Absolutely fascinating story about "a devastating vegetable virus mostly unknown to the public" that involves the Minnesotan who "invented wild rice soup." www.startribune.com/what-happene...

this goes hard as fuck

Help my Secretary of Defense is talking like a wide receiver

Awarding a Michelin star to Los Tacos Junior, the taco truck in the parking lot of my local O'Reilly's Autoparts who can do me no wrong

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Seeing this guy rolling up to my favorite restaurant and knowing I’m gonna have a great meal

Not gonna lie, Green Line’s 87% On Time Performance is better than I expected. Also, STOP HOLDING THE DOORS!!!!!

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

The jokes and fears about nukes are understandable but he is almost certainly planning to destroy civilian infrastructure with conventional weapons, still an act of war and a monsterous war crime

They say a successful empire will last 1000 years, but that sounds like metric shit, here in America we count in units of 250 which we call "Freedoms" and we value-engineered this one for planned obsolescence, in order to maximize returns to shareholders

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Donny pops open the nuclear football, inside is a buck knife and a note that says "you must cut the codes out of the chest of The Standin, so that you appreciate the gravity of what you desire to do" then he spends a week trying to convince various underlings to take the knife and murder a civilian

The pedophile king of the United States staring glumly at The Button.

Being an old man sitting outside of Dunn Bros seems so elite.

People dismissed the Bluesky Dying discourse, today's intermittent failures should be a real wakeup call. Bluesky has no paying users or ads, it is powered by engagement. Each Like fuels the backend, and if we don't keep above a likes per hour threshold, the servers start blacking out.

This is a very good (very long) thread, highly recommended. Couple thoughts: 1. As always with these things, the diagnosis is sharp but I don't totally grasp the proposed solution. 2. Damn Bluesky makes it hard to follow long threads.

This is crayon eating behavior, jesus

Reporting all my coworkers for goofing off at work

Oh so she figured out that Saint Paul landmarks are all on intersection points of Ley Lines? Big deal, everyone already knows that

(youth pastor voice) jesus actually partook in one of the earliest escape rooms,

This is incredible.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

that record's only for the first half of the trip. buzz and neil spoke french to each other on the way back because they thought michael collins did not deserve to hear "the true secrets of the surface"

this is the first time in my life i can point to the moon and tell my cat there are astronauts flying to it

Bluesky is dying, a new sky struggles to be born. Now is the time of discourse

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

This got a cheer that might end up being the loudest of the season at Target Field.

Humanists: Chasing the latest tech fad has not worked out well for other generations NC: But it might work out well for us! Humanists: The most reliable path to ROI is to study things you're good at and learn both broadly and deeply and the data supports us NC: I asked Claude and it said it's alive

It is kind of grimly funny that a lot of AI Data Center construction is being held up by a lack of capacity to build and ship transformers, given that the pinch on transformer capacity long preexisted the AI bubble - data centers need power and the energy industry was already being pinched

The prologue is the part of the podcast episode where the hosts are talking about what they had for lunch for 10 minutes before getting to the content, and the epilogue is the part at the end where they thank their patreon subscribers and tell them the events and merch they have to plug.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Tiger Woods is to crashing his car at 2AM as Jair Bolsonaro is to contracting novel strains of the Corona Virus

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

Bet on yourself www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just over a month ago, the St Paul DFL was reconstituted with a new board. Since then, I have been serving as Chair of the and working hard to lock in details around our St Paul DFL Convention where we will endorse candidates for School Board of St Paul Public Schools. Here are the key details: 1/

I'm asking why my hard drive is full and I find out the AI I don't want to use from a computer I don't control has stashed an archive of all of its favorite AI friends in a My Documents folder of its own creation. Good stuff. rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/peer-pr...

St Paul catching strays here

April Fools Day was invented by cowardly product managers as a deniable way to soft launch zany product ideas they secretly like but are too cowardly to put their name behind, or that their stuffy senior leadership refuses to consider

Does anyone know if there is still a dine in Pizza Hut in the metro? Preferably in StP or Mpls. Very hard to tell from online research

I am genuinely curious to see it!

Collateralized Slop Obligations. Plagiarism Backed Securities. Sub-Prime Hallucinated Mortgages.

Getting my law license revoked for yelling "yes, dumbass" in open court

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

this week, we talk about an absolutely teflon guy in the pocket of a local industry. and we've got @devononearth.bsky.social with us! listen where you listen. "hey don't No Gods No Mayors episodes normally go up on thursday" yeah that's true. this one is up a day early. no reason.

This whole case is very tragic and I do not want to make light of the violation and crimes committed, but...."Jinger"???? people.com/jinger-dugga...

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

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