The Tom O'Bedlam
@thetomobedlam.bsky.social
Bard, Miscreant, Enchanter.
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I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
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Psst! Do you wanna help keep The Dispatches From Appalachia in the fight? Got a spare ten spot that you don't know what to do with?
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
Support Coyote Wallace
Support Coyote Wallace
ko-fi.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Psst! Do you wanna help keep The Dispatches From Appalachia in the fight? Got a spare ten spot that you don't know what to do with?
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
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“I’m not trained for this.” Get trained. If you have a smidgen of privilege (citizenship, mayo colored skin, financial resources) you can’t just sit and watch this lawless, brutal administration ripping families apart anymore. Monarca is the best resource in the TC. monarcamn.org/training
Training — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“I’m not trained for this.” Get trained. If you have a smidgen of privilege (citizenship, mayo colored skin, financial resources) you can’t just sit and watch this lawless, brutal administration ripping families apart anymore. Monarca is the best resource in the TC. monarcamn.org/training
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Join me tomorrow afternoon at Sumner Library in North Mpls!
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
Human Toll: Reading & Film Screening - Our Streets
Join us for an artful examination of the lasting impacts of harmful decisions of the past and an exploration of reparative ways to move forward.
www.ourstreetsmn.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Join me tomorrow afternoon at Sumner Library in North Mpls!
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
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The guy responsible for removing New Deal-era banking regulations in the 90s, causing the 2008 collapse, writes emails asking for dating advice from the world's biggest pedophile where he sounds like Jon Cryer in that one John Hughes movie
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The guy responsible for removing New Deal-era banking regulations in the 90s, causing the 2008 collapse, writes emails asking for dating advice from the world's biggest pedophile where he sounds like Jon Cryer in that one John Hughes movie
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So, I've been contemplating whether or not to say this, and had hoped I would have a chance to tell Richard this to his face last night, but he bolted out of that room right quick.
But one of the things that's been clear to me since I launched A Better DFL? People are hungry for change.
But one of the things that's been clear to me since I launched A Better DFL? People are hungry for change.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So, I've been contemplating whether or not to say this, and had hoped I would have a chance to tell Richard this to his face last night, but he bolted out of that room right quick.
But one of the things that's been clear to me since I launched A Better DFL? People are hungry for change.
But one of the things that's been clear to me since I launched A Better DFL? People are hungry for change.
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Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
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North Minneapolis can't keep anything nice.
The number of retail shops in Ward 4 is ridiculous. I can only think of two retail shops left here that aren't corner stores or grocery stores (there is one grocer).
Vetaw ain't it.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
The number of retail shops in Ward 4 is ridiculous. I can only think of two retail shops left here that aren't corner stores or grocery stores (there is one grocer).
Vetaw ain't it.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
bringmethenews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
North Minneapolis can't keep anything nice.
The number of retail shops in Ward 4 is ridiculous. I can only think of two retail shops left here that aren't corner stores or grocery stores (there is one grocer).
Vetaw ain't it.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
The number of retail shops in Ward 4 is ridiculous. I can only think of two retail shops left here that aren't corner stores or grocery stores (there is one grocer).
Vetaw ain't it.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
@smith.senate.gov's voicemail is full, @amyklobuchar.com's isn't. That says to me that more people need to call Senator Klobuchar and demand she move to replace caucus leadership with one that can meet the moment.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@smith.senate.gov's voicemail is full, @amyklobuchar.com's isn't. That says to me that more people need to call Senator Klobuchar and demand she move to replace caucus leadership with one that can meet the moment.
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Musk wants to be a Renaissance man, but he's not even a paleolithic man.
Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas.
Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.
Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas.
Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Musk wants to be a Renaissance man, but he's not even a paleolithic man.
Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas.
Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.
Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas.
Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.
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Hey everyone, early heads up, @50501oc.bsky.social is planning a boycott for Black Friday weekend through Cyber Monday, and I’ll be joining in. Feel free to participate and send a message to corporations who continue to bend the knee to fascism!
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hey everyone, early heads up, @50501oc.bsky.social is planning a boycott for Black Friday weekend through Cyber Monday, and I’ll be joining in. Feel free to participate and send a message to corporations who continue to bend the knee to fascism!
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If you are a parent of a kid in Minneapolis public schools, please, please, PLEASE take 2 minutes to email the school board (SchoolBoard@mpls.k12.mn.us) and superintendent (mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us) to tell them to settle with the educators' union and give them what they want. Your emails truly help!
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you are a parent of a kid in Minneapolis public schools, please, please, PLEASE take 2 minutes to email the school board (SchoolBoard@mpls.k12.mn.us) and superintendent (mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us) to tell them to settle with the educators' union and give them what they want. Your emails truly help!
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Nathaniel Johnstone and Maddie Cardoza Sing!!! (11/06/2025)
YouTube video by Nathaniel Johnstone
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Don’t forget to support @mfelocal59.bsky.social tomorrows at their pickets as they push for better working conditions! One picket in each school board district:
D1: Central & Lowry
D2: Davis Center
D3: Chicago & Lake
D4: Walker Art Center Bridge
D5: Minnehaha Pkwy & Cedar
D6: 69th & Nicollet
D1: Central & Lowry
D2: Davis Center
D3: Chicago & Lake
D4: Walker Art Center Bridge
D5: Minnehaha Pkwy & Cedar
D6: 69th & Nicollet
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Don’t forget to support @mfelocal59.bsky.social tomorrows at their pickets as they push for better working conditions! One picket in each school board district:
D1: Central & Lowry
D2: Davis Center
D3: Chicago & Lake
D4: Walker Art Center Bridge
D5: Minnehaha Pkwy & Cedar
D6: 69th & Nicollet
D1: Central & Lowry
D2: Davis Center
D3: Chicago & Lake
D4: Walker Art Center Bridge
D5: Minnehaha Pkwy & Cedar
D6: 69th & Nicollet
I am so tired of watching people with integrity and a desire to serve congratulate craven corporate candidates for "winning" elections based on spam mail. There is no primal scream my body can generate that matches this moment.
We must do better than money. As a city, as a species.
We must do better than money. As a city, as a species.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am so tired of watching people with integrity and a desire to serve congratulate craven corporate candidates for "winning" elections based on spam mail. There is no primal scream my body can generate that matches this moment.
We must do better than money. As a city, as a species.
We must do better than money. As a city, as a species.
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Have you made your plan to vote yet?
Tuesday is Election Day, but the polls are open for early voting today, tomorrow and Monday. Whichever way you choose to vote, remember to rank me first for Mayor of Minneapolis so we can build the city we deserve – together.
Tuesday is Election Day, but the polls are open for early voting today, tomorrow and Monday. Whichever way you choose to vote, remember to rank me first for Mayor of Minneapolis so we can build the city we deserve – together.
November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Have you made your plan to vote yet?
Tuesday is Election Day, but the polls are open for early voting today, tomorrow and Monday. Whichever way you choose to vote, remember to rank me first for Mayor of Minneapolis so we can build the city we deserve – together.
Tuesday is Election Day, but the polls are open for early voting today, tomorrow and Monday. Whichever way you choose to vote, remember to rank me first for Mayor of Minneapolis so we can build the city we deserve – together.
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It's good that the DFL listening tour will happen mere blocks from George Floyd Square. We have a lot to talk about!
The DFL Listening Tour is the hottest event in town, and is moved to a larger venue to meet the demand.
Happy to welcome the @dfl.org to SD62 at Sabathani, on Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM. Show up to share the issues important to you with the state party.
www.mobilize.us/dfl/event/83...
Happy to welcome the @dfl.org to SD62 at Sabathani, on Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM. Show up to share the issues important to you with the state party.
www.mobilize.us/dfl/event/83...
DFL Listening Tour - Minneapolis · Minnesota DFL
Join us on the DFL Listening Tour with DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom. The listening tour is a family-friendly event.
Building a lasting majority that can win and deliver for Minnesotans requires us to e...
www.mobilize.us
October 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's good that the DFL listening tour will happen mere blocks from George Floyd Square. We have a lot to talk about!
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IN 1 HOUR - ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
IN 1 HOUR - ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS
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Because the mayor forgot to mention it, I’ll remind folks that he vetoed the budget for the Dinkytown lights—champion led by @robin4mpls.bsky.social— because they were a “pet project.”
In just a month, Minneapolis has:
✅ Added safety lights in Dinkytown
✅ Opened hundreds of affordable homes
✅ Fought for stronger gun laws
✅ Installed a 3rd Narcan vending machine
✅ Brought thousands downtown
✅ Ranked #1 for women’s sports
And there’s more good stuff on the way.
✅ Added safety lights in Dinkytown
✅ Opened hundreds of affordable homes
✅ Fought for stronger gun laws
✅ Installed a 3rd Narcan vending machine
✅ Brought thousands downtown
✅ Ranked #1 for women’s sports
And there’s more good stuff on the way.
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Because the mayor forgot to mention it, I’ll remind folks that he vetoed the budget for the Dinkytown lights—champion led by @robin4mpls.bsky.social— because they were a “pet project.”
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Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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No taxation without representation.
California needs to create an escrow account to hold federal taxes before they are passed on, and if the administration tries to take away legally appropriated funds, we pull from the escrow account.
California needs to create an escrow account to hold federal taxes before they are passed on, and if the administration tries to take away legally appropriated funds, we pull from the escrow account.
there’s quite literally no purpose in continuing to pay taxes if they’re going to weaponize them against a majority of people paying them like this
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
No taxation without representation.
California needs to create an escrow account to hold federal taxes before they are passed on, and if the administration tries to take away legally appropriated funds, we pull from the escrow account.
California needs to create an escrow account to hold federal taxes before they are passed on, and if the administration tries to take away legally appropriated funds, we pull from the escrow account.
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Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.
December 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.
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Move MN @moveminnesota.bsky.social has a template for sending a letter to Minneapolis City Council to tell them to Withhold Municipal Consent for the Lyndale Ave Redesign until the plan includes safe options for pedestrians, buses, bikes, and everyone!
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
Tell Minneapolis City Council to Withhold Municipal Consent on Lyndale Ave
We need a design that creates safe and inviting space for everyone, whether we bike, walk, roll or take the bus!
www.movemn.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Move MN @moveminnesota.bsky.social has a template for sending a letter to Minneapolis City Council to tell them to Withhold Municipal Consent for the Lyndale Ave Redesign until the plan includes safe options for pedestrians, buses, bikes, and everyone!
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
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Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....
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Frey’s proposed 2026 budget defunds them, but emergency housing vouchers are funded in the 2025 budget; MPHA implemented the operational needs to get vouchers out in Q3 for resident use. It’s now Q4 & sitting in CPED. 100 vouchers could be in use right now: 50 for single residents, 50 for families.
Continues to be striking how, since Frey erected the greenway fence to Lake/Nicollet, the crowd has returned en masse to 2900 block of Blaisdell. Frey bleats “you can’t have encampments by home & businesses“ but that’s exactly where he’s pushed these folks. Meanwhile 50 housing vouchers go unfunded.
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Frey’s proposed 2026 budget defunds them, but emergency housing vouchers are funded in the 2025 budget; MPHA implemented the operational needs to get vouchers out in Q3 for resident use. It’s now Q4 & sitting in CPED. 100 vouchers could be in use right now: 50 for single residents, 50 for families.