Holy shit, we FINALLY have a female crash dummy, after years of women having more serious injuries in cars. It’s horrifying it took this long: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/21/nx-s1-5616284/female-crash-test-dummy-design-approval

Straight and narrow? Not me I'm on the gay and thick path

Seattle's crisis response team leader Amy Barden hasn't met with Police Chief Shon Barnes since Bruce Harrell appointed him in 2024, despite the fact that the two departments are supposed to work together to decide which 911 calls require cops and which require a social work/mental health response.

"Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil" is something I thought I would really like - queer! vampires! But I'm now on my second time pondering, "Do I really want to finish this?" So I may just DNF it. Somehow the main characters just aren't really doing it for me. But also I don't have anything […]

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

A study published in Nature points to abnormalities in the immune system of lupus patients: specifically, “people with lupus have too much of a particular T cell associated with damage in healthy cells and too little of another T cell associated with repair.” A protein called interferon is […]

OK, if you live in Washington, there's at least three things to call your state legislators about: • I-3276: subjecting trans and cis kids to genital inspections (https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115856394630529912) • HB 2112: Our own KOSA-like age verification law ( […]

After announcing that live descriptions of the game are forbidden, my partner at the #seahawks game said, “You’re not going to live tweet the game are you?” Me: No, I’m going to live toot. Him: No tooting! Do that in the bathroom. Me: No worries, it’s basically silent toots. No one follows […]

I'm curious about Freenet / Hyphanet - any folks here use it and willing to answer questions if I get lost? I started poking at it but am not quite sure what I'm looking at. 🤣

A couple more simple ways to help push back against ICE's reign of terror: Call your congresscritters! The DHS appropriations bill has passed the House and is heading to the Senate this week, so for your senators be sure to emphasize defunding ICE […]

Bumping estrogen today to double. No fewer hot flashes the past months, BUT I haven’t had a migraine in 36 days. Last year by today I had already had 5. I still get headaches (maybe mini migraines) and have one now shortly after putting on the new patch. But they’re more like what I had in 2018 […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115951002890265175 This is a great list of the pillars of support, and a great list of local spaces to consider demonstrating at.

Data / tactics / reading list :

Thinking of this quote today with MN's actions, and how we build such escalating connected actions: "Over and over, the Global Nonviolent Action Database shows that positive results come from a series of escalating, connected actions called a campaign." […]

[Minneapolis and organizing against ICE] I found this an emotionally challenging but fascinating logistical read. It reminds me a bit of how organized civil rights stuff was — that gotten flattened to nonsense like “Rosa Parks was tired and sat down and wouldn’t move”. (A literal thing I’ve […]

Made my first half-recipe of the "master recipe" from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It's sitting in the fridge, chilling, and I'm thinking I might bake some rolls or a loaf from it sometime in the next few days. Excited to see how it turns out. #food #baking #bread

"But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines […]

Somehow I missed that the WA Department of Health has an official Mastodon account?! SO COOL: @WADeptHealth

RSS still matters in 2026: it delivers every post from your favorite sites chronologically, without algorithms. Cleaner, calmer, and complete, RSS gives you control over what you read, with modern apps like Feedly and Inoreader keeping it alive […]

Reading "Second Chance Convenience Store", and had was thinking, "this has some of the vibes of "Midnight Diner", although with a lot more physical violence early". One of the characters talks about making a play about the going-ons of the book. I literally laughed out loud when the potential […]

Just finished reading and taking notes on "Shift: Managing your emotions so they don't manage you", by Ethan Kross. One of the most solid books on this topic I've read in a while - it's full of a bunch of tools and the realization that not all of them work for everyone, so every few pages is a […]

My biggest political regret of all time is using Act Blue to make donations. The endless text and email spam generated by that decision is literally unstoppable. There's no universal opt out option available, and they claim zero responsibility for the actions of any entity that uses the data […]

I’m pondering running another murder mystery for my 50th birthday. I’ve previously used and really liked several of the Freeform games. Are there others I should be thinking of for this? Or are they the only option for “mostly role play, but with some fun game mechanics”? #askfedi

Re-read Wollney's description of patterns and basic movements in Tablets at Work. After working on a complex pattern, it's helpful to read that the color that ends up on the band is whichever hole on top of the tablet moves from one top position to the other. I'm sure I read that before, but it […]

Assuming one has access to solid Indian and Chinese grocery stores and wants to make Indian food and Indo-Chinese food, what English-language blogging or English-language video channels would you recommend?

#seattle, I love you. One of the local theatres (the Paramount) has a web form for lost items. And they'll email you if they find it. None of this calling nonsense for us! 🤣

anyone in the #seattle area know where to snag an old air conditioner? all the modern ones have apps and Wi-Fi and bullshit and don’t even cool very well

Ooooof a lot of people in line for the #seahawks #playoffs

I’m pondering running another murder mystery for my 50th birthday. I’ve previously used and really liked several of the Freeform games. Are there others I should be thinking of for this? Or are they the only option for “mostly role play, but with some fun game mechanics”? #askfedi

Ok, the tension is wonky as hell through this section (an uneven roll on, I think), but I’m actually really pleased with it! This is the first time I made mistakes in the pattern and was able to check them against the pattern and work out what had happened. I’ve […] [Original post on social.coop]

I didn’t know anything about the actor Michael Rapoport before the most recent US #traitors, but Jesus is he leaving a hell of an impression. Ew. 🤬

Previous mayor Bruce Harrell's focus was on getting more people to commute downtown instead of working from home, with no mention of how they're supposed to get there—with more traffic as a result.

The annoying thing about being my own manager is that if part of me thinks I can't get something done by the time the manager part wants it done, I have to negotiate with that part for an extension. And that part can be a real ... well. You know.

Man, I wish I had a leader who jammed out to K-pop Demon Hunters with another country’s leader at the end of a diplomatic meeting: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/asia/japan-south-korea-kpop-drum-diplomacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.qzg-.lkybIj7Gfqcp&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Wow, it is utterly wild to read a journal entry from when I was 34, some 15 years ago, and realize with perfect clarity now that I’m describing a migraine. My past self had no idea and didn’t name it as such - just things like “monster headache,” “felt wonky and fuzzy brained”, and “slept for […]

And while I'm posting about random foodstuff, I just cracked open my final frozen container of the amazeballs Souped Up Recipes' homemade Beef Lao Gan La. Which means I need to get moar ingredients and make a new set to freeze. If you like spice or numbing spice or chili crisp generally, you […]

About to try the "treated like green tea" sweet potato leaf tea from Verdant teas. Excited! It smells really interesting. I need to find more places that do fermented fireweed tea. I have some that I've been nursing through and really like it. But it's a wee bit hard to find. I'm kinda hoping […]

A whinge about fitness trackers: It would be so much nicer for there to be a run/walk category. Or maybe just “on foot”. I’m 49, have completed a couple of marathons, and basically have NEVER run nonstop workouts. (And I only rarely just walk.) I can’t be the only one annoyed with trying to pick […]

Every time people follow me from a boosted toot, I wanna be like “This isn’t normal for me, my feed isn’t just all discussion about <topic that got boosted>”. And then I realize, it’s totally obvious what a topic chaos muppet I am if you look at my feed, and people are capable of figuring that […]

In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it. SIX.

I was in Minneapolis, MN for a summer (where I met one of my long term partners), and I gotta say, I did not realize at the time that I was hanging out in the future seat of the resistance. All I remember really is how pervasive the summer mosquitos were!

I don’t know if it’s hooey or not, but I was startled to complete a Yoga session and have Garmin tell me my “body battery” had gone up by one point. Is that because it always does that for yoga, or did my heart rate suggest I was relaxing, or … ?

“Green Teeth,” by O’Neill was recommended by someone here who sadly I didn’t write down. But it’s a lovely book and it manages to make a lake hag monster (almost) cozy! I would call the whole adventure cozy, but there is some fighting and blood. There’s also a very, er, well-described broken […]

Y'all, did you know how many delightful furniture restoration videos there are on YouTube? It's like nonstop showings of The Repair Shop, except only my favorite segment (the woodworking)! 😻 😻 😻

Just realized Gemini could build a dashboard of client data and it's everything I wanted. I currently store client outcomes in individual folders and am consistent with data entry, but it's a distributed view. That means I have to look at each person's stuff […] [Original post on social.coop]

Hi folks, So my sister is a zookeeper and takes care of the birds. She often sends pictures. This is Baked Beans. He is a baby screech owl and is being raised for the zoo's ambassador bird program. I would die for Beans. #bakedbeanszoo

Ooof, it is SO dreary today, and I just up my new Garmin watch, which let me add a sunset time on my wrist. So I know that despite it being dark and gray right now, it will be darker and grayer in 2 hours in 10 minutes when the sun goes down! 🤣 My date for a Kirkland queer comedy event is […]

I've maybe discovered a #TabletWeaving pattern that can't be woven on my portable loom. Woven forward, it looks great! (See arrow at the bottom marking the end of the first correct forward pattern.) But several of the cards build up twist, and "everyone" says to […] [Original post on social.coop]