I’m teaching a class this semester (yay!), and thought I would try out an “AI detector” to see if it could be an effective tool. The terrible irony is that I am using an AI tool to track itself. But the worst part is I used something I wrote to test its accuracy and it said it was “49% AI.” WTF.

I love to see Ken Martin fail repeatedly snd publicly.

wes(is no longer)injapan@wesinjapan.bsky.social · 11h ago

Let's fucking gooooooooooooo

Four of my neighbors on my block have been in their homes for more than 50 years. More than half the people on my block have lived here 20+ years. (Including me!) And about 75% have lived here 10+ years. That blows my mind! Generations of stories and community about just one block.

This articulates more clearly what I have only really been able to vaguely sense. Gift link: www.twincities.com/2026/08/02/c...

Cole Hanson: St. Paul mayor’s lack of vision shows in her bad, unpredictable decisions

“She won last November not because she offered St. Paul a compelling vision but because Melvin Carter didn’t run a meaningful campaign,” Hanson writes.

twincities.com

🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬@colewritesalot.bsky.social · 3d ago

My piece in @pioneerpress.bsky.social: "A mayor without a vision doesn’t just make bad decisions — they make unpredictable ones. Six months into Kaohly Her’s term, St. Paul has learned the difference." www.twincities.com/2026/08/02/c...

I’m not a parent, but a caregiver/step parent-type to a 14-year-old. Something happened with them recently that has really shaken my foundation. I was witnessing them lie to me repeatedly in a whole manufactured, manipulative story that kept unfolding in real-time. And it GUTTED ME.

Sometimes I like to imagine she does these things on purpose and is just laying there trying really hard not to laugh. Like in her mind she’s an amazing dog comic. “Humans sleep like this…do do do… look at me, I am a human. I sleep like I am in a coffin…do do doo…”

Why are the fascists flying over the Powderhorn Art Fair

Long🧵: One of the things I think about too much is how core beliefs are shaped by power, and what that means for the ways we live our lives. For example: healthcare. Not just the hoarding and cost of it. But also how healthcare has been defined versus what it actually means. 1/

I almost forgot to wish a Happy Schadenfreude Friday to all who celebrate! #KenFartin #IYKYK

‘It’s beyond embarrassing’: Ken Martin and the DNC have a 2028 problem, donors warn

Democratic donors, bundlers and advisers told POLITICO they’re unsure the party’s top organization can turn things around in time for a critical presidential cycle.

politico.com

Woke up thinking about Kaohly Her, as any normal person does. And I can’t stop thinking about sexual harassment and power, and how easily we define “power” and “authority” by workplace hierarchy. As if fleeting economic conditions disrupt entire histories and entrenched power. 1/

This is a well-done story. It’s old-school alt-journalism. It doesn’t need “crime data” or talking heads. Just complex, nuanced experiences of complex, nuanced humanity and the ways gun violence reshapes every aspect of it.

Racket@racketmn.com · 7d ago

Four shootings in the space of a month have left DJs, club owners, and dancers wondering what's next for nightlife in the area. racketmn.com/its-terrible...

Look how cool Moon Palace looks. It almost looks like it’s LA at dusk. Or a Palm Springs film noir set. The bookstore like a shining refuge, with endless cold water, in a dusty-ass desert town. @schwesbomb.bsky.social

Last year, a neighbor I often referred to as “Gunshots Tina” moved away. One can easily imagine how many neighborhood alerts asking “fireworks or gunshots?” a person (me) has been forced to see before some asshole (me) starts using this name “in jest” among a select few other assholes. Anyway:

It's crazy to me that MN Republicans want to run Mr. My Pillow. Not because of who or how terrible he is, but bc it seems wholly unwinnable. This means either I'm wrong, and numbers show something wild. Or they have a strategy to just use him as the stump shill to win the state House and Senate.

- She closed the investigation into the Rose St use of force in defense of ICE while her administration denies they did - She wants to raise taxes - She didn't do a damn thing to protect us from ICE Fire Her.

mollypeonies@mollypeonies.bsky.social · last wk.

So far that story tells us that Her is wildly inappropriate and unfit for her job; she is being set up by cops (acab); or she is so bad at and miserable in a job she didn’t want or expect to get in the first place she will do whatever it takes to get out. Or maybe it is all of the above.

So far that story tells us that Her is wildly inappropriate and unfit for her job; she is being set up by cops (acab); or she is so bad at and miserable in a job she didn’t want or expect to get in the first place she will do whatever it takes to get out. Or maybe it is all of the above.

It’s wild to think that someone, possibly an editor, would be proofing this article and go, “Hey, we should probably include an explanation as to what Weinering is in this article to help add context to this story.” And everyone agreed it was a good add.

I came here to see if people were talking about this story and all I found were people asking people to stop saying “wienering.” This is wild. Wild Weiner Wednesdays wild. Gift link:

St. Paul Mayor Her investigated for sexual harassment allegations involving police chief

The city hired an outside law firm for the probe after Chief Axel Henry filed a formal complaint alleging inappropriate conduct toward city employees.

startribune.com

Here’s an idea. Give Ten(s) for Gwen! Donate $10 (or whatever you can) to Peggy’s campaign now. Share out: “Give Ten for Gwen! I just donated FIVE TENS to Peggy’s campaign, thanks to Gwen!” We can turn petty into PETTY POWER.

Donate to Peggy Flanagan

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mollypeonies@mollypeonies.bsky.social · last wk.

Can you even fathom what it takes to be Gwen Walz level of petty? To be so deeply vindictive, undermining, and careless toward someone you had a long-term familial relationship with? To be so bereft of integrity and humanity you stoop to such public shittiness?

People who have heat pumps: Are they known for being this shitty when it’s this hot and humid? I had to get a separate de-humidifier. The system is *struggling.* It can’t get the downstairs to even 77 degrees and the upstairs is 15 degrees hotter. Is it me? Am I doing something wrong? Or it…it?

Can you even fathom what it takes to be Gwen Walz level of petty? To be so deeply vindictive, undermining, and careless toward someone you had a long-term familial relationship with? To be so bereft of integrity and humanity you stoop to such public shittiness?

Make Dad Proud Again.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · last wk.

The campaign surrogate who hit up a wounded John Hoffman for an Angie Craig endorsement was David Wellstone, a very early & enthusiastic Craig endorser. Wellstone denies it, but I totally believe Hoffman now. www.startribune.com/hoffmans-icu... (gift link)

It’s amazing crickets exist in the numbers they do. Given the way humans define nature as a “nuisance” and create and use products to destroy it, we are so lucky to still hear the constant, rapid thrum of hundreds of crickets all night. As if EDM were a lullaby.

1. Don't donate garbage. 2. Don't donate POISON. What the fuck.

Be Jay, Do Crimes.@templinjay.bsky.social · 2w ago

Volunteering at the food bank this morning and we had to discard 4 cases of Taylor Farms salad bowls that were donated by a local grocery chain a couple of days ago. They gave us recalled food knowing it was contaminated, and wrote it off as a donation. 🤬

we should all be so lucky to view the beauty of a sunset through a tiny mesh that makes us motion sick so the bus can sell more ad space

It’s taken me decades to realize , but I’m *terrible* at and around performative sarcasm. I mean, I’m absolutely over-the-top ridiculous and weird. And cynical and dark. And “many people” say I’m “funny!” But a beat-driven sarcasm freezes me in my tracks. I don’t know what to do with it!

You are correct. That is not a typo.

A hearty “you got played” to all the people who believed the lies about trans athletes.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 3w ago

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

Hey chat, is it good that the weather channel app added a forecast for breathing?

I really hope we see some good lettuce diarrhea crop art at the Minnesota State Fair this year. Trump’s melting face as a head of lettuce. Diarrhea coming from his mouth in the form of words. As red skies and a thick cloud of wildfire smoke threaten to suffocate his diarrhea lettuce head.