This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)

Reminder that we're still doing this. The feds are extrajudicially disappearing people to indefinite detention and countries they've never been to. This was the 150th "ICE Air" flight of the year at MSP on Friday. Nearly 5000 people have been taken this way. Prosecute and abolish DHS.

SEE! WE DID NOT, IN FACT, NEED THE NAZI TATTOO GUY. SO MANY INFURIATING TERMINALLY ONLINE LITTLE PUNDIT MEN WERE WROOOOOONG

Alex Pretti memorial with "I voted" stickers, including mine.

Ramsey County folks, please join me in writing in for the Sheriff race: "NO MASS SURVEILLANCE" — as Sheriff Fletcher, who is running unopposed for reelection, is on record as supporting fixed ALPR camera systems like Flock.

The only political text message I need from you is your position on mass surveillance. If it's anything longer than "no" you don't get my vote.

City of Saint Paul Public Works crew putting up some protection from falling stone over the Bruce Vento Trail under the 7th St Improvement Arches, aka the Swede Hollow tunnel. Trail should reopen at the end of November. (Photos from the city FB page.)

Your homework for today is to watch two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes: "The Inner Light" (S05E25) and "Lessons" (S06E19). If you've already seen them, this scene from "Lessons" will mean something to you RIP Patrick Stewart 🖖

Picards Flute Duet

This is from Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6 episode 19 http://www.thewhistleshop.com/innerlight/innerlig.htm Picard's flute theme + piano duet. Enjoy

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The inevitable "free service goes down the tubes" story Well, since you're now going to be switching anyway — fastmail.com is still serving up inexpensive, reliable email (since 1999). I've used them for a few years now, and am quite happy to pay them $4/month for the service.

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

Minnesota is magnificent. Even when it rains, our capital city* looks like this. *- it's actually a suburb

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Oh yes 🍂🎃

The closest I’ve come to death in Minneapolis was a right-on-red driver turning into me on the two-way at Stinson & East Hennepin. My bike hit her front quarter-panel and I barrel-rolled over her windshield. I was lucky with only a concussion. This directive can’t be acted upon fast enough.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 2w ago

Today the Minneapolis City Council's Climate & Infrastructure Committee will be discussing the city's 2-way bikeways and conflicts with right turning vehicles at signalized intersections. Most of these intersections don't have signage prohibiting a right turn through a red light.

Post boats

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3w ago

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Just started this book and I can already say 2 things: - everyone should read it. - the future is analog. It must be. Make that 3 things: - however bad you think surveillance is, it's been way worse for years. And it's all about taking your rights to increase their profit.

We cannot depend on these social media platforms to organize. Use them when you can but we need to have many contingencies.

Do you have personal "bike weather" criteria? So how many days are they met in your location?

My encounters with the legal system have educated me. Folks who stay on the good side of the cops have to make an effort to learn that a cop can decide to punish you with their discretionary power to just … put you in the system. Otherwise it can be quite a rude awokening.

maureen@maureenf.bsky.social · 3w ago

people are horrendously removed from the reality of what you face when you are arrested and or prosecuted.

Indigo from @anilineapps.bsky.social is the kind of cool app that grows when interoperability is seeded (bluesky/mastodon fusion app). Otherwise, you're just stuck with whatever stupid/malicious UX is served to you in the closed platform.

Since you can’t talk to a person, I asked the Meta AI business assistant if the new terms coming into effect on Oct 30 apply to professional creator accounts: Yes Then I asked if Meta would use the content on my blog and the music on my website to train its AI: Yes

This week Doug Ford is removing the bike lanes on Bloor. The difference is now there's hundreds of protesters. Despite pretending to be mayor of Toronto and ignoring Ontario, it's a much bigger fight. Look at how many people came out. That's a lot more than 2 of us!

Hundreds showed up tonight at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis for a rally to support Rep. Ilhan Omar after her DC home was searched by federal agents this morning. The Department of Justice says it was "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation".

Selective prosecution of our elected representatives will only make us angry. You don’t want to see us when we’re angry.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

savecarsharemn.org (Reposted via @isaacinmpls.bsky.social -- needed alt text and a link, because ya know, internet)

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 4w ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.