Katarina Hit 🐀 she/her

lmao maybe! their handle indicated they live elsewhere so my guess is they just think all MN = northern MN.

cornfields and Trump flags - listen, that's southern MN. i admit i haven't driven as much through truly northern MN outside of Duluth, but central MN (and central/slightly northern WI) have been declining in Trump flags since 2020 and more importantly that's just not where the cornfields are!!

i decided not to wade into discourse on the skeets of people i do not know but i will be thinking all day about the person who said northern MN is "all cornfields." BUDDY, i do not believe you were in the northern part of the state!!

oh i got an ad for this with a peter dinklage/sandra oh clip, but i did not know daphne rubin-vega is also in it!

i listened to serena terry’s “secret life of an uncool mom” bc i like her mammy banter skits. at first i was not sure i liked it for anything more than the derry accent but it did make me cry and overall i think it was enjoyable in like a beach read category, best experienced on audiobook for sure.

ohhhhh okay just a move! interesting. i’m not over here as much as i used to be 😅

the Roseville Hobby Lobby closed?! i’ll take the small wins 🥳🥳 good riddance (and how long has there been a Marshall’s next to it?? i don’t need anything, i need to go home and clean, but that is tempting!)

i’m LIVING for the algorithms that have decided i like French and Francophone people and franglais. i have no idea how it got started but i’m happy we’re here. j’suis heureuse que nous sommes ici!!

someday i’ll get sick of playing brandi’s new album on repeat but today is not that day

COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. "When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."

Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.

Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.

Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

i did not think being married to a woman would involve so many adam sandler quotes

it’s not new but it’s always so aggravating when i have literally stepped off the curb so there can be no doubt i am trying to cross and so many cars don’t even try to stop

i have a running vest that lights me up like a christmas tree and not only did many cars not stop for me edging into a crosswalk the first asshole SPED UP. not even stayed constant because he was too close to stop (he might have been) but made little engine rev noises as if blowing a raspberry

a lot of these reveal the failure to understand AI doesn’t know anything, it *puts together word patterns based on the patterns it’s been taught.* a surprise racism is probably because of training materials, not that you missed a dog whistle in your writing (ouch for the one about child abuse 😢)

there’s a link to the fanfic on AO3, with fic carefully curated by authors who only have a story (or 2) for 831. one brave soul whose portfolio otherwise includes tags like nonconsensual drug use, cannibalism, and body horror, has invaded with essentially a shitpost story. ketonebodies is my hero.

*think it’s one of if not the most important thing to study

when i first saw the vance clip earlier it was a quote skeet that called it out as nazi rhetoric and i said oh yup that checks out, of course it does, but i didn’t expect something this…banal? this pop cultural? i put animal stickers on envelopes to my niece and nephew. this is…wow i hate history*

Masking helps stop disabled people like me dying, being excluded from society, and avoids passing on this kind of preventable illness. But if that’s not worth the tradeoff for you, consider protecting yourself. Just think about if you really need your face uncovered while sat silently on a train

I get why a lot of non-disabled people want to pretend respiratory illnesses don’t exist, but as we’re coming up on another event I can’t safely attend, I encourage you to just THINK about wearing a mask at events - or at least on the train/ plane there, where there’s probably no reason not to

Haven’t done anything for Mpls in awhile so I don’t know the answer but do contractors doing business with them feel that same way? Or do they understand it won’t matter at all? 🤨

Working on a pursuit right now with a municipal client in another state. The project would use federal funds so we’re limited in how we can talk about equity, but we KNOW this city still values diverse businesses and they will prefer a project team that includes minority-owned firms.

on top of that, in engineering I see a lot of firms that are women-owned as a gloss - white male run, led, and dominated, but a guy’s wife “owns” the company. (Not something that’s been noticeable to me when working with MBE firms). Stats that go beyond ownership would be very helpful.

The city needs to do better because this is just going to get worse with the discriminatory changes being made to federal procurement. 7% to BIPOC- and women-owned is absurd, most contracting goals are larger than that so either the city is behind the curve or it’s too lax with exemptions…

my emotional support tetra

these emails are so garbled?? such powerful people to have never discovered a complete sentence

“Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...”

A photo of Jason with community members at the mural grand opening

A photo of the artists at the mural grand opening

a photo of Jason at the mural opening

a photo of the mural at the opening

I’m so happy that the murals at the Hiawatha Lake Underpass have been completed. This project was a partnership with the city, Minnesota Department of Transportation, community organizations, and neighbors. This brings so much life to our beautiful East Lake Street corridor. 1/

i told my hairdresser i wanted to try something shorter and then i said “go for it” when she thought the front bit was a little too full/heavy and now i have a swoop that doesn’t fit behind my ear. whoops

my mom still jokes about the time I read mosquito in a Little House book and asked her “what’s a moskweeto” so i think same…