A Minneapolis story:

Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that •everyone• has a neighborhood park: early in the city’s history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didn’t have to shoehorn this goal in; they built up the city around it. There are little parks all over the city, many just a couple of blocks in size.

And in the winter, they flood the athletic fields: ice rinks!

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Everyone can go ice skating. You can go ice skating, even if you’re really bad at it. And if you fall, strangers will rush to help. And they’ll laugh with you when you laugh. Because this is Minneapolis.

And one of these days, damnit, everyone can go skating and just worry about the ice and not ICE. One day. When we get those occupier assholes out of here.

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I'm trying. I got two gigs I'm finishing up but the thing that would help most is steady/regular employment. Was employed fulltime in web accessibility since 2016, but got laid off last year. WAS certified, over the past year (gigs) have done more PDF remediation & design work for document accessibility. I'm looking for #UX or #accessibility roles, US remote. #GetFediHired

I'd be interested in pivoting to Product Manager but what I saw already requires PMP cert, which I can't do right now.

Updated my job description from "site reliability engineer" to "uptime girl"

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how unpopular is ice? they lost the *landlords*. my complex has an ICE OUT sign placed there by the property manager. lmao

I can confirm the need for the metric system is dead; the corgi 🐶 system is so much better

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This is me doing a land speed record.
Please excuse the low quality of this video. I was going so fast that the camera became old. I had to go to the store to buy a can of Ubik to spray on it afterwards. It didn't fix the video.

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@praetor I'll believe it when I see it. His so-called "de-escalations" so far haven't been.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father from U.S. immigration detention. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492.9.0.pdf

Please remember them. Remember them, and then remember what they died for: fighting a much larger danger. Remember what they were fighting, •see• it, and •act•.

Do not let their deaths be in vain by making their deaths the only thing you see.

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DailyDogo 1527 🐶 #corgi

MAGA: I have locked us all in this room and nobody can leave unless you let me drown this baby.

DEMS: Obviously no what the fuck

MAGA: Okay then I guess it's your fault we're locked in then.

DEMS: You're the one who locked the door.

MAGA: Yeah but you won't let us drown this baby tho so this is entirely your fault.

DEMS: You literally have all the power. You have all the keys.

MAGA: C'mon man just let us drown this baby we really really wanna! And then we can all go home for Christmas!

DEMS: Wait... What's that smell? Smells like... smoke?

MAGA: Oh yeah the house is on fire. Probably should've mentioned that.

DEMS: ON FIRE?? JESUS CHRIST WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!!

MAGA: Yeah I know man, too bad you won't just let us drown this baby. Looks like we're all going to burn instead.

DEMS: Look just give me the baby and unlock the door. We still have time to get out of here alright!

MAGA: *sigh* no can do, buckaroo. See, this baby? It's gotta get drowned first, one way or another.

DEMS: BUT WHY THOUGH

MAGA: Yanno...just seems like the right thing to do. Sort of like that time I set the house on fire.

DEMS: You're fucking insane.

MAGA: Oh real mature, asshole. Calling us names at a time like this with the house on fire, and this baby STILL not drowned.

DEMS: Oh shit I just remembered, the fire extinguisher! Remember that fire extinguisher I bought us a few years ago? Do we still have that?

MAGA: Oh this? Yep still got it. It's awesome by the way.

DEMS: Oh thank Christ we're saved!

MAGA: But obviously we can't use it.

DEMS: WHY THE FUCK NOT

MAGA: Because it's for EMERGENCIES you dummy. Jeez Louise do I have to do all the thinking around here?

DEMS: THIS IS A FUCKING EMERGENCY YOU DILDO

MAGA: You're always so emotional. That's why nobody likes you.

DEMS: If. You. Use. The. Fire. Extinguisher. Nobody. Dies. And. Everyone. Can. Leave.

MAGA: Or you could just let me drown this baby.

DEMS: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

MAGA: Okay look we'll take a vote on it. All in favor of letting us drown this baby?

DEMS: NO!

8 DEMS: maybe

DEMS: what the fuck was that?

8 DEMS: let's at least hear him out.

DEMS: Yes let's hear out the psychopath who set the house on fire and wants to drown a baby. Great idea.

MAGA: Ok ok look I can see we're close to agreement here, so

DEMS: The fuck we are.

MAGA: So... I propose a compromise. I'll unlock the door and stop setting any more fires, and we can figure out whether to drown this baby *later*.

DEMS: Absolutely the fuck no.

8 DEMS: how much later.

MAGA: idk maybe tomorrow or next week or something?

DEMS: You know you can't trust them, right? Tell me you know you can't trust them.

MAGA: Depends on how quickly I can gather some more kindling and matches.

DEMS: What the fuck was that?

MAGA: Nothing. You're hearing things. So do we have a deal?

DEMS: NO

8 DEMS: yes

MAGA: Great! Let me just drown this baby real quick and we can all get out of here!

St. Peter police chief rescues resident from armed federal terrorists.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

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Feeling melted.
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Goblin mode.