Hygge If True
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Lefty Minneapolitan into firmware, video games, nerd cons, and being kind.
When we say "defund the police" what we mean is "they literally scam-overtime bankrupted this city."
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
What national night out taught me is that moving out of Kingfield was a mistake.
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
There's something to like in every genre and people who disagree have bad taste.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
translation: "we are in no way able to go to trial on any of these and we know it and we desparately hope the people we are tormenting will settle for a conviction regardless just so this can end"
MPR News@mprnews.org · 5d agoFederal prosecutors offered plea agreements to most defendants charged after an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church. The deals would reduce felony conspiracy charges to misdemeanors.
idk if I'm ever gonna get used to our federal govt having open contempt for the state I live in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
The tabs vs spaces debate in programming. I hate that it is even an issue when the answer is "as long as the team picks one consistently, it doesn't matter at all".
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 7d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (I have regrets as a more mature person, this movie is racist af)
Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson: Lost in Translation
ALT: Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson: Lost in Translation
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Hilary Lovelace@hilove.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
No more becoming the Joker, it's played out. It's time to become sweeties. It's time to deal with our traumas and be cutie pies.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
Ray Radlein@radlein.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
I am at the rally right now and I heard this with my own ears. Had to double-check with two other people that I heard this correctly because this is the craziest thing I have yet heard in this primary.
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2w agominnesota state senator john hoffman revealed tonight at the peggy flanagan rally in st. paul that angie craig asked him for his endorsement for US senate while he was still in the ICU after vance boelter shot him really appalling anecdote!
if i express what i am truly feeling it will be a ToS violation & likely get me on another watchlist
Aliveness Project says it's losing $450K a year in HIV prevention funding as CDC ends community grant program
The CDC will not renew a federal grant that provided the Aliveness Project roughly $450,000 a year for HIV testing, PrEP referrals and community outreach across Minnesota.
cbsnews.com
People keep talking about how we need to bring shame back. Maybe it’s another classic glass half empty or half full thing. But I want to bring integrity back.
Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 2w agoGuess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?
Hey friends: Another Black man was murdered by police today. It is, of course, on video. We've all seen lots of Black death and we do not need to traumatize our networks. If you are going to share it, please do so responsibly - behind links, with warnings.
Who says Classics Majors aren't equipped for today's socio-political landscape?
Gingerspiced@gingerspiced.bsky.social · 3w agoPete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Does this come in a trente size?
𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷@jastuart68.bsky.social · 3w agoWatching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
To save their storied wooden canoes from wildfires, an Ely YMCA camp sunk them in a lake
To save their storied wooden canoes, an Ely YMCA camp sunk them in a lake
Nearly all of Camp Widjiwagan’s legendary fleet of wood canvas canoes is safe, with 19 of them cached underwater in an ancient practice.
startribune.com