I have no desire to hold public office & am entirely unelectable besides. my recreational habits in 1986 alone disqualify me. but I'm running for president anyway & my entire platform is "when you need your health care provider, you get a live operator every time." I will win in a landslide

Line go up! I heartily recommend a Racket subscription.

Racket@racketmn.com · 15h ago

Wanna know almost every single detail about how our little media operation performed and operated over the past 12 months? The annual overshare report is here!

My bouquets for National Night Out! According to my last initial I‘m supposed to bring a dessert but 🤷‍♀️

How it’s going in America: the handwarmers I bought to escort school children while our city was occupied by the government have been recalled for killing someone; Amazon isn’t offering refunds; the manufacturer‘s refund process is sufficiently onerous to discourage people from filing 🫠

OCOOPA Direct Recalls 1.5 Million Rechargeable Hand Warmers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards; One Death Reported; Imported by Shenzhen Street Cat Technology

Consumers should stop using the recalled hand warmers immediately and contact OCOOPA Direct for a full refund in the form of an OCOOPA gift card or the original form of payment. Consumers will be aske...

cpsc.gov

My husband had a guy come over to repair the bubble hockey table and now the two of them are just playing bubble hockey

wasn’t planning on voting early but going to rage vote for Peggy because fuck this noise

A pet metric I track for websites I administer is non-Google organic traffic. People are fed up and searching elsewhere.

Sean Brodrick@seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Google (GOOGL) Free Cash Flow goes negative for the first time in history. They’re spending too much on data centers, and search revenues came in below expectations

Ian helped so many of us connect during the ICE occupation and needs a hand now!

Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · 2w ago

Let's go! gofund.me/e86771edc

Someone stuck 3 Anders Folk signs and 1 Ron Latz sign in our yard but did not steal our Dumalag sign so could be worse I guess

[Taking out one ear bud] What'd you say? Hold on just a second. I'm listening to the Emerson Health podcast. My hospital's podcast yeah. For my health journey.

My therapist suggested EMDR 🤷‍♀️

frankenstein friday@frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

has anyone else figured out how to metabolize the knowledge that a few months ago there were fairly good odds any one of us would be murdered in our pajama pants because it is kicking my ass

Now that I’ve had 2 sessions of a pottery wheel class I looked up the Ghost scene and that is some bullshit. He casually ruins her really tall pot (asshole) and then they do it???? Do you know how long it takes to clean up a pottery wheel?!

I know that most of our digital tools are controlled by awful billionaires and it's almost impossible for us to divest ourselves of all of them. But I think that X and Substack are so horribly toxic that everyone should avoid them as much as possible.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

If you want to help families impacted by the Helix fire in St. Louis Park you can donate to STEP! www.stepslp.org/donatefunds

Lotta people joined the ol’ salad squad rather involuntarily

odyssey this, odyssey that. some of you fellas odda see a dang therapist

I have some plums at home and I feel like I can eat those, right? I feel like if the problem were plums we would have nailed that down by now.

Dahlia Thread 2026! I’m going to post the first cuts of each of my varieties as they come. This is Linda’s Baby and she is a fab opener of the season 😍. I have 33 varieties this year so stay tuned!

My brother does… something with lab equipment? for bull semen? I would shatter a beaker of their hardiest stock and be escorted from the premises.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

Outstanding news, extremely my shit

This is fucking gross

A look inside Allina’s new $1 billion hospital tower

The health system overhauled its flagship hospital, adding autonomous robots and AI-ready patient rooms.

startribune.com

Uh oh I washed a quilt my grandma made for me in the 80s and then looked at it too hard when I put it out to dry and now I’m crying

For like a decade now when I’ve asked a young designer to do a pull quote I’ve had to explain what I’m talking about. They’re talented designers but long form print is not a thing they’ve been exposed to.

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · last mo.

IMO one of the very small ways that society has gotten worse over the years is the decline in the graphic design of corporate and governmental reports

And speaking of Culver’s, when will they bring back the Curderburger; I’m feeling PROFLIGATE

Watched this movie with the fam recently and I couldn't resist observing, "Oh hmm there is one woman in this movie and her role is 'girlfriend,'" and my husband responded, "That's not true; some of the hostages are women."

Vulture@vulture.com · last mo.

‘The Rock’ is on HBO Max this month — along with several other films you don’t want to miss. Here are the best movies to stream on the platform right now.

Tom Emmer at a town hall in 2016. I vividly remember this episode of This American Life because I was grateful for his willingness to stand up to blatantly racist constituents. When his obituary is written I hope they say what a craven empty suit he was.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

Checking out the ice cream options near Dad’s place… Cherry Berry is going through something

"Mom. I have something really important I need to show you. Search up 'rubber fried chicken Statue of Liberty.'"

It was brief but amazing.

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I simply cannot believe that Widow's Bay brought Jeff Hiller into the cast only to have him barely do anything. There has to be a payoff. I realize the season is running out but I have to believe they will unleash him at some point. Don't keep a power hitter on the bench.