of sandals

In less than two weeks, Cowboy has gone from hiding under the couch 24/7 to sitting in the studio window yelling at the neighborhood. 😂

We took out kid to a store that lets you pick your own Lego bricks from bulk bins, and a mom there turned to her son, who was pawing bare-handed through the bins, and said, “Wow, that cough’s getting so bad you’re losing your voice!” Ma’am. 🤦

opossums imply the existence of apossums, epossums, ipossums, upossoms and sometimes ypossums

I want to enjoy the new Chappel Roan song “The Giver,” but we just finished reading the 1993 Lois Lowry dystopian novel The Giver for bedtime story time, and my brain insists the song is about the old man

The basement stairwell built-in shelves are DONE!! I’m so proud of this project. It’s the most permanent change I’ve made to the house with my own hands, and it feels a bit like adding to the history of this 112 year old bungalow I love.

This guy’s gonna be such a good house cat. I can’t believe how far he’s come in just 6 days! He’s chatty, playful, opinionated, and already learning how to show affection 🥹

Zelda logic: Human is bad at finding mousy toy, so to instigate fetch, wait until human is on toilet, drop mousy toy into their pants, and scream. Add self to pants if necessary.