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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A technology that makes helmets safer for some kinds of crashes

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hah, we toned down the language but I think all the basic info is still there, I can double check though!

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes that's the goal! The Wildflowers org is still committed to keeping things going for now but we were fortunate the state legislature recognized that it deserves a long term institutional home

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The original Minnesota Wildflowers site isn't going away yet, but this ensures the long-term sustainability of this amazing native plant resource. I'm honored to have gotten to help support this site which I've used for years. Read the full announcement here: www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/blog/the-bel...

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The Bell Museum launches the future home for Minnesota Wildflowers Information - Bell Museum

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thrilled to share one of my big work projects over the past year: Minnesota Flora—the Bell Museum's future home for the beloved Minnesota Wildflowers Information website: mnflora.umn.edu

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Minnesota Flora

Carefully curated over 20 years, Minnesota Flora is a digital field guide covering over 1,800 native and non-native plant species found throughout our state's diverse ecosystems.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brian Eno realized this decades ago

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone drove into a hole on University Ave yesterday mndaily.com/top-story/ca...

Car nose first in roadway hole, only rear wheels visible. Construction workers look on and one is on the phone

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Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On Friday, three members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) released a letter expressing concern about a pattern of unsustainable and unaccountable spending within the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On January 14, CBP agents pulled into a UMN parking lot and blocked the intersection in front of the Humphrey School, but UMN continued to claim there was no ICE activity on campus. With today's conference in this building, let's not forget the U's dangerously muddy comms during that time

A black suburban stopped across two crosswalks at the 19th Ave S and 3rd St intersection, with the Humphrey School building in the background

Five masked agents wearing tactical gear standing in the intersection

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Sneha Narayan @snehanarayan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m at this conference, highly recommend this live thread. Seen some incredible quant and qual research talks so far. Currently listening to an international law expert carefully making the argument that elements of Operation Metro Surge amount to crimes against humanity. It’s sobering.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wait til I tell you what people in Minnesota already mean when they say "U of M"

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Keep that ultra rare misprinted stylesheet in your browser cache as long as you can

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

IT'S EVEN BETTER ON MOBILE

Screenshot where the word mark is way too big, it's cut off as "University o"

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the first day of classes, the University of Minnesota surprise-launched a slightly different maroon-and-gold color scheme and in the process managed to fuck up the logo on umn.edu.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The traffic safety cameras the city is piloting for automated enforcement look different. They have radar sensors and I do not believe they store license plate data unless they've violated traffic laws #knowYourTrafficCameras

Novoa Global-branded traffic safety camera. A semicircle cylinder-shaped enclosure is mounted on a lamp post alongside a separate infrared light

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Flock gets all the attention, but Minneapolis PD uses a different vendor of license plate reader cameras (Insight LPR). They are usually mounted on stoplight mast arms and they are installed at 30 intersections around the city. As of late last year I added them all to deflock.me

Closeup of the Insight camera devices. The top has a metal hood overhanging the front, and the camera end has two circles (the cameras) with a larger rectangle next to them containing infrared lights

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had the UMN anniversary apple crisp ice cream yesterday not realizing it was just released this week. It's the best UMN ice cream flavor I've tried. Get it at Coffman or in St Paul (under $3 for a generous scoop)! cfans.umn.edu/175-ice-crea...

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175th Anniversary Ice Cream Flavor

Produced on the St. Paul CampusGolden Gopher ice cream is made in the University’s Joseph J. Warthesen Food Processing Center — or Pilot Plant — in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition.CFANS s...

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You don't really know your future house until you get a peek down the poop chute

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Frey was on CLIC, as he tells us every year

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And if you need paint for a MN flag project, Bemjamin Moore 759 (Madison Avenue) and 826 (Stunning) are the closest housepaint colors I could find for the blue shades

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I love joking about the Mandela effect as much as anyone but I wish it were named after something more trivial than white people insisting they're not wrong on basic biographical facts about a famous black world leader

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gonna start calling it the Mancala effect and gaslighting anyone who tries to correct me

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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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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@wedge.live are you collecting royalties from cat tours in other cities?

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's probably them taking crude measures to protect against the flood of AI crawlers. Sounds like they're not doing a great job letting legitimate traffic through but it's not a trivial problem and I'd caution against assuming ill intent

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I heard this from someone else and am trying it in one spot. Part of me is skeptical that it will exhaust the plant because the leaves are still there storing energy, but glad to hear it's promising for you

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yeah at first glance I thought it was the Weisman lol

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You will need to compile libgenders yourself if a nonbinary isn't available for your platform.

Programming with Genders

Many different APIs have been developed that allow programmers to parse
and query the genders file. "libgenders" is a C API which can be linked
by including genders.h and linking the library libgenders. "libgendersplusplus"
is a C++ class built on top of libgenders. "Libgenders" is a Perl module
developed with Perl extensions. "Genders" is another Perl module, but offers
a more traditional Perl API than "Libgenders." Python bindings are also
available under a "Genders" class. The reader can learn more about these
libraries by reading the manpages libgenders(3), Libgenders(3) and Genders(3).
See "help(Genders)" for Python documentation.

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

No amount of pedestrianization and moving buses will fix how purposefully hostile downtown is to people.

A small space for sitting and performances with a large sculpture, completely fenced in.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yeah, this has been my realization through this. No shit it's felt like such a special place, so close to bdote, where Coldwater spring flows into the river

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ha, realistically I am full up on hobbies at the moment but that's cool! Do you shoot a lot of film?

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My museum colleagues found a pile of old slide carousels with educational plant photos and just got them professionally scanned. They look so damn good this might be the thing that gets me into film photography

A branch of a fruiting tree, perhaps wild apple, with rusty red leaves

A wild raspberry with small dark blue berry clusters on forking branches. The leaves are slightly out of focus behind the branch

An explosion of white flowers covers a tree branch, a bee is sticking its head into one

Wide shot of a tree with feathery foliage against a partly cloudy background

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That's cool you may be going down that path, hardware supply is certainly the challenge these days

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Supply Chain Summer is coming for Linux distros archlinux.org/news/active-...

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Arch Linux - News: Active AUR malicious packages incident

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I take solace in the knowledge that even though it may seem weird and inequitable to me, this is the most efficient means of allocating capital that humanity has yet devised

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Working at an R1 supercomputing center, I have both wondered this and have doubted that a University could stand up a novel IT project like this for general use in under 2 years. I am at least very glad we haven't been asked to divert our resources in this direction

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This piece crystallized my discomfort with the U's AI stance. The language about not replacing human thought and using it deliberately papers over their assumption that higher AI literacy means using it more. They leave no room for avoiding AI as a valid/rational choice hr.umn.edu/supervising/...

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Why Am I So Annoyed With AI? (And What Can I Do About It?)

Explore why AI use can leave managers feeling frustrated and how to respond in a practical, development-focused way. The article offers a simple AI literacy framework, prompt elements that can improve...

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Marx: The term "preroll" disgusts me. It reifies the alienation of labor as the essence of the commodity, completely neglecting the use-value and its often subversive historical context Me: Do you wanna hit this joint or not man

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Another case of Minnesotan Excellence.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Chelydra serpentina, the common snapping turtle

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One benefit of doing data work for a science museum is sometimes you happen upon a cute photo of a turtle and you can keep the lil guy up on your second monitor for encouragement

Laptop with a well-lit closeup photo of a turtle

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