…What I mean to say is that Sandy is the glue holding us together.

I’m not sure that’s any better, lol.

My roommate watched a woman get dragged from her wrecked car, bleeding and screaming for help, being disappeared by ICE. They were recording and I’ve seen the video. I’ll probably never forget it. I carry a whistle now but I pray I’ll never need it. We’re like two weeks into whatever the fuck this is and I’m already sick of it. I’m tired of running to the window every time I hear a car alarm, I’m tired of wondering if I hear the wind or a whistle. I’m tired of worrying about more people I know getting abducted, and scrutinizing every vehicle that drives past if they’re going to fuck with me because I’m visibly queer and also trying not to be mistaken for the gestapo occupying my city. Is this an occupation? And I know war is worse. Fuck all of this.

Nah, piloswine is actually prepared for winter.

Did you eat the Onion or is the only-kinda-satire we’re getting now just horrifying?

Link for Lemmings, since OP is only a static image right now

Maybe don’t buy an ebike you can’t get parts for next year. There’s enough nonstandard parts on that thing I wouldn’t mess with it. And even though rad powers new battery tech seems good the lack of a recall should end the company even harder than the recall would have. Someone in my metro area had a rad power catch fire in their house a few months ago and while yeah it’s still uncommon…

Good news, yesterday it hit 40, everything melted, and today it’s all frozen for proper Minnesota winter next week where we’re supposed to be getting sub zero temps! I’ve never been this thrilled for shitty cold freeze thaw cycles.

The photographer is apparently Christopher Katzarov with the Canadian press, according to what I saw on Reddit. (I live in Minneapolis, Reddit is kinda a necessary evil right now.)

Also found this one on a stock image site, seems to be same event and same photographer.

My coworker got asked for papers by ICE at the gas station today.

Four hours later, I just checked and it’s still up lol. Nobody say anything.

There was a Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police statement of support for the ICE murderer. Pigs protect pigs.

Also this is the same police force that murdered George Floyd. And fuck all has been done about them since, Frey talks big but can’t or won’t accomplish anything.

I hate living in a place the US government is invading for natural resources.

I didn’t vote for Frey, but I’ll give him credit for saying the right stuff. The White House is full of bullshit and ICE needs to get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

I’ve seen a few people with talons like this in Florida but most places it’s not practical or socially acceptable to wear flip flops for all occasions and year round. You’re not getting those things in normal shoes.

LOL, three comments on the playing cards in four minutes. Guess the invasion of Iraq is on a lot of people’s minds right now for some reason.

Reminds me of the most wanted Iraqi playing cards the US released back during the Iraq war.

Is Malta that unheard of? I’ve got a path to EU citizenship and I’m working on it. Maybe it’s just Minnesota in winter influencing me but Malta is one of the first places I want to check out to maybe move to. On paper they’ve got some of the best legal protections for trans people on the planet (although I’m aware it’s partly pinkwashing for political corruption). And their cycling infrastructure apparently isn’t great…

There were a lot of people who voted for AOC and Trump. AOC went out and talked to some of them, I think she posted video of some of those conversations but she talked about it a bit on social media and iirc a big refrain was it was working class uneducated people who wanted change and something other than the status quo and felt that both Trump and AOC were both something other than the status quo. Well, they were right, in an awful way.

Funny story, in that week between Biden dropping out and Harris getting the nomination, in a Lemmy thread wondering who other than Harris could be a decent presidential nominee, I mentioned Walz. I got a lot of “who?” and people commenting that he really didn’t have the name recognition to carry the ticket with that short of a time frame.

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I refrigerate my cabbage, does jazz cabbage need to be refrigerated?