This is fantastic. I want to know how her pizza was!

For those not clicking the link: "Public Health said all students, staff, and families are being informed of the case this week, regardless of their level of exposure, emphasizing "people in the community do not need to be monitoring for symptoms or concerned about TB spread."

Today's most societally boring/most personally exciting news: the neighbors are building a catio, stage 1 is complete and this brave chap is ready for it.

Strawberries. I've had some renowned varietals right off the plant and into my mouth at their perfect ripeness and even they do not appeal to me. And, if they're cooked at all, they turn into sand-covered slugs.

Ponies is a great deal of fun. And watch We Are Lady Parts if you missed it a couple years ago. The PWHL doc is so much better than I expected, like the first 15 minutes is mostly about the first collective bargaining agreement in women's hockey.

Turned in the most recent book manuscript and its photo heap today. Writing back-to-back books is not as bad as multiple books at once but it feels so good to not have a current book deadline. I'm proud as hell of this one, about little free bakeries and why they matter. Yes, with recipes.

I have this problem with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers and I've concluded that I don't actually like either enough to conclusively settle which is which

Because being American isn't embarrassing enough yet

These are not technologies that Seattle has been using forever that are difficult to contemplate not using. Just go back to June 2024 when SPD had a handful of license plate readers and no CCTV cameras.

Parade ready, with what "12 as 1" means to me

This Cooper's hawk absolutely did not care that I was a few yards/meters away. Nice to spot on my block today, possibly summoned by the endless Seahawks chat.

Do we think Bob has ever heard and understood the phrase "read the room?"

Explaining the somewhat invisible but endless bits of garbage capitalism and calling the NFL a crime syndicate while watching and enjoying yesterday's spectacle = me crushing my auntie responsibilities to the teens watching the Super Bowl in my basement

Statler and Waldorf are why GenX is the way it is. We were absolutely trained to interrupt our giddy enjoyment with cattiness and snark until that's all we have left.

As @gfrancie.bsky.social wrote recently: cannot wait for the state fair seed art

I just remembered that Dick Cheney is dead and damn, the emotional lift I experienced. What a comfort! Might bake a celebratory cake all over again.

All I really want for him is all the traffic-calming plans that he cancelled for his lakeside street to be implemented. He sounds bitter. I'm cool if he stays that way.

Autocorrect in a text just gave me Marshawn Lunch and that has to be on the menu of at least one sports bar, right?

It's pretty silly in these times but I am chock full of glee that our former jock mayor did not get to have the Super Bowl mayor experience.

Tom Olivia Newton Brady needs to never ever ever do that again

Activists raise money to send to the detainees inside. As a for-profit contractor, CoreCivic charges prisoners fees for things like phone calls and food.

I baked my granddad's dog biscuit recipe for the little free bakery box today and neighbors meeting and chatting over their goofy lil butt-waggling dogs was a not-terrible thing here this afternoon. Also? Neighborhood signal chat got a few new additions.

Freddie is helping our whistle kit project

I had the most Minnesota thought. WHAT will the seed art be like this year at the fair.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Two kids I know at the high school and three middle school neighbors who recently baked their lifetime first cookies for my little free bakery box were impacted by this. Leave our neighborhoods the fuck alone, ICE.

Seattle Times headline writer absolutely nailing priorities today

Algerian irises just getting started in WA. #flowerreport

Would anyone from MN be willing to write out your testimony of what is happening? I want to add a "hear our stories" section to the stand with minnesota website. Don't include identifying details beyond your city. You can include photos. You can email me at [email protected]

We are posted up outside LC High School here in Spokane, where hundreds of students have walked out of their class in protest of ICE. LC is one of six schools across the Spokane participating in the walkout, which was organized at a lunch table last Thursday.

New idea for a future season of Fargo

Cops are taught to avoid shooting into cars, for all the obvious reasons, but ICE has shot NINE people in cars since September. Great reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I was surprised to see so few references to Heather Heyer as I doomscrolled yesterday; she was the first person I thought of once I saw the footage of the car and the protestors and the armed goons, and will be back in my nightmares like usual tonight.

Starting the year off right with motivational Pop-Tarts, hoping to manifest precisely nothing with this sweet spackle absurdity

Caramel apple pies are maybe just an excuse to make a full sheet pan's worth of sentient pie cookie pals

Today is the first annual Feast of Seven Potatoes. Dessert is what I've named a Dirt Princess Potato Cake: vintage potato fudge cake, crème diplomat and marzipan like a Swedish princess cake, finished with grated black marzipan "dirt" and marzipan potatoes.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Éowynd & Fire

Oh hey now that Seahawks franchise stat for trailing by 15 at the half is 1-172!

My county's public health dept put out their annual toilet rat PSA, which means that once again I'm just a girl, standing in front of my toilet, hoping that a rat appears in it.

This project sounds amazing, hope they find the housing partner they want with ease and it goes as smoothly as possible. Among much else, fun to have another music venue I can walk to.

Once again the Christmas cookies have had a fist fight

Big news: Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) won't run for reelection in 2026 in the state's most conservative congressional district www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Manual Cinema's The 4th Witch at The Moore. Dragged friends w/their teen, who apparently spent the rest of the night not shutting up about its greatness and making shadow puppets.

New sewing kit just dropped (as soon as I finish the cookies, damn the brunsli is delicious). Not sure if Temple Pastries is sold out of these beauties yet, Seattle, good luck.

A. Frog is one of my favorite writers

A weird thing that I've learned today is that a lot of people think Pantone is spelled panettone

I just realized my (Seattle-based nonprofit) publisher has a sale on. I'm proud of the 2nd edition here--new science, new chapters on leafcutter bees and assorted solitary bee pests, and a bazillion new color photos. Lots of titles for outdoors topics of all kinds if pollinators aren't your jam.

Based on my texts I know all but 14

This dress was in my family's possession for at least 3 generations. This month marks 5 years since it was returned to the Oglala Lakota Sioux people, after 30ish years badgering my mom and a lengthy research project.