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They/them, MSP, zoning nerd
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Just a little #CrowTime fan art for @secondlina.com
A greying crow sitting on a pumpkin saying “so tired”. Made with colored pencils.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Going to @yimbytown.bsky.social this weekend and will be co-presenting with @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how recent zoning code changes have impacted Minneapolis and St Paul!
YIMBYtown2025 Sunday September 14, 2025 / 4:15pm-5pm “Analyzing for Buildability: Lessons from the Twin Cities Zoning Reforms” A picture of me in a hat with my name.
September 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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My current ideal is somewhere between Maude Adams and a 1910s fashion plate.
Maude Adams, an early Broadway performer photo from 1900. She has a femme face, short ear-length hair, and is wearing all black with a large flower or lapel piece on her 3 piece suit with a black cravat. Has masculine and feminine vibes. A fashion plate with three figures in 1910s fashions of layered skirts, and blousy shirts with fancy collars.
June 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Drop a movie that you flat out refuse to watch again.

It’s incredible. I watched it for a college class. Never again.
A poster for Oldboy (2003) featuring Choi Min-sik as Oh Dae-Su looking haggard and covered in splatters of blood.
May 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I feel this.
A text prompt/question: Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Pelase include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond simple prompt usage. * indicating that the question is required. The answer: there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster - i always just ask the monster." there are those who know these forest well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price. for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face.
May 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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@americanfietser.com had a lovely trip to the annual Textile Center Garage Sale yesterday and was able to carry home my new serger and three very full bags of fabric.

Oh! Also the textile center had nice bike parking and gave me a coupon when they saw my helmet.

#CargoBikes #CarryShitOlympics
A Tern GSD, long tail bike, in a parking lot. Under the cover of the cargo box on the back we can see a used serger in a box. A top down view later showing one of the three bags and the serger in the cargo box. The bag is resting on the bike seat.
April 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I find the muting words and blocking works well here.

Excited for local politics, and happy my grey-face doggos are doing well.
Bloomers, a brindle and white dog with a greying face, having a nap with a little blep on a couch cushion.
March 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This building is about the same size as the homes in the article, 5300 sq ft on a 9k lot, but has four homes instead.
Photo of a two story fourplex with yellow paint and a flat green roof taken by @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Reference photo acquired!
Actual photo! Of tall (right) and smol (left) doing the arm in arm thing, but tucked in/down.
January 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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this is such a cute couple!

IRL, 5’4 and 6’3, I put my arm under tall’s arm and rest my hand on his forearm. Here’s a bad drawing of approximately how that works. :)
Terrible side view line drawing showing Tall A with bent right elbow and Short B with left arm held parallel to shoulder, elbow behind A’s elbow and hand crossing back over to grip A’s forearm. It’s.. kinda old school knight + lady pose tbh. But works irl for arm in arm with height difference.
January 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Our dog who demands the bed also growls if you move 1/2 inch in your sleep. Sometimes even the king bed isn't enough. But they are so cute.
An orange dog named Trousers with his head on your blanketed lap giving you the sad sigh that means let me on the bed so we can sleep. His eyes are looking down, and his right ear is inside out.
January 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The engine and heart of the house.
Most of this house is cluttered with ornamentation. This room is the heart of that output and strangely untouched by it. This is a ceramics or pottery studio. To the left is a glass door to the outside, then a drying rack with unfinished pieces. Behind the rack is a rolling table for flattening clay. To the right is a low work bench with hundreds of colored glaze pots on shelves above. And several dozen more taller bottles on the floor under the bench. The floor is functional with 12 by 12 plain white or biscuit tile, the better to find and clean any dropped project. The back wall has storage and more small glaze pots and tools. This room makes clear that the owner of the home may have made many of the tiles and mosaics themselves as a labor of creativity and love of art. And that even a maximalist needs a room with quiet efficiency of form sometimes.
January 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Down to 50.9F in Ward 8.
A thermometer reading 50.9F on the cold water from a faucet ahead of very cold temperatures on Thursday. A local tradition.
December 11, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Seriously, the 3+ hour difference in availability between downtown food places and ones elsewhere in the city is a huge issue. The five guys in downtown closes at a very standard dinner time. Many other places are lunch only. Or basically just bars/no food.
info about the chain restaurant five guys in downtown Minneapolis showing they close at 7pm Same info about the five guys in Richfield (a close suburb) showing it closes at 10pm.
November 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Enjoyed making this as a first time cross stitch.
A cross stitch of “Narratives of Hopelessness only serve the Powerful.” In a rainbow variety of colors.
November 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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A regal brown cat with green eyes
November 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Home buying is so stressful. Trousers and I are wishing you massive luck.
Trousers extending his paw tot he camera in full belly up stretch mode
November 4, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Yep. DM me.
Omron bp monitor
October 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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We need a Land Value Tax in order to encourage smart land use. And now is the right time for the state legislature to pass that authorization. A wealth tax is good, but taxing land speculation in response to a changing downtown is better.

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Minneapolis needs a reset In response to the Oct. 11 story “Mpls. to look at new taxes as downtown property values dip”: Property is valued both on the building and on the value of the location and proximity to community or “land value.” Today, our tax system focuses on the building. So, for example, empty lots pay very little in taxes. While the downtown office building values have decreased, the value of the land downtown is as high as ever. The strong transit connections, proximity to the lakes and the riverfront and other community resources haven’t moved or changed. The problem is we’ve changed what we need to use the land for as we shift to working from home. Homes and retail rather than business offices or parking are needed downtown. A land value tax would shift focus to value the proximity to community resources, encouraging empty lots or vacant buildings to become homes. It wouldn’t be a new tax; it’s just a shift in how we assess property values. The state Legislature needs to pass a land value tax authorization so Minneapolis can solve its downtown tax crisis. A land value tax report in 2021 showed clear benefits to passing last year’s HF 1342. And HF 1342 made it to the conference committee in 2023-2024. It is time to shift this tax burden to the people speculating on property so they pay their fair share now, repurpose and rebuild — or sell the land to someone who will. Brit Anbacht, Minneapolis
October 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Advertise your account with just one image
Dog wants fetch, refuses to give ball meme First panel: Dog asks for more homes Second panel: refuses to give ball “no zoning change” Third panel: more intense dog “only build illegal homes”
October 18, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Allergies are currently putting me in insomnia town. Please enjoy my friends cat burger (or ice cream?) who I get to visit sometimes despite cat allergies.
A grey cat with green-brown eyes. No thoughts only bounce on notebook looking at you.
October 17, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #100,368!

Oh, this is a smaller number than I thought it would be. Huh!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #100,368, Brit ‪@britvulcan.bsky.social‬, joined on May 31, 2023"
September 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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So excited to be back at my favorite Thai place, Pasara Thai in Alexandria VA, during my #HomesAct trip.
Pasara Thai, you can see me and my umbrella in the reflection. A map of the Carlyle area in Alexandria. Pasara Thai is the first restraint on the map. This is where the Patent Office is located.
September 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Had some cinnamon roll French toast at Ike’s. Very tasty.
Cinnamon roll French toast on a plate with butter. Tasty airport food.
September 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Happy birthday!
Bloomers, a brindle and white mutt, with dainty paws on a window sill interrupted mid vigil and sitting on a trampoline. Her paws are above her elbows. Trousers, an orange brindle doggo, sleeping on a couch in relaxed running pose.
July 29, 2024 at 10:38 PM