Robin Chattopadhyay রবীণ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
@robinchattopadhyay.bsky.social
Dad | Husband | Son
Smack dab in the middle of the sandwich generation | Aspiring to raise the best humans possible
Smack dab in the middle of the sandwich generation | Aspiring to raise the best humans possible
I went to church choir practice the night my mom died for this exact reason.
Many of the members had already heard the news so I didn’t even have to say anything. The love I felt that night props me up still. Especially this month as the 1-year anniversary rolls around
Many of the members had already heard the news so I didn’t even have to say anything. The love I felt that night props me up still. Especially this month as the 1-year anniversary rolls around
i swear, my little choir group’s social events are responsible for so much of my mental wellbeing
just being with friends is so important
just being with friends is so important
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I went to church choir practice the night my mom died for this exact reason.
Many of the members had already heard the news so I didn’t even have to say anything. The love I felt that night props me up still. Especially this month as the 1-year anniversary rolls around
Many of the members had already heard the news so I didn’t even have to say anything. The love I felt that night props me up still. Especially this month as the 1-year anniversary rolls around
On Saturday, my family and I went to see the MN Orchestra for Muppet Christmas Carol, our favorite Christmas movie that we watch every year.
Then on Sunday, we went to a community theater production of Sound of Music with a friend from church playing Capt. Von Trapp.
Then on Sunday, we went to a community theater production of Sound of Music with a friend from church playing Capt. Von Trapp.
this was a weekend of unrelenting horrors, but if you had a small nice thing happen I would like to hear about it
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
On Saturday, my family and I went to see the MN Orchestra for Muppet Christmas Carol, our favorite Christmas movie that we watch every year.
Then on Sunday, we went to a community theater production of Sound of Music with a friend from church playing Capt. Von Trapp.
Then on Sunday, we went to a community theater production of Sound of Music with a friend from church playing Capt. Von Trapp.
My sister-in-law’s mom was a librarian and her grandma was the “Story Lady” at the children’s section of the library in Mankato. They ALWAYS were giving books for baby shower gifts.
I'm going to go even further. Books make an amazing baby shower gift. New moms get a ton of other stuff but rarely get good books to read to their newborns/toddlers.
Use that as a basis to keep getting them books as they age.
Use that as a basis to keep getting them books as they age.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO BUY SOMEONE AS A GIFT BUY THEM BOOKS!
IF YOU DO KNOW WHAT TO BUY SOMEONE AS A GIFT THEN CONGRATS YOU ARE BUYING THEM BOOKS OTHERWISE ARE YOU SURE? REALLY SURE?
IF YOU DO KNOW WHAT TO BUY SOMEONE AS A GIFT THEN CONGRATS YOU ARE BUYING THEM BOOKS OTHERWISE ARE YOU SURE? REALLY SURE?
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My sister-in-law’s mom was a librarian and her grandma was the “Story Lady” at the children’s section of the library in Mankato. They ALWAYS were giving books for baby shower gifts.
Reminds me of a time when one of my kiddos was a baby and my instinct was to go to the ER, but I was afraid of the cost and waited several hours for Urgent Care to open because it was cheaper.
Got to Urgent Care, was told to go to ER.
And then got bills for both ER and UC anyway
Got to Urgent Care, was told to go to ER.
And then got bills for both ER and UC anyway
Reminds me of that time I needed emergency appendectomy & I was on morphine & the hospital billing guy came to my room to ask me to pay the copay upfront
I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again
Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally
I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again
Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reminds me of a time when one of my kiddos was a baby and my instinct was to go to the ER, but I was afraid of the cost and waited several hours for Urgent Care to open because it was cheaper.
Got to Urgent Care, was told to go to ER.
And then got bills for both ER and UC anyway
Got to Urgent Care, was told to go to ER.
And then got bills for both ER and UC anyway
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If even a quarter of dem text spam were calls to action and community support they would probably build an actual movement with all the money spent on them.
Instead it's just annoying as fuck.
Instead it's just annoying as fuck.
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If even a quarter of dem text spam were calls to action and community support they would probably build an actual movement with all the money spent on them.
Instead it's just annoying as fuck.
Instead it's just annoying as fuck.
Reposted by Robin Chattopadhyay রবীণ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
ICE agents followed a Burnsville family home from the store, failed to present a warrant and entered their home with guns drawn. They detained 4 legal citizens who presented documentation, leaving a 7 year-old without parents.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Reposted by Robin Chattopadhyay রবীণ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
Parenting teenagers may just be training for parenting parents.
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Parenting teenagers may just be training for parenting parents.
Not holiday or family-related, but in the undergrad quantity food production management class I took, we ran a lunch service for faculty/staff to simulate a restaurant. We served about 100 people/day and you got an entree, vegetable, bread, and dessert. 1/2
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Not holiday or family-related, but in the undergrad quantity food production management class I took, we ran a lunch service for faculty/staff to simulate a restaurant. We served about 100 people/day and you got an entree, vegetable, bread, and dessert. 1/2
This is a thing for me at work. My immediate co-workers and I are all pretty close in age to each other and we’re all dealing with elderly parents (and college/early-adult children).
Between four of us, we’ve lost three parents/parents-in-law in the past year
Between four of us, we’ve lost three parents/parents-in-law in the past year
Every person I know who is roughly my age is dealing with something like this right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is a thing for me at work. My immediate co-workers and I are all pretty close in age to each other and we’re all dealing with elderly parents (and college/early-adult children).
Between four of us, we’ve lost three parents/parents-in-law in the past year
Between four of us, we’ve lost three parents/parents-in-law in the past year
Great advice. I took a quantity food production management class in college and this was the most practical learning from this class that benefits me today. (I’ve worked 25+ years in financial services, so I don’t use much else from that class except for family holidays)
Make a spreadsheet. List cooking times (and resting for protein), device (oven, crock pot, stove top, smoker, grill, etc) and temperatures. Work backwards from when dinner is ready. Project manage this fucker.
most people just aren’t going to magically know how to juggle all those dishes just because it’s a holiday. there’s no shame in doing a couple of things really well
November 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Great advice. I took a quantity food production management class in college and this was the most practical learning from this class that benefits me today. (I’ve worked 25+ years in financial services, so I don’t use much else from that class except for family holidays)
My best aurora photos
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My best aurora photos
I’m not generally superstitious, but…
A new, unidentified sound from inside your house, that stops when you try to find it, that sounds too big to be a mouse, that started today of all days, is enough to question your general disbelief in ghosts
A new, unidentified sound from inside your house, that stops when you try to find it, that sounds too big to be a mouse, that started today of all days, is enough to question your general disbelief in ghosts
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I’m not generally superstitious, but…
A new, unidentified sound from inside your house, that stops when you try to find it, that sounds too big to be a mouse, that started today of all days, is enough to question your general disbelief in ghosts
A new, unidentified sound from inside your house, that stops when you try to find it, that sounds too big to be a mouse, that started today of all days, is enough to question your general disbelief in ghosts
FFS; “Aunt/uncle” is so expansive my wife’s college roommates are addressed as Aunt ____ by my kids
This seems like an unusually boneheaded argument for someone from La Mega to make. It’s a perfectly normal broad familial term across multiple cultures.
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In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
FFS; “Aunt/uncle” is so expansive my wife’s college roommates are addressed as Aunt ____ by my kids
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this one is good too
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
this one is good too
Didn’t have to wait long! 🎉
October 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Didn’t have to wait long! 🎉
My first question when I saw the news was whether he would resign. And then wondering if there were financial shenanigans when he was chair of the school board
Neve held my nose more than when I had to vote for him to not let right wing kooks in
Neve held my nose more than when I had to vote for him to not let right wing kooks in
Still on the mounds view school board, my wife informs me. Did not help when my son wasn’t getting FAPE during Covid.
A federal grand jury has indicted former Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jonathan Weinhagen on charges of stealing $200,000 from the organization, including $30,000 that the Chamber put up as reward money following the shooting of three children in 2021.
October 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My first question when I saw the news was whether he would resign. And then wondering if there were financial shenanigans when he was chair of the school board
Neve held my nose more than when I had to vote for him to not let right wing kooks in
Neve held my nose more than when I had to vote for him to not let right wing kooks in
Reposted by Robin Chattopadhyay রবীণ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
yeah my actually really hot take is that voting should be mandatory for all citizens (you don't have to actually fill anything in, you can write "fuck you" on the ballot, but you get slapped with a fine if you don't turn it in at all).
it would be better to try lowering the voting age, tbh. get kids registered in high school automatically, make voting a thing you do with your class for the first time.
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
yeah my actually really hot take is that voting should be mandatory for all citizens (you don't have to actually fill anything in, you can write "fuck you" on the ballot, but you get slapped with a fine if you don't turn it in at all).
My wife and I used to work for (and bank at) WF and between the two of us, we’ve probably gotten close to $10,000 in class action settlements. Wrong job classification, mortgage interest rate issues, and now 401k settlements (I think we’ve actually gotten multiple of those)
Love to get a check for $114 because a previous employer settled a case accusing them of *checks notes* investing in Wells Fargo
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My wife and I used to work for (and bank at) WF and between the two of us, we’ve probably gotten close to $10,000 in class action settlements. Wrong job classification, mortgage interest rate issues, and now 401k settlements (I think we’ve actually gotten multiple of those)
I was at my in-laws on Sunday to help move some furniture and I saw in one of her drawers was some sewing thing.
Me: Oh! My mom had one of these just like this!
MIL: That one IS your mom’s. She gave it to me when they downsized
Me: Oh, it’s nice to know that my mom’s stuff is being used 💔❤️
Me: Oh! My mom had one of these just like this!
MIL: That one IS your mom’s. She gave it to me when they downsized
Me: Oh, it’s nice to know that my mom’s stuff is being used 💔❤️
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was at my in-laws on Sunday to help move some furniture and I saw in one of her drawers was some sewing thing.
Me: Oh! My mom had one of these just like this!
MIL: That one IS your mom’s. She gave it to me when they downsized
Me: Oh, it’s nice to know that my mom’s stuff is being used 💔❤️
Me: Oh! My mom had one of these just like this!
MIL: That one IS your mom’s. She gave it to me when they downsized
Me: Oh, it’s nice to know that my mom’s stuff is being used 💔❤️
Two of my kids (19 and 21) — who text and talk to each other non-stop — have taken to writing and mailing letters to each other now that one has moved away (all the way to St. Paul, lol) to college
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Two of my kids (19 and 21) — who text and talk to each other non-stop — have taken to writing and mailing letters to each other now that one has moved away (all the way to St. Paul, lol) to college
For some reason, I’ve gotten good at picking up the wide bodies that take off from MSP and fly over our house. I heard one just a bit ago and thought it was a quite a bit later than usual for a Europe-bound flight. When I looked it up, I think it was the Vikings or something Viking-related
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For some reason, I’ve gotten good at picking up the wide bodies that take off from MSP and fly over our house. I heard one just a bit ago and thought it was a quite a bit later than usual for a Europe-bound flight. When I looked it up, I think it was the Vikings or something Viking-related
U of M needs to settle with the Teamsters ASAP because they deserve it and so my kid can get a proper meal that he’s paying for.
3.5% and a June contract expiration!
3.5% and a June contract expiration!
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
U of M needs to settle with the Teamsters ASAP because they deserve it and so my kid can get a proper meal that he’s paying for.
3.5% and a June contract expiration!
3.5% and a June contract expiration!
When I was a kid, Chicken in a Biskit was a treat that my mom would only buy in the run-up to a road trip
Big news:
Snack Stack is back with a deep dive into the cultural history of Chicken in a Biscuit
It's weird, it's fun, it takes some surprising turns!
snackstack.net/2025/09/07/t...
Snack Stack is back with a deep dive into the cultural history of Chicken in a Biscuit
It's weird, it's fun, it takes some surprising turns!
snackstack.net/2025/09/07/t...
The curious history of Chicken in a Biskit
Investigating the midcentury moment of meat-flavored crackers
snackstack.net
September 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
When I was a kid, Chicken in a Biskit was a treat that my mom would only buy in the run-up to a road trip
Once when I was in HS, an announcer was reading results for a race I was in. “In fourth place [someone else] “, in third place, oh my god, there’s that name again”
People get my name wrong sometimes, it's mildly annoying. But my lord, the times someone with a somewhat long south Asian name is coming up and the emcee panics. Learn the name!
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Once when I was in HS, an announcer was reading results for a race I was in. “In fourth place [someone else] “, in third place, oh my god, there’s that name again”