on a train, AMA

I discovered something tragic this holiday season. Costco apparently changed their men's merino wool socks to be a high-calf sock rather than a mid-calf sock and it has ruined something previously perfect. I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.

Genuinely curious what Gorsuch would think about federal officers/troops being deployed to arrest undocumented people living on tribal land.

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

when I'm working on a car, I 100% have more trust in the YouTube video from a shop with 500k subscribers and 20m views over whatever uncited gobbledygook that ChatGPT tells you to do.

Rick Steves 2028

One of my favorite scenes in Wake Up Dead Man is Father Jud saying to Blanc, "you’re setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ!”

Christmas music is the bestmest music.

there is a criminal lack of people acknowledging the perfection of the Star Wars joke in this movie.

We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I cannot, *cannot*, CANNOT recommend this movie highly enough. I very much want to talk about this movie with other folks.

Fast and Furious movies with other unhinged FF franchise fans. Avengers: Endgame. The Last Jedi.

"accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete" I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention. Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social

I'm almost old enough now to relate to Bob instead of Charlotte

it is still my opinion that the college football national championship is best decided by the Huskies beating Michigan or Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.

"A court that has embraced partisan gerrymandering is a court that has chosen to be political. So we will treat it as a political body, & will seek to use every power available to Congress to counter it. Including holding SCOTUS to Congressional oversight" Dems should be saying something like this

Working in my head around a Dem platform form 2026-28 and it's something like: - ban AI related layoffs - breakup media monopolies to restore choice and diversity for consumers - restore funding to PBS/CPB - aggressively prosecute elite corruption and tax fraud to lower costs for everyone

Whenever Five Iron resurfaces in online conversations I try to write something about how important this band is in the political awakening of so many progressive Christians and exvangelicals and I can never find the right words. They've been unapologetically who they are for 30 years.

oregano and ginger have been making big gains this year in my kitchen

Man on the Inside season two is an absolute delight and ends with one of the funniest jokes I've heard in a year.

The year is 2050, Bloomberg and NY Times op eds are full of doomerism about how when Millennials retire there will be no one left to convert Word documents to a PDF.

happy Saturday

I love Damian Lewis, but how do you cast Jonathan Groff in The American Revolution and not have him play King George?

Kids are asleep, wife is out watching Wicked, so you know what time it is? That's right, Ken Burns' The American Revolution.

I would like to share something. A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly

if you play Shine by Collective Soul loud enough you can hype the sun back into the sky.

nope nope nope nope nope

Made French onion soup for the first time tonight. very good but took sooooooo long. Next time I do it I'm going to cook the onions at a higher temp. I was worried about burning them and it took forever to caramelize.

thinking about really changing the mood at karaoke

still the MVP of my heart

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Casting Timothy Olyphant as Space Raylen was perfect for this.

Has your King County ballot been counted? Visit the link below to confirm your signature has been verified, and if not, what you need to do to cure your ballot. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Checking your ballot on the King County Elections site and making sure it wasn't rejected for a bad signature or other issue is important!

Understanding Seattle politics is making sense of Alexis Mercedes Rinck winning 80% of the vote and Bruce Harrell getting reelected. I'm not shocked by this. (Although Wilson is still within the margin for catching him as ballots shift left)

One year ago this morning I bought a Harris-Walz t-shirt in a naive moment of optimism. So basically this last year has been my fault. Anyway, today we begin anew again to make our country the best, most hopeful version of itself. Go vote.

Got my first tattoo today. Was a super great experience and I'm looking forward to building on it with more, meaningful images from my life.

timers are also super effective, for me. post election I went from doom scrolling to budgeting 20 minutes per day on Bluesky. I've upped that to 45 minutes because of sports, but I rarely hit that anymore. If I do reach the limit, Android turns off the app for the rest of the day.

Our Helpline already sees nearly 100% of our clients take some kind of food or calorie assistance, and we're not even a food bank. We're expecting a very rough fall as food assistance programs increasingly tighten or fail, and people have to look further and further to meet basic needs.

Rank Washington, cowards.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that to achieve left goals, we need broad coalitions. Part of making broad coalitions is believing that no one politician is actually that important--specifically in the sense that we don't need to protect people from the consequences of their actions.

Over the course of the season, it's plausible that Dan Wilson cost the Mariners enough wins that they lost home field advantage in this series. He very certainly cost them runs/games in the post season.

rude

In the old copy of NCAA Football for Xbox 360 I have, Lee Corso makes a joke about how if DB's could catch they'd be wide receivers and I think about that every time a DB drops an interception.

@marcwbaseball.bsky.social we're reminiscing on the discord, so I thought I would--at the end of another season--thank you for your contributions to the USSM/LL blogosphere that created a community for so many of us to pour our feelings into on a night like this. Feels good not being alone.

me, I don't have to worry about whether my favorite baseball team would accept a White House invitation, and I think that's beautiful

Mariners baseball isn't something to enjoy, it's really more something you endure in order to make great art.

The Seattle Mariners.