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Okay, Michele

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PNW ➡️ MN. Bikes, coffee. Took my profile with a Nikon CoolPix waaaaayyyyy back in the day.

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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 18h
Our state is officially hitting the part of the year where folks are getting around before light and after dark. Angle lights down while on trails, forward when on roads. Strobe saves battery but annoys everyone. Use sparingly. Make sure your lights are visible from 500+ feet away.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Love. archive.ph/65VNU
washingtonpost.com
Students created a program to make walking safer — and schools are now using it
Three Northern Virginia high school seniors decided that because most map programs are for drivers, they would make one for pedestrians.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reup: 4 HSI Agents--like the people who raided Ilhan Omar today--have lied to judges at least 36 times to target Dems and other Trump opponents, one to excuse following a Todd Blanche order, another to do Harmeet Dhillon's dirty work. emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...
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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats - emptywheel
There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Boston Globe: Why do we tolerate so many pedestrians killing themselves?
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So tricky! Sending you back the grace and energy you send to others!
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Sean Lim @seanlimmn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hi friends! I’ll be screen-printing more of these posters today 🩵 come find me this weekend to pick up yours: @ourstreetsmn.org — Imagine 6th Ave N.🚏Saturday, Oct 10th at Bethune Elementary (11am – 5pm) Uptown Association — Hennepin Ave.🚏Sunday, Oct 11th at W 32nd S & Hennepin Ave S. (11am – 5pm)
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. **updated PDF link** PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's finally here. Join us for Sibling Rivalry TONIGHT, 6pm, at Black Hart.🖤 Food, games, comedians roasting each other's cities. You don't want to miss this. Tonight we bury Minneapolis. Tickets $30: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
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shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
any interior design loving mutuals out there? potential gig / last eyes on a remodel available.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reposting my own stuff cause I spent a lot of time on it.
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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, you like summer weather AND fall colors??? PROVE IT. Saturday has highs in the 80s and the trees are multicolored quilts. Register today: bikemn.org/tcbt
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Twin Cities Bike Tour - Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
The Twin Cities Bike Tour is an annual autumn bike ride tradition with routes around the Twin Cities Minnesota metro area.
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Joshua Houdek @jhoudek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
HAPPPY NATIONAL BIKE & WALK TO SCHOOL DAY!!!!! 130 events just in MN www.walkbiketoschool.org/registration...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 06/10/2026
fuck amazon, fuck prime day, independent bookstores forever
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The West 7th T-District meeting is TONIGHT, 6pm, at the Palace Rec Center! If you live nearby and support abundant housing, local businesses, walkability, and transit, come help us push for more T3 and less carveouts for gas stations. New to zoning? Don't worry, we will be there to help!
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Nietifa Van Suiker @lukewanderer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@peterwagenius.bsky.social dropping some capital T Truth at the @streets.mn "Electing Transportation Champions" event! (listening to the recording today) @britvulcan.net making interesting point calling out @pattyacomb.bsky.social, too.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
@chefjoseandres
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© Translated from Spanish by Grok
Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 02/10/2026
Someone (not sure if it was the city or Michels contractors after finishing work here) removed all of the tactical urbanism cones on Blaisdell last week. Since then, 75% of the time I’m on this street (4x/day) I see drivers pull into the bikelane.
MPRB landscaping truck in a protected bikelane Blue sedan also in protected bikelane behind MPRB vehicle
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
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Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller - emptywheel
When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that...
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yikes.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What’s a good Halloween movie for a group of kids aged 10-13?
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I went looking for a good link about Newt and Susan Smith, and found this from 2016:
motherjones.com
A very long list of dumb and awful things Newt Gingrich has said and done
Still, he may have a prominent role in the Trump administration.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Newly updated:
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Waving from Netherlands 🇳🇱
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
D’oh, Midi?!
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Which train church is this?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If somehow you’ve never heard from and learned about Jan Gehl, WATCH this very small taste of his unique career, and his singular contribution to public spaces in particular. Reading “Life Between Buildings” when I was young literally changed the course of my career. share.google/razqbJ0n7T0g...
Jan Gehl on the Copenhagen Stroget pedestrian street.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Writing about this exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum of work by Icelandic artist Erró. It speaks so potently to the past century and to this moment.
listasafnreykjavikur.is
Erró exhibition at the Reykjavík Art Musem
The artist Erró, born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in Ólafsvík, West Iceland, was among the most prominent figures of the European avant-garde of the 1960s.
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Kimista @kimista.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The NGV's stained glass ceiling. It's so magical to lay there and watch the light move across the room. It's so enormous and impossible to take it all in at once. (It's the largest stained glass ceiling in the world, but I'm not sure there is much competition.)
A photo of The Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria. The stained glass ceiling is about 13 metres high, 15 metres wide, and 51 metres long. It has an abstract rainbow pattern with tall poles holding up sections of the ceiling. The light is gently shining through the window.A closer photo of the stained glass showing the various patterns, shapes, and colours.A wider photo of the hall showing people laying on the ground looking up to the ceiling.A shot of the full length of the ceiling all 15m wide and 51m long.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The neighborhood coffeeshop has reopened! Sounds the tornado sirens!
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Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please watch & share with your city's decision makers: WHEN DRIVING ISN'T AN OPTION • Presents superb Anna Zivarts, ED of Nondrivers Alliance. Too many cities built as if all drove, when over 30% do not. All under 16, pp with physical or mental disabilities, others. bit.ly/4gXIEjT
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Kevin Gallatin @kevingallatin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm so excited for this!
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky
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Rachel @rachmarie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gigi is still available! Go get her!
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Dezeen @dezeen.com · 08/09/2026
Ten American ADUs that showcase their urban versatility: www.dezeen.com/2026/04/12/usa-adu-r…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remember that they did the same within the states--lots of people kidnapped in MN were robbed in TX before being sent back with nothing.
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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Three more colorful foliage plants that last all season so you don’t have to rely on flowers for color. And they can become houseplants too. Polka dot plant (Hypoestes) Confetti Pink, White and Rose. #FlowerReport
Low plants with small dark green leaves heavily spotted or dominated by light pink. Miniature ceramic houses in the background.Low plants with small dark green leaves heavily spotted or dominated by white. Miniature ceramic house in the background.Low plants with small dark green leaves heavily spotted or dominated by bright pink. A rock made into a house with a wooden door is in the background.
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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s mistflower season. This US native perennial looks just like the annual ageratum, confusing everyone. Aggressive reseeder. #FlowerReport
Panicle of small fluffy starry lavender flower heads.
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Okay, Michele @okaymichele.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank for this info. I did not know this, thought it was a pic of ageratum!
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm glad other people are covering this case -- I first covered the beanie back in July. But I'm increasingly seeing people (as here) covering CRIMINAL CASES and calling them lawsuits. 38 people are fighting to stay out of prison. [Also, the case against the 39th was dismissed entirely.]
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"Realizing that people in Germany could just go to the supermarket and spend $550 on a balcony solar panel that they could install themselves vs. $30,000 for a rooftop system was, uh, mildly radicalizing" - Kim-Mai Cutler www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... US hates those cheap chinese solar...
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Kevin Gallatin @kevingallatin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a really great article by a successful and respected Saint Paul entrepreneur.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because so many of us, both within the disability community and outside of it, are impacted by barriers created by car dependency, #WeekWithoutDriving offers us a chance to build relationships and power, all while amplifying our demand for more accessible communities. @disabilitylab.bsky.social
disabilityculturelab.org
Week Without Driving is About Access: How the Nondriver Movement is Building Disability Power — Disability Culture Lab
People with disabilities are one and a half times less likely to drive than nondisabled people, and two to three times more likely to live in a zero-vehicle household. We use transit and paratransit f...
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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 03/09/2026
Idaho legalized ADUs statewide. Boise is making them easier to build with free pre-approved plans and streamlined permitting. Great case of state reform creating a floor and local leaders raising it. ⬆️
idahostatesman.com
With free plans, Boise has big hopes for tiny homes. It starts in your own backyard
Boise is offering free plans to homeowners who want to add an accessory-dwelling unit, and local residents are starting to take note.
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