"...to remove benches, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it...minor conflicts over shared resources are key to the health of democracy."
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No money for staff, books, programs and Kanopy but there's always a few dollars available to make our public space less friendly.
Picture of a public library book display, "Your Fav Celebrities Share Their Fav Reads".
Close up picture of a public library book display showing the picture of Dua Lipa and Brennan Lee Mulligan and their fav books.
Chuffed to make a fun little display at the library, "Your Fav Celebrities Share Their Fav Reads", and I get to put Dua Lipa next to @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social.
MinnPost had this interesting tidbit about Senator Ann Rest.
Kanopy is going away for Hennepin County folks on May 11. Here are some of the movies on there that you should watch: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, High Life, Twilight of the Warriors Walled In, Mid90s, and Hundreds of Beavers.
So long the Trieste Cafe exists, I'm happy with the change.
I had brief but productive conversations with my reps about this, let your reps know that saving HCMC (and Hennepin Healthcare) needs to be done.
I wonder if a roundabout would have helped? I guess we will never know. Just the most dangerous intersection in Northeast.
I wore the only purple sweatshirt I had for the game, my Saint Catherine's University one, I prolly need to upgrade at some point.
After coming back from New Zealand, I was thinking similar thoughts, for places, food, greetings, etc.
I'm not sure how likely things will progress this year but Senator Kunesh has introduced this bill and there is companion in the house. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...
It's true, I think purple songs are just better bops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQE...
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
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I don't know about this, Woody. Maybe the guitar could say 'This machine gives fascists better training'?
I hate how these fuckers always leave the scene is a puff of teargas, like they're magicians or something
Some of my favorite adult fiction books that I read in 2025: Greenteeth, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Long Live Evil, Lone Women, Shady Hollow, True Biz and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
And, lastly, some of my favorite adult fiction that I read in 2025. #LibFaves25
Some of my favorite adult graphics that I read in 2025: Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, Vicarious, The Dissident Club, Ginseng Roots, I Want to Be a Wall, Takahashi from the Bike Shop, The Nice House by the Sea and The Jellyfish.
Some of my favorite adult graphic novels that I read in 2025. #LibFaves25
Some of my favorite kid and teen books that I read in 2025: A World Worth Saving, This Place Kills Me, Murder at the Museum, Everything We Never Had, Cat Man, Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology, Sea Legs and Hunger's Bite.
Some of my favorite children and teen books that I read in 2025. #LibFaves25
Some of the favorite adult nonfiction that I read in 2025: Cue the Sun, Children of Radium, Papyrus and Bluff.
And a few more favorite adult nonfiction that I read in 2025 #LibFaves25
Some of my favorite nonfiction books that I read in 2025: Life After Cars, One Day Everyone Will have always been against this, The Third Reich of Dreams, Actress of a Certain Age, There is no place for us, Strangers in the Land, Gentlemen of the Woods and Once Upon a Tome.
Here are my Favorite Adult Nonfiction Books of 2025 #LibFaves25
Some of my fav movies of 2025: Hamnet, Sinners, KPOP Demon Hunters, Black Bag, Dangerous Animals, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Wake Up Dead Man and Grand Theft Hamlet.
Some of my fav movies of 2025. Two Shakespeare adaptions!?
Posters of my fav TV shows and stand-ups of 2025: The Residence, Adolescence, Night of the Living Cat, Dept Q, Physical Asia, Last One Laughing UK, The Last of Us season 2 and Four Pills.
First day of the new year so one last time to share some of my favs of 2025! First my fav TV shows and standup.
2025 Youtube Recap - Listing the top five songs I listened to this year. 1. Nuevayol, 2 Chunkadelic, 3. Fear and Friday's, 4 IDGAF by Nur-d, 5 I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
Bad Bunny at the top, where he should be.
Sigh. I think Hennepin County would attest that axing the substitute budget for libraries quickly makes basic library services hard, and forget about planning programs for the community. Tough news for the Ramsey County Library.
Hennepin County Library printing news, in 2026 people will have a 5 dollar every month (instead every week), and B&W printing costs increases from 10 cents per page to 20 cents per page. Print your zines now!
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The Residence. Really enjoyed that and Uzo Aduba was fantastic.
Signed!
