Tootfinder

"Contingency plans, backup procedures, and manual overrides did what they’re supposed to do at a majority of the affected utilities: nothing dramatic happened, because the boring stuff worked."
#Minnesota #Water #utilities

Here’s a video to put a face (two, briefly, if you watch the whole thing) to the Minnesota 15.
Here’s one of my Minneapolis neighbors.
#Minnesota15 #Minnesota #iceout

"The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive is a working, evolving digital archive that collects and makes accessible primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
"created and maintained by Dr. Hayden L. Nelson, a research historian at the #Minnesota Historical Society"

"Three baby pumas born in Minnesota, US, is a first in more than 100 years"
#US #USA #America #Minnesota

Three baby pumas born in Minnesota, US, is a first in more than 100 years
A female puma with her three kittens was spotted on a trail camera in Minnesota, a first in more than a century.

Minnesotans: please call Governor Walz and express your opposition to this bill.
Two key points:
1. It's unconstitutional.
2. It's mass surveillance, a massive personal data handout to the tech giants, a gross privacy violation, and a catastrophic personal data breach just waiting to happen.
#Minnesota #mnleg @… https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/116615688225346689

#Minnesota : Park Rapids, Nemeth Art Center. Outstanding group art exhibition; see it if you can! ✔️
https://www.mplsart.com/written/2026/07/not-forgotten-c…

Not Forgotten: Contemporary Art with Rural Roots

Curator Aaron Spangler brings together five artists with rural roots for an exhibition on place, identity, and storytelling at Park Rapids' Nemeth Art Center.

Hey Minnesota, just a reminder that Angie Craig is:
- a data center cheerleader
- and a cryptocurrency sell-out
- whose PAC has been using gen AI to make fake images of her opponent
- and who has just crap tons of big money behind her
- which is how she's carpet-bombing the state with junk texts and ads.
Stay informed, stay safe, stay crypto-bro-free.
DFL primaries happen on August 11, 2026.
#Minnesota #mnpol

One thing I love about Saint Paul: they put poetry on sidewalks. Here's some in my neighborhood. Art infrastructure!
#saintpaul #minnesota #poetry

#Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) air quality alert
#wildfire #smoke

Air quality alert issued due to wildfire smoke for Wednesday, July 15, through Friday, July 17, for east central, central, west central, southeast, north central, northwest, and northeast Minnesota
Air quality is expected to reach the maroon AQI category across central, east central, north central, and northeast Minnesota, which is hazardous for everyone.

Fergus Falls, #Minnesota

MSP folks: If you are free to show up and show support, the NLG is encouraging people to show up for the first court appearances of those arrested. Observers let the courts and the feds know that people are watching.
Appearances scheduled 1:30 and after, at the US Federal Courthouse: 316 N. Robert Street, St. Paul, MN.
#msp #minneapolis #minnesota

Peace
2024
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, #Minnesota
Handwoven wool and cotton, audio recording
current exhibition at the #NorthDakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (NDMOA)
"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace -- peace is the way."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Fortunately, her opponent in the DFL primary, Peggy Flanagan, is pretty cool. If like me you long for the US to have an actual opposition party that isn’t in the technofascist bag, well…this primary is specifically about whether we Minnesotans want that.
Voting is not the only or even the primary way we get ourselves out of this mess, but here is one place where voting can actually make a difference in the course of events. August 11, folks — and you can vote in the primary early!
Seize that moment, then get back to doing all the other work of resistance.
#Minnesota #mnpol

SciPride June 20 : Celebrate Pride when the Bell Museum, University of #Minnesota centers the work of LGBTQIA scientists and allies!
#StPaul

Spotlight Science: SciPride - Bell Museum
Spotlight Science is a regular program connecting you to current science conducted at the University of Minnesota and in our community. Join researchers, students, and special guests for conversations and unique interactive experiences.

A Craig-affiliated PAC ran a deepfake video attack ad against her DFL primary opponent, and Craig’s response was basically “but the ad is true, though!” (It was in fact deeply misleading.)
#Minnesota #mnpol

So the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team has adopted John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads as their theme. I was just reminded that Denver (H.J. Deutschendorf Jr.) and his wife lived in #Edina, #Minnesota in the late 1960's to early 1970's!

Angie Craig is a data center cheerleader:
#Minnesota #mnpol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sir Stephen Hough, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor - 3rd mvt
#PyotrTchaikovsky #SirStephenHough #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä
#Spotify

Angie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol

If we get a "Super El Niño" this year, here's what the "Year without a Winter," December-February of 1877-78, was like in #Minnesota
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journa

History of #Minnesota: forests, fires, policy
"The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires" by Hayden L. Nelson
https://niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/th

The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires
Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicating the opposite, would rather spend money in disaster relief than in disaster prevention.

RE: #mnpol #minnesota

Two Funded PhD Positions in Environmental Systems & Risk Modeling at the University of #Minnesota, USA
https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs:Job-02051

Jobs:Job-02051

On the possibility of #Minnesota Cu-Ni- PGE mining.
#NorthMet #PolyMet #TwinMetals

One Billion Years Ago, Northern Minnesota Nearly Split Apart. Now, Two Companies Want to Mine the Aftermath.
A continental rift created valuable mineral deposits beneath a remote wilderness beloved by recreationists.

Good news! There is now a legal defense fund for the Minnesota 15! This is for all the people Trump's feds arrested on Tuesday for their anti-ICE activism in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. They have a rough road ahead. Let's show them some support.
I can vouch for this specific fund. It's legit.
⚠️ Keep an eye out for the Chuffed site automatically adding a “tip” that is perhaps larger than the amount you want. You can set it to a smaller amount or zero. ⚠️
#Minneapolis #StPaul #Minnesota #iceout
https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund

#Minnesota !

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Benjamin Britten, Minnesota Orchestra & Neville Marriner:
🎵 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34: Theme & Fugue
#BenjaminBritten #MinnesotaOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jcW7LdhJIiEuq3YO0ICyr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Leoš Janšček, Minnesota Orchestra & Edward Gardner:
🎵 Sinfonietta, Op. 60
#LeošJanáček #MinnesotaOrchestra #EdwardGardner
https://open.spotify.com/track/2llxW3x71vsfDE7kvpMnyC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Ludwig van Beethoven, Osmo Vänskä & Minnesota Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (2nd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #OsmoVänskä #MinnesotaOrchestra

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Benjamin Britten, Minnesota Orchestra & Neville Marriner:
🎵 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34: Theme & Fugue
#BenjaminBritten #MinnesotaOrchestra #NevilleMarriner
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jcW7LdhJIiEuq3YO0ICyr