"If we ever again have a foreign war it will be of our own making. And too strong to fear aggression, we ought to be too just to commit it" -Henry George

omg yall this is SO well done I only know Avatar: the Last Airbender because my kids have gotten into it, and I love it - the explorations of power, authortarianism, the urgency of liberalism and personal expression, and beauty... but Underhill here is so good at what she does!

This was the video that was sent out to all our precinct committee officers by an applicant for the (formerly) vacant county commissioner position. It was forwarded by one of the applicants, Tina Tate,* CEO of Skagit Habitat for Humanity. *Tate was not selected as the new county commissioner.

Since Deleted, but Billy1967 @wh67.bsky.social, a Englishman who posts almost exclusively in Cornish, has quite a history of *extremely racist and ecofascist* comments. A good one to block.

Futzing around and uploading weird things to iNaturalist - the gift that keeps on giving! In this case, the gift is a spider with the truly epic name of Taczanowskia waska, which *mimics* a spider parasitized by a fungus as a protective guise.

Isreal Cruz-Amado was kidnapped from Anacortes yesterday.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

First atlas of brain organization shows development over a lifetime - from birth to 100 years! The tour-de-force paper is here www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.

Speaking of animals, my Austrocactus hiberna flops around like it has a mind of its own. Every day, it looks different! It's just the weirdest plant (laudatory).

I have been giving a pair of crows a chunk of liver every so often. They came by as I was outside, and I told them I would go in and get them some. I place the liver in the customary spot and came inside to let them have their snack... to be trapped by yet another animal!

An excellent and extremely unfortunate review of windshield-brain in news reports. A driver, speeding and going the wrong way, flees the crash in which they critically injured one teen girl and murdered another.

"personal Gmail address"

SCIENTISTS SUSS SUSSEX SHROOM

Fossil capitalism is the ultimate Robin-Hood-in-Reverse, where the richest steal from the poorest, the present steals from the future and the tiny minority running our economic system confuse a doomsday machine for a treasure map. 1/8 🎁🔗 #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Now we go live to the Strait of Hormuz

56·5 km monorail line opens in Cairo https://www.railwaygazette.com/monorail-and-peoplemover/565-km-monorail-line-opens-in-cairo/70670.article

Check out this amazing Erythranthe monkeyflower. Miniature, clinging to bare rock. Finger for scale.

Dudes rock

isn't it amazing what you find digging through old News Papers

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

My sole complaint with Paris is that it’s so good that it’s my personal fruit of the fae and now that I’ve partaken of it, all other cities in the US will now taste of ash

Cool!

Every excuse used here is really just post-hoc justification because someone took the absolutely filthy deal of convenience at the cost of accuracy and honesty "I just use it for ideas", "I get references but check them", "I use it to edit the text" etc: it decays your work so badly for everything

ope, looks like Darth has come out of hibernation

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Guess the one single land use in San Francisco that has an off-street parking mandate

It's fine, the total collapse of the global economy means that iron ore doesn't need to be going anywhere anyhow

Cyclone Narelle is *nuts*

I also was just alerted of ICE activity in Anacortes. The school district sent out an email saying there have been "no confirmed reports of ICE or other law enforcement activity on or near school property" so that's relaxing

She chatted and sang the whole way home. I’m so happy this is the life I get to give her, it’s far too easy to loose sight of the little things ❤️

The widest part of a freeway passing through the heart of a city is antithetical to the very idea of a city. Throughout history, cities have located at natural chokepoints where the path terminates or narrows.

Dammit Cheese I need to *work*

"Come closer" "Ok!"

automobile-centric design is a prison

cringe, for lack of a better word, is good. cringe works. cringe cuts through, clarifies, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. cringe, its forms - in life, in money, in love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind.

lmao

Hahahaha hahahaha "man up" UFF DA what a complete pile of garbage

Don't worry, even if things end up a bit too heavy We'll all float on, alright

New paper finds that "inclusionary zoning" in NYC increased rents, especially rents in zones immediately next to where IZ applied, and my view is that the paper provides evidence that IZ actually accelerated displacement and gentrification in this instance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FLOATING TRAIN BRIDGE whooo-hoooo transit nerds, get ready for a week of Seattle-centric photos and videos

April 30, 9:30 am. Spring forum for the sexily-named Washington State Interagency Clean Energy Siting Coordinating Council! They want to hear from *YOU* about interests, concerns, and suggestions on clean energy siting/permitting. Zoom signup! wastatecommerce.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"The pink-hat-wearing liberal women who have marched consistently against Trump...are regularly discarded as “wine moms.' But this is wrong. Those marches mattered." Agree very much with @aselrod.bsky.social here: Wine mom politics is good.

Feb 26th 2026; the 30-year fixed rate mortgage survey rate reached 5.98%, the lowest rate since September 8, 2022. Then... the sky is the limit, I guess

Like, we all make jokes, but try to guess which one of these stations gets an average weekday ridership of 1663 and which one sees less than half that at just 605. Here is a hint: if you were guessing based on land use alone, you would guess wrong.

OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SAY X IS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM ITS NOT ITS THE SIZE OF PINTEREST BUT IF I WAS LIKE 'DEMOCRATS GOTTA WIN THE COMMENTS WAR ON PINTEREST' THEYD LOCK ME FUCKING AWAY

Calling them cookie monster lanes now, you can’t stop me

I DEMAND ALL IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES INCLUDE LOCAL GENUS TRIBUTES

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset