Mine was really bad years ago, ENT sent me to the TMD clinic: I was clenching my teeth all night! Night guard and practicing ”tongue up, teeth apart” has nearly eliminated it!

thus concludes National Library Workers Day! spent it talking shit, the thing that connects all workers!

The Mississippi was pungent today!

I’m slowly loosing two flowering crabapple trees to fire blight in the front yard.

Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness

don't talk to me today i am not okay www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

I'm reading this and it is so good!

Trying to remember how old I was when I learned the jingle "there's a place in France..." Maybe children come with it pre-programmed?

‘I’m still heartbroken’: Sam Nordquist’s family struggles to make sense of his death Sam Nordquist of Oakdale traveled to New York state to meet the woman of his dreams. Nearly five months later, his body was found in a farmer’s field in a rural area. State investigators say he was he...

great reporting on a vile and inhuman murder.
RIP SAM. Justice is coming.

really says something that he doesn’t see threatening to bomb an entire country out of existence as a “matter of morality”

The Vatican should advise JD to stay out of Catholicism

Nothing builds an interfaith alliance like common violent fool!

“An American Pope hated by an American president“ was too obvious a plot point for Conclave

might be my favorite book of all time. I finished it and REREAD right away

What a time to be rereading Shock Doctrine

poor placement by this slow af red light! 🤣

Why is it written this way? Who is the speaker? why no pronoun?

Billboard reads: The 90’s called. Wants your knee back.

This Twin Cities Orthopedics billboard haunts me.

Dolores Huerta holding a sign that says “Huelga” which translates to “Strike.” Photo credit: Smithsonian

Happy 96th birthday to Dolores Huerta, a true legend of the labor movement! From championing farm workers to empowering women nationwide, her tireless dedication to civil and labor rights is an inspiration to us all. ¡Sí, se puede!

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

#Lynx guard Natisha Hiedeman issues a goodbye to Minnesota on her Instagram.

StudBudz appears to be breaking up, and the Lynx will officially be looking for a new backup point guard.

We face the same threat standing on the streets of Minneapolis or the streets of Tehran: the US government.

Just realized that my work computer has been showing me Chicago temp and weather since the last OS update and I've just been applying it to Minneapolis for...at least 1 month maybe longer

Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

He’s gone…and they snuck a new med school dean in without a real search (Cunningham’s former admin colleague) by adding “interim” to the title

It is such a disorienting experience to listen to presentations about the University's HERD ranking in April of 2026.

UCLA played at full speed the entire time!

Probably taken by a scarf boy dreaming of law school

every tshirt I bought from Steve & Berry’s met the same fate

Every Threadless tshirt I ever owned was at some point stolen from the shared washer-dryer room in whatever apartment I lived in at the time.