Erik Ostrom
@erikostrom.bsky.social
Musician, improviser, urban biker, web developer, Minneapolitan.
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“People are not ok out here” seems like a valid and crucial operating principle for this whole era tbh
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you’re never a former theater kid, you’re always a theater kid in recovery
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
you’re never a former theater kid, you’re always a theater kid in recovery
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
It’s a start!
Minneapolis has been named one of the world’s most bike-friendly cities! A new report covering 100 cities in 44 countries ranked Minneapolis as the #2 biking city in the U.S., #5 in North America and #44 globally. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/november/2025-bike-friendly-city/
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It’s a start!
I’m on Instagram. I’m searching on Instagram. I’m obviously searching for stuff that’s on Instagram. What made Instagram think I wanted Instagram to don an extremely unconvincing Wikipedia costume?
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’m on Instagram. I’m searching on Instagram. I’m obviously searching for stuff that’s on Instagram. What made Instagram think I wanted Instagram to don an extremely unconvincing Wikipedia costume?
[poised, muscles taut, absolutely ready to sing “Love Lies Bleeding” the moment the band segues from “Funeral for a Friend”]
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
[poised, muscles taut, absolutely ready to sing “Love Lies Bleeding” the moment the band segues from “Funeral for a Friend”]
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Too few candidates run on the important issues
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Too few candidates run on the important issues
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Off to a bad start here, Waymo. 😣
Yeah. I saw one this morning, parked on 28th St, just east of 10th Ave S, where the hospital construction ends. The Waymo was actually parked IN the bike lane, grr.
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Off to a bad start here, Waymo. 😣
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People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.
We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.
Setting my out-of-office autoreply to “Sorry, I missed your email because my inbox was flooded with Give to the Max Day solicitations”
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Setting my out-of-office autoreply to “Sorry, I missed your email because my inbox was flooded with Give to the Max Day solicitations”
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Trying to save lives out here with the power of the internet and you're not helping, Keith.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trying to save lives out here with the power of the internet and you're not helping, Keith.
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Excited for Minneapolis to be recognized among the world's best cycling cities in the 2025 Copenhagenize Index!
We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
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We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Excited for Minneapolis to be recognized among the world's best cycling cities in the 2025 Copenhagenize Index!
We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL...
We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL...
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TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might
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The hollowness of Hollywood’s rich people stories
TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might.
buttondown.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might
This week’s newsletter. Read! Subscribe! It’s free!
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I needed to read this.
The article I've been wanting to write.
Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I needed to read this.
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw:
Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim
Minnesota Orchestra
White Dune
Granddaddy (hi, Scottie!)
Tune-Yards/Kassa Overall
Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim
Minnesota Orchestra
White Dune
Granddaddy (hi, Scottie!)
Tune-Yards/Kassa Overall
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw:
Grandaddy
Rilo Kiley
Cloakroom
Tired Eyes
Slowdive
Grandaddy
Rilo Kiley
Cloakroom
Tired Eyes
Slowdive
Neko Case
Hamilton Leithauser
St Vincent
QOTSA
REZN
Hamilton Leithauser
St Vincent
QOTSA
REZN
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw:
Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim
Minnesota Orchestra
White Dune
Granddaddy (hi, Scottie!)
Tune-Yards/Kassa Overall
Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim
Minnesota Orchestra
White Dune
Granddaddy (hi, Scottie!)
Tune-Yards/Kassa Overall
Interesting comments in the replies. Worth scrolling over there, if you’re scrolling anyway
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interesting comments in the replies. Worth scrolling over there, if you’re scrolling anyway
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i actually can't get over ward 7, which represents the majority of downtown, electing a woman to city council who says she wants minneapolis to be more like her small hometown of buffalo vs re-electing our councilmember who wanted to see us be more like berlin
going backwards!
going backwards!
No more big city mayors who hate big cities.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
i actually can't get over ward 7, which represents the majority of downtown, electing a woman to city council who says she wants minneapolis to be more like her small hometown of buffalo vs re-electing our councilmember who wanted to see us be more like berlin
going backwards!
going backwards!
The worst weather for biking is cars, and unfortunately it’s not seasonal
“Now show it in the rain,” is a comment that pops up in our feed occasionally, as if the country that cycles 18 billion kilometres while experiencing 217 days of precipitation each year grinds to a halt every single time the skies open.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The worst weather for biking is cars, and unfortunately it’s not seasonal
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Coats, hand warmers, waterproof gloves, ski masks, emergency blankets (annoying as blankets but ideal taped inside the walls of a tent reflecting the heat back in), dollars for other heat-related items! We can use it all!
i am alternating between unmitgated wordless wrath and furious emotional displacement purchasing for @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
gotta do something with this, but the only meaningful thing i've come up with is that it's freezing out now, and a lot of people need a coat.
gotta do something with this, but the only meaningful thing i've come up with is that it's freezing out now, and a lot of people need a coat.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Coats, hand warmers, waterproof gloves, ski masks, emergency blankets (annoying as blankets but ideal taped inside the walls of a tent reflecting the heat back in), dollars for other heat-related items! We can use it all!
(I’m really Blueskying it up tonight)
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
(I’m really Blueskying it up tonight)
It’s hilarious to try to imagine what it’s like to believe that people making a million dollars A YEAR are somehow living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford a 4% increase in the marginal tax rate
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It’s hilarious to try to imagine what it’s like to believe that people making a million dollars A YEAR are somehow living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford a 4% increase in the marginal tax rate
Burn down all their houses.
"What the obsequious emails to Epstein seem to illustrate is that many people with influence were willing to overlook his crimes, horrific behavior, and witless observations as long as there was something in it for them."
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Burn down all their houses.
I regularly bike on a riverside path named after James I. Rice, onetime county park commissioner and state representative. The Transit app calls this path the "James the First Rice Parkway Trail" and I hope they never fix it.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I regularly bike on a riverside path named after James I. Rice, onetime county park commissioner and state representative. The Transit app calls this path the "James the First Rice Parkway Trail" and I hope they never fix it.
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And what I saw tonight was a party already exploding.
Minneapolis turns out votes for the statewide. We're a stronghold. And if people aren't excited and ready to knock doors because they can't trust Democrats? We're fucked.
We need to real talk and we got corporate jargon.
Minneapolis turns out votes for the statewide. We're a stronghold. And if people aren't excited and ready to knock doors because they can't trust Democrats? We're fucked.
We need to real talk and we got corporate jargon.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And what I saw tonight was a party already exploding.
Minneapolis turns out votes for the statewide. We're a stronghold. And if people aren't excited and ready to knock doors because they can't trust Democrats? We're fucked.
We need to real talk and we got corporate jargon.
Minneapolis turns out votes for the statewide. We're a stronghold. And if people aren't excited and ready to knock doors because they can't trust Democrats? We're fucked.
We need to real talk and we got corporate jargon.
Is NYT reporting on any subject trustworthy? Asking for a generation that remembers the invasion of Iraq
Good recipes though I hear. Fun word puzzles
Good recipes though I hear. Fun word puzzles
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is NYT reporting on any subject trustworthy? Asking for a generation that remembers the invasion of Iraq
Good recipes though I hear. Fun word puzzles
Good recipes though I hear. Fun word puzzles
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The DFL is a shitshow and I'm dedicated to doing my part in fixing it over the next year because if they don't get their shit together, we are going to lose and my life and home in Minnesota will be at risk.
If you're mad about this shit like me, help me out with this organizing effort.
If you're mad about this shit like me, help me out with this organizing effort.
A Better DFL
abetterdfl.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The DFL is a shitshow and I'm dedicated to doing my part in fixing it over the next year because if they don't get their shit together, we are going to lose and my life and home in Minnesota will be at risk.
If you're mad about this shit like me, help me out with this organizing effort.
If you're mad about this shit like me, help me out with this organizing effort.