Drew Johnson

Dara's Guide to Handling Reality Minneapolis, inside the economic blockade zone where we are pioneering nonviolence, whistle edition

A pretty good write up of what it is like in the Twin Cities right now, particularly around school buses and dropoffs. PNW friends, I encourage you to read and share.

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The proper response in this case is, “Ope. Apparently "Ope" IS a thing in Ohio, I just live in a weird tiny pocket where no one uses it”

There are a lot of things I wish people from other states knew, and here's one: most of the churches here are VERY MUCH part of the resistance to the occupation.

I had a chance to see this performed at Sci Fi Reading Hour over at BLB. One of my recent favorites.

With much respect to the people who have posted "Parable of the Sower", I give you a different take on surviving disasters as a Minnesotan community: @naomikritzer.bsky.social's The Year Without Sunshine

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Oh, that is great!

I loved that book. When you took Schickele’s PDQ shtick and put it on paper, it seemed studied and reasoned and then you looked at it again and cracked up.

Bitches have no idea that Minnesotans are dressed in our most expensive clothing today. You know, WOOL.

It was pretty cold. In typical MN fashion, a lot of people were handing out chemical hand and foot warmers.

But we were all dressed for it. You don’t go to something like this and not have at least 3-4 layers on.

Being in it was something. It took us a little while to get started, but we could we see more people coming in as we waited for the parade to begin.

Look. It wasn’t that cold out.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

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I can see that; I LIKE the world that they’ve created for everyone to live in - I just like the characters they’ve created for it more.

This was bewildering to me. I understand that Jesse had a completed story arc and that starting Jesse’s powers back to zero would seem ham-fisted (seeing as it had a strong castlevania element to discovery), BUT.

A full story with Jesse at max power? And a reason to investigate? I’d buy that.

I absolutely cannot wait. Control was the last game I finished front to back where I gladly stayed up FAR TOO LATE and regretted none of it.

Broomgate: A Curling Scandal | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out. Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curl...

Technically the mid-2010s: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

YouTube video by World Curling Niklas Edin Greatest Curling Shot EVER!

For anyone who finds this: youtu.be/1iEnf3brmYs?...

This is absolutely insane. In the talk, I discussed how angular momentum is generally arrested in the last couple of feet as forward momentum fades.

Not in this case.

It was PACKED. You could hardly swing a broom.

Photo of a man giving a talk in a bar in front of a screen showing a curling player and the tile “What We’ll Cover”

Our second talk of the night is Drew about the sport of curling!

I didn’t talk about This Guy!

Sorry, Niklas Edin.

Maybe we will get there next time with a talk on the originator of the Super Spinner.

No expects the Elvish Trebuchition.

Consistent backups on the M621 has shifted the incursion to Milton Keynes. That’ll give the Elves basilisk’d cow-fodder for their trebuchets.

This. More than a few enby folks know buy there. Their cloth and off the rack selection is pretty great.

I mean, you should probably also see a doctor about that.

Cat has feelings. Watch for hairballs in your next Negroni.

Are you calling the cat a liar?

Cat wishes you had used aromatic bitters.

or blackstrap.

Ah, I see. Yes, assuming that motorists need do nothing but observe road rules is foolish.