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A photo of the new Hennepin Avenue S bikeway.

A photo of the new University Avenue SE bikeway.

A photo of the new 24th Street E bikeway.

A photo of the new 1st Avenue S bikeway.

New bikeways that have opened (or are very close to opening) in Minneapolis this year:

- Hennepin Avenue S
- University Avenue SE
- 24th Street E
- 1st Avenue S

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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

YOU'RE DOING REALLY WELL GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES!

KEEP IT UP Y’all!!!

Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include:
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen

I am SO excited about this! The @mplscargobikelibrary.com pilot program has been SO successful.

In 6 months we:
-trained 80 members, who collectively rode over 4,000 miles
-doubled our locations (1 to 2)
-quadrupled our fleet (3 to 12 bikes)
-brought on several volunteers
-got a grant for 2026!

12 Local Groups Receive Grants for Climate Action Twelve local organizations will receive a total of $370,000 from the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund.

Thanks to a generous grant from the @mplsfoundation.bsky.social we're excited to announce that we will be DOUBLING the number of @mplscargobikelibrary.com locations in 2026!

www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/clim...

Minneapolis Mayor Frey Pledged to End Homelessness. He Failed, and He's Apparently All Out of Ideas. - Racket Some leaders incorrectly believe sweeping away encampments solves the underlying problems.

Gift link: @hsilsbee.bsky.social and @elitalksmpls.bsky.social get political in @racketmn.com! Come for their thoughts, stay for an illustration of the problem from the Solcana fitness owner.

Picture it: you live in Minneapolis and are enjoying a postcard-perfect fall day riding on our network of over 100 miles of trails and curb-protected bikeways.

This is something to send to anyone on the fence or in any way part of the “he isn’t that bad” camp. Fernando has clearly *had it*.

Energy Charge Below is a breakdown of the energy charge per kilowatt hour (kWh). Note: Energy charge is measured per kWh June through September: $0.13 October through May: $0.11 October through May with electric space heating: $0.06

If you've installed a heat pump (or have electric baseboard heat or similar) in Xcel's territory in Minnesota, make sure you're on the residential space heating rate - it's more than 40% cheaper than the normal wintertime residential rate.

www.mncee.org/mn-puc-appro...

Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care - Racket Removing barriers to bodily autonomy, one prop plane flight at a time.

more and more people are coming to minnesota for reproductive or gender-affirming care. i talked to some of the pilots who can help 'em get here.

I’m calmer when I can travel at walking/biking speeds and take in my surroundings… like this pretty yellow canopy of leaves.

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Opinion | What Is OpenAI’s Sora Slop App For, Exactly? Trying to find purpose in an endless scroll of A.I.-generated videos.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective truth. It is a jackhammer that demolishes the barrier between the real and the unreal,” Bobbie Johnson writes.

light rail train over the Kenilworth Channel

departing W Lake Street Station

At W 21st Street Station

Exiting the tunnel

More from today's initial light rail vehicle roll down the Southwest LRT route. Construction began in 2018 and Metro Transit says passengers will ride in 2027. Over the Kenilworth Channel, leaving W Lake St Station, arriving at W 21st St Station, exiting the Kenilworth tunnel.

Our winter hibernation starts Oct 31 (not bc you can’t ride bikes in winter, just bc we don’t want to take on winter maintenance/repairs this first year & need to work on grant applications!).

Members: Get your requests in soon if you want to borrow a bike before we close up!

🚲 ❤️

Everybody who has ever spent time in downtown Minneapolis has needed skyway.run. Dang

Apply this language to higher levels of government in this country and see how it sounds: "the executive is having his allies push to change the constitution so that he can hire whoever he wants to lead vital executive departments, with no confirmation vote from the legislative branch."

What I dislike about articles like this is that it keeps pushing the narrative that Phee is doing this because she's trying to force some agenda about Unrivaled as a "competitor."

Unrivaled is as much a "competitor" to the WNBA as FIBA World Cup is to the NBA. It's an OFFSEASON league.

minneapolis - my ebike has been stolen out of a secured room in my apartment building's basement. White Lectric XP3 with project 529 shield FCPPSTN on the top of the frame. please keep an eye out for me

All Wrong - by Garbage Greek

Botober 2025, Art prompts created by a tiny and cursed language model 1. noodle juice 2. Pinetanabous Mold 3. crock up 4. crushed cold water 5. heated baking rings 6. sozerfrapple 7. Behold onion. 8. ground mayonnaise 9. small sweet pipes 10. 1/4 can cool soup 11. catsian spinach 12. lemuffir 13. pickled cubiwery 14. Lightly spather 15. bear spice 16. 1 medium clothed bell 17. drained bread crusts 18. baking stalks 19. grated pan 20. 1 smorbs 21. cucumteragus 22. Spoonfur Pie 23. rub the bog 24. Leanwhile 25. 6 slices soup 26. pepper towels 27. 1 cup sliced dish 28. 1 teaspoon flup 29. small calling cheese 30. add blender. Shell. 31. Orenge Gelatin Hourse

Literally one person in the world asked for this: #botober art prompts!

Generated by a tiny neural net, not running on a huge datacenter but on a single laptop, and not trained on the wealth of the internet but on 800 reader-submitted vintage jello recipes.
www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-jello/

Do you think I can park here or?

Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.

She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky

Napheesa Collier continued in her statement, saying Cathy Engelbert told Colllier "only losers complain about the refs."

"We go to battle every day to protect a shield for a league that doesn't value us."

#WNBA

Racket's Sept-Member Fall Membership Drive: Get Your First Month for $1! - Racket Heckuva deal for new members.

FINAL DAY.

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
FINAL

✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.

Transparency Is the WNBA's Biggest Officiating Issue - Zone Coverage Cheryl Reeve didn’t mince words after the Minnesota Lynx’s 84-76 Game 3 loss to the Phoenix Mercury. “One of the best players in the league shot zero free

zonecoverage.com/2025/lynx/tr...

The Guardians clinch a playoff spot with a walkoff hit by pitch