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Stinamo
@stinamo.bsky.social
twin mama, sewist, transit rider
🚌🐶🪡🧵🍵🌎😷💁🏻‍♀️
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Minnesota in the fall means every kind of jacket you own will be worn within a 24 hour period
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Renovation is coming to Franklin Ave. Station! Come learn about proposed safety, accessibility enhancements, and more at our open house, where you can provide YOUR feedback.
When? Dec. 2, 5 – 7p, Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave. Learn more at metrotransit.org/franklin
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey Pig’s Eye: I googled the Fresh Water Pearl Button Company (bc I want to work there) and came up with nothing. What year do we think this place closed?

These buttons came from Art Scraps, the best place imo to buy buttons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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"Fences aren’t architecture, and they’re meant to displace and keep people out, rather than a broader planning and design and artistic opportunity of revitalization, placemaking, and the type of economic and social infrastructure that truly promotes healing in our community" -Sam Olbekson
Frustrations rise along fenced-in Franklin Avenue corridor in Mpls.
Fencing installed by state officials in Minneapolis’ Franklin Avenue corridor to deter homeless encampments is still in place years later. It’s forcing pedestrians to make dangerous choices and hinder...
sahanjournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.

The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).

www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
OH at the rink today: “People think hockey is expensive, but put a 14 year old in volleyball and you’ll be be paying $5,000 a year”

I complain about how much we are asked to spend on our *volunteer* run neighborhood hockey org, but there are for profit youth sports?!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sunrise alert, Saint Paul 🚨
Hot pink!
#mnwx
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The theory in the paper is that it's not the superhero per se, but that unexpected events in general increase mindfulness and thus pro-social behavior

So act weird and make people behave better.
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Uhh, just fyi the last time this theory was popular, life expectancy was like 40 years old. Get vaxxed, kids.
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“There were early concerns that fare-free travel would heap extra burdens on bus drivers, drawing homeless people or anything-goes behavior. Yet several drivers said that not having to ask passengers for payment or transfers has led to less friction with riders.”

Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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If cars were any other consumer product, they would be banned..

We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it?

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
Two injured, multiple cars mangled after high-speed S.F. Pac Heights crash
A three-vehicle car crash sent two people to the hospital on Tuesday morning.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
To quote my president, Hayley Williams, this is why I don’t leave the house.
Some people will try anything except wearing a mask
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I-94 through Mpls-StPaul is such a disaster. I've lost friends over my position that it should be removed and replaced with better transportation, housing, business and recreation options. It inflicts unrelenting ugliness and tragedy on our communities. Do we intend to remain car-dependent victims?
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ok Minnesota, somebody knows the brand or who sells these awesome socks. We need to crack this case 🕵🏻‍♀️
I need to think about something nice and unimportant and detached from current events.

Look! It’s my socks!
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
There’s a November 2004 Time magazine (jarring) and a June 1997 Ebony in the waiting room of this M Health clinic. This clinic was built in like 2022.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My kid: do you have any black fabric?
Me: mmmm yes why
Kid: can you sew me a witch hat for school on Friday?
Me: Friday!

The audacity of this child when it comes to crafts. She already knows the answer because anything I can solve by sewing is a yes 😆
#sewingsky
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Obligatory aurora post: from my front yard in Highland and the Mississippi River overlook near Hartford Ave, both facing west (not much is visible to the naked eye at either location)
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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AURORA RIGHT NOW MINNEAPOLIS
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I love this for Ireland

“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam,” she said. (A country without a language, a country with a soul.) Ms Connolly said that Irish will “not be spoken in a low voice in the Áras, it will have first place as a working language”.
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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This weekend we celebrated the completion of new public artwork at the Hiawatha-Lake Underpass by Daniela Bianchini, Pablo Kalaka, Natchez Beaulieu and Greta McLain. This 5,200-square-foot mural is grounded in the Medicine Wheel, a symbol of Indigenous communities around the world.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When I was a kid my grandma made my sister a fish-shaped purse out of shiny purple and turquoise fabric. Basically the coolest purse ever…which is why I’m so excited that Madison Makes has both a fish AND a bird bag pattern!
There’s a loon version?! #sewingsky

madison-makes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Yo. Saint Paul.
Drop-off your campaign yard signs to be recycled.
-Public Works Solid Waste & Recycling building (60 W Sycamore)
-We, Nov 5 through Sun, Nov 9th 7 a.m. - 6:p.m.
Please detach the metal wire stakes in advance.

For more information, visit www.stpaul.gov/recycle.
Garbage and Recycling
We coordinate garbage and yard waste collection for households with one to four units. We coordinate recycling for all households in Saint Paul. We also offer community drop-off sites for food scraps ...
www.stpaul.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Dreaming of a trip to Banff in mid June, is is viable without a car? I see there is On-It service from Calgary, anyone have any experience with that or Roam transit?
Planning to stay in Banff itself. Is it a liability to have a car there or at the major sights?
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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transit leadership!
Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year:
—50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide
—8-minute midday headways on rail lines
—24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen’s ambitious plan would also expand — from 20 to 30 routes — the so-called “Frequent Bus Network” that provides service “every ten minutes or better” between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
trib.al/Va4Ri0r
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM