avocados, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

perfecto avocados, 1932

spinks avocados, painted by amanda almira newton, 1917

Title text: "'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3167#Transcript

The nationwide strike coincides with the company’s popular holiday Red Cup Day, one of the coffee giant’s busiest days of the year.

I say this with all due respect, and maybe even a bit more respect than is due to your left-punching, pedo-protecting, fascism-enabling rag of a paper: Fuck all the way off and stop being a stain on the entire journalism profession.

Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!

We gotta abolish the Senate folks

I've started about 500 avocado seeds for this project, but this little seedling is pretty special. This was grown from the seed of the first (and so far only) avocado that has ripened on any tree in the project.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Ok that's it, Butlerian Jihad now

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

There is such a thing as a free lunch at the "sandwich guy" trial: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

My latest about contingency plans (or lack of them) for increased ICE enforcement and/or National Guard deployment in Seattle. If you've been hoping SPD might intervene on behalf of Seattle residents, you might want to read until the end.

Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is testifying in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman about the conditions inside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview. Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.

if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen

Puget Ridge Edible Park is a Seattle City park that for ten years has been developed and funded through the efforts of volunteers.

I'm sure someone else has mentioned this already, but does anyone else wonder if they are trying to spark food riots with the end of food bank support and food stamps? Miller, Thiel, Musk, etc., are accelerationists and that's certainly one way to accelerate things...

A momentous occasion for the project: seedling 666 has been added to the tree database! 😈 www.drymifolia.org/profile.php?...

Tonight I'm working on making a Halloween costume of my 4 year-old's second-favorite @benhatke.bsky.social character (for some reason she didn't want to be her favorite, which is the hill troll neighbor in Nobody Likes a Goblin)

Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.

Anyone encountering Greg Bovino out there in the wild please ask him how his balls are doing

This is definitely a joke, but

Rookie numbers, we can do better

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I just realized @noshu4me.bsky.social is on here (though not active recently?), so I wanted to say thank you for making my 4 year-old's favorite song, which she calls "the 'there was a time before the police' song" noshumusic.bandcamp.com/track/yeehaw...

Bruce Harrell’s budget is rage bait, as is his entire mayoral career

Can everyone please get your normie friends to join signal for this kind of thing? Apple, Google, and now Meta have shown they will not allow you to organize your community on their platforms

If the three shittiest right-wing organizations in the greater Seattle area are "a friendly audience" then #youMightBeMAGA

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Poosky for squatters

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Yep. I keep thinking of Mario Savio's speech at Berkeley back in the day about how we're going to have to throw our bodies on the gears of the machine. I feel like not enough people have internalized that yet, but it's coming.

"She didn't prepare and pass JumpStart! The council passed it!" As I've noted previously, this is the attitude of someone who thinks the guy who cuts the ribbon is the one who did the work.

Just a reminder to everyone who responds to reports of federal agents abusing people with "why hasn't the governor sent state police to protect them" . . . the state and local police will not protect you when they are called in. They will do this 👇

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

I am so tired of trying to find a posting app that doesn't self-combust due to shitty leadership making stupid choices and appeasing fascists

The tasting scores for this year are in: Twenty Ounce was the favorite, followed by Esopus Spitzenburg and Glowing Coal. Our next tasting is Saturday October 4th at the Orcas Museum (12:30-2:30).

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo. He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

ICE isn’t keeping us safe — it’s terrorizing families, jailing people without due process, and wasting billions that could go to schools, health care, or disaster relief. Cruel raids don’t make communities safer — they rip them apart.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

I genuinely enjoy reading the city's budget book, a high-level look at what our taxes pay for. Not very deep in yet and I've learned the budget adds $762,000 for expansion of the Joint Enforcement Team, recently in the news for raiding gay bars in search of "lewd" conduct.

Need a Monday pick-me-up? Here's what you get if you look up the Tesla showroom where we held Seattle's first #teslatakedown protests ✊🙌 Remember: Every act of rebellion pushes our lines forward. And you have friends everywhere.

the reason 'dont make deals with the devil' is such a ubiquitous folkloric motif is that you should not in fact make deals with the devil.

It's been awhile since my last avocado-related post, but for anyone in the project area (hardiness zone 8b+ Cascadia), I've got a bunch of seedlings that are overdue for distribution and planting. Slide into the DMs if you wanna join the project!