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Lived here 25 years. Sent my kid to daycare at Cedar Riverside. I’ve never heard it called that once in my time here. Bunch of rabble-rousing idiots at that paper.

Would have guessed you would have gone with the Hell’s Kitchen cookbook, Mike!

Digital thermometer display showing outdoor temperature of -21.8 F for January 22, 2026

Today is the walk-out in MN. Last night the temps went below -22F (so cold our sensor went off-line last night). Everyone’s participating. Gotta love Minnesotans! For general news about MN there are lots of sources. I follow Naomi Kritzer’s feed @naomikritzer.bsky.social (great SF author!)

Of course, Emmer’s base is only the fraction of Minnesotans who feel the way he does. But he wants to believe that everyone feels the way he does. It’s the only way he can justify himself.

At this point Emmer has to repudiate everything going on in Minneapolis as outside agitators. If he doesn’t and admits that this is being done by Minnesotans then he admits that Minnesotans don’t feel the way he does. That directly attack attacks his legitimacy and makes him appear weak to his base

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

Does your novel require that the person be able to distinguish any individual bird, or just one or two from the main population? If the birds are well known to the person the second is likely to be relatively more straightforward than the former.

I am just saying, if scouting offered a badge in Creepy Effigy Avoidance, we could prevent a lot of these problems.

Cannot say this enough: Most of the people in charge in the US right now are bottom of the barrel dipshits with very low competency, utterly deluded worldviews, no sense of community, and no moral or ethical compass.

The look of someone who is contemplating putting a mouse down the back of your shorts

Funny, my backup plan for not getting tenure was to go into science writing. To that end I sold a couple of dozen natural history articles on lizards and turtles to various reptile hobby magazines at the time (20+ yrs ago now). Figured it would be an entry into the field. Ah, the path not taken...

Did you ever wonder what you would have done as a citizen in historical times of incredible cruelty: slavery, the holocaust, etc.?

You don't have to wonder anymore! You're doing it!

It is officially time for the Democratic Party to stop wasting money on their out of touch consultant class, and start paying for insights from Bluesky posters named "<--- kill me" and "Kicked In The Farm Parts"

Rampant uncontrolled cellular division

No Kings Minneapolis filled the streets downtown like i've never seen any other protest in Minneapolis. Here are some images. More being added to: chaddavis.photography/no-kings-min... #nokingsminneapolis

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

'No Kings' protests to be held in 69 Minnesota cities this weekend An estimated 2,500 rallies will take place nationwide on Saturday.

Minnesota nice

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The thing that end-stage capitalism most resembles at this point is tumor biology. And I speak as a biology PhD with 40 years’ experience. I could write a book on the similarities.

Starlet Wars

Meh Start

Second grade: Rocket Ship Galileo, which was okay, but was immediately followed by Have Space Suit Will Travel, and I was then truly and utterly hooked on SF

Yep, I miscounted. My bad!

There’s 20 there - should be 21 (14 + 7) based on the sale…. DID YOU ALREADY DRINK A CASE?!?!

Mine derives from the Latin for the Solomon Island Prehensile-tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata). We kept a trio for many years. Live-bearing, herbivorous, large, amiable and thoroughly awesome. I wrote an article on their mating behavior for a popular press hero magazine 25 years ago.

One of the cool things about having the @scalzifamily.foundation is that it makes it easy to do local "improvement of life" stuff like this. We also paid off school lunch debt in town, donate to local libraries and museums and generally try to make where we live a little bit nicer all around.

Loved that cover! I am also admiring your clock. We have a very similar one with slightly different fretwork around the top. Ours is an Ansonia and I suspect yours must be also. Unfortunately, the frosting on the glass of ours has been partially rubbed off.

My brain always wants to break out ACAB as Assigned Cop At Birth…

Incidentally, the phenomena of cat memes and cat pictures on the Internet came up in conversation with friends yesterday. I mentioned your CatNet books and stories. Everyone liked the idea!

A few years ago, I reread both the Penric series and the two subsequent books with an eye to continuity and historical events. I don’t think there’s anything in the either set that would prevent such a time flip.

Yes, that was my thought also. Of course that wouldn’t get us an extra book!