Stinamo
@stinamo.bsky.social
twin mama, sewist, transit rider
🚌🐶🪡🧵🍵🌎😷💁🏻♀️
Saint Paul, Minnesota
🚌🐶🪡🧵🍵🌎😷💁🏻♀️
Saint Paul, Minnesota
My child, watching her uncle feed his dog lasagna at 7 am*
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
*do not feed your dog lasagna
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
*do not feed your dog lasagna
a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest .
Alt: Tim Gunn, in a suit and tie, sticking out his tongue in disgust
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My child, watching her uncle feed his dog lasagna at 7 am*
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
*do not feed your dog lasagna
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
*do not feed your dog lasagna
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Check below if you live somewhere with snow/ice & want to deal with icy walkways environmentally consciously & cost-effectively.
TL;DR:
Salt & other chemical alternatives are harmful to pets' paws as well as water/soil.
Cat litter additives harm water/soil.
1– Cherry stone grit (reusable!)
2–Sand
TL;DR:
Salt & other chemical alternatives are harmful to pets' paws as well as water/soil.
Cat litter additives harm water/soil.
1– Cherry stone grit (reusable!)
2–Sand
Environmentally conscious friends, what are your salt alternatives & advice for icy walks?
Icy sidewalks? Use salt sparingly. A good salt spread has each grain at about three inches apart.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Check below if you live somewhere with snow/ice & want to deal with icy walkways environmentally consciously & cost-effectively.
TL;DR:
Salt & other chemical alternatives are harmful to pets' paws as well as water/soil.
Cat litter additives harm water/soil.
1– Cherry stone grit (reusable!)
2–Sand
TL;DR:
Salt & other chemical alternatives are harmful to pets' paws as well as water/soil.
Cat litter additives harm water/soil.
1– Cherry stone grit (reusable!)
2–Sand
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Lots of articles in recently about how alcohol consumption is down and how that is bad for different businesses, but they never mention how GOOD it is for individual people and society. Many people die due to alcohol every year and others have their lives ruined www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
With beer sales down, 15 ways Twin Cities taprooms are brewing up new customers
Yoga classes, magicians, saunas and (gasp) even jazz players are being used by breweries to draw customers as beer sales slump.
www.startribune.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lots of articles in recently about how alcohol consumption is down and how that is bad for different businesses, but they never mention how GOOD it is for individual people and society. Many people die due to alcohol every year and others have their lives ruined www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
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Some reflections after shoveling in St Paul this morning: when dealing with ice, we need grit.
(Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply has cherry stone grit - way better than salt)
(Monarca has a training Saturday)
(Elected officials need to hear from us today)
(Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply has cherry stone grit - way better than salt)
(Monarca has a training Saturday)
(Elected officials need to hear from us today)
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some reflections after shoveling in St Paul this morning: when dealing with ice, we need grit.
(Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply has cherry stone grit - way better than salt)
(Monarca has a training Saturday)
(Elected officials need to hear from us today)
(Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply has cherry stone grit - way better than salt)
(Monarca has a training Saturday)
(Elected officials need to hear from us today)
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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
Minnesota in the fall means every kind of jacket you own will be worn within a 24 hour period
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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
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
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
When? Dec. 2, 5 – 7p, Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave. Learn more at metrotransit.org/franklin
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.
These buttons came from Art Scraps, the best place imo to buy buttons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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.
These buttons came from Art Scraps, the best place imo to buy buttons.
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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
"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
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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...
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
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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?!
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
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?!
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 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.
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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.
So act weird and make people behave better.
Uhh, just fyi the last time this theory was popular, life expectancy was like 40 years old. Get vaxxed, kids.
It's not a good time to be a scientist or healthcare professional.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Uhh, just fyi the last time this theory was popular, life expectancy was like 40 years old. Get vaxxed, kids.
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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!
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
“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!
Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!
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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...
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
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...
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...
To quote my president, Hayley Williams, this is why I don’t leave the house.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
To quote my president, Hayley Williams, this is why I don’t leave the house.
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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
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.
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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
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?
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!
Look! It’s my socks!
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ok Minnesota, somebody knows the brand or who sells these awesome socks. We need to crack this case 🕵🏻♀️
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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AURORA RIGHT NOW MINNEAPOLIS
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
AURORA RIGHT NOW MINNEAPOLIS
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”.
“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”.
President Catherine Connolly says she will be a ‘catalyst for change’ over next seven years
President Catherine Connolly says she will be a ‘catalyst for change’ over next seven years
Ireland’s 10th president references diversity, climate, housing, neutrality and Irish unity at ceremony in Dublin Castle
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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”.
“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”.
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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
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.