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My Cousin in the Washington Post
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A big hairy guy who happens to be Jer's cousin speaks with a police officer during protests in Minneapolis in a photo printed in the Washington Post. The caption reads "Minneapolis Police officers confront counterprotesters after right-wing provocateur Jake Lang's anti-immigration demonstration outside City Hall on Jan 17, 2026" but this is misleading as the interaction was not confrontational at all.
My cousin Alex has been active in the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and wound up in the WaPo over the weekend. Sadly, the caption was misleading. He tells me that he and the officer were actually having a civil conversation about how the high rate of turnover in the force since 2020 gives MPD a chance to raise the bar for themselves and build a better relationship with the community they're supposed to be protecting and serving.
Tell your cousin thank you from another Minnesotan.
big love to him for engaging in a civil conversation. hopefully we can keep having more of them each day and cling to this democracy with our fingernails
out there
Bargain?
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Sign - carpet your whole for only $99
Sorry, mine's covered in parquet.
Is it just me or does this sign not read coherently any direction?
Awkward Family Photos
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Old photograph of 5 toddlers. 4 are standing and looking over 1 poor toddler who has fallen off a small stool and is lying face down with the feet pointing towards the camera.
and if the oligarchy tries to break you down, go crazy
still true today
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programming process flowchart from Timex/Sinclair 1000 manual:
1) Start
2) Write program with as few bugs as possible.
3) Test Program.
4) Does it work perfectly?
5) If Yes, Finish.
6) If No, Don't panic
7) Find the bugs.
8) Fix them, introducing as few new ones as possible. Go to 3) Test Program.
1) Start
2) Write program with as few bugs as possible.
3) Test Program.
4) Does it work perfectly?
5) If Yes, Finish.
6) If No, Don't panic
7) Find the bugs.
8) Fix them, introducing as few new ones as possible. Go to 3) Test Program.
from the Timex/Sinclair 1000 user manual: https://archive.org/details...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
That's not how I was taught to program!
@bubbalumpkis you've been doing it wrong all along, then
Theres a missing box: "Deploy to production"
Happy Groundhog Day
fascinating!
work prep
annual planning
The end of the world is nigh.
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A black-and-white movie still; Eddie (the Japanese actor Peter) presenting as femme with short haircut, groomed eyebrows, and long eyelashes, saying, "I wish the whole country would sink under water."
Learn to swim
Ride for Alex
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A large gathering of cyclists with various protest signs denigrating the American I.C.E. thugs.
A hundred or do of us gathered in solidarity on Saturday afternoon joining a nation-wide ride for Alex
I heard there were thousands on a ride here in Minneapolis.
^^That was not intended to come off as downplaying your ride. Thank you for joining in solidarity.
Also, how do you not have any snow?
Also, how do you not have any snow?
It was cool to see so many memorial rides happening all over the country this weekend.
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Long lustrous winter
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This is the coldest year they have seen since since before I was born. I could see the paint freezing to the canvas seconds after applying it. I physically survived better than I expected and am honestly quite intrigued by the textures created in this unique process, definitely one of my favorite years ever.
Also us faithful devotees still believe 6 more weeks is a blessing, Regardless of how much we may want it to stop being so damn icy out there.
Also us faithful devotees still believe 6 more weeks is a blessing, Regardless of how much we may want it to stop being so damn icy out there.
This is the coldest year they have seen since since before I was born. I could feel the paint freezing to the canvas seconds after applying it. I physically survived better than I expected and am honestly quite intrigued by the textures created in this unique process, definitely one of my favorite years ever.
Also us faithful devotees still believe 6 more weeks is a blessing, Regardless of how much we may want it to stop being so damn icy out there.
Also us faithful devotees still believe 6 more weeks is a blessing, Regardless of how much we may want it to stop being so damn icy out there.
PUNX AF
Another Singing Resistance
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A photo of singing protesters in downtown Minneapolis. The top of the image shows some skyscrapers. On the right is part of the Westminster Presbyterian Church where we started. The protesters line the whole block. In the foreground is a sign that reads "Stop the Violence"
Today's singing action was planned to tell ICE agents that they can quit and come over to the good side. More than 1500 of us stopped in front of downtown hotels where they are known to be staying to sing to them songs telling how they don't have to keep being the bad guys.
It was a nice end to a day that started with agents illegally* staging in Powderhorn Park where they got really scared by us calling them names so they had to use tear gas and pepper spray and call in back up to help them get out of the park where they were staging illegally while telling _us_ to leave. I have pictures of that, but they were sent to the park board and the county attorney and I don't want to make you lovely people see them.
* https://www.minneapolisparks.org/ice-resp...
It was a nice end to a day that started with agents illegally* staging in Powderhorn Park where they got really scared by us calling them names so they had to use tear gas and pepper spray and call in back up to help them get out of the park where they were staging illegally while telling _us_ to leave. I have pictures of that, but they were sent to the park board and the county attorney and I don't want to make you lovely people see them.
* https://www.minneapolisparks.org/ice-resp...
I'm so impressed with all of you.
For us it is 80 yrs ago when fascism roamed our streets. I know the stories from my parents and history books.
Unfortunately now it's our former liberator experiencing SD / Gestapo in their own streets.
Peaceful resistance in great numbers is key I guess.
For us it is 80 yrs ago when fascism roamed our streets. I know the stories from my parents and history books.
Unfortunately now it's our former liberator experiencing SD / Gestapo in their own streets.
Peaceful resistance in great numbers is key I guess.
Like this thing https://bsky.app/profile...
That's exactly what happened here: neighbours informing on people in their street.
There was a reckoning after the war.
That's exactly what happened here: neighbours informing on people in their street.
There was a reckoning after the war.
@joost Thank you.
I'm sure there are people who would respond to that call for snitching on neighbors, but not in my 'hood.
I'm honestly surprised they have not started the Trump Youth yet.
I'm sure there are people who would respond to that call for snitching on neighbors, but not in my 'hood.
I'm honestly surprised they have not started the Trump Youth yet.
Xiaoli Empire Royal Bastions
if I fits I sits
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Ludwig squeezed into an amazon box
Beethoven or of Bavaria?
@joost The Mad King!
We happened to be playing Castles of Mad King Ludwig while brainstorming a list of cat names. A couple of weeks later the name narrowly beat out "Usyk" (after the boxer).
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
We happened to be playing Castles of Mad King Ludwig while brainstorming a list of cat names. A couple of weeks later the name narrowly beat out "Usyk" (after the boxer).
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
Oww. Naming your cat after Ludwig von Bayern II. Now that's a great name.
I remember reading his biography and seeing Visconti's movie. Such an intrigueing figure.
I remember reading his biography and seeing Visconti's movie. Such an intrigueing figure.
Cheetos Duster
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Photo of a store shelf displaying a few product boxes containing Cheetos Dusters. One side of the box says, "The power of Cheetos at your fingertips -- Chester Cheetah, Spokesperson: It's a Cheetos thing". Another side has five-step instructions for grinding Cheetos into powder and eating the powder. Another side is a very verbose panel about the absurd range of food you can put Cheetos powder on.
If you can't get your hands on some cheese powder, get you some snack food and grind it into powder. Almost the same thing aside from the bulk of corn starch and the extra money you dropped on this thing that could probably work as a smoothie blender except I'd bet it does not have a waterproof seal.
Oh yeah, maybe this can help make popcorn lung a domestic illness as well as an industrial one. We'll have to see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Oh yeah, maybe this can help make popcorn lung a domestic illness as well as an industrial one. We'll have to see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I suppose you could use it as a spice grinder, too. Probably not a very good one, though.
any blender is a finger-multilator if you disable the safety hard enough
Yet another product nobody asked for, sucking up resources and polluting the atmosphere along the way, to be consigned to swap meet shelves and trash bins in 3 ... 2 ...
A different night, a different cheese ball
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photo of a cocktail party; a man and a woman select cheese cubes from a platter, while another couple chat behind them. There is a large platter holding several pounds of cheese in the foreground, and glasses of wine litter the table.
"Our evening began in Peter Sichel's comfortable study in his New York townhouse, where the candlelight was just right, the hi-fi was in the background and the wine was delicious."
source: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboar...
source: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboar...
is this in /cheeseball yet?
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Who runs bartertown?
If you stare into the void long enough, the void will ask for food
Street View glitch
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Found this odd glitch in street view
Are you sure the glitch is in street view? Maybe it is in the street
Dennou Coil intensifies.
Portal...
vintage trolling equipment
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vintage K-tel toy for making fake bigfoot prints in the snow
I had a good buddy who was also a climber. After some relative died he inherited a bunch of hunting trophies, among which for some reason were some stuffed bear paws. One thing bears like to do is scratch and bite trees - but they'll use the same tree over and over as a kind of scent marking. So my buddy liked to find hunting camps in the backwoods (like horse/hike in only) and climb up a tree that the deer hanging pole was attached to (so it'd be noticed). . . then just go to town with the bear claws. And he would do it right before hunting season. So these hunters would arrive a few days later and it'd look like there were *very* fresh claw marks from a bear (normal) but 10-15 feet off the ground (definitely not normal unless a bear was standing on a snowbank, which does happen). He was quite fond of doing that in grizz country and I'm sure he made some hunters pretty goddamn nervous.
We thought it was hilarious. Those were simpler times.
We thought it was hilarious. Those were simpler times.
"but my gerrymanders!"
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Dems just flipped a state senate seat in Texas (Ft. Worth area) that's been red since 1992, went for Trump 17+, outspent Dems by 2 million+ and . . . did so 57-43.
57-43.
That's not just a flip but a 30 pt swing.
And those districts that went blue? Heavily Latino.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
57-43.
That's not just a flip but a 30 pt swing.
And those districts that went blue? Heavily Latino.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Taylor Rehmet—a welder and union official who was outspent almost 10:1—won White Settlement, Texas. https://bsky.app/profile...
Good weekend for it
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A bullet smoker buried in snow with a chain of sausages resting on the grill. An arms with a thumbs up sign is in the foreground.
Preparing some sausages for an Olympics watch party in a couple weeks. Currently, it's 12 degrees with a wind chill of -1 fahrenheit.
+++ for matching your profile pic
wurst I’ve seen
into Monday like
“Moon and Cow” Alex Colville 1963
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painting of a cow sleeping in a field under a full moon and clouded sky
Moebius
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A color illustration by Moebius. It shows the face of a person, their eyes looking left. They hold a hand up to their chin.
"3 Hail Marys, same as in town."