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The President is a crook —and everyone should understand, when it comes to FEMA, these are taxpayer dollars he’s abusing, this isn’t Trump’s money. Trump is punishing Blue states and rewarding Red states—and he could not be more transparent about his corruption.

I am not doing enough but I did this #BlueskyArtShow #vertical #nokings #olympia @olyindivisible.bsky.social

Gosh those things are small

Set them down and was struck by the pattern

Charlatan = faker, quack

“miserable, hate-filled wretch” I like how my Senator characterizes people honestly and openly. And how she keeps directing the conversation toward better alternatives than the current administration’s operating mode.

Shadow selfie at Hanwoori Garden, which opened in Federal Way, Washington, in June 2025. The space is impeccably designed, expertly crafted, and warmly inviting. It is the first traditional Korean garden in the state. Find it adjacent to Panther Lake.

Startling conclusion ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #1515

Aptly named dragonfly: common whitetail #odonata

⬜️⬜️⬜️🟨⬜️ 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interesting shapes 13: Valley. Wordle 1500

“SeaHorse” by Ben Dye, constructed from repurposed above ground oil tanks, installed in Covington, Washington in 2014 (2009).

“Unit 77” King Street Station, Lumen Field, and a touch of T-Mobile Park in the distance beyond a Seattle Fire station.

Heard 4 stations on TEVEL2-3 but 5W to an Arrow was insufficient for me to break the squelch on a 35° pass 🙁

It is Suchitra Mattai whose show is nearly done. Hurry. Really. Get to SAAM.

Ai Weiwei’s “Water Lilies,” on view for 1 more day at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, is almost 50 feet long and contains 650,000 toy bricks.

Tinkered with the @11ty.dev import feature along with both blogger and bluesky this morning. Learned a little but successes fell short.

Setting down the Arrow after a couple of passes. CQd through MO-122 but no CW takers. Worked 3 on AO-91. #hamradio

Wordle milestone reached at number 1480. Played about 150 games before this set, but the stats mysteriously disappeared. My average hovers around 3.9. Thanks for the fun, @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk

Fun shapes returns. I blew through 19 letters on this one. It was frightening. ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,475

Saprophytic

I’ll take this to be a fine demonstration of Morse code advocacy, even though that’s not what they meant. #hamradio

#BlueskyArtShow These steps were added to Robert Morris Earthwork (1979) at Johnson Pit No. 30 in Kent, Washington, to help prevent erosion. Yes, they are #narrow. FMI: preservewa.org/most_endange...

Detail from a mural, at St Helens and S Baker in Tacoma, by Natalie Oswald and Joel Barber, made as part of the Tacoma Murals Project. #crow #corvid

My father when he was just a little more than half my age. Time flies.

Positive vibes in Oly today

It’s not just @npr.org and @pbs.org — the Corporation for Public Broadcasting supports myriad other stations, including the inimitable KEXP. Support @djjohnrichards.bsky.social and DJ Morgan in the final hour of their historic marathon at kexp.org.

“Make your world larger… by going slower.” This detail is from a statue, in Issaquah, Washington, of Harvey Manning, lifelong hiking advocate, who was instrumental in preserving wildlands within urban King County. The statue was created by Sara Johani and Tom Jay. It was dedicated in 2009.

Agreeing, as so often I do, with the senior Senator from Washington State. Deploying the National Guard was wrong. Sending Marines is wrong. The dictator wannabe is so fixated on finding enemies he will invent them to fulfill his strongman fantasies.

Too hot, revisited #BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant

Too hot for this today #BlueskyArtShow #vivid

Whose bench is this?

Truer as modified #PDX ABC

PNW forest beauty

Into the void, angel aka F-winged Barklouse* flying from my knee *If the @inaturalist.bsky.social AI ID is 2B believed #BlueskyArtShow #texture

USGS Bird Banding Lab (and other programs) in danger? May 22 at 9 Pacific, join me and NWF for a “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science.” www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

Greens are good for you

Fantastic mix on The Afternoon Show with Larry Mizell, Jr., who with other KEXP DJs is honoring Brian Eno on his birthday

Day trip to Seattle Center for a King Hannah appearance at KEXP And a periodic reminder 🦋

#cocorahs rainfall for April was 1.83", enough to keep the grass growing and green

This is a test @scottxot.bsky.social

Spring colors in the PNW

Projecting incompetence is a requirement in this administration

Something goes wrong every time but they’re still great to have around #homebaked #bagels

Tahoma Periodic reminder 🦋

Cornelia Cupp delivering a lesson on convergent evolution? I wanna go birding with Uzo Aduba. 🪶

@50501movement.bsky.social is in Washington

As I drove I listened to @npr. Scott Simon and Chuck Schumer. About the book. Antisemitism in America: A Warning. I parked and started my walk in the woods, hoping the rain would hold off. Within minutes I came upon this scene. Damn.