Chris Daniel

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

Minnesota is magnificent. Even when it rains, our capital city* looks like this. *- it's actually a suburb

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Oh yes 🍂🎃

The closest I’ve come to death in Minneapolis was a right-on-red driver turning into me on the two-way at Stinson & East Hennepin. My bike hit her front quarter-panel and I barrel-rolled over her windshield. I was lucky with only a concussion. This directive can’t be acted upon fast enough.

Post boats

Just started this book and I can already say 2 things: - everyone should read it. - the future is analog. It must be. Make that 3 things: - however bad you think surveillance is, it's been way worse for years. And it's all about taking your rights to increase their profit.

Do you have personal "bike weather" criteria? So how many days are they met in your location?

Indigo from @anilineapps.bsky.social is the kind of cool app that grows when interoperability is seeded (bluesky/mastodon fusion app). Otherwise, you're just stuck with whatever stupid/malicious UX is served to you in the closed platform.

This week Doug Ford is removing the bike lanes on Bloor. The difference is now there's hundreds of protesters. Despite pretending to be mayor of Toronto and ignoring Ontario, it's a much bigger fight. Look at how many people came out. That's a lot more than 2 of us!

Hundreds showed up tonight at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis for a rally to support Rep. Ilhan Omar after her DC home was searched by federal agents this morning. The Department of Justice says it was "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation".

Selective prosecution of our elected representatives will only make us angry. You don’t want to see us when we’re angry.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

savecarsharemn.org (Reposted via @isaacinmpls.bsky.social -- needed alt text and a link, because ya know, internet)

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI

We're well-equipped to document these flights in Minnesota, but our neighbors in other states could use a hand - if you're able to chip in a few bucks to help get them gear, it'd be appreciated: ottergoose.net/ice

I dunno where the funding for Hourcar is "supposed" to come from, but I do know the Minnesota state legislature kinda still works, and can pick up funding gaps like this. Look up your representatives here and CALL THEM. Don't be shy, you'll probably get voicemail. gis.lcc.mn.gov/iMaps/distri...

Less than the likely cost of two lawsuit settlements against a current StP city council member.... Seriously, this is a pathetically small amount in the scheme of budgets and sadly reminiscent of Nice Ride getting shut down because the core cities don't back up policy with budget support.

This gap is less than it cost the mayor to put a bounce house in the warehouse district for a summer. This is 1/33 the cost of MPS's surprise overtime. They renovated Target Center in part by making us, the citizens, pay $74 million via a sales tax. WE. HAVE. MONEY. We can spend it in better places

We don't have a fast transit network here in the Twin Cities metro. What we have is buses and trams, which are reliable, but slow. Cars, like them or not, are often 5-10x faster than traditional public transit here. Hourcar needs to stay around. Fund it! projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Frey's strategy as mayor is "another day, another veto" -- create a new outrage today, so everyone forgets about yesterday's. What did we expect electing someone who is mainly good at running fast

Ramsey County, we have a problem. His name is Bob Fletcher.

Local politics debrief: A flock representative was supposed to come to the Richfield human rights commission meeting tonight to participate in a q&a panel. They backed out at the last minute because it was announced that citizens were planning to Livestream the meeting.

Victory in Atkinson, NC! 🏆 "On Thursday, Oct. 1, commissioners in the Town of Atkinson unanimously passed a new ordinance that prohibits ALPRs from being installed or operated in the town’s limits." NoALPRs.com 🚫

We were in Minneapolis for a few days on vacation, but couldn't help filming some of their amazing curb-level bikeways - better than almost anything we've seen elsewhere! How is your city doing on bike infrastructure?

It's October, the best time of year to get your flu shot in the northern hemisphere. Enough time to build immunity before most holiday gatherings, and late enough that immunity lasts through the cold season!

MRFF Vehemently Denounces Pious Petey’s Establishment of an Office of (Approved) Religious Affairs within Department of Holy War @americansunited.bsky.social @splcenter.org @aclu.org

Twin Cities, united in fruitlessly hoping their mayor resigns

Just noticing that 2026 has both Marco and Polo for potential tropical cyclone names (Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific, respectively). Nice, NHC 👏

Take the radical step of going to get your shit yourself instead of paying a large tech corporation to exploit a person to do it

Starship, the largest rocket ever flown, has made it to orbit for the first time today, on the 18th anniversary of Falcon 1 making orbit, which was roughly 6 years after the founding of SpaceX. Publicly subsidized? Largely, yes. The current state was the dream of COTS: diversify space access.

Apparently, when you have so much of other people's money that you can just run millions of non-deterministic computer programs that break into everything on the internet "without your knowledge," you won't be held responsible under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.