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Bakken Museum bike racks, South Side.

A-, functional, solid bike racks with enough space for cargo bikes! Gap between sidewalk and bike rack concrete is a little exciting with a heavy cargo bikes.

Museum staff say there are more racks in the parking lot.

Just last night I was reminiscing with friends about Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, and the message that ordinary people can take actions to keep their neighbors safe.

Unasked for advice- I had to rebuild my reading habit at one point, and I set a phone alarm to put down my phone and read for 15-20 minutes every day.

Grateful for the leadership from Elliott Payne and Doran Clark tonight.

Yup. When he left home and came “west” to Michigan he changed the spelling. It’s consistent in census and land records, including documents he signed. And his children used the “new” spelling for their whole lives.

My suspicion is he wanted a clean break from his family of origin.

The internet has been such an amazing gift to genealogists!

(Although there’s also a distant relative of mine who likes to write screeds to me about how my 3x great-grandfather spelled his own name wrong and that using his spelling is diluting all this relative’s lifetime of work…)

See: FDR is a distant cousin, that made that branch easier to chase down. But wow does it give insights into privilege.

I love genealogy because I’m a dork about history, and it gives me a very specific tiny window into history.

But the best thing about being related to famous people is that there are more historical records/other people have done the work!

Threw out my back so I can’t be there tonight - excited to read the book!

This whole 🧵

I am “tweaked my back while reaching for my purse” years old.

Converted my bike commute to driving today and am spending some time babying my back.

Yup. This is the second version without the required information!

Yes. Highly recommend trekking poles for the descent on those steps, especially if they're damp!

We only made that mistake once….now we always go the other way!

The last climb is brutal.

What in the fever dream?

People win elections, govern in coalitions. The ooga-booga about “outsized” is the kind of anti-democracy crap authoritarians traffic in. And of course Carol will lend her conspiratorial mindset to any passing circus.

This was a recent favorite of mine

Adding to my “best of citizen alerts”

New law last legislative session!

The best that can be said about it is that he stayed on his message....

Ever since the video of Rümeysa Öztürk being detained, I've been thinking about how women are taught to be terrified of a kidnapping or SA by a stranger on the street - whole self defense empires were built on that.

And now it's (apparently) government agents and we aren't supposed to resist.

That’s not good

Given my misadventures with the Hiawatha LRT detours earlier in the week, I chose to take the 22 downtown today, and was reminded of the good conversations you can have on the bus!
#WeekWithoutDriving