Water lillies 🌱 #MagentaMonday #Bloomscrolling

The Skykomish river, just down the hill from us, is less than a foot from record flooding.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

I knew about parhelion, but paraselene!? It's such an honor to learn a new phenomena, and a gorgeous one at that.

2020 Old Reliable from @white2tea.bsky.social pulling me gently into consciousness on this extremely cold morning.

Rivers and Lakes Iron Arhat is a traditional style rock tea, and also very enjoyable. #RockTea #YanCha #RiversAndLakesTea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @riversandlakes.bsky.social

Day 5 is Hatters tea. Cinnamon forward black tea with cranberries and Anise. I could smell the strawberries when I opened the package but otherwise it smells like Christmas. Cream balanced it out to a tasty cup. The Strength of the Few continues being my soundtrack. #booksky #teasky ☕️🫖🍵 💙📚 🎧📚 🪐📚

#teasky #oolong

Wow the Dutch go...extremely hard

A billion sprinklers just so summer can cosplay as spring.

@chucktingle.bsky.social is coming to Seattle! we are prancing with excitement!

Good morning !

Their first album cover?

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

sandwalking for the dunes of an AI world...

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

I've read autists tend to shorter lifespans. I'd thought the interestingness of this life a more than fair trade. Then this: www.psypost.org/scientists-i... "People who could quickly name animals or words beginning with a specific letter tended to live significantly longer"! Oh baby.

all the lightning strikes in the Seattle area in the past five minutes! I have one neighbor laughing hysterically at every strike. And a child nearby screaming at every strike. The duality of man

Lighting over Seattle tonight #wawx #wx #seattle

I mean really...

The new #AlphabethCallenge is #WeekLforLyrics Smashing! Here we go with „She's A Rainbow“, using a little #Bluesky and a wonderful parhelion. If you insist, I can also come up with a real rainbow.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

People just need to assume that all those things are always listening to everything you say, you can’t trust any of these companies

Over and over again, we don't have to live in the twisted system in which we're currently soaking. Enshitification has been a factor for a very long time. youtu.be/W-gdHrINyMU?...

"blah blah waaaah why don't we have flying cars yet" fuck you where's my contrabulous titty-propelled honkamajiggle suit

"The Gulf of Empathy," (11 x 15) watercolor, mixed media, pen and ink on paper.

As always, @aoc.bsky.social knows the assignment.

This is good. And people need to stop saying “oh this won’t help anything, because he’ll just do that OTHER bad thing instead.” Nope, that’s obeying-in-advance talk. All decent people need to refuse to do what fascism asks of them, even if it won’t single-handedly end this regime

Brilliant.

What if fascism is just bad and your moral obligation to fight it is not in any way diminished or altered by what The Left did or didn't do?

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

The case for indoor hats in one photo

Spent the morning shoveling snow with my kid. We talked about how--because the world is increasingly stupid, unkind, and selfish--we need to work hard at being curious, kind, and helpful to others. Even if we're just starting with shoveling the walk for our community.

Dyed silk

as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park

For reference, this is the set of menu options (under Admin Console > Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace) that SHOULD be available for everyone but are not.

[walking into a video store in the 90s] Hi my kid is having a sleepover what do you have where Tim Curry exudes an age-appropriate amount of sexual menace?

US news outlets will be reporting that "per CDC data, Covid is at its lowest levels" and framing as if the virus is gone. But if 2024 levels now = 0, then it's a year with 6-9 months at winter surge levels. Think about what it means if CDC hands the new administration data showing "no Covid."

In sadness over the demise of TikTok I would like to share some of my favorites with you.

David Lynch 💔

OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her. www.404media.co/why-this-onl...

By exploiting Adobe Acrobat's robust support for JavaScript, one coder has managed to get Doom up and running within the usually static confines of a PDF file: arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/... [📸: Ading210]

Immigrants are saving the dogs! They're saving the cats! They're saving the homes of the people who live here!

Photo I just took of Mars setting behind the Moon

Radon xkcd.com/3037

@harpicus.bsky.social For your sartorial mood board?

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote. This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities. #StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d