The embers under the tea have gone out The wind blows through the pine board walls of my mountain hut Lifting the smell of spring and sap to this long night Why do the cascading fields in Excel not cascade Where was the Buddha lost on the road to xlookup Why are these cells merged?

There is a free-to-take box of left over 3D-printed no-contact door handle openers in the break room, from our 2021 welcome back to the office giftbags (I remember they came with hand sanitizer and a novelty 6-ft tape measure).

When I say @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story, I mean @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story.

Is there a, like, MNUFC discord?

The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Much like SNAP, people really do not know how many of your freelance peers are on Medicaid or the subsidized tier vs ACA.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

hate to report it, but logging off and making a big ole pot of soup while listening to Nina Simone really is the best way to live your life and I can only strongly recommend the experience.

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

God really tried to tell us but would we listen?

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Reminds me of this 1910 postcard, depicting St Paul as the "center of the earth"

This is why the Winged Wheel represents Saint Paul

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

Welcome to Target!

You know I had to do it to'em

new GFM to build taylr a Kenwood Killdozer

It pains me to say as a Minneapolitan but Union station in St. Paul with its gorgeous public bathrooms, plentiful seating, games, art, bookstore, food and architecture is more family friendly and pleasant place to spend time at than anywhere in Minneapolis.

I can save Target Corporate a lot of training headaches. Speaking for all lifelong Upper Midwesterners of Scandinavian descent, we do not want any employees smiling at us, asking us about our day, or approaching us in any way, unless we're having some kind of medical emergency.

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

Monday! 7 pm! Spot Bar! Learn how Captain Bernie Cooper was a STAND UP GUY AND THE HERO WE ALL NEED! Sing-along to follow.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

you could still absolutely walk The Big Man into passing universal healthcare and people should be trying lol

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MY EYES

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

When you see a chart like this, you know we're really cooking

My cats could finish all my home-improvement projects, burn the house down, or just continue sleeping all over the place. Almost impossible to know, really.

taking a vacation day and bringing popcorn when this happens

a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight

a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich, but not convict one

“In 2029 we will use antitrust law to break up all companies that went through mergers after donating more than one million $ to President Trump while merger was being reviewed.”

The posting lawyers are so funny. Some are saying that the Sandwich Guy case was jury nullification but his entire case was premised on the idea that throwing a sandwich doesn’t meet the definition of the charge. The jury agreed. You are saying you would have voted to convict the guy.

The CVS on Snelling and University hired a lawyer who used to work for the city council on the DAY of their hearing.

After ICE agents raided a Chicago daycare Wednesday morning and arrested a teacher that has citizenship documents, Alderperson Andre Vasquez, 40th Ward Chicago says the city doesn't have time to wait for elections to fix the Trump administration's chaos and calls for Chicagoans to act now.

If the sandwich didn’t split You must acquit

Somebody call Bill McGuire and get this done.

"For MN, privatizing vast swaths of national forests would have huge consequences. There are about 2.8M acres of National Forest lands, of which 62K are inventoried roadless areas... Opening these places up to development would devastate this part of our economy." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Tell the Charter Commission how you feel about that, either in writing, or in-person at their meeting on Dec. 3 at 4 PM. The legislative branch has an important role in confirming department heads, just like in the federal or state government. www.minneapolismn.gov/government/b... End🧵

I don't know if anybody noticed, but Ramsey County's results came through a lot earlier than they have in the past, and the RCV results got counted fast. That's thanks to implementation of new software at Ramsey County. Thanks to the staff and election volunteers that made that possible

Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/

It's understandably a bit lost in the shuffle right now, but the Administrative Citations ballot question in St. Paul passed by a huge margin!! This is an incredible result for good governance and effective city administration! St. Paul can fine slumlords now! It can hit the Most Hated CVS!

I am legitimately surprised that more Dullinger votes went to Her than Carter. www.rcvis.com/v/saint-paul...

Carter was running for a third term in a climate of general unhappiness with how things are going (and those higher property tax assessments hitting mailboxes a couple of weeks before the election) and Her’s strategy of saying nothing and riding that wave of discontent to victory to worked.

Well, we got Admin Cites