Recent convo with my sibs re: Aging Relatives means we've developed a Tattoo on my forearm in the manner of the film Memento template. It goes thus: YOU ARE GOING TO [SAINT GUINEFORT'S HOME FOR] [RETIRED LIBRARIANS]. YOU HAVE PLANNED THIS. IF YOU SEE A [GHOSTLY RES FAWN GREYHOUND] THAT'S [ASTRID]..

And also it's just not a great situation when you're like "oh no an unsecured shotgun in a weird truck... well... prolly ICE, uh... thankfully? No... uh... manageably? But what if Something Worse?" ICE should be the Worst But Also Gone. But no. Nope there's MORE WORST.

This thread is a fun read.

Uh... not good news

Baja Manitoba knows what's good.

Come on Canada!

Bagels.

I see Lady Tyburn went to Ascot this year, @benaaronovitch.bsky.social. www.gofugyourself.com/photos/the-h...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

This lady knows what's what.

Heck yeah, Japan! So fun tothat goal.

Thinking about How to Be Minnesotan... had a great talk with a super smart person at a conference where we commented on that weird belong-ish thing of moving to MN in middle/early high school. My parents are E. Side St. Paul raised, but my dad was career military. Her family is Latino and she's...

Well this is pretty great.

He's not going to willingly put you on the Varsity team, Tom. Best you'll get is JV start or equipment manager. We all know it. To put it in terms that suit your crummy high school jerk rhetoric. I am so tired of listening to this stuff.

Oh to be a little black greyhound lying on a comfy doom poof on a cloudy summer day in Minneapolis.

I figured out how to make a payphone give me cheap calls home in 1995 and have felt bad about it ever since. Saying Happy Thanksgiving for five minutes to the family was not worth that and I'm glad dirtbag college me knocked it off. Gleefully advising folks to do this kind of thing... just no!

Cool!!

His Freaky Girl Friday It Happened One Night of the Living Dead Strictly Ballroom With a View Babes in Bruges Get Out of Africa* *an anticolonialist historical horror film?

Merge two movies: Field of Dreamgirls

Merge Two Movies: Hamthello. Henry Richard the Second the Third, the Fifth the Sixth the Eighth.

Yes!

Robert Rodriguez did not make El Mariachi for $5,000 (and it's is all the more fun for it) without superfancy effects for you to... etc

Oh hey Mexico just scoring fun speedy goals all over the place tonight! Czechia, score too please. You can doooo it.

George Smiley

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The Twin Cities' 15-minute neighborhoods — where you can live within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from all of modern life's necessities. Inspired by an excellent map of Madison made by @latlong.shop.

I just love this city full of totally eccentric weirdos.

If you're reading this, want to talk about it? I just got my copy. thecrueltyofnicefolks.com

cc @histofsex.bsky.social

My good friends something something peace for our time something something.

From doofussy endearing French pronunciation tutorials to this is A+ growth. www.instagram.com/reel/DZ7x7Oc...

In case you don't know, @naomikritzer.bsky.social writes a thorough and useful voting guide for local MSP politics. Try that (and share with someone if they say they're going to ask an LLM who they should vote for). Please be an AI skeptic in this matter at least. naomikritzer.com/about/

Beloit College grads achieving the liberal arts dream. I love seeing the cool successes my talented peers of the 90s make happen! 😍 www.instagram.com/reel/DZsKwBz...

It's a British archive but might as well be a Wiesbaden American Middle School ca 1987 Archive. www.instagram.com/p/DZrqq8FDkY...

In case you want a little Who Was Dietrich Bohnhoeffer? context. www.johnhendrix.com/226542492172

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Alive. A good, flawed dad for me. The kind of dad about whom one writes creative non fiction essays because his life was part of the story of the 20th century and whose individual experience of it was complex and for whom one has had, since childhood even, pretty grown up perspective. Not a dad.

Fair. Although gotta admit some of the cousins think the parent dysfunction thing is normal or desirable or price of admission. They refuse to go no contact with elders who flounce out of events and make it all about their grievances instead of about Thanksgiving. But fair. /torturing of metaphor

Weird looking red fawn greyhound out there by us in North Mississippi Regional Park.

OK but if you're only gonna one (doubtful), this is a good one to pick! [Go back to the top of the origin thread. It's so good!]

It's On The Syllabus

This is Correct says Carmen.

There was never an eviction moratorium after metro surge, so a lot of folks around here still need rent relief and help with bills footholdtwincities.org

Mattress store that’s always going out of business, except it’s a peace deal with Iran.

OK also came across two Scottish guys hammering pints/ having a burger in the Toronto Airport in their kilts & t-shirts on their way to the match in Boston and really. What's not to love?

*sniffle*

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. As if this even needed to be asked.

Carmen is anticipating noises.

OK Scotland you've got a lot of game left so please free me from this purgatory and score a goal already.