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COLOUR INTO FOCUS: QUEER + TRANS COLLAGE [Issue 4: Pleasure / Desire]

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We're thrilled to share that the fourth issue of COLOUR INTO FOCUS: QUEER + TRANS COLLAGE is now available for preorder at shop.nonmachinable.com! A collection of artwork & writing around the theme of PLEASURE/DESIRE, it features work from 31 artists & cover art from Chloe Luisa Piñero!

We romanticize Web 1.0 forums, but this is what most threads on most online forums were actually like:

Just giving the old guy who used to have my phone numbers land away

YOU CAN SEE YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

today I procrastinated by making a witch hat for my budgie

We have met the need for the family in my last skeet. Reminder: you can donate your miles to fly people home from ICE detention or to reunite separated families. WE PARTICULARLY NEED UNITED MILES. When we are reuniting families, we need BIG balances. Donate here: www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Miles to get people to safety

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Early voting pop-ups across Minneapolis before November 3! Look for one in your neighborhood!

Ms. K tweets@whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 4d ago

so many accountants for the accountant 🤝💙✊ vote zack filipovich for MN state auditor on or before Election Day tuesday, nov. 3! and if u live in minneapolis, check out these early voting popups! 👇👇

This is an incredible piece of writing

Dana El Kurd@danaelkurd.bsky.social · last wk.

Free access to my essay in Current History: online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

Continuing on the same topic as Modern Times closing... Minneapolis needs to ask itself what kind of city it wants to be. It is financially fucking impossible for non-rich people to open a restaurant or cafe or bar in the twin cities anymore. Do you want little restaurants? Vibrance? How badly?

Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social · 5d ago

#OnThisDay Oct 17 1988: City leaders eagerly celebrate the demolition of "Block E", a "skid row" strip in the center of Hennepin Ave. Afterward the diverse group of old buildings became a parking lot. 14 years later the grand development in the rendering was only partly, and very badly, realized.

vouching for this

Allegra Lockstadt (she/her)@alockstadt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Still fundraising for a single mum: 20, has 3 kids; mum is currently living out of her car w/ a cat. We squared away car payments, and now we're looking to get some support with getting meds. Amount needed: $125-150 If you are able to help, I appreciate it! Please use 💊❤️ in the memo. Thanks!

Still fundraising for a single mum: 20, has 3 kids; mum is currently living out of her car w/ a cat. We squared away car payments, and now we're looking to get some support with getting meds. Amount needed: $125-150 If you are able to help, I appreciate it! Please use 💊❤️ in the memo. Thanks!

Allegra Lockstadt | @AllegraLockstadt

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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"The only way for places like Modern Times to exist in the future is to actively challenge the reasons why it can no longer exist." It's so hard to see all these Twin Cities Institutions, cafes and places of respite, closing. It's heartbreaking. These cafes are revolutionary spaces.

Call me Debs (she/her) 🦋🍉🌹🏳️‍🌈🌘@kollontaiist.bsky.social · 5d ago

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Fuck fuck fuck...I've been going to this place for 15 years. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

Modern Times Cafe, which experimented with 'free' model during Metro Surge, will close

The south Minneapolis restaurant provided thousands of free meals to people in need, beginning in January, as a response to Operation Metro Surge.

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MODERN TIMES IS CLOSING?????? 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

following up on this! trying to call local branches and the national customer service line got me nowhere, but i submitted an email through the "Postal Facility" section of this page and heard back within a few hours from an employee at Lake Street Station in Minneapolis, both by phone and email.

allison / collage, zines, mail art@allisonanne.com · last wk.

being cautious as i don't want to falsely alarm or spread misinfo in the form of conjecture, but has anyone else noticed blue usps collection boxes being removed in the twin cities? multiple boxes i regularly use are gone, including the one in minneapolis i mail easily 100+ things from each month

wrestling with some challenging "useful and nothing else" feelings once again haha aah ok

NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social

Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

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Lost worlds of sex and magic: Vaughan Oliver's album sleeves for 4AD (Ben Beaumont-Thomas) A good album cover can be a map, a portal or a clue. Designer Vaughan Oliver created complex images that heightened music by the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and many more. www.theguardian.com/music/2019/d...

Lost worlds of sex and magic: Vaughan Oliver's album sleeves for 4AD

By collapsing history in on itself, designer Vaughan Oliver – who has died aged 62 – created complex images that heightened music by Pixies, Cocteau Twins and more

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found an article about me that appears to be totally scraped from my website and other interviews i've given, from a site that i've never visited and have had no contact with, presenting itself as something that i contributed to... and it's subsidized by an austrian paper company? what?

Suzanne Ciani - The Seventh Wave: Sailing Away [USA, Electronic] [1982] dreamy! https://redd.it/7bscux https://youtu.be/RpAolZ78U5A

Suzanne Ciani - The Seventh Wave: Sailing Away [USA, Electronic] [1982] dreamy!

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a big thank you to @misty.granades.com for asking me to do this interview! Misty and i have known one another online for quite some time now, and her blog, creative practice & projects are always so energizing and joyful! 💗💗💗

Misty Granade@misty.granades.com · last wk.

Interview with allison An ongoing series of interviews with folks talking about what their creative life is like. This month's interview is allison.

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Allegra Lockstadt (she/her)@alockstadt.bsky.social · last wk.

I am fundraising for a single mum: 20, has 3 kids (staying in different places) She is currently living out of her car w/ a friend (23, male, non romantic) and cat. She has a car payment of $400 due tomorrow to avoid repossession. If you can lend a hand I would appreciate it! (For memo use - ❤️🚗)

So great to have @allisonanne.com on the blog this week! They are such a delight to chat with and their interview is deeply meaningful to me. You can enjoy it here: misty.granades.com/2026/10/13/i... #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #WorkingArtist #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtistInterview

Interview with allison - Misty Granade

An ongoing series of interviews with folks talking about what their creative life is like. This month's interview is allison.

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so excited for this!! in my opinion, there is no better person to write this book than andi. such a long time in the making!

33 1/3 Books@3313books.bsky.social · last wk.

Publication day for Andi Harriman and The Cure's Disintegration is here! We've had a Cure-shaped hole in the series for a long time and we can't wait for you to read this one. Get your copy: https://geni.us/cures-disintegration

Confiscating the passport of the elected representative of the opposition territory in a raid with a flimsy pretext to attempt to strip them of citizenship is something we have words for when it happens in other countries

being cautious as i don't want to falsely alarm or spread misinfo in the form of conjecture, but has anyone else noticed blue usps collection boxes being removed in the twin cities? multiple boxes i regularly use are gone, including the one in minneapolis i mail easily 100+ things from each month

THERE ARE MORE OF THEM?

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · last wk.

Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze

#LocalAngle 🥧

Raihala: Meet the Minnesotan who coined the term ‘gay pride’ and tossed a pie in Anita Bryant’s face

After the Stonewall riots in 1969 sparked the gay liberation movement, Thom Higgins gave it a name.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · last wk.

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

Nice column from Ramla here. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

As a Somali-Minnesotan, I see how we can interrupt violence without allowing it to define a whole community

We can be tenacious in solving community problems without dehumanizing Somali young people or casting an entire community as a threat.

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