I would like to print this thread out as a pamphlet to hand around.

If you blaze, hurling off sparkles and lightnings, your sorrow, gloom and stupidity keep house within you. They are more you, more yours, than your brilliance. Your genius is everything you are not. Your best deeds are foreign to you." I don't really think there is a unitary self, but yes.

QUERY WOULD YOU EAT SPECTRAL DORITOS

here is some Northern Hemisphere good news. today, the day I started to feel "this is ridiculous, this is just TOO DARK NOW" is precisely the day that it is starting, slowly slowly slowly, to get lighter

I get that people's brains might still be developing in their teens & 20s but I am amazed by the number of people who are 40+ and still haven't figured out that: "other ways of life are as fully rounded as my own culture, as full of nuance, as thoughtful & as beloved by the people who live in them"

Treat people with kindness. If that doesn't work, grab them with your talons, devour them with your toothy maw, and digest them slowly over the next thousand years, and see if that helps.

A couple days after the fact, I discovered that a cat had peed in the bathtub. I poured bleach in to clean it.

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org

We’re here for when you need to get away. Open 6-midnight

Time to look into your settings, folks.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I don’t have any myself, but will reach out to kid-having friends.

congratulations to everyone who did not email regularly with jeffrey epstein

My phone sees more vibrant colors than I do, but I have thumbs, so I think I’m still ahead.

These aurora photos are pretty close to the intensity I could see with the naked eye from my urban backyard this evening.

In an age where we have fewer and fewer collective cultural experiences that everyone is in on, it’s so special to come online and just scream, “omg omg omg” with strangers from across the country.

“defeats the purpose of” let me stop you right there, pal. you can’t defeat a purpose

Ughhhh calling to leave a voicemail is hard, but if I did it, you can, too.

A gallon of whole milk can cost anywhere from $2.16 to $4.95 , but it's all coming from the same plant in north Minneapolis:

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

If you're a rich person trying to performaitively leave New York STAY IN LINE

I’m taking this opportunity to work on defaulting to Book instead of Phone when I’m waiting a few minutes for something. I may not be able to make two full hours a day (I’ve just gotten really bad at sitting still), but I can definitely read MORE.

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people. it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper: cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.

This is a mandatory watch if you’ve ever wondered how people who profess to believe the Bible can act so differently from what the Bible seems to prescribe As Dan explains, they don’t *believe* the Bible. They believe their identity politics and use the Bible to justify them

OK. I don't know why I did this, but I wrote up my run down of what I see as the condition of Saint Paul and then why I choose to support Mayor Carter leaflet.pub/ab326e22-655...

the Enlightenment consensus of the past circa 300 years though is that everyone gets to use the public sphere with dignity and respect, no matter how much we disagree with them or think people like them shouldn't exist.

Quick tour of our new Barn space ✨

in case you missed it our World Cafe Live session + interview is up and I gotta say it's nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=btCH...

“Oh no! Do you need to talk?”

“You couldn’t even teach this at marketing school, because it’s just, like, a one-off phenomenon,” one staffer says of the shop's series of incredibly viral glory hole videos. And while there are probably a few other reasons you couldn’t teach it in marketing school, the point stands!

This feels like a late-night “wouldn’t it be so cool if…” conversation, but I can’t help hoping it will come to pass.

I am increasingly convinced that the feeling of being unable to focus, procrastinating and being addicted to scrolling are often actually the feeling of being desperate to learn something new and difficult. To let your brain chew solid food. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

I’m moving the photo posting over to Retro. You’ll have to join me there if you want to see the terrifying Cthulhu tendrils that one of my plants is using to colonize another. retro.app/@chelseaknits

Sunday: Blessed image.

Saturday: Met up with fellow members of the Reading Glasses Discord at Tropes and Trifles.

Friday: Adam & Kristin’s elderly neighbor lost his son this year, so he hasn’t had help for his yard. The three of us worked on it this afternoon. Mr. Otis said he feels like he has “a new lease on life.” My bones are angry but I am full of joy that I was able to use my body to help someone today.

Thursday: The Anxious Gentleman.

Wednesday: Toad Lily

This Saturday is the last Loons home game of the season and we want to put it to good work. Listening House is a fantastic resource for our unhoused neighbors in StP. Please think about making a special trip for some clothing donations. Or donate money!

Tuesday: Why, what do *you* find when you’re looking for a good highlighter at work?

Monday: I didn’t sleep well, but someone did just fine.

A MESSAGE FROM THE VOID YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION TO FLY THE WINGS ARE YOURS AND THE SKY BELONGS TO NO ONE DESPITE WHAT SOME MAY HAVE YOU THINK YOU ARE ENOUGH

Sunday: Celebrating a friend’s birthday at a yarn shop: I am doing life correctly.

Saturday: I have found a bee sleeping in the tithonia more than once this week.

Dumbest take about Riyadh Comedy is "everybody has a price." If the money is too good, that's scary as hell! If you find $20 on the street that rules. If you find $20k in a paper bag, you didn't see shit. If somebody offers 20% above your rate, awesome. If they offer 20x your rate YOU ARE IN DANGER.

it is true (and yet one of the great secrets of the universe somehow, still?!) that one of the most successful ways I have ever found to get anything I wanted is just... to ask for it, out loud, somewhere that people who are in a position to give it to me can hear.

Friday: I rarely camp myself, but I support camping behavior in others.

Thursday: Reading a spooky book to usher in spooky season.