Drew Nelson

Queue up “My Way” and pour some Mich Golden Light onto a tile floor for a legend.

To quote Bob Fletcher, “can you care about us before we’re dead?”

John drove up one day, saw the tuba player on Grand, cried and lamented the fall of American democracy, and then drove to Woodbury to get his meatloaf.

::taps the sign::

ShotSpotter: still racist, still ineffective, still expensive.

www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

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Speaking of tech bro nonsense, remember when a bunch of NFT dorks bought Jodorowski’s Dune storyboards, started hyping up all the projects they were going to make, and only then realized they just bought a (very cool) book and owned zero rights?

I think about that a lot.

Still giving us viruses all these years later.

This campaign will just be a greatest hits album of the shittiest positions taken in ‘23 by MPLS and StP Council candidates.

This apartment, built on an empty lot in St. Paul, was originally going to have 91 homes and 88 parking spots.

It was ultimately built with 114 homes and 82 parking spots.

The difference? St. Paul's City Council ended parking minimums, enabling more places for people to live.

An East-coast transplant friend discovered “whippin shitties” today. He asked about other ridiculous slang. If you overhear a bald New Englander saying “pop that buster” while staring at your twist-top grainbelt, roll with it. I couldn’t help myself.

My wife continues to demolish me in our annual ornament gift.

Elon

The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the ci...

My short story that came out last week in Uncanny was partly inspired by discussions of how most people in a crisis want to form a community with their neighbors, not turn on them.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Election 2023: Saint Paul City Council, Ward 3 At the suggestion of my husband, I'm going to skip wards 2, 4, and 6 (all of which have incumbents -- they all have opponents, but none of them are likely to unseat them regardless of what I think) fo...

Elections 2023: Saint Paul City Council, Ward 3

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This group is working in StP too, Ward 3 especially.

I’m like 1 day into Bluesky and my feed is so fucking wholesome I don’t know what to do.