Mariah Buckner

Mariah Buckner

@mbee.bsky.social

👨‍👩‍👦 📍Iowa Omaha native who is never going back. Views are my own.

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I’d like to implore that songs and podcasts refrain from including sirens as part of their audio landscape/ background. Many are listening while driving and it’s needlessly anxiety-inducing to start mapping out where you’re gonna pull over only to realize the siren isn’t IRL.

BRR ride done! 24-ish miles w/ shitty headwind. Bonfire at midpoint between Perry and Rippey produced a lot of ash. Dumping my dark stuff (coat, mid layer, leggings, & wind pants) straight into the wash. Now I look like Winnie the Pooh with no bottoms and a tiny shirt as I start the washing machine

I had this for 2025 thru Surest. It was pitched to us as “having skin in the game” and “shopping for the lowest-priced provider.” No, I want to go to *my* clinic and keep records with one entity! I’m not shopping around when I feel like shit (luckily acute illness, nothing serious, but STILL!)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."

It rained on me on the last mile of my trip home from Costco. There’s a 33 lbs bag of Traeger pellets in that box on the rear rack. Holy crap is it humid out there, too. My phone says 77% humidity.

It’s been great seeing all the bikes being used as transportation while in the twin cities area these last few days. Also used the light rail to get to the art fair. I can get to a lot by bike from home, but not nearly as easily as it seems to be for MPLS/StP folks.

Had to copy some “Disclaimer” text into a work project and immediately read it like the first track on The Offspring’s album Ixnay on the Hombre. My brain is pickled in dated references.

I went looking for the AC adapter for my muscle roller and could NOT find it. Saw a cord with a similar end but it didn’t fit. I’m tearing my house apart trying to find this damn cord. Finally realized the black box labeled “CHARGER INSIDE” was what I needed. It was right next to the power strip

where I’d looked like 5x. 🤦‍♀️ There was, indeed, a charger inside. If it was a snake it would have bit me. Guess I was envisioning a cord to find, not a box ~with~ a cord.

I really wish tv writers would do a basic search of geography. It’s jarring to hear “they’re headed north on I-90” when they’re supposedly in rural Nebraska. - even-numbered interstates run east-west - I-90 doesn’t go through Nebraska. I get that it’s not crucial to the arch of the story.

This is amazing! While I am frustrated by the goings-on of the past week, I hope that voters there were connecting this chaos to Rs and voting against the party.

Zachary Oren Smith@zacharyos.bsky.social

ZIMMER WINS 35 - Iowa Democrats picked up a seat in an eastern Iowa special election tonight. Local School Board President Mike Zimmer of DeWitt carried a Trump +20 district. The vacancy was left by Republican Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer.

First ride in a month! It hovered right around freezing and the wind picked up a bit on the return leg of my ride. Excited to get back out there. This is the gravel connection between Great Western trailhead and the Bill Riley trail.

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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry (photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)

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Walz talking about gun suicide, for just a second there, is the first time I’ve heard a politician make that crucial point on this kind of stage. Amazing. “Sometimes the gun is the problem.” (Suicides make up over half of all gun deaths in America, and have for a decade at least.)