April was a cruel, cruel month in Minnesota. We got record amounts of snow and the temperatures refused to go above 40 until the last few days. And -- get this -- it may snow a few more inches on Wednesday night (which is officially in May, but I'm overlooking that).
The tweets were, as usual, sweet and sour.
Let me tell you a story about this one time a friend used anecdotal data, and it worked out great for them.
By Pinboard
Knackered.
By Dan Taylor
The Prominent Chins #BandNames
By Chris Steller
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
By Lena Dunham
Tim Tebow is fired the same day an NBA player announces he's gay. Man, Jesus must be on vacation this week.
By Jenny
Springtime means the return of whatever bird it is that sounds like a car fob noise going off over and over again.
By Tom Tomorrow
Economics trumps moral outrage. As long as billions of people want the sprawl lifestyle, energy companies will rule.
By Free Public Transit
Gar Alperovitz: "It's easy to join the movement when it's moving." The hard work of building the new economy starts now.
By Amanda Thomas
Is your community resilient? What does that mean? It means you are ready when the long-distance food stops rolling in.
By Free Public Transit
And for our next trick, Autocorrect and I will once again change a protip into a protoplasm and back again.
By Chris Steller
Me: Your shoes are on the wrong feet.
4-year-old: …
Me: …
4yo: ...
Me: …
4-year-old: I don't have any other feet.
Me: Fair enough.
By Dr. Jack J. Snow
Because of competition and private property, we have wasted the oil in 200 years that could have lasted 200,000.
By Free Public Transit
You knew the sequester could not stand once it started inconveniencing Platinum Medallion 9 Star Admiral Miles Members.
By hodgman
Maybe unemployed people should try standing on runways.
By Binyamin Appelbaum
AMERICA WILL NOT LET BUSINESS TRAVELERS LANGUISH FOR HOURS! That's for cancer patients and disabled vets and immobile seniors.
By Pete Nicely
Do we call highways subsidized? They are not. They are an investment. Public schools? No. Public transit is not subsidized.
By Free Public Transit
For all the panicking we do about foreign terrorists, we're most likely to be killed at home by someone we know.
By Jamil Smith
Not sure how hogwash wound up getting such a bad rap. It's really the only way to deal with a dirty hog.
By Tim Carvell
City shuts down for one armed teen. Market liquidity vanishes after a false tweet. Radical vulnerability, act one, scene one.
By Teju Cole
If web designers made doors, the knob would be invisible until you reach for it.
By Tom Wuttke
Tom Cruise is the same age now that Wilford Brimley was when he filmed Cocoon.
By Joel Ross Housman
Men who suffer from depression are interesting, quirky, brooding. Women who do are a "mess" and "share too much." Women: you say this.
By Molly Priesmeyer
Cancer is a biological process of cells refusing to do what they should inside our bodies, not a "fight" that weaker souls among us "lose."
By Xeni Jardin
If you're happy and you know it... it's a sin.
By almightygod
LOL gross men on the street. Joke's on you cuz you're catcalling at my ass which basically protects my b-hole & at my breasts which are sacks of fat.
By Jessica R. Williams
( . ) ( . ) #fatsacks
By Jessica R. Williams
Superscript "th" "nd" "st" and "rd" #firstworldproblems
By Chris Steller
All of my students spell ludicrous as "ludacris". All of them.
By Beatrice Marovich
In a car-free city, every other street can be a park or garden. #permaculture
By Free Public Transit
People worry about conservatives clinging to their guns. A bigger problem is liberals clinging to their suburbs. #autosprawl #transition
By Free Public Transit
Boy, a 100 blade bulk pack of X-acto blades sure lasts a lot longer than it used to. I think I bought this one in the eighties.
By Mark Simonson
A Neil Diamond sing-along at a ball game strikes me as a much better terrorist attack aftermath than invading Iraq.
By Frank Conniff
We must treat criminals, accused or convicted, with a degree of dignity that feels unwarranted. That’s the cost of the moral high ground.
By Daniel Jalkut
"If you stop someone from doing what they are passionate about, they will not 'redirect' that energy into what you want them to be doing."
By Nikhil Goyal
One of biggest drivers behind sprawl is the mass sale of consumer products - eg: one leaf blower for each house.
By Free Public Transit
The GOP is the Gas & Oil Party. They do all the gays, guns, and god stuff to keep you talking about anything but #autosprawlsubsidy.
By Free Public Transit
RT @Jason_Dayton "Yes the planet was destroyed, but for a brief moment we created value for the share holders"
By Chris Oien
The IRS brings in more than $200 for each $ it costs, so cutting its budget worsens the deficit.
By David Cay Johnston
Does the word "Crème Brûlée" have all those accents to keep the pigeons from sitting on top of it?
By Rob Baedeker
Harkonnen! A Vagrant
By Johnny Ryan [props to Kate Beaton]
The problem with making new friends as you get older is that everything about you just becomes too damn long a story.
By Buzz Andersen
When they said Caucasian they meant Caucasian.
By Chris Steller
It is almost as though our present political system is entirely incapable of representing the views of a modern urbanized society.
By Erin Kissane
Beginning to think that getting your news a day later on a piece of paper really was the way to go.
By Matt Johnson
Sometimes I worry that I live in a dysfunctional country.
By Ryan Dow
I miss the days when terrible things happening thousands of miles away seemed less real.
By pete hautman
Would you pay 0.6% more in tax to take 10% of the cars out of your town center? That is the cost/benefit of free transit.
By Free Public Transit
So how's that not-reforming-filibuster thing working out for ya Harry Reid?
By Tom Tomorrow
In times of tragedy Twitter should go into Quaker mode. Shut up or be meaningful.
By Mike Monteiro
My favorite part of Game of Thrones: Shae's bad made-up accent sounds just like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Counselor Deanna Troi's bad made-up accent.
By Okay Type
I worry more about the middle-aged men who believe if Abe Lincoln were alive today he’d be a Republican.
By Mike Monteiro
Additional bowl thought: spoons just little bowls on end of stick.
By Bigfoot TheBigfoot
What were the people on Easter Island thinking as they cut down the last trees? -- What are you thinking right now?
By Free Public Transit
Crime doesn't pay, because when it does, they call it something else.
By Free Public Transit
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
By Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's an alternative internet where Arab taxi drivers write about their amusing encounters with foreign reporters & their simple worldview
By Karl Sharro
"Ronald Reagan!" --Scooby Doo, asked to name the lead singer in Steely Dan
By Ken Jennings
The best opportunity for meeting future food demands? GMOs? Organic? Aquaponics? Nope. Reducing food waste, and rethinking diets/biofuels.
By Jonathan Foley
Home is where you hang your hat, so my home is the eliptical trainer I haven't used in 18 months.
By Stephen Colbert
Peeve: the entire concept of a "personal brand." I mean, are you a product, or a person?
By Stacey Burns
Nothing is free? Think again. Carbon emissions have been "free" for years. Let's rebalance with free transit.
By Free Public Transit
If I could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, I would probably opt for living. It just seems like it'd be a more engaging evening.
By Tim Carvell
Idea: get the world's best scientists, force them to live in LA for a month, and they'll get so frustrated that they invent teleportation.
By Remina West
Allergy sufferers: your body is reacting to and expelling inhaled tree sperm. Non-allergy sufferers: your body happily absorbs tree sperm.
By RUBEN BOLLING
1. Cramped neck on the flight out 2. Buy neck pillow on the flight back 3. Repeat every time you fly 4. Neck Pillow Museum
By Neven Mrgan
The Clean Air Act has the best ratio of costs to benefits of any federal regulation.
By Beth Mercer-Taylor
Urban design has a big impact on air quality. Not "compactness" but "contiguous." More contiguous = less air pollution.
By Jonathan Foley
Think about how to let people do things instead of how to make them do things.
By Chris Oien
This is why we don't need a "Conversation On Race." Very few Americans know enough to hold a "Conversation On Race."
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
If we did hold a conversation, the first thing we'd realize is we don't need a "Conversation On Race," we need a "Conversation On Racism." We'd start there.
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Revolutionary War also happened a long time ago. So stop celebrating on the 4th. We only hate history when its inconvenient.
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
So very tired of stock photography.
By Tom Tomorrow
Twitter should have a third option besides Retweet and Favorite that would let you automatically nominate the person for president.
By Chris Steller
Cher fans are confusing the hashtag #NowThatchersDead with #NowThatChersDead. Oh, Twitter, you crack me up.
By Andy Kroll
The term "thought leader" needs to die. Right now. Each time you write or say "thought leader," George Orwell turns in his grave.
By Andy Kroll
Why is it always a mad scientist who wants to take over the world? Why not a mad anthropologist or economist?
By Jonathan Foley
I want a @maggiekb1 action figure.
By Melanie Mallon
Technology is a testament to the uselessness of prayer.--PZ Myers
By Quirkythrope
Please, Facebook, stop working on phones and start working on Snopes integration.
By Greg Fodor
Experimentation in education reform (without evidence) should not be called innovation. It is stupidity.
By Pasi Sahlberg
Social justice is hard work that also requires a sense of humor. Life is just too damn short to engage the humorless.
By Jessica Pieklo
Waiter! This Hell is not fresh!
By Chris Steller
Writers/artists: Quit doing stuff for free/little pay. Quit devaluing your work. People making plastic crap get paid more.
By Molly Priesmeyer
Early in my science career, I sat down next to a very nice elderly woman on plane one day, and she asked me what I did for a living...
By Jonathan Foley
I said, "I model the earth's climate and ecosystems." She looked confused and was silent for a while. Then she asked, "What do you wear?"
By Jonathan Foley
That was my first, best lesson in science communication.
By Jonathan Foley
“The plural of morons is focus groups.” —@beep
By Mike Monteiro
Happy Easter to my Christian friends who believe in resurrection yet evolution seems like witchcraft.
By Mike Monteiro
Right behind pretending to be religious. RT @DailyGrumbles Fun Fact: Not Religious is fastest growing religious demographic in US.
By W. Kamau Bell
North Americans use more electricity on Christmas lights than the yearly usage of the entire African continent.
By Injustice Facts
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