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At the annual IT gathering nobody I talked to about this was excited or even mildly positive about it

Agreed it's late, but I will always choose a less experienced candidate who has the right values and demonstrates they can learn and adjust positions, over one who knows how to say the right thing while aligning with landlords

I've talked to Cole about his Summit Ave responses and can say he has come up to speed on the political forces at play in the last couple weeks. Hoping to see some clarification from him but I trust his principles have led him to a better position when faced with the facts

A lot of Minneapolis city racks have at least one special nut that requires a specific tool to loosen. I have learned to check for that before locking to a rack after hearing of someone whose bike was stolen off a rack like this

It's actually No 🙃

A custom boolean input. "No" has a gray background with dark blue text, "Yes" has a white background with black text

Pop quiz: is "yes" or "no" the selected option here? (I had to look at the HTML to figure it out)

Turkey foot-shaped purplish seed heads in an expansive prairie that also includes yellow rudbeckia flowers. The purple color is visible as the plants blur together in the background

Wildflowers get all the love, but let's give it up for Andropogon Gerardii, aka Big Bluestem. Bedrock of tallgrass prairies, beautiful late summer color, host to many butterflies and other insects. Truly a top tier American plant

Asphalt bike path with one long bright yellow median line followed by a shorter more faded line dash

I really like the two tone effect from the city repainting every other line dash on the W River bike path

We happened to see this airing on TPT the day my partner and I moved to MN. It was a great omen

Bunk'Art in Tirana, Albania. A giant bunker built by the famously paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha, so his government could continue operating in the event of nuclear war. It's now a history museum slash art installation.

But most significantly, this horse gas mask will haunt me forever

Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.

As @lorak.bsky.social's paywall-free reporting shows, that $200 million is just for punitive damages, and the jury awarded another $129m in compensatory damages.

Hard to overstate what long overdue justice this is, for an ongoing scam that has killed tens of Americans

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

Probably too high, but he could motivate a lot of less-engaged folks to turn out to vote. Anecdotally, lots more Somali neighbors showed up to my DFL caucus than the CD5 one last year, and they were all there to support Omar

Second this. You pick your seats when booking so you could probably get an idea of which tables have more room. Not sure what access to the balcony is like

Or if cost is an issue, they could have fun with it and randomly replace 20% of them

mfer has a tattoo that says "firt" lol (I cannot parse any meaning here)

They never mentioned it was a secret Kaaba fwiw

Cube's back in the discourse so I get to share my small connection to the Perelman: In 2018 I CNC'd prototypes of panels used in the theaters so the acoustical contractor could test them

Still thinking about this, it's a beautiful love letter to active transpo but there is some cope here too. It's not good that transit is slower than driving, we need to be honest that transit is competing in an env built to move cars fast, and we'll be fighting for decades to undo that era of policy

South of the greenway/rail bridge is the most direct. There are bike racks at 27th st just south of the trail entrance.

Thanks for sharing! I just found my own way down this rabbit hole a couple weeks ago bsky.app/profile/mesh...

There is no such thing as neutral AI. Offloading your thinking to a generative AI product is to submit to the whims and ideology of its makers.

Most experts acknowledge that a ghost takeover is coming for the video game industry—after all, the industry deployed ghosts in Pac Man in the 80s

Exhibitor Clearance Information and Agreement The Minnesota State Fair has been working with filmmaker Alec Fischer and his team as they produce a documentary titled “The Fair.” Leading up to and including the 2025 State Fair, filming will be done in various competition areas and may capture entries as they are registered and/or displayed during the State Fair. This agreement gives permission for the filmmakers to consider your entry for inclusion in the documentary. Your name, city of residence or other identifying information typically displayed with entries at the fair would not be used without further notification and an additional agreement. If you are in agreement with the following, check “YES” when prompted on the registration window under “Exhibitor Clearance Information and Agreement.” Checking “NO” will not affect your entry into Minnesota State Fair competition.

They're filming a documentary about the MN State Fair this year! The creative activities registration site asked for a photo release for my jars of jam

Wernher Von Braun is one of his better known songs, for good reason. "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," a despairingly evergreen lyric tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-...

YouTube video by Brownedov Tom Lehrer - The Subway Song

The Subway Song, the reason I know the Boston T's red line stops better than I should for how little I've been there www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJ0...

I Hold Your Hand In Mine, a sappy number that takes a psychotic turn tomlehrersongs.com/i-hold-your-...

Who's Next?, a little ditty about nuclear proliferation tomlehrersongs.com/whos-next/

Whatever Became of Hubert?, written when Minnesota's own Hubert Humphrey was LBJ's vice president tomlehrersongs.com/whatever-bec...

Tom Lehrer was formative to my sense of humor, and listening to his music in middle and high school was often my first introduction to historical events of the 20th century. A thread of some of my favorite less-known songs of his 1/