There are plenty of cities with winters just as bad as ours that manage a decent mode share. We are a metro system away from being Stockholm.

What if Guffman didn’t show because he was seeing the folk reunion show after a gig as Spinal Tap’s new drummer

SD65 convention is winding down. It was definitely long but props to the team that ran it. The length was mostly due to a big agenda, straddling two CDs, two counties, and a big first timer presence. Glad it wasn’t derailed by a lot of the petty stuff I’ve seen at other conventions.

There are so many programs I use for work where it used to take 30 seconds to click through to the function I wanted that now take 35 seconds because I have to work around a giant prompt for an AI assistant that might save me 5 seconds.

@audreyii.bsky.social I wonder if neighborhood canvassers know about this.

The Supreme Court:

For Liam.

Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize hard-drive.net/seymour-guad...

There are games where the OP’s arguments hold up, but I don’t think PF2 is one of them. Characters can pretty quickly build up a suite of options, we’ll call them Plans A through E. Plans A and B are probably “fancy Strike” and “normal Strike.” But it takes very little investment for Plans A to C

We are bags of wet meat without armor, claw, nor fang. I do not gleek corrosive acid. The reason we’re the dominant species is our intellect and the systems we create with them.

Overheard from a passing 4yo: “Jingle bells, jingle bells…gah! What’s the next line?”

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

What if Block E, but again?

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

My one-day hypothetical game will have some form of Pierce, Slash, and Bash as discrete basic actions. Weapon damage and traits will be linked to attack type. Armor would have varying strengths and weaknesses. Character abilities would build off of specific actions.

I get people hate caucuses but if you get rid of them you get stuff like this by design.

The actual male power fantasy is a friend or neighbor needing to borrow a specific and uncommon tool and you have one.

My favorite Bluesky moment…

Babe, quit saying I’m dumping you. I’m not dumping you. I’m transitioning you to your new (purely hypothetical) boyfriend.

If your personal vehicle is too big to u-turn in a cul de sac, it’s too big for cities.

There's a lot of people talking about and memorializing George Floyd today, which is understandable. These weeks at the end of May are a big trauma-anniversary for people here in Minneapolis, and I want to ... acknowledge that and talk about it?

In this video essay, I'll explain why werewolves actually play a vital role in our ecosystem. Don't forget to lycan subscribe.

I could die happy if they turned it into the Pearson's Salted Nut Rollerdrome

her: “I wonder if he’s thinking about other girls” him: “the flea on the feather and the feather on the bird and the bird on the egg and the egg in the nest and the nest on the leaf and the leaf on the twig and the twig on the branch and the branch on the limb and the limb on the tree and the tree

I’m convinced that a big chunk of the US idea of poor customer service overseas is people visiting places where cs workers are free to call out rudeness.

When the 4 Non Blondes said “And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs WHAT’S GOIN ON?!” I really felt that.

It’s nice to see common PF2 house rules like free archetype and paragon ancestry grow in popularity because they inch ever closer to my initial recommendation: just double all feats.

Endlich Schnee in Köln auch wenn nur für 20 Min, aber ich hab Schnee-Entchen gemacht:

Me: I feel kinda iffy, hope I’m not coming down with something. :drink some water, immediately feel better: Me: &$%#! Again?!

If you’re going to do 3.x/5e style multiclassing, the classes to get rid of are fighter and wizard. Build a ton of narrow classes and let these generalists be meta-concepts. A fighter is anyone who took levels in a variety of martial classes like a lancer/shield warden or archer/sword duelist.

Roger on the inside: I’m hesitant to move on because of the trauma. Roger on the outside: Oh yeah? Well what if souls don’t exist? Checkmate!

If DnD 4e wasn’t called DnD, people would have ignored it for being a blatant DnD knockoff.

It’s interesting seeing how many online comments opposed to removing i94 either 1) don’t know about truck routes through the cities or 2) don’t know that MNDoT is going to do something, and that something is going to be a lot of time and money. There is no option that’s done in a weekend for $10k.

Twin Cities Boulevard is practical, not radical. “Reimagining I-94: A Report on Reparative Highway Alternatives & Evaluation Metrics” addresses how removing I-94 would work, what it might look like, and what the community benefits would be. www.ourstreetsmpls.org/converting_s...

I will never get used to the desire on so much of the left to skip past the Depose the Monarchy stage of revolution and jump straight to the Eat Our Own phase.

The one where I explain why the Star Tribune Editorial Board is wrong about light rail turnstile gates. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

I remain convinced that more time has been spent talking about zipper merges than has been saved by zipper merges.

Kicking myself for not going to Marydale festival before now. I’m a bad local.