Teacup
@undertheteacup.bsky.social
Once and future librarian. White immigrant. they/them or xe/xym/xyr/xyrself
Big ol nerd about queer media, spec-fic, cool weird bugs and mushrooms and plants and rocks.
Big ol nerd about queer media, spec-fic, cool weird bugs and mushrooms and plants and rocks.
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The City of Minneapolis has designs for signs and stickers that you can download.
January 20, 2026 at 12:33 AM
The City of Minneapolis has designs for signs and stickers that you can download.
Good job me, I took a walk outside
I’ve been extra neglectful of my body’s needs lately
I’ve been extra neglectful of my body’s needs lately
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Good job me, I took a walk outside
I’ve been extra neglectful of my body’s needs lately
I’ve been extra neglectful of my body’s needs lately
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COW TOOLS
A pet cow named Veronika uses tools in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her best life
Meet Veronika, the first cow known to engage in flexible, multipurpose tool use
A pet cow named Veronika uses tools in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her best life
www.scientificamerican.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:08 PM
COW TOOLS
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hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
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If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
January 18, 2026 at 11:46 PM
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
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Humanity has colonized the solar system. Nanotech allows for once impossible body modifications.
Maraĵa, a waitress at a shark themed restaurant, has met the woman of her dreams: a tall Venusian bodyguard.
But there's a complication.
beedok.itch.io/can-a-shark-...
www.amazon.com/Can-Shark-Sw...
Maraĵa, a waitress at a shark themed restaurant, has met the woman of her dreams: a tall Venusian bodyguard.
But there's a complication.
beedok.itch.io/can-a-shark-...
www.amazon.com/Can-Shark-Sw...
January 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Humanity has colonized the solar system. Nanotech allows for once impossible body modifications.
Maraĵa, a waitress at a shark themed restaurant, has met the woman of her dreams: a tall Venusian bodyguard.
But there's a complication.
beedok.itch.io/can-a-shark-...
www.amazon.com/Can-Shark-Sw...
Maraĵa, a waitress at a shark themed restaurant, has met the woman of her dreams: a tall Venusian bodyguard.
But there's a complication.
beedok.itch.io/can-a-shark-...
www.amazon.com/Can-Shark-Sw...
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This is my regular reminded that if your clothes are full of tear gas and/or pepper spray, air them for a day if at all possible and then wash them twice ON COLD.
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
This is my regular reminded that if your clothes are full of tear gas and/or pepper spray, air them for a day if at all possible and then wash them twice ON COLD.
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
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If you need some grounds for impeachment to mention when calling your members of congress, you can add this to the long list. (Please keep calling your members of congress. reps.fyi )
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 AM
If you need some grounds for impeachment to mention when calling your members of congress, you can add this to the long list. (Please keep calling your members of congress. reps.fyi )
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Anyway, it's 2 degrees out, with a windchill putting it at -15. I didn't wear my gloves from the car to my door - a single city block - and my hands were already turning red. Our unhoused neighbors will die out there tonight. The MN Indian Women's Resource Center needs funds to keep the heat on.
Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures.
Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people.
Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.
Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people.
Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Anyway, it's 2 degrees out, with a windchill putting it at -15. I didn't wear my gloves from the car to my door - a single city block - and my hands were already turning red. Our unhoused neighbors will die out there tonight. The MN Indian Women's Resource Center needs funds to keep the heat on.
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this is what the nail girlies are up to
January 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
this is what the nail girlies are up to
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This is Minneapolis:
You go to the local park for an Art Sled rally. The turnout is robust even though it’s 11 degrees and protests are occurring in multiple places around the city. Over half of the sleds have an anti-ICE theme.
You go to the local park for an Art Sled rally. The turnout is robust even though it’s 11 degrees and protests are occurring in multiple places around the city. Over half of the sleds have an anti-ICE theme.
January 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This is Minneapolis:
You go to the local park for an Art Sled rally. The turnout is robust even though it’s 11 degrees and protests are occurring in multiple places around the city. Over half of the sleds have an anti-ICE theme.
You go to the local park for an Art Sled rally. The turnout is robust even though it’s 11 degrees and protests are occurring in multiple places around the city. Over half of the sleds have an anti-ICE theme.
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We needed this art sled rally
Powderhorn park is one of a kind
Powderhorn park is one of a kind
January 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM
We needed this art sled rally
Powderhorn park is one of a kind
Powderhorn park is one of a kind
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We’re going to the Art Sled event in Powderhorn Park.
It will be:
weird
funny
COLD
participatory
crowded
beautiful
innovative
celebratory
Like so much of art and life in Minnesota.
And that’s how we will outlast these times and thrive.
www.minneapolis.org/calendar/art...
It will be:
weird
funny
COLD
participatory
crowded
beautiful
innovative
celebratory
Like so much of art and life in Minnesota.
And that’s how we will outlast these times and thrive.
www.minneapolis.org/calendar/art...
Art Sled Rally
The Art Sled Rally is open space organized for people from the surrounding neighborhoods to show up and create a joyful winter spectacle. The rotating group of
www.minneapolis.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
We’re going to the Art Sled event in Powderhorn Park.
It will be:
weird
funny
COLD
participatory
crowded
beautiful
innovative
celebratory
Like so much of art and life in Minnesota.
And that’s how we will outlast these times and thrive.
www.minneapolis.org/calendar/art...
It will be:
weird
funny
COLD
participatory
crowded
beautiful
innovative
celebratory
Like so much of art and life in Minnesota.
And that’s how we will outlast these times and thrive.
www.minneapolis.org/calendar/art...
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Goodnight.
Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Goodnight.
Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
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Here's a good way y'all can help trans immigrant youth in the cities: Troop 350064 is a trans immigrant group of Girl Scouts in the Twin Cities who cannot safely do cookie booths this year. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...
Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.
Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.
Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's a good way y'all can help trans immigrant youth in the cities: Troop 350064 is a trans immigrant group of Girl Scouts in the Twin Cities who cannot safely do cookie booths this year. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...
Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.
Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.
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The sex goods shop going from "we do not have the capacity or the desire for a gloryhole" to having the capacity and desire to run a full blown supply distribution center for the community is incredible stuff
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The sex goods shop going from "we do not have the capacity or the desire for a gloryhole" to having the capacity and desire to run a full blown supply distribution center for the community is incredible stuff
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I began crying with laughter watching the two videos in this thread, this is SO funny. I got so much emergency dopamine from this.
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 16, 2026 at 7:06 AM
I began crying with laughter watching the two videos in this thread, this is SO funny. I got so much emergency dopamine from this.
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You guys wanna help another way?
If you're feeling unable to do any direct action, please make sure your neighbors who are out patrolling have less shoveling to do. Please consider doing some laundry for your friends or running some take out over there, or having them over to your place.
If you're feeling unable to do any direct action, please make sure your neighbors who are out patrolling have less shoveling to do. Please consider doing some laundry for your friends or running some take out over there, or having them over to your place.
This is Minneapolis:
I am SO behind on *every* basic life chore: grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, errands.
Today I'm doing laundry for a neighbor family, who has been too afraid to leave to go to the laundromat for 6 weeks.
Maybe after that I will have energy to do my own family's laundry.
I am SO behind on *every* basic life chore: grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, errands.
Today I'm doing laundry for a neighbor family, who has been too afraid to leave to go to the laundromat for 6 weeks.
Maybe after that I will have energy to do my own family's laundry.
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
You guys wanna help another way?
If you're feeling unable to do any direct action, please make sure your neighbors who are out patrolling have less shoveling to do. Please consider doing some laundry for your friends or running some take out over there, or having them over to your place.
If you're feeling unable to do any direct action, please make sure your neighbors who are out patrolling have less shoveling to do. Please consider doing some laundry for your friends or running some take out over there, or having them over to your place.
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All of us need to pitch in.
Can you bring over coffee and shoot the shit with your buddy?
Can you help clean their house a little? Run a load of groceries over?
Can you listen to your friend? Have a movie night? Make some tea?
This is heavy work and we need each other.
Can you bring over coffee and shoot the shit with your buddy?
Can you help clean their house a little? Run a load of groceries over?
Can you listen to your friend? Have a movie night? Make some tea?
This is heavy work and we need each other.
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
All of us need to pitch in.
Can you bring over coffee and shoot the shit with your buddy?
Can you help clean their house a little? Run a load of groceries over?
Can you listen to your friend? Have a movie night? Make some tea?
This is heavy work and we need each other.
Can you bring over coffee and shoot the shit with your buddy?
Can you help clean their house a little? Run a load of groceries over?
Can you listen to your friend? Have a movie night? Make some tea?
This is heavy work and we need each other.
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Reminder to every local reading this to take your meds, eat something, and remember that showers exist and we still need to take them
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Reminder to every local reading this to take your meds, eat something, and remember that showers exist and we still need to take them
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If you see an abduction keep your wits about you and focus on:
-recording it
-getting a name
The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds).
Next time I’ll do better
-recording it
-getting a name
The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds).
Next time I’ll do better
Even just a name can put in motion efforts that get someone released. If they're a citizen, we can get them jail support. If they're an immigrant, there are groups working overtime to file habeas petitions before they're whisked out of state. But it starts with a name.
If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.
January 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
If you see an abduction keep your wits about you and focus on:
-recording it
-getting a name
The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds).
Next time I’ll do better
-recording it
-getting a name
The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds).
Next time I’ll do better
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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They are neither inevitable nor invincible. Make them show you.
January 15, 2026 at 6:06 PM
They are neither inevitable nor invincible. Make them show you.
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I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
January 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
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This is the updated, more organized & better than ever way to help in Mpls/ St Paul/ Greater MN.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
This is the updated, more organized & better than ever way to help in Mpls/ St Paul/ Greater MN.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.