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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@lakemichigan13.bsky.social Can I put in a request for a few minutes of sunset footage on behalf of Pepper?

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also it's really easy to switch nowadays.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 18/09/2026

Hey, a reminder that even though it's been two weeks and things have quieted down, @1password.bsky.social is still giving $300k to a fascist shithead and you should cancel your account and loudly let them know. (Ditto for DigitalOcean, except it's even more money)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This headline makes it sound like a 76 year old dude put his head down and ran full-force into a pickup truck.

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Ash Chudgar @chudgar.com · 11/09/2026

This very evening, in Columbia Heights, HSI and local police kidnapped another of our neighbors. They were all remarkably relaxed. Over the winter, they were rampaging; now they are quiet and confident. We could not stop them. 19/x

A man with a beard wears a POLICE vest with a Taser attached

A tattooed HSI agent performs hours gender to an audience of fellow goons as Somali neighbors look on

Three ICE guys strut down a street in Columbia Heights. They are wearing stretch chinos and little sneakers while carrying long guns

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Didn't get a chance to see #mnstatefair crop art or just want to see it again? I took 350+ photos and stitched them together to create a Gaussian splat of the room, then spent several hours tagging most of the art so you could click on it and learn more. Check it out: cropart.mapki.com

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MN State Fair Crop Art — Walkthrough

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Radars across the eastern half of the U.S. States exploded with reflectivity ~22 hrs ago. Most is the result of birds with current estimates now over half a BILLION actively in flight. This is part of the annual fall migration southward and appears to be the busiest night of the season underway.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nice to see the temporary Flock cameras set up around the #mnstatefair. I'm sure all the people driving near the fair feel safer.

A Flock camera strapped to a pole on the median along Snelling, just outside the main entrance to the State Fair.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Tommy Brennan's standup at Acme tonight was really good.

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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A stillborn birth. Limited emergency access. The homeless encampment at Randolph Avenue tripled from 40-60 people to at least 140 people overnight, and some say over 200. A month later, no one is calling the clearing of the Pig's Eye encampment a success story. www.twincities.com/2026/09/02/s...

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St. Paul: Randolph Avenue homeless encampment has grown by at least 100

The Randolph Avenue woods, once home to some 40 or more people, now encompass at least 140 to 150 people, according to the city. The site, which is woodsier and more dispersed than Pig’s Eye, lacks ea...

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We really needed this rain.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We had some very photogenic corn for breakfast at the #mnstatefair.

A photo of two cobs of sweet corn, each held by a separate person, glowing in the morning sunlight.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What're people's preferred alternatives to 1password? Difficulty level: Android, macOS, Firefox apps required.

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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Transit has always been the best way to get to the Minnesota State Fair! From 1891 to 1952 a complex streetcar network ran in and out of the fairgrounds bringing thousands of visitors every day. You can still see the historic arch that trolleys would pass under.

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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 28/08/2026

There’s nothing like walking through the fair, but some people can’t do that. So here ya go! 2026 Minnesota State Fair Walkthrough! Opening Day, August 27, 2026! youtu.be/YSDuF6NeVmY

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2026 Minnesota State Fair Walkthrough! Opening Day, August 27, 2026!

YouTube video by Walking Minnesota

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Dave @daveamp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

CVS says you can now schedule COVID boosters with the updated vaccine.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lots of people are learning about the complexities of digital map viewpoint data. Should I point them to the discussion about how OSM decided to represent this in their tagging schema too?

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Anders @derzquist.net · 29/08/2026

We need to build a second Fair above, or below, the current Fairgrounds

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Matthew “Bike Guy” @bikeguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake Ontario forever 🌊🌊

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Unlike the Gulf of Mexico name change in GNIS, the Lake America change happened pretty quick today: edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-dom... Interesting that after a mention of today's EO the history ends with: The variant name, "Kaniatarí:io Lake", is a Mohawk name which translates to: "nice lake".

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Geographic Names Information System

Gaz Web Application

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Saw some migrating birds in the morning on the weather radar. They look like these arcs:

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sure @nerd4cities.bsky.social's video on Minneapolis touches on the great progress the city has made on cycling infrastructure, but it's also a really moving recognition of trauma the city has gone through recently. Definitely worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1qN...

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Is Minneapolis Too Nice for Its Own Good?

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...

A map showing the path of the 2026 total eclipse over Iceland and Spain, with markers showing webcams and a countdown until the eclipse begins, and it hitting the first webcam.

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UmmSqueaky @ummsqueaky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Minnesota will never forget. We will never forgive. Fuck ICE and all the rest. Go get ‘em Peggy. (Art by La Gata Fea Linocut)

A common loon in the middle of a linocut print, its wings spread wide with a banner reading never forget, never forgive. It grips a Minnesota flag in its talons

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/08/2026

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 08/08/2026

I truly wish city leaders and residents would understand the we have a housing crisis. Raiding camps won't solve that. But we also have a proud history of houselessness. Our city was founded by an encampment. Places like Swede Hollow were shantytowns for most of our history--more than a century.

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Drew Curtis @drewcurtis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.

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Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart

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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is one of the best articulations I've seen from a politician about addressing homelessness humanely at the local level. This is key! Take note Minneapolis!

Relatedly, it's imperative that the city and our partners have a comprehensive plan in place to track the individuals living in the encampments following the closures. Time and again, I have heard from service providers that in order to help their clients get into stable housing, in order to keep people alive, in order to provide the support that we know they need, the providers have to know where their clients are. Providers who have experienced recent encampment closures in Minneapolis describe losing their clients for months at a time, setting back months or even years of progress; spending more time searching for clients than providing needed medical care or other services; and losing people for good, never knowing what happened to them.
This serves no one, least of all those most in need of our support.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sharing two links. First, yesterday’s Public Safety Committee meeting, in which Assistant Mayor Cedrick Backer discussed the Mayor’s plan to close all encampments in Saint Paul. www.youtube.com/live/Ifc4soK...

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July 22, 2026 - City Council Public Safety Committee Meeting

YouTube video by City of Saint Paul

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's frustrating to hear about stuff like this because St. Paul (really, any city) could decide to close every other residential street tonight with minimal interruption to people in cars while making every other person happier and safer. But we just ... don't?

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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

nws says that this should fizzle out as it nears the cities. the main risk will be damaging wind at that point. it’s all warmed to 60mph rn which is the minimum for severe thunderstorms, hail is quarter sized but they seem to think that will dissipate.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

FYI it's gonna get a little stormy in a few hours in the Twin Cities. Don't be surprised if you get woken up by this:

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

i built a web interface that sits on top of github.com/amandasaurus... so you can build your own before/after animations of OpenStreetMap without setting up the infra: beforeafter.mapki.com Give a start and end time, draw a bbox, and get an animated gif like beforeafter.mapki.com/jobs/736aaf6....

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 01/07/2026

if you've been pondering picking anything up from my webstore, it'll be closing for summer holiday on Friday, so order soon! shop.dansinker.com

grid of products from a screenshot of my webstore

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Snap has laid off 1000's of people instead of killing this project.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 22/06/2026

I had a serious bike accident in Minneapolis last month and was in the HCMC ICU for several days after needing emergency brain surgery. We put together a GFM; I'm looking for some help with the mounting costs as I recover. Anything you can spare will help <3 gofund.me/97b67235a

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Donate to Help Taber Recover From Traumatic Brain Injury, organized by Taber Bain

On May 24th, I was in a serious bike accident. The hospital told me I was hi… Taber Bain needs your support for Help Taber Recover From Traumatic Brain Injury

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#OnThisDay June 19 1954: TCRT CEO Fred Ossanna receives his payout in front of a burning streetcar in an event staged to celebrate the changeover from electric rail to GM buses. Ossanna was later convicted of fraud in the deal, but by then the venerable 500-mile-long system was gone.