Matthew Beckman
@daphsci.bsky.social
Bikes, sandwiches, dogs, guitar, gardening, science, Daphnia.
One of the things I do wish Minnesota would sort out is License Plate laws. Following the blackout plates becoming available and the rise of Tesla, so many cars/trucks in Mpls and probably the Twin Cites, more broadly, do not have a front license plates. Any Fed vehics operating in MN should have 2.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
One of the things I do wish Minnesota would sort out is License Plate laws. Following the blackout plates becoming available and the rise of Tesla, so many cars/trucks in Mpls and probably the Twin Cites, more broadly, do not have a front license plates. Any Fed vehics operating in MN should have 2.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Please stand up and draw this line in the sand. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social @repangiecraig.bsky.social @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please stand up and draw this line in the sand. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social @repangiecraig.bsky.social @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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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 10:10 PM
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/
THANK YOU! Fortunately, I've got a s-1303Y, but it makes me nervous and I'll be moving it to the garage now. Haven't had any issues with it getting warm or anything.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
THANK YOU! Fortunately, I've got a s-1303Y, but it makes me nervous and I'll be moving it to the garage now. Haven't had any issues with it getting warm or anything.
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Why should I spend my time phone banking on the SUFS Aftyn campaign?
1. The numbers for a win are there! We have to get out the vote.
2. Calling works!
3. Putting out the science X democracy fire requires us to take back Congress. This gets us one seat closer to 218.
4. IT IS A WINNABLE RACE!
1. The numbers for a win are there! We have to get out the vote.
2. Calling works!
3. Putting out the science X democracy fire requires us to take back Congress. This gets us one seat closer to 218.
4. IT IS A WINNABLE RACE!
TAKE ACTION! Hit the phones with us on Saturday and Sunday for @aftynbehn4tn, and help bring sanity back to science policy. Sign up at zurl.co/5aOiP (linked in our bio) to get started. All you need is a phone and a zeal for action!
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Why should I spend my time phone banking on the SUFS Aftyn campaign?
1. The numbers for a win are there! We have to get out the vote.
2. Calling works!
3. Putting out the science X democracy fire requires us to take back Congress. This gets us one seat closer to 218.
4. IT IS A WINNABLE RACE!
1. The numbers for a win are there! We have to get out the vote.
2. Calling works!
3. Putting out the science X democracy fire requires us to take back Congress. This gets us one seat closer to 218.
4. IT IS A WINNABLE RACE!
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The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
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very sad. Her new Yorker essay is heart-breaking.
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
very sad. Her new Yorker essay is heart-breaking.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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Some may look like e-bikes. Some may even be called e-bikes online. But if you are considering purchasing an e-bike this holiday, please make sure you're buying something that is legal to use on Mn roads and trails.
Your best bet is to buy from local bike shops!
www.startribune.com/bike-advocat...
Your best bet is to buy from local bike shops!
www.startribune.com/bike-advocat...
www.startribune.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Some may look like e-bikes. Some may even be called e-bikes online. But if you are considering purchasing an e-bike this holiday, please make sure you're buying something that is legal to use on Mn roads and trails.
Your best bet is to buy from local bike shops!
www.startribune.com/bike-advocat...
Your best bet is to buy from local bike shops!
www.startribune.com/bike-advocat...
East Lake St has a couple of great bakeries. The multiseed sourdough bread loaf launebread.com is sublime. Toast it and slather butter on it. The crumb structure is excellent, serving as a perfect vehicle for butter, but bringing the earthy, slightly sour flavor mixed with anise, rye and crunch.
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
East Lake St has a couple of great bakeries. The multiseed sourdough bread loaf launebread.com is sublime. Toast it and slather butter on it. The crumb structure is excellent, serving as a perfect vehicle for butter, but bringing the earthy, slightly sour flavor mixed with anise, rye and crunch.
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Kelly: "My family has suffered from political violence. My wife, Gabby, was nearly assassinated, shot in the head at a political event. Even the president -- 2 assassination attempts -- he should understand his words have significant weight and people react to things that he says."
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Kelly: "My family has suffered from political violence. My wife, Gabby, was nearly assassinated, shot in the head at a political event. Even the president -- 2 assassination attempts -- he should understand his words have significant weight and people react to things that he says."
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
@nytimes.com Postdoctoral Fellows or Postdocs, as the name implies, are post- or beyond the doctoral phase of training. Doctoral students, aka graduate students or grad students, are not the same as Postdocs. Please edit this piece to reflect reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Researcher’s Smuggling Arrest Casts Light on Dispute Over Chinese Students
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@nytimes.com Postdoctoral Fellows or Postdocs, as the name implies, are post- or beyond the doctoral phase of training. Doctoral students, aka graduate students or grad students, are not the same as Postdocs. Please edit this piece to reflect reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
When is the @minnesotagop.bsky.social going to address the rural crime problem? We hear them targeting Minneapolis all the time and vilifying our city when their home towns in outstate are a wild-west, shoot-'em-up match. This man needed mental health care. www.startribune.com/fatal-law-en...
www.startribune.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
When is the @minnesotagop.bsky.social going to address the rural crime problem? We hear them targeting Minneapolis all the time and vilifying our city when their home towns in outstate are a wild-west, shoot-'em-up match. This man needed mental health care. www.startribune.com/fatal-law-en...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
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The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism.
CDC website is changed to raise suspicions of a vaccines-autism link
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism.
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Minnesota has been shaken to its core by political violence this year. We know first hand that rhetoric like this has real life consequences.
Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.
Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Minnesota has been shaken to its core by political violence this year. We know first hand that rhetoric like this has real life consequences.
Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.
Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF