New catch phrase dropping throughout the Twin Cities.

Don't forget: Things are still blooming.

Number two behind Hegseth

Anyways, this is why women choose the bear.

Here's a picture of my cute little bike just to spite that asshole.

Ultimately, he stops approaching me but continues raging. I put my hands out, said to calm down, and he got back into his truck, but not before reiterating what a whore I am. For wanting to cross the street, in a crosswalk, safely.

I'm so exhausted by living in this world with abusive monsters.

The way this man jumped out, walked toward me, screaming his bullshit, truly did make me feel like he was going to hurt me.

Do I throw my bike at him if he gets too close? Do I jump on and peddle as fast as I can? I live close by but don't want to be followed by this psycho.

Calling me a "a stupid fucking hoe, that I was in the "fucking way," and that I deserve to get hit and he would be happy to be the one to do it.

Mind you, there are at least four other vehicles now stuck here because he's blocking one lane with his truck and one lane with his crazy rage-fueled body

And I did look into the too-tinted driver window and say "it's a fucking cross walk." Again, not the first time this has happened to me.

Well, that spurred up a level of rage in this man that makes me pray he doesn't have a wife. He slammed his brakes, and jumped into the street, screaming

A crosswalk with the little button and the flashing lights. I make it halfway thru the intersection when giant black pickup holding a large trailer starts to drive through at speed. Again, while I'm still mid-cross.

Now, I do have a tendency to mean mug people who do that 🧵

I was going to post my silly little "biking around Minneapolis" picture this morning, but instead I'm still reeling from the worst instance of road rage I've ever personally encountered.

I was nearly home, walking the last few blocks as one of my front spokes snapped. I'm crossing at a crosswalk 🧵

I seem to always get drawn into the tiny parachutes of a dying dandelion. It's a gift to exhale and send each one dancing on air, resettling where it lands.

I admittedly am only 1/3 thru, but it's very reminiscent of Parable of the Sower thus far.

Grist's Metamorphosis is a great climate fiction collection.

Woke up earlier than usual and got out on my bike shortly after sunrise. Views of downtown Minneapolis and the Mississippi.

Sitting in the backyard in Northeast while a live jazz band plays Bob-omb Battlefield from Mario 64 down the street.

Gotta love summer in Minneapolis.

Crossed four Mississippi River bridges this morning on my bike. Not shown: 10th Ave Bridge.

I'm seriously so thrilled to live in a city investing in more bike lanes.

Weekly bouquets from my little garden in the city is top tier Midwest summer.

Reading All The Water in the World by @eirencaffall.bsky.social in the sunroom while the rain falls outside. Climate fiction hits a little harder these days.

Somehow managed to make it through the whole week without a ride across the Stone Arch Bridge. Corrected that this morning before the heat settles into Minneapolis.

Image of a parking lot, with broken blue and black glass in the foreground, with piles extending out into the distance.

Another round of smash and grab in northeast Minneapolis. Every car in this parking lot had their windows smashed when I got to Los Campeones NE this morning. Photo of the aftermath.

They're never going to acquiesce power and they will never stop. No amount of money or fame or power will make them feel fulfilled.

It's up to us, collectively to wake up and take back what is ours: our lives, our families, our health, our communities. We deserve it all and more.

Hey so...when are we going to collectively wake up to the fact that those in power will rob us all blind before happy letting us suffer and starve like the people of Palestine?

Legit thought it was going to break my windows in NE.

Is there a whimsical side of BlueSky? I need more reminders to touch grass.

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids Perhaps controversially.

"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."

So many folks in the room seemed invested in climate action because they saw a path forward to making money, for themselves or their corporations.

How do we blow up all the old systems when the world itself is burning?

Having spent the last few days hearing nothing but the "innovative tech solutions" to come for climate specifically, I call bullshit. Solutions centered in capitalism will only breed more inequities and harm.

So, who amongst us recognizes that we're never going to solve big problems - climate change, democracy, equality, racism, healthcare access, etc etc - by playing in the same ol' capitalist and supremacy systems?

Everything is awful - AND the gladiolas have started to bloom and the Stone Arch Bridge is unofficially open again in Minneapolis.

I love this city so damn much.

Happy Friday from Minneapolis.

The truth always finds its way.