Using a chatbot, a programmer will happily produce code that would have gotten them murdered by the people who have to maintain it later. They'll happily take code just as bad, and not know the most basic things about how to maintain it. They'll feed it right back into the slop machine.

New pen for christmas, Diamine Sherwood Green ink.

@amyklobuchar.com is not a leader and it's past time for her to go. MN and this country deserve way better. Trans and Intersex people will not be erased. Shame on everyone who votes against their humanity.

Lil birb sketch, playing with a border

Did you know that you can just read all the previously accepted unicode emoji proposals on unicode consortium's website? My favorites so far are the ones with bio section at the end where they are "an emoji enthusiast"

Bluegill, pixel art

Caught my first walleye today. I can finally say I'm fully Minnesotan now right? (It was just a little'un, so didn't want to keep it out of water long enough to take a pic)

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

Bluegill charcoal warmup

Trout

Mayor Frey didn’t have the votes for the Dem endorsement, so he declared the whole process ILLEGAL SHAM STOP THE STEAL and got the endorsement revoked on threat of big donors revoking their checks. Money shouldn’t be able to overturn the will of the people. I donated to Omar Fateh’s campaign today.

Mayor Frey is the most corrupt mayor in modern Minnesota history.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

What they've done is make a Wolfram Alpha that formats its output with personal pronouns

Trout

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

View from Lake of the Isles

Finished birb

Had a very nice paddle around Cedar and Lake of The Isles earlier

Took the new canoe on her maiden voyage

@startribune.com Can someone explain why this caption was included in an article that had ZERO to do with bike infrastructure cost, taxes, etc? The article is about ranking bikeability. Is Carol B now writing copy for you?

This is why I get so angry at the Times and what they're doing. This isn't journalism, it's political maneuvering to target a minority group. It's the aiding and abetting of a fascist agenda to eradicate trans people from society.

My 80 year old dad is so upset about the way protestors are being attacked so we got into a conversation about defunding the police & I sent him this piece by @prisonculture.bsky.social. Realized others might want to revisit it too. www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/o...

Time to post it again.

I read the whole report on youth gender medicine out of Utah and found so much more there than the headline, which is that a report commissioned to look into the evidence on youth gender medicine found hormone therapy and puberty blockers are safe and effective.

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

Spring morning rides are my favorite.

AI evangelists are dumb

riding a horse and using a fliphone is my personal vision of a happier, better future, actually

First outdoor bike ride of the year! I always enjoy exploring around the river valley in the spring.

Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his *entire career* to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.

Birb update, still wip

"Biology is deeply important to me!" - Transphobe who hasn't bothered to learn basic biological facts of the topic they're opining on

Tonight, I'm cracking packs. Sometimes you need a dopamine hit that's box sized.

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like. wrd.cm/420UPoq

far too many status quo liberals and conservatives have decided that it’s easier to sell their soul to evil than it is to do the hard work of fixing their heart. I am an anti-fascist because I know how many people die If we lose that part of ourselves that says other people deserve dignity.

"“In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

Birb wip

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

Apparently I have runners knee, obviously the week it finally snows enough to get the xc skis out

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

If you follow 50k people and the attempt to follow accounts like mine, you're going to be insta blocked. That type of audience farming has to be one of my biggest pet peeves

Made an MNUFC themed pot holder with one of those silly little loop looms.

A letter to highway removal skeptics minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/09/a...