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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 18/10/2026

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like

The USS Blueback, SS-581, permanently moored at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 11/10/2026

Adventures in confusing yard signs

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 24/09/2026

Took my lunch at the right time to see some Transportation

Freight train crossing the St Paul lift bridge

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 24/09/2026

Well, if I had to be up at the ass-crack of dawn, at least I got to see a pretty sunrise

Sunrise looking east on 31st St at Bryant Ave

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 15/09/2026

Holy shit, you guys, the Loring Greenway got a little TLC! I know it doesn't look like much, but it was a massive improvement to ride on.

The Loring Greenway with tar paper and asphalt patches visible

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 11/09/2026

Looking at this graph, I thought, St Paul doesn't look as bad as I would expect. Then I looked at the paper and this table is enlightening. Among Midwestern cities studied, StP issued the fewest permits per 100k and had the longest total development time. Both by a good margin.

Table showing underlying permit data, with St Paul issuing the fewest permits per capita of any Midwest city in the study and the longest total development time

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 05/09/2026

I had to venture to the suburbs to find pizza from the motherland

Freezer case with frozen pizza from three different Chicago pizzerias

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 04/09/2026

Lol this is frighteningly dead on. I have lived in Minneapolis for 17 years, grew up in Chicagoland (where my dad grew up), and my mom is from the Milwaukee area. So uh, yeah.

Dialect map showing how incredibly upper Midwest I am

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 04/09/2026

Still using up last season's beer, I see

Bottom of a beer can that reads "best by 5/18/26"

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 04/09/2026

Ski U Mah and things of that nature

Gopher football team entering the field at Huntington Bank stadium

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 31/08/2026

My grocery trips are not interesting, since it's the same neighborhood, but I have some fun pictures of overloaded bikes from grocery trips

My partner standing behind her and my bikes, with panniers full of groceries and a case of la Croix on the front rack of one

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 28/08/2026

Nothing newer than 2016, apparently. Celebrating my return to Kanopy, tbh

Black Coal, Thin Ice, Seven Samurai, Klute, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 28/08/2026

Ok another attempt closer to peak

The moon with most of it in shadow and only a sliver of blown out brightness at top

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 28/08/2026

I don't know what I'm doing with Astro photography but this is pretty cool

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 27/08/2026

Mr. McHale could stand to read something about the building of the transcontinental railways, because I think he's right, just not in the way he thinks.

“This data center buildout, in scale and dollars, has been compared to building the transcontinental railroad,” said Jonathan McHale, digital policy chief at the Computer and Communications Industry Association, which counts major tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta as members.

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 26/08/2026

You know, sometimes it seems like @annaleen.bsky.social was really onto something in Automatic Noodle

Out of context clip from the book Automatic Noodle that includes the phrase "after the missiles hit Mountain View and Cupertino"

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 22/08/2026

Funny that I pulled up flight radar and there's... A 737 flying over Bryn Mawr

Flight radar showing a 737 over the West Metro

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 21/08/2026

This is a wild statistic, I had no idea it was so high here

Clip from the article that notes that 8.5% of US households are car free and 17.9% of Minneapolis households are car free

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 21/08/2026

Yeah, you can fit (no pun intended) like 10+' boards in the thing, it's great

10+ foot board of 6/4 black walnut laying in my Honda Fit

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 15/08/2026

Keith Ellison sighting at porchfest

Keith Ellison talking into a mic on a porch on Lyndale

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 15/08/2026

Is Bryant and 27th getting a roundabout?

Spray painted circle in the middle of the intersection of Bryant and 27th

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 13/08/2026

If someone shows up to a meeting and offers to help you do crimes, they're always a fed.

Clip from the story describing an undercover agent offering to help build "items" for "direct action"

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 13/08/2026

I forgot to post this the other day, it's the second time recently I've seen drivers using the 28th St buffer as a lane 🙄

A Chevy sedan just driving in the buffer

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 13/08/2026

Just two more weeks bro, two more weeks of bombing and they'll surrender

There are, roughly, three camps of ideas for what the U.S. should do — all of which seem grounded more in hope than reality:

One camp consists of hawks who want to ramp up military and other pressure on Tehran. This group’s suggestions include having the U.S. take over Iran’s Kharg Island, a key node of its oil production; green-lighting more Israeli killings of Iranian leaders; getting the United Arab Emirates to seize three islands over which it has a dispute with Iran; and arming ethnic groups across Iran. Some say another 14 days of U.S. bombing should be enough.

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 12/08/2026

My neighborhood is not the most radical neighborhood around by any means and it was a blowout

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 08/08/2026

All three of the fallen empires variants are real bangers. Ron Spencer! Chris Rush!

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 03/08/2026

In the twin cities, the mafia was involved, too!

Twin cities streetcar company treasurer handing a check to mafia lawyer while streetcars burn in the background

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 23/07/2026

The drummer for Lucero knew he was playing Minneapolis 🚲

Drummer wearing a hat with a bicycle graphic with another identical hat perched on top of the bass drum

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 16/07/2026

And another in Feb 2020, featuring @wedge.live standing in front of a car

Winter protest in 2020 with a driver trying to force their way through and John standing in front of it

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 16/07/2026

Hell yeah! Almost seven years after Theodore Ferrara was killed by a driver on Lyndale, and we started advocating for serious change, we got there. It's not a perfect design (there are a lot of things I'd do differently), but it's light-years better than the 2019 status quo.

Image of protesters holding signs and blocking Lyndale in October of 2019

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 03/07/2026

Damien loves his house so much 🥹. I broke down some other random boxes for recycling today but couldn't bring myself to destroy his house

A black cat lounging in a cardboard box that is on its side

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 01/07/2026

So the settlement means they pay... 0.1% of their 2025 *profit* in cash. That's really gonna hurt 🙄

reported a profit of $1.22 billion for the 2025 fiscal year. Under its settlement agreement with the states, the company would pay $1.5 million

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 26/06/2026

I know nothing about the PM of Finland but woke neo-luddite is about right, tbh

Results of a political quiz showing my closest match as Sanna Marin

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 24/06/2026

If I didn't already know this was a @jkass99.bsky.social book, I know now.

Screenshot of my e-reader with characters bantering about the army camp having lots of soldiers shitting themselves to death

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 22/06/2026

This chart is really something. And the stuff about A-pillar visibility is something I've noticed anecdotally, but the data seems to back it up. They don't go into it but chonky C-pillars and tiny high rear windows also are low speed back over incidents more likely, I'm sure

Chart showing a dramatic decline in cars with low hood heights since 2000

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 17/06/2026

Never great when the lights are completely out and not even blinking red (yes I already called 311)

Bryant and 31st intersection with stoplights completely out

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 17/06/2026

Gotta make sure your cinematographer also has a warm neck, of course

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 11/06/2026

I'm sorry, did you say expired spices? Can I interest you in a gallon of granulated garlic?

Laundry hamper full of restaurant sized spice containers

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 07/06/2026

Urbanist Christmas, I love it so much

Photo of Lyndale Ave with loads of people walking and biking

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 31/05/2026

It's pretty great, ngl. 😛 Why it's upside down on our coffee table, I have no idea

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 31/05/2026

This is what I've been telling people for years. Uptown is in a transition, as a real estate person says later in the article, from a destination to an area focused on local residents. And transitions are painful! But necessary

Taken together, today’s Uptown is in the middle of a reboot, where residents, developers and business owners all depend on one another to determine what comes next for the neighborhood.

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 26/05/2026

I like that Boludo understands that the best part of a Caesar Salad is the cheese

Photo of a Caesar salad completely covered in finely shredded Parm

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