The best to never win a ring

if New York wins the NBA Finals, we have to do this

WHY DON’t STraiGht PeoPLe hAVe a MOntH

@tonydamiano.bsky.social, thoughts?

Bees for pollination/attacking my enemies purposes purposes

Can I ask y’all some weird questions and y’all won’t judge me?

Accident Lawyer 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

its called west wing brain, and it has been one of the most destructive forces in the democratic party for the last 30 years. even for people who have never watched the show, theyre pushing its stupid behaviors.

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

i have seen several “i won’t root for the spurs because Texas is evil” posts and i’d like to remind you they are the San Antonio Spurs, not the Texas Spurs greg abbott is not our governor, greg popovich is

they did, their names were Clint Eastwood, Akira Kurosawa, and arguably David Lynch. You guys just did the thing you're always claiming we do and went off the edge of the political map while screaming that it was the other people doing it and now smart people don't associate with you

Conservatives can make art (see: John Milius), but art is a craft that takes skills and at least some elements of subtlety to be good. Modern conservatives would rather create AI slop of Tom Cruise screaming slurs.

It's worth looking through this section. Jesus Christ, Minnesota has been through it the last 12 months

Damn, man. Criterion channel really is what I want a streaming service to be. Curate some shit for me. Sure, suggest a category just called "yearning", thats perfect

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours.

I hate to be like this, but Monarca is not some scrappy leftist collective. They're Unidos, a 19 y/o nonprofit that's had wandering missions and allegiances over the yrs. Monarca did vital, powerful work training observers and coordinating community response to ICE. They're also run by center libs.

Read the whole thread. Something that I think worth noting is that because right wing masculinity is at present so unified into one specific type of guy, it leaves whole regions of masculine types available for the left to work with

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

The Twin Cities handles roughly 20x as many flights as Fargo, ND does in a given day

Legendary wiki entry under Personal Life. RIP.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

I have been in visceral terror for the past 24 hours that they would break the ceasefire (not that it was ever a proper ceasefire since they blatantly ignored the "stop ethnically cleansing Lebanon" part) part on Eid because they always attack us on major holidays.

Less a thing and more an attitude, but Minnesota has an ABSURD "pick me" attitude whenever we're on the national stage. There's a reason no one on The Simpsons likes Martin.

lol @ this guy but also I do hate shopping. I don't oppose doing it but I always tell my wife that I don't view it as a fun thing we should do together - either I go or she goes, I just view it as annoying work that I'll on a podcast on my headphones for.

Some are beginning to say the membership drive will fall short of its goal... 😬 racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

Hey! I'm the Treasurer of the Marquette Place Tenants Union! Our group rent escrow action is ongoing and we could really use help with legal and expert fees. gofund.me/6564c64fd

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

"But I love the troops! Liz, did you tell them about Fleet Week?"

Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

In this house we celebrate America with only the beigest of foods

Both the actors are too old to do it now, but I maintain a movie with Sebastian Stan as Jack Kirby and Marc Maron as Stan Lee about the duo's rise and eventual, explosive falling out would have slapped.

To the glorious future, comrades!

Every good thing that came out of Minnesota politics was in spite of this guy, not because of him. I’m sorry the national party had to find that out the hard way.

The wheel was a mistake. Getting places faster? Fuck that

It’s international day of the goat (yes, really) so here’s the rightly famous Goat in a Thicket statuette from Ur. It is made from gold, copper alloy, lapis lazuli & shell. It shows naturalistic behaviour for goats as they often seek food in low trees and bushes on their hind legs. 🕰️c2600BC 🏛️📷 BM

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

You know how I know the Feds aren’t serious about Medicaid fraud in MN?They’re not dismantling UnitedHeath Group brick by brick. Put Steve Hemsley’s insider-tradin’, Medicaid-defraudin’ ass in prison, THEN I’ll believe you actually care about this shit.

FAQ for this post: Q: Are you saying I should feel bad if I like reality TV? A: Yes, you should always feel bad about your personal choices. Q: Am I a bad person if I like a reality TV star with bad politics? A: You're a bad person for a wider variety of reasons than that.

The internet and its infrastructure is too important to leave in the hands of technocrats and their ghoulish political servants. Nationalize this shit immediately.

As a member of the Twin Cities DSA steering committee during Operation Metro Surge, I highly recommend that people in left or even liberal spaces, especially if they are in leadership, do these exercises and make plans just in case.

Of all of the things that Platner has done to make me suspicious of him, cranking his hog in a porta shitter isn't one of them. He was enlisted. That is baseline enlisted dude behavior. Jerking it in a porta shitter is, arguably, is the most normal thing I've heard of him doing.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Count of Monte Cristo posting

I hate AI. I hate AI the way Montresor hates Fortunato, the way Simon Gruber hates John McClane, the way Kendrick Lamar hates Drake: with the intensity of ten thousand fiery suns. It is an affront to our humanity. It is a blasphemy upon the sacredness of the human condition.

Feels impossible to convey to anyone under 35 or so how SI’s whole thing for decades was “we have the very best sportswriting.” That was the brand. Three generations of kids like me grew up with SI as the inspiration for our careers and as the dream job we all aspired to.

Scrappy Doo shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 18,1949

We went to a couple Twins games last summer on our bikes - because of the convenience, we were home before we would have even made it out of the parking garage if we’d driven. How many people don’t factor “finding parking” and “leaving the parking garage” into talking about how efficient cars are?