Mr Minneapolis

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

I am not the Canadian government so I hesitate to speak in absolutes, but you are likely a lost Canadian and can get citizenship and a passport under C-3. Sorry if you have heard this before. If you would like pointers on where to look to get paperwork help, lmk and I will get you links.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Oh, dear.

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices.

drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...

it is worth your time to listen to this if you are, like all of us, having a bad time rn

Tracy Chapman Live at Cabaret Metro 1988-05-07 : Tracy Chapman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Tracy ChapmanCabaret MetroChicago, ILMay 7, 1988** 24 BIT **Master recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio ArchiveSource: Unknown mic &...

Tracy Chapman Live at Cabaret Metro 1988-05-07 https://archive.org/details/ajc02870_tracy-chapman-1988-05-07

Easy. Do it, Minneapolitans.

if a portable AC says don’t plug anything else into the outlet does that mean don’t plug anything else into the outlet above the outlet that the AC is plugged in to, or just like, don’t plug the AC into a power strip

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Person, Place, Thing by Marissa Lingen Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Hey guess what! My friend @marissalingen.bsky.social wrote another good story! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26/

Flights of Foundry Wants a New Platform! Help Flights of Foundry move from Webex to a platform designed for virtual events

This is an invaluable resource. If you have some extra duckets/Martian Credits/GlyphTokens, consider sending some to help @dreamfoundry.bsky.social

givebutter.com/FoFnewplatform

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.