Jason Weidemann
@fiveoclockbot.bsky.social
Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press
Who else brings several potential books with them when they travel for the holidays because you have no idea what mood you'll be in from day to day?
December 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Who else brings several potential books with them when they travel for the holidays because you have no idea what mood you'll be in from day to day?
His body looks like silly putty after you roll it over the funny pages.
December 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
His body looks like silly putty after you roll it over the funny pages.
The Carnahan Barnacle. Once it get stucks to the hull of your local politics, it's incredibly difficult to dislodge.
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Carnahan Barnacle. Once it get stucks to the hull of your local politics, it's incredibly difficult to dislodge.
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This is good… but the Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt instructed/authorized officers to assist ICE with crowd control when they took two people from Karmel Mall on Monday 😢
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is good… but the Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt instructed/authorized officers to assist ICE with crowd control when they took two people from Karmel Mall on Monday 😢
Unemployment numbers highest in four years but the media will chase the Wilse story. Funny how the two coincide today...
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Unemployment numbers highest in four years but the media will chase the Wilse story. Funny how the two coincide today...
Really concerned that Duluth is considering getting rid of its amazing ore boat shaped public library downtown. A magical space for me as a kid when I'd abscond to the "big city" to stay with my spinster aunts.
December 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Really concerned that Duluth is considering getting rid of its amazing ore boat shaped public library downtown. A magical space for me as a kid when I'd abscond to the "big city" to stay with my spinster aunts.
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The list of things we are supposed to quit grows longer every day:
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The list of things we are supposed to quit grows longer every day:
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
Anyone know the advance here?
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Anyone know the advance here?
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Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...
Hermes III
Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel ...
www.upress.umn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...
I really want to quit my job and work in a traditional Japanese sake brewery.
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I really want to quit my job and work in a traditional Japanese sake brewery.
I'm sorry, but as an editor, prose like this is an immediate desk reject.
The breathtaking, audacious confidence of this passage…
You’re telling me you came up in political journalism of the 2010s and 20s and *never once* worried about job security? Really???
That’s… diagnosable.
You’re telling me you came up in political journalism of the 2010s and 20s and *never once* worried about job security? Really???
That’s… diagnosable.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm sorry, but as an editor, prose like this is an immediate desk reject.
Cool idea for a press or a series of shorts -- collecting important pieces by prominent web-based voices
There’s so much good writing published all the time across the internet, and often it feels like even the ones that do well circulate for a couple of days and then are gone. I’m hoping to more regularly share older pieces (say, at least six months old) that meant something to me. Starting with this:
I think about this @zunguzungu.bsky.social blog from June of 2024 all the time; I hadn't actually reread it until today, and it's even better than I remembered. Maybe it's just that I'm now the parent of a two-year-old, trying to do that in the most true and considered way I can, but in any case:
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cool idea for a press or a series of shorts -- collecting important pieces by prominent web-based voices
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Lots of good stuff including an intriguing new book from my friend Ryan Rodgers.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lots of good stuff including an intriguing new book from my friend Ryan Rodgers.
I will highlight some titles of note from our forthcoming list in a bit, but now I have to go get a temporary crown :(
On this snowy December morning, spend some time imagining the world to come.
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I will highlight some titles of note from our forthcoming list in a bit, but now I have to go get a temporary crown :(
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Don't miss out on @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring & Summer 2026 catalogue!
On this snowy December morning, spend some time imagining the world to come.
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Don't miss out on @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring & Summer 2026 catalogue!
On this snowy December morning, spend some time imagining the world to come.
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
On this snowy December morning, spend some time imagining the world to come.
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.
www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
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Keep an eye out for a new book by me early next year!
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Keep an eye out for a new book by me early next year!
Cloud Dancer? White shade? Technically not a color at all?
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cloud Dancer? White shade? Technically not a color at all?
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Announcing the University of Minnesota Press's Spring 2026 seasonal catalog: www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
The nose knows. Jameson and Benjamin. The Fast and the Furious. McKittrick deep cuts. Easy bake ovens. Ring worlds. Kurdish decolonization.
The nose knows. Jameson and Benjamin. The Fast and the Furious. McKittrick deep cuts. Easy bake ovens. Ring worlds. Kurdish decolonization.
Spring/Summer 2026 - University of Minnesota Press
Our forthcoming season awaits! Browse below or select an option for alternate online viewing. PDF download (scrollable web catalog) Issuu (flippable web catalog)
www.upress.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Announcing the University of Minnesota Press's Spring 2026 seasonal catalog: www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
The nose knows. Jameson and Benjamin. The Fast and the Furious. McKittrick deep cuts. Easy bake ovens. Ring worlds. Kurdish decolonization.
The nose knows. Jameson and Benjamin. The Fast and the Furious. McKittrick deep cuts. Easy bake ovens. Ring worlds. Kurdish decolonization.
You know who I miss from the Internet, circa 2022-23? Boss and CEO.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You know who I miss from the Internet, circa 2022-23? Boss and CEO.
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Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
Maybe the best single thing I've ever done for my mom was to move my dad into elderly nursing care for his final years. Trump during his second term constantly reminds of me of my dad in the months before he moved to the veteran's home.
Trump on his cognitive test: “I'm a smart person, not a stupid person…I got every question right, and these are tough questions. These are questions that I would say 99% of the people that I'm talking to right now, meaning…the fake news, would not do well in those exams.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Maybe the best single thing I've ever done for my mom was to move my dad into elderly nursing care for his final years. Trump during his second term constantly reminds of me of my dad in the months before he moved to the veteran's home.
Nothing gets my Minnesota Mom a-texting quite like bad winter weather on a travel day before a holiday.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Nothing gets my Minnesota Mom a-texting quite like bad winter weather on a travel day before a holiday.