On what would have been Prince’s 68th birthday, if you are one of those folks who never really got into his music, or tried to listen once or twice and got overwhelmed with the huge catalog behind 1 or 2 big songs, I made a set of playlists to help you explore his work. anildash.com/2017/02/12/i...

In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.

Selling my script Bureaucats to Pixar. A scrappy group of nerdy cats keep the cat world functional and fair despite the cool cats and evil cats constantly disparaging them, and the rank and file cats taking them for granted A fun family story that also sends a powerful message about state capacity

At some point in using his combination bike lock “as a fidget,” the 10yo managed to reset the code to an unknown value. I think brute force checking all the number combos here is our only option?

BI-blically accurate

Got myself out of a low spot by putting together a playlist of songs with awesome key changes. Of COURSE Whitney Houston is on there multiple times, but so is one of my favorite karaoke jams: youtu.be/ivtSA0-fbcg?...

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

YES... HA HA HA... YES! Never abandon Driven to Disco!

A nod to opsec

One of the things on my to-do list is "sing in a group," so might see who I see at the Prince singalong in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday?

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

I am extremely this kind of Local Dad (gender inclusive)

I really resent those AI slop farmers who traffic in Heartwarming Stories engagement bait. (dogs pick their owner at the shelter, etc). You feel like an a-hole for calling it out and your friends feel like chumps for falling for it. There's actual, genuine wonder in this world. AI is destroying it.

important:

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

As someone who’s reading wheelhouse includes both “fucked up architecture” AND “bureaucratic/corporate satire,” this was EXCELLENT. (And yes, “fucked up architecture” absolutely includes “House of Leaves.”)

He looks like a character Al Franken would play on SNL

Been thinking about this a LOT as a former fed who someday wants to get back in and help repair and build what’s next.

Going to the Uptown Diner for a Tex Mex and everyone grabs a paper on the way in.

i’ll add to josh that in addition to this idea that only the president can identify national priorities, there is a conception of the president as something like the sovereign embodiment of “the people” themselves.

HOW ABOUT WE GIVE IT A TRY, MINNESOTA

Why has "WHALE IS IMPORTANT" not been thoroughly memed? I might paint it on my living room wall tomorrow. WHALE = IMPORTANT

How, HOW am I such a sucker for a mix (tape, CD, playlist)? Why does "this song made me think of you" just absolutely bulldoze amy and all rationality, months or even YEARS after the fact?? I don't want this to change about myself. I can only try to build up defenses. But damn. 🎧

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

an extreme cautionary tale for any newsroom leaders who are convinced AI has a place in theirs:

i just know this would be the perfect thumbnail on a youtube vaporwave compilation that goes hard as hell

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat photo from your phone.

Fun (“fun”?) Amanda Fact: if Alan Parsons Project “Sirius” starts playing in any context outside of a sports event, I’ll absolutely lose my mind cackling.

Did anything else happen in 2008? Anything an economist might remember specifically? Anything?

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in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Nooo not my emotional support grudge!

Best comment: “Looney Tunes meets Guernica”

I love @racketmn.com for a ton of reasons, like this headline! I once passed T-Paw while boarding a flight back to MSP from DCA. He was in first class and was getting his ear talked off by an intense hockey fan (who continued the intensity for the whole 2+ hour flight!)

The six genders

Come on fhqwhgads youtu.be/votBDwhTu1E?...

And here it is! Enamored!

Waiting to catch a @chicagocta.bsky.social bus this morning, got to the stop, wondered “I wonder how long until the next bus comes?” and BLAM! E-ink display right there to tell me!

Any time someone would start saying "You know, these two agencies are secretly working together to-" I'd stop them right there because never mind "secretly," the "agencies working together" thing was already a hiiiiiiigh bar to clear.

I don’t really know how to articulate this, but Klobuchar making “actually all the bad stuff you’re hearing about Minnesota is true” into a campaign event feels like one of the most Klobuchar things that could possibly happen

The new flag is boss as hell, and I’m also annoyed because my neighbors have started flying the old state flag as of a few days ago (taking the spot previously held by a Gadsden flag, a Let’s Go Brandon flag, then a B&W version of the US flag with a skull biting an automatic rifle in the middle.)

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Something from my EXTREMELY sophisticated collection of MIDIs.

May Day in Minneapolis always feels like a reward for surviving a Minnesota winter. This year is different. We survived a winter when the federal government sent an occupying force, kidnapped our neighbors, and spent months trying to destroy our community. We’re still here. ❤️

If there’s ever a biopic about Prince, Janelle Monaé needs to be cast. Like… damn can you imagine?!

I would still posit that I alone have the combined fluencies in 90s R&B, enterprise networking, and food supply chains to make the Sisqó / Cisco / Sysco Podcast succeed. But who am I to deny the world the art it deserves?

Bring back the ancient knowledge