Some sun dogs in Minnesota as seen from the Empire Builder. (Current temp: 4°F / -15°C.) 🌈☀️🌈🚆

I've been a librarian for about this long as well. We warned and railed against Wikipedia in the early days and then begrudgingly accepted it. Now it's the last bastion in freely available, verified information on the web. Well done.

Introduce yourself with four facts: 1. I've laid this island sun a thousand times 2. I'm going strange 3. I am the autumn in the scarlet 4. I am the make-up on your eyes

Something oddly attractive about this color combo tho

everyone raced over to the ice list to see who they know on it #error503

I made this for dinner tonight and it's so good. Like a spanakopita pasta.

Do you know how bad you have to fuck up to radicalize St. Cloud?

Putting this together was a nice way to distract myself from the world.

Come work for one of the best community-driven radio stations anywhere! www.kaxe.org/development_...

Excellent advice from a librarian

Here's a good conversation on libraries and news/social media from Star Trib columnist Aaron Brown. www.kaxe.org/show/91-7-ka...

Chocolate chip-less chocolate chip cookies are better than chocolate chip-ful chocolate chip cookies.

A thing about me is that I can't not point out where I've seen a book cover before

oh boy

You can share a banana with a dog, but don't expect to get even half of it.

If it helps, we've gained about 10 minutes of daylight in the evening since the solstice and we'll start gaining daylight in the mornings now too.

Sunday Coffee and Records: Record 1

Lovely word and feeling

Yes

First full moon of the year.

Fringe is weird and scary but also funny. This opening cracked me up. I hope the cast had fun with it.

Yes, it’s already the 2nd but better late than never. Here are my favorite albums of 2025. futuredizzy.substack.com/p/50-favorit...

Fly From Heaven is such a banger to start this album

2025: bad year for trees; good year for northern lights

Thanks for the adventures, Stranger Things. I loved it, flaws and all. #done

If you play any songs right before midnight please keep it down I'm sleeping.

NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/

I'm making a chocolate cherry chocolate ganache mascarpone cream cake...whew

Last Coffee and Records of 2025: Record 1

I'm pretty excited for this

Yeah, he's running

well here we are www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5P...

When a dog farts while they stretch, you must praise them.

2026 will be the year I finally stop rolling my socks up and fold them instead. It's time to grow up.

🪿 vs 🪿🪿

Oh, this is exciting

Gorgeous book cover

Adding an honorable mention to my 2025 list: Karen Russell's The Antidote, which I just finished. Fantastic story.

Colors

Record 4

Record 3

New year's eve party wearables peaked in 2002

For me this was an instant subscribe. Must reading.

Snowflakes on lichen

Stranger Things is officially a Minnesota TV series.

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj

This is a pretty good song imo youtu.be/AGRsP8X4B5U?...