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My attitude toward scaffolding on historic buildings changed when I heard what the head of Cologne cathedral said when asked if the cathedral w/o scaffolding was a pipe dream. Answer: “It’s not pipe dream, it’s a nightmare, it would mean we no longer care about preserving it.”

Scaffolding = love ❤️🏛️

She says this after wanting to disenfranchise students as being not really Ward 2 residents? I guess we know who she considers her constituents.

Come to the City of Lakes Art Fair to learn about the history of US ballot design at the Minneapolis Elections booth

I lived in Merriam Park and Cathedral Hill and St Anthony Park, all of which were really pleasant walking areas with parks, groceries, shops, restaurants, liquor stores at hand. I only reluctantly moved to Mpls when I got married. SAP and CH both also have classical music to walk to occasionally.

Tomorrow I'm braving the mean streets of Uptown to work at an art fair. Let me know if you have good safety tips. Especially since I'm taking the bus all the way down Lake St.

He's not even a professor.

It's been so much fun judging debate this semester. Even though teams arguing in favor of legalizing sports betting in Minnesota have a tough row to hoe.

Women always need three or four hands. Keep recording.

Um, when I was graduating in 1984, people with blue hair were the elderly ladies. And many had piercings (ears).

I think I'm the last generation when "blue hair" meant elderly.

I find it so delightful that my favorite local celebrity has a clock radio. I wish I still did.

And the faculty of this university are given 10 days in the middle of the semester to make their individual webpages developed over decades "accessible." Without being given any real tools to do so.

YouTube video by University of Minnesota What Will Remain: The Future We’re Building Together

The University of Minnesota released this drivel as its new strategic plan. youtu.be/59Ra5Qnpa5Y?...

Best photo I have of the table behind the couch. My neighbor recycles piano wood. The table in front of the couch is also piano wood with new legs attached.

Someone has never read Frederick Douglass

It, and the contents, are beautiful.

Trump is proud of supporting the COVID vaccine, even if he's the only one in his circle who is.

By Phillip C. Parrish LCDR, USN (Ret.) | Candidate for Governor of Minnesota, 2026 October 10, 2025 Fellow Minnesotans, Patriots, and Guardians of the Ballot Box, In a twist that even the most jaded election watcher couldn’t script, Phil Burress—a battle-hardened Ohio Republican, former election official, and lifelong crusader against everything from porn to political corruption—has quietly acquired Dominion Voting Systems. That’s right: the same Dominion that’s been at the epicenter of 2020’s wild conspiracy storms, now under the thumb of a GOP stalwart who’s vowing to dismantle its electronic empire and usher in an era of good old-fashioned paper ballots. Burress sealed the deal back in March through a low-profile shell company, but his mission is crystal clear: electronic machines are a “security nightmare,” ripe for hacks, glitches, and vanishing votes. His fix? Nationwide hand-marked paper ballots, audited by hand, with tech taking a backseat to transparency. This isn’t just Ohio drama—it’s a seismic shift for American elections, and it lands like a thunderclap in Minnesota, where our own voting systems are a tinderbox of vulnerabilities I’ve been exposing for months. As your Candidate for Governor in 2026—a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander with two decades in counterterrorism, a farmer who’s tilled this soil, and a teacher who’s shaped young minds—I’ve made election integrity my North Star. From bloated voter rolls to foreign software risks, we’ve got a recipe for fraud that’s not just cooking; it’s boiling over. Burress’s bold move validates every warning I’ve issued, and it spotlights why we must act now to protect our votes before the 2026 midterms turn into another rigged spectacle.

The Dominion Bombshell: From Conspiracy Target to Paper Ballot Pioneer Burress, 82 and unapologetically conservative, isn’t some Silicon Valley suit peddling more machines. He’s the guy who founded Citizens for Community Values in the ‘80s, fought obscenity laws tooth and nail, and served as a Hamilton County election board member. Buying Dominion? It’s personal. “These machines are too easy to tamper with,” he’s said, echoing audits that cleared Dominion of 2020 fraud claims but couldn’t erase the distrust sown by Fox News’s $787 million settlement or OAN’s similar smackdown. No more QR codes scanned by strangers, no more “assist terminals” that sparked fresh glitches in recent cycles—like the ones flipping straight-party votes or “losing” ballots mid-count. Burress’s vision aligns with a growing chorus: Elon Musk’s X rants demanding “paper only” because “code can be rigged from anywhere.” States like Georgia are already tabling bills for hand-marked ballots, citing the irrefutable audit trail paper provides—proven in recounts where Dominion’s own trails held up, but only because paper backups existed. In a world of surging ransomware (up 300+ incidents in healthcare and government this year alone, per CISA), electronic systems are sitting ducks. Burress gets it: Ink on paper means no Venezuelan whispers, no CCP hardware scares, no “coincidental” shutdowns like the Interlock gang’s July 2025 hit on St. Paul that leaked 43 GB of city data and activated the National Guard. It’s analog democracy in a digital warzone—simple, secure, and sovereign.

This is bizarre even by Phil Parrish standards. He's published his take on Dominion Voting Systems' recent acquisition. It hallucinates the identity of the man behind the new company, blends one aspect of the real guy into the hallucinated one, and throws in a dubious "quote." 🧵

I would have done this if I saw it before I built an island out of pipe and old piano wood.

Remember when the Clinton administration set off a firestorm for firing seven White House travel office employees?

Teen admits reeling in carjack victim, shooting him multiple times in Minneapolis alley The 17-year-old and a girl used a dating app to lure the man to the scene, according to prosecutors.

I hate to blame a victim here, but what is an adult man doing meeting a 15-year-old and her friends and driving around with them? Glad they got the shooter but jeez.

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He stuck to the working class pretty tightly!

Happily the students didn't subject themselves to asking about that!

Kevin was getting applause yesterday at the North High mayoral forum.

The students asked good questions, which I skeeted about earlier. The answers weren't as interesting. Short's answer to everything was security guards. She also wanted to stop school shootings by having busses where the driver could lock everyone in if a shooter got onboard?

The one at North was organized by the social studies class.

Unasked question from a student: How can our city do better at mitigating the harms of construction that sometimes lasts for years?

Last question: How do you plan on being accountable and transparent?

Q for Frey: what do you say to people who think you are a bad mayor who can't work with the City Council?