Scott McVay [NodToNothing]
@nodtonothing.bsky.social
Scott from Minnesota, Minneapolis tangential. Tech, politics, writing, bicycling, reading [scifi and more], board games. No DMs unless I know you extremely well.
My first thought was, "The snowy owls been making markup maps of their activities?" Show offs. Our owls just hang out in the neighbor's tree and hoot loudly. This is a cool use of a shared hobby system.
Here's where snowy owls have been seen in the Chicago area. These are observations posted to eBird. The red markers are recent sightings. The blue markers are from previous seasons. ebird.org/map/snoowl1...
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My first thought was, "The snowy owls been making markup maps of their activities?" Show offs. Our owls just hang out in the neighbor's tree and hoot loudly. This is a cool use of a shared hobby system.
This is perhaps one of the dumber takes I've seen. By the way, I just reset my iPad v1 yesterday. Honestly, it's still in great shape, but the apps/security/support are pretty much gone unless I want to play Carcassonne. The solution isn't a new one, btw. It's not owning one (same w/Alexa).
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is perhaps one of the dumber takes I've seen. By the way, I just reset my iPad v1 yesterday. Honestly, it's still in great shape, but the apps/security/support are pretty much gone unless I want to play Carcassonne. The solution isn't a new one, btw. It's not owning one (same w/Alexa).
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
The Internet has justified my feelings about 36" bifold closet doors and trying to reset them. Per Wikipedia, I have to infer that Nature punished Pompeii specifically for their love of bifold doors by trying to eliminate them from the historical record.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Internet has justified my feelings about 36" bifold closet doors and trying to reset them. Per Wikipedia, I have to infer that Nature punished Pompeii specifically for their love of bifold doors by trying to eliminate them from the historical record.
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
The right spews so much psychotic nonsense on the web that no internet-trained AI is ever going to understand what's real.
Looks like it’s going to be another perfectly normal day from the American right-wing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The right spews so much psychotic nonsense on the web that no internet-trained AI is ever going to understand what's real.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
It is dark enough in my part of Eagan that I walked off the trail into the weeds and couldn't figure out how to find the trail again without my phone light. Glad it's not tick season.
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It is dark enough in my part of Eagan that I walked off the trail into the weeds and couldn't figure out how to find the trail again without my phone light. Glad it's not tick season.
Why do scammers threaten to leak naked photos of you if you don't pay up? Why don't they threaten my friends with naked photos of me unless THEY pay up. I know what I look like naked. It's not going to change my perception of myself or make it harder for me to work with me.
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Why do scammers threaten to leak naked photos of you if you don't pay up? Why don't they threaten my friends with naked photos of me unless THEY pay up. I know what I look like naked. It's not going to change my perception of myself or make it harder for me to work with me.
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
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you know what? good advice.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
you know what? good advice.
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The administration that uncancelled swastikas yesterday wants us to believe that it is blackmailing universities because it is so sincerely against antisemitism?
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The administration that uncancelled swastikas yesterday wants us to believe that it is blackmailing universities because it is so sincerely against antisemitism?
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
I think everyone from GenX and the Boomers needs to haul around a bottle of this and when they see a kid eating anything whip it out and start screaming 5-7! 5-7! It might put an end to a certain meme by co-opting it in the worst possible way. Alternatively...Heinz. Perhaps a cringey commercial?
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I think everyone from GenX and the Boomers needs to haul around a bottle of this and when they see a kid eating anything whip it out and start screaming 5-7! 5-7! It might put an end to a certain meme by co-opting it in the worst possible way. Alternatively...Heinz. Perhaps a cringey commercial?
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I've been a bit low morale lately from endless reorgs and reorg-lites. But it improves my morale to think at least no one is scooter shadowing me and my team du jour.
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I've been a bit low morale lately from endless reorgs and reorg-lites. But it improves my morale to think at least no one is scooter shadowing me and my team du jour.
I actively avoid his movies. And I actively avoid conversations where someone starts to tell me about one of his movies.
As theatrical releases decline, the 54-year-old actor has become the most bankable star on Netflix, Amazon and Apple—earning $20 million or more a movie—in a major paradigm shift of Hollywood economics. Inside the new A-Minus List.
How Mark Wahlberg Became The King Of Streaming
As theatrical releases decline, the 54-year-old actor has become the most bankable star on Netflix, Amazon and Apple—earning $20 million or more a movie—in a major paradigm shift of Hollywood economic...
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I actively avoid his movies. And I actively avoid conversations where someone starts to tell me about one of his movies.
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Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—
I hope midterms are a referendum
I hope midterms are a referendum
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—
I hope midterms are a referendum
I hope midterms are a referendum
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw
- Leslie Vincent at the Parkway
- Sarah Morris at Hell's Kitchen
- Sarah Morris at the Dakota
- Wandering Suns yard concert
- Belfast Cowboys yard concert
Should have been Marc Cohn and Colvin in there - we had tickets - but missed.
- Leslie Vincent at the Parkway
- Sarah Morris at Hell's Kitchen
- Sarah Morris at the Dakota
- Wandering Suns yard concert
- Belfast Cowboys yard concert
Should have been Marc Cohn and Colvin in there - we had tickets - but missed.
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw
- Josh Ritter
- Farm Aid
- Jerry Cantrell
- Sturgill Simpson
- Charlie Parr
- Josh Ritter
- Farm Aid
- Jerry Cantrell
- Sturgill Simpson
- Charlie Parr
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw
- Elvis Costello & the Imposters with Charlie Sexton
- Farm Aid
- Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives
- Los Lobos
- Steve Earle
- Elvis Costello & the Imposters with Charlie Sexton
- Farm Aid
- Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives
- Los Lobos
- Steve Earle
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw
- Leslie Vincent at the Parkway
- Sarah Morris at Hell's Kitchen
- Sarah Morris at the Dakota
- Wandering Suns yard concert
- Belfast Cowboys yard concert
Should have been Marc Cohn and Colvin in there - we had tickets - but missed.
- Leslie Vincent at the Parkway
- Sarah Morris at Hell's Kitchen
- Sarah Morris at the Dakota
- Wandering Suns yard concert
- Belfast Cowboys yard concert
Should have been Marc Cohn and Colvin in there - we had tickets - but missed.
I have a Core MN list. I find myself adding a couple of non-Minnesotans like Hank Green to it as honorary people that seem Minnesotan in spirit.
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I have a Core MN list. I find myself adding a couple of non-Minnesotans like Hank Green to it as honorary people that seem Minnesotan in spirit.