damn

The British mind cannot comprehend elote

I don’t care if you’re English, just don’t do it in front of me 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

happy 4th of july @kayah.bsky.social won't watch stargate sg1 with me and i don't think thats very patriotic of her

100 years ago.

After weeks of negotiating Seattle Times management still hasn’t given our union a wage proposal. Nothing at all. And certainly not something that reflects the financial reality of living and working in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Pretty lousy, if you ask me.

Always a great day to be Mexican

If money is free speech then the wealthy are more free than the rest of us. Thank you for your attention to this matter

NEW - Part of the massive pulp mill tank that ruptured last month in Longview, killing 11 workers and injuring eight others, had sprung a leak in late 2023 and early 2024, underscoring a history of problems at with the facility’s equipment, state records show. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Hey, this is a pretty big deal www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Washington’s snowpack is all but finished, weeks before normal, and some major reservoirs are starting to dip as much as a month early. That's a pretty big problem. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

concrete jungle where dreams are made of

Toxic and highly corrosive chemicals — similar to those spilled in the fatal disaster at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill late last month — are leaking out of yet another pulp mill in Western Washington. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Colorado declares statewide drought emergency

I spent the day in Longview- 11 identified in Longview chemical-tank disaster: 'Still hard to grasp the magnitude' www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Minutes before he died, Jared Ammons texted his wife from his job at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. Hardly an hour ever passed that the two weren’t sending messages back and forth. “He texted me that he loves me and that I’m beautiful,” Mackenzie Ammons said. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Dirk Diggler and Reed Rothchild have dropped out of the Freedom 250 concert

Mackenzie Ammons never expected to send her husband to work and not have him come home. Now she wants to know what caused the Longview mill implosion.

*in an extremely Alanis voice* LIKE RAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN ON MEMORIAL DAY www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Does Andrew know he's also Tom Cruise's character in Tropic Thunder?

sometimes I really like breaking news shifts

For an unprecedented third year in a row, an irrigation district in the Yakima River basin will shut off its water for more than a week in the early growing season to conserve the resource before the looming summer drought settles in. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Protesters at Mt Baker Beach on opening day for Bicycle Weekends. Their main demand is that it should only be twice a month, not every weekend

It’s possible for decision makers to hide behind competing narratives because water issues are so complicated. But after 15 years of reporting on water in the Southwest, much of the discussion appears to me as delusional." —  @zakpodmore.bsky.social www.cityweekly.net/news/lake-po...

Federal aid for victims of the December floods is picking up a bit of steam, but it’s still not enough to cover the significant levels of damage faced by Washington residents. And now the deadline to apply for a bit of that money is fast approaching. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sound on! At the West Seattle Bee Festival and a lot of people don’t know that bees actually communicate using a complex series of dance steps as seen here. Now ya know.

Okay folks, I know it's sunny out but we've got to talk about floods because this is the time of year when we can do something about them. Western Washington still isn't remotely recovered from the widespread flooding we saw in December. And we're setting ourselves up for failure once more. 🧵

The December floods across Western Washington destroyed some $182M of public infrastructure. We don't have a fully tally of the damage to homes, businesses, etc. Do you know how much state aid has been handed out in King County so far? $9,262. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

infinite jest mentioned

For months we shadowed families who were devastated when an aging and supposedly temporary levee system broke open and poured the White River into their homes. In five months, there's been effectively no aid. They feel trapped, abandoned. Please read and share: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

The developers of a proposed data center in Utah withdrew their water permit application after nearly 4,000 people filed protests, citing concerns about the Great Salt Lake. @leialarsen.bsky.social @sltrib.com www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

One century of this man isn't enough. We need another. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

okay donald no need to yell at me

Why grant anonymity to an official who just offers propaganda? Is there some reader benefit to quoting them? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

In my most GOB voice: HEY! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Did you drive your 4Runner into Lake Washington? HMU! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Spotted a Bald Eagle hunting a Hooded Merganser (small diving duck) at Seward Park in Seattle today, with the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge making a guest appearance in the distance. It was hard to not root for the merganser, but he was sorely outgunned, and eagles have to eat, too.

Hey, did you drop your white SUV into Lake Washington over the weekend? LMK! www.seattletimes.com/latest/how-d...

I'm having a hard time believing my eyes with water data this year. The Colorado River mainstem through Grand Junction was flowing at 54 cfs last night. Not a typo. 54 cfs. Last year on this date it was flowing at 1,420cfs. Even in 2002, the driest year on record, it was at 690cfs on April 22.