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Hey, this is super close to goal—anyone want to help them cross the finish line???

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It was sent out to anyone who entered the e-bike lottery in 2024 or 2025. I’m hoping they’ll use it to demonstrate how great that initiative was and why it should be reinstated 🤞

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“This research is being conducted by the U of M, w/research funding provided by Minnesota cities and counties through the Minnesota Local Road Research Board and support by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.” Doesn’t specifically mention CTS (where I once had an internship!)

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No bueno! I have some thoughts on how to handle it but I’ll save them for IRL 🤬

The University of Minnesota!

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Interesting. I think we've come a long way with plain language since then, but maybe not when designing a survey instrument

NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026

Always happy to do a survey about e-bikes, but the tortured phrasing of some of these questions is breaking my brain. If someone with two masters degrees is struggling, I wonder how accessible it is "I expect that people who are important to me think that I should use an e-bike" WTF does this mean??

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The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year. n.pr/4jAMXo6

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Pro-Trump Influencer Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation by ICE protesters

The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year.

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N Mpls girl "struck by a car while...delivering invitations for her birthday 11th birthday party. Angel is currently in the pediatric intensive care unit and has multiple surgeries and a long recovery ahead." Let's make sure Angel's mama can focus on her babies during this horrible time.

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I might have missed that! Much like I missed the happy hour (which I regret!)

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/10/2026

I saw a podcast episode title today that said "Is Privacy Making Us Lonely?" and of course it's more complicated than that, but also...maybe, yeah. Side note: I didn't even realize until now that "[City I'm visiting]: I am in you" had gone away. 🫤

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Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown

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Looks like he let registration lapse this year (if this is indeed the right filing) so yeah it’s probably dead in the water mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/Sea...

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Business Filing Details

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A bookstore I can walk to? Yay! I see, so the pizza place would be between the orthodontist and lowbrow.

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Yup. And it’s only gotten worse over the years.

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Which building is it? SW corner of 43rd And Nicollet?

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That’s awesome! Thank you

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How about if some of the time it’s available as a training facility for people who are camping curious but are scared. They could learn how to start a fire, waterproof their site, keep bears away, etc (I’d go!)

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In other unnecessary news, TIL Jeff Lynne is married to someone whose exes include Kiefer Sutherland (when he was 20, she 34 😬), and the guy from Chicago (band) who shot himself in the head on accident because he thought his gun wasn’t loaded. I need to hear her stories!

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It never fails: if you watch really old law and order episodes and spot a now-famous actor who was unknown at the time, they *will* end up being the killer (this time it was Meredith Grey herself, Ellen Pompeo)

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Bots? Other than that I got nuthin’

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I saw that, too. The world gets more bizarre and pathetic by the minute

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Like, legit, I think that could be coming.

In Minneapolis I can think of at least a couple chains that allow it! But not all of them…yet 🤞

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It’s got Hegseth written all over it

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Some grocery workers do get to sit, primarily at union shops, though. Workers at my local co-op organized a campaign to be allowed to sit and they won!

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This man is aging like a fine, fine wine. Also I want his life 😍

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Fatou Traore, a legal resident in the U.S. for 20 years, was grabbed by ICE on her way to work at the University of Iowa on Sept. 24. Traore was told she'll be sent to Sierra Leone, which she’s never even visited, leaving her husband & sons: Yousouf, 3; Boubacar, 8; Mamadou, 14; and Esoumaila, 19.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones

“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”

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It still made me laugh! 😂

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Assuming it's a real poster, I can't seem to find it anywhere else--still funny either way!

They're really leaning into that "Dune 2: Doin' Yer Mom" joke with this, aren't they?

Oh my goodness, I am so happy to see you here! And yeah, probably the weirdest two years of all time.

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The parts of the letter highlighted in this post say "If there are steps we can take at the state level to support your mission...please consider our caucus an ally in that work. Thank you, Secretary Noem, for your steady leadership...We stand with them"

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Would love to see a link to the source of this (not because I don't think it's real, but because I want to make sure others do)

They're out here doing this fuckshit, meanwhile they have high-use pages and forms that look like this. Start with the fucking basics!

State department's passport application portal. All the text and background colors are on the left half of the page. The right half is blank. There are so many design issues that I'm listing them at the end so you can skip it if you trust me that it's really bad.
Still here? Okay, so the color palette is yellow and blue, theres an image of a bunch of what must be passport-related docs spread out on a white surface. There are three columns of text, the first of which has a slightly arched top that cuts off the corner edges of the header. Turns out that is meant to convey that you need to hover over each column to see added info for each column. The three columns are Fill Out Online and Print (in title case, which is not the USDS style guideline), Report Lost or Stolen, and Check Status. The text that appears above Report Lost or Stolen is black on a dark yellow background, which I'd be surprised if it meets color contrast minimums. You have to hover on a column to see that there's an action button for each of them. That button says the same thing in each column: Submit. That's not the expected action here, though.
Also the buttons look like they're from the 90s, but not in a cool way.

PDF of the Application for a US Passport. It looks like it's in 6 pt font with line spacing at .8.

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Isn’t The Repair Shop also on Netflix?

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If she pulled a fedora out of her dress and started doing a little vaudeville routine, that would tip the scales into “LOVE” for me

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Yeah, I quote that enough that my 18-year-old is familiar with it!

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I can’t rank them! But based purely on how frequently I reference it, it’s the first one.

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That’s my fave, too! Go hang a salami sounds like an ancient Sicilian curse

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He and Mikey both look like they guesstimated their own heights and got garments that reflected their inaccuracy

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