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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 7m

The Ward 9 race is clear. The differences are stark. MPD should not respond to mental health calls, we shouldn’t hand out contracts to people who’ve threatened council members and lobbed homophobic and sexist remarks, and we need leaders who unequivocally support banning weapons of war.

Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 3h

Meet the candidates running for Minneapolis City Council.

By Cynthia Tu and Joey Peters

2025 Minneapolis City Council election: See where the candidates stand on homelessness, immigration and more

Meet some of the candidates running for the Minneapolis City Council. All 13 wards are up for election. Three council members aren’t running for reelection.

sahanjournal.com

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 36m

#Minneapolis needs this so much!

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1h

Mark your calendars! 🗓️

@cyclehoop.bsky.social and Oonee are hosting a secure bike parking presentation & Q&A (w/ optional group ride beforehand).

Wed, Oct 22 6:30-8pm at Fulton
(& optional group ride beforehand)

Flyer for the event with a starry background, photos of Anthony Lau & Shabazz Stuart

• OONEE & CYCLEHOOP PRESENTS
THE FUTURE OF SECURE CYCLE PARKING & DJ RIDE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22ND
DJ RIDE
SECURE CYCLE PARKING TALK
SABO BRIDGE
Mpls

6:30PM - 8PM
MEET @ 5:30PM
ROLL OUT 6PM
Fulton Tap Room
Ride to Fulton Tap Room
414-N Gth Ave, Minneapolis
DJ Anthony Lau
Shabazz-Stuart

cyclehoop
Oonee
BikeLondon
New York

RIDE/PRESENTATION/Q+A/BEVIES/VENDORS/SOCIAL
Biking WITH BADDIES
URG™
bike.MN
BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
Mpls Cargo Bike Library
EZCycle CLUB
Move MINNEAPOLIS
OONEE
our streets
cyclehoop
VENTURE BIKES
SLOW
ROLL

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 37m

A lot of exciting upcoming bike parking developments will be announced at this event! You don't want to miss it!

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1h

Mark your calendars! 🗓️

@cyclehoop.bsky.social and Oonee are hosting a secure bike parking presentation & Q&A (w/ optional group ride beforehand).

Wed, Oct 22 6:30-8pm at Fulton
(& optional group ride beforehand)

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 53m

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d

Our @bunchbike.com got a new accessory/passenger today.

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A small toy skeleton is zip tied to the back of Laura’s Bunch bike

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Andy Lambert @cooperissuper.bsky.social · 2h

Come one come all!
#securebikeparking

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1h

Mark your calendars! 🗓️

@cyclehoop.bsky.social and Oonee are hosting a secure bike parking presentation & Q&A (w/ optional group ride beforehand).

Wed, Oct 22 6:30-8pm at Fulton
(& optional group ride beforehand)

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 3h

I wonder why Josh Bassais didn’t compete the council election survey from @sahanjournal.bsky.social ?

This close to the election, you’d think you’d want to ensure neighbors are familiar with your positions to help inform their vote.

2025 Minneapolis City Council election: See where the candidates stand on homelessness, immigration and more

Meet some of the candidates running for the Minneapolis City Council. All 13 wards are up for election. Three council members aren’t running for reelection.

sahanjournal.com

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5h

Minneapolis deserves a champion for working people.

This is our opportunity to build a city where every single resident can thrive. I can’t wait to cast my ballot for my friend and colleague, Omar Fateh, as my first choice for mayor by November 4th, and I hope you will join me.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 16h

How weird! Maybe a Bluesky bug. Here’s how they show up for me.

Screenshot of the original post from Nissa showing alt text indicators

Alt text for a photo: The start of the pumpkins at the Pumpkin Spectacular at the Minnesota Zoo. Carved fake pumpkins hand from trees around a paved path lit by colored lights.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 16h

There’s alt text on each of the photos. 🙂

They’re all from the Mn Zoo Jack o lantern spectacular.

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 17h

The 2nd Nerd Nite: Mpls is happening on October 28.
Eat Street Crossing | doors @ 5:30pm, starts @ 6:15 pm.

Come hang out, eat good food, and learn new things.

nerdnitempls.carrd.co

Nerd Nite: Mpls
Every 4th Tuesday
Location: Eat Street Crossing
Doors at 5:30 pm
Presentations start at 6:15pm

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 17h

Here are my favorite real pumpkins from tonight.

A pumpkin carved to resemble Gomez and Morticia Addams. Raul Julia era.

A pumpkin carved to resemble a poster for Spirited Away.

A pumpkin carved to resemble the painting “American Gothic” but with the couple wearing witch hats and dressed as scarecrows.

A pumpkin carved to resemble the poster for The Lost Boys. Kiefer Sutherland as a vampire is on the right.

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 17h

Favorite. Night. Of. The. Year.

The start of the pumpkins at the Pumpkin Spectacular at the Minnesota Zoo. Carved fake pumpkins hand from trees around a paved path lit by colored lights.

Further on the path toward the pumpkins. A blurry child is in the foreground.

A collection of hundreds of fake carved pumpkins arranged off the side of the path. Multiple different colors light up the silly/spooky faces.

Another pumpkin display with a posed scarecrow pumpkin “behind bars.”

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 17h

😂

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18h

if i lived in ward 8, i would be suspect at josh bassais taking jacob frey’s endorsement when bassais was first challenging frey for mayor before switching to ward 8. “vote for me, trust our mayor, who i just signaled was bad at his job by running against him!” weird choice

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Was told Ward 8 challenger Josh Bassais had Jacob Frey on his web site but has taken Frey off now. Wayback Machine hasn’t archived, but Frey isn’t there now. Anyone have the inclusion they can post? Anyway, Bassais was featuring Frey about a month ago, after being coy for months. Winds changed back?

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Bunch Bikes @bunchbike.com · 18h

That's not a bunch bike but we wish it was! This is awesome.

Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 1d

I support bike-based puppetry

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 22h

I think we both hope to never build anything like this again. 😆

It took so much longer than we thought it would (started at the end of July). Heat, air quality, rain, and trying to make time to work on it on top of all of our life things was exhausting.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 22h

Look at this beautiful new fence @nissamitchell.com made! 😍

Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 22h

My access to the divine feminine was sacrificed to the great god Dewalt and all I got was this shitty fence.

Finished building it today. It just needs to be sealed.

An expanse of a board on board privacy fence with a top 2x6 cap.

One of the gates on the board on board fence—the gate locks with a black mechanical keypad.

The fence on the other side of the yard with a concrete path and retaining wall. Garden beds are in the distance.

The “alley gate” of the fence. Scrap wood sits in the bottom right.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 23h

Carry your wheels

#CarFreeChallenge

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 23h

I am the kind of pedestrian your parents warned you about.

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EHB for BET! @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 1d

Join @wedge.live and your favorite BET candidate for a fully clothed emergency ride tonight at 7pm. Roll out at 7:30.

Meet by the @blooskie.bsky.social bench at Mueller Park 🤠

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

🚨TONIGHT: Emergency bike ride departs Mueller Park at 7:30. This is not to be confused with the emergency naked bike ride. You can keep your clothes on.

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 1d

Go ride bikes with @wedge.live; prove to the haters that Minneapolis is just a city like all the other cities: pretty safe, kinda boring, full of people who just wanna ride bikes with each other!

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

🚨TONIGHT: Emergency bike ride departs Mueller Park at 7:30. This is not to be confused with the emergency naked bike ride. You can keep your clothes on.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1d

Garfield endorses walkable neighborhoods.

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d

Hopefully they weren’t traveling far. It was chilly with the wind this morning!

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1d

Also a reminder that a full sized skeleton sitting on the bench of a front loader cargo bike makes everyone smile, even the motorists.

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d

Our @bunchbike.com got a new accessory/passenger today.

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