hey girl. is that a firework in your pants or is your pengis explode

recovering from an eating disorder and returning to social media means you will be driven insane for the rest of your life, because you will continually see the most blatant obvious ED behaviour being described as life hacks or white people quirks or new fascinating subcultures

State Fair pro tip: You don’t want to miss the Minnesota firefighters at the Minnesota AFL-CIO.

My current novel-writing process. After what's detailed, I map the structure as it exists on the page rather than in my head, along w/ detailed scene summaries to test it all. Is everything sequenced correctly? Is it all needed. Then it goes to first readers and my editor.

this is where the guy with the useless security door lives

I don’t think anyone could recreate this if they tried

a typical meal at a liberal arts school

me seeing the Black history month colors on the downtown minneapolis tower lights

Elevator—29th & Harriet (1988) Oil painting by Minnesota painter Mike Lynch (1937-2023)

time for the periodic busting out of the ursula k le guin quote!!!

The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) by Hannah Gamble "While the average older student's poems are heavy with allegiance to a limited view of reality, the average younger writer's vision of the world is nimble and surprising—bizarre, yet true..."

coworker asked me my pronouns and i said "they/them but I'm at work right now so it's whatever" and then she came up to me later and said "this is you" and showed me this meme

Search is broken so have a screenshot

dark horse contender for favorite video online. can't even think about it without laughing

I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.