Kay Aay
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I like cake and beer. And I think St. Paul is pretty cool.
Macaroni. There’s nothing macaroni does that another pasta can’t do better.
a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.
instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Macaroni. There’s nothing macaroni does that another pasta can’t do better.
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[beleaguered sigh] i stand with jimmy kimmel, i guess
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
[beleaguered sigh] i stand with jimmy kimmel, i guess
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This is a country of people who mostly can't get 8 people to a meeting consistently but who think others should get 10,000.
September 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is a country of people who mostly can't get 8 people to a meeting consistently but who think others should get 10,000.
Oh gee, we wouldn’t want that to happen, would we?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oh gee, we wouldn’t want that to happen, would we?
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Saint Paul Ward Four! YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TODAY. THAT'S RIGHT, TODAY. (It's a special election for a new City Council rep.)
I wrote about Saint Paul's Ward 4 special election. tl;dr I would vote for Molly Coleman, despite some reservations.
naomikritzer.com/2025/08/08/s...
naomikritzer.com/2025/08/08/s...
August 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Saint Paul Ward Four! YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TODAY. THAT'S RIGHT, TODAY. (It's a special election for a new City Council rep.)
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If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
One of the best things about living in the city is having so many ways to get around, including Evie. Carshare makes it possible for us to stay a one car household hating each other.
Did you know the Twin Cities has the largest municipality-owned and nonprofit-operated electric carshare fleet in the country? Evie is now threatened federal funding cuts, but can survive with more users. It saves my family $10k/year by not purchasing a 2nd car. Check it out: eviecarshare.com
Meet Evie - Evie Carshare
Meet Evie: All Electric Carshare for the Twin Cities. One-way trips by the minute, hour or day. All-Electric Carshare for the Twin Cities
eviecarshare.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of the best things about living in the city is having so many ways to get around, including Evie. Carshare makes it possible for us to stay a one car household hating each other.
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Did you know the Twin Cities has the largest municipality-owned and nonprofit-operated electric carshare fleet in the country? Evie is now threatened federal funding cuts, but can survive with more users. It saves my family $10k/year by not purchasing a 2nd car. Check it out: eviecarshare.com
Meet Evie - Evie Carshare
Meet Evie: All Electric Carshare for the Twin Cities. One-way trips by the minute, hour or day. All-Electric Carshare for the Twin Cities
eviecarshare.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Did you know the Twin Cities has the largest municipality-owned and nonprofit-operated electric carshare fleet in the country? Evie is now threatened federal funding cuts, but can survive with more users. It saves my family $10k/year by not purchasing a 2nd car. Check it out: eviecarshare.com
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Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations will be eliminating its entire statewide team of reporters and editors at the end of the year after the Indiana General Assembly defunded the organization.
Indiana Public Broadcasting statewide reporting team eliminated • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana Public Broadcasting is eliminating its statewide team of reporters and editors after the General Assembly defunded the organization.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations will be eliminating its entire statewide team of reporters and editors at the end of the year after the Indiana General Assembly defunded the organization.
It's always a good day to buy a book. Now to figure out what books I should buy this weekend.
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's always a good day to buy a book. Now to figure out what books I should buy this weekend.
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Fireflies are out in St. Paul!
July 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Fireflies are out in St. Paul!
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Pride month @amyklobuchar.com tracker, day 30:
Skeets supporting Pride: 2 (extremely tepid)
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
IMO, this is a pathetic showing for anyone claiming to be an ally.
Here's what I know about Klobuchar's silence on LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly trans rights. 🧵 1/
Skeets supporting Pride: 2 (extremely tepid)
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
IMO, this is a pathetic showing for anyone claiming to be an ally.
Here's what I know about Klobuchar's silence on LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly trans rights. 🧵 1/
Pride month @amyklobuchar.com tracker, day 29:
Skeets supporting Pride: 2
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
Amy really phoned it in with today's post. I get that she's fighting Trump's evil budget, but she should have AT LEAST called out the bill's elimination of trans healthcare. Silence kills.
Skeets supporting Pride: 2
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
Amy really phoned it in with today's post. I get that she's fighting Trump's evil budget, but she should have AT LEAST called out the bill's elimination of trans healthcare. Silence kills.
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Pride month @amyklobuchar.com tracker, day 30:
Skeets supporting Pride: 2 (extremely tepid)
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
IMO, this is a pathetic showing for anyone claiming to be an ally.
Here's what I know about Klobuchar's silence on LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly trans rights. 🧵 1/
Skeets supporting Pride: 2 (extremely tepid)
Skeets supporting trans rights: 0
IMO, this is a pathetic showing for anyone claiming to be an ally.
Here's what I know about Klobuchar's silence on LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly trans rights. 🧵 1/
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Oh gosh. This is LITERALLY 95% of all Central Asian and Caucasus language education in the US and Canada (and like 75% of US+Canada+Western Europe) happens. This is an actual national security issue, beyond the academic loss. All of us that study former USSR went through their programs.
This is very, very bad.
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…
wfiunews.wordpress.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Oh gosh. This is LITERALLY 95% of all Central Asian and Caucasus language education in the US and Canada (and like 75% of US+Canada+Western Europe) happens. This is an actual national security issue, beyond the academic loss. All of us that study former USSR went through their programs.
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"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
June 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
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To every young trans person, know that we see you, and that you are a valuable member of our community. You are not alone, and the fight is not over. Call Trans Lifeline's Hotline at (877) 565-8860 for support. (2/2)
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
To every young trans person, know that we see you, and that you are a valuable member of our community. You are not alone, and the fight is not over. Call Trans Lifeline's Hotline at (877) 565-8860 for support. (2/2)
And dogs everywhere just became pro-tariff.
If you want some anecdotal evidence of the effects of tariffs, there isn't a single fireworks tent on route 70 between 35 in Minnesota and Siren, WI
June 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
And dogs everywhere just became pro-tariff.
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for all of the praise of law enforcement we've seen since Saturday, it's now clear cops had at least two opportunities to prevent Vance Boelter from murdering Melissa Hortman and her husband but failed to do so.
June 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
for all of the praise of law enforcement we've seen since Saturday, it's now clear cops had at least two opportunities to prevent Vance Boelter from murdering Melissa Hortman and her husband but failed to do so.
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AG Ellison staying at the No Kings rally despite being on the assassin’s hit list to tell the crowd to not be stopped, to keep marching is exactly what I needed in this moment.
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
AG Ellison staying at the No Kings rally despite being on the assassin’s hit list to tell the crowd to not be stopped, to keep marching is exactly what I needed in this moment.
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Umbrella Man is my Roman Empire.
I think about Umbrella Man all the time.
MPD investigators can find who keyed a Tesla but they’ve sure slow walked this case. Interesting, Huh.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
I think about Umbrella Man all the time.
MPD investigators can find who keyed a Tesla but they’ve sure slow walked this case. Interesting, Huh.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
Umbrella Man: Minneapolis police link suspect to white supremacists
The man was pictured smashing the windows of an AutoZone store in the city during protests.
www.bbc.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Umbrella Man is my Roman Empire.
I think about Umbrella Man all the time.
MPD investigators can find who keyed a Tesla but they’ve sure slow walked this case. Interesting, Huh.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
I think about Umbrella Man all the time.
MPD investigators can find who keyed a Tesla but they’ve sure slow walked this case. Interesting, Huh.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
That’s it, I’m never flying again.
A Delta flight erupted into chaos on Saturday when two pigeons were discovered in the plane's main cabin, video of the pandemonium shows.
Delta flight erupts into chaos as pigeons fly around main cabin
The birds were spotted before the flight to Madison, Wisconsin was taking off from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
nbcnews.to
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
That’s it, I’m never flying again.
I thought if a song was playing on the radio it was also playing on MTV. If Thriller was on when we got home, I’d run inside to try and catch the end of the video.
“Bizarre things you firmly believed when a kid” is one of my favorite genres and I firmly believe we all have excellent examples if we can remember them
May 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I thought if a song was playing on the radio it was also playing on MTV. If Thriller was on when we got home, I’d run inside to try and catch the end of the video.
Bro, you have our actual friend lists.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bro, you have our actual friend lists.
This is exactly what we’re doing. Any purchase we were planning for the next year or two is happening now. We’re spending a lot, but only because we’re planning to spend a lot less in the future.
I've heard execs/Wall St analysts take comfort in fact that consumer spending has held up even as consumer views of the economy are tanking. After all, revealed preferences matter!
But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):
But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):
April 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is exactly what we’re doing. Any purchase we were planning for the next year or two is happening now. We’re spending a lot, but only because we’re planning to spend a lot less in the future.
WTAF
One House Dem called deportations a “soup du jour,” telling @axios.com Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
"You can't just put up statements": Inside Democrats' scramble to go to El Salvador
Trump is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it," said one Democrat. "We're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser."
www.axios.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
WTAF