I'm looking to hire somebody to come demonstrate a cocktail and mocktail or two for a small, informal gathering of board and staff, in our office kitchen. Is this a service that people provide? Do you have any recommendations?

Rest in peace and power, Reverend Jackson. “We, the people, can win! We stand at the end of along dark night of reaction. We stand tonight united in the commitment to a new direction. 1/6

I obviously care about this protected bike lane, but also just in general: we need statehood for DC.

Curl! Curl! Curl!

Quick trip to DC, but it fell during #DCtransitBingo week, so I made a run at it. I'm gonna count the "advocate for transit" square because I took transit to talk to Senator Cantwell's staff about Sound Transit, but I also have WMATA advocacy in my heart.

Hell of a thread…

We’ve all had days where we’ve woken up, forgotten to brush our teeth, and closed all El Paso airspace for an hour instead.

I may be doing the currency conversion wrong, but I don’t think a lawyer and accountant are a working class family.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Here is my finished Bad Bunny Board. From top left: 🍕 pizza empanaditas 🥪 sandwichitos de mezcal 🍢 pinchos (of tofu and piña) 🍌 maduros with cilantro crema 🫘 mini mofongos with frijoles

Hey, voters in (most of) Seattle and Vashon: the 100% on-line election for King County Conservation District 3 seat is happening now through Tuesday at 8:00p. If you’re a voter in the dark blue zone of this map, you can read candidate statements and vote here: kingcd.org/about/board-...

The NBC/Peacock coverage of the #olympics is annoying. An event will show the “live” icon, but after selecting it, you just get served commercials and then an interminable “this event will resume shortly” screen.

I’m so tired of having Ralph Lauren always design our #Olympics garb.

New dog just dropped! Phoebe Waller-Bridge/Bridgers Zimbabwe is pleased to introduce you to her new brother, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. Odie.

Our family’s Super Bowl tradition is that we each make a food board of some kind (dumplings, tacos, cookies, etc) and we all graze off those all afternoon. This year, the 13yo suggested that we declare a game-related themes for our boards and I can’t tell you how quickly I claimed Bad Bunny Board.

We have the dumbest ever federal housing policy right now. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

*return of the measels* *secret police that target elementary schools* *billionaire sex trafficking ring* Republicans: this is fine, ideal actually Trans person: *exists* Republicans: won't somebody think of the children 😡😭

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

If you still have a chance to see Train Dreams on a big screen near you, run don’t walk. What a beautiful film.

What exactly does the New York Times think the Beastie Boys’ license allowed them to do?

Seahawks Fever has gone inter-species: here is a crow playing with an abandoned football in the parking strip in Capitol Hill.

The work that people do to *other* a person who might earn less than them is staggering.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

"It was the most beautiful music on earth, sung in a vile place.” Damn, this obit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Local government buyouts of this stock make a lot of sense at this time of high interest rates, especially from small, individual owners with narrow margins to begin with. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

People of Seattle: if you are looking for high school options, you may want to consider the Center School. It’s a Seattle Public School based on the Seattle Center campus. It’s been a great fit for our family. Learn more at an open house 1/27: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The classy move would have been to give Machado the FIFA Peace Prize in return.

I dropped a piece of seasoned and roasted carrot on the kitchen floor tonight, and I feel strongly that this item should be *in* _the Dog Contract_, but Phoebe is such a priss that she disagrees.

Top sign this nonprofit list is not focused on _my_ nionprofit's needs: I am being marketed about services to help me set up a GOLF FUNDRAISER.

"In Busytown, everyone works. Working is important. Work makes everything run smoothly. When everything runs smoothly, no one has to ask questions."

New drone photography of Bryant Manor construction just dropped! Phase 1 is fully occupied and Phase 2 just celebrated its "topping off." Congrats to First AME Housing Association, and many thanks to Compass Construction, Lotus Development, and all of our other partners.

How do you tell your elderly loved ones that when they forward emails with subject lines like “some sad news,” for a few seconds, it causes you a panic that it was something more serious than…one of the Grateful Dead members dying?

People of color > me on this so if they correct me, listen, but Say Her Name is reserved for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women BECAUSE they suffer state violence but will never be remembered the way Renee will. Renee died horribly. Her whiteness will guarantee a legacy women of color DO NOT GET.

Maybe it was a bad idea to privatize space exploration and put it in the hands of people so careless about the planet and the lives of others.

The misogyny is deafening here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Revolting.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Make it viral.

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the profiteers. You will always find people who are profiting.’” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Seven Involvements in One Six Involvements in One and Correspondence Red and White by Leon Polk Smith 1966

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.

And I don’t want to sound conspiratorial, but if they feel like they can do this in Venezuela without any serious consequences, they’re absolutely going to try it in Cuba too.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Happy new year and good riddance 2025!

When you raise your kids with a thorough Marxist analysis of real estate development and discourse on the downsides of gentrification… it makes it less fun to whoop them in Monopoly.