I helped a friend out at a pitch-a-friend event and a fella could clean up if he is willing to be in public.
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I helped a friend out at a pitch-a-friend event and a fella could clean up if he is willing to be in public.
Always great to read @brocktoon.bsky.social
Night BET is Beers, Eating, and Taxis
I think I have a different perspective here, but probably a better convo for beers sometime than my 17 post thread on Ian's Reflections on Suburban Life
Saw you running today when that prius decided the crosswalk was a suggestion. Good on you for getting out in the rain.
You got it. racketmn.com/best-budget-...
I think there was deadass a working payphone in that restaurant.
Wait until you cross over and you aren't sure if you love the hate anymore or just love it.
I was thinking about a Dis-or-Dat style game where the YIMBYs have to guess if it's a defense contractor, a 5-over-1 apartment building, or both.
I have been asked to speak at this. I'm hopeful they'll put me on last so all the Saint Paul residents will already be at home in bed when I tear them a new municipal trash hole.
You should put some campaign lit in your spokes so it makes a cool sound when you ride around.
He's probably looking for parking. That happens to me a lot when I'm late for a meeting at work.
You and I in a race to the bottom on upsetting food photography
Hell, I'm arch enemies with a neighborhood business owner because they yelled at me for playing with a toddler in their empty parking lot on a day the business was closed. Lots of people resent that there are strangers in their city.
I generally agree on the prevalence, but I've had plenty of bad and antisocial interactions with people in the city: -a nextdoor neighbor that won't speak to anyone else on the block -getting yelled at for parking in front of someone's house -getting yelled at for knocking on someone's door
Wish I could do a poll on here! I think in heavily SFH areas with owners, there's a lot more. I think in rental, there's a lot less.
I think a lot of people in the city could not tell you the name of their nextdoor neighbors as well.
Bring a dish.
If you want to see how far it goes (and it's not just a rural thing) try political doorknocking, and see how fearful or upset people are that another person is daring to knock on their door.
I find Tolkkinen's article to be fairly tonedeaf, but I agree with her here. There is a harmful mass delusion in this country that the individual and the family unit exist apart from society, and it causes them to act with outrage anytime they are asked to behave as though other people are real.
You will not believe how that word is pronounced.
I went to forensic science camp there in middle school.
I was honored to be a guest of Lynn, director of the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway Association, as she showed me the byway today. I've been invited to speak at their annual meeting in November.
Lmao
Holden Caulfield coded
Traded ties with the baddest butch at this wedding
Shout out to the guy at Grumpy's this week who was wearing a big cowboy hat, a shit eating grin, and an Arch Manning jersey. Rare type of guy in Minneapolis. Hope he's holding it together.
He was making a joke about the booming voice in the ad, not endorsing their financial services.
Wow. OKAY.
Land's End customers are dedicated to the truth.
Wasn't this a threadless T-shirt about Pacman?
Consider: the grocery store.
How many gallons would you like? We continue to move product here at Northeast Vineyards.
ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER OF NORTHEAST VINEYARDS @scoopsstp.bsky.social
You have to submit your ID to be verified before you're allowed to watch Kent State streams this year.
We should all be so lucky to do the goofy stuff we love for as long as we want to.
Put the Woke back in!!!!!!
They are cooking POISON COOKIES
Welcome to my TwiZted mind.
I like to imagine that these little guys are making plastic explosives.
It will probably be fine. There's a great chance that it'll be fine.
6 days in and I'm already having a great time with the college football season. Now to take a big drink of water and face a plucky FCS opponent with my old backup QB who has something to prove.
Are we still talking about Istanbul?
I think my best articulation is something like "market dips are a signal of cognitive dissonance as reality departs from ruling class ideology."
I have had the CornFolk privilege of going to Runza multiple times. Count the Frings.
It is a common misconception that Tom has a Night Mayor title. He is Mr. Saint Paul. While we have equivalent noble status, the civic titles are unique. Think like a King vs Kaiser vs Czar.
I would be interested in a person smarter than me (Snowden?) trying to articulate what "the markets" are actually responsive to at this point.
I think the potentially powerful thing is that if you wonder how people can own a house in 2025 and the answer is always 1) money from parents 2) twice your salary or 3) did it 10 years ago, that's a helpful data point to get over your guilt of not being "good with money."
I find it interesting but wholly unpleasant to read, with an odd amount of voyeuristic anxiety. Every salary above mine makes me angry and every salary below mine makes me feel guilty.
Made it to the vigil last night. It was good to be out with people and to see so many folks coming out. I thought Keith Ellison gave a very powerful speech. Stick together, Minneapolis.
My understanding is that in the early 2000s they completely changed the recipe back to the pre 1970's one.
I actually quite like Schlitz (once they went back to the original recipe) but I'm afraid this is grain belt
Lmao
EMMA
Q: Is it real neon? A: Yes. Even with that faint electronic crackle. Q: How much did it cost? A: ... Q: Ian, are you still there? A: ["Neon Moon" by Brooks and Dunn intensifies]
I may have gone too far at the Palmer's garage sale @palmersman.bsky.social
I don't think you mean ill by this comment, but please know it comes off poorly to many of us here in Minneapolis who have lost children in a school shooting today. They were not saved by poor aim.
Holy shit, what a billing.
FINALLY ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS SHIIIIIT me and the QR crew have been working on this for so so long and it's gonna be SO GOOD
Whatever arguments you want to make about working class self-defense or reducing the state's monopoly on violence -- I see this country we've created where people live in justifiable mortal fear of one another and how it degrades our sense of community and security with one another.
I don't see a lot of good reasons to think that high rates of gun ownership is compatible in the long term with a democratic civil society, and I can see a lot of reasons to think that it isn't.
TovH about to do a deep dive on tax advantaged savings accounts for new families.
I'm pretty sure I had that image on a POG in 1996.
Thinking of all you parents today. What an impossible set of dangers and fears this country has given you to bear.
14 years working in higher ed and I might have finally found the bureaucratic paradox that makes me madder than a Cthulhu cultist.
I'm going to regret posting this, but everything I see from her has the energy of an AIM status message.
I was there for that punt, Douglas.
The reviews are in. Join the survivor leagues if only to laugh at my malice.
You see they announced a new consulting firm? Yeah, I hear Glup Shitto is in this one!
I was in a breakout group at a retreat last week and a woman about three rungs higher than me shared that she used LLMs to help her make plans the previous weekend and I had to change groups so I didn't get myself into trouble.
Sure, it's spiritual poison, but a survey of 18 hiring managers by Glup Shitto Consulting shows it's a Valuable Skill in the job market, and therefore we must treat it with the soft reverence previously reserved for a porcelain baby.
If you tell your coworkers that college students should be warned and actively discouraged from using this everyone lets you know that you are not a Serious Person.
Well, I think I solved this mystery.
My loudest "You Know It Smell Crazy in There" of all time.
You just know at least one of those fryers has to be kept at temperature overnight to prevent it gelling up, like a perpetualy running diesel truck in the arctic
By definition, horses are allowed to sleep at the fair.
I asked a security guard and she said "don't get any ideas"
Do you think you could hide in the State Fair and sleep there over night? How would you do it?
Do you ever buy ice cream from it?
Bring back the Benghazi van!!
We were talking last night about putting a few sweet martha's cookies in our next batch 👀
Did you get a creami? What are you using?
Rarely do you have to hand it to Taiwan!
You ever see the death metal ice cream truck in Northeast? Guy calls it the Hell General.
The garbage truck should have music just like the ice cream truck does.
I think Millstream is overall pretty mid, but with a 1985 open date, they're up there with Schells in terms of that first wave of craft beer. Amana colonies are strange but def worth a stop if you're in the area.
I do! Toppling Goliath of course is the big name, but Pulpit Rock, which opened in their old space in Decorah, I've heard great things about. Exile (DSM) and Firetrucker (Ankeny) are both competitive with the MN scene. Alluvial just outside of Ames is a lovely taproom not far from I-35.
Oh, no question. But it's not that there's nothing going on down there
Iowa catching strays in this one.
How do you stay sane in a world so indifferent to the truth? How do you maintain a commitment to reality without being lost in petulance?
I feel exhausted (spiritually)
I really enjoyed drafting and it convinced me that maybe I wanted to be an engineer, until I discovered that no drafting takes place in the US anymore and being an engineer is mostly math and spreadsheets...
Actually, that was part of the class! We had sort of a unified "tech trades" class that included drafting, digital design (photoshop, 3dsmax) and we still had an old VHS editor that I got to play around with that had the reel so you could go frame by frame.
Last night they had a sign up saying if you locked to the fence, they would cut the lock and impound your bike.
Lol, same.
I think I'm generally aligned with your argument here Rose. I also think it's true that "strong opinions about the strategic direction a socialist organization should take" is asymmetric across ideologies. More moderately aligned members tend to avoid these debates and using organizing energy there.
Great weather this weekend, but seems like everyone was sick.
It's perfectly normal to like Boondock Saints if you were born between the years of 1983 and 1989 and absolutely a red flag for everyone else.
Wow, great to finally have a name to pair with the guy I always thought of as "Down-and-Out Sean Bean"