A street festival in the neighborhood means 30 visitors to the poem machine already today, an all-time record. Can we break 40????
Matt Healy@matthealy.com · 12mo agoMy neighborhood already had lots of Little Free Libraries, so instead of adding another one I built this poem dispenser for my boulevard
Looks like the newly-opened Midway Diner passes one of the most crucial tests on my personal diner scorecard:
I’m the guy in the fantasy football league who doesn’t really watch football, doesn’t keep up with the news, and just plays by the numbers. Sometimes it works out great, I took first of ten twice in a row! On the other hand
Huge congrats to Kehinde Wiley, every art school student dreams of the day when the U.S. State Department calls their work “aesthetically terrifying” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/a...
Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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Shout out to the kid who yelled to me while I kayaked under this bridge to stick my paddle down in the water so he could see how deep it was and then called me a liar when I only stuck the paddle in two thirds of the way (he was right I was lying)
Matt DeLong@mattdelong.bsky.social · 3mo agoLove these photos of kids jumping off a bridge into Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis yesterday, captured by Alex Kormann More on Insta >> www.instagram.com/p/DawLyiyDJWh/
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 4mo agobull and nipper 2, fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984
Curious to know what data point in Facebook's algorithmic taste profile of me resulted in this suggested post
I was just thinking this morning about all the Steve Jobs emulation in tech which is obviously misguided in a number of ways, but not least because people focus so much on the fact that he was a dick to his employees or that he wore the same clothes every day and not on this:
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wonder what those are
@therafischwartz.bsky.social I assume you're already on top of this but just in case! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLRC...
Don't Happy Be Worry
YouTube video by Dillinger Four
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My neighborhood already had lots of Little Free Libraries, so instead of adding another one I built this poem dispenser for my boulevard
Just in case you need a little joy today: here are some lovely llama costumes from the 4-H costume contest at the State Fair 📸: Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
@seankershaw.bsky.social The Aldine pedestrian bridge is getting a little hairy to navigate, any chance somebody could come cut this back a bit?
I don’t know who needs to hear this but when your kid is playing with her squishy dog toy in the car seat and it explodes and she covers herself and the seat in a mysterious white cornstarchy substance and you have to immediately wash her off and wash her clothes and take apart the car seat (1/2)
@audreykennedy.bsky.social I love what you folks do at Axios and am a daily reader. My only small note is that this piece from today did not include the word "rhubarbitrage"
Dying to know what Gift of the Magi situation led to this person having no use for their brand-new chicken plucker
Was feeling very rugged after digging out the driveway to get the car out and get the kid to daycare, and then when I got there I saw a dad pulling up on cross-country skis and towing his kid in a Burley trailer
My 3-year-old is constipated and my dishwasher’s drain is backed up. Anybody know if there’s a product that can just solve both of these problems
Look AI and self-driving cars are great and all, but on days like this I seriously wake up and am struck by the technological miracle that I can live in a house that stays a comfortable temperature all year round
@seankershaw.bsky.social Are you folks ticketing/towing today? I think the snow emergency communication was good, but compliance in my neighborhood is pretty bad (and the plows just came through)
Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. Full essay: stephango.com/self-guarantee
My favorite new hobby is buying things for $40 on Facebook Marketplace. Somehow everyone seems to have agreed on that price for large used items. Backyard grill? $40. Basement freezer? $40. The best part is that if you decide you're done with something you bought, you can just sell it again for $40.
When I first saw this I thought “well that’s just bookmarks, it should be a first-class feature”, but what’s cool about this is that feeds allow motivated users to just bootstrap whatever features they want. Very clever!
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2y agoif u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌 if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
While I like the starter packs, I feel like the sudden influx of Bluesky user has destroyed the art of finding mutuals in bespoke ways, like posting “Boof Bonser” in someone’s mentions at 2:30am.
