Tinman contre la caste

When you invite your neighbours over for a wintertide potluck…

Antique photo of three young people with bicycles. The two women on the left are wearing dresses and are standing with their bikes, and on the right is a boy, wearing a hat, posing astride his bike. They're outdoors, in a country setting.

Willa Cather (center) was a writer known for her stories of life on the Great Plains.

The others in the photo are identified as Mary Miner and Douglass Cather, circa 1895.

#BicycleBirthday Willa Cather
December 7 (1873-1947)

The “horse” is in the inner pocket of her coat, along with a spoon and matches. How the photographer knew about that is what the real question should be.

Quite a feeling getting that frantic text while decorating the tree and O Holy Night plays on Pandora…

Did he provide this list and evidence that they were involved in the drug tr… oh, no wait…DUE PROCESS IS A FUCKING THING AND EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS ARE ILLEGAL IRREGARDLESS OF WHETHER THERE IS A “LIST!!” I CANT FUCKING BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS!!!

A significant amount of the narrowing of the falls was not natural, but human intervention, to build the footbridge over the falls. Something I learned from Karen E. Cooper’s 2022 book, When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey.

i don't want to win a unifying 70-30.

i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.

The entire @taikoarts Midwest show today was amazing. The more unexpected part was a two-part dance involving a character in a mask and a person in an ornate lion-mask and shroud. The lion's moves uncannily catlike and funny. Like when cats lift a back leg and lick it in an awkward position? Yeah.

Never voting for that asshat. Hey DNC, there's still plenty of time to find a decent Presidential candidate.

i don't want a unifying Dem who promises to return to good government.

i want an angel of death who promises the government the reconstruction amendments promise.

Watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and, uh, Julia Roberts looked very similar. 😂😂😂

Hahahaha. I was right! 😂😂

This Taiko drumming recital is literally beating the bad energy out of me! @taikoarts Midwest

In my experience, it’s better to befriend the crows in one’s own neighborhood, and who stash snacks in ones raingutters, covering them with leaves and coming back for them later. There’s a pair that have been doing that right outside the windows of my home office.

I’d like to report an attempted murder

Literally one of the serious considerations when we were buying a house.

Minnetonka Police Squadcar parked on the sidewalk in front of Hopkins High School, *directly* over the stencil on sidewalk in bright yellow letters reading “NO PARKING FIRE LANE

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Would be truly stupendous if @chuckprophet.bsky.social made a surprise cameo for this!

Perfect! (I’ll be right over!)

Can you boil some off?

Talking with my parents is a frustrating but useful reminder that political machinations at the national level remain more intellectual exercise than real-life concern for even well-intentioned people. Especially if they still see the national media as a reliable and impartial journalistic resource.

The only Royalty I support.

First image that popped into my head upon seeing that FIFA Piece Prise. Also interesting to note that this 2017 cartoon, attribution for which is unknown to me, now seems to have been nearly completely erased from the Internet. This is just a crop of the original.

Photo of three men: One in a long cloak, and the other two with bicycles. Writing on the photo indicates it was taken in north China on October 18, 1892.

Americans Thomas Allen Jr. and William Sachtleben were possibly the first foreigners to bring bicycles to China: “On entering a Chinese city, we always made it a rule to run rapidly through until we came to an inn, and then lock up our wheels before the crowd could collect.”

One only has to look as far as the county "transit and transportation investment plan" to see that transit is being significantly de-prioritized. And anything with the word "roadway" is claimed as "transit" - I'm sure because "Well, buses use roadways too!" Ortega is well past his expiration date.

Back when we could still run, that was our favorite 10k loop.

Did he chastise Met Council for how long the project took and how disruptive it was to his city? Because I’ve seen him do that multiple times in public settings.

Mon dieu.

The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!

Yes! And imagine if the City would play hardball like that with the NIMBYs.