As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.

Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

For all of my fellow small biz owners who are against the Amazon “Buy for Me” agentic AI program:

Shopify announced yesterday that they are auto-enrolling all of us into their AI “Agentic Storefronts” starting 1/26.

We have to go in after the 1/26 rollout and opt-out if we don’t want to partake.

Literally anyone: how’s it going?

Me, a small business owner in 2025:

Leaning into false spring here in central MD. 🌞 gimme more sun!!

Pancake still doesn’t fully understand snow (he’s from TX), but he does love eating it.

Pls share pics of your critters in snow. 🥹❄️

IG and threads is down so I just remembered Bluesky is a thing! Hi friends!!!

Hoping I can show up more consistently over here after the holiday season small biz chaos dies down a bit. 😅

Greetings, friends. 👀