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The awesome and terrible and inspiringe power of the ymaginacioun of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She doth put a brilliant nightmare ynto a storye yn 1816, and more than two hundred yeares later her creature ys still speakinge to the worlde.

I think it’s nice that the Minnesota Twins don’t often subject me to the stress of deep playoff baseball. I think that’s very kind and respectful, and a wonderful way to center the wellbeing of their fans

The inside of the sweater body, with a patched spot in the middle.

The front of the sweater, showing some slight texture difference that has been patched.

And here are the places where my wretched orange cat groomed/ate through it and I mended it.

A colorwork sweater cut halfway up the front and posed with steel scissors.

The steeked part of the sweater is turned back to show the inside of the colorwork and the messy yarn weaving.

The steeked sweater with several zippers laid across it. From left to right: navy, forest green, petrol blue (perfect, too short), off-white, black, light aqua.

I steeked the #MandelbrotCardigan! I could make button bands, but I think I want a zipper. There's one that's an excellent color, but not long enough. What do you think?

A dining table with dozens of plastic snack bags that have red 3D printed whistles in them. A flyer about how to use the whistle sits next to them.

I have 50 very obnoxious whistles tied to lanyards and put in individual baggies in a tote bag for the protest tomorrow. I have another 30 that I will distribute other ways.

I think a lot about ACT UP. The brilliance of that organization was that anyone could work on any action they wanted. If you didn't agree with that action or didn't want to be part of it, you didn't work on it. You put your energy where you thought it was useful. Everyone just trying shit.

I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit.

"Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

A brown chihuahua regards the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

A protester holds a sign of the inflatable frog over her own face at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

2 inflatable penguins at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

Two inflatable dinosaurs at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

A pre-protest protest in tiny Cloquet, Minnesota had 50 sign-wavers tonight. They’re expecting 400 tomorrow! #NoKings

Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

This. Also, I’ve been good. Give me the sequel Conclave: Opus 2 Dei, Gone Tomorrow

"I think we are going to pursue a lawsuit, to claim our rights as clergy and religious to be able to minister to anyone in these facilities," he said. "We're going to continue to push back in any way that we can peacefully to fight for what is right."

im a proud peter freuchen stan. explorer, bullshitter, saved people from the nazis, ethnographer, giant with a pegleg

The Midtown Greenway is closed for 3 weeks & @minneapolismn.gov set up this very unsafe detour.

It converts a 1 way bikeway on a 2 lane 1 way street to a 2 way for bikes.

The highway exit ramp here is the *most* unsafe spot. Watch how many drivers illegally turn right on red arrow (100%).

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My general thesis is that many of the things people complain about when they compare things to medieval is actually about the 17th and 18th centuries.

It's a red-letter day here in the neighborhood!

- the tree fairies (city arborists) planted 3 new trees on our lot. 3 Eastern Red Cedar and 1 Blue Beech

- Xcel Energy is clearing our alley's power lines before winter

Damn. That is some "sit down, sixth-graders, it is time to pay attention" ass language from the judge.

State Police Led Broadview Protesters Into Street, Then Attacked Them, Demonstrators Say Protesters have said state and local police officers have attacked them and tried to stifle their attempts to speak and protest freely outside the Broadview ICE facility.

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.”

This is 100% an accurate description of how this started.

Broadview PD mishandled the situation from the start, then unleashed ISP to beat the protesters they’d led into the street.

A lot of the big innovations in software in the last 15 years (microservices, API contracts, cloud, SaaS) are for building out big software very quickly in parallel and should be judged on those merits, not on performance or complexity.

Adam Zimman on stage during his talk with Brian Scott about Adobe’s use of Progressive Delivery techniques for rollout and adoption of AI technologies. Adam is wearing a dark blue shirt with gold writing that reads, “Please slow down I’m from the 1900s” Or, the transitive from Ferris Bueller said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Got some pics from talks at #ETLS

@itrevolution.com this one made my day 😂

Judge: whoever comes in, they must be able to answer my questions. If they can’t answer my questions on Monday, we will come back Tuesday with a different person

DOJ: I don’t know for sure that whoever we bring will have knowledge of EVERYTHING

Judge: this is why we prep witnesses, counselor

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind' U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wants the ICE official to explain "why I am seeing images of tear gas … and reading reports that there were no warnings given." A Trump lawyer says the reports are inacc...

Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind'

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even here in our precarious state, I anticipate seeing hundreds, maybe thousands, of senior citizens and suburban moms thronging the commons tomorrow outside US Bank Stadium for the No Kings rally — just like the rally at the Capitol this summer

just a lot of wholesome, earnest citizen engagement

"Looted" is about the Mona Lisa, and has the line
"Looted and brought to the Louvre"

which I persistently hear as "Looted and brought to Duluth".

Which is a hilarious image. What kind of loot would be appropriate for Duluth? Pig iron. Shipwrecks.

High-tech Texas farming company closes doors, cuts over 100 jobs The grower pulled the plug on its greenhouses.

How many times do I have to tell you that we are not going to solve any food crises by growing bougie lettuce indoors.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way. Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto- Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen. Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic? Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all. Extremely realistic Green: Of course. Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion. Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag? Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

YouTube video by The Proclaimers The Proclaimers : Angry Cyclist

My jukebox oracle song of the day is Angry Cyclist, by The Proclaimers.

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Exactly. I think "AI" is such an ambiguous descriptor that it's very "lady/vase". That's why self-reporting is going to be more useful if we can compare it to actual usage stats.