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March is Long Covid Awareness month, because March is a lot like long covid in that every time you think it looks nice enough to go be active outside, you quickly regret it.

I had a horrifying adventure with a pair of pants. It began out in St. Paul when I bought my new gray suit. I bought it there because it was in St. Paul that the bottom fell out of my old pants, and because I like to show off as a much-traveled young man, and say casually, "Oh, yes, this tie came from Germany, and I got this green sweater in Portland, Maine, and these gloves in Knoxville, and my white socks in El Centro, California, and these shoes in Indianapolis, and this gray suit I picked up in St. Paul."

A timely local angle in “Home Country” by Ernie Pyle. Clothes tell stories, they tell of people, and of moments. Already written are stories of the Saint Paul jacket of 2026.

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles suit with Novartis over use of her cells - The Boston Globe Lacks' cells were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer in a segregated ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

"Novartis has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer in a segregated ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/27/n...

if i ever get fuck-off rich my hobby is going to be running for state legislatures that pay legislators $30,000 a year. top agenda item will be raising pay for legislators so normal people can afford to serve. as soon as i achieve that i will resign to live with my model wives on a yacht

The most extreme act of waste-not, as a food

A tube of Braunschweiger, meat paste held in a yellow tube.

Same! And I still buy this stuff to eat on saltines, even though I have enough money for whatever food I want these days.

@tcbikeparking.bsky.social

The Twin Cities have been saying!

Some of the earliest posts/comments on this page have great resources for what makes good bike parking.

Is this a good time to talk about main line vs yard ballast and the related hazard to rail workers? I kid!

post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

A portion of a web page about Interstate 94, stating that the community is asking for a project pause and listing two suggested actions: calling Governor Walz and the MnDOT Commissioner.

☎️ Make two phone calls, that's it.
🚚 Ask to pause the rebuilding and expansion of I-94 in MSP.
💥 Easy, fast, effective.
better94.org/Take-Action/

once again, i am begging everyone to turn some of their energy towards abolishing the concept of legal gender. there is no reason gender has to be on driver's licenses and passports, and for most of history, it wasn't!

I used to plan a monthly “local tourists create” event, visiting a place and creating whatever you want. We took the train to Winona and went to that museum and I was surprised to see that. Totally unexpected, such a delight to look at.

Oh, it’s as bad as I thought! I’m not eligible because I’m not a man.

I think my anti-speeding antics on patrol may have earned us a police observer yesterday 🤣 My bad everyone.

'This Is Endometriosis’ just won a BAFTA - here's where to watch it - RUSSH ‘This Is Endometriosis’ has won a BAFTA, shining a global spotlight on the chronic condition. Here’s where to watch it in Australia.

After three surgeries myself, her saying toward the end “I thought I had more time” was painful to watch. Knowing the battle you have to re-enter, pain so bad you disassociate. I hate this for us. We need research, we need better treatments. ❤️‍🩹

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Upon re-reading, I think I may have sent the wrong message here. What I’m saying is, I like to embarrass myself on first dates. This was not sexual innuendo 😅

One of my hidden talents is being able to do a pretty solid horse neigh. But it requires sending a violent quiver from my head through my upper body whilst making the noise. So I only do it on first dates.

I just want to call out a thing that I think is the tip of the iceberg problem: notice how he’s too *something to protect his neck from snowballs. He refuses to do the natural act of protecting himself. Protect ya neck from the patriarchal story of masculinity and power, man.

Did you know that our streets could be safer just by placing traffic signals on the near side of an intersection?

Countries around the world with safer streets use this strategy. we should do it here too!

All you’d hear is the echos of my Yeehaws after every big snow fall, tearing up parking lots with abandon

Today a woman pled guilty to two counts of 3rd Murder for blowing through a stoplight light and killing two women in a car. Those women, Rose Reece and Esther Fulks, were beloved members of their community.

If you kill someone with your car you will be held accountable. Slow down.

Mine is a bit newer and I’m told it has some bells and whistles but I’ve never learned about this car. I just need a box on wheels to move gear occasionally, and through snow. Hopefully they move to AWD before my car dies. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hah, thanks. I never would have guessed that. It’s giving more “take your ass to court, we’re a litigious people”

Especially in a pickup!

I’ve also always wondered, off topic, what is in the Subaru special sauce that works so well? It’s still just a car, how much can a manufacturer do differently?

Have you ever owned a Subaru? I’ve had so many cars and it’s such a difference. I’d have to relearn how to drive in snow. And that’s if I could convince myself to give up the safety I feel now. But I like what you’re saying because the goal is to convince myself to do it.

This mystery building has been bugging me all day. What if it’s just “architecture”… design science!

For anyone who misses whipping shitties, the return of RWD.

I’m curious about this decision. I want one of these, but going from a Subaru (the BEST in snow) to RWD seems undoable.