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For laid-off Target employees, advice and hope from staffing pros - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Target's layoffs affect 1,000 employees, but experts say job prospects stay strong for those flexible in their search and open to new opportunities.

Target Corp. is laying off 800+ from the Twin Cities in the retailer's biggest HQ job cuts in a decade. But many affected workers could be well-positioned to compete in the job market, recruiting professionals say. www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

How is a lowercase m fatter than an uppercase M #typographymysteries

Those are licensed stores operated by Target; they’re not even Starbucks workers, I don’t think. So if they ever get scratched it’s a Target decision, not an SBUX one.

(I mean, I suppose at some point Starbucks could decide to not renew the license or something.)

I think Starbucks’ decision was more a them-issue than an us-issue, but regardless I’d say downtown coffee scene is better now (for consumers, at least) than before Caribou exit. Certainly more varied.

The City Center one could affect hotel guests, but the shops closest to Marquette and Westin stay open we think.

Market leader Caribou retreated from downtown Minneapolis a few years ago, leaving more space for indie shops. Starbucks' cutbacks don't appear as substantial — but the shutdowns include some well-known spots. www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

How early are State Fairgrounds parking lots filling up? Normally I park and ride but that might not work this time.

Edina Grill to close after 26 years, R.F. Moeller to expand at 50th & France www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

Finally, a pope who probably knows who the Smashing Pumpkins are

I, too, have seen Goggle Dog and his cyclist. They’re great.

Twins’ declining attendance has turned Target Field into the Land of 10,000 Fans Monday's game set a new low for Target Field attendance, as the Twins' on-field struggles and "business decisions" sink fan morale.

Terrific headline by @theathletic.bsky.social on the Twins www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...

It might be difficult from an IP perspective but Conclave 2 should have Daredevil in it

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

Digital River was once among the Twin Cities' biggest tech success stories, with choice gigs like running the online store for Microsoft. But that was years ago; today, the company told Minnesota it will close its headquarters. bizj.us/1qmy3c

GM's Broken 6.2L V8s Are Stranding Owners for Weeks as Replacement Engine Pipeline Dries Up The situation has left dealers struggling to source new engines and owners with no clear repair timelines, and it's especially dire for people who need their trucks for work.

More reporting on GM’s engine troubles, and the escalating supply crisis as customers with 2023’s and 2024’s need their engines replaced at the same time GM is trying to pump out the 2025’s.

www.thedrive.com/news/gms-bro...

If you see this, post a fictional band you would love to see live:

Lila Cheney (who sometimes plays with the stolen-from-real-life-Minneapolis-band Cats Laughing

If you see this, post a fictional band you would love to see live:

Lila Cheney (who sometimes plays with the stolen-from-real-life-Minneapolis-band Cats Laughing

ski instructor said the yeti turds I found are moose droppings. am I supposed to be comforted by the fact the yeti is riding a goddamn moose

“Outsouling” is a pretty good word.

Clueless

Illustration of the dark skinned little boy in red snow suit with a stick looking up at a snow covered tree about the poke it and drop some snow down on himself

The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962

Had to go check that this was actually true. (Also couldn’t believe that the CEO admitted that locking up products made people buy less stuff, but that also really happened)

An adult, a teenager, and a child in winter gear wearing cat masks in a pink building.

Went to the Art Shanties today. This is a cat shanty where you dress like a cat and knock things off shelves.

Commercial media basically gets no respect in the journalism-helper world for the obvious reasons we all know. But since the shit hit the fan in L.A. last week, 20th century media has been stomping it.

We cannot open a new social media account without sharing one of our favorite doodles. Someone over the past century drew this cat over three stars on Plate A00557, dated April 26, 1896.

#cats #historyofscience #astrophotography #librarycats #catsinhistory #spacecats

Sounds bad in the near term, sure, but smart investors will buy the dip bc people can only live without a set-of-3 Missoni-print tea kettle assortment for so long.

This is such a great feature. A palate cleanser from That Literary Investigation.

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article) She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

An NYT feature on Karen Wynn Fonstad, the mapmaker who drew atlases for Middle Earth, Pern, Krynn, The Land, the Forgotten Realms. A huge contribution to fantasy fiction www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

I’m pretty sure he’s not really a doctor