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Midway resident. Teacher.

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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“I’m going to vote for this because I do want some version of this to be the law, and I think we’re a lot more likely to get some version of this in the end if we pass it than if we don’t.” As always, Naomi Kritzer is a fantastic resource on our elections.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At the movies, making memories by taking a picture of an ad for making memories by taking pictures.
A movie theater. On screen, a man holds a phone in his hand, and is taking a picture of two guys biking down a street. Behind the hand, we see the guys biking down the street. In the theater, there is a guy in a front row on his phone, the blue light of the phone screen shining in the dark. There is some lighting along the walls illuminating the red carpet and walls.
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 09/10/2026
🚨 Trump keeps attacking Somali Minnesotans to distract from his failures. But Minnesotans aren’t falling for it. Today, neighbors across the state stood watch outside their local mosques during Friday prayers. Enjoy this thread of Minnesotans loving our neighbors, & reply with your own photos! 🧵👇🏾
Multiracial group of people stand outside mosque with signs that read “welcome the stranger” and “human rights are not political”Group of people standing outside mosque with signs about loving our neighbors
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tom Cruise was unrecognizable in this! What a performance!
A movie poster for the film "Digger," showing three big heads at the top (one smiling kid, one smiling older woman, one grimacing older man) and at the bottom two different-sized boys walking toward a huge sun, which is I think a symbol for climate change.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An ineffectively-applied temporary tattoo of a possum, grinning over the word "Midway!", on a fist stretched out over a delicious bowl of pho.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Midway Music and Arts — today and tomorrow. This afternoon — arts show at Hamline Park!
A panoramic view of a park filled with tents displaying arts for sale. Many folks wandering about.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which version of modern punditry do you prefer: "This thing I do is [secretly] the cheat code for everything" OR "This thing most other people do is [secretly] misguided hogwash"?
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Feeling really Friday today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQls...
A tabby on a lap has had enough, and swats at the camera, while looking with disdain to the right at the person responsible.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PS Shout-out to Graywolf Publishing, and to artists Elizabeth Haidle and Paul D. Mascot for the amazing Earth 7 cover image. And to Ecco Books, and Patrick's amazing cover designed by Alex Merto with art direction by Allison Saltzman.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And for Hamline alum and community, if you’re within reach -- come to the Black Hart in the Midway on Friday 10/2 to join Patrick Cottrell and other folks for a happy hour/social gathering. (Register here--again, just for headcount. But please come, even if you don’t register ahead of time.)
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’ll also host a public interview with Unferth, led by faculty member Cody Klippenstein and Water~Stone Review fiction assistant editor Xander Bilyk on Wednesday, September 30th, from 4-5:30 pm in GLC 100E. (No registration required; all are welcome!)
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us at Hamline University for a conversation between Deb Olin Unferth and Patrick Cottrell, on Thursday, October 1st, from 7-9pm in Sundin Hall. You can find an overview and registration info at www.hamline.edu/vane. FREE and open to all--please share broadly!
The cover of Deb Olin Unferth's wonderful novel, _Earth 7_, which depicts the Earth floating in a big blue space, with a lifeline drawn from the world around the moon and out to a spaceship, zipping elsewhere through the text of the title.  The cover of Patrick Cottrell's wonderful novel, _The Afternoon Hours of a Hermit_, with a photo of the author laid over the image of a fingerprint's whorls, in the shape of an apple, with a small fuzzy black caterpillar near the apple's stem.  There is text announcing "Hamline Homecoming Happy Hour" at The Black Hart, on Friday October 2, from 5-7pm.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
St. Paul has a Right to Repair ordinance on the ballot after a bunch of shenanigans where the ordinance got pulled from the ballot by the City Council after a petition and then a judge put it back on.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Same. Access to the broad horizons at the public library opened up my world when "age appropriate" work at school left me cold. (Finding Stephen King when I was 9 made me, eventually, an English major & then teacher; King was my gateway drug to Roth, Morrison, Vonnegut in my early teens...)
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com
I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What is Alpha School? It is three things: 1) A small private school network 2) A single charter school in Arizona 3) An aspiring ed-tech company What if I told you I can see the future of these endeavors, and disaster looms? I know this world. I know what's coming (or already here). THREAD
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this entire post is a lie.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can’t find a clear quick contact for this — maybe go with Metro North Area manager (dale.gade@state.mn.us) or this reporting form (mndotforms.formstack.com/forms/commen...).
mndotforms.formstack.com
/information/submit.html - Intellistack
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
aiandeducation.mit.edu
Report – AI and Education
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I know a neighbor (a little bit) who works on these plans — I know he cares, and their work could be so useful. As an organization, though, it feels like their policy and practice dissolve away substantial opportunities to change.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
…& with an evolving plan for community engagement and partnerships with other organizations, the County & our state legislators, we have formed a Snelling corridor taskforce. We meet for the second time soon. Contact me here or at mreynolds AT hamline DOT edu if you would like to learn more.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Any way, I look forward to the results of the study, I guess. Meanwhile, in collaboration with Ward 4, with a rep from the City Mayor’s office, with a rep from Falcon Heights council, with neighbors from Highland Park, UPDC, maybe Mac-Groveland and Roseville, in consultation with Metro Transit….
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It is hard not to think, every time something like this happens, about this article by Andy Singer—> streets.mn/2016/02/29/w...
streets.mn
Why I Will Never Attend Another MnDOT Meeting
When 70 people, six advocacy groups, three district councils and an elected official can’t influence MnDOT’s foregone conclusions, what’s the point?
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And I learned about this initiative on Facebook. No outreach to the district council. No outreach at all, best I can tell, until it was already set up and in motion.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We have over a decade of communication with them, following from their 2013 project which proposed some vital changes to the bridge, then got put in the vault with the Lost Ark.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reps walked this scary sidewalk with us last fall. (No spoiler: everyone saw how bad it sucks) They met with us in June, coincidentally two days after a bus going too fast on the bridge crashed into Hamline University.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Among my frustrations here: the absence of community engagement. I serve on the Midway neighborhood transportation committee. We have met with MNDOT frequently trying to get action on that bridge.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We're really excited about a public reading/conversation with Deb Olin Unferth, facilitated by Patrick Cottrell, on October 1st. And the big announcement and registration page just went up. More coming soon! www.hamline.edu/Vane PS. Read Earth 7 *and* Afternoon Hours of a Hermit.
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Vane Creative Artist Series | Hamline University - Minnesota
The October 26, 2026, lecture will be "Reading and Writing When the World Seems Lost" with visiting writer Deb Olin Unferth in conversation with Patrick Cottrel
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As someone who wrote a book about handwriting, I’ve been watching profs here turn to handwriting for higher ed assessment with dismay (though understanding why they are doing so). But the science ain’t good (not to mention my historical/cultural take. Here’s an actual scientist on this
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#ImLibraryPeople Dolly Parton youtu.be/X_TnKLSBLrQ?...
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WATCH: Dolly Parton on why she devoted her life to helping children read
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Again and again, it seems that after decades of underrepresentation, women have, in recent years, approached or just achieved parity, which is the backdrop against which we hear about fears that literary men are disappearing."
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Was just going to say this! Great thread and post; one my favorite places to visit in the world.
A woman and a younger boy stare away from the camera, framed on a narrow road between green hills layered with large gray rock shelves and boulders.  A lake is in the center, just a short walk ahead for the two (and the photographer).
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/08/2026
I still carry some concerns about Minneapolis' speeding camera program, but early results from the city's pilot program are promising. As of last week, 44% fewer folks going 10+ mph over, and 74% fewer going 20+. www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-c...
Speeding continues to be significantly lower at camera locations
For the first six months of 2026, average speeding at 10+ mph over the speed limit was down 42% at camera locations compared to the
launch month in October 2025. This means there were nearly 70,000 fewer drivers speeding at all the camera locations in the first half of
2026. Speeding at 20+ mph over the limit was down 69%, which means about 8,000 fewer drivers at this speed in the first half of 2026. There
has been less speeding at every camera location (details next page).
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18th Ave NE near
Central Ave (WB)
0.7% 0.02% 0.3% 0.00% 0.6% 0.0% 0.6% 0.02% 0.5% 0.01% 0.5% 0.01% 0.6% 0.01%
991 29 215 3 575 10 647 20 516 7 551 9 594 7
18th Ave NE near
Central Ave (EB) N/A** 1.6% 0.10% 2.3% 0.1% 2.3% 0.12% 2.2% 0.10% 1.8% 0.07% 2.1% 0.08%
1324 83 2239 117 2570 133 2014 90 2249 91 2340 96
Fremont Ave N near
Broadway Ave W (SB)
2.8% 0.15% 1.8% 0.12% 2.0% 0.1% 2.1% 0.10% 1.6% 0.06% 1.9% 0.08% 1.5% 0.07%
2519 132 1233 84 1384 93 1617 80 1512 60 1802 89 1498 75
Chicago Ave near
Franklin Ave (NB)
3.2% 0.15% 1.7% 0.09% 2.7% 0.1% 2.5% 0.11% 2.0% 0.08% 1.5% 0.07% 2.1% 0.09%
3253 155 1191 63 2214 107 2389 107 2102 83 2138 79 2289 97
Chicago Ave near
Franklin Ave (SB)
3.0% 0.14% 1.7% 0.08% 2.6% 0.1% 2.0% 0.08% 1.5% 0.05% 1.7% 0.06% 1.3% 0.07%
3875 183 1465 73 2677 105 2753 106 2399 82 2514 104 2236 112
3rd St N near 1st Ave
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2.6% 0.08% 1.5% 0.06% 1.8% 0.1% 1.6% 0.04% 1.6% 0.03% 5.2% 0.04% 1.6% 0.04%
6345 199 3161 114 3669 113 3653 94 4001 80 4374 116 4069 113
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9.8% 1.29% 2.9% 0.25% 3.2% 0.2% 4.8% 0.21% 5.1% 0.20% 5.2% 0.19% 5.2% 0.15%
8400 1111 2108 180 1806 94 2695 117 2463 98 3191 116 2844 84
Nicollet Ave near 46th
St (SB) N/A** 1.6% 0.04% 2.5% 0.1% 3.7% 0.08% 3.7% 0.06% 3.3% 0.06% 3.1% 0.05%
1034 26 1531 42 1866 40 1492 25 1783 33 1431 25
Total all locations 3.2% 0.23% 1.6% 0.09% 2.1% 0.09% 2.1% 0.08% 1.8% 0.06% 1.9% 0.06% 1.8% 0.06%
25383 1809 11731 626 16095 681 18190 697 16499 525 18602 637 17301 609
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Snelling, too.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Truly -- devastating. _Catch the Devil_ is remarkable, thorough, humane, impassioned -- and horrifying. 💙📚
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Off to “The End of Oak Street.” tinyurl.com/yu2aze5e
A turkey seen from the side, strutting on a sidewalk in front of and near brick walls.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Amen, brothers!
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're in Saint Paul and agree with this, I'd consider calling your state legislators—the state needs to add us to the pilot program in order for us to have speed cameras like Minneapolis and Mendota Heights do.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excellent edition of an always-incisive newsletter. Directed me to an (also great) essay by Henry Farrell which is going into the hopper for conversations with colleagues and students about critical literacies.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
sorry, that was the wrong link. this is the full motion
courtlistener.com
#212 in United States v. Sant (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Discovery by Isaac Auman Sant. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit(s) 1, # 2 Exhibit(s) 2, # 3 Exhibit(s) 3, # 4 Exhibit(s) 4, # 5 Exhibit(s) 5, # 6 Exhibit(s) 6, # 7 Exhibit(s) 7, # 8 Exhibit(s) 8, ...
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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
*taps earpiece* we’re getting word that every editor at the Atlantic has died
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
So many different ways to shape climate fiction. Great novels by Nick Fuller Googins, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Ali Smith, Alexander Starritt, and Kawai Strong Washburn. 📚💙
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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New Douthat? Time for me to activate my tried and true "Don't read Douthat" plan.
Balding older white man, with beard, mustache, pointy nose, and evil smirk. He is in a brown room, with a window and drapes, a clock, and a map on the wall behind him.  Some text is glitching in front of him; this is from a "credits sequence" in "Too Many Cooks."
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Safe Homes Saint Paul @safehomessaintpaul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"We followed the process, and the city did not," said Taylor Sibthorp, Committee Chair for Safe Homes Saint Paul. "This is a common sense measure, which is why it won in Duluth. We are pursuing legal resolution of the council's decision on behalf of all of our petitioners and signatories."
Safe Homes Saint Paul has filed suit in Ramsey County District Court (Case # 62-CV-26-5594) to compel the city of St. Paul to place Right to Repair before voters in November, after the city council declined to advance a certified petition.
"We followed the process, and the city did not," said Taylor Sibthorp, Committee Chair for Safe Homes Saint Paul. "This is a common sense measure, which is why it won in Duluth. We are pursuing legal resolution of the council's decision on behalf of all of our petitioners and signatories."
Safe Homes Saint Paul looks forward to an expeditious resolution to this matter.
In solidarity,
Safe Homes Saint Paul
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.
theamericanvandal.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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