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Remember the good ol' days when Republicans went to war to make commodities cheaper?

By now Biden would have been far to old to invade Iran.

Circuit venting 6 showers and a floor drain in Longview WA. Circuit venting is an approved venting method in the UPC. Apparently nobody reads the code? Note the 3" vent downstream of the furthest trap vents the entire system is an end of line CO @pipedreaming.bsky.social thought you'd appreciate

Speaking of circular sanitation, La Bistoquette in Geneva completed construction several weeks ago. This mass timber cooperative has over 100 homes and every WC flush is directed to an earthworm composter onsite, where the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium can be returned to the soil.

Ran the first session of my nascent Lockwood & Co. TTRPG tonight and it was a total success. My daughter and her friend were hooked from the jump.

Early January, private meeting between White House officials and US oil industry execs: “I’m sorry, sir, but in order to justify the capex necessary to sufficiently build Venezuelan infrastructure, we’d need crude prices to double from where they stand today, and that’s obviously not in the cards.”

"Hide on the promenade Etch a postcard "How I dearly wish I was not here" In the seaside town That they forgot to bomb Come, come, come, nuclear bomb Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey" -Everyday Is Like Sunday

The IRL MAGA I know ultimately believe we remained in Iraq and Afghanistan to help those nations. They believe we spent American blood and treasure for altruistic reasons and don't want to do so again. The IRL leftist I know ultimately believe we remained at the behest of the ruling class.

People resist the idea that they’re being carried along by larger forces, the way a wave breaks on the shore. But that’s often how history actually moves. Causes propagate through networks of pressure, fear, hope, and habit long before individuals consciously “choose” anything.

"Let's drink to the dead lying under the water and the cost of the blood on the driven snow."

Republicans remain very interested in your children's genitals.

Just got word that the Tacoma planning commission advanced a motion to fully eliminate parking mandates citywide at their meeting tonight, by a 8-0 vote with one abstention. If implemented, Washington's second and third largest cities would have both beat Seattle to eliminating parking mandates.

Siobhán asked for advice on workload. This is something many teachers struggle with! I don’t know if any of this thread will help academics, but maybe. My wife will tell you I used to work late every night and on weekends too. Not anymore. 🧵

Cobra Kai wouldn't miss us

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Live a life that Speaker Johnson refuses to honor.

Students, as you can see clearly in your syllabus, chapters 2, 3 and 6 contain forbidden knowledge. Reading them may cause you to rebel against this university, the state, and your family. I'm therefore legally required to urge you not to read or discuss any parts of those chapters.

Get em Nick. My local would really like this work.

A plumbing engineer friend and colleague in Detroit just dug this up for me, which contains some information on the ‘Detroit single stack’. This is a single stack configuration but prohibits WC connections.

I quit Spotify because it's evil. What's the best place to listen to podcasts? I'm looking for @patrickwyman.bsky.social and others like him.

Interesting to see so many people using their real name and pictures on here worrying about age verification. The Internet is a neurotoxin and putting up guard rails for children seems like the absolute minimum.

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

You can’t justify violence by saying someone stripped others of dignity unless you’re ready to admit you’re also stripping dignity—and then live with that logic applied to everyone.

The Self is a story and stories are made to be shared.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

YOU - Minneapolis was founded to resolve history. It's the most important city in the world.

When I started painting my series on submarines patrolling the Mer Bleue (a bog in eastern Ottawa) I didn’t expect them to be even remotely prescient.

Imagine: * US FORCES LAUNCH SURPRISE ATTACK ON GREENLAND; DOZENS DEAD, HUNDREDS MISSING * WORLD CONDEMNS; DENMARK CONVENES NATO; CHINA URGES CEASE FIRE * TENSE STANDOFF AS EUROPEANS CLOSE LAND AND AIR ROUTES TO AMERICAN BASES; 100,000 US TROOPS UNDER SIEGE * EU REVOKES ALL US VISAS IMMEDIATELY

What happens when the headlines are: * NATO SECRETARY GENERAL ANNOUNCES SURRENDER OF MILDENHALL, RAMSTEIN, AVIANO * OVER 100,000 US TROOPS IN CAPTIVITY * NATO OFFERS CEASE FIRE, RETURN OF PRISONERS UPON CHANGE IN US LEADERSHIP

“So you say during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump said. “So let me just say, three and a half years from now – so you mean, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.” People laughed.

The right understands this. You didn’t see right wingers yelling at Kavanaugh or Barrett or for not vowing to overturn Roe at their hearings. But trying to be part of the left wing online, people are constantly wanting to talk about little things Dems say and turn it into big, grandiose debates.

Bring in more immigrants! Slightly increasing the birth rate at great expense so we can have a tiny number of additional workers 20 years down the line is not a serious strategy.

All that glitters... Hand-cut collage on playing card. #analog #art #collage #gold #flag #blackandwhite #seven #Spades #playingcard

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

The cops in this town are wild.

Truth.

By the time we got to Oslo, The snow was gone, And we got lost, The beds were small, But we felt so young. It was just like Christmas youtu.be/IippcraBPKA?...

"It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues:"

"The looming intergenerational wealth transfer reinforces that confidence. It gives them the freedom to treat politics as a spectacle, not as something with real stakes."

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

Representatives April Connors (R-8, Kennewick) and Addison Richards (D-26, Bremerton) have prefiled a bill that would freeze Washington's building code for ten full years. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

I've finally found a banner that goes with my profile picture.

Big W for the makers of little tombstones. The children's future is written in stone. 🥳