Wild how little I know about European Chinese interactions in the Medieval era

Nog wel met Sint ervoor is de #Sint-Jansvlinder voor #meimotten @mijnblogje.nl

These people are being told to fix broken toilets and dangerous outlets and reacting like Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer

Unlike @amyklobuchar.com, A Bar of Their Own also vocally supports transgender rights.

I love how Angie is trying to turn her poor performance lemon into lemonade

I'm not a theologist, but I'm pretty certain a fundamental belief of Christianity is that god is non-binary, i.e. trinary.

~treasures of the dirt~

What bluesky needs is a bot that comments "paywalled" on every post with a paywalled link. I feel bad for all the people that have to do that.

Kew Gardens recording 35.1ºC today breaks its previous May record in 1922 before this spell by NEARLY 5ºC and breaks its June maximum temperature record set in 1976 by 0.5ºC - this also beats the previous May UK maximum record by OVER 2ºC (32.8ºC, 1922/44). An incredible anomaly

This is extremely clear when you dig beneath the surface of these surveys where majorities say they "care about climate change." Ask a few follow-ups & you disvoer that almost no one understands what it is, how it works, or what would really solve it. This is true even of the politically engaged!

TIL that antibiotics are used as a treatment for lower back pain.

This is all the fault of woke students complaining about banh mi's 🙄

English chip flavorings are nuts

I got a text from my haircutting place that my appointment is almost here and they can’t wait to see me. Okay if you can’t wait, can I get in earlier?

Any Minneapolis high school XC folk (runners, parents, coaches) on here? Why are all our meets at Gale Woods and not somewhere closer, like Wirth Park?

The joys of unregulated dietary supplements.

Social media to the rescue, in which I rediscover the title of a book I read over a decade ago that I've been trying to remember for years

April 2026 belongs in the clean energy history books. It’s the first time wind and solar power around the world combined to beat gas over a whole month. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/wind-solar-outgenerate-gas-april

New this week: I wrote about how we have enough data for 2026 to say with pretty good confidence that 2026 will have the lowest murder rate ever recorded in the US, eclipsing the previous record low set way back in 2025. jasher.substack.com/p/2026-will-...

I read a book 20 years ago and have a rough memory of it, but I cannot find it, so I must have either hallucinated it, or my memory is so shot. I used to go to the literature section of the Davis Library at UNC and just grab books and this was one of them. #booksky

F1 should work like the equestrian portion of the pentathlon used to work. They should just be randomly assigned cars for each race and then they have to get rid of the cars after Max gets caught punching one

I’m simplifying my life so people from Manchester are Mandalorians

Apologies if this has made the rounds, but a [digitized] film from 1974 about the future of the Lowry Park area. We're having the same discussions 😀 (thanks to the Augsburg University Archives for releasing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PtR...

Bikes on the beat, Union Square edition: A Bud Light branded 90s Canondale MTB with the most amazing cantilever return spring setup I’ve ever seen

This man loves his tires

The Dutchman's breeches are blooming on Minnesota's north shore.

the banality of engagement by hannah arendt

Will the DFL now retract discipline now that Cindy Martin has plead guilty to homicide? www.startribune.com/former-dfl-l...

you guys are laughin but my buddy jumped on a pronoun to save the rest of us. i’ll never forget they/them

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

This led to southern planters going to Butler, accusing him of violating the Fugitive Slave Act, and demanding their return.

the minneapolis families for public schools parent slate for school board filed to get on the ballot today: shannon gibney for district 3, christin crabtree for at large, and becca dryden for district 5 @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social @beccaforschools.bsky.social

I’LL GO TO YOUR WEDDING

Waymo trying out wade mode

I was on a call with someone w/ a major bike brand (for @mcbl.bike stuff) today.They asked me what Minneapolis’ bike culture is like. My best friend had just texted me this story about her 4yo who recently switched from balance bike to pedal bike & IME it’s representative of Mpls’ bike culture:

Trick question, you just went through the desert on a horse with no name.

I've had RAs doing silly things in the past. Claude beats them all for sheer silliness.

This flag brouhaha is really just a ”Minnesota“ StarTribune clickbait project. There is no rural “trend” against the official, legal Minnesota state flag. The cities we haven’t heard from are just flying the accurate, legal, official state flag. This is not really news just inflamation for clicks.

Could this guy be more stereotypical rural kook: www.startribune.com/man-charged-...

For no good reason I've committed myself to four years of documenting every time Pearll Warren punctuates a speech with "the end." Yesterday she used it four times which is a career high. In no other meeting has she used it more than once.

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

This fact was how I found out that the super popular dog chew toys called bully sticks are dehydrated cow penises

This

meidas touch steals work from people and claims it as their own, i had to file a copyright claim when they stole my video in january

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Still not over the MN legislature increasing the car subsidy to overcome a period of time that showcases so much of the downside of autonormativity. This isn't a solution. It's digging the hole deeper. For context, $254m could 2x the bikeway lane miles for the entire state or fund brand new abrt.

1/Very early on in the process, I said that if we were to survive this process, it was not going to be the Supreme Court that would be useful, it was going to be independent Article III district court judges because what they do is find the facts, and they know how to do that very well.

Them: Delivery trucks have to park in bike lanes because there's nowhere for them to park Delivery truck drivers when offered parking lots: I can't steer my vehicle into a parking lot.