EmKay Kettleson-Anderson
@mkettleson.bsky.social
She/They #Minnesota now. Whole decades in #OrangeCountyCA, #WheatonIL, & #OmahaNE. Invested in people, community, data, the scientific method, history, & the future. Real justice is distributive not punitive. Born in St Paul, but love Minneapolis too.
Pinned
The key to sanity — whether in difficult times or in easy times — is to keep your eyes on your best path forward, keep taking your own next indicated step, and keep taking the hands of those willing to walk that path together
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Started a new advent calendar today.
Each door has another complete advent calendar inside.
Each door has another complete advent calendar inside.
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Started a new advent calendar today.
Each door has another complete advent calendar inside.
Each door has another complete advent calendar inside.
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President Donald Trump will grant a "Full and Complete Pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. court of drug trafficking and weapons charges in March 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
When asked why, Trump responded by blaming Joe Biden.
When asked why, Trump responded by blaming Joe Biden.
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
President Donald Trump will grant a "Full and Complete Pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. court of drug trafficking and weapons charges in March 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
When asked why, Trump responded by blaming Joe Biden.
When asked why, Trump responded by blaming Joe Biden.
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Oh you work in IT? I'm having this problem with my iPhone.
(this is made worse by the fact that I can often help them because my job is basically "how to google")
(this is made worse by the fact that I can often help them because my job is basically "how to google")
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Oh you work in IT? I'm having this problem with my iPhone.
(this is made worse by the fact that I can often help them because my job is basically "how to google")
(this is made worse by the fact that I can often help them because my job is basically "how to google")
Do I delete and repost when I make stupid mistakes that embarrass me? Yes. Yes I do.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Do I delete and repost when I make stupid mistakes that embarrass me? Yes. Yes I do.
My husband is auDHD, & before he was diagnosed it bothered me that he didn’t gear up “properly” to go outside in the cold. My autism leads me to have a specific set of jackets/coats/boots/gloves/hats for every 10 degree variation. Now we know it is also HIS autism that leads him to not tolerate this
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My husband is auDHD, & before he was diagnosed it bothered me that he didn’t gear up “properly” to go outside in the cold. My autism leads me to have a specific set of jackets/coats/boots/gloves/hats for every 10 degree variation. Now we know it is also HIS autism that leads him to not tolerate this
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Please give me 50 min to info dump on a topic. We had software options in law school and I still chose handwritten my first year+ bc it slows me down.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Please give me 50 min to info dump on a topic. We had software options in law school and I still chose handwritten my first year+ bc it slows me down.
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups who do not traffic drugs even if they traffic drugs, alongside out-groups who traffic drugs even if they do not traffic drugs.
Trump needs you to simultaneously believe that it's nuts to think the president of a country could actually be a drug trafficker, and that we are going to war with another country because its president is actually a drug trafficker.
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups who do not traffic drugs even if they traffic drugs, alongside out-groups who traffic drugs even if they do not traffic drugs.
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I’ve gone back and forth with myself over getting dash cams. But I am increasingly of the opinion that we’re all going to want them in the future. It’s weird, because I hate the surveillance thing, but I hate the lying more.
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’ve gone back and forth with myself over getting dash cams. But I am increasingly of the opinion that we’re all going to want them in the future. It’s weird, because I hate the surveillance thing, but I hate the lying more.
I have a story from last year (July 2024) for you all:
My son was hit by an old lady (70s) who backed in to him in the Richfield Menards parking lot. He was driving a car in my name & both of us are on the insurance. She claimed he hit her.
🧵
My son was hit by an old lady (70s) who backed in to him in the Richfield Menards parking lot. He was driving a car in my name & both of us are on the insurance. She claimed he hit her.
🧵
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I have a story from last year (July 2024) for you all:
My son was hit by an old lady (70s) who backed in to him in the Richfield Menards parking lot. He was driving a car in my name & both of us are on the insurance. She claimed he hit her.
🧵
My son was hit by an old lady (70s) who backed in to him in the Richfield Menards parking lot. He was driving a car in my name & both of us are on the insurance. She claimed he hit her.
🧵
Went to help my elderly parents before I drove down to Rochester for tomorrow’s early tests at Mayo & new bottles of imlunestrant. I thought I could still finish chores at home, pack, and be at my airbnb for a 3 pm check in. Haha.
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Went to help my elderly parents before I drove down to Rochester for tomorrow’s early tests at Mayo & new bottles of imlunestrant. I thought I could still finish chores at home, pack, and be at my airbnb for a 3 pm check in. Haha.
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This Snowfall was also the perfect time to listen to Sufjan's Songs of Christmas.
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This Snowfall was also the perfect time to listen to Sufjan's Songs of Christmas.
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Saw a comment on a YouTube video tonight that just…yeah.
“Grief never really leaves. You just get distracted. Until you are not.”
“Grief never really leaves. You just get distracted. Until you are not.”
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Saw a comment on a YouTube video tonight that just…yeah.
“Grief never really leaves. You just get distracted. Until you are not.”
“Grief never really leaves. You just get distracted. Until you are not.”
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Just took the dog for a walk and reported four
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Just took the dog for a walk and reported four
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Trump is threatening to denationalize Ilhan Omar. So the next Democrat POTUS can denationalize Melania?
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Trump is threatening to denationalize Ilhan Omar. So the next Democrat POTUS can denationalize Melania?
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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My platform, this year and every year: Floor on income, ceiling on wealth.
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My platform, this year and every year: Floor on income, ceiling on wealth.
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Every time I put on this scarf I think about the artist I bought it from i Portugal in 2017.
He asked where I was from in the US. I did my usual: “Minneapolis…North middle…near Canada…north of Chicago…?” Blank stare. “Prince is from there?”
And he dryly says: “You mean was…”
Touché, sir. Touché.
He asked where I was from in the US. I did my usual: “Minneapolis…North middle…near Canada…north of Chicago…?” Blank stare. “Prince is from there?”
And he dryly says: “You mean was…”
Touché, sir. Touché.
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Every time I put on this scarf I think about the artist I bought it from i Portugal in 2017.
He asked where I was from in the US. I did my usual: “Minneapolis…North middle…near Canada…north of Chicago…?” Blank stare. “Prince is from there?”
And he dryly says: “You mean was…”
Touché, sir. Touché.
He asked where I was from in the US. I did my usual: “Minneapolis…North middle…near Canada…north of Chicago…?” Blank stare. “Prince is from there?”
And he dryly says: “You mean was…”
Touché, sir. Touché.
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Listening to Purple Rain at a bar in Den Haag. Bartender is a big fan and was at his last Amsterdam show. This city is really cool. Incredible chill and neighborly.
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Listening to Purple Rain at a bar in Den Haag. Bartender is a big fan and was at his last Amsterdam show. This city is really cool. Incredible chill and neighborly.
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the problem with this and the dayton's markets is that people have turned "support my small business!" into "support my small business where i buy crap on amazon and temu and mark it up and resell it!" instead of actually creating something themselves yet demand the support as if they are
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the problem with this and the dayton's markets is that people have turned "support my small business!" into "support my small business where i buy crap on amazon and temu and mark it up and resell it!" instead of actually creating something themselves yet demand the support as if they are
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I tend to have doubts about the quality of Zillow's data. I dont trust their school score card and so I see why this feature on climate risk would get removed. Same time the Feds fema maps are out of date. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I tend to have doubts about the quality of Zillow's data. I dont trust their school score card and so I see why this feature on climate risk would get removed. Same time the Feds fema maps are out of date. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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So wait does this mean I can revive the St Paul DLF caucus in my own image!?
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So wait does this mean I can revive the St Paul DLF caucus in my own image!?
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I love how meme-able this pope is!!!
The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I love how meme-able this pope is!!!
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The willing hypocrisy will never make sense to me.
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The willing hypocrisy will never make sense to me.
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