Lately, I've been messing around with adding modern 3D elevation relief to historic maps. This is the original GLO survey from 1859-60 of the Grand Marais, Minnesota area.
Learning how to do this has been challenging. I've been using QGIS > Photoshop > Blender > Photoshop as the workflow.
Any #MNastodon or #minnesota folks, anyone have information about a #veterans march at the state capital this weekend in #stpaulmn St. Paul? I can find lot’s about the one in Washington but I can’t get there for that one.
#US President #DonalTrump has been jolted by Ontario’s 25 per cent surcharge on electricity
> Twelve hours after Premier #DougFord imposed what he dubbed “#tariff response charge” to be paid by utilities in #NewYork, #Michigan and #Minnesota that import #Ontario power, Trump took to social media to complain.
> [..] Ontario just announced a 25% surcharge on ‘electricity,’ of all things, and your (sic) not even allowed to do that,” the president said late Monday night.
https://archive.is/2025.03.11-195824/https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/donald-trump-rails-against-doug-fords-electricity-retaliation-move-we-dont-need-your-energy/article_615de6ce-fe73-11ef-9f9f-a7c549eece24.html
@colo_lee. The first plants under the grow lights here are various onions. We consider potatoes and sweet potatoes in the winter planning season, then we plan more garlic and peppers for another year. #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyourown.
#Canada’s initial $30B Canadian (US$21B) worth of retaliatory #tariffs have been applied on items like American orange juice, peanut butter, coffee, appliances, footwear, cosmetics, motorcycles & certain pulp & paper products.
#Ontario Premier #DougFord, …also said that, starting on Monday, the province will charge 25% more for #electricity shipped to 1.5M Americans in response to #Trump’s tariffs. Ontario provides electricity to #Minnesota, #NY & #Michigan.
@ai6yr I speak for the runner ducks. We have a flock of a dozen runner ducks. They are members of the gardening team. They are priceless contributors. They do pest control from caterpillars that eat the garden greens to mice in the coop. They are responsible for converting bedding to fertilized bedding. They also lay eggs. The duck chores keep us healthy. Laughing with the ducks is wonderful. The flock is all female. #compost, #ducksofmastoson, #minnesota, #growyourown.
#Ontario will cut off US from power 'with a smile on my face,' Premier Doug Ford says
“They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain," Ford said on cutting Ontario electricity exports to US.”
“The US is a major customer for Canadian electricity, with all American power grids — with the exception of Texas — interconnected with Canadian provinces.
#NewYork, #Michigan and #Minnesota are Ontario’s three biggest customers of power.”
Enthusiastic sled dogs in blue booties featured in article about how to find the starting point of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.
The 40th running of the race begins Sunday at 11:05 a.m. — with the start now north of Two Harbors, instead of near Duluth.
Dwindling snowpack causes Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon to move farther north.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/25/dwindling-snowpack-causes-beargrease-sled-dog-marathon-to-move-further-north
Gov. Tim #Walz of #Minnesota will not run for his state’s open Senate seat in 2026 and will instead begin the process to seek a third term as governor, his spokesman said Wednesday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/tim-walz-minnesota-senate.html
Hey #MNastodon and #Minnesota folks, particularly those of you in the Roseville area in district 40B, there’s a special election coming up tomorrow 3/11. I went to an event with MN Legislature’s Queer Caucus at Queermunity last night and #MNDFL David Gottfried was highly recommended as a good ally. If we force the MN House back to a tie, it’ll be easier to stop some or slow some of the horrors. #Vote if it’s your district and kick-In if you can. https://www.david-gottfried.com/
Wow, so glad this happened. This should be in all the States.
Even more glad we moved here now.
This sounds like an extraordinary memoir!
As a teenager, Tanya Smith stole bank reserves over the phone to help friends and neighbors pay off overdue utility bills. When the F.B.I. derided her, saying Black people "don’t have the brains" to pull off complex heists, she taught herself to hack computers and went on to steal tens of millions from banks and casinos in a multi-year crime spree
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c6fd7e99-e74c-4e1b-b769-9a84bf520f29
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Hey #California #Oregon #WashingtonState #Minnesota #NewYork #Vermont #Massachusetts #RhodeIsland #Maine and #Connecticut We could form a contiguous nation with Canada. Think of it. Universal Health Care. Cheaper education. Higher alcohol content beer. Real maple syrup. No MAGAs.
Instead of 51st state, let’s start thinking 11th-20th Provinces!
Via Politico:
" #Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is considering a run for Senate next year, according to a person close to the governor who was granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
His consideration of the seat comes after Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) announced her retirement from the blue-leaning battleground on Thursday. Walz, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee, could also run for re-election as governor in 2026."
Saturday February 8. The Dark Times of the feudal tech lords are close. Very close. We are fortunate. We hope we can plant, nurture, and harvest these seeds and others. We hope the climate change doesn’t desiccate them. We will start the Yellow Parma Onion, Ruby Red Onion, and Jaune du Poitou Leek soon. #growyourown, #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #compost, #Vermiculture, #zone4b, #solarpunk.
Here in #Minnesota, our weather forecasts work because NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements to share data from the weather services' sensor networks back and forth across the line.
Yet again, USA:
End this. Hold Elon Musk personally accountable. And #ImpeachTrump and remove him.
QT Tim Marchman
@timmarchman.bsky.social
2025 February 5
NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals.
https://www.wired.com/story/noaa-employees-foreign-nationals/
https://bsky.app/profile/timmarchman.bsky.social/post/3lhhueqltd22z
These are some of the cities / state capitols being targeted with these fake rallies:
#NewJersey
#Boston
#NorthCarolina
#Sacramento
#Washington
#Olympia
#Oregon
#SouthDakota
#Texas
#Arizona
#JeffersonCity
#Missouri
#Kentucky
#JacksonMS
#Mississippi
#Tampa
#Florida
#Atlanta
#Georgia
#Michigan
#Lansing
#Iowa
#Helena
#Montana
#Madison
#Wisconsin
#Minnesota
#Nebraska
#Colorado
#Cleveland
#Idaho
#Montpelier
#Vermont
#Topeka
#Kansas
https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque/comments/1ifcbg6/community_safety_warning_february_protests/
My wife was born in the Twin Cities and apparently my mother-in-law saw Prince playing in a bar there before he got huge, somewhere on 7th street. That’s neat. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard that story before.
It's not politicians who will end oppression. It's the radicals, with the stink in their clothes, rebellion in their brain, hope in their heart and direct action in their fists.
-- David Bowie
#Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBowie #Change #Injustice #Politics #Revolution #Tyranny
#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
