One of those "I bet there's a story behind this" moments: local lavender farm expressly prohibits boudoir or nude photo shoots.
Amanda C 🥄
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Bureaucromancer. I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her.
There was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12
How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities
There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North Ameri…
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Didn’t Carville already flounce a few months ago? Did he leave but not LEAVE-leave, and this time it’s for serious real?
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3d agoJames Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Running about 5 hours late on the westbound Amtrak Empire Builder. The dining car can’t make hot food and there’s no observation car. However, any irritation I have melts away since I’m traveling with a 10 year old who is having the absolute time of his life just BEING on a long-haul train.
Holy shit holy shit holy shit This is huge!! They did it!!! They fucking did it!
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d agoEndometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
If the Oates be Hall, sailor's good call If the Oates be Joyce Carol, sailors in peril
Having a change of scenery in my remote work job is a massive mental and emotional boost. Heartbreaking & infuriating that all but two UMN libraries are closed to the public, and Wilson's appointment request form is only on the "public access" page linked to in the banner.
Sara@saralovesyou.bsky.social · 6d agoI’ve been needing to visit the library at UMN, but apparently the public is not allowed inside other than appointments? This is not how things used to work. Does anyone know if this is adhering to policy and/or statute?
things are kinda dour today, so let’s get a singalong going! repeat after me: KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQA
Today in ridiculous slop: I wasn't sure how to pronounce "Havre," a town in Montana. Found for "how to say" videos that... each said Havre differently with computer-generated voices. Finally got the answer from an old local newspaper article.
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
<record scratch> “Yep, that’s me. I bet you’re wondering how I wound up here.”
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.Caption contest
Based on the past few days, I’m planning for the Amtrak trip to have a delay between two hours and five hours.
Amanda C 🥄@amandaesque.bsky.social · 2w agoLong-haul @amtrak.com trip coming up so I've of course started doing the very normal thing of looking at causes of delays along the route and tracking current trains. AND BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE CURIOUS: most delays due to reduced speed (wind/fire risk) & freight priority (which causes MORE delays)
@startribune.com if you haven’t already, you should be running this story on the front page. There is a direct link between DOGE cuts and the BWCA fires. Every Minnesotan needs to understand this. www.adn.com/nation-world...
‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze
Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.
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Scully: Victim was strangled. Mulder: Scully, hear me out. What if through some quirk of evolution, demon spiders from the future built a murderous human suit powered by ghost crystals? Scully: Mulder, that's absurd. CUT TO: INT. DEMON SPIDER CRYSTAL WORKSHOP. NIGHT.
Folks need to understand this. Defend trans lives.
Kat Rohn@rohnkat.bsky.social · 2w agoAnti-trans ballot measures aren't just a tool to pass bad policy; they're about testing the willingness of voters to buy into a bigger and more dangerous agenda and a cynical dodge from the bad polling this administration and its friends are facing. Let's draw the line here and now.
Travel tip: the "Bring This Basket" 🧺 A few weeks before a trip, I set a laundry basket out. Any flash of "I need to remember to bring this!" or "Oooh this would be fun/nice to bring" - it goes in the basket. When I pack, the necessities are right there, and I can decide on any "nice to have"s.
Long-haul @amtrak.com trip coming up so I've of course started doing the very normal thing of looking at causes of delays along the route and tracking current trains. AND BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE CURIOUS: most delays due to reduced speed (wind/fire risk) & freight priority (which causes MORE delays)
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w agoThe wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If you haven’t been paying attention, then you haven’t been paying attention.
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 2w agoWho is the “If you … then you haven't been paying attention” format of skeet for?
To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder
Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w agoGross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.
zomg a Mamdani-hosted World’s Fair would be both an incredible boost AND ALSO another chance to dunk on Robert Moses.
Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 2w agoThe amount of joy the World Cup brought Americans seems like a great argument for reviving the World’s Fair. Technically it’s still going, but it’s a shadow of itself. The next one is going to be in Belgrade & the one after that is in Riyadh. We should kick off a new series starting in New York.
How are we collecting these “Really Happening or ‘30 Rock’ Bit?” moments?
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
Hi, vernacular architectural historian here! So what’s happened here is basically yeah that’s a gate to hell
Dave Gilbert@wadjeteyegames.com · 2w agoFound this gate in York. It had a standard lock, plus a padlock and a chain holding it shut. It was very very securely closed. The only thing on the other side is a blank wall. The only conclusion I can make is that this is a magic portal to hell.
I don't know that I can read this whole thing yet, but they severely misjudged Minnesotans in the idea that use of force would make Minnesotans less likely to be in the streets/helping people. This mode of operating got average, comfortable Minnesotans involved.
daviss@daviss.org · 2w ago"You’ve got 3,000 law enforcement agents that are fixin’ to lock this city down,” We’re going to pacify this place, we’re going to roll ‘em up." "They’re going to kill someone else,” a prosecutor on the call said later. Others agreed." removepaywalls.com/5/https://ww...
Don't threaten me with a good time.
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w agoTexas Republicans doing recruitment for us.
