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South Minneapolis! I'm helping out with a plant sale fundraiser for Tamales y Bicicletas tomorrow 10-2 at the Toolbox Collective! Come help me make space for more plants by buying some of mine

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

Someone drove into a hole on University Ave yesterday mndaily.com/top-story/ca...

On Friday, three members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) released a letter expressing concern about a pattern of unsustainable and unaccountable spending within the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

On January 14, CBP agents pulled into a UMN parking lot and blocked the intersection in front of the Humphrey School, but UMN continued to claim there was no ICE activity on campus. With today's conference in this building, let's not forget the U's dangerously muddy comms during that time

Lina Khan has pointed out that have robust and well-developed theories of product liability law. What we are missing is *enforcement* www.commondreams.org/news/ai-liab...

I had the UMN anniversary apple crisp ice cream yesterday not realizing it was just released this week. It's the best UMN ice cream flavor I've tried. Get it at Coffman or in St Paul (under $3 for a generous scoop)! cfans.umn.edu/175-ice-crea...

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...

@wedge.live are you collecting royalties from cat tours in other cities?

My museum colleagues found a pile of old slide carousels with educational plant photos and just got them professionally scanned. They look so damn good this might be the thing that gets me into film photography

Supply Chain Summer is coming for Linux distros archlinux.org/news/active-...

I take solace in the knowledge that even though it may seem weird and inequitable to me, this is the most efficient means of allocating capital that humanity has yet devised

This piece crystallized my discomfort with the U's AI stance. The language about not replacing human thought and using it deliberately papers over their assumption that higher AI literacy means using it more. They leave no room for avoiding AI as a valid/rational choice hr.umn.edu/supervising/...

Marx: The term "preroll" disgusts me. It reifies the alienation of labor as the essence of the commodity, completely neglecting the use-value and its often subversive historical context Me: Do you wanna hit this joint or not man

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

Another case of Minnesotan Excellence.

One benefit of doing data work for a science museum is sometimes you happen upon a cute photo of a turtle and you can keep the lil guy up on your second monitor for encouragement

Me in the Capital Long-Range Improvement Committee meeting when we started cutting down the super over-budget list of proposed 2032 street rebuild projects

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

I turned some leftover Hmong herb steamed fish into a fish salad and ate it on a bagel. #blessedlunch

C needs help covering rent again this month. I'll be matching donations up to the full amount, can we raise $700? venmo.com/u/meshmpls

Wow! A website where you can explore every song The Current has played since 2005. 124k unique songs played 2.4 million times theundercurrent.fm

First Sea Salt visit of the year... the trick is to go with so many people that waiting in line is a party in itself

Me: "...and as I got closer to the light, I saw all my family and friends that had already passed away, my dog Sparky. An overwhelming feeling of love spread over me like warm sunshine." The urbanist who has been hiding in my ICU room: ACTUALLY, YOU JUST LIKE HEAVEN BECAUSE IT'S A WALKABLE COMMUNITY

Jucy Lucys are not good. The center of a burger shouldn't be getting that hot.