That big house may make you miserable. Excellent WaPo story featuring Happy Cities research. When it comes to happiness, your social life of your home and neighbourhood matters more than square footage. Gift link: wapo.st/49qfhDa

As always, please stay vigilant: ICE has been increasingly escalatory especially with driving observers with liberal use of pepper spray, intimidation, and threats. Please patrol with a buddy, and if agents approach you do not engage, keep your doors locked and windows up. 2/2

From a local Uptown/Whittier signal group: Mid-Morning Update: It's been a very busy morning, there has been nonstop activity on Lake St between Grand Ave and Bloomington Ave. If you can go out and patrol, even just a walk around the block, we could cover a significant amount of ground!! 1/2

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

Major snow clearing operations ongoing on Bryant Ave S near 46th. Even with current snowfall conditions should improve on the bikeway as they progress north #MSPCycleCast

Evie is great! I use it as a backup to my backup, so I’m not a heavy user. But when it’s come in clutch it has come in CLUTCH. If you haven’t tried it, give it a shot! The commitment over decades of this local non profit to HourCar and now the Evie flavor of car sharing is admirable.

Neighbourhood child who drew this, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Bus posting.

If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Pretty icy out today, especially on sidewalks and bike paths. Studs, good boots, and taking it slow help a lot. Stay upright out there. #MSPCyclecast

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

Fine, maybe suburban members of the Met Council don't need to ride transit all the time - but can't they just try it out? 8/17 never rode, 2 others rode only once - and only 2 are regular riders. How can they possibly lead a system they know so little about?

I will once again evangelize that if you want to support artists, pay for their stuff directly via buying their songs(bandcamp) or their merch. Or if you really prefer streaming, pick a better one such as Qobuz.

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

#MSPCycleCast Getting snowy out there but the city laid down some salt. Picture on Bryant at 43rd

This book is both incredibly informative and very fun, highly recommended!

Rode Hennepin into downtown this morning. There was some crunchy ice, a few rough spots, some annoying gusts of wind, but active clearing and studded tires made it rideable. #MSPcyclecast

#MSPCyclecast The plow came through on the Bryant Ave bikeway sometime early this morning, but blowing snow has covered up most of the path, and there’s a line of icy snow in the southbound lane 📍45th and Bryant

just like in Florida when a sudden snowstorm freezes the Limes

“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.” The Onion strikes again.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Let’s goooooo! ❄️ If you’re out tomorrow and want to share any ride reports (conditions of streets, bikelanes and/or sidewalks) to help others, please remember to use #MSPcyclecast

my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them

Pour one out for Rad www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

This was so much fun to meet folks and talk cargo bikes! It was a beautiful day to be out and about

The lights are fixed!!! The Midtown Greenway is now lit up from the river all the way to Uptown!

If you're in a position to be able to donate, please consider supporting our Give to the Max Day fundraiser. Any amount helps as we work to scale our program in 2026. Our fleet is at least 4x larger than it was in spring of 2025, requiring more $ for secure bike storage, bike insurance & repairs.

Indeed workers are voting this afternoon to authorize a strike next week. Follow the link to email the boss that if they go on strike you will respect the strike line at the taproom & will boycott the products at the stores. Pass this to anyone you can think of who supports workers.

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

In 2024, Minneapolis Police cleared (solved & referred for prosecution) 1.4% of auto theft crimes and 2.5% of crimes involving destruction or damage to property. In 2019, there were 21 investigators on property crime citywide. In 2025, there are only 11. Read: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

opening day at lito’s burritos minneapolis location is the hottest nightclub. ran into aisha chugthai. and being on bryant ave, they’re going to need to a lot more bike parking than 4 spots best burritos around!!!

My most woke opinion is that cities should completely ignore suburban commuters and design the city we aspire to be. They’ll either begrudgingly commute in by car, mode shift, or be replaced by others in foot traffic

"Do laws apply to the ruling class" - the greatest thread in the history of democracy, locked by a moderator after 250 years of heated debate,

An abbreviated history of car bloat, courtesy of @xkcd.com xkcd.com/3167/

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

My verification code is 583920 if anyone needs it. They told me to not share it with anyone else, but sharing is caring and makes us more powerful when we're connected together.

Did you vote yet today?

New bikeways that have opened (or are very close to opening) in Minneapolis this year: - Hennepin Avenue S - University Avenue SE - 24th Street E - 1st Avenue S (1/2)

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

KEEP IT UP Y’all!!!

Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include: Cicada wing Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken) Potato Chicken meat Peacock feather Vitamin B2 Olive oil Spinach Coral Sunflower oil Butter Bone Human organs Bull semen

I am SO excited about this! The @mplscargobikelibrary.com pilot program has been SO successful. In 6 months we: -trained 80 members, who collectively rode over 4,000 miles -doubled our locations (1 to 2) -quadrupled our fleet (3 to 12 bikes) -brought on several volunteers -got a grant for 2026!

Thanks to a generous grant from the @mplsfoundation.bsky.social we're excited to announce that we will be DOUBLING the number of @mplscargobikelibrary.com locations in 2026! www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/clim...

Gift link: @hsilsbee.bsky.social and @elitalksmpls.bsky.social get political in @racketmn.com! Come for their thoughts, stay for an illustration of the problem from the Solcana fitness owner.

Picture it: you live in Minneapolis and are enjoying a postcard-perfect fall day riding on our network of over 100 miles of trails and curb-protected bikeways.