Mr Minneapolis

No, and neither is being desperate. Sure does mean it’s easier for people to take advantage of you, though.

I don’t know what focus means on your planet, but that’s not what it means here.

The way that Harris smiled during one of her speeches when she said that her goal was for the US to have the armed forces capable of killing the most people was terrifying.

At the same time, we need to recognize that the whole system is set up to lure economically vulnerable people into enlistment and trap them there.

These are hard-won lessons of previous iterations of anti-war movement.

Protest the recruiters, not the already-recruited.

Hugh Thompson Jr. took magnificent actions against unjust military acts, and it wrecked his life for decades. (Restored to honor, far too late.)

Do you think that’s how they sell the military in high schools and recruiters offices? Or do you think they just mention the money for college.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Please Keep In Cool Spot.

Yes, this.

Just went and watched tha video. Makes me think of aha and Queensryche, a combination that I would have bet a quarter wouldn’t work.

I mean. You’d think so.

I donated $100 to a rental fund for south high families.

I had money sitting around at paypal.

Just got a message from South High saying “We currently have requests totaling $33,965 for rent and we have $7500 available tomorrow. Please try to share the gofundme widely! Thanks”

Well, that simply will not do. I'll match the first $900. Please help my fellow South High families if you can! 🖤🧡🖤

Time to Fight: H.R. 7661 Call To Action

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.

Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Thank you for doing this.

Not yet!

I say “I never knew that about giraffes!” frequently.

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

I’m so sorry.

Strep? In 2019, razor blade throat made me think strep immediately.

How much of the failure to predict weather more than 5 minutes out can be laid at the feet of Trump dismantling NOAA do you suppose, and how much is due to climate change making it impossible to tell WTF is going to happen?

Or am I just ignorant?

#climatecatastrophe

How many steps?

But also, big emotions are exhausting.

Once again, this is what makes me so nervous for our neighbors in low density suburbs and rural areas.

The lightning speed response time in Minneapolis has been possible both because of our Signal network but *also* because of the population density in the city.

We need ICE out everywhere.

2/2

How did you have nine bottles of Malort to start with? Were you bad?

A few months ago I read an article that said that people who had applied were still waiting months later for the money. I would not do it if it involves giving the feds any current information about you or where you are.

if you want to know how to help folks in minneapolis, this is it.

donate if you’re able, share regardless.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

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