The Hustler (1961)

I got that reference!

From what I know of Alan Moore, that's probably just his living room.

Is that shirt available for purchase, or is it a unique custom piece of art?

Indigo Girls - Romeo and Juliet

I grew up in the Philly suburbs, and was 13 in 1985. I did not have the media comprehension skills to understand it all at the time, so the documentary was a real paradigm shift for me.

I highly recommend the 2013 documentary "Let the Fire Burn" about the MOVE bombing. If you can find it.

Don't forget that he sent out mailers prior to the DFL caucus with incorrect caucus location information

Ward 1 - Elliott Payne Council President Elliott Payne represents Ward 1, a collection of neighborhoods in Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis. Council President Elliott Payne

On Presidents’ Day, I’m proud to celebrate our President - by which of course I mean Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

I do not know the answer to your question, but I got a mailer from him last Tuesday encouraging me to caucus, but it had the wrong caucus location on it.

Okay, but when people with consistently poor judgment finally realize some things that people with far better judgment saw clearly long ago, that doesn’t make the poor-judgment people the right ones to take seriously going forward.

People are mad at the guy for good reason.

i’m in st. paul for the statewide DFL elected officials convocation. i see jason garcia of the minneapolis park board and soren stevenson of the city council

angie craig brought starbucks coffee

We're lucky to have @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social in Minneapolis.

4 for Erin, 1 for Steve.

2/ And yet, when he confessed that he was in fact the precinct chair, he was re-appointed to the position by unanimous consent.

Our convener explained that it's the responsibility of the precinct chair to do outreach for the party in the precinct, and asked the 85 people if any of them even knew who the current chair had been for the last two years.
None did.

Orange instant read thermometer showing that tap water in Audubon Park is weirdly warm at 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's like it isn't even winter in Audubon Park.

This morning, @wellgoshacs.bsky.social asked me “what’s the mantra?”, expecting the response “the horrors persist but so do we.”

I had just woken up so instead I said “Uh… spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered? Ride now, ride now, ride for ruin and the world’s ending? Death? Death!”

Happy Saturday after Christmas to all my fellow retail workers. May everyone be patient and kind to you today.

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

Setting the table for Christmas Eve...

Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955)

That's a cool looking house; but where are all the bookcases?

Visionary Fiction Book Club | Moon Palace Books Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

New book group starting January 18 at Noon Palace, with Ursula K. Le Gun's Left Hand of Darkness! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/42421...

David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs makes that argument as well.

I guess it's good they aren't on bluesky

So you've never let them know which is our favorite?

In modern, present day movies and TV women go to bed, wake up, shower, etc. with full makeup. So I'm not sure we're getting an accurate picture of men's hygiene routines either.

A screenshot from a scholarly paper. The text reads: "On this picture, questions about the legitimacy of various gender classifications are both descriptive and normative. There is no context-independent fact of the matter about who is a man, a woman, or a sinner. 16 These things depend on contingent and localized social realities. As a result, our theoretical approach to gender is always guided by normative commitments—whether we are aware of that or not. Questions about which classification practices we ought to accept are not just about how the social world is organized, but about how it ought to be." Footnote 16, referenced above, reads: "16. Ah, yes, the three genders."

"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.

Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

No they didn't