Catch this tomorrow at MCAD at 6:30 and embrace the opportunity to boo the political villains of yesteryear. Then, heckle them again two more times on Sunday!

The day is fast approaching where a press tries the “tactical cover” book. A hardback but it’s wrapped in that khaki backpack material and has a ton of little pockets on it for no reason.

It’s actually named for when Charles Barkley saw it and said “I don’t think we’re in the Annapolis anymore”

When bsky gets a Pontifex account that’s when we’ll know it really has the juice.

Looking like another one of those days where we fight back the despair by accepting that it’s going to be our responsibility to be the punishment.

I’m not saying that we’re at the “convene an alternate emergency congress at some other location, like say, a tennis court” point quite yet, but it should be in the air now because we’re barreling towards that kind of crisis.

I am a Gene Steratore Democrat

UConn can claim a moral victory, they obnoxiously litigated every call until the bitter end.

This is some of the most entertaining bad basketball I’ve seen in a while.

I wrote about the evictions crisis gripping working-class folks in the Twin Cities, and what local government can do. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Who among us does not seek a mug collection with sectarian balance?

Dr. D has a better track record than most on defending the humanities, so I assume he doesn’t hold this view, but a lot of the quotes highlight why the humanities are cooked. The average attitude is “well my field is important and rigorous but these other guys are just reading books and doing drugs”

Chess club is cancelled today in observance of one of history’s more successful king sacs.

Based on the new Bluesky numbers it sounds like McGluhsky is cleared for takeoff…

If you’re in the Twin Cities I strongly recommend seeing this. Really well done documentary, and the tickets are raising money for a good group too. Had the opportunity to catch the screening at the Riverview and might just have to go for round 2.

Minneapolis! WTO/99 returns on April 11 & 12, presented by Smitten Kitten! Anne from SK will introduce the film, I will be there for a post-screening Q&A. 50% of ticket sales go to Neighbors Helping Neighbors. 4/11 at MCAD, 6:30pm. 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm. Ticket links below

I don’t know that this was particularly successful, but part of my AI policy for my composition course was a promise that I would also not use AI tools of any kind for any reason. At the very least a few students said they appreciated that point was included.

MSP folks should check out this film. I went to the screening at the Riverview and really enjoyed watching it. Plus, you can be like me and loudly yell “fuck that guy!” To rapturous applause when Howard Schultz appears on screen.

Today marks the one year anniversary of my team being told our services were no longer needed at NIH. At least all the money saved on public health could go towards paying the signing bonuses of the people terrorizing my neighbors.

Let’s keep this energy when I want to sleep on a metro car…

Pleased to announce that this April Fool’s Day I will be serving as The Gull. I will completely forget what day it is and react to everything as if it is a real story. No need to thank me—I’m just doing my job.

Raising my first round of capital funding for a site identical to Bluesky but in order to open an account you must mail in a blue book essay about Marshall McLuhan.

Another angle to this that people need to reckon with is that the interface of social media sites specifically encourages this kind of decontextualization. Pieces of threads can be separated out and held up as single texts with the touch of a button. The medium is biased toward this outcome.

The DNP-CD to TPUSA pipeline is still going strong, I see.

I guess this is a “write the book you want to see in the world” moment, but I would love to read a Monkey Wrench Gang style novel about pirates who only raid and sink massive luxury yachts

The rest of the 2028 Democratic field better watch out, because I don’t eat salad at all. I eat nothing but ground beef with a few multivitamins hidden in it like pills for a dog.

Shedding a single tear for those that go through life doomed to miss “Floozy With an Uzi.”

Bernie, a man of culture, eats his salad with chopsticks—carefully considering each individual element before placing it in his mouth and savoring the complexity of the flavor.

Smashing my face into the salad bar over and over, scattering iceberg lettuce, bleu cheese, and dried cranberries across the restaurant floor before finally slurping up the tub of ranch dressing like a pig at a trough. “This is how we eat salad in real America!”

Man, it is beautiful out there today, thinking about going to the golf course and hiding in the bushes with an air horn. Need to treat my bursitis.

Kind of complicated feelings about the Walz speech. I thought it was really well done and contained some admirable sentiments. It felt kind of undercut when I was walking home and I saw the state police were allowed to bring an LRAD to the event.

I am begging national media to understand that it’s called the Twin Cities because there’s another city there.

Minneapolitans fear crossing into Saint Paul because seeing a city that is less successful but still so much cooler than them in every way is too challenging to Minneapolis’ decadent, material-driven, worldview.

Proposal: Give me the 5 million and I’ll eat at Lowertown and Downtown establishments for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day

introducing a bill requiring all students to learn how to make the cool S

I guess I’m two days late to that Atlantic campus protest piece but I feel like any take on protests on campus has to grapple with how hard it seems to persuade the current crop of undergrads to participate in anything.

All political discourse is an offshoot of mankind’s struggle to fit things neatly on an x axis, only to get jumped by a troublesome y variable. Embrace quadrant thought.

I think we’d be better off on Bluesky if the class admitted we haven’t done the reading for this week and called it a day.

The union rally is this morning! We're still looking for signatures before presenting the petition to the County. Please sign and share! actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

My major pet peeve is that I run for my life across Hamline every day. My minor peeve is that very often people in one lane will very kindly stop for me despite the fact there’s still a wall of cars coming through every other lane. Just keep going, friend. I’m doomed.

Apologies for Graeberposting so early in the morning. Honestly shouldn’t even bother because it’s probably the internet’s best example of a raging class discussion where nobody has done the reading. And I don’t mean “his critics haven’t done the reading.” I mean nobody. Not even the pro side.

I think a key thing even proponents of Bullshit Jobs theory miss is that a bullshit job is not a job you think is bullshit; it is a job the person actually performing the work believes is bullshit. There’s a whole section on how the “Golgafrimchan Ark B” jobs aren’t actually bullshit at all.

World Cup starts in 80 days and the USA is treating it like an advent calendar by unveiling new cruelties and ways to be awful every day

Thinking about how, somewhere in the Twin Cities, somebody is putting up a baby gate so that a recent recipient of the JFK Profiles in Courage Award doesn’t absolutely wreck themselves on a flight of stairs.

minnesotareformer.com/briefs/peopl... Saint Paul’s profile in courage merch game is going to be soooooooo sick

My bar’s live feed is showing that the number of posts dunking on this concept is fast approaching the over/under number. So who’s really winning here?

BEGONE!

We used to make things

Seven months ago, for some reason, we ranked the long-dead Minneapolis mayors. Now, petards hoisted, we finally conclude this two-part series.

Well I always thought my own thought was barely better than autocomplete, but up until now I’d suspected that was a me problem.