I don't know who needs to hear this but lick all the peanut butter off the utensil before you put it in the sink

Did you know that as head of state, threatening war crimes IS a war crime?

Gotta love David Byrne using Minneapolis footage of ICE during his show: Life During Wartime: youtu.be/Kn1vsMJk260?...

So…as established, my little old house is gently haunted. I don’t generally go out of my way to “catch” the ghosts, but one night I heard the weirdest, quietest breathing right. behind. me. Slowly, I reached for my phone…and without turning around to eyeball the pervy spook, I took this selfie 👇

That's the problem though. One thing the web did for twenty years was show us that animals sometimes behave in ways we had no idea they did or could. Then around the time AI video arrived, they started jumping on trampolines and twerking to the TV; a useful window is closing.

Walking around my place, pondering where might do justice to tea steam photography...

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all. The system does not hold people accountable.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Sure, I've worked hard for decades to get here; but I still feel blessed and humbled that this is my yard now.

I do this with balls of yarn too.

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 ☕️🫖🍵 💙📚 🎧📚 🪐📚

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."