“Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear your technology cratered. Are you going to try using Actual Intelligence now? I hear it’s going to create a lot of jobs!”

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

Here's the voter fraud rate in WA elections from 2008-2025, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

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The ruling is a droll read. Here’s where RFK’s lawyers tried to argue that a CDC director could bypass experts and recommend “measles lunches” without facing judicial review … 😅

Meanwhile… We are getting our not-too-distant-future asses kicked hard.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

This is how I access Bluesky

The graph of my 401k over the last two weeks looks like The Wall at Kirkwood. Fun times.

Any fiber arts folks in the Seattle area should get the to the 1st and 2nd floors of the Burke! www.burkemuseum.org/exhibits/wov...

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate. Seething, roiling, white-hot hate.

Damn. My money was on this happening Monday. Whiplash.

Star fruit. I wish it were completely tasteless.

Here's the floor plan for the new ICE concentration camp in Georgia. Look familiar? Let's take a look at some similar blueprints throughout history.

Strøget story: Visiting, I walked through this one section several times, and each time was like “oof, a rat has died - the SMELL!” Then I got curious and looked for it. It turned out it was a cheese shop I was smelling! I dropped some coin. It was the yummiest stink ever.

Absolutely can confirm.

“Chicken milk” just doesn’t have the same ring…

Dooooo you have the time To listen to Trump whine About nothing and everything all at once? He is one of those autocratic tools Psychotic to the bone, no doubt about it!

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. Blade Runner, live, at the Seattle Symphony.

Slightly diminish a band: The Comatose Kennedys

So far, 2026 is aces. Family member’s dementia has gotten much worse & I finally got t2d diagnosis after being told it was an eventuality every 10 yrs (yrs of rlly bad hypoglycemia, then 2 diabetic pregnancies). Dealing with insurance prior authorization for meds & cgms, which has been an education.

Happy New Year! I am closing out the year with no more UFOs! Just need to bind the sleeves off and weave in the ends!

Hey Black spec fic authors! This includes indie/self-pub and KDP.

Dooooooooone! They fit perfectly. I have no idea how I did it. No pattern.

This whole *series* is absolutely fabulous!!!

Watching Scrooged (1988ish). At the scene where Bill Murray gets dumped by the Ghost of Christmas Present into the the sewer, and Bill Murray looks around and says, “What is this? Trump Tower?” lolololololol

Is Die Hard your favorite xmas movie but you are looking to shake things up? Try this!

Working on my socks. Stripes with some lacey type stitches, because why not they are MINE. There was no pattern. They are customized 20 ways to hell and back. Doing them “two at a time” on separate DPN sets, going between them by section or row as needed.

The Dude hat for hubby is wrapped, back to my socks. I am past the yarn break of the puppy vs. self-striping yarn, and the striping is matching nicely. Going to the Stitch rescue hour tomorrow to have a knitting guru tell me what 2@Atime sleeve methods I was using 2 or 3yrs ago when I left off.

Hey folks - if you want to gift some charity dough for Christmas, yo… you can’t do much better than the folks who are protecting your freedom, privacy, and rights.

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I fell off a ladder in August. The bill for the 1.7 mile ambulance ride is $4387.31. Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network. There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.

How many days left in this godforsaken year?

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

I looooove me a good editorial cartoon.

The Dude hat for hubby dude is cast off. Didn’t like the pattern’s crown design so I re-designed it, frogged it back, and redid it. Now I have to weave in all the goldarn ends and do a bit of blocking.

IT’S HERE!!! It’s here it’s here it’s here!!!

Making a Dude hat for my dude.

I know technically I shouldn’t start checking until Monday, but the 2025 Hater’s Guide isn’t out yet. ::sigh::

Conservatives can never again call themselves the party of small government. This is surveillance in depth, Big Brother.

At around 17m. Yes. None of what’s happening is American or conservative. When T saying he wants rule of law = “My word is law. I am the Party. Party rules.” His camp is so desperate to straight up use the Xi/CN/CCP playbook. Also he needs to be 25th’ed. He’s not running the show. Miller & Vogt are.

Damn. Now I want a holographic book cover.

Just a heads up to PNW folks. We aren’t out of the woods yet. It needs to start getting real cold, real fast. Ugh.

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Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

You will be visited by three spirits

Loyal to foreign interests… like Russia?