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Brit @britvulcan.net · 08/09/2026

Looks like the main difference is putting the ballot in a bunch of envelopes or directly into a ballot machine. Sounds like it would be the same as voting by mail but you drop it off directly. And the MN Secretary of State's office has a ballot tracking tool for ensuring it gets counted.

How we count ballots

In-person absentee voting prior to 18 days before Election Day

Up until 18 days before Election Day, Minnesota election law requires that you put your completed ballot into several envelopes. Your ballot must stay in the envelopes until closer to Election Day, when we will open and process it. This is the same process had you voted by mail.

Early voting during the 18 days before Election Day

During the last 18 days before Election Day, Minnesota election law allows you put your ballot directly into the ballot counter. This is the same way you would vote on Election Day.

Either way, you will leave with an ‘I Voted Early’ sticker.

Screenshot from https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/vote-early-in-person/

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 04/09/2026

yeah, this one is extremely accurate. I grew up mostly in upper michigan, went to college in the UP and have lived in MN for a decade. A few brief interludes elsewhere, but my accent/dialect is pretty fixed. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

A dialect map with the upper midwest, especially upper michigan and Minnesota, highlighted.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 30/08/2026

At a retreat with @welcomingneighbors.us this weekend. Enjoyed the Ride On bus route 16 yesterday to visit downtown Silver Spring.

A Ride On bus in silver Spring behind a bike rental corral

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 14/08/2026

There is a newspaper clipping about this as it occurred at a grocery store. But it’s still unclear if this was random teenagers, postpartum depression (likely), or just a freak accident. I was airlifted to a hospital for brain bleeding tho. And recovered just fine.

A newspaper clipping titled “City Police look for witnesses” from Big Rapids in about 1991.

It details a bit of what happened to me according to the police at the time.

Family lore is that the suspects were never located/identified. And that it is possible my mom was the one that actually dropped me.

Mysterious!

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 14/08/2026

I do appreciate the "hide post for me" button works for quotes and reskeets. Because, same.

dot dot dot menu from individual post with "hide post for me" highlighted in blue.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 11/08/2026

#300 and 301 over in ward 8 :)

Two folks in front of a voting location with red MN I voted stickers.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 06/07/2026

Ah! One of the set got bid, Nice.

A screenshot of the bidfeed showing the Shade of Water earrings were bid for $69, by not me. Nice!

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 29/05/2026

Mayor Adam Jennings (Tonka Bay) is now running for auditor and spent the last six months advocating against zoning reform. Not sure I want an anti-homes Auditor on the MN Housing board.

City of Tonka Bay
Regular City Council Meeting
January 13, 2026
pg. 3 of 4

Mayor Jennings noted that the issues most impactful to Tonka Bay are local control initiatives and property tax reform, as a significant portion of the City's population is on a fixed income.

He emphasized the importance of maintaining local control over construction and zoning within the City.

After much discussion, Council still had questions and agreed to continue the discussion at a future Work Session Meeting.

from url : https://www.cityoftonkabay.net/vertical/sites/%7B4A0B5943-C4EE-4132-80D2-7FD9E610BCBF%7D/uploads/PACKET_WITH_PAGE_NUMBERS_-_REGULAR_MEETING_02.10.26.pdf

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 13/05/2026

Happy birthday! May the next year be full of animals and easy births.

A drawing of a brown sheep on green grass.

Text says Happy Birthday Shep! Thanks for all the Koalas!

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 25/04/2026

It definitely needed a touch up :)

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 25/04/2026

Love my shirt so much I got some paint to fix it.

A Yield to Bi Cycylists tank shirt on a cardboard backing with fresh fabric paint.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/03/2026

I’ve got mine <3 Go read the hot new graphic novel here: sidequested.com/book/

The cover of my copy of Side Quested by Ale Presser and KB Spangler.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 25/01/2026

Wondering if the police unions still stand by their statement from Jan 8th.

FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
STATE OFFICE • P.O. BOX 270026 • Minneapolis, MN 55427
minnesotafop@gmail.com • www.mnfop.com
January 8, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
"FOP Stands with ICE"
Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric
(Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them.
The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities.
When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning.
The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the facts come out.
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The National Fraternal Order of Police is the oldest and largest law enforcement organization in the United States, with more than 382,000 members.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/01/2026

Yeah, a quick check on their doctrine, and this checks out. I'd read this as evangelical baptist of the bigot sub-type.

Cities church doctrine from their website on Marriage and Sexuality:

We believe that marriage joins one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, lifelong union and that God designed and directs sexual intimacy exclusively for one man and one woman married to each other.

Any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, or any attempt to change or disagree with one’s biological sex is sinful and offensive to God.

(Genesis 1:27–28; 2:23–24; Matthew 19:4–6; Ephesians 5:24–32; Exodus 20:14,17; Leviticus 18:6–7, 23; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, 18–20; 7:2; Matthew 5:27–30; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Luke 10:27; 1 John 4:8–9; Romans 1:18–32; 5:8).

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/01/2026

So, above 38th to downtown-ish we have an area between two urban highways that historically had several street car lines running north-south and was a core mixed-race neighborhood. South side was red-lined, but not entirely, which extended mostly along the rail lines as it went south. 3/10

Maps comparing 1930s redlining to current zoning and racial diversity, it’s roughly the same map.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/01/2026

The demarcation between yellow and pale yellow in south Minneapolis is 38th st. This is the marker between “can do a fourplex, maybe, and can’t” in our current zoning. Our zoning didn’t really change much in the 2040 plan, mostly it just technically raised the floor from one home to 3. 2/10

Zoning map of Minneapolis in the same general south central area showing that the zoning gets more restrictive at 38th st.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/01/2026

Fellow Russian Bots, repost with an obscure proof of life in MN

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 11/09/2025

Going to @yimbytown.bsky.social this weekend and will be co-presenting with @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how recent zoning code changes have impacted Minneapolis and St Paul!

YIMBYtown2025
Sunday September 14, 2025 / 4:15pm-5pm

“Analyzing for Buildability: Lessons from the Twin Cities Zoning Reforms”

A picture of me in a hat with my name.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 16/06/2025

My current ideal is somewhere between Maude Adams and a 1910s fashion plate.

Maude Adams, an early Broadway performer photo from 1900.

She has a femme face, short ear-length hair, and is wearing all black with a large flower or lapel piece on her 3 piece suit with a black cravat. Has masculine and feminine vibes.

A fashion plate with three figures in 1910s fashions of layered skirts, and blousy shirts with fancy collars.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 12/05/2025

Drop a movie that you flat out refuse to watch again. It’s incredible. I watched it for a college class. Never again.

A poster for Oldboy (2003) featuring Choi Min-sik as Oh Dae-Su looking haggard and covered in splatters of blood.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 12/04/2025

@americanfietser.com had a lovely trip to the annual Textile Center Garage Sale yesterday and was able to carry home my new serger and three very full bags of fabric. Oh! Also the textile center had nice bike parking and gave me a coupon when they saw my helmet. #CargoBikes #CarryShitOlympics

A Tern GSD, long tail bike, in a parking lot. Under the cover of the cargo box on the back we can see a used serger in a box.

A top down view later showing one of the three bags and the serger in the cargo box. The bag is resting on the bike seat.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 30/03/2025

I find the muting words and blocking works well here. Excited for local politics, and happy my grey-face doggos are doing well.

Bloomers, a brindle and white dog with a greying face, having a nap with a little blep on a couch cushion.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 06/03/2025

This building is about the same size as the homes in the article, 5300 sq ft on a 9k lot, but has four homes instead.

Photo of a two story fourplex with yellow paint and a flat green roof taken by @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 26/01/2025

Reference photo acquired!

Actual photo! Of tall (right) and smol (left) doing the arm in arm thing, but tucked in/down.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 26/01/2025

this is such a cute couple! IRL, 5’4 and 6’3, I put my arm under tall’s arm and rest my hand on his forearm. Here’s a bad drawing of approximately how that works. :)

Terrible side view line drawing showing Tall A with bent right elbow and Short B with left arm held parallel to shoulder, elbow behind A’s elbow and hand crossing back over to grip A’s forearm. It’s.. kinda old school knight + lady pose tbh. But works irl for arm in arm with height difference.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 25/01/2025

Our dog who demands the bed also growls if you move 1/2 inch in your sleep. Sometimes even the king bed isn't enough. But they are so cute.

An orange dog named Trousers with his head on your blanketed lap giving you the sad sigh that means let me on the bed so we can sleep. His eyes are looking down, and his right ear is inside out.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/01/2025

The engine and heart of the house.

Most of this house is cluttered with ornamentation. This room is the heart of that output and strangely untouched by it.

This is a ceramics or pottery studio. To the left is a glass door to the outside, then a drying rack with unfinished pieces. Behind the rack is a rolling table for flattening clay. To the right is a low work bench with hundreds of colored glaze pots on shelves above. And several dozen more taller bottles on the floor under the bench.

The floor is functional with 12 by 12 plain white or biscuit tile, the better to find and clean any dropped project. The back wall has storage and more small glaze pots and tools.

This room makes clear that the owner of the home may have made many of the tiles and mosaics themselves as a labor of creativity and love of art. And that even a maximalist needs a room with quiet efficiency of form sometimes.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 11/12/2024

Down to 50.9F in Ward 8.

A thermometer reading 50.9F on the cold water from a faucet ahead of very cold temperatures on Thursday. A local tradition.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 26/11/2024

Seriously, the 3+ hour difference in availability between downtown food places and ones elsewhere in the city is a huge issue. The five guys in downtown closes at a very standard dinner time. Many other places are lunch only. Or basically just bars/no food.

info about the chain restaurant five guys in downtown Minneapolis showing they close at 7pm

Same info about the five guys in Richfield (a close suburb) showing it closes at 10pm.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 23/11/2024

Enjoyed making this as a first time cross stitch.

A cross stitch of “Narratives of Hopelessness only serve the Powerful.” In a rainbow variety of colors.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 04/11/2024

Home buying is so stressful. Trousers and I are wishing you massive luck.

Trousers extending his paw tot he camera in full belly up stretch mode

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 21/10/2024

We need a Land Value Tax in order to encourage smart land use. And now is the right time for the state legislature to pass that authorization. A wealth tax is good, but taxing land speculation in response to a changing downtown is better. www.startribune.com/readers-writ...

Minneapolis needs a reset
In response to the Oct. 11 story “Mpls. to look at new taxes as downtown property values dip”: Property is valued both on the building and on the value of the location and proximity to community or “land value.” Today, our tax system focuses on the building. So, for example, empty lots pay very little in taxes. While the downtown office building values have decreased, the value of the land downtown is as high as ever. The strong transit connections, proximity to the lakes and the riverfront and other community resources haven’t moved or changed. The problem is we’ve changed what we need to use the land for as we shift to working from home. Homes and retail rather than business offices or parking are needed downtown. A land value tax would shift focus to value the proximity to community resources, encouraging empty lots or vacant buildings to become homes. It wouldn’t be a new tax; it’s just a shift in how we assess property values.

The state Legislature needs to pass a land value tax authorization so Minneapolis can solve its downtown tax crisis. A land value tax report in 2021 showed clear benefits to passing last year’s HF 1342. And HF 1342 made it to the conference committee in 2023-2024. It is time to shift this tax burden to the people speculating on property so they pay their fair share now, repurpose and rebuild — or sell the land to someone who will.

Brit Anbacht, Minneapolis

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 18/10/2024

Advertise your account with just one image

Dog wants fetch, refuses to give ball meme
First panel: Dog asks for more homes
Second panel: refuses to give ball “no zoning change”
Third panel: more intense dog “only build illegal homes”

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 17/10/2024

Allergies are currently putting me in insomnia town. Please enjoy my friends cat burger (or ice cream?) who I get to visit sometimes despite cat allergies.

A grey cat with green-brown eyes. No thoughts only bounce on notebook looking at you.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 20/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #100,368! Oh, this is a smaller number than I thought it would be. Huh!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #100,368, Brit ‪@britvulcan.bsky.social‬, joined on May 31, 2023"

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 17/09/2024

So excited to be back at my favorite Thai place, Pasara Thai in Alexandria VA, during my #HomesAct trip.

Pasara Thai, you can see me and my umbrella in the reflection.

A map of the Carlyle area in Alexandria. Pasara Thai is the first restraint on the map. This is where the Patent Office is located.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 17/09/2024

Had some cinnamon roll French toast at Ike’s. Very tasty.

Cinnamon roll French toast on a plate with butter. Tasty airport food.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 30/06/2024

I wonder if MN is slowly replacing my Michigander accent.

NYT accent quiz showing Minneapolis as my language epicenter.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 13/05/2024

Help Speedy help @neolithicsheep.bsky.social have a great birthday by spreading greatness to your home. Koala containment system not included.

A stuffed KOALA plushie with a mischievous look trapped in a door hung plushie containment unit. His name is Speedy and he is plotting escape.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 22/03/2024

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Columbo, asking about “one more thing” and solving the case.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 11/03/2024

Finally got a decent pic of me having #mcas flushing. Had oral procedure almost 2 weeks ago and the aftercare has just been one long trigger. I’d rate this a 4/5 for me with overall mild mcas.

Close up of my arm with a red mottled flush reaction with red “freckles”. Related to mcas.

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Brit @britvulcan.net · 26/11/2023

New attempted murder in the house thanks to @secondlina.bsky.social

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