Really really. Great fun when you’re young and dumb and just got a car

They closed down a location near me that’s been open for quite a while, so it seems like this might be different

It’s been working out great for Can Can Wonderland, but they also sell a lot of alcohol. Looks like this place doesn’t, so yeah let’s hope they manage to pay the bills 🤞

Some additional history:

As demand for the expansion of Glenwood Park grew, a new development gave the park one of its signature features, a unique wildflower garden that is cherished still. In early 1907 Eloise Butler, John Greer and others petitioned the park board for space in Glenwood Park to establish a botanical garden. The park board granted the request and set aside three acres of bog, meadow and hillside for the Wild Botanical Garden, the first public wildflower garden in the United States. The board also allocated a modest sum for paths and fencing of the area and on April 27, 1907 announced that the garden had opened.

The person who took charge of the garden as a volunteer was a retired botany teacher, Eloise Butler, who for years had taken her students to the park for botany lessons. Butler tended the garden for four years as a volunteer until in 1911 the Minneapolis Womans Club petitioned the park board to appoint a full-time curator for the garden. The club offered to pay half a year’s salary for a curator. When that wasn’t enough to get the park board to act, the club increased the offer to a full year’s salary if the park board would retain the position and pay the salary after that. The park board agreed. The person the Womans Club recommended to be the curator was Eloise Butler.

Eloise Butler created such a magnificent wild garden—collecting, protecting, preserving and cataloguing wild plants and offering free botany classes—that the park board named the garden in her honor in 1929. In 1933, at the age of 81, she died on her way to work. Her ashes were spread in her garden and the park board held a memorial service and planted a pin oak tree in the garden in her honor, noting that “Every plant in her garden was her living child, upon whom she bestowed her devotion and care.”

Butler was succeeded by her assistant, Martha Crone, who remained in charge of the garden until 1959. Upon Crone’s retirement, she was succeeded by Ken Avery. The shelter in the garden is named for Crone and the terrace is named for Avery. An important addition to the park occurred in 1944, when Clinton O’Dell, a successful Minneapolis businessman—he created the Burma Shave rhymes seen along highways — and former botany student of Eloise Butler, contributed $3,000 to expand the garden to include ground for upland or prairie varieties of plants, rather than the primarily woodland plants that Butler’s original garden could accommodate. O’Dell also helped form in 1951 The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, which has contributed time and money for the maintenance and improvement of the garden ever since.

The list:

• Airport concession workers
• Bichota
• Cafe Ceres
• Colita
• Compass cafeteria at Macalester College
• First Avenue
• Guthrie Theater
• Half Price Books
• Indeed Brewing
• Kim’s
• Lofton Hotel
• Minneapolis Parks workers
• Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx in-house video and audio crew
• Minnesota United in-house video and audio crew
• Mississippi Market Co-op
• REI
• Vertical Endeavors

Yep, congrats! Was it hard to track down? I might try posting some more, but this one seemed a little hard

IMO this is a reminder that things look kind of grim at the federal level atm, but that doesn’t have to mean giving up, especially locally. I’m sure that $2M isn’t much to the company, but it’s still something.

I’ve been wondering if we need to bite the bullet and invest in a subway system. There was talk of doing that for Lyndale Ave, but we got bus-only lanes instead. They are incrementally better, but you can only get so far that way

If it ends up being too hard, here’s a hint:

EDIT: Looks like this might’ve been too hard. I’ll leave the answer under a spoiler in case anyone still wants to try guessing.

Good call, looks like I was wrong on the internet. Still weird engagement bait, but ethically sourced engagement bait

It’s a known engagement bait type of post, which use AI:

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-why-dont-pictures-like-this-ever-trend-meme-about-ai-beautiful-cabin-crew-and-other-phrases-that-mock-ai-slop

The anatomy also looks way off to me, even for unusual medical situations

I don’t use FB at all, friend sent this to me. So glad I’ve got Lemmy and the Fediverse instead of anything that supports this

The readme describes it better:

Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bot. The post prompt is made customizable and elevated in this sense (fedi-app with custom-prompts).

Another fun fact: the last known US Civil War widow died in 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_survived_into_the_21st_century

Any proof that it’s real? Commits can be dated however you want, and archive.org doesn’t have any snapshots from before today

Yeah, I’ve heard a very similar joke from a boomer:

Did you know PMS is mentioned in the Bible?

“…and Mary rode Joseph’s ass all the way to Bethlehem.”

Some good [email protected] material there

If it’s unclear, it’s referencing an infamous Far Side cartoon called Cow Tools. Here’s some background:

It even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Nope, those are all not clickable. Probably requires logging in or something. Does not inspire confidence in them being a long-term team player, but we’ll see what happens I guess 🤷

Interesting. Can’t tell if that worked because it wants me to log in. Wonder why they don’t just allow appending the instance at the end like the rest of the fediverse does. Does that post show the username as plain text for you as well? It’s still showing that way for me.