Sinking into the weekend like

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it): Not the best photo but a favorite & technically taken by my Mom. My Mom let her cockatiel, Tweetie, out to fly free often, so Derwyn decided the best way to "make friends" was to climb in her cage and wait . . .

Much better. #mountainsout

This is Lady and Albi. I visited their tiny human sibling who is also my niece and they followed me around all week moaning how their Mom and Dad have been neglecting their original fur babies in favor of the new squirmy, furless baby, and I am apparently an ally b/c once I brought them treats.

Don't know a ton about it other than a friend has a studio there so I've walked around the building a bit, but Seattle turned a former INS building into studios for artists. There's plaques etc explaining the history throughout. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tra...

I don’t post often, so when I get a new follow, I assume it’s a follow to get a follow back account. And that’s almost always the case. But how do you follow 666K accounts? Like, I mean physically, how does one manage to do it? A bot? Starter packs? What's the point?

I can’t remember when, but there was a moment when I realized the little boy fantasy of being a hero was selfish, main character bs. Because in order for someone to be a hero, someone(s) else has to suffer some kind of trauma, and that trauma wouldn’t just disappear after you heroically save them.

My Mom taught 2nd grade in Chicago, and I got to join one of her field trips to the then still-operating Hostess factory in Schiller Park where the Twinkie was invented, with a stop at the factory outlet store at the end. A year-end treat for the kids, lit-rilly.

Heading into the weekend taking the long way home past the scary Jesus. Sail on, so long. youtu.be/NLyHY00D_W4?...

All this legal pot just makes me a little sad that it's RIP to my gf & my inside joke(courtesy of Evan Dando*)about pot smell: "Smells like San Francisco."

Last night's not-full moon, since tonight the full one is going to be hiding behind clouds. #photography

Planned to go look at the moon this morning but it got foggy as soon as I got outside so ended up here instead. #photography #mountainsout

Hearing loss be damned, it is impossible to play this song too loud. Fine, it’s about a someone’s manicpixiedreamgirl. It was the 90s, who didn’t want a girl who knew she was able to fly because when she came down she had dust on her hands from the sky? youtu.be/DVxifRwvQ30?...

Trying my darnedest to listen to music not podcasts while I sit working my boring job. Actual full albums too, not just streaming algo playlists. I really wish I could make time to just sit and listen to an album at night, give it full attention, like reading a book, but I also like reading books*.

I do take pictures of things aside from Mt Rainier, but the sky has been doing cool stuff in the morning all week, so. #photography #fujifilm

North Lake Union and the waning moon over downtown Seattle. #photography #fujifilm

Sun came out today. The gods are pleased with the results of the football match, obviously. #photography #mountainsout #fujifilm

Mt Rainier popped out for a bit this morning. #photography #mountainsout

Peaceful Piggies. Adventures of Sam Pig. Often find found art on this little stump. #photography

Waiting for Mark Z to describe Ilhan Omar as badass for walking right at her assailant ready to pop him, just like he said tfg was a badass for surviving an ouchie he may or may not have gotten on his ear.

Last time the polar vortex hit Chicago(2019, the -27F one)my Dad died a week later. Unrelated but it was fun coming up with non-discomfort inducing answers when people saw my WA ID & asked what the heck I was doing there. Anywho fingers crossed the vortex didn’t return to finish the job with my Mom.

First time I heard about exploding trees was in the 2nd paragraph of Blue Highways, where William Least Heat-Moon used it as a metaphor (analogy?) for his disintegrating marriage.

1/Took a tumble off my bike this morning. Riding south on the Burke-Gilman Trail, thru the S-turn where it crosses 6th Ave NW. It was 6am & no one else was around so I tried to take a nice, smooth line. It was cold enough the pavement was potentially black icy so sharps turns = not ideal. #bikesky

The mountain was out this morning and I was back down by the water, hoping the sound of waves would calm my mind. #photography #fujifilm #pnw #longexposure

Spent the weekend at a place with no tv, no internet, no cell service and unseasonably perfect weather. Yesterday morning I was stood on a beach under a sky full of stars on the western edge of American 2 hrs before sunrise, taking photos, catching a shooting star. #photography #fujifilm #sunrise

If you don't support equal rights for everyone, you don't support them for anyone, you & yours included. As I've had to say w/increased forcefulness to people I know considering going squishy on trans rights b/c "it'll make D's more electable." I hope nothing bad happens to this lady, but JFC.

Stuff from my home, not in my home. See alt text for details. #photography #stuffinmyhouse

(late posting) Ballard Locks, New Year's Day morning. #photography.

Looked up yesterday morning and saw the moon for the first time in a while. #photography

Peace. #photography

Back of an Uber, some suburban road somewhere, in the dark, Christmas lights reflecting in a retention pond, Piano man cross fades into Don Maclean, on the way to pick up a rental car so I can drive to Iowa. The holidays just means driving between places in the cold.

Our Charlie Brown tree. I found it a few years ago sitting on the curb with a "Free" sign tacked to it. After 4 days unclaimed, I claimed it. Someday when I'm ready, I'll take it into the mountains somewhere and plant it.

The Needle's lost its head. Lovely morning for a ride after returning home from our Thanksgiving trip, checking the model number of our Radpower battery, and finding it isn't one of the ones that might explode. Small victories. #photography #bikesky

h/t @seattlebikeblog.com This sucks because of the danger, and because Radpower is probably going out of business, so not sure if it's worth replacing the battery. Love our Radrunner Plus, made my gf a bike rider, got 5 years/ 8k+ miles out of it, and now it's probably bricked.

Had a moment this morning when I was worried I was about to find out why it's called a "murder of crows." That sound they make when they all take flight . . . three joggers and I spent just stood there watching in awe. Nature in the city. #crows #corvids #birdsky

I’ve had both my original outbound and return flights cancelled this week. but I figured it was a small inconvenience if it meant people got to keep their healthcare. I guess all this was for nothing then. Fuck the cowards.

Sex pest, killer of grandparents, racist, sore loser, entitled nepo, scofflaw. As a former NYC dweller, it was a nice coincidence to be back visiting the city and getting see this absolute tool of a human get his ass handed to him. To quote Nelson Muntz “Ha-Ha!”

Red sky at morning #photography

If $25/year is too much, no worries. But for a lot of us, ~$2 is doable. Then pay Flaming Hydra $3/month & you get a bunch of great writing for $60/yr. I like pubs that are either collective or can pay freelancers. Assigned Media, Defector, 404Media & Welcome to Hell World are great too.

From a foggy morning. #photography

Listen man, if a transphobe or a nazi wants to vote to stop the fascists go for it. But if you think fascism is a lesser evil than trans people existing, if imposing your bigotry on everyone trumps every other value you hold as the condition for your vote, well then fuck off. Fix your heart or die.

Rain damped morning, Discovery Park, Seattle. #photography

Oh well, Mariners. Not my team, but living here the excitement of the fans is a lot of fun. I didn't live in Chicago when the Cubs won, so I hope the Mariners win & I get to experience the second-hand thrill of it. That looks more like Supersonics green to me tho. Maybe my WB is off? #photography

Finally watched the John Oliver piece on the new head of CBS News, who I'd never heard speak. The unearned self-regarding smugness that just oozes from every word . . . dear god. Just the immature teenage belief that no one has ever thought such profound thoughts before. A caricature of a person.

Space Needle. I don't really like it when it's light out at 5am in June but 730am sunrises are also just kind of silly. The sun should come up between 615-630am all year. #photography

Let's get this party started. iykyk.

Up a steep mountain path, rocked and rooted, a night to lay under the stars and mooncast shadows, the faint drifting smell of wildfire smoke while you drink red wine out of a plastic bottle and forget for a minute the person you were even existed. #photography

Slightly off-topic but I learned the correct pronunciation of the German writer Goethe riding the 151 in Chicago back n' forth between Buena Park and Borders store #58 not long after graduating college.

Well if the Cubs lose today at least I won’t have to find out which of the guys seems a little too excited (a la Aaron Judge) to meet the president. A meaningless but still shitty thing about These Times is your championship winning team visiting this White House. Takes the shine off a bit.

Wet pavements season is upon us. #photography #fujifilm