"You crashed my party in your rental car...you'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars, and you deserve prison but you wont get time" Then you retreated back to Florida with your in-laws at Mar-a-Lago, but for that whole summer, we felt so Gatsby.

highlight of this week was meeting two online friends IRL, and after years of shouting "BE MY FRIEND" to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social thru the ether, I got to tell her properly how grateful I am for her work as someone who studied history (and unfortunately graduated right before the last Recession).

Q to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social at PDX book signing for Last American Road Trip: With the wealth inequality insulating the upper class worse than the Gilded Age, as well as the moat of the media surrounding them, how do we level the playing the field/close the gap? A: "Blame upwards."

y'all it's MARCH

I know, I know. With all the solar activity we've seen so far this solar cycle 25, and knowing that solar cycle 23 was reaching its peak february 2001, you know when Seattle experienced the Nisqually earthquake, I just am feeling something this March and April. It doesn't hurt to be prepared.

I'm sitting down now to watch the "Future of FEMA: Perspectives from the Emergency Management Community" hearing which was held yesterday by the Emergency Management and Technology subcommittee so I'll post some thoughts as I go along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGA6...

Washington State has had 9 earthquakes in a week and a half. I was in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, and it left a mark that makes me yell about preparedness this time of year. Washington State encourages residents to be TWO WEEKS READY in an emergency. Do it. www.2wr.org/home #WAEM #CERT #WACERT

I made a joke to my grandma about how I'm not even sure I was meant to incarnate here, and she agreed with me! She said, "You're probably right, because when you first came out you had this serious face studying everything intently like 'What even is this place?'"

Watched The Gorge and ~30min I say aloud "This soundtrack ROCKS!" Back in my livejournal era I participated in an Original Soundtrack page. Original scores are harder to find these days especially with full orchestration. And, of course #thegorge is by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Fuckin' ROCKS

Don't spend money on acts at bad venues. For example, I've never seen any show I enjoyed the experience of at WaMu Theater in Seattle. Ok, maybe the AFROJACK set at Jingle Bell Bash 2012 (lineup: Owl City, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, 3Oh!3). I love concerts and with how expensive: venue is key.

I feel proud to be a tarot reader that openly talks about our present fascism. On every level: physically, mentally, economically, and emotionally, it's point is to wear you down.

Preorder secured! Support your local independent book store and grab a copy. All of Kendzior’s books have withstood time (unfortunately fortunate), and this one is sure to be a time capsule of understanding the convergence of where we are in history.

As Toni Morrison said, "Goodness is... more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite. Evil really is boring. Sensational, perhaps, but not interesting. A low-level activity..."

After this winter storm on the Gulf Coast, I can already tell you the die off of flora is going to be brutal to see.

Have never seen anything by David Lynch and yet had a super vivid dream about him this past weekend. We went to a remote Norwegian themed folk cabin where it had an uncanny feeling that we were being watched. There were animatronic characters, and a Winchester-like layout.

Since that full moon in cancer strange dreams involving water, people from my past who have no presence now, and even strange allusions to blood and my Norwegian heritage.

I miss optimism most.

The hardest part of collapse is being unable to share the weight of your grief. The endurance. The compassion. The desperation for peace. Arduous. The magnitude of it all, I know all yall feel it too.

Oh, Virgin River with your messy timeline and overlapping drama, I can’t quit you.

Most underrated style of beer is a Cascadian Dark Ale or a White IPA. Most overrated HAZY IPA and any lactose.

Happy Winter Solstice! Start stretching for Spring gardening.

“I hope you are proud of all the times you said “yes” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.” Mr Rogers

What radicalised me? The opening number of A Muppet Christmas Carol, in which a rich man’s crimes of profiteering against the poor are clearly laid out and any arguments for sympathising with him are presented and immediately rejected.

My face every fuxxing day since November 5

Really gorgeous skies in #WWA #skypics

One of my fave underrated holiday movies: SERENDIPITY!

I’m always interested in collective dreaming - & I think this collective drone freak out - like the scary clown sightings of 2016 - speak to what the wider community fears & hopes for in this next era. The 1st Trump presidency was a Scary Clown presidency I wonder what these sightings presuppose

evergreen mood see also: "i hate it here so i will go to secret gardens in my mind"

When trump was elected the first time, I had hoped in jest that Obama would mic drop disclosure before inauguration. I’m realizing my prophecy may have been right, just the wrong term. I can’t imagine Biden neglecting comment or clarification on these UAPs for 6 more weeks.

All these drones got me thinking about the celestial battle over Nuremberg in 1561

I really really hope my secret swiftie likes their Swiftmas present!! I made this from A pic I snapped of the northern lights outside of mt rainier in May! I call it “Screaming at the sky”. Happy birthtay!!

if I hear SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL XMAS TIME I rage. Thanks mall life.

“conversations in the ruling class right now, probably" One million views, 200k likes, so far. Full video by cassiewillson: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY9yDCJ4/

In Seattle (10 yrs ago), we knew that the most frequent user of emergency services (cops, drunk tanks, er visits, etc) who was chronically homeless utilized over $1 MILLION in taxpaid services annually. It's cheaper to give someone a home (w/wraparound services), and resolves homelessness.

Young stars like Harry Styles and Taylor Swift have navigated a system designed to package their lives into marketable fairytales, from staged romances to sanitized public personas. annefaire.substack.com/p/the-ken-do...

I hate our current homogenization of beauty: same faces, same aspirational brands/style, same car body types (all streamlined, no distinct accents), body goals (resurgence of skinniness), etc. etc. There's no unique beauty beheld for its difference.

Once again, I express a huge debt of gratitude and sincerity to all the women, especially women of color, who carry our social services. Whether that's the USPS or DCYF, these people are more of service than anyone else, caring for our most vulnerable.

As I was sharing about public v private narration in Swift's work yesterday, Kendzior does it again! She explains eloquently about the reductivism of capitalism on identity.

The two albums that have aged best: evermore and fearless.

feel a little bad about being a few days late to ship for my Reddit Swiftmas present, and I also know good things are worth the wait because i'm real proud of my gift this year! another creation from one of my original photos, and the inspo was "screaming at the sky"

Reminder: Andrew Carnegie had a reputation as a sometime jerk, in his day, but... 1659 public libraries? 1400+ grants for community projects?

I wrote about Arctic permafrost loss for @cangeo.bsky.social back in 2019; at that point, I was told by several scienitsts I chatted with, the horizon for this particular geo-bio-clima-chemical advent was ~50 years. And yet, here we be, only 5 years later...

Dear Reader fans: consider Midnights' final track, and TTPD's The Manuscript. Swift's use of Dear Reader is to address both 'publically' and 'privately'. she's asking who are you to her when you listen to her music? Mick Wilson's "Dear reader: of private and public writing"

repost for a reminder. Meister Eckhart is one of my faves. i really do love and fuck with the medieval christian mystics. They were real progressives. Like Hildegaard who had visions of global warming? she knew humans were a virus.

Forget the numbers. The key things to understand about global temps are: 1. Homo sapiens (us) have never seen temps this high. 2. It's getting hotter, faster. 3. We're on track for collapse and mass extinction. 4. We could stop it, but Big Oil & govs are still making it hotter instead.

1.5c (what all the international agreements tried to curtail) is now in the rearview. we're on an accelerated journey to 2C and the tipping points are more and more apocalyptic and scary www.reddit.com/r/collapse/c...

with how crazy the ticketing experience was, as a debut/fearless elder millennial fan there was no way for me to afford to go. i was SO FUCKING lucky to win tickets on the radio over thanksgiving before tour started. however, my apple icloud account was scammed and i lost all my pics

the multiple years between seasons doesn't keep me engaged or inspired to rewatch. i'll be skipping Stranger Things 5. especially with the timeline for teens, I don't have any desire to see (married) young adults playing teens -- and it's just a really, really expensive fizzle.

Why do we keep using blurple instead of calling it what it is: indigo.