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
(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.
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if you're also pissed at the DFL, join us in trying to fix it! sign up below to prepare for caucuses in february as we try to create a Better DFL!
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
if you're also pissed at the DFL, join us in trying to fix it! sign up below to prepare for caucuses in february as we try to create a Better DFL!
This is great!
So happy to support an affordable housing trust fund award to trellis for their adaptive reuse of the flour exchange building in ward 7. More housing coming downtown in a former office, a beautiful building right by city hall!
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is great!
Why did it never occur to me until this moment that the DSA was something I could join?
my life in ward 7 has been 13 years of lisa goodman, 2 years of katie cashman, next up: 4 years of something worse than goodman: elizabeth shaffer
fuck it. i have no plans to leave this ward so i joined DSA lmao. RADICALIZED
fuck it. i have no plans to leave this ward so i joined DSA lmao. RADICALIZED
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Why did it never occur to me until this moment that the DSA was something I could join?
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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I was gonna release 20,000 documents today but I guess I have to wait now.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I was gonna release 20,000 documents today but I guess I have to wait now.
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Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Usually it’s solitary dread that keeps me up too late, so it’s nice when every once in a while it’s communal joy
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Usually it’s solitary dread that keeps me up too late, so it’s nice when every once in a while it’s communal joy
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From a very well lit exit ramp looking straight up.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
From a very well lit exit ramp looking straight up.
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We drove about a mile to a park large enough to be pretty dark even on the road and several people stopped just to see why people were out and there was so much sharing wonder with strangers. We should all get to do that more.
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
We drove about a mile to a park large enough to be pretty dark even on the road and several people stopped just to see why people were out and there was so much sharing wonder with strangers. We should all get to do that more.
I’m thinking of books that changed how I read and books that changed how I see, and I think Mrs. Dalloway is the sweet spot.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I’m thinking of books that changed how I read and books that changed how I see, and I think Mrs. Dalloway is the sweet spot.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Say their names cemetery
Minneapolis, MN
11/11/25
Minneapolis, MN
11/11/25
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Say their names cemetery
Minneapolis, MN
11/11/25
Minneapolis, MN
11/11/25
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This is a small snow plow for bike lanes.
If your city plows roads but leaves bike lanes, your city hates cyclists.
If your city plows roads but leaves bike lanes, your city hates cyclists.
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is a small snow plow for bike lanes.
If your city plows roads but leaves bike lanes, your city hates cyclists.
If your city plows roads but leaves bike lanes, your city hates cyclists.
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i think of myself as mostly normie, and this is one of the demands i arrived at in the past month or so:
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
i think of myself as mostly normie, and this is one of the demands i arrived at in the past month or so:
Which reminds me, a month or two ago I talked to a nurse friend who was thinking about moving to clinic work because he was pretty sure the US hospital system was on the brink of collapse.
Listen to those workers closest to day-to-day realities, so we don’t need a 50th anniversary remembrance of the next preventable disaster. 🚢🌊
SS Edmund Fitzgerald had a structural defect in its keel. Sailors on that ship had complained about the ship bending and flexing during storms, especially when it was overloaded, which it usually was. They had also found old keel weld breaks due to structural fatigue, which were never repaired
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Which reminds me, a month or two ago I talked to a nurse friend who was thinking about moving to clinic work because he was pretty sure the US hospital system was on the brink of collapse.
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I am caucusing for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social on February 3 and you should too if you want a fighter in the US senate who wouldn’t have sold out working families.
Is she perfect? No, but politicians do not save us. We do.
We hold our leaders accountable to the promises they make.
Is she perfect? No, but politicians do not save us. We do.
We hold our leaders accountable to the promises they make.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I am caucusing for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social on February 3 and you should too if you want a fighter in the US senate who wouldn’t have sold out working families.
Is she perfect? No, but politicians do not save us. We do.
We hold our leaders accountable to the promises they make.
Is she perfect? No, but politicians do not save us. We do.
We hold our leaders accountable to the promises they make.
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Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.