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happify

@happify.bsky.social

To walk in an American city is to bear the collective sins of an entire culture, to be seen, simultaneously, as both pariah and saint. // pedestrian in the wind

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spookitty, esq.
@ibsroyalty.bsky.social

wait wait wait wait a BUSINESS? we let private businesses handle something as important as rabies testing? what the actual fuck.

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Here’s an article on it. I know of at least one Mpls person who has been referred for a post exposure vaccination due to ASAP Wildlife Services falsifying a negative rabies report. @wedge.live www.fox9.com/news/rabies-...

fox9.comRabies testing concerns prompt investigation from Minnesota health officialsThe Minnesota Department of Health is searching for customers of a Twin Cities company that it suspects has not been consistently submitting rabies tests for testing.

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Here’s an article on it. I know of at least one Mpls person who has been referred for a post exposure vaccination due to ASAP Wildlife Services falsifying a negative rabies report. @wedge.live www.fox9.com/news/rabies-...

fox9.comRabies testing concerns prompt investigation from Minnesota health officialsThe Minnesota Department of Health is searching for customers of a Twin Cities company that it suspects has not been consistently submitting rabies tests for testing.

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On the topic of rabies, ASAP Wildlife Services has lied about negative rabies tests and is not cooperating with the state. If you used them between 9/1/25 and 9/9/26, call MDH at 651-201-5368.

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On the topic of rabies, ASAP Wildlife Services has lied about negative rabies tests and is not cooperating with the state. If you used them between 9/1/25 and 9/9/26, call MDH at 651-201-5368.

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Here’s an article on it. I know of at least one Mpls person who has been referred for a post exposure vaccination due to ASAP Wildlife Services falsifying a negative rabies report. @wedge.live www.fox9.com/news/rabies-...

fox9.comRabies testing concerns prompt investigation from Minnesota health officialsThe Minnesota Department of Health is searching for customers of a Twin Cities company that it suspects has not been consistently submitting rabies tests for testing.

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Wedge LIVE!™
@wedge.live

Political science professors say "white woman picking up a rabid bat downtown" is our generation's "soccer mom."

taylr@taylordahlin.com

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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Face photo. Sorry for the lack of alt text, running late for kayaking! They are on the walk path between west river parkway and Hennepin Ave, on the downriver side of the federal reserve.

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Sorry for the lack of alt text, running late for kayaking! They are on the walk path between west river parkway and Hennepin Ave, on the downriver side of the federal reserve.

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Need new glasses (haven't got any since 2010) but zenni only has two in my face size with adjustable nose pads (without those, glasses hit my lashes). What are other stores/sites that people use? Happy to shop brick and mortar, but in 2010 I tried 12 stores locally with no success.

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Flan
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AQI in Minneapolis is now 530. It’s over 80 degrees at 11pm. For neighbors without air conditioning, and our neighbors experiencing unsheltered homelessness, these are incredibly dangerous conditions. I’ll be out tomorrow with masks and cold water, checking on neighbors. Please do the same.

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Looks like Grand Marais’s AQI peaked today at 2259, though their graph stops at 1000. I’m a ball of worry for…everyone, and especially those who’re most at risk and with the least protection.

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Any of you have experience with dehydrating foods outside in hot weather? I feel decently confident in my hardware to enable this and protect said foods from birds/pests, but not sure what weather conditions will suffice or how often to give things a shake.

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I’m planning to use shallow woven natural fiber baskets, wrapped in netting. Basically what I do for dehydrating or drying plant material in the winter, but aiming to add in sun/wind/heat, in a more humid environment. How to facilitate this without spoilage?

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No idea, dating objects is hard especially when acquired without known lineage but the vaaaast majority of what I own/use is secondhand (curb/dumpster, thrift store, garage sale, Craigslist, hand-me-down), except shoes, contact lenses, toothbrush, 2 stools bought in 2010. Most furniture is pre-60s.

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Recommendation? Looking for a place near the Stone Arch Bridge where I could gather with out of town friends for: Watching a soccer game at 2pm Catching up with a friend about hard stuff Comfortable for elementary age kids to hang out and read/draw/craft Bonus points for breezy situation!

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Good fiction (imo) of late, in no order: Awake in the Floating City/Susanna Kwan If, Then/Kate Hope Day The Parking Lot Attendant/Nafkote Tamirat Will There Ever Be Another You/Patricia Lockwood Ghost Forest/Pik-Shuen Fung Bowlaway/Elizabeth McCracken Nothing to See Here/Kevin Wilson

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I'm interested in recommendations, if you've got them. Pretty good fiction: Fake Accounts/Lauren Oyler No One Is Talking About This/Patricia Lockwood The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone/Audrey Burges Dream Drawings/N. Scott Momaday

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For a few years, I've had an annual calendar event for 6/15 from 1-2pm labeled "Pete's birthday." I do not know a Pete. I do not know someone whose birthday is 6/15 that I'm aware of. I do not recall setting up this recurring event. Happy early birthday, Pete!

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taylr
@taylordahlin.com

franklin steele park in elliot park, minneapolis: a basketball court, two playgrounds, a splash pad, a shelter with picnic tables under it, a shipping container with graffiti on it, tons of benches, every amenity you could name and not a SINGLE bike rack

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Sidewalks are never cleared and the way the city/county/state clear roads actually make sidewalks worse than if they did nothing, yet no libertarians among pedestrians…

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Andrew Brobston
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Replying to @nharper.bsky.social

www.ada.gov/resources/ad... Do these barriers prevent access to public services? Also: "Otherwise, these individuals are forced to travel in streets and roadways and are put in danger or are prevented from reaching their destination" (referring to curb ramps but seems arguably applicable).

ada.govThe ADA and City Governments: Common ProblemsThis document outlines common problems shared by city governments of all sizes and provides examples of common deficiencies and explains how these problems affect persons with disabilities.
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I have had a fairly atypical relationship with reading since I first learned how at age 6, in the months preceding my favorite aunt's death. I took to it faaast and hard, as a means of escape. I've big-shifted a few times in major aspects of my reading, and most recently again ~5 weeks ago.

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I get peevish at (from authors): gratuitous and play-acted death superfluous sex a near-total lack of plot(s) when done poorly or in a heavy-fisted way a certain simplistic wallowing in predicting doom/dystopia

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And peevishness at readers who: judge other readers for what they read judge entire categories of writing or write off entire genres as too esoteric/try-hard or below them surely other things that escape me; I am too cantankerous to not have at least three peeves here

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40+ minute walking detours on days like today are actively dangerous for some people, especially in a city with no benches, water fountains, or restrooms on the route.

Ethan Fawley@ethanfawley.bsky.social

Good story here too if you haven’t seen: sahanjournal.com/public-safet... I work for the City & will keep asking questions in my role (& I’ll admit decisions are higher than me & MnDOT is key as I mentioned). Admittedly complex, but closing these crossings has real impacts as you noted

sahanjournal.comFrustrations rise along fenced-in Franklin Avenue corridor in Mpls.Fencing installed by state officials in Minneapolis’ Franklin Avenue corridor to deter homeless encampments is still in place years later. It’s forcing pedestrians to make dangerous choices and hinder...
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Two miles out of your way, because it’s to the next open crossing and then back to your original destination. Further if starting from Franklin or north of it.

localhuman@locallhuman.bsky.social

MnDot has closed the last remaining pedestrian crossing of Hiawatha between 94 and 28th street. if you are a pedestrian who wants to cross Hiawatha you will need to walk almost a mile out of your way or walk in traffic because MnDot thinks this strategy will stop encampments from forming.

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Chris Daniel
@chrisdaniel.net

"Every map is the same map" The concentration of pedestrian connection closures across highways align perfectly with where the poorest people live. Who could have predicted this?! go.minneapolismn.gov/minneapolis-... is just greenwashing until the poorest people can safely get to non-car options.

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Chris Daniel
@chrisdaniel.net

Imagine you are at 24th and Cedar in Minneapolis, and you want to take the light rail (~1200 ft or 1/5 mi away). You have to get past Hiawatha/MN-55, so what are your options, without walking into car traffic? Take the red or orange path. (orange questionable due to construction at 26th/Hiawatha)

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Chris Daniel
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Scenes from 24th St and 26th St at Hiawatha from this morning (photos from a friend) - 24th St bridge totally closed - Incorrect signs at 26th directing people to detour via 24th MnDOT needs to pay any attention at all to people outside cars, please.

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I have had a fairly atypical relationship with reading since I first learned how at age 6, in the months preceding my favorite aunt's death. I took to it faaast and hard, as a means of escape. I've big-shifted a few times in major aspects of my reading, and most recently again ~5 weeks ago.

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I saw it in my father, too, in much the same way. He had many favorite books where, when I was a kid, the instant he met someone else who loved some special book too, I knew he'd be chatting for at least an hour. But also he read whatever reading was at hand.

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I'm this way too, and a fairly fast reader, so I'm sure my rants aren't entirely fair, because perhaps if I read more slowly, I'd be more discriminating in what I pick up. And I read for many and all reasons, not merely for art or learning or escape, which is also an indiscrimination of sorts.

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I have had a fairly atypical relationship with reading since I first learned how at age 6, in the months preceding my favorite aunt's death. I took to it faaast and hard, as a means of escape. I've big-shifted a few times in major aspects of my reading, and most recently again ~5 weeks ago.

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I'm returning a bit to some forms of reading I've not done in these ways for a very long time, and along with the specific missed pleasures, there are a whole host of long-dormant rants formed over decades of love for the word.

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One of my uncles loved reading enough to sneak out his window down the gutter as a child, to read in the streetlight since they didn't have electric lights yet (or at least ones he would have had access to). He was a voracious and fairly indiscriminate reader, depending what he could access.

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Pondering whether (my) aphantasia and even anendophasia is linked to (my) preference for fairly intense/complex/layered visual stimulation in (my) surroundings.