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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
When infrastructure design details are rigid enough to give consequences rather than forgiveness to motorists, only then will we see a shift from recklessness to attentiveness behind the wheel.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation, which grows roughly 21% over the last year
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/12/2025
he's weak and he's flailing and he's never had less juice in his political life know that, even as he does untold damage on the way down, we are going to win
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Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Was this the plan all along?
1 Line light rail highlighted. The only red lobster restaurants in the region are at each of its ends
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
no idea
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Monsters. They've abolished universal newborn Hep B vaccination, in an 8-3 vote. Since 1991, that dose prevented 6M+ infections, almost 100k deaths, & millions of chronic liver disease/cancer cases. This is class warfare via crimes against public health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/12/2025
this is your fault, Bill personally, specifically, your fault you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it you own this and I hope you choke on it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2025
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 29/11/2023
Japan understands the true spirit of Christmas
a giant Godzilla figure decorated with Christmas lights like a tree
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What a great headline
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving
Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home.

Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit

Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and
"local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
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Joey the Jack o’Lantern 🎃 @spiceboyjoey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving, please rise for the national anthem
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/11/2025
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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Andy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If we’re gonna keep the skyways in Minneapolis, at least do something like this.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
High density residential street in downtown Vancouver with 5(!) rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies”.
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Soccerwise @soccerwisehq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Game 3 between Minnesota and Seattle will go down as one of the best playoff matches in MLS history ✍️ @tombogert.bsky.social @mattdoyle.bsky.social
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
URGENT BOLLARD ALERT. SDOT is going to the Pike Place Market Historical Commission next Wednesday to get initial guidance on the "physical protective barriers" planned ahead of the FIFA World Cup. The board is getting its temperature taken on a "hybrid approach" of bollards and vehicle barricades.
A slide that reads Bollards to Barriers with an array of bollards and raising barriers at major event venues around the worldA slide reading mix of solutions with some photos of barricades and bollards including the large truck currently at the front entrance of Pike Place
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
New bikeways that have opened (or are very close to opening) in Minneapolis this year: - Hennepin Avenue S - University Avenue SE - 24th Street E - 1st Avenue S (1/2)
A photo of the new Hennepin Avenue S bikeway.A photo of the new University Avenue SE bikeway.A photo of the new 24th Street E bikeway.A photo of the new 1st Avenue S bikeway.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this
Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/10/2025
"When you open me, you might be looking for a spot where someone, anyone, ideally the doctor, explains me to you. It gives me more pleasure than I care to admit that there will be none of that here." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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I’m Your Uploaded Bloodwork Results, and No, I Will Not Explain Myself to You
I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and l...
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/10/2025
star trek: tng, but Computer has an obsequious attitude like ChatGPT picard: tea, earl grey, hot computer: a nice hot earl grey sounds like an excellent choice! it's aromatic, a little citrusy, and will do a lot to perk you up. it's certainly easier on your body than coffee! if you want to maximi
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
thread on how single stair enables not just more family-sized homes - but higher quality and much more livable: bsky.app/profile/holz...
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
just going to keep hammering this home - if US politicians actually want more 3- and 4-bedroom homes in multifamily housing... single stair is how you do it. the shaded units here are all 3-bedroom homes. good luck doing this in a double loaded corridor. note they are all dual aspect as well
viz of single stair buildings with 3-bedrooms highlighted
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
So when I say Minnesota takes apples seriously…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2025
IT IS TIME.
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Happy Broad Street pump handle day to those who celebrate!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2025
for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't build more houses
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2025
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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Anthony DiCicco @adicicco.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
MLS, almost every sport entity wrongly conflate human rights with “politics.” Abductions of people off the street by masked, secret police is not political, it’s human rights violations. Killing unarmed, starving people at food distribution sites isn’t political, it’s genocide. Do better.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/07/2025
The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.
JD Vance tweet.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
keep this imagine in mind when the media writes "is the MAGA base rallying back to Trump?" pieces to try to end the scandal and help Trump.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 09/07/2025
Minnesota United became the most aggressive set-piece team on the planet with old-fashioned tactics backed by new analytics — and now they can’t stop scoring from it. My first for The Guardian:
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The most aggressive set-piece team in the world plays in Minnesota
Under the guidance of a former Manchester United assistant, Minnesota United are finding MLS success with a surprising tactic
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
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