Part of ensuring that everyone can access car-free parkway roads is to make this badass electric wheelchair boost system available to all who want it ☮️✌️.

Workforce compliment?
What an able workforce.

Honestly, I don't know if I have ever felt more seen or appreciated. ❤️

I am honored. Thank you.

A light colored, multi stone terrazzo floor with shiny mica and various blue pieces.

Terrazzo lovers, rejoice! The mica factor here is powerful. 🪨💎

I'm so, so sorry. This is just heartbreaking. You loved him very well ❣️

Conversely, juvenile Lake Sturgeon emote differently 😅

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Cross-dressing bans: Do some Minnesota cities still have them? Many cross-dressing bans passed by Minnesota cities long ago are either unenforced or have been overturned.

According to strict gender regulations my usual preference for T-shirts, pants, and tennies is cross dressing. No way will I wear boned up brassieres and heels on the regular, even though some people prefer that experience. Gendering clothes is dopey!

Writing by the Philly Death Doula Collective on the Grief-in-Public Day Text: On this day of communal mourning, we acknowledge the global crisis of grief, magnified by atrocities such as genocide, environmental degradation, and the dismantling of oppressive systems like colonialism and capitalism. Despite these profound losses, there exists a pervasive denial of our collective sorrow. It is time to offer our communities an alternative path. As a coalition of those who work with death, we cultivate transformative movements that challenge this denial. Through creating spaces of sanctuary and validation, we provide avenues for shared mourning. By joining our efforts, we have the potential to ignite a profound awakening to the reality of grief.

Excited for our funeral home's participation in #AnnualGriefInPublicDay. Our current grief landscape is the worst, but when we connect in grief we shift the narrative. Grief leads the way in connection, death/grief light a fire with empathy. The world needs more empathy to thrive.

More on this day:

Can We Talk? A panel, dinner, and community discussion about the past, present, and future of I-94 Can We Talk: A panel, dinner, and community discussion about the past, present, and future of I-94 will convene community members, residents, advocates, and reparations activists for a focused and values-driven conversation about “the problem of I-94.”

If you're interested in history and/or contemporary highway politics (I-94! Rondo! MnDOT!), this evening will be a do-not-miss. I only wish I could join you there!

Reminder that MNDoT is giving Grant/ Lake Elmo a $50M interchange at this section of Hwy 36 where 5k cars crossing at Lake Elmo Ave with no zoning reforms while the metro governments squabble for $93M for transit, roads, and bridges and face a $40M cut to transit funding.

All it took was one incredibly adorable, slightly rakish grin to do this weirdo in.

Oh this is very special. Sooooooo out mogged

Brazil (1985) Official Trailer - Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam Movie HD YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

These are Brazil times.

'Life After Cars' Is The Book America Needs Right Now - Jalopnik The changes Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon argue for offer an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years.

Life After Cars offers "an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. Just close your eyes and think for a second what it would feel like to never have to think about how much gas costs again."

And the argument I did make was facile and silly. And I appeared unkind. And for some readers my entire point was lost because of it.

Yeah I should have listed more of the actual contributors to increased owner costs, not just one. Increased insurance, rent, technology, etc. have surely taken down some restaurants, in some cases in combination with higher labor costs. No moral argument there.

I didn't intend to imply that they wanted to exploit people. I intended to imply that their business model required them to exploit people. And until labor started making noise about it, this pay practice was a general industry norm. Big difference there.

I'd love to say that food is more expensive because farm workers are making more money, or because small-time farmers were finally self-supporting, or because restaurants were buying locally-sourced, organic products. But it's probably post-pandemic, remnant price gouging by industry middlepeople.

But how? Dining and drinking out is so much more expensive than before COVID. Can people really afford to go out as often as we used to? And is there no pricing effect from the (important and welcome) improvements to wages and benefits for service workers? I'm trying to argue this better.

Transportation is typically the second highest household expense after housing. By a long shot.

I should add that GOP wars and GOP gasoline prices don't help anybody. And they're awful, and brutal, and immoral. But maybe we had too many restaurants that didn't support workers, and maybe they needed to go away.

A crisis? Service businesses are being required to pay livable wages to all employees (not just front of house) and to provide humane sick leave, and we had a pandemic, and GOP benefits cuts are destroying household discretionary budgets. The market is shaking itself out. Maybe that's ok.

Learned of the death of one of my all-time favorite legislators: Rep. Mike Jaros (DFL)/Duluth. A 🧵

By a weird coincidence, I met him when I was about eight years old. He was in a Catholic seminary with my oldest brother. One day my mom told me that my brother was bringing home "a boy from
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Summer trip planning is in full swing. Looks like Midway Center or maybe the Sears site, our favorite failed suburban destinations in the city, and with plenty of room for tents!

Remember the pandemic six years ago? Nobody wants you to, but take a moment to picture the refrigerated corpse trucks behind the hospital, the tough people who made fun of masking then begged for the "shot" when it was too late, the heroic health care workers. How did MAGA win after this?

21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

A circle chart showing the breakdown in a monthly payment for a condominium. Principal and interest is 47%, property tax is 9%, home insurance is 5% and the home owner's association (inclusive of many routine expenses plus building maintenance and potentially staff) is 39%.

Here's an example from one riverfront building. HOA fees at 39%.

This bothers me because I've worked with too many volunteer boards. I was ruined by a career in nonprofit leadership.