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To walk in an American city is to bear the collective sins of an entire culture, to be seen, simultaneously, as both pariah and saint.

// pedestrian in the wind
This rag rug had some catastrophic failures in the weft last time it was in the washing machine. I think it was too loosely woven, so the warp threads shifted to be next to each other. Fixing it with blanket stitches.
June 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@metrotransitmn.bsky.social, this crossing to the Green Line is dealing with a serious bit of a drainage problem.
June 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Mpls friends! Be on the lookout for these bikes. They were stolen last night. My friend relies on them for year-round bike commuting and between election results and this, I've never heard them sounding so disheartened.

Please lmk if you see them and I'll pass it along!
November 8, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Rest of my photos. I recommend doing your own walks down Marq/2nd/3rd and noting how many places are open for you to go into whatever day/time of day you go. Pay special attention to evenings, weekends. Think about what you'd need to feel comfortable waiting for a bus here.
September 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM
We stopped here on 2nd for a bit peering into the lit grates. Not a single person walked near or past us here for over five minutes (probably closer to 10) just after 5:30pm.
September 24, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Some photos from Marq/2nd/3rd from yesterday, 5-6pm.

Meeting from 4-6pm TODAY (9/24) at the downtown library on the city moving transit off Nicollet and to these streets.
September 24, 2024 at 8:17 PM
How are you all contacting trader joe's about their anti-union/union-busting political activism grossness? Their website "contact us" section makes it pretty clear they'd prefer not to hear what their customers think. A
January 27, 2024 at 6:18 PM
But I'm learning and learning and learning about the ice, how it forms different shapes and why, when and how those disappear, the pulse of life below and in and on and above the ice. I curse every PPM of CO2 that threatens the existence all that breathes and moves here, muskrat, ice, human, bird.
January 24, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I love the conversations I have on the lakes too, the others who're drawn to the beauty in the lake, who cede whatever of art and beauty they have attempted in the face of this awesome expertise. And I love returning from those moments to my silent commune with the ice.A
January 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
How about this lake ice, then, friends? I never did figure out exactly where the blue is coming from in the image--my best guess is the water filling the crack, but I haven't seen it this vivid before.
January 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I wish I could attach the sounds of the lake and its ice as the alt text, that’s the truest representation.
January 24, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Absolutely overwhelmed by the endless beauty of lake ice. Just wordless, literally don't even know how to describe it for alt text, what do I do
January 24, 2024 at 12:48 AM
We’ve probably got today/tomorrow left with this winter’s glorious lake ice world before precipitation + more unseasonable warmth closes the curtain. Get out there if you can!!!
January 21, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Life and movement frozen in ice
January 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Love love love!
January 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM
My loooooove
January 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
The ice is baaack 😍
🖤🖤🖤
January 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
The roller towel of my uncle’s I just mended. Need some old dowels (retired broom handles?) for the second step of this project, but happy with how it’s going. Got to later my mends with previous much less visible ones!
December 19, 2023 at 2:15 PM
This is my previously chronically underwatered plant, who knew the leaves wanted to be upright and not droopy!
December 15, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Trying carving and printing the avocado pits from the dye I just made. Not my best idea, not the worst. Doubt they’ll stay flat enough to print with as they desiccate again.
November 30, 2023 at 5:37 PM
When I end up in charge of a family gathering centerpiece
November 21, 2023 at 5:47 AM
Still talking photos of notable covers, just not back in a habit of sharing them yet!
November 20, 2023 at 3:44 AM
Overdyed this cornflower blue wool shirt (it was too warm a blue) with onion skins and I’m really happy with how it’s turned out so far!
November 11, 2023 at 10:25 PM
How was this book on ice in the free bin at Old School?!?! OMG, I’m only a few pages into reading it aloud to my flame and it’s so so exciting!
September 8, 2023 at 11:29 PM
This was our first hazelnut foraging haul. Turns out finding and plucking hazelnuts activates a part of my brain not dissimilar from the agate-hunting one.
August 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM