Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Last meals I love ya m.youtube.com/watch?v=spwF...

🎤 TONIGHT! A new episode of Very Important People launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. Join Vic Michaelis and Fanoli (Angela Giarratana) for an important convo on making a new theme song.

signal boosting - in Minnesota, ICE left a car behind and people scooped up some documents from inside www.tiktok.com/t/ZThMP8ehk/

Portishead's Dummy is one of my top ten albums of all time. I am so lucky I discovered it early, when I am usually late to the party on everything (see: The Warning). If you love it like I do, you'll enjoy this video.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

This follows the other article about how ice has access to our collective phone data, as in all of it.

If you missed this weekend's @onthemedia.bsky.social, go back and listen. You'll hear from the editor-in-chief at Caracas Chronicles about what's really driving Trump's policy in Venezuela [21:32]. And you'll be introduced to a new term about this administration's foreign policy [36:15].

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

This is a disaster for my work.

well well well

so between "if you work for the feds on immigration, seek counsel for the sake of your immortal soul" from the bishop of dallas and now "clergy, update your wills then hit the streets" from the bishop of new hampshire, I feel that a shift has begun in 2026 in the rhetoric from episcopal leadership

I feel like it's time I see what other middle-aged nerds in the Ann Arbor area are on Bluesky, but I also don't like adding folks without warning. Also leery of making new friends just to find out they're anti-vax, which I have no patience for in 2026.

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@skipford.bsky.social @keagle.bsky.social Thought you'd be interested in this

Gov. Pritzker: "They want you to question what your eyes and ears are telling you. It is unimaginable to think this can happen in our country or that when it does happen the government immediately tries to cover it up. It should anger you." #3E #endImpunity #ReneeGood #JusticeforGood #GoodVsEvil

I just learned, from TikTok no less, that the idea MI ski mountain Mt. Brighton was build on trash or tires is a 40 year old urban myth. News articles from the 1960s say they brought in 160,000 cubic yards of dirt, no trash.

This angle is incontrovertible.

🚨 TONIGHT! ☀️ The season premiere of Dimension 20: Gladlands launches on @dropout.tv at 7 PM ET/ 4 PM PT! Starring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Ally Beardsley, Kimia Behpoornia, Vic Michaelis, Oscar Montoya, Zac Oyama, and Jacob Wysocki! Welcome to a world gone glad 🚙🚚🏍️ #Gladlands

"if you scoff at the idea that one should have any ethical boundaries at all, and think that there’s no reason to care about the overall utilitarian impact of this technology, that it’s worth using no matter what else it does as long as it makes you 5% better at your job, that’s sociopath behavior."

Just good not to forget that it's still happening. It wasn't until COVID came around that I understood that the Spanish Flu never disappeared - for 108 years it has just continued to evolve.

Anyone out there have an easy way to download bookmarked tiktoks? I had a slow process going last year before it shut down. (Note: it's for my personal archive before it becomes Someone Else's App. No infringement intended.)

I don't get why people are falling for the semantic trap of arguing the meaning of "distraction" re: the attack on Venezuela. Of course it is a violent, criminal atrocity that can't be ignored. Of course it is *intended* to be a distraction from Trump's embarrassing crimes.

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels. Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.

What did I get for Xmas? Physical books. What did I give? LPs, records you can hold in your hand, from a local store. This isn't what I expected from the future when I was a starry-eyed child learning BASIC on my hand-me-down C64 or when I was voraciously reading SF. I'm tired of all the traps.

I've seen it said that current movies use lowest bidder fastest result CGI houses (if you aren't James Cameron), which is why movies from 15 years ago often look so much better.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

This is a fantastic way to fight copyright claims for news worthy content.

Their denials are as incompetent as anything else they do.

(I posted this on FB but had to censor due to the algorithm.) The ironic thing about firing everyone with a moral duty or ethics around their job from the DoJ is that you also fire everyone with the dedication to competently learn and do the job you hired them to do, namely cover for your pedo ass.>

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

I don't need or care about whether Clinton is exonerated, but I am pretty amused at what must be a surprising turn of events for the DoJ.

This is delightful and also, of course, fuck Bari Weiss for being the transparent tool of a corrupt and criminal administration

It matters that the upcoming Ambassador to South Africa refuses to deny that his belief is that black people should be denied voting rights. He will pretend until he is in office to solely "do what the president wants."

Honestly, this is so fucking funny. I mean, terrible funny, but it's almost a promise of complicity when people object at this point.

A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.

I’m so excited, working with Mason Jar has already been amazing!

"There are no more free public spaces!" Your library is right there. "I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!" Your library is right there. "I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!" Your library is right there.

My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

I’m fixed . I’m better. I’m here.

It's not about not getting what you want, it's about the fear that wanting it makes you an outsider.

I don't see how these kinds of mistakes can be honest.