Can’t stop won’t stop (tomato edition).

I think this is the fastest anyone has ever won my unconditional loyalty. It’s official: I would run through a brick wall for Cheryl Reeve.

LOS LYNX 4-EVER 💚💙

Minneapolis summer brings ever so many butterflies and tomatoes.

Ran into a former coworker I last saw in 2012, and she marveled that I look exactly the same as then.😹 (Not entirely accurate, but also, sunscreen. The secret is sunscreen.)

take your loaf of bread and put your shackles on 🥖⛓️

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery.bsky.social · 6d ago

french patrol to jean valjean french patrol to jean valjean take your loaf of bread and put your shackles on (two) french patrol to jean valjean (four, six, zero, one) his sentence ends, parole’s begun (two, four, six, zero) said the bishop “and may god’s love be with you” (one, run off)

A data center is a terrible use of land in a walkable neighborhood right on the Mississippi River. Guess I’m calling our placeholder on the city council. 😡

Joe Laha@joelaha.bsky.social · 6d ago

I live near the old Strib building and was briefly hopeful they would do something cool with the space. 🤦‍♂️ Money quote: "Real estate in the trendy North Loop neighborhood is in high demand, and opportunities for large developments are rare." www.startribune.com/data-center-...

Going on MPR Morning Edition tomorrow morning to talk about the recent cyberattacks on Minnesota water treatment plants and what the public needs to know. It will be streamed as well as on the radio if you want to listen!

Public visibility in the world shouldn't mean your image is turned into non-consensual sexualized content by random jerks. Kudos to Minnesota for standing up for everyone who has given a recorded conference talk or made a public statement at a city council meeting! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity

Minnesota’s anti-nudification law is supposed to take effect on Saturday. It is being challenged in federal court by a company led by Elon Musk.

mprnews.org

That exciting moment when you realize you already came to the conclusions in a @naomikritzer.bsky.social election post. I credit Naomi for showing us how she evaluates candidates and their community involvement.💕

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Primary Elections 2026: Minneapolis School Board At-Large naomikritzer.com/2026/07/26/p...

Yes, and also Christiana Hendricks in Mad Men.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

and it’s not even close

I'm raising funds to help @lookitup.baby replace their beloved ebike after it was stolen from their garage this week. Please share and donate if you're able! Ian has done so much for our neighbors. This is a great way to support them. gofund.me/e86771edc 🚲 ❤️

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

My brand new ebike got stolen by somebody breaking into my garage and I’m beside myself. I’m not sure my insurance will cover it and I can’t afford to replace it and I’m just so sad

Sure, I focused more on Linux containers than video codecs when I worked at DramaFever (lo these many years ago), but still it's super exciting to see my Microsoft colleagues open sourcing a neural-network-based video codec. Nifty! aka.ms/mlvclaunch

Announcing the Open-Source Release of ML Video Codec (MLVC) | Microsoft Community Hub

  Video codecs compress video for transmission or storage, reducing bandwidth and storage requirements. MLVC is a modern machine-learning-based codec...

aka.ms

Hey Twin Cities, keep an eye out for Ian's bike!

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

If you see a purple Velotric Breeze with a matching purple basket, a rainbow bell and chain, and black mirrors on the handlebars, it’s mine

Seanan speaks truth in this whole thread. 🍓🍅💕

Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2w ago

Feed kids. Feed teens. Feed people who don't actually have the power and flexibility being assumed for them by someone who looked at a number on a page and said "household income too high."

Hey Minnesota, get your sample ballot for the primary on August 11 at myballotmn.sos.mn.gov and then go read the brilliant commentary by @naomikritzer.bsky.social at naomikritzer.com. (She's covered almost all the races on my ballot already!)

If you're trying to decide if seeing The Odyssey in a theater is right for you, I found runpee.com and www.earpeace.com helpful. (The movie was still too long and only a technical Bechdel pass due to a brief conversation between Penelope and a servant, but I'm now wanting an AU with Penelope/Helen.)

Minnesota, where of course there is ice skating in July (even if it’s far too hot outside). ⛸️❄️

Air quality in Minneapolis right now is “just try not to breathe until further notice”. Stay inside and avoid activity tomorrow if you’re in the path of this smoke.

Quite proud of this.

David Justice@david.justice.dev · 3w ago

🚀 Azure Front Door edge actions is live in public preview powered by Hyperlight, the isolation engine my team builds! Every customer's code runs in its own Hyperlight VM. Secure, programmable compute at the global edge. So proud! 🛡️🔥 #Azure #Hyperlight techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurene...

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

Summer garden in Minnesota, where the bees are happy and the tomato plants are now taller than the humans (as @joelaha.bsky.social illustrates).

We keep us safe. 💗

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 4w ago

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

Just got off the phone with Mitch McConnell. We spoke for about 20 minutes. We discussed how the murder weapons in so many of Hercule Poirot’s cases are either cyanide or strychnine, and how weird it is that everyone recognizes a random Belgian in the 1930s before social media.

My dudes, if you can understand SYN-ACK, you can understand consent

I think one of the most patriotic things you can do is hate this government and still love America

When you are watching TV in your household, do you pause it frequently to discuss geopolitics and history? This question brought to you by The Rockford Files and a zillion Wikipedia rabbit holes (most recently: Guatemala politics of the 1970s).

Happy 250th birthday, America!🇺🇸 @joelaha.bsky.social made a strawberry-rhubarb pie in celebration.(Wisconsin strawberries from a crop share, and Minnesota rhubarb from our enormous rhubarb bush.)

I love my country of Minnesota

Minnesota forever.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

I'd be interested in some thoughts from Americans on here on an idea: Over the last 5 years, have you found yourself identifying more with your home state than the US as a whole over time?