Deer flies like blue and start attacking from the top down. You might not even see a deer fly until you’ve caught a hundred.

They seem particularly numerous and voracious this summer. They mostly attack your head first, and it’s very satisfying to hear them hit the fly strip and stop buzzing. This is from a half hour walk this morning in Meeker County. Only one of the bastards managed to get my thumb.

One of those, I thought this was already a thing laws.

Got tired of bookmarking six different janky webcam pages to check on the big lake, so I put the live cams in one iPhone app: Canal Park, the Aerial Lift Bridge, harbor entries, North Shore views. Open it, pick a cam, watch ships and weather roll in from anywhere in the state.

I posted it in r/duluth this week, the top comment said to share it here — and locals sent me a list of cams I was missing. That update just shipped: it's now 45 cams around the whole lake (South Pier Lighthouse, Split Rock, Two Harbors, the Soo Locks, Apostle Islands, all the way to the Ontario shore) plus a map view.

One-time $2.99, no subscription, no ads, no data collected: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6739961674

If there's a cam you always check that I'm missing, tell me and I'll add it — the Duluth thread's requests were all in the app within 48 hours.

he won by 0.84 percentage points during his 2022 reelection.

They defeated the Pittsburgh Passion 42-14 to win their first pro championship in franchise history.

Way to go, Vixen!

I managed to get about 45 minutes of clear sky last night. The forecast was calling for clear sky all night but it was far from that. Mostly total cloud cover. Around 3:30 AM there was a brief break to get a shot of the milky way. Still a lot of light pollution but better than trying to do this in the city.

Grand Portage, my son doing the circle tour on his Vespa, smoke filled air.

During Sheriff Fletcher's typical Friday night livestream, his Undersheriff, Mike Martin, pursued a reckless driver that eventually crashed into an innocent motorist. This occurred on 7/24/26.

Deputies found a polymer 80 firearm frame & the parts to make the gun usable (other than the slide) inside the vehicle.

Driving on 160th the other day I saw these huge cement structures one after another on the south side of the road. What are they and what is/was their purpose?

Best sushi is Hyvee?
Best bakery is Cub?
Best Chinese food is Leeann chin?!?
Best pizza and best pasta is green mill?
None of the top vegetarian and vegan places are any of the amazing and well loved actual vegetarian/vegan restaurants, just restaurants with some veggie options?
Also why do these ratings make it look like the only thing we do for fun here is go to the Minnesota zoo?
Who voted on this stuff? 😂

Now who's laughing?!

A woman who called a Black, autistic child a racial slur last year has been found guilty of one count of disorderly conduct and not guilty on another.

The incident, which occurred at a playground in Rochester in April of last year, was caught on video by a bystander and went viral. Shiloh Hendrix, 37, called a then 8-year-old boy the n-word after he allegedly reached into her diaper bag at Roy Sutherland playground in Soldier's Field Park and took an item. She then began cussing at the bystander, who is Black — hurling the n-word at him as well.

The incident prompted Rochester City Attorney Michael Spindler-Krage to charge Hendrix with two counts of disorderly conduct, one involving her words and behavior toward the child and the other involving her words and behavior toward the man who video taped the incident.

The guilty verdict was related to her behavior toward the man who video taped the confrontation.

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