Standing #Amitabha (#Japanese: #amida), #buddha of the western paradise, 1200’s, Kamakura period, wood, polychrome paint, gold, crystal. #buddhistart #buddhism

oh so it was intentional. i take back any good faith hope. WOW.

Search engines are just totally useless now, huh?

But Hellenic stories *are* part of shared western cultural inheritance? To the point where for thousands of years they have been art subjects by non-Greeks and essentially parts of western education. The marble argument doesn’t work because these are not physical objects but ideas and narratives.

The Olympian has a story about Washingtonians fleeing to Texas and folks, we managed to offload talk radio host and one-time WAGOP chair Kirby Wilbur onto McKinney.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

I was curious about why Heather Mac Donald has a space in her last name, which I've always assumed was some old family thing, and it turns out that, no, that's something stupid she added to the surname herself and apparently has enough self-awareness to regret. Weird person.

I read the profile of Steve Hilton in the NYT yesterday, whom I knew nothing about, and one thing that stood out was that he was the godfather of David Cameron’s son who died in 2009, and yet Cameron felt such a deep sense of betrayal over Hilton’s pro-Brexit stance he has not spoken to him since.

Enjoyed (I guess?) the BusinessWeek cover story on Andy Jassy. It sounds like he has made things worse for employees by micromanaging and repeatedly reorganizing teams, while also cutting payroll. Not great for a company with notorious turnover issues, but a boon for shareholders I suppose.

𝐴𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝒉𝑎 𝐵𝑢𝑑𝑑𝒉𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎 𑐣𑐩𑑀 𑐀𑐩𑐶𑐟𑐵𑐨𑐵𑐫 𑐧𑐸𑐡𑑂𑐢𑐵𑐫 (Namo Amitabhā Buddhayā) written in Arabic script 🪷 #Calligraphy #Mahayana #MahayanaBuddhism #Nianfo #Nembutsu #Buddhism #JodoShu #JodoShinshu #AmidaNyorai

lol they're building an ayn rand museum in austin www.chron.com/culture/arti...

You should probably study theology and the philosophy of Christian religion before breathlessly quoting something as radical that is theologically sound and accepted. What he said is scary and wrong only if your idea of God is a cartoonish, child-like vision of old man sitting on a cloud.

Magic Wand ideas about government being unconstrained by reality to provide services feels more widespread now than ever. Someone in the Seattle subreddit suggested the county and state should buy the run down water park off of I-5 in Federal Way and operate it as a public park.

*reads a book about a religion for which a fundamental principle is a rejection of a permanent, unchanging self* Why is this guy talking about rejecting a permanent, unchanging self so much?

Reads like Clockwork Orange with a life-changing brain injury.

If the invite to your gallery show isn't giving ripped Ed Ruscha then I will not be reviewing.

Matt Walsh is on the case.

Chronicle with the quick Talarico endorsement. I don’t think endorsements matter a lot but this is a conservative editorial board.

I wrote a bit about the vagueness of the right’s objection to Talarico’s Christianity and no effort is really being made here to clarify that. Specificity is deflected by condescension, as if you, liberal, are too stupid to understand. Also, Talarico and Platner are quite dissimilar?

Claude Lemieux bearing the torch at Bell Centre on Monday and being found dead by suicide by his son this morning is some grim stuff. Just heartbreaking.

our economy is being artificially propped up by consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports

Saw him around 2000 with my dad at Jones Hall in Houston. Transcendent. Last of the giants.

Puget Sound Energy filed an interconnection request with BPA for a 958 MW data center at what appears to be the Goldendale site. If built, the data center could require ~80% of the 1,200 MW of energy the Goldendale pumped storage project could generate. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/25/g...

The komusō (“priest of nothingness”) were a group of Zen Buddhist mendicant monks who wandered the roads of Japan. They would play elaborate tunes on their bamboo flutes as they begged for alms, their faces (and thus, their ego) completely concealed by a distinctive hood woven from straws or reeds.

Annual visit to the Elks Temple for lunch after decorating the graves of some long-dead Swedes.

Went to thing at a museum last night in which a curator was speaking to a UW professor on Japanese Buddhism and art and I checked out when the professor called Buddhism a “polytheistic religion.” Proof that the Western lens affects academics, too.

It was certainly a week! In my newsletter, Kedits, I wrote about why I do things that seem futile, like telling House Republicans on the tax committee that they need to raise taxes. I also included my full written and oral testimony too. www.kedits.com/p/tax-subcom...

It’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which a non-Palestinian displaced person speaking about having to flee their home would be bombarded with criticism that they didn’t think about the context in which they were being thrown off their land. This is such a strange angle.

It’s funny that Trump and the GOP constantly accuse Democrats of importing their voter base through immigration and that is exactly what Trump is doing by restricting immigration to white South Africans.

The AWS CEO has a notably restrained view of the impact of AI on employment and sounds more skeptical about it than Jassy. He does concede that they will need fewer coders, though.

This was their brand ambassador.

A shuttered MAGA craft brewery wants $50 million from its haters in a lawsuit over hurt feelings. #craftbeer #armedforces #armedforcesbrewing #Norfolk www.jezebel.com/maga-brewery...

This guy is on so much gear lol

"recent estimates of the number of history faculty at two- and four-year institutions by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a decline of 16 percent from 2015 to 2024, and an analysis of full-time faculty listed in the AHA’s Directory of History Departments shows a decline of 13 percent"

this is not the case in washington state, where there is a legal decision that pushes a lot of tax dollars straight to teachers, but he left the state because he’s afraid of taxes

Watching Red Sun (1971) and one thing that strikes me is that Charles Bronson is actually chatty, comedic, and loose in this one. Toshiro Mifune takes the standard Bronson Western role as the quiet, stone-faced one of the duo. It’s an absurd odd couple movie but fun.

Discovering interesting subtext to the battle of Midway

Saw a carbon copy of my first car yesterday at Day Street Park. RIP to that car, it was so fun to drive.

homowack indoor ice rink, mamakating, new york, 1977

Pierce County Man

BROKE: It's anti-Semitic not to root for the OKC Thunder WOKE: The OKC Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland, in Seattle

Day Street Park is so funny, right underneath the I-90 floating bridge so you can relax and unwind or fish to the deafening sound of cars and trucks speeding above you.

WaPo had a “here’s a white rural Democratic candidate talking about how much urban Democrats suck” piece over the weekend and I wonder if Mr. Ager has considered the same (“insecurity and self-righteousness”) could be said of rural Republicans, and it would probably be more accurate.

the usuals are blaming this on made up stories about homeless people pooping in streets somehow contaminating lakes when in reality this happens every year and is because of goose poop and sewer outflows

Royal Crown Cola West Terre Haute, IN

KXLY has a piece about a conversation between former Governor Grégoire and former WAG McKenna complaining about the legislature making the state unfriendly to business and this quote is so dumb. It’s frustrating this gets picked up as Ex Dem Governor Speaks Truth About Party Governance.

@kagrox.bsky.social happened upon this on Instagram, apparently Eugene Delgaudio is still out there making friends.

They should do one of those Queer Eye shows for Seattle but just focused on the fashion aspect because this town needs help. Puffy coat with a suit jacket cut is the apex of this city’s lack of any kind of formality.

I think people should be more cautious of assigning motives to a murderer when it’s quite clear that said murderer was a deeply unstable and troubled person. In the probable cause document, another woman told SPD that the suspect followed her to her apartment and she ducked into the laundry room

I see we have a new “good lord, who is *this* clown?” WaPo video going around. Judging by their views and interactions here and on YouTube, Bluesky users are their target audience because it apparently appeals to no one outside of people dunking on them for being smarmy jerks.