Ash Chudgar

@chudgar

Mongrel, plural being, neuroqueer husband, cat fan, antifa Minnesotan in ICE’s “little database.” Communication coach & consultant by trade. he/him or they/them. 👉 Help the #Minnesota15

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Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 2h

Jump scare! in my texts

A spam text: “Election Day is TODAY!
Minnesota voters are heading to the polls today, Tuesday, August 11, to vote in the U.S. Senate primary.” This beneath a photo of Angie Craig in a flannel shirt and Pete Buttigieg in a quarter-zip

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 1d

This is an excellent suggestion, it feels correct, but I have no idea how to act on it. I have never established dominance in my life. Indeed, I deliberately undermine my body’s culturally inherited dominance signals. I mean look at my beard! I can’t imaging intimidating a Bosch

A silly man shows off a beard braided into two ponytails, each tied off with a pair of clear ruby-red hair bobbles, of the sort a little girl might have worn in her hair in the nineteen worries

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 2d

In this NE Minneapolis house we vote @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social for Hennepin County Attorney. We need ICE to see and reckon with what they did to our neighborhood, in public, before the law. We believe Cedrick will prosecute our people’s case against the feds, and that’s why we are voting for him ❤️‍🔥

Orange daylilies incline their aureate gorgeouscups of sunlight toward a yard sign that says “PROSECUTE ICE VOTE FRAZIER / DFL & LABOR ENDORSED.” The lawn is immaculately edged. The edges are so tight you guys. Fuck ICE, vote Frazier

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 3d

On another topic entirely: you made me curious about aquavit, so I tried it. To be honest I found it very challenging 😥

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 4d

Beeswax · Aug 7, 2026 Top 4% today. Rarefied company. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 Completed in 28 seconds with 0 hints for 1,652 points spellbeeswax.com

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 10d

We had a slow day too, but I now realize we are really lucky in how our roof happens to be oriented

JULY 31, 2026
64°F

Energy Produced
4.9 kWh

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 10d

A bubbling visits @chugarden.bsky.social’s anise hyssop on a cool and rainy day

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 11d

Gasp! My brother in Christ your mustache is epic and I salute you 🫡

Man in sunglasses with a magnificent mustache

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 12d

May his memory be a blessing! Here are Mel and Vera, both of whom were very loquacious also

An orange cat and a black cat, brother and sister, cuddle each other and look up at the camera

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 13d

I need more people to play spellbeeswax.com, because there is no way I am actually this good a speller. I mean come on, I’m only half Indian!

Screenshot of the Beeswax app showing me at the top (?!) of the 30-day hall of fame. Worldwide!

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 14d

Holy buckets, what! I went to her website to confirm, and golly, here he is. I’m flummoxed by this. He was a legit community hero during OMS! I can’t believe he’d endorse the only DFL federal legislator who who voted to support ICE not once but twice! 😧

Screenshot from https://angiecraig.com/endorsements/ that lists “State Rep. Brad Tabke” as an endorser with a white checkmark in a red circle

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 17d

We wanted a quiet fan for the bedroom. We found one at Costco; it arrived today. The reviews did not prepare us for this behavior AT ALL

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 23d

Friends! Who is this white-petaled caterpillar?

A creature that looks like a small worm with white petals makes an arc on top of a rudbeckia seedhead

The same creature seems to strand on their head and tail in the shape of a tall upside-down U

Same creature, flower-pedaled, more recumbent

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· 26d

(smoking on the patio) I’ve spent the last 30 years training for this

Screenshot from a weather app, visualizing in lurid magenta blob of Smokey air above the Twin Cities. “My Lication” OSS labeled 185

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jul 11

Look at these impossibly tiny backyard animals IF YOU DARE

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jul 6

"Women quickly learn that rape is a crime only in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. That level turns out to be high indeed." — Judith Herman

Text of post, with photo of the cover of the book from which this is quoted, *Trauma and Recovery*

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jul 3

The United States has pretty much declared war on the state of Minnesota. That’s how I know I’m a Minnesotan first ❤️‍🔥

A Minnesota state flag with the eleven-stripe Pride colors in place of the sky-blue field waves in the breeze In front of a house in Northeast Minneapolis

A Minnesota flag snaps in a frigid winter wind as tens of thousands gather on the steps of the state capitol in February 2025

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jul 3

“They want obedience at all costs.” — absolute legend Cal Robinet, who does not obey ❤️‍🔥 You can help fund Cal’s legal fight against the fascists! Chip in to the #Minnesota15 legal defense fund right here 👉 chuffed.org/project/1865...

Union electrician Cal Robinet, a white man with a full brown beard streaked with silver and wire-rimmed aviator-style eyeglasses, says: “They want obedience at all costs. They just love that shit.”

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 30

🚨 Emergency cat if you need one

An orange cat presses herself tummy-first against a window, displaying her pink toes and nose

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 20

You guys!

Hand pointing to a dime-sized hole in a Rubbermaid trash-bin lid

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 19

Yowza

The broad leaves of a southern catalpa from below, perforated by quarter-sized hailstones

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 19

Yikes. Never seen hail like that before. Watch and man-hands for scale

A man shows two large hailstones that are bigger than his watch face

A man holds five hailstones bigger than grapes in his palm

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 16

Good idea. Cheers

Person raises a can of Hamm’s in solidarity

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 8

look at what’s become of me. This song is addictive. I’m listening to some guy at a wedding sing it now youtu.be/DxcTzl5WV6Q?...

A guy at a wedding (Mario Toricella) singing “Piazza Grande” in a crisp white shirt

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 8

Help! This song is so catchy it has driven me insane. I’ve been listening to it for an hour. BEWARE #piazzagrande youtu.be/dXj7WVv-73c?...

Screenshot of an album cover in Apple Music, showing a man with a robust ginger mustache and hair smaller a green-and-red color-field background. Text says, “TOMISLAV IVČIĆ /
GIRO DATALIA TALIJANSKA PLOČA /
Piazza Grande”
Tomislav Ivčić

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· Jun 5

I think it would be more fair to swap, like this

A map showing Alberta as a U.S. state and Minnesota as a province of Canada

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· May 30

“‘moral sentiments’ driven by sympathy and imagination are … reframed as what would today be called economic incentives, the whole synthesis a virtuosic meditation on the problem of interpersonal coordination on the scale of society writ large.” 🥹💯❤️‍🔥

“understanding other people is not a matter of simply observing them and running moral arithmetic, but of imaginatively and uncertainly entering their situation and attempting to feel the forces that act upon them. For Smith, this idea would form the basis for his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations (1776), where those ‘moral sentiments’ driven by sympathy and imagination are now reframed as what would today be called economic incentives, the whole synthesis a virtuosic meditation on the problem of interpersonal coordination on the scale of society writ large.”

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· May 27

I heard today that former Chief O’Hara is known to frequent leather bars in Jersey. I find that too on-the-nose to be plausible, but—? Has anybody else heard this rumor?

A flamboyantly muscular police officer in a too-tight blue uniform shirt walks past an American flag with his police under his vast arm

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· May 27

The mayor hired a police chief who flamboyantly presents himself publicly as the “police chief” from a porn movie, and now he’s all shocked! at the sexual misconduct

A ridiculous little mayor in a big-boy suit and tie and a woman in a navy suit flank a cartoonishly roided-out police officer in a painted-on blue uniform

Ash Chudgar@chudgar· May 27

Ope indeed! Alt text here of the letter from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to Chief of Police Brian O’Hara: