Me: Lines up 45 minutes early for a 12:30 p.m. showing at a movie theater that doesnโt assign seats.
Also me: What the hell are all of these other people doing in line? Donโt they have JOBS?
@ederc.bsky.social
Formerly @startribune.com, where I wrote the Essential Minnesota newsletter. One-time journalism instructor.
Me: Lines up 45 minutes early for a 12:30 p.m. showing at a movie theater that doesnโt assign seats.
Also me: What the hell are all of these other people doing in line? Donโt they have JOBS?
My listening age is my own damn business, you nosy ragamuffins!
03.12.2025 22:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is the pizza Christmas lore. My family made turkey every year for christmas until my mom realized we all snacked all day and werenโt hungry and weโd be eating leftover turkey for a week. We tried various other things: ham, Cornish game hens. And then one year everyone was disgustingly sick and
25.11.2025 01:34 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So weโre just running around calling robes cardigans now? Words mean things!
23.11.2025 02:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just this week I talked with the Voices of Roosevelt staff advisor about how much I liked a story they did where they laid out what PPS will do in the case that ICE is near a school.
And here we are...
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
04.10.2025 01:13 โ ๐ 8200 ๐ 3811 ๐ฌ 265 ๐ 454Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
27.08.2025 17:30 โ ๐ 10283 ๐ 6835 ๐ฌ 85 ๐ 69Susan Du continues to be the coolest fucking person Iโve ever met
27.08.2025 03:39 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My commute nightmares in the Twin Cities rarely had anything to do with construction and more to do with buttheads who would either park or drive in the bike lane!
05.08.2025 20:43 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Almost 640,000 people in Minnesota speak a language other than English at home. The state demographer says Minnesotaโs unique immigrant populations have fostered more linguistic diversity than in many states.
04.08.2025 20:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
31.07.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 8909 ๐ 2082 ๐ฌ 54 ๐ 306When people ask why I left Minnesota, Iโm gonna have to tell โem itโs a Highlander situation and that there can only ever be one Eder in the state.
30.07.2025 22:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A rarity in the industry - A regional paper opening up a new D.C. Correspondent position (Let me know if anyone's interested!):
seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/oVo010...
Lawyer Dilan Esper writing about how amazing the Bollea v. Gawker case was for him while insisting no harm done to the 1st Amendment. I can't say that much about our mediation strategy (it's shrouded in lawyer-client privilege and work product) but I have seen Nick Denton make accusations about it, and they are false. We were willing to settle; Gawker needed to offer a lot more than they did though. In other words, Peter Thiel was not my client and he was not directing the litigation behind the scenes. We were actually litigating the case exactly the same way we would have had Bollea been personally paying his bills. Thiel may have had his reasons for getting Gawker (and to be clear, he apparently paid the bills for several cases that were brought by us and others against Gawker), but the strategy doesn't work without a viable case. Gawker hung itself with its conduct towards Bollea. The bottom line is I take a great deal of professional pride in what we did. Precisely because we actually didn't ruin the First Amendment. No outlet is prevented from doing real journalism as a result of the Bollea v. Gawker case. We simply enforced a long existing norm. And drew a line in an era of "anything goes" content on the Internet. This was Hulk Hogan's legacy, and in a very real way, it is mine as well.
I had to spend two and a half years fighting a frivolous lawsuit that was a direct result of Bollea v. Gawker. And that lawsuit massively decreased our capability to do what we do, so I take issue with one of Hulk Hogan's lawyers claiming that Bollea v. Gawker had no impact on journalism
27.07.2025 22:04 โ ๐ 3977 ๐ 757 ๐ฌ 40 ๐ 43Youโre laughing? Two very rich grown adults cheated on their spouses in public and got busted the exact same way regular dumbasses cheating on their spouses in public have gotten busted and youโre laughing?
19.07.2025 15:49 โ ๐ 80 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0Hi, Iโm an Oregonian and I just drove up I-5 from Corvallis to Portland but I only used the left lane to pass ama
19.07.2025 02:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A cartoonish T-Rex doll (Rex from Toy Story) stands next to a realistic one from the Jurassic Park movies
Dude, OMSI rules
17.07.2025 04:36 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The cool thing about watching the Lynx instead of the home run derby is that not only was it a very fun game to watch, but it was completely Pat McAfee-free!
15.07.2025 02:47 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The federal government narrative around ICE protests in Portland is much like it was in 2020, describing the demonstrations as chaotic and violent.
Court records filed by government prosecutors don't fully back up that story.
Yโall, I just wanted to take part in the discourse. I did not know I was punching myself a one-way ticket to hell
10.07.2025 21:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
10.07.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 3507 ๐ 771 ๐ฌ 90 ๐ 174I was at Fred Meyer the other day and they had a Grillfather shirt stylized to look like the Godfather logo but I thought it said Trillfather at first and thought Trillblazin had finally made it to brick and mortars then was disappointed to realize they werenโt
09.07.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I've never been the biggest Superman fan, but James Gunn's take on the character feels like one of the best examples of how good superhero movies can be
08.07.2025 19:27 โ ๐ 172 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4I am officially a โtwo water bottles on the bicycle frameโ guy and, yes, I plan to be 7% more obnoxious about the fact that I bike and no I will not be taking further questions
08.07.2025 01:57 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Public shaming works!
07.07.2025 20:57 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is also the expedition that made me realize that I'll never wait more than twenty minutes to get seated at a bougie Portland brunch spot but I will definitely drive an hour or more into Yamhill County to hunt down a Mexican restaurant I've heard about third-hand
07.07.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's been two whole days and I'm still thinking about what might be the best grilled chicken burrito I've ever eaten
07.07.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If you want to hear how @joniaudenland.bsky.social pulled together this stunning investigation, check out this week's episode of the Evergreen!
07.07.2025 18:23 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0