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Why is it that every police department seems to wish it was a protection racket instead?

I just want you to know that if anyone asks, the Hennepin Ave Bikeway killed French Meadow in Minneapolis. People will try to tell you Hennepin Ave is blocks away from French Meadow, and entirely unrelated. Don’t let them. We all know it’s true.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 21h

I did another set of beers! They’re all from Summit! Which is facing foreclosure! What!?!?

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The real social technology is “Da Gang” and “Consciously Hosting people.” Anyway this is why I hate the whole “you don’t owe other people anything” vein of self care discourse.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 29/09/2026

The lesbian version of being forced to sleep on the couch due to garbage behavior is choosing to sleep on the couch in a potentially futile attempt to avoid catching your partner’s cold.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 27/09/2026

I’m too busy to keep up with my brewing hobby. Anyone in the Twin Cities want to take advantage of this fact by buying my six tap kegerator and/or kegs? You could be the coolest mom (or dad, or person) on your block—with 6 different types of root beer on tap (or other beverages).

A six-tap Komos Kegerator, with stainless steel front and tap “tee.” It’s in fantastic shape, and worth your hard earned dollars.

The back of Nissa’s Komos kegerator showing off an LED light strip that really classes it up, and a back-mounted CO2 canister and dual body regulator.

The inside of Nissa’s Kegerator, with ball lock fittings and brass manifolds/shutoffs for the CO2 lines.

Eight 5 gallon nsf certified ball lock kegs and two 2.5 gallon ball lock kegs. They’re in phenomenal condition, and all purchased new by Nissa as recently as last year.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 24/09/2026

I’ve started driving for a midwestern EMS service. Here’s how I’ve outfitted my rig (2010 Toyota RAV4).

The center cupholders of a 2010 RAV4 with two bottles of Bolthouse Farms ranch dressing in them. Parts of the dash are visible.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 23/09/2026

Arguing with a guy on Reddit who thinks ride share drivers making $25/hr is absurd and we might as well mandate they make $1,000/hr for how absurd it is—meanwhile the total compensation for Uber’s CEO in 2025 amounted to about $17,000/hr.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 23/09/2026

I continue to be amazed at the number of well-meaning cishet parents who believe that discussing the existence of queer or trans folks isn't appropriate before a certain age—as if we don't discuss and expose kids to cis and heterosexual things from the moment they're born without issue.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 22/09/2026

This is my child, Thomas. He is the most beautiful and majestic member of my family.

A fawn boxer (Thomas) sleeping on top of a blanket on a couch between Nissa's legs. He is incredibly cute, with his face/jowls smooshing into her leg.

A fawn boxer (Thomas) sleeping on top of a blanket on a couch between Nissa's legs with his head in her lap. He remains incredibly cute.

A fawn boxer (Thomas) sleeping on top of a blanket on a couch between Nissa's legs with his head in her lap. He remains incredibly cute, and now he's fully upside down with his front paws folded down by his chest like a T-Rex.

A fawn boxer (Thomas) sleeping on top of a blanket on a couch between Nissa's legs with his head in her lap. Another angle for the last picture. He again remains incredibly cute, and fully upside down with his front paws folded down by his chest like a T-Rex.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 20/09/2026

Some people will tell you the only ethical place to fart on an airplane is in the bathroom. I disagree. In fact, it’s even more ethical to walk up and fart in First Class.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 20/09/2026

“Not all men” is really annoying because while most of the time it’s said by a mediocre cishet man who deserves all the derision possible, sometimes it’s said by an earnest and kind trans woman in deep denial—and you often don’t know for sure until a couple years later.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 20/09/2026

Grabbed pho with my mom tonight and the restaurant was teeming with awkward hormonal teenagers on Homecoming dates. Why are the kids still wearing ungodly amounts of cologne/perfume?

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

mi
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 18/09/2026

The cowardice involved in graphically representing a butt on a bidet remote, but switching to “person with hair” for the vulva spray button is unacceptable. I demand a pictographic vulva, Toto.

A wall mounted Toto “Washlet” remote with various buttons to control seat open/close, stop spray, spray butt, spray vulva, air dry, etc. The vulva spray button is pictographically represented by a person with swoopy hair sitting and a spray hitting their crotch. Meanwhile, the butt spray button looks like a god damn butt, as it should.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 16/09/2026

Just remembered an “Are you goth?” quiz my friend gave me in high school and suddenly realized it was probably better at diagnosing neurodivergence than most current psych inventories.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15/09/2026

Council Member Soren Stevenson almost concluded his remarks by saying "the oversight will continue until morale improves."

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 15/09/2026

I spent entire minutes writing up these important findings on chili-sexual orientation, but Bluesky doesn’t want to hear it apparently. Anti-intellectualism is what that is.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 15/09/2026

Chili toppings and orientation: None: Ace Toppings on side: Demi Chips on top: Hetero top. Chips on bottom: Hetero bottom. Cheese on top: Homo top. Cheese on bottom: Homo bottom. Sour cream: Vanilla. Jalapeños: Kinky. Tomatoes: Femme. Onions: Masc. Avocado: Pillow Princess. Limes: Service/Power.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 14/09/2026

Any “Democrat” that can’t hold this line is a Republican.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 12/09/2026

My youngest, who is turning 8, made a birthday list. “Creepy doll” is my favorite item on the list and just refers to the “American Girl but cheaper” dolls that they personally find quite creepy.

A birthday list titled “thing’s I Want” written by a child that is turning 8 in a spiral notebook. Items include: “lol house, bean bag, pokemon card’s, lol omg doll, lol doll’s, mini verse, squish mello’s, big lol doll’s, and creepy doll”

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 12/09/2026

The idea that any of these people would consider Charlie Kirk worth lining up to debate is wild. Hell, Nietzsche wouldn’t even line up to debate the other people in the line—he’d be too busy sub-tweeting them in his next book and pining after women who didn’t like him (Nietzsche was OG Twitter).

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 12/09/2026

The fact that the US has bungled its relationship with Canada is mind blowing. We should have an open border with EU-style residency and work auth. I mean, I’ve had more culture shock going down my street than I’ve had going to multiple Canadian cities (incl Montreal). Make it make sense.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 12/09/2026

“The female orgasm is the woman’s responsibility” is basically the lesbian ethos, tbh.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 11/09/2026

If you see a woman or nonbinary person on the internet talking about bikes and you think you have important mansplaining to do, please just trust that their wife has their back and can help them out *when asked,* and you are not needed.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 09/09/2026

Anyone know of a company that does home network wiring in Minneapolis? Giving up on mesh wifi's ability to solve my weird old house without wiring up the base stations at the very least.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 08/09/2026

I know we’re supposed to be wary of algorithms and data collection in social media, but I often find myself wanting to give them *more* information. Ex: Instagram now shows me videos of men splitting large logs because I paused on one once. But, I’d rather see videos of women splitting large logs.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 08/09/2026

Alumni bumper stickers are great. How else would you know that the person that just aggressively passed you and your family while biking on a residential street went to the same school you did? It hits different when you know the folks endangering you have the same liberal arts education you do.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 07/09/2026

It’s actually kind of wild it took Republicans so long to exploit MAHA as a concept given that their entire M.O. has been playing off of people’s fears and anxieties.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 06/09/2026

Listen, I’m not saying “don’t let grown men who wear Get Up Kids shirts put it in you,” but I’ve now run across two dogshit dads in Get Up Kids shirts at the farmer’s market—different dads, different days. So, tread lightly?

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 06/09/2026

Introducing: Thomas Potato 2026 has been a year of pain and heartbreak for my family & for my city. We brought this little pal home 2 weeks ago and he is bringing us SO much joy and laughter. I hope we have many, many years ahead together.

10 week old fawn colored boxer puppy tilts his head at the camera, sitting in grass

10 week old fawn colored boxer puppy sniffs flowers

10 week old fawn colored boxer puppy sleeps on Laura’s lap

10 week old fawn colored boxer puppy holds an orange ring in his mouth while sitting outside on grass

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 05/09/2026

Incubus’ S.C.I.E.N.C.E album is quintessential teenage angst music, but every year that goes by it continues to hold up. We need to teach the youth the classics. 🙏🏻

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 05/09/2026

Consider this a formal complaint to the Death in the Family Committee. I do believe you will find I had already hit my rolling ten year quota.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 05/09/2026

My uncle died last night, 48 days after his youngest brother—my dad. We weren’t very close, but he was one of the first queer folks I knew, along with my aunt—his and my dad’s sister. He was a very kind man who loved playing the organ, and had survived both the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis. 1/2

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 01/09/2026

Small businesses are getting fucked by retail rent and some of them are blaming it on bike lanes and parking rather than landlords not understanding that the value of their property is tied to the success of the businesses that rent it and there is therefore a ceiling to what they can charge. 1/3

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 01/09/2026

I got a fevah—and the only prescription… is more density.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 31/08/2026

Sometimes I get way too caught up in silly little arguments with anti-bike people online... when all around me I see stuff like THIS! 😍 Organizations like @bikemn.bsky.social are giving people the knowledge and skills they need to bike (for transportation, exercise and/or fun). Change is happening.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 31/08/2026

I did it again! Here’s your guide to all the new state fair beers!

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 31/08/2026

Forgot to post these pics of the bike parking at the Minnesota State Fair on opening day.

Bikes packed in tightly touching each other locked to rows of bike racks. Hundreds of bikes are visible. A fair ride can be seen in the background.

A couple people walk past a sea of bikes locked to bike racks. The Warner Coliseum is visible in the background.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 29/08/2026

Being an “elder emo” is mostly about getting updates every couple years on which of your favorites were/are sex pests.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 28/08/2026

My draft of the 2026 State Fair Beer Guide has been submitted. Final breakdown: 15 Skip, 10 Shrug, and 9 Slurp! (a couple of which downgrade to Skip or Shrug if you’re not a specific type of sicko).

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 27/08/2026

Made it through all 34 new “beers” at the Minnesota State Fair. Big thanks to @willwoodworth.com for helping out and keeping me company over the course of what was essentially a 5 hour tasting marathon. Now I just have to turn my notes into something readable.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 27/08/2026

Open offer to any Racket Member (Over 21) who spots me at the fair tomorrow morning—I’ll give you a free beer. All you have to do is say, “Holy shit, it’s that queer beer lady.” I’ll be running through 34 new beers and am happy to hook a friend up after I’ve poured a bit off for reviewing.

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chriscesq @chriscesq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Losing Catherine O'Hara and Dolly Parton in the same year while that orange homunculus still slithers about the earth is such a fucking gut punch.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 23/08/2026

According to “the Edge” the “sacred masculine” is pretty and has boobs and hips. I mean… I could get behind that. Men, this is the goal.

A copy of “the Edge,” a free magazine that claims to be “a community for higher consciousness.” The cover has what might be an AI illustration if what’s supposed to be the “divine feminine” and the “sacred masculine” personified as people—one that small and red and pretty (in a conventionally feminine way) and another that’s bigger and blue and pretty (in what is also a very feminine way). The magazine advertises restoring harmony and strength—and pretty boys with boobs and hips.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 22/08/2026

It’s easy, when you live in a city and occasionally spend an hour or two in the suburbs, to think the suburbs are antisocial and strange. However, having spent three of the last five weeks in the suburbs, I’m convinced it’s worse than that—their existence is actually a weird heterosexual sex thing.

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MN Cargo Bike Library @mcbl.bike · 21/08/2026

Our Bunch bike went on a big adventure today… and is actually staying put at the final destination for a few weeks. Any guesses on where the bike is hanging out? (Hint: it’s not in Minneapolis)

Minnesota Cargo Bike Library Bunch bike is parked on the Franklin bridge over the Mississippi river.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 20/08/2026

Sometimes a “Guten Tag” doesn’t cut it and what you need is a “Gluten Tag.”

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 27/07/2026

not to be controversial but i love trans women

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