Okay everyone, my dad had an issue of Popular Science from the month of his birth and it’s time to take a little adventure through the history of advertising …

Happy Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to all! Celebrate by letting your roomba continue to clean while you, yourself, dissolve into dust.

Today, in a conversation about glass art, my boyfriend asked if I had ever been to the Chartres Cathedral … and we learned that I am an absolute child. Literally still grinning about it hours later. Also this was at dinner with my mom and I had to explain both “Chartres” and “shart” to her.

So I don’t normally commute, but my kids had a camp in Bloomington all week and if there’s one thing I learned from a week’s worth of rush hours it’s that a lot of y’all call in sick on summer Fridays.

but then how will we know we're not mad at each other

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2w ago

They’re doing generational hate speech on T*reads

We asked fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.

Minnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish? - Racket

We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.

racketmn.com

Best part about having middle schoolers so far: their new favorite show is Last Week Tonight

say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day

The 12 year old just found out that artificial gravity isn’t a real thing and would like to file a complaint with all the science fiction writers who failed to properly explain that part was (as of yet) fiction.

Ancient Cat Update: She lives! Back for another oil change and am relieved to discover that my mechanic’s 25 year old cat is still (however implausibly) with us. Thank god. I don’t know that I could have taken her death at this time.

It's because they did it by boat....

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

You guys, I just spent 10 minutes wandering through my house sniffing thinking there was a gas leak but it wasn’t coming from anywhere near the gas lines … only to realize the smell was the durian cream wafers my kid bought from the Asian grocery

I KNEW there was gonna be bad news about her that came out eventually

Sen. Lemon Gogurt@ugarles.bsky.social · 3w ago

the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

There is an 11th birthday slumber party taking over my living room and I am realizing I do not have the space for entertaining. This is never a problem with adults.

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

My 11-year-old has plastered her bedroom with pictures from National Geographic like it’s Tiger Beat and this Incan mummy is Donnie Osmond.

I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.

Minneapolis: Skyline a few weeks ago Skyline today

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

I am now 45 and can’t handle all the sugar in soda, but otherwise same.

perfect angel@shiningangelx.bsky.social · 3w ago

the fact that even in my 30s i can eat an entire 18-inch pizza and a two-liter of soda in one sitting should make me prime wife material if im being honest

emptying a clip into my lettuce

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

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Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Proposed midterm poll question: are you voting out of generalized anger or righteous anger?

my body is a MACHINE that turns CHOCOLATE BANANA ICE CREAM into SORRY I CAN'T COME INTO WORK TODAY

The final scene where the robot is in hell or something is fixed in my mind forever. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV@hallowshaunt.bsky.social · last mo.

Does anybody remember Disney’s 1979 film The Blackhole?