Ian Dees

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra with a great encore last night. Turn it up. www.instagram.com/p/De44iYDhhCQ/

YOUR MILWAUKEE BREWERS ARE HEADING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'll know this is true when all you see is people posting "welp, guess we should go" for weeks on end and replies offering hot dish or likes in case they're hungry.

Wind turbines over a foggy southern Minnesota morning.

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

I looked around on Facebook and Instagram for clips of the @brewers.com walkoff win last night and sync'd them together:

Mayor Her states that she brought eggrolls to the SPPD following this incident, in recognition of their hard work. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

@lakemichigan13.bsky.social Can I put in a request for a few minutes of sunset footage on behalf of Pepper?

a wonderful use of @muckrock.com

Also it's really easy to switch nowadays.

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

This headline makes it sound like a 76 year old dude put his head down and ran full-force into a pickup truck.

This very evening, in Columbia Heights, HSI and local police kidnapped another of our neighbors. They were all remarkably relaxed. Over the winter, they were rampaging; now they are quiet and confident. We could not stop them. 19/x

Tommy Brennan's standup at Acme tonight was really good.

A stillborn birth. Limited emergency access. The homeless encampment at Randolph Avenue tripled from 40-60 people to at least 140 people overnight, and some say over 200. A month later, no one is calling the clearing of the Pig's Eye encampment a success story. www.twincities.com/2026/09/02/s...

We really needed this rain.

We had some very photogenic corn for breakfast at the #mnstatefair.

Transit has always been the best way to get to the Minnesota State Fair! From 1891 to 1952 a complex streetcar network ran in and out of the fairgrounds bringing thousands of visitors every day. You can still see the historic arch that trolleys would pass under.

There’s nothing like walking through the fair, but some people can’t do that. So here ya go! 2026 Minnesota State Fair Walkthrough! Opening Day, August 27, 2026! youtu.be/YSDuF6NeVmY

CVS says you can now schedule COVID boosters with the updated vaccine.

Lots of people are learning about the complexities of digital map viewpoint data. Should I point them to the discussion about how OSM decided to represent this in their tagging schema too?

We need to build a second Fair above, or below, the current Fairgrounds

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

Lake Ontario forever 🌊🌊

Unlike the Gulf of Mexico name change in GNIS, the Lake America change happened pretty quick today: edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-dom... Interesting that after a mention of today's EO the history ends with: The variant name, "Kaniatarí:io Lake", is a Mohawk name which translates to: "nice lake".

Saw some migrating birds in the morning on the weather radar. They look like these arcs:

Minnesota mentioned!

The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.

Sure @nerd4cities.bsky.social's video on Minneapolis touches on the great progress the city has made on cycling infrastructure, but it's also a really moving recognition of trauma the city has gone through recently. Definitely worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1qN...

I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...

Minnesota will never forget. We will never forgive. Fuck ICE and all the rest. Go get ‘em Peggy. (Art by La Gata Fea Linocut)

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

I truly wish city leaders and residents would understand the we have a housing crisis. Raiding camps won't solve that. But we also have a proud history of houselessness. Our city was founded by an encampment. Places like Swede Hollow were shantytowns for most of our history--more than a century.

So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.

This is one of the best articulations I've seen from a politician about addressing homelessness humanely at the local level. This is key! Take note Minneapolis!

Sharing two links. First, yesterday’s Public Safety Committee meeting, in which Assistant Mayor Cedrick Backer discussed the Mayor’s plan to close all encampments in Saint Paul. www.youtube.com/live/Ifc4soK...