Blessed first soup of the season day to all who celebrate. I went with Minestrone
Tony (Soft on Crime)
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I think I wanna buy a freezer so I can make a ton of stock and just have them ready to hand all Fall through Spring
In which I disprove the complainers. Beautiful, useful short cranks do exist in approachable price points! thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/s...
Short Cranks Exist
Several of the cycling media channels I follow have an interest in short cranks, either because they have short legs or because shorter cranks can prevent recurring injury. It seems as if many peop…
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The newer colloquialism amongst the youths (or at least my daughter) "on god" seems like the next iteration of "by Jove" now that I think about it
Also, the MIT Essential Knowledge book on School Choice, while bending over backward not to take a stance on the various options, is still like "actually comparing like students with like students, public schools normally beat private and many charter schools in student achievement"
Tony (Soft on Crime)@adalehunt.bsky.social · 5d agoPublic schools are universalist programs for all children in the city. Charter & private schools are by nature organized against such a program. It's why the right goes to bat so hard for assorted "choice" models. Libs supporting such policies are no less reactionary
Public schools are universalist programs for all children in the city. Charter & private schools are by nature organized against such a program. It's why the right goes to bat so hard for assorted "choice" models. Libs supporting such policies are no less reactionary
New post up describing the resto-mod I did to an old Robin Hood 3 speed to become my son's bike thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/a...
A Robin Hood Resto-Mod
I have found it to be the case that when you’re a known “bike guy” random bikes will find their way to you. So it was roughly 8 years ago when a former coworker of mine was trying…
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Even with the sun it never got hot today. Fall is here, brethren, and I made stock all day so I can make shepherds pie tomorrow
The metaphysician’s method is “the description of natural mysteries by the criticism of analogies” - Farrer
Going to Portland Maine in a couple weeks. Anyone have any particular recommendations for activities and restaurants?
Fuck ICE
Nate Pentz@natepentz.bsky.social · last wk."City leaders have estimated the operation delivered a $700 million blow to the local economy. Some businesses already have shuttered and cultural corridors are quieter now that Latino immigrants have left the Twin Cities in droves." www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...
I know I might be reading too much into a lead single, but the new M83 track has me feeling a sort of way youtu.be/e_S6qJ6E-8Y?...
M83 - 'Blister Sunrise' (Official Audio)
YouTube video by M83
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New post up. I've long wanted to republish some Smyth, one of the most curious of the figures I've studied. One of the only truly Marxist synthesizers of the Christian Socialists. Dude was making apologies for Russian political violence in the late-40s adalehunt.substack.com/p/more-odd-t...
20 years old! What a stunner this record is grizzlybearbrooklyn.bandcamp.com/album/yellow...
Yellow House, by Grizzly Bear
10 track album
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Christian music DJ at a roller rink
SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
The recent improvements to 10th Ave SE include a subtle but notable new feature I hope the City continues: Whereas in the past they just stuck a series of flexible delineators on curbs like this, here they went with hard-installed metal poles
Listening to the Decemberists “Hazards of Love” and it’s a great occasion to be reminded of how powerful Shara Nova’s (My Brightest Diamond) voice is
I dunno, I feel like transit advocates ourselves should be critical of the Green Line extension if we want to see more and better transit built
Does anyone in Mpls still make a Pain de mie? Boy do I miss Rustica in its heyday
“Consciousness has no private life” - Merleau-Ponty I’m feeling a congruence between M-P and my boy Wittgenstein on this read through
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 3w agoThe polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
So the State Fairgrounds markedly increased the size of the Como bike lot this year. It’s still not big enough.
What was the cause of the period where raw spinach came to replace nearly every other green in so many contexts? Sandwiches and salads in particular
I've been reading and annotating Tanner's "Christ the Key" but the pdf is from a shared drive from a friend, who got like 30 notifications in his email of all my notes. Poor guy
I work at a corporate HQ and I've noticed a few more men wearing outfits. Very few wear shorts here, and biz casual is the norm, sort of. But generally it's a mirror of the social trend toward the relentlessly casual. Maybe it's a Midwestern acceptation to the trend?
NPR@npr.org · 3w agoMen in the tech industry are covering up their legs, even as their counterparts in finance are increasingly open to showing them off. n.pr/4gwejIY
Ok #criticalrole is back but first thing’s first: Matt’s new haircut is amazing
You know you have had real time being poor if you feel like new underwear is a special purchase for which you should feel slightly guilty
I knew that if I pulled up blueskee I'd see an outpouring of Dolly love, and I was not disappointed