on sunday i cut my thumb doing dishes and the wound is at the precise point where my thumb typically contacts my phone screen, meaning i can't scroll through apps without a sharp reminder that i am literally hurting myself. in addition to being incredibly funny, the timing could not be better

i can tell i've grown as an organizer since 2020 because Posting Through It no longer has any appeal to me

twin cities DSA at powderhorn park @twincitiesdsa.org

Mutual Aid Opportunity: COMMUNITY ALERT & CALL FOR SUPPORT Powwow Grounds on Franklin Avenue is now being activated as a community headquarters for ICE patrol observation, rapid response coordination, and community support in South Minneapolis.

I bought Gina a new turntable to replace that ancient one. All kids deserve good audio.

reminder that the concept of "bear witness" as in "gotta watch all the bad videos yourself" is a goofy byproduct of the video age, and would be absolutely inscrutable to most people before like the 20th century

just sitting here waiting to learn whether the person who ICE shot in minneapolis this morning is someone i know personally or not

snow removal company email hitting different this week. "even small accumulations of ice can create challenging and hazardous conditions" ha ha ha. ha

it's time: to catch up on writing letterboxd reviews for every film i saw in 2025 before the year turns over

in my dream last night i watched an eagle catch a dark-feathered bird in midair, swoop towards the table where i was gathered with friends and comrades, and then drop the head of a vulture on the ground beside us. that's that old fashioned oracular shit, you don't get that every day

i think i just saw the very first all-AI-generated scam poshmark closet. as though there isn't enough fast fashion slop in the world, now there are also robots hallucinating pictures of fake clothes??

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

ice watch report: my husband accidentally turned on the ice maker in our freezer (not in use for the last five years due to space being at a premium) and, after hearing a "mysterious noise" a couple of times, opened the freezer door to discover several dozen loose cubes sitting on top of our venison

everyone look at my cool friend!!!

twerps on parade

turns out they no longer allow you to wear glasses in ID photos so my government identification image is now de facto a disguise

mods are asleep post rare stubs @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social

time for this holiday banger

did you guys know angelo badalamenti did the soundtrack for national lampoon's christmas vacation

one great thing about december is that it's a window where i can listen to music without being surveilled by my streaming platform, and i take advantage by listening ENTIRELY to the type of shit your worst sad-sack pretentious indie ex-boyfriend loves

i don't think i've ever seen pepper spray on fresh snow before—what a wild, striking visualization of its impact

the first line of this passage from plath's journals, omitted here, is "being born a woman is an awful tragedy." i read this for the first time when i was 17 and it was maybe the first moment i'd encountered someone else explicitly grieving her inability to inhabit masculinity the same way men do

does anyone here have opinions on the best translation of marx's capital?

Total darkness and snow cover at end of the working day now! but that's not a big deal. we just turn on our little lamp, like this. there we go, that's nice. it's not a big deal,

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!