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Ian Dees

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 17h

Built with @openstreetmap.bsky.social!

Hank wrote a great post about how he built it here: www.openstreetmap.org/user/hankbp/...

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 23h

If you're in the Midway and your power is out, its because some lines fell with the wind and were starting leaves on fire. Pretty exciting. Xcel is replacing the lines now.

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

Mr. Collins pointed it out originally. I just did a bit more digging :)

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

Balloons that are likely from Near Space Labs (nearspacelabs.com) spent a couple hours over the Twin Cities today – likely capturing imagery. Pretty interesting to watch how much control they have over direction, speed, and landing location. Tracks are here: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=000201,...

A screenshot of a flight tracking app showing 8 lines meandering from northwest of Minneapolis (near Saint Cloud) southeast to western Wisconsin, each representing a balloon that spent a couple hours during the middle of the day meandering to their target.

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

NSL = nearspacelabs.com

Home - Near Space Labs

nearspacelabs.com

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

All together: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=000335,...

These are likely balloons capturing aerial imagery of the twin cities area. They have cameras on them that takes pictures as they float along, then come to a landing where the images are processed into something like Google Maps for some customer

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history

globe.adsbexchange.com

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

Hey books are pretty cool! Congrats!

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

If you follow me you probably want to sign up to be notified when this game is released later this week: www.subwaybuilder.com

A game for building your own realistic subway system

www.subwaybuilder.com

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 2d

Wait didn't @wedge.live start this? Except they post each trip as a podcast so everyone gets to listen, not just the rider.

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 3d

Columbia's "Interchange" line of jackets are quite good. Check out the ones with the "Omni Heat" material on the inside. It reflects radiant heat back at your body and works surprisingly well.

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Frank @frankpeters.bsky.social · 6d

Brewers

Barrelman

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 3d

I just went to the musical in NYC. It's really quite good!

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5d

Minnesota Achievements In Computer Stuff
- The Gopher protocol
- Control Data
- Tinyurl
- Oregon Trail
- ???

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Math @bigmemath.bsky.social · 4d

I love that Charlie Berens is campaigning against AI data centers

AND that he also has the same '90s Packers locker that I had when I was a kid (I picked "04" for Favre)

Charlie Berens speaking to the news against AI data centers in front of a kid's Packers locker from the 90s

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking of this, MnDOT is starting the process of repaving a section of Snelling (MN state highway 51) that goes through a relatively dense residential area. Maybe we could ask for more than new audible beg buttons at a few crossings? www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projec...

Snelling Ave. Roseville to Arden Hills Project - MnDOT

Snelling Ave. Roseville to Arden Hills Project resources and contacts

www.dot.state.mn.us

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 8d

Hey St Paul followers: MnDOT is resurfacing Snelling from 36 up to 694: www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projec...

Snelling Ave. Roseville to Arden Hills Project - MnDOT

Snelling Ave. Roseville to Arden Hills Project resources and contacts

www.dot.state.mn.us

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 8d

Powered by @openstreetmap.bsky.social, no less!

Index @indexx.dev · 9d

TIL Kagi has a maps service too 👀

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 9d

Do you happen to have a video along the whole route? I'd like to update @openstreetmap.bsky.social to improve routing. /cc @beacon.bsky.social

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 9d

My home insurance premium went up ~45%
My real estate taxes are going up ~18%
Xcel is trying to increase residential rates ~15%
USD is down 11% against the EUR, 7% against GBP.

My stocks are up ~10% so that's good.

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 10d

My reaction to things like this is "why are all these people standing back while this person gets assaulted? why aren't there armed guards protecting these people from ICE?" Guess I'm not a good elected official.

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 10d

Hey Minneapolis friends, it's the last day to make comments on the comment map for the Lyndale Ave "final" concept design.

Tell the County what you think about a shared use path and two ~12ft parking lanes along most of the corridor.

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 11d

Also I wonder what torrent and NNTP traffic looks like since this happened.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 16d

Look what we have here then.

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 16d

Someone on Reddit posted a first-hand report from the Xcel rate increase public hearing (since it was in the middle of the day in the middle of the week). Good report out, and a good reminder to leave a public comment: www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities...

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