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Happy to share our group’s template and details with you!
My knitting group has done a 10-12 person annual long weekend retreat (Thu-Sun) in a big rental house about 2 hours outside of Minneapolis and with lodging and food it’s less than $300 each.
A special gallery exhibit called “Rarified Air” where a unique event occurred in the air and now you get to breathe it in.
This morning’s gate tensions at MSP:
- tiny airplane and clearly way more roller bags than capacity
- boarding delayed due to ominous “presence of maintenance”
Upside is that I had a great breakfast sandwich!
A chilly morning in downtown #Minneapolis, so the Capella Tower space heater has been turned on
There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws
=COUNT(on the Lord)
I even heard my cat sigh when he looked out the window and HE DOESN’T EVEN GO OUTDOORS
Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure
In higher ed, this is "Special Assistant to the Dean" and you head up a Blue Ribbon Committee that provides no report or information before you retire next year.
Was reminded of the Doug handheld game today, featuring two actions: "Doug" and "Faster"
Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh
"Soon!" is more of a state of mind
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
This was a phenomenal way to revisit a book with deep personal meaning, and I think would be an excellent way to Vonnegut if you’ve never read him.
ONE HUNDRED TAMPONS!!!!!
Minnehaha Creek running in a spring thaw, with tree stumps along the shoreline previously chewed by beavers then cut down by the park board before they were done
BREAKING BEAVER NEWS: after a long hiatus and 2 previous foiled attempts, the Minnehaha Creek beavers have resumed tree felling operations near 47th Street. Unfortunately the Park Board has just marked their latest valiant efforts for removal, again.
Hey can you bring a message to 2024 from me there are some things I'd like them to know thx
OPSEC DEMANDS ANSWERS!
So.
You want to convince your city, town, and county to proactively REJECT working with ICE/CBP?
Send them this link about the staggering financial cost to the Twin Cities.
Make your conservative mayor start to sweat about her budget.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/02/m...
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
A year ago this morning my fellow fed colleagues and I woke up to find we’d been illegally fired and 18F at GSA dissolved. While I’m still grieving my dream job, the amazing work of civic tech continues at every level. Congrats @hennepin.bsky.social !
Are they doing the pipe and drape SCIF setup again?
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
The whole “false allegations ruin lives” narrative has always upset me so much because it is sexual violence that ruins far more lives, but people care far more about the 2 to 5 percent of false accusations than we do about the 1 in 4 women and the 1 in 6 children who experience sexual violence.
Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.
Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.
So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.
Another perfect morning to support tcpipeline.org
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
But also…
Milkshake puck
i know that doing this shit on the fly isn’t impossible either because i’ve seen it done for fucking football games here; meanwhile the sidewalks & bus stops are wholly inaccessible for people using mobility aids of any sort
A great time to revisit the “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names,” (and it’s absolutely not limited to programmers!)
www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...
