In case folks didn't know: This is also how Wes Anderson has been moving, lately. If you've been noticing Wes' last few movies have been EPECIALLY Wes Anderson-y? He has a patron. A billionaire who has basically said "I love your art, do what you want, I'll pay for it."

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez, Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE. GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.

As revealed at the Masquerade halftime, we are excited to announce our first four Guests of Honor for next year's #NWC49! Our Writer Guest of Honor will be Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social Our Artist Guest of Honor will be Todd Lockwood...(🧵1/2)

Okay PNW Native Plant Nerds: SER-UW is having an online sale next week (April 6th - 10th) and in person on April 19th. More info here: sites.uw.edu/seruwnursery... For visibility here are some Camas (Camassia quamash) starting to sprout in our yard!!!

SDOT is holding a virtual public drop-in session for the Western-Elliott repave a week from today. Let them know we need protected bike lanes! www.seattle.gov/transportati...

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

To add an extra layer, the thing about "Ring around the Rosy" being about the plague is metafolklore -- folklore about folklore -- and not a reality-based fact. So the thing that people were telling each other they knew was itself a fiction. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie I'm guilty and I won't deny That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place yeah I put them in my face and man, YUM, couldn't have enough 'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed, But you were breakfast saving, Your forgiveness now I'm craving

the accumulation of executive discretion as if it were a substitute for congressional legislation has, in immigration as in so much else, been kind of a shitshow

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Since people seem to be extremely into the horse-cake photo...here are his 30th and 31st birthday cakes, and a before-and-after of him eating a slice. There was always singing and sometimes balloons. He died just short of his 34th birthday, a good, long life for a horse. Give the horse cake!

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

This is Elon Musk’s tweet from Feb 3, 2025 Within 1 year after Musk did this, Dr Brooke Nichols’ model had estimated that 762,000 died as a result of dismantling USAID, including more than 500,000 children (www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/...) Musk’s legacy? Hundreds of thousands of tiny coffins

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

your first moment of calm: hummingbird! look at that color!

If you’re in Seattle, my solo show will be opening this Thursday night from 5-8pm! Come say hi at the J Rinehart Gallery in pioneer square.

Cascade's Pedaling Relief Project, which rescues and delivers food by bicycle to support Seattle food banks, is expanding to the Eastside thanks to a new partnership with Hopelink Bellevue Market. Learn how to volunteer for the first Hopelink ride on April 16. cascade.org/news/2026/04...

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.

Gov. Evers “vetoed five anti-LGBTQ bills targeting transgender and gender nonconforming youth on International Transgender Day of Visibility.” Evers “signed the vetoes in a private ceremony Tues. at the Wisconsin State Capitol, surrounded by LGBTQ kids, families, advocates and community members.”

gotta share The Tweet again

don't usually share substacks but this one feels important. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-trans-...

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

kw'diim üüla - hungry seal 🦭 (sticker design for the rest of march) #art #formline

art gallery: You finish that painting of Frodo and Gollum? Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

Ahead of the most important Link extension opening yet, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social, @kccclaudia.bsky.social, and many neighbors spent the morning dodging cars on the I-90 ramps this morning. We can and must build a safer environment for everyone, especially next to train stations.

This is pretty embarrassing for podcast Jay to admit. “My boss gives me permission to say the measles vaccine is vital in a closed meeting. I’m allowed to do that.”

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Students and Staff Are Concerned That Critical Programs Could Soon Be Cut

ok my new lock screen is doing a great job at pointing out my behavioral contradictions

“An entity that polices all.” This hits the nail on the head. ICE was just given orders to police everyone at airports—regardless of immigration status. That’s an expansion of ICE’s power and it won’t be an easy one to claw back.

I actually appreciate it when some influencer pulls up with "American food is full of GLOBALLY-BANNED CHEMICALS," because it's a quick, convenient way of letting me know they have nothing of value to say. Even the grift is on autopilot.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

"it was 60-40 against you, but by everyone leaving its 80-20 now" this is a huge misunderstanding of how X's algorithm works and the power Elon Musk has to manipulate it to his own ends. It's not a democracy, certain topics and opinions are pushed to the top and others are suppressed.

How to get disowned by your family. Available on Amazon for $13.94.

You can sign on to a letter to the leaders and board of SCC opposing the closure of the Wood Technology Center here by March 27: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey! You! Yes, you! Give this a shot! I'm currently on the Pedestrian Advisory Board and my second term is ending so I will be leaving shortly. It's been awesome and I think we've gotten some good stuff accomplished. Please ask me your questions about serving, if you're interested.

any ways, when she was AG Janet Mills actually took on Big Pharma, over the Opioid crisis, and won, she spent the money she won for Maine to get enough Narcan for every police and fire department in the state, and when the GOP Governor LePage wouldn't distribute it, she did, herself in her car.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Here is a close crop showing the details of the toucan’s eye. You can see a reflection of the rainforest there.

On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event

Yellowstone doesn't have many snake species, but there are a few around. This is the first one I ever photographed, the wandering garter snake. I've seen them a few times at this location (the edges of a small lake) since then. The park has one venomous snake—a rattler—but I have yet to see it!

African weaver ants, Oecophylla longinoda, showing the size difference among major and minor workers. The smaller ants tend to stay around the nest.

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

wisdom from a youtube video