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Third party risk day job, roller derby jobs the rest of the time. Chances are that I'm fact checking or researching some obscure point right now. Home is Minneapolis. He/him

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Pretty sure everyone that sees this knows the US bombed a girls' school in Iran. This share is for anyone in your life who doubts this.

08.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plugging the 48-inch pan into the equation you get 1960 square inches of surface area. Applying the ratio above gets you about 4.85kg of raw dough. Considering the flour is about 60% of the weight of the recipe, that'd be about 2.9kg of flour, or about 6.5lbs.

06.03.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

OK, base recipe was for a 14" deep dish. The final dough weight for the recipe was 705 grams. With a bottom pan area of 49*pi, plus a 3-inch sidewall of 42*pi, gets you 91*pi for the surface area. Meaning about 2.47g of dough per square inch.

06.03.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a deep dish recipe that used pan surface area to calculate how much dough to use. Might take a bit of time, but I can come up with a decent estimate of how much the raw dough weighed before it went in the oven.

06.03.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not China, but it's getting discussed in the Bellingcat Discord. From what I can follow the images are not THAAD systems and it's not clear that the Early Warning Radar systems were actually damaged.

04.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best time to install Linux on your desktop was 30 years ago. The second best time is now.

04.03.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not unclear. That's mild gaslighting from him.

01.03.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State

A strong contender for what it shouldn't be:
www.sos.mn.gov/about-minnes...

27.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly this is the best ad for Flight Radar.

"Hear rotor wash in the distance? Know more with Flight Radar 24!"

27.02.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For a second I was worried that was Mike Johnson, but looking closer it couldn't be from him because it's not mealy-mouthed.

26.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why the US has two different highway fonts
Why the US has two different highway fonts YouTube video by Vox

Doing a fact check on an AI image and wasn't sure if the font on a highway sign might be a tell.

Luckily Vox had an explainer video and 100% you can use fonts on highway signs as defeaters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eky1...

25.02.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ameriprise Financial Center - Wikipedia

Correct - the largest single tenant skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameripr...
Or, was, now.

23.02.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This looks like it was made from a still photo of the actor, so both the voice and the facial expressions are likely from AI. That should tick a few "creepy" boxes on its own.

22.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reposting for all the @wftda.bsky.social officials out there on Bluesky.

20.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The post was real, but it was deleted by the mods for karma farming.

The story, to be clear, was absolute clickbait.

15.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He didn't need to work on that problem, Arendt had already worked on it extensively by the time that Rawls published Theory of Justice.

15.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

New MN state motto: "If you saw something, no you didn't."

11.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 455 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

OK, did not expect there'd be this many options when the idea came up earlier in the season. Pretty cool how big this got in such a short amount of time.

09.02.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized there's at least one name collision between the NATO phonetic alphabet and local streets: St. Louis Park has a Quebec Ave.

08.02.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is not a photo from Minnesota. Even if there is photographic proof that Minnesotans are doing what's described in the original post; the image is not from Minnesota.

07.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm originally from Wisconsin - tell me more about this strategy.

07.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's Virginia?

07.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these β€œfuckaroundabouts”

06.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1803 πŸ” 478 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 15

Since this keeps getting shared:

1. It was issued almost a full month ago (1/13/26) and just taking effect now.
2. A "covered transaction" for this order is one where the recipient or their bank is outside the US.

This is not about "paid protestors"; it's about allegations of Somali daycare fraud.

05.02.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely feels like something the HΓ΄tel de Ville would put out in the summer of 1832.

05.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A giant tabby cat sits paws crossed towering over the city of Minneapolis. Along the top of the photo is the park board logo and 2026. On the bottom it says cats of the Minneapolis park and recreation board.

A giant tabby cat sits paws crossed towering over the city of Minneapolis. Along the top of the photo is the park board logo and 2026. On the bottom it says cats of the Minneapolis park and recreation board.

You need this. Everyone needs this.

www.minneapolisparks.org/mprb-cat-cal...

05.02.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Screen capture of the Minneapolis City Council meeting from December 9,2025. The speaker is, ironically, wearing an orange beanie. Bystanders/observers are in the background.

Screen capture of the Minneapolis City Council meeting from December 9,2025. The speaker is, ironically, wearing an orange beanie. Bystanders/observers are in the background.

True, though the above image is the most recent public comment I could find on the council's page. Here's the angle from December in the newer chambers.

02.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screencap of a speaker at the January 15th, 2026, Minneapolis City Council Meeting. At the center is a speaker at a podium with a small microphone. In the background are bystanders/observers.

Screencap of a speaker at the January 15th, 2026, Minneapolis City Council Meeting. At the center is a speaker at a podium with a small microphone. In the background are bystanders/observers.

It's definitely not council chambers, this would be the camera angle for a public comment:

02.02.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Very. The four-point star in the lower corner is a Sora watermark.

Amongst... every other absurdity in the video.

31.01.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen it in other protest photos; it doubles as a photo backdrop. The top has the Constitution-evoking image, but the tail is just blank parchment-colored material.

31.01.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0