kjell
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brain rot - but the good, permaculture-y kind. Soft moss, lichen and mycoremediation (mushroom emoji) taking hold of a decomposing society might mean a better future. Mpls for 33 years, NE MN for now bsky platform skeptic. 🐘 https://leanside.org/@kjell
This weekend I heard about a Spring '25 college grad with an undergrad degree in Electrical Engineering who couldn't find a job for a year, and when they finally did this month… It was managing construction of a data center to further destroy the employment prospects of newly-graduated EEs
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT
A group of bikers rolling down the Midtown Greenway in the early days of summer. IMO it’s impossible to overstate how important the greenway is to Minneapolis, we’re so lucky to have it. June 2026
same. but with sheila or kate in 2021, pre-KAT's betrayal/trade
Luke Mielke@juke-box85.bsky.social · 2mo agoTimberwolves would have gone all the way this year if Omar Fateh was Mayor, just saying.
Anyone interested in the (laudable!) work MPRB is doing to begin this reconciliation process may also want to read up on MBRP & MnDOT plowing a highway through the same, well-known sacred site in the 1990s www.friendsofcoldwater.org/hwy55/hwy55.... web.archive.org/web/20080707...
friends of coldwater
Coldwater is a 10,000-year-old spring, a sacred site and traditional gathering place for Native American tribes of the upper Mississippi.
friendsofcoldwater.org
Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4@jason4parks.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m happy to announce the MPRB has been able to post this non-confidential version of the archaeological literature review done by 106 Group. We have been eager to have this information made public, and greatly appreciate staff efforts to make this happen. www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/u...
Don't worry, Jacbx Frucks is thinking very hard about self-driving cars
Evan Roberts@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 2mo agoPrediction: having closed the 24th St bridge some of the homeless people will move down to the Sabo bridge, which is an even more important link (I'll be happy to be wrong, and there's no easy answers to this problem)
This illustrates why I'll never respect my state's hegemonic newspaper. Let's all keep yelling at jacub fray and amy K… But don't forget that they're just clowns and it's our media running the circus. One of the ringleaders is this paper's owner, an oligarch and former republican state senator
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn Monday, June 1, 2026, the Minnesota Star Tribune introduced Jim Schultz—who vowed to “go on offense” against abortion rights as prospective AG and who may or may not be considering a future run for office—as their newest contributing columnist
they do this in europe and it's called an "optoppen" (dutch, meaning just what it sounds like) www.optoppen.org builtbn.org/solutions/op... (And sorry, but no way am I giving bsky my HTML5 canvas image data for fingerprinting purposes. Maybe someday they'll a real website with an actual backend)
babski@babski.bsky.social · 2mo agoyou may not like it but this is what peak ADU looks like
Here's why we all learn to use uBlock Origin* in a non-Chrome browser with javascript denylist-ed by default for ALL SITES *a browser plugin with powerful + configurable browsing safety and content filtering rules (aka an adblocker, but also way more capable)
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2mo agoThis is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
who wants their wife and young children around when he's busy committing "sexual misconduct" with at least "three female subordinates" (quotes from Liz Sawyer & Deena Winter's "Investigations and new evidence…" 2026-05-27 article, intentionally not linked)
Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 2mo agoI hope the next police chief will be able to bring their young family to Minneapolis instead of leaving them behind in New Jersey for 4 years.
"The Dinosaurs" was one of my favorite show as a toddler. I remember my parents clicking it on for me before I could work the remote. I loved the dinosaur family and their antics. As an adult when I re-watched it I had the same "wow" reaction
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3mo agooh my god
I'm on this train. Park your vehicle in the bike lane? You're taking the bus for 6 months, bozo. The problem is the US doesn't have a workable society without car addiction. If Jane Shmane from Godfuck Virginia loses the ability to drive it leads to lost work/income and the poor kids have to starve
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3mo agoI have an even hotter one, which is that it should be more common for people to get their licenses straight up taken away from them. In edge cases, people who want the license back can retake driver's ed in a year or so.
it's worth noting how instantly and viscerally I clock which bike lanes feature in this series of photos. Shows how each micro-stress from dodging parked cars/trucks in a "protected" lane compounds over time. Here's a bike infra safety map I made forever ago: observablehq.com/@kjell/rende...
Minneapolis Bikeway Map
Below is a map of the bike infrastructure in the City of Minneapolis, graded by how "protected" each instance is. The color code is spelled out below. TODO / Ideas ☐ improve first load experience - ~1...
observablehq.com
Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · 3mo agoIf it fits, I sits… because there’s clearly nowhere else to park on this block (like the many spots across the street or in the alley).
now if we can just make these baseline human values instead of enmeshing them in thousands of years of internecine religious conflict… <slips on banana peel>
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.
This definitely shouldn't be a golf course, but it is a generational opportunity to make "golf course to public sex forest" happen. We all know the U's gonna hand it over to Ryan & Co for chump change and rehash the ford plant debacle
Bill Lindeke@blindeke.bsky.social · 3mo agoInstead of signing a petition, these aggrieved golfers should fundraise $60 million dollars, and then whatever endowment would be required to subsidize it for years. www.startribune.com/umn-bolstad-...
Many birds are migrating now, to help stop bird window strikes keep lights out 11pm to 6am and make windows bird safe flap.org
Billions of square meters and even more feet to be renovated in the next years vs. 8 participants?
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 4mo agoTransforming our skyline with… straw? From cozy detached homes, factory-to-residential, historic city blocks, straw proves to be the heavyweight champion of low-carbon retrofitting. Deep dive into my journey as a teacher, builder, inhabitant of a straw-wrapped home: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
table stakes (⬅︎ pun) for a livable neighborhood
Evan Roberts@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn the year 2026 it would be lovely if Minnesota cities could do tabled intersections on new bike paths.
Sip Coffee, Build for Change@sipgoodcoffee.bsky.social · 5mo agoExactly this. Can anyone name a US mayor, city council, or county board that has staked out such ambitious plans?: —60k social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's bike network —ring highway ➡️ blvd —1k pedestrian streets —300 hectares of parks (List from @yonahfreemark.com)
I've been waiting for this to come about since I was about Calvin's age reading these gd comics
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat's right
this is what I daydream about. Plus bike/walking paths. State and county highways also trade existing unsafe ROW for modes higher up the mobility pyramid, separated pedestrian paths, renewable energy, and green/blue infrastructure. De-congestion fees on remaining vehicle miles pay for infra upgrades
Aunt Fancy@auntiefancy.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’ll add my questionable idea for implementing a nationwide high speed rail system is that we should just cut every interstate in half and use that existing right of way for trains. It’s already there and it already cuts through cities, let’s use it for something better.
This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.
I’m still an optimist about the future and possibilities for humanity but if anything was going to turn me into a complete nihilist, it would be America’s COVID response.
Get in, we're killing the fossil fuel industry and de-funding fascism
@solardavegreen.bsky.social · 6mo ago2019: Me: gas car Brother 1: gas car Sister 1: gas car Brother 2: gas car Sister 2: gas car Sister-in-law: gas car Nephew: gas car 2026: Me: used EV Brother 1: used EV Sister 1: used EV Brother 2: used EV Sister 2: used EV Sister-in-law: used EV Nephew: used EV Less talk. More action.
I nominate @climatetown.bsky.social to collaborate on the video w/ @techconnectify.bsky.social and @michaelburchert.bsky.social
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 6mo agoHave you ever seen a well-prepared video on straw construction on YT or similar platforms? One that covers climate relief, health benefits, and the absurd fossil fuel policies and legislation that hinder this technology?
I was gonna make this. But tr**p as Lucy and hooman is the football
acabylon bee@acabylonbee.bsky.social · 6mo ago
