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Fall color is better on gloomy days

The expression I learned growing up in Wisconsin that's emblematic of drinking culture was "its's not drinking all day unless you start before noon"

Great day to be a cat

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DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

My initial reaction to that viral exchange between senate candidate Abdul El-Sayid and a young man named "Tommy." This is an excerpt from our Monday newsletter. Subscribe here for free: www.lni.media

Lesson 1,056 this year on why governance is actually very important and not just a shit lib talking point

If I were to write my own Spice Girls - Wannabe, it would be about washing and reusing ziplock bags. Not wasting my time with someone who throws away a perfectly good bag.

Searching for a card game/comic store to buy my nephews birthday present and came across this delight - straight out of 1997 - www.collectorsedgecomics.com/index.asp

Probably pronounces it "HU-MAN trafficking"

Why does all of Longfellow smell like a wet dog

Just waiting to find out if the search warrant was signed by an immigration judge.

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

The timing on this is extraordinarily suspect. Rep. Ilhan Omar has been a constant target of this administration and given the President's posts only last week, it raises real questions about the political motivations of these actions.

All the wishcasting around the Yandex datacenters being destroyed is dumb and misinformed. They're, for the most part, legitimate data center operators indexing a widely used search engine. They're certainly not saints, but no large tech companies are

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Which stage of the failing fascist regime model is "lying to families about their children's death"?

Just like mutual funds consistently underperform compared to most bog standard market indices, and mutual funds that do beat the markets for any period are completely random aberrations - broken clocks

Gen Xers: get away from your computer games and go get lost in the woods. Gen Xers: wait no not like that, S&R costs too much to taxpayers

If you don’t understand this, you should just resign

Fucking Hon-x3 got me.

Bill doesn't miss: "Call it a “climate impact fee” if you must, but it makes sense for a free, city-owned zoo with polar bears and penguins to charge people to park cars while sea ice disappears."

Applies to Mpls too: “Half of [St.P’s] budget is spent on Cops & Cars (47%) & if you’re a person who wants to solve finances with cuts & you’re not talking about cutting either of those things then not only are you not taking the budget seriously, you’re not even taking your own premise seriously.”

One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood

Not a single meta product on my devices. Fuck them so hard. I've disabled my FB and Instagram accounts but I'm going to full delete them now. Scorched earth.

Mamdani's whole thing is using a 20 Charisma score for good instead of evil and its pretty damning that it's so novel to is.

If you haven't yet, now's the time to put Johnathon Richman's "Summer Feeling" on repeat while walking around the neighborhood, looking at the leaves and experiencing the uniquely bittersweet feeling from appreciating the passage of time