Dakota Sexton

Lawyers of Minnesota, local attorney Daniel Suitor is trying to coordinate legal resources needed by the people and organizations responding to ICE's occupation of MN. (Lawyers not from MN, you might also be able to help!) See Dan's post for the link to the form.

Mutual Aid Opportunity: COMMUNITY ALERT & CALL FOR SUPPORT Powwow Grounds on Franklin Avenue is now being activated as a community headquarters for ICE patrol observation, rapid response coordination, and community support in South Minneapolis.

I hit my head last week and haven’t recovered yet. Which is super upsetting after multiple difficult TBI recoveries. But it also feels like an opportunity to shout out how assistive technology — like audio descriptions — can benefit a wide range of individuals.

This is a deeply relatable vibe

HOT DAMN some incredible Bay Area journalists are founding an independent, worker-owned newsroom!! And you can already support & subscribe!! Coyote Media Collective is gonna be a game changer and I am so fuckin amped to support it 🙌

This bit really hit me from a recent Dan Sinker post: "In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it." Doing anything creative for myself right now feels like a small way to fully exist. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

Over at Ephemeral Atlas, I interviewed Natalie Salminen Rude about the strange and wonderful alchemy of outdoor appreciation, magical realism, and humor in Fables of the North Shore. The book gently lampoons everything I love about northern Minnesota. www.ephemeralatlas.com/natalie-salm...

Not personally affiliated, but would be thrilled if sharing this helps anyone. Data engineering role with the ACLU: job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/78...

I had a conversation today with a writing peer who talked about writing as an act of appreciation — how it can be a creative process that helps you understand why you enjoy something, and along the way develop an even deeper sense of excitement and respect for whatever it is you enjoy. I love that.

I just heard a loon calling on Lake Harriet and it was spectacular. And learned that Hollywood is (allegedly) obsessed with loon noises? And some people think they're creepy, but they're not. They're magic 🧙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVFB...

Zooming in on this map makes it look like they have this planned down to at least the section level.

The entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness appears on the map cited in the Secretary's Memorandum 1078-006 of April 3, 2025, Increasing Timber Production And Designating An Emergency Situation On National Forest System Lands.

I love it when you think you are 99.9 percent sure you are done with some very clever CSS you have just written and everything is shiny and grand and then you think I’ll just double check all my work in the other browsers things couldn’t possibly look wrong

One deeply soothing thing to me: listening to the @maximumfun.org Sleeping with Celebrities podcast at 0.75 speed until I fall asleep, finish the dishes, or feel like some otherwise tiny but noticeable shift has happened.

Everyone should try to write a sporadically updated arts blog because it's a lovely excuse to fill up your apartment with random notes like "tell me about the puppet show" that you cannot seem to remember writing but immediately love the mystery of

I'm still learning to get the right consistency for a balm. But late last night, I discovered an accessible use for my old Aeropress + Able Disk: straining spent herbs from oil. Last night, my herbs were powdered too fine for it to make much of a difference, but maybe less fine it'll be perfect? 🤞

There’s a Bay-area data privacy lawyer keeping San Francisco weird by maneuvering a luminous dinosaur costume around the city: missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...

My gender is baby

Lewis Mallard is a delightful psychedelic folk artist I spoke with last fall. I finally managed to publish an essay about the impact of his work, disability as identity, and why I think creative acts of absurdity are so meaningful at Ephemeral Atlas: www.ephemeralatlas.com/psychedelic-...

In case you need some wholesome vegan cooking content in your feed, featuring Fraser and a delightful duck named Lewis Mallard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLo...

I recently had the pleasure to interview Chicago bioregional herbalist Alex Williams about how he got into herbalism, what bioregional herbalism is, and how to learn about plant medicine through observation and sensory-based experiences: www.ephemeralatlas.com/interview-wi...

Hi! I'm Abby, farmer at Foxtrot Farm in Ashfield, MA. We're a 6-acre farm that grows mostly botanicals, elderberries, and weird foods that walk the line between food and medicine. I started this farm eight years ago with the goal of growing climate resilient crops in climate resilient ways.

any government worker that doesn’t give a fuck: I will write your bullet points. just reach out.

I finally bought a left-handed upright mouse, to reduce my dependency on my right side, which is dominant but still weaker than my left (after over 4 years of physical therapy). It feels weird and surreal but oddly doable.

I feel like When in Rome is kind of great if you view it from the perspective of Kristin Bell as an ambiguously queer person attempting to escape the demands of allosexuality. Like maybe they're demisexual or gray ace and that's what makes sudden declarations of love from anyone just horrifying

Someone commented in a call recently that it must be cold where I am. I thought they were just making conversation about Minnesota, where I live. But it turned out they simply misunderstood the purpose of my neck brace. To be polite, I didn't clarify what it was — but it made me feel so conflicted.

You’re not going to get your creative project off the ground if you’re afraid of being seen as cringe by friends and strangers. Cringe is unavoidable, just do the thing you want to do

Lil pin I unearthed while cleaning, from a free Thursday night event at the Walker Art Center a few years ago.

It was a relief for me to hear in college that my favorite professor can't even read his first few books anymore because they always feel so cringe, which is eventually how I feel about all of my writing, in perpetuity It's just only so long until everything feels cringe

Me, a writer: I have no idea if this is good or not but I've spent far too long on it that I just feel I am officially at the "abandonment" stage of writing of it My friend, also a writer: That's when you know writing is done Why is writing like this

Between Brian David Gilbert and Oscar Montoya, I love how on-point the nail art game is in Nobody Asked. 💅

Everyone deserves a friend willing to make them playlists to escape the doldrums of their own auto-generated picks

Using auto-layout to rebuild your resume is pretty magic. I don't know why I resisted attempting this before.

I've often wanted to be able to easily reference what farms are growing medicinal herbs with a focus on sustainable + regenerative practices. As a designer, I also thought it'd be fun to present that info in a searchable, interactive map. So as a side project, I created herbatlas.fyi #dataviz

There's something so calming about excellent typography and short, well-spaced paragraphs of text. This is the order my chaotic, neurodivergent brain needs to function.

In my brain everyone else designs flawlessly arranged and polished things from the very beginning, and I'm just the lone chaos muppet with a super messy process. It's inspiring to see someone I admire as much as Shirley share "ugly" work-in-progress that refutes that imposter syndrome narrative.

Piccolo is non-binary, ace, and an ally to all other queer people (this applies to all Namekians)

I have an ongoing problem with bulk herbs and spices where I know you're supposed to hide them for longevity but then I just forget about them, and then I sometimes buy even more of the same herb I've already neglected, it's such a weird cycle of forget

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a super silly, wonderful comic that also features an incredibly realistic depiction of someone doing research: by just looking at Wikipedia on their phone.

My PT gave me a huge electrolyte care package today for my birthday and I should not be as excited about it as I am, but I think receiving non-fancy, practical gifts like this when you're neurodivergent and can't remember to buy stuff yourself is amazing

You know you're a nerd when you realize you've just spent like a half hour browsing a map for "cool" natural features to zoom to on different pages of an interactive storytelling project

Made a possibly C- attempt to tape my own dominant shoulder with kinesiotape but I did it, and hopefully the muscle memory just improves from here on out

There are so many easter eggs in the latest Game Changer animated short worth mentioning that I can't because my brain is a puddle of goo. But y'all, there is a fridge in it with a magnet on that says "Union!" and a drawing of our dear beloved yogurt dad, I love it

While texting my brother about fictional characters that feel unambiguously non-binary to me I accidentally wrote "ambitiously non-binary" and honestly that also makes sense too

If you've never wondered if you can flush a chocolate cake down the toilet, you should probably still revisit the College Humor mini-documentary "Flushing Cake" because it's brilliant. I'm so glad they've revived the spirit of it in Nobody Asked on Dropout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whL...