how is it possible that the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is not gordon lightfoot's top-played song on spotify

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it's @nplusonemag.com bookmatch season again!! bookmatchquiz.com

Elections are one tool in the democratic toolkit - yesterday it was voting, and tomorrow we will keep organizing. I am proud to have run this race with the support of @twincitiesdsa.org, and to continue building with my political home (Join DSA act.dsausa.org/s/3311.R6gRaz).

doing ctrl-f on every cheney obituary for the phrase "quail hunt"

proud of my screenshot composition here. invite me to your next zoom meeting for similar artful candid shots

@boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is looking so good at 26th and lyndale 🌟 open now, go check it out!!!

few topics on earth are more boring than complaining about how busy one is, but when one is too busy, it requires an insane force of will to avoid such complaints

oh, ice is coming to minneapolis? yeah girl, no shit, it's october. we scrape ice off our windshields eight months out of the year, why should this winter be any different

packing so much silk brocade and wool crepe into my suitcase for this wedding weekend i feel like an edith wharton character. if you guys have to kill me in the class war i'll understand

american literature has been squirming under the thumb of the CIA-influenced iowa-style workshop for almost 100 years, and between this and the trend towards corporate "professionalization" in all fields, we have developed an intractably antisocial culture of storytelling

dreamed about a cat with the face of a barn owl, like the reverse centaur version of ursula k le guin's CATWINGS

perfect opportunity for the left to swoop in and fill the void with HoliDSAzle

We're within $500 of hitting our goal! Who's going to put us over the top?

not diane keaton!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh man

It took me 5000 words, and Grok just... tweeted it out. racketmn.com/whats-the-de...

crazy stuff to be coming from the CEO of the world's first international corporation

sat for thirty minutes at a bus stop today (waiting for a bus that's supposed to run every 15 minutes) next to a parked black van that had emblazoned on its hood in bright white all-caps the sentence I CAN DO IT ALL IN THIS LIFETIME. i mean, maybe if the bus ever gets here!!! get lost jenny holzer

went two-step and country line dancing for the first time. turns out i love two-step and country line dancing. time to replace every single piece of internet esoterica in my brain with 8 count choreography. farewell to my fans, i may never post again

Helping with this volunteer-run bookstore has made me lifelong friendships, connected me with multiple intersecting communities within and without the Twin Cities, and scored reporting tips. We're always on the lookout for new volunteers. Email us at volunteering at boneshakerbooks dot com!

This bookstore is fucking awesome! Donate if you've got the money! (Also, postcard for only $5!)

One day into our moving fundraiser and we're already halfway to our goal! We are so lucky and grateful to be in community with all of you 💀📚🖤 www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

putting my name on the wall of Boneshaker let's goooooo

BONESHAKER BOOKS IS MOVING to Lyndale! It's Day TWO of our fundraiser and we're more than 50% of the way to our goal! By the way, any money we raise over our goal will go directly into improvements to the store! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

The rumors are true: Boneshaker is headed to a new location! We need your help to dig up our bones and move on over to 26th and Lyndale. We're hoping to raise $15,000 total, $6k of that by 10/17. Learn more at bit.ly/boneshakermove and thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!

i approve on the basis that finn wolfhard and paul westerberg are both capricorns

NEWS: Boneshaker Books is moving! And we need your help to pull it off! We are looking to raise $15,000 to get us there and set up. $6,000 of that needs to be raised by 10/17. Please share! Radical bookstores forever! @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Could the Wedge be getting a bookstore? Boneshaker books plans to move from Seward to the old Common Roots building at 708 W 26th Street. They need to raise $6,000 by 10/17 to make it happen. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

check out the things on offer for donating! Great incentives to donate to a great cause!

two weeks out from a fancy dress event and i am indulging in my one true online shopping vice: searching "vintage silk shantung" on all available resale platforms

Large Adult Language Models. is this anything

wide awake in the pre-dawn hours while the guitar solo from "simulation swarm" loops in my head—forget migratory birds and equinoxes, now i know it's officially fall

do we think this bar was named after the ee cummings poem "i sing of Olaf glad and big"

Your friend Dan is in Wired talking about thirst.

it is the most midwestern thing on planet earth to develop a store brand version of the hot girls for zohran shirt. exact same energy as buying jumbo bags of "marshmallow mateys" at the grocery store. (bluesky disclaimer: i live in the midwest, this is a passing comment, i am not chiding anyone)

going to be thinking about this one for a while

one word you hear constantly as a child and then almost never as an adult is "cubbies". no one is talking about cubbies anymore

this is so good—i already know i'm going to read it again and again

decided i wanted to understand the hearts and minds of americans so i watched the kimmel monologue right up to the bit about disney providing a statement for him that was just "please reactivate your disney plus accounts" and everyone laughed knowingly and i was like, oh, right, i already understand

pussy wet like lake superior: cold, deep, unforgiving, a watery graveyard of ships and men

shana tova. there have been times in my life when i believed very strongly in the transformative possibilities of a new year—i am trying to summon that belief right now

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something so special about any vegetable that gets described as "mucilaginous". like you can feel the barrier between plant and animal life dissolving

remembering everything. hooked on mnemonics

i used to read marilyn hagerty's column on actual, physical newspaper, lying on dusty carpeted floors as a child in grand forks, and it really does feel to me that her death marks the end of that reality

Duck Duck Coffee will be doing a directed donation drive today - please bring t shirts, underwear, ibuprofen/acetaminophen, shorts, drinks, and especially SHOES during business hours today!

whatever happened to lima beans? time was you couldn't find a vegetable medley without them. where did they go? why did we turn from them?