Vernacularshift

@vernacularshift.bsky.social

Photographer, writer, dork, leftist. In Minneapolis

The blue wave is very cool overall, but the small election I'm most excited for was Cedric Frazier in Hennepin county. A good reminder that Nextdoor/lawn signs near the River Road don't represent the entire electorate, and that the DFL endorsement does matter.

all of mpls has received nearly half a million $$ that has largely gone towards electing anders folk landlords who support republicans, pohlads and a rockefeller, a lawyer who was once suspended from practicing law after employees accused him of sexual harassment taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...

Who is Funding All of Mpls in 2026?

All of Mpls was founded in 2021 by Richard Forschler, a former lobbyist who represented corporate and capital interests such as the Minneapolis Downtown Council (who donated $35,000 to We Love Mpls in...

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I was convinced until yesterday that the name of the director of The Devils was Ken Martin, not Ken Russel, and I was getting all kinds of dumb jokes about the DNC chair. But now, no one will ever know of my embarrassing error unless I post about it on blue sky

Trying to get my VR legs back. It's probably been a year. Just did 15 minutes with Star Wars Squadrons, which might be a higher level of VR difficulty than most, but it does feel pretty magical. Those fast turns in an impossible little space vehicle are pretty intense though.

Very painful to lose Patrick Stewart but how amazing that he leaves behind a body of work that helps process this kind of loss, that ruminates on the human condition—the joy, the pain, wrestling with the reality of our finite time, and finding hope and peace in it all

Would it shock you to learn last year's maniac candidate for Ward 12, foisted upon us by the business community (the adults in the room!) is now shoehorning her denial and resentment about losing in 2025 into a MAGA-style rant about how crooked Minneapolis elections are?