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

hi! you can try racket for ONE DOLLAR right now! racketmn.com/products

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?

How much of the public space in Minneapolis will be fenced off by 2028 if Frey is reelected?

one more pledge and we've got the numbers we need to run this blood drive!! who's going to seal the deal?

We need your help to schedule a blood drive in support of local hospitals! 40 pledges are required to secure a blood drive. You do *not* need to be a member to participate. We'll reach out with more details once we reach the threshold. Pledge form: buff.ly/Bm2JODR

indescribably powerful energy in this photograph. impossible to tell the ages of, or precise relations between, any of these people, but their challenging gazes!! the overlap of their bodies!!

Join us for our September General Meeting! We'll have a recap from the 2025 National DSA Convention, a special election for an At-Large position on our steering committee, and more! Saturday, September 20th, 2025 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm RSVP & more info: buff.ly/ILtWeLb

a man shot dead in a crowd, and the rippling of hypocritical and sincere reactions to it, is quite literally just another day in america. but the etsy witch? that's a real story

had lunch with my mom and her 20-something coworker and learned coworker taught mom about "i'm baby" meme and mom subsequently started saying "i'm baby," and when coworker suggested i might also know of/indulge in this meme my mom was like, "she might know about it, but i don't think she'd say it."

🗣️ UMN Teamsters Local 320 are on strike! 👉 “Workers are demanding parity with other university union settlements and preservation of hard-fought gains won in mediation.” 🔥 24 hour pickets are planned across UMN’s system of campuses until a deal is reached. #SOLIDARITY with the 1,400 workers!

dipping a fingertip in the brown butter dregs left in the saucepan and trailing the dark salty grit over my gums as though it were the residual cocaine left on a party mirror

now that summer is truly over it's time for me to announce the official song of the summer was mj lenderman's version of "dancing in the club"

a LLM's discourse

Come say hi at Open Streets West Broadway! We’ll be here until 5pm between Logan and Knox 🎈✨

@omarfatehmn.com in the @thenation.com on joining @twincitiesdsa.org: "So I joined and am proud to be supported by DSA, because it’s clear what we believe: Housing is a human right, healthcare is a human right, clean air and clean water are human rights." (1/2)

having a handful of triscuits and a cafe au lait for breakfast is functionally the same as having a bowl of shredded wheat with milk and a black coffee

i understand summer ends with labor day weekend but i'd just like to say i wish the temperature hadn't immediately dropped 30 degrees. love my sweaters and crisp cool mornings as much as the next guy but we're all about to be cold for 8 months, are a few more 78-and-sunny days too much to ask

wondering whether today's children still get to study the table of apothecary weights and measures printed in the back of a black and white composition notebook. a new school year, a new chance to marvel at the word "avoirdupois"

people love to ask me where i get my energy, and i hate to reveal my secrets, but: every time i suppress a Take, the little clockwork springs inside me get wound tighter and tighter, and i return to my work with renewed vigor

got stuck walking down the midway at the state fair behind a man wearing a shirt that said THIS WORLD IS TEMPORARY on the back—finally dodged around him and almost collided with a man wearing a shirt that said ANOTHER WORLD on the front

in heaven they let you read all the tabs you ever closed without reading, vs in hell they make you read all the the tabs you ever closed without reading. discuss

schrödinger's It's Happening

if nobody else got me i know walking one to two miles home at dusk while listening to music got me, can i get an amen

Today is Primidi the 11th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate watermelon.#JacobinDay More information on watermelon

Thinking of all you parents today. What an impossible set of dangers and fears this country has given you to bear.

i don't see the sex forest option?

it's crazy there used to be a website called polyvore. language really does evolve faster on the internet

thermometer at 67 degrees, wool socks are back in play

modern sisyphus deleting dozens of screenshots from his phone every morning only to receive an "iPhone Storage Full" notification every night

should i post four months of letterboxd reviews all at once

just reposting this again... no special reason...

heard a strangled scream in the street... ran to the window in alarm... to discover once again i have been pranked by the neighborhood turkeys

curious to see if/when/how the state DFL endorsement recision shenanigans enter national discourse

This past Sunday, our chapter had a booth at Open Streets Cedarfest. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn more about our chapter and the Rethinking I-94 campaign!

Help us reach 2,000 signatures on the open letter asking @mndot.mn.gov to give boulevard options a fair chance! betterthan94.org/open-letter/

the thing i love about a dirty martini is how it's like drinking IV saline solution meant to kill you instead of heal you

theoretically i could make salsa verde any time i wanted to, but there's something i like about waiting until the farm share tomatillos arrive to make it. one to two annual batches of fresh salsa as an ephemeral seasonal delicacy, perfect

[me surveying the territory, a vast plain of challenging responsibilities rippling away into the horizon under a merciless sun] hm. i think i drank too much coffee

Want to ask MnDOT why they're removing the at-grade boulevard options? Now you can! Grab coffee and attend MnDOT's Coffee in the Community event on August 18. More details below ⤵️ www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/coffee...

the deeply 90s-coded experience of listening to bouncy jazz on a customer service hold

left DSA convention roughly 25 hours ago and just got home................... trains are on THIN ICE with socialists right now, let me tell you

me trying to vote at the dsa national convention

i think of Being Online as my primary vice, and most of the time i feel reconciled to this state of affairs, but then occasionally a phase comes where i grow so sick of Takes that i feel an urge to develop new problems. could be a smoker. could take up sports betting. literally anything seems better

the best summer dinner is savory yogurt, where instead of topping a bowl of greek yogurt with berries and granola, you fry up a bunch of vegetables and garlic and maybe some chopped nuts and put that on top instead