Ian Coldwater 📦💥

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High tech low life. Minneapolis. They/he. Stay punk 🏴

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the first time I saw someone post a picture of asparagus growing I straight up thought they were trolling

Farm workers are important and deserve rights and protections, and also am I the only city kid who thinks this picture looks like somebody randomly put some watermelons down in a field

Nothing says #July4 like a juicy slice of watermelon. This delicious fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 lbs. It's 100+ degrees in Bakersfield today. Can you imagine harvesting them in high temps? #WeFeedYou

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It is a stressful time, but there can at least be snacks

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If the cops grab you at a protest remember: 1) Ask "am I free to go?" if they say yes, GO. 2) if they say no, say "I am invoking my right to an attorney and my 5th amendment right to remain silent" then SHUT UP. wait for your lawyer.

ADHD pro tip: you know it’s time to clean your room when it goes from “it’s messy but I know where everything is” to not being able to find things

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Please note this very fine bee.

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a probably unpopular opinion is that the escalating culture of leveraging bullying and victim-blaming to coerce people into voting for democrats has actually been an acceleration mechanism for fascist creep, and bears significant blame for where we are today.

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Obert, Nebraska Population: 22 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obert,_Nebraska

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🖤 In memory of the one and only Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, born on this day in 1957, Bromley, United Kingdom 🖤 Photo by Gus Stewart #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #punkrockhistory #otd

Are you a Twin Cities resident? Want to be added to the MSP feed? There’s a process for this! Here’s the info you need. @amityf.bsky.social and I run it together and it’s a volunteer project we get around to when we do, so our turnaround isn’t instant. We appreciate your patience! 🤗

The Minneapolis/St. Paul feed is up and running! ✨ Here is the link to the members only feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... If you aren't a member and you want to be (Twin Cities metro residents and adjacent only; we check!), fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

it’s my favorite day to help run the Minneapolis/St. Paul feed! 🥳🎉

🚨🚨🚨 HAPPY FIRST WEDNESDAY AT 1PM 🚨🚨🚨

for the first time in my tech career I’m on a security team that is vast majority non-men, including my direct manager. entire leadership meetings happen with no men in them. it’s awesome. what a refreshing change of pace

sometimes you gotta pop out and go feral

When domestic pigs get out, they go feral in a single generation. When dogs get out, coyotes start behaving like domesticated dogs in one generation.

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Nintendo says it will not use generative-AI, preferring to create stuff that is "unique to" them and to avoid copyrighted material used by gen-AI: gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...

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I am so tired of "we're all just playing the game" fuck you the stakes are apocalyptic stop patting yourselves on the back

we really do exist in the context of everything that came before us though? that’s just true? maybe I’m missing something

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Minnesota’s new Right to Repair law went into effect July 1, requiring manufacturers to provide replacement parts and instructions to reduce waste. Written by Andrew Hazzard. Photos by Dymanh Chhoun.

Can you fix it? Yes, you can. Minnesota’s Right to Repair bill is now in effect.sahanjournal.com Minnesota’s new Right to Repair law went into effect July 1, requiring manufacturers to provide replacement parts and instructions to reduce waste.

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six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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pigeons gather in scores

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i unequivocally would not be who i am without continuously learning from people older AND younger than me actively seeking out perspectives different from your own is not only informative, good, and healthy; failing to do so upholds the oppressive power dynamic of ageism that brought us here today

perhaps my most cancelable take is that intergenerational movements are good, older people and younger people have a lot to learn from each other, and the idea that people of different ages should never interact for any reason because it’s somehow always nefarious to do so is weird and bad, actually

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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

I don’t usually like pictures of myself, but I do like this one ☺️

not a joke: where can I find Funyuns in the airport? is there a store that doesn’t care enough about respectability enough to sell them

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“Since [starting] OceanGate we have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often," said Stockton Rush, who wanted to be the Elon Musk of the deep seas. Then, by cutting corners, the CEO killed five people, including himself. www.wired.com/story/titan-...

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imaginedwww.wired.com A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach t...

Bombay Pizza Kitchen hadn’t been on my radar because Eden Prairie might as well be on the moon, but apparently they exist and they deliver to the Cities and they are AMAZEBALLS. People in MSP who are sad about the lack of actually spicy food: this is the one to try. bombaypizza.kitchen

Home - Bombay Pizza Kitchenbombaypizza.kitchen

Where do adults store large plushies? I’m actually asking. The BLÅHAJ family is taking over the house and the storage ideas online are strongly geared toward small children

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Boosting, because I can vouch for who this person is, and trust me, Ian is right: you *want* to hire them!

A very talented person you’ve certainly heard of is looking for a new role in open source. Hiring for your OSPO? Looking for an OSS program manager, community manager, devrel? You want to hire this person, seriously. Must be able to sponsor a UK visa. Email them at [email protected] 🧡💜