Hill
@hillohbeanz.bsky.social
Sarcastic GenX crone in Minnesota. Likes: cheese, MST3K, playing with words, watching women's basketball, my queer kids, your queer kids. Dislikes: lima beans, ennui, TERFs.
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Hill
@hillohbeanz.bsky.social
· May 26
I like Bluesky but it's not going to be viable long term unless you follow me into the catacombs, where I have a pipe of what passes for Amontillado.
I am reading a new book I think a lot of you would like. Just finished the part about why St Paul is where it is and how the "founding fathers" of the city made sure they paid the lowest price for Mac/Grove/Highland and nobody would outbid them. shop.mnhs.org/products/bec...
Becoming the Twin Cities
Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries Drew M. Ross Minnesota Historical Society Press (November 2025) Description Whether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, ma...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I am reading a new book I think a lot of you would like. Just finished the part about why St Paul is where it is and how the "founding fathers" of the city made sure they paid the lowest price for Mac/Grove/Highland and nobody would outbid them. shop.mnhs.org/products/bec...
THIS.
Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
THIS.
I volunteered to talk to high school seniors tonight about their capstone STEAM projects and once again I am reminded the way forward is connecting with others.
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I volunteered to talk to high school seniors tonight about their capstone STEAM projects and once again I am reminded the way forward is connecting with others.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is where I post from, if you even care
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is where I post from, if you even care
Okay check this out.
I decided to convert dollars to centimeters. That allows us to visualize, for example, the distance between having no money and being at poverty level — about four city blocks.
2/8
2/8
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Okay check this out.
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Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
Gender affirming care saves lives.
Do you have a firmest belief?
I’m texting a friend who just said “X is my firmest belief,” and I don’t mind telling you he sent me into an existential vortex of disbelief and non-meaning because I do not know what the hell my firmest belief is.
I’m texting a friend who just said “X is my firmest belief,” and I don’t mind telling you he sent me into an existential vortex of disbelief and non-meaning because I do not know what the hell my firmest belief is.
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Gender affirming care saves lives.
Yet another example of how services in MN vary by the county you live in. I know it's complicated, but there's got to be a better way.
We have a fam that is in dire need of a reasonable cemetery as cremation was fully against the deceased alignments. The fam prepares for a county assisted burial ($1500 supplied in Ramsey Cty, 3g in Henn Cty, more $ in others! Why county burial assistance isn't the same statewide support is messed.)
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Yet another example of how services in MN vary by the county you live in. I know it's complicated, but there's got to be a better way.
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Aaah yes, Anoka County is suing the City of Anoka because the County put in a permit to build a parking RAMP, and "The city argued that zoning rules list “parking garages or lots” as permitted structures, but not “ramps.”
I feel like I'm back in Saint Paul 😍
I feel like I'm back in Saint Paul 😍
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Aaah yes, Anoka County is suing the City of Anoka because the County put in a permit to build a parking RAMP, and "The city argued that zoning rules list “parking garages or lots” as permitted structures, but not “ramps.”
I feel like I'm back in Saint Paul 😍
I feel like I'm back in Saint Paul 😍
My leaders: Let's have discussion sessions on this topic that's broad but relevant to our business!
Me: okay! (Plans, schedules, sends out invites)
Someone else high up but not involved: WAIT NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP RIGHT NOW
Me: okay! (Plans, schedules, sends out invites)
Someone else high up but not involved: WAIT NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP RIGHT NOW
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My leaders: Let's have discussion sessions on this topic that's broad but relevant to our business!
Me: okay! (Plans, schedules, sends out invites)
Someone else high up but not involved: WAIT NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP RIGHT NOW
Me: okay! (Plans, schedules, sends out invites)
Someone else high up but not involved: WAIT NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP RIGHT NOW
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Remember 5 years ago when people thought there were coded messages in the Wayfair catalogue so elites could traffick children in giant cabinets? Anyway it turns out they just send emails like "hey it's me, your best buddy Pedophile Jeff, come do sex crimes at my house"
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Remember 5 years ago when people thought there were coded messages in the Wayfair catalogue so elites could traffick children in giant cabinets? Anyway it turns out they just send emails like "hey it's me, your best buddy Pedophile Jeff, come do sex crimes at my house"
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November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I can't see them 😞 I think my eyes are broken?
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I can't see them 😞 I think my eyes are broken?
DONT FORGET
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
DONT FORGET
One thing I've done now that it's dark so early is I've switched up my routine. Instead of taking a shower in the morning, I take it in the evening and make a big deal about it: light candles, play special music, use special soap. It's helping a lot.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
One thing I've done now that it's dark so early is I've switched up my routine. Instead of taking a shower in the morning, I take it in the evening and make a big deal about it: light candles, play special music, use special soap. It's helping a lot.
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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.
My brother is a high school band director in Indiana and he is taking his band from a tiny rural school district to the State Finals today. Wish I could be there in person, but we are all in on this $30 live stream.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My brother is a high school band director in Indiana and he is taking his band from a tiny rural school district to the State Finals today. Wish I could be there in person, but we are all in on this $30 live stream.
Post a pic of you from a different era.... summer 2000, the first time I got myself and my newborn dressed and left the house
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Post a pic of you from a different era.... summer 2000, the first time I got myself and my newborn dressed and left the house
Going grocery shopping and delivering it to someone in my community who needs food today and whose car isn't working is extremely my jam
(yes, I also give cash directly to my local food shelf with an employer match)
(yes, I also give cash directly to my local food shelf with an employer match)
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Going grocery shopping and delivering it to someone in my community who needs food today and whose car isn't working is extremely my jam
(yes, I also give cash directly to my local food shelf with an employer match)
(yes, I also give cash directly to my local food shelf with an employer match)
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Grief Garland Making:
Crafting and Conversation
Nov 23rd, 2-4pm in East St. Paul
Join us for an afternoon of crafting and intentional grief/death conversation. Lets get creative with our hands, and in creating space for death and grief to be held with community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1920170494...
Crafting and Conversation
Nov 23rd, 2-4pm in East St. Paul
Join us for an afternoon of crafting and intentional grief/death conversation. Lets get creative with our hands, and in creating space for death and grief to be held with community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1920170494...
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Grief Garland Making:
Crafting and Conversation
Nov 23rd, 2-4pm in East St. Paul
Join us for an afternoon of crafting and intentional grief/death conversation. Lets get creative with our hands, and in creating space for death and grief to be held with community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1920170494...
Crafting and Conversation
Nov 23rd, 2-4pm in East St. Paul
Join us for an afternoon of crafting and intentional grief/death conversation. Lets get creative with our hands, and in creating space for death and grief to be held with community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1920170494...
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posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch