I know this will likely not apply to a lot of Minnesotans, but keep it in mind for when your turn comes: if you live in a community with professional management (apartments, townhouses, HOA), check your documents for Loitering policies. 1/2

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TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

Additionally, MIWRC needs funds to keep their emergency warming center open to our unhoused community members. Please contribute and share to help keep our relatives safe!

Richly fascinating. The human body and sensation is so cool.

Today feels extra in terms of doomerism and I don't know if it's bot driven or reactionary. Probably a combo of both, but there are many, many things you can do, in both short term immediate assistance and long term. Thread below:

Just deleted a couple of skeet replies, because in context I think the story of my mom didn’t support the poster well enough, and I don’t want to hijack an important conversation.

@ziibiing.com made this page, which contains a lot of suggestions for where to donate and provide mutual aid in Minnesota:

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

as it is particularly cold in Minneapolis and we hear scary rumors, I want to highlight a few groups. MIWRC is operating a warming facility to make sure unhoused people are not on the street, especially during the hours traditional shelters are closed. www.miwrc.org/donate

Still in post viral fatigue and still unable to work a full day without major rest breaks. I don’t like this.

I have to say that I didn’t think I’d ever use the books 1984 and Brave New World I was forced to read in school. Nor the Holocaust videos and timelines of Germany they showed me. My apologies to the curriculum designers. I desperately needed that knowledge.

Anyone who’s dealt with post viral fatigue right after getting sick and has advice on coming back, I’d love to hear it.

We will continue to reach out to religious institutions, community hubs, small businesses, and anybody else who is hurting right now. If you know of somebody who needs support from the city, please let us know at [email protected].

Anyone who’s dealt with post viral fatigue right after getting sick and has advice on coming back, I’d love to hear it.

Technically I’m done with flu symptoms, but I still have extreme fatigue and brain fog when I do too much. Doing too much is a low bar, sigh. I’m going to have to rest more for awhile and let my body come back. This damn flu. This damn flu.

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.

Right before he passed away my father reminded me of something. That nobody gets to tell you how to grieve the loss of someone special to you. Not family, friends or loved ones. Nobody

On day 9 of this stupid flu and still so easily exhausted and coughing. I am really ready to be done with it!

My 10 year old has challenged me to write a million words this year, completely unprompted. And I think I’m going to accept the challenge!

Well. Today may actually be the last day of the Nasty Flu. It’s 3 pm and I am not (yet) exhausted.

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

I‘m at 44 books, hoping for 45 by tomorrow. My favorite was one I read for a client and isn’t published yet.

Tell me something hopeful going on in your life or in the world right now.

Mask up in public for the next three weeks guys; trust me you do NOT want this nasty flu. I’m on day 8 and still sick and getting worn out loading the dishwasher. And I’m otherwise in very good health with a kid in school—so I’m already immune to a lot.

2025 wasn’t great.

Still sick, ugh.

My dad and I both love history, so we had a lovely conversation today… until history turned into modern trends, and his base of facts was so foreign to mine that there was nothing to be said... I hate this modern age of misinformation and commentary. It makes us all poorer.

Feeling a little better today.

For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these proposed rules would cause. Your comments may not ultimately sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits. 👇

A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

You can’t solve a people problem with technology, and in fact, trying often makes it worse.

Fighting a nasty cold/flu this Christmas. 102 degree fever yesterday and slept 17 hours total. But better at the end of the day than the beginning. I’m really ready to be done with this one, thanks.

Useful tool to come back to the moment and joy in 60 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbQA...

My entire generation is going to cut apart can rings as our last act on this earth. It's 2075, senility has set in but dammit if can rings exist we'll remember not to strangle shorebirds. That's the result of propaganda and it's fine. Question is: what is being asked of me and am I ok with it?

In the case of ai, it's not that good yet and even if someone's cleaned it up, they miss things. Think about what you know. Look at the background. Are there chairs floating or that have three legs? Do the windows on a building match? Do you have subject area knowledge- does that car even exist?

If you'te stretched too thin to pay attention, you're vulnerable. If someone slides something subtle into your awareness, you won't notice. Does it matter? It might not, in the short term, but gosh darn it you want to be able to stay in a state of mind to know when you are being lied to.

One of my best pieces of advice is counter intuitive but if you're scrolling tiredly on your phone at the end of the day, maybe don't? It's not really the break your mind needs at that point. Lately i've been making myself actually go to bed when I'm too tired to read. It's been helping.

GamerGate changed everything for me and how I was willing to show up online.

One of my classmates from Odyssey Writing Workshop 2011 with a beautiful essay on reimagine a shared Hero’s Journey. www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-...

Much thanks to @cathyyardley.bsky.social for a great conversation and good advice tonight.

This. THIS. Technology is not coming to save us. We, WE, must shape the world we want to live in. Will we create a world Mr. Rogers could live in comfortably? Or will we choose to use technology to make ourselves cruel and cold and selfish?

“They can be incredibly useful, or incredibly destructive, and they don’t care. Nobody is going to be responsible for us, nobody is going to be kind for us, nobody is going to be compassionate for us, nobody is going to take care of others for us...”

Profound quote in an unrelated Wall Street article on stocks you *must* read: “These devices in front of us, and in our hands, have so much capacity to bring us together, and so much capacity to tear us apart. The problem is that they’re absolutely indifferent...“

something you need to understand about Internet of Things devices is that with rare exceptions they use bottom of the barrel security practices and are lying to you about them

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

I bought a Mac so I could use Vellum. If you create ebooks, it will relieve your life of HUGE amounts of stress. If it’s on sale today, and you’ve got the cash and the inclination, GO GET IT. 😄