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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 33m

Just makes it even worse for Schumer/Jeffries honestly

Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 35m

Come up to Minneapolis sometime! We're not Montréal but we're making strides. Hosting the 2026 NACTO conference May 12-15.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 41m

This is what I'm remembering. And then I guess he was on the Daily Show last month talking about how Mamdani was an example for Dems.

Tweet by Ken Martin: "Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani in the New York Cith Democratic mayoral primary, and to all of the Democrats across the ballot who prevailed tonight."

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 1h

I think I recall him supporting Mamdani when he won the primary? Is this news?

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 5h

Close one

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 14h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 11h

I think the primary story here is a compositional effect—growth of population specifically in low-median income Sun Belt suburbs (categorized as urban here), which are home to our most pedestrian hostile road systems.

Shift more people into more dangerous places and this is the result.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

We are linking up the new Hennepin Ave bike lane directly with the Bryant Ave bridge over Lyndale. No turning on to Franklin required.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 1d

We know, it'll take a couple years because there are even worse trails out there, but it's high on the list. I blew my tire out on it last month.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 1d

Hopeful we will have something to share on this topic within the month.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 1d

Where in Minneapolis do you typically encounter a bike parking crunch? Where should we be immediately adding more?

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 1d

Are the Wild the Stanley Cup favorites? We can't rule it out folks!

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 2d

Otherwise known as the FEET line

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 2d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 2d

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 4d

Don't GPUs lose their value relatively quickly? It seems not great that so much debt and capital investment is resting on assets that do not retain value over time?

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 5d

Cats (rayist percep.[tion] in rose, black, and yellow) by Natalia Goncharova, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137260

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 5d

Does Buffalo consider itself part of the Midwest?

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 5d

Have the Loons set some kind of an MLS record for least time trailing in matches? This is insane, I knew we scored first a lot but had no idea how much of an outlier it was. @mattdoyle.bsky.social

Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 5d

Now that's a phrase I haven't heard in a little while

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 5d

Its not lost on me that the conservative bugaboo for years was federal troops marching in their states and cities and its the first thing Trump reached for once in power

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · 12d

Last week I read The Sirens' Call from @chrislhayes.bsky.social. It made me think about the relationships between social media platforms, attention, and choice, and how much of our lives we unconsciously surrender to algorithms.

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