The holidays really highlight just how much some people in our family shop at bezos dot com and that really grosses me out. Just a reminder that, at a minimum, you can do a search on Google Shopping and click “nearby” or “small business” to help find alternatives.

Saint Paul declared a snow emergency. Here’s the info: www.stpaul.gov/departments/...

Snow emergency declared in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Don’t forget to move your car!

Thank your bus driver and your snowplow driver.

SNOW EMERGENCY IN MINNEAPOLIS. Spread the word! All sidewalks need to be fully cleared by today too.

You should clear your sidewalks.

Not sure how long this is up for, but if you log in, add it to your cart, and check out, it processes as free with free shipping. If you’re an artist or musician, even if you haven’t yet sold any merch through Square, it might be worth getting one of these for free in case you need it later.

Do you have questions about municipal snow clearing that you'd like to ask someone in St Paul public works?

Gotta find a Twin Cities bakery that makes melomakarona; where are my Greek bakers?

If you’re doing any shopping locally for Small Business Saturday, remember that you can get a $15 gift card to a local business just by spending $25 on or near Lake Street!

“It’s a daily practice of how real learning and problem solving actually work in all aspects of life.”

My child, watching her uncle feed his dog lasagna at 7 am* Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. *do not feed your dog lasagna

Check below if you live somewhere with snow/ice & want to deal with icy walkways environmentally consciously & cost-effectively. TL;DR: Salt & other chemical alternatives are harmful to pets' paws as well as water/soil. Cat litter additives harm water/soil. 1– Cherry stone grit (reusable!) 2–Sand

Lots of articles in recently about how alcohol consumption is down and how that is bad for different businesses, but they never mention how GOOD it is for individual people and society. Many people die due to alcohol every year and others have their lives ruined www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Some reflections after shoveling in St Paul this morning: when dealing with ice, we need grit. (Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply has cherry stone grit - way better than salt) (Monarca has a training Saturday) (Elected officials need to hear from us today)

Minnesota in the fall means every kind of jacket you own will be worn within a 24 hour period

Renovation is coming to Franklin Ave. Station! Come learn about proposed safety, accessibility enhancements, and more at our open house, where you can provide YOUR feedback. When? Dec. 2, 5 – 7p, Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave. Learn more at metrotransit.org/franklin

Hey Pig’s Eye: I googled the Fresh Water Pearl Button Company (bc I want to work there) and came up with nothing. What year do we think this place closed? These buttons came from Art Scraps, the best place imo to buy buttons.

"Fences aren’t architecture, and they’re meant to displace and keep people out, rather than a broader planning and design and artistic opportunity of revitalization, placemaking, and the type of economic and social infrastructure that truly promotes healing in our community" -Sam Olbekson

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

OH at the rink today: “People think hockey is expensive, but put a 14 year old in volleyball and you’ll be be paying $5,000 a year” I complain about how much we are asked to spend on our *volunteer* run neighborhood hockey org, but there are for profit youth sports?!

Sunrise alert, Saint Paul 🚨 Hot pink! #mnwx

The theory in the paper is that it's not the superhero per se, but that unexpected events in general increase mindfulness and thus pro-social behavior So act weird and make people behave better.

Uhh, just fyi the last time this theory was popular, life expectancy was like 40 years old. Get vaxxed, kids.

“There were early concerns that fare-free travel would heap extra burdens on bus drivers, drawing homeless people or anything-goes behavior. Yet several drivers said that not having to ask passengers for payment or transfers has led to less friction with riders.” Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!

If cars were any other consumer product, they would be banned.. We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it? www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...

To quote my president, Hayley Williams, this is why I don’t leave the house.

Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.

I-94 through Mpls-StPaul is such a disaster. I've lost friends over my position that it should be removed and replaced with better transportation, housing, business and recreation options. It inflicts unrelenting ugliness and tragedy on our communities. Do we intend to remain car-dependent victims?

Ok Minnesota, somebody knows the brand or who sells these awesome socks. We need to crack this case 🕵🏻‍♀️

There’s a November 2004 Time magazine (jarring) and a June 1997 Ebony in the waiting room of this M Health clinic. This clinic was built in like 2022.

My kid: do you have any black fabric? Me: mmmm yes why Kid: can you sew me a witch hat for school on Friday? Me: Friday! The audacity of this child when it comes to crafts. She already knows the answer because anything I can solve by sewing is a yes 😆 #sewingsky

Obligatory aurora post: from my front yard in Highland and the Mississippi River overlook near Hartford Ave, both facing west (not much is visible to the naked eye at either location)

AURORA RIGHT NOW MINNEAPOLIS

I love this for Ireland “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam,” she said. (A country without a language, a country with a soul.) Ms Connolly said that Irish will “not be spoken in a low voice in the Áras, it will have first place as a working language”.

This weekend we celebrated the completion of new public artwork at the Hiawatha-Lake Underpass by Daniela Bianchini, Pablo Kalaka, Natchez Beaulieu and Greta McLain. This 5,200-square-foot mural is grounded in the Medicine Wheel, a symbol of Indigenous communities around the world.

When I was a kid my grandma made my sister a fish-shaped purse out of shiny purple and turquoise fabric. Basically the coolest purse ever…which is why I’m so excited that Madison Makes has both a fish AND a bird bag pattern! There’s a loon version?! #sewingsky madison-makes.com

Yo. Saint Paul. Drop-off your campaign yard signs to be recycled. -Public Works Solid Waste & Recycling building (60 W Sycamore) -We, Nov 5 through Sun, Nov 9th 7 a.m. - 6:p.m. Please detach the metal wire stakes in advance. For more information, visit www.stpaul.gov/recycle.

Dreaming of a trip to Banff in mid June, is is viable without a car? I see there is On-It service from Calgary, anyone have any experience with that or Roam transit? Planning to stay in Banff itself. Is it a liability to have a car there or at the major sights?

transit leadership!

Quarterly service changes are up! Obviously the biggest change is the E line, replacing the 6 between Westgate and Southdale via France and providing a huge service boost and a modest speed increase. However, there's much more to talk about 9: frequency increased to half hourly Sundays

Having the 9 increase to half hourly on Sundays is HUGE. You can get to costco in SLP more easily AND use the 9 as backup for Blueline to DT Mpls.

Why stop at two?

The St. Paul mayoral result is frustrating -- I noped out of this Wedge Live! episode pretty quickly after hearing her series of non-answers to John's questions, which doesn't bode well for her standing up the powers that will be arrayed against the city

I’m forever grateful for the work that Mayor @melvincarter.bsky.social has done to build a better Saint Paul. In spite of all of the challenges in the last eight years, he’s moved our city forward in ways big and small, and our community is better off for it.

This map worries me a lot.

Sit tight Minneapolis, we’ll know more tomorrow.

🚨EARLY EXITS: all your enemies are voting in high percentages and will get their way over the next four years unless you show up to the polls and bring several friends.

Minnesotans, you can register at the polls! And college students can use their student ID!

Reminder that in Minnesota, you have the right to vote on the same day you register. We are not a voter ID state. You can vote if you've lived in Minnesota for 20 days and are old enough: www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo... Your neighbor/friend can also vouch for you.