Lawyers of Minnesota, local attorney Daniel Suitor is trying to coordinate legal resources needed by the people and organizations responding to ICE's occupation of MN. (Lawyers not from MN, you might also be able to help!) See Dan's post for the link to the form.
Mutual Aid Opportunity:
COMMUNITY ALERT & CALL FOR SUPPORT
Powwow Grounds on Franklin Avenue is now being activated as a community headquarters for ICE patrol observation, rapid response coordination, and community support in South Minneapolis.
I hit my head last week and haven’t recovered yet. Which is super upsetting after multiple difficult TBI recoveries. But it also feels like an opportunity to shout out how assistive technology — like audio descriptions — can benefit a wide range of individuals.
I currently am experimenting with sidecar to share my notes written in Obsidian with my iPad, but I imagine there may be easier routes.
This constantly happens to me and I always feel like such a novice when it does.
I wrote out a basic script for a 5-minute video how to that’s like 500 words, and I’m not sure how to keep it on my screen without blocking my view of what I need to demonstrate.
I also currently rely on just a 16-inch MBP
For anyone who produces video content, if you’re writing out a script for a task-based video how-to, how do you keep track of what you plan to say while recording your screen in a specific window?
A scrabble game in progress includes a tile holder that includes the exclamation “aa” next to the word “early”
This is a deeply relatable vibe
I think we also need to talk about how "Women in Tech" spaces are not intersectional. My experience in them, as an AFAB non-binary person has not been positive.
HOT DAMN some incredible Bay Area journalists are founding an independent, worker-owned newsroom!! And you can already support & subscribe!! Coyote Media Collective is gonna be a game changer and I am so fuckin amped to support it 🙌
This bit really hit me from a recent Dan Sinker post:
"In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it."
Doing anything creative for myself right now feels like a small way to fully exist.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)
Over at Ephemeral Atlas, I interviewed Natalie Salminen Rude about the strange and wonderful alchemy of outdoor appreciation, magical realism, and humor in Fables of the North Shore.
The book gently lampoons everything I love about northern Minnesota.
www.ephemeralatlas.com/natalie-salm...
Not personally affiliated, but would be thrilled if sharing this helps anyone. Data engineering role with the ACLU: job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/78...
I had a conversation today with a writing peer who talked about writing as an act of appreciation — how it can be a creative process that helps you understand why you enjoy something, and along the way develop an even deeper sense of excitement and respect for whatever it is you enjoy. I love that.
I just heard a loon calling on Lake Harriet and it was spectacular. And learned that Hollywood is (allegedly) obsessed with loon noises? And some people think they're creepy, but they're not. They're magic 🧙
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVFB...
Zooming in on this map makes it look like they have this planned down to at least the section level.
The entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness appears on the map cited in the Secretary's Memorandum 1078-006 of April 3, 2025, Increasing Timber Production And Designating An Emergency Situation On National Forest System Lands.
I love it when you think you are 99.9 percent sure you are done with some very clever CSS you have just written and everything is shiny and grand and then you think I’ll just double check all my work in the other browsers things couldn’t possibly look wrong
One deeply soothing thing to me: listening to the @maximumfun.org Sleeping with Celebrities podcast at 0.75 speed until I fall asleep, finish the dishes, or feel like some otherwise tiny but noticeable shift has happened.
Everyone should try to write a sporadically updated arts blog because it's a lovely excuse to fill up your apartment with random notes like "tell me about the puppet show" that you cannot seem to remember writing but immediately love the mystery of
I'm still learning to get the right consistency for a balm. But late last night, I discovered an accessible use for my old Aeropress + Able Disk: straining spent herbs from oil.
Last night, my herbs were powdered too fine for it to make much of a difference, but maybe less fine it'll be perfect? 🤞
There’s a Bay-area data privacy lawyer keeping San Francisco weird by maneuvering a luminous dinosaur costume around the city:
missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...
My gender is baby
Lewis Mallard is a delightful psychedelic folk artist I spoke with last fall. I finally managed to publish an essay about the impact of his work, disability as identity, and why I think creative acts of absurdity are so meaningful at Ephemeral Atlas:
www.ephemeralatlas.com/psychedelic-...
In case you need some wholesome vegan cooking content in your feed, featuring Fraser and a delightful duck named Lewis Mallard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLo...
I recently had the pleasure to interview Chicago bioregional herbalist Alex Williams about how he got into herbalism, what bioregional herbalism is, and how to learn about plant medicine through observation and sensory-based experiences:
www.ephemeralatlas.com/interview-wi...
A white farmer crouches in harvest with a bouquet of purple leaves in her hands. She is wearing a black t-shirt, red bandana, work jeans, and a blue had with pins on it. Behind her, pink echinacea and white yarrow flowers extend into the background.
Abby, the farmer, stands in a field of waist-high purple echinacea blossoms on a gray spring day. She is wearing a black t-shirt, bed bandana, and blue baseball cap that reads "Climate Adaptation Fellowship." She is tan in the way that white people with Italian heritage get in the summer, making kind of a derp face and looking off to the right, smiling in a way that reveals small dimples.
Hi! I'm Abby, farmer at Foxtrot Farm in Ashfield, MA. We're a 6-acre farm that grows mostly botanicals, elderberries, and weird foods that walk the line between food and medicine.
I started this farm eight years ago with the goal of growing climate resilient crops in climate resilient ways.
any government worker that doesn’t give a fuck: I will write your bullet points. just reach out.
I finally bought a left-handed upright mouse, to reduce my dependency on my right side, which is dominant but still weaker than my left (after over 4 years of physical therapy). It feels weird and surreal but oddly doable.