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The Landscape of Minneapolis Cycling: A Photo Essay: https://streets.mn/2025/04/17/the-landscape-of-minneapolis-cycling-a-photo-essay/ Minneapolis is known as a great city for cycling and cycling infrastructure. This photo essay showcases cyclists' dynamic energy.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

one of the little things I like about my Defector subscription is the occasional dose of art criticism. like, one curious click and now I have an appreciation for the imaginative beadwork of Indigenous Canadian artists? hell yeah, man. defector.com/what-the-bea...

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.

Read Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from an ICE detention facility: defector.com/read-mahmoud...

It took detaining a white Canadian woman for the public to get a glimpse into ICE detention. The stories she tells—of her dehumanizing experience & that of so many other women—are horrifying. This is America. Not new to this administration, just ramped up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Triple-A St. Paul Saints will play one game as the Crooks Haven Ghostly Gangsters, a tribute to the city’s association with Prohibition-era criminals, and a popular haunted site. Read about it on @sportslogos.net at news.sportslogos.net/2025/03/16/s...

literally every time I talk to friends

@randballsstu.bsky.social I just picked up a 12er of Niiice. Better be good, sir.

Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

🐦‍🔥 tapbots.com/phoenix/

Jim Rowader, the city attorney for a time under Jacob Frey, shits on his former boss from a great height in a rebuttal to Strib conservative Andy Brehm: www.startribune.com/counterpoint... (no -atwall)

sharing a value tumblr post reminding you to be reasonable and kind to yourself when the world feels very deeply unreasonable and cruel

snoring is just how humans purr

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

McSweeney’s publishes very topical up-to-the-moment humor pieces but they also publish stuff I write about Led Zeppelin.

Washington and Cleveland ditched their racist mascots. It's time for Kansas City to do the same.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Social media should be thought of a busy coffeeshop where tables of friends are talking. You can overhear what ppl are saying. If you pull up a chair and politely engage ppl will welcome you in. If you’re rude they’ll turn their backs to you. If you’re screaming hate they’ll kick you out.

This from Kicking & Screaming is the spiritual opposite of the Love, Actually thing and should also be a meme.

Got a survey email from the Twins today. To their credit, there were plenty of places I could blame ownership and the FO for us attending one whole game last season. I expect this will accomplish nothing.

Wipe the interior of your windshield with your hand and you’ll be living with the consequences for weeks. Years even.