Minnesota Governor does not have unilateral pardon power. She would need either the Chief Justice or the Attorney General to go along.

Musings and solidarity from the AC technician: “You and I share a similar affliction: laundry. There are only three of us; How are there this many clothes!?”

AC repairman is here today. Heard him muttering “oooh come on people” 😂😂 Haha I wonder what we’re doing wrong with our AC!!

👏 CLEs 👏 are 👏 a 👏 racket 👏

Turns out if your five year old puts his foot through one of the hundred year old windows of your house there are still neighborhood hardware stores that will just take the window from you and re-pane it.

A proven champion who can deliver for working families. Peggy Flanagan is the Minnesota DFL endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate! 💚

Spouse purchased a brand new e bike for toting the kiddo around ( cause our middle aged bodies cannot pull him up Ramsey hill in the burley any more). We picked it up today and … the handlebar and wheel are misaligned. 🤬

Nothing creates grey water in the shower quite like multiple applications of sunscreen during the day.

In search of: Authors who write about city environments, the way that Tolkien or Peter Matthiessen write about natural environments.

As AG race heats up 2 things to remember. 1. MNGOP *always* makes it a law and order race. But the AG in Minnesota has very few criminal prosecution authorities. In MN the AG is not a prosecution official. 2. The MNGOP candidate has no criminal law experience, so that focus will make no sense.

Walz has appointed a lot of public defenders as judges. A lot. Including the new chief justice. Guess what happens to that trend with Klobuchar as governor?

Well you absolutely will not guess what this is about. And even after I read the letter, I looked up the bill and was even more surprised about what it was!

Ooooh, so your memo and declaration were developed with AI, huh? Some fun writing nights this weekend.

🤬🤬 Who’s running for STP mayor in 3 years. Hit me up.

When I attended @umnlawschool.bsky.social, the pedagogical purpose was not to “move the Overton window.” (it was rather to waste my time for the latter three semesters and steal my money)

A solar powered pump that brings the cool basement air to the second floor.

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4/4

Someone is lighting up inside the brewery?

FYI. This is what happens when you set out to read Tolkien’s entire corpus to your child out loud.

This is currently the 5 year old’s favorite song. We listen to it several times a day and he’s written an entire fantasy narrative in his head to accompany the song, involving pirates and their enemy orcs, with various parts of the song representing different waves of the dispute and eventual war.

We need Keith.

This spring I have killed 3 houseflies. I have only attempted to kill 3 houseflies. I am 3/3. To be clear: I am not 3/3 as in there have been 3 flies and I eventually got them all. Rather, I have made three kill attempts all spring, and each attempt met its mark. 3 tries. 3 flies killed.

Two kinds of people: bidet-do’s and bidet-dont’s.

This sort of thing is so evil that it made morgan freeman temporarily quit working for Batman in ethical protest.

Was recently looking for jorts and found a pair with an elastic waistband and that company is on my level so I bought three. Shop your values, folks.

New therapist I was referred to: I think my intern would be a great person for you to talk to. *sigh*

Did the 5 year old just say, “Charizard, fuck yeah!”?

This lawsuit reminds me of the time my dad tried to convince me our CSA membership (our farm share) was a security that should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Good stuff @snipy.bsky.social

Wrong in just about every way here!

@elen-jayne.northsky.social quote helpfully points out that this is not, in fact, an Amazon product, which I would have known had I read the article. 🙏 But also, kindle files should be available on iPhones without playing games.

oh my flipping god. The reason this exists as is that Amazon tries to prevent you from downloading kindle files onto your iPhone, and so they’re trying making you purchase separate hardware to do the same thing, which should be a massive antitrust violation.

Oh wow. Tolkien is spittin’. I just learned “weird” originated as a noun meaning fate or destiny.

The ONE TIME I don’t clear my drain after a big storm the city decides to go around and white stamp obstructed drains and put a reminder pamphlet on my door. Now I’m the block scofflaw!

Walz just made two quite good Supreme Court appointment decisions.

Yeah no shit that shoe is recommended for me. It’s the same one I bought from you yesterday but in a different color.

That rubber-band-on-the-kitchen-sink-sprayer prank except for a bidet.

Dad tip: The kiddo will fall asleep 10x faster if you put the soul into your bedtime signing. Fuckin’ belt it. Put on a show.

Love Aurora. Part(only part) of that is how fun it is with kids! Which is why is kinda sucks that 3/6 homes games remaining are at 7 pm on weeknights.

When did all companies just decide, “nah our mobile website doesn’t need to actually work.”

I’m back to working full time and I don’t have twice as much work. I have like four times as much work.

Preseason DUB!

Haha don’t get the hot dog.

A-U-R-O-R-A

The cotton candy grapes, man. I don’t know.

Tolkien originally referred to elves as gnomes. Wise to change it. Ain’t no one gonna read about Elrond the gnome.

🎶gonna go wild wild kratts; gonna go wild wild wild kratts🎶

Survey: how many times has your five year old come into your bedroom already this morning?🥴😵‍💫

It’s been 5 years but I still have to turn off shows that depict newborn parenting because of how much stress it induces.

Aurora game tomorrow!