I’m not shocked, but that doesn’t make me any less unemployed. I’m sad to lose a job I’ve loved. If anyone wants to hire a kick ass project manager with deep knowledge of local government, and who sometimes mocks Fox reporters, DM me!

Introducing the Apple Schmatta

One time I started watching a baseball game, got on my bike and went to entire football game, biked home, and the baseball game was still on (this post is about the Seattle mayoral election)

I've been talking about this for ages and I'm so glad somebody devoted a real, fleshed out article to the topic of my wild ranting: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

I heard a rumor about a place serving green noodles, a la my beloved Shanghai Garden (BDE) and got a little too excited. As soon as I saw the color, I knew it was all wrong.

This was 2 years ago today. Go give the bullies hell today. www.tiktok.com/@vicenews/vi...

My niche traffic complaint of the day is that by making 85th and Greenwood no right on red, they’ve eliminated the absolute safest time to turn right (when the traffic to the right has a left turn arrow)

somehow in my mind I have linked the success of the Seattle Mariners to turning the tide against fascism and while I know it has no empirical basis it feels right

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

their priorities were very good. snacks. couch. kicking ass.

“Bruce Harrell governs like he doesn’t want to disappoint the people he sees at fancy cocktail parties. The people I don’t want to disappoint are the people I meet in the laundry room of my apartment building, who I see on the bus.” - @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social speaks at her birthday party

My photo stash was made for this

My photo stash was made for this

Nothing beats “dollar rice” where the cheapest among us could get just a rice-packed styrofoam container with the sauce and meat debris ladled over top for—you guessed it—$1.

Looking at New York City tonight with eyes full of hope that here in Seattle we can take down Bruce Harrell and Sara Nelson this year.

The milkman came later than normal yesterday which meant the dog was on the couch already and it scared the shit out of him and he jumped up and then landed in a tub of legos and guys, it’s bad. Like a Lego hurricane hit our living room.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

If you wanna eat weed like a pro, not like a frat boy with a coffee grinder and a dream… Buy the book. I did the math so you don’t have to.

Guys the monorail honking was the literal highlight of my day. It was the best.

What a day to be hosting a book club on How to Stand Up to a Dictator

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It's Friday again! I joined @gastrognome.bsky.social on Seattle Now to talk about what the current political climate means for the annual invasion of Blue Jays fans, the tenuous future of Bartell Drugs, and the rollout of Real ID travel requirements. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:

Today’s food writer life advice: never eat a fucking buzz berry mid interview

So there’s a trend for small restaurants in Colombia to get design ideas from Pinterest, which means a lot of flashing lights and signs to make social media posts in front of. Sadly, it doesn’t always turn out as they might hope:

I'll need to check with a rabbi to be sure, but I think this would actually make the Geoduck kosher too

With everything going on in the world, and now a company I once did the marketing for has moved to an all-lowercase style in its branding. Why me, why now???!!!!

We need an “on this planet we believe” sign to advertise to spacefaring species that we are down to party and that we got dolphins, rainbows, weed and springtime

I have lived in the same location for almost 14 years. I have bussed to hundreds of events. I have literally never seen the busses as packed as going to the protests today.

I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

I can tell how much my husband loves me by how hard he tries not to ask questions when I tell him he'll need to get gas to pick up the dog from the groomer...a mile and a half away.

The secret to finding the best under-the-radar food stands in monitoring the health department closures of unpermitted carts.

it is VERY difficult to watch people react to how ICE is treating Europeans & Canadians in ways which indicate they're absolutely new to what ICE has been doing since its inception in 2003 but primarily targeting Arabs, Mexicans, other Brown immigrants (and Natives too) and not be jaded about it

Sometimes I read yelp reviews when researching for a piece, and I think my new favorite complaint is the person who complained that the restaurant didn't even bother to cut up the lettuce... in the wedge salad.

Feels like if I were doing a major rebrand on my midsized brand, I'd google first to see if a tiny local producer elsewhere in the country was already using that name, and then... I dunno, maybe not use it?

i read that book coz you told me to and i'm not joking, i think about it all the fucking time.

Soooo I actually wrote about this for a newsletter that came out today…

Scholarship opp: @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social is accepting applications from journos and emerging writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the #media. Deadline: midnight on 2/19 for my six-week online #travelwriting class starting 2/25. www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships

Getting on a plane tonight, fingers crossed I’m not the next victim of a MuskCrash or TrumPlummet.

It’s nothing that a bloodless coup can’t fix.

Unfortunately for me, Team “Will the last one out of The Gravitron—Turn off the lights” was not a big winner at “How Seattle Are You?” Trivia night.

Be the beaver you want to see in the world and/or the nutria I once ate in Uruguay because I thought we had a language problem, not “feeding you rodent for lunch” problem.

Be the beaver you want to see in the world?

Every article of clothing advertised to me is either a $300 tank top or $17 jeans.

Alt proposal: eminent domain Madison Park, return it to its amusement park roots, build multi-fam housing all around it. Anyone involved in the appeals has an open offer on a job as a carny there.

Proposal: launch Madison Park into Lake Washington.

Thanks to @gastrognome.bsky.social for the concept of “kitchen tweezers,” which made short work of the large bones in this piece of salmon.

We really don’t talk enough about how celtuce is the perfect vegetable

I love how nobody in Seattle thought, "Hey, it's 25 degrees, I should wear something warmer," and everyone instead decided to just toss on their hoodie and shiver through it.

Musk is the “Monorail!” guy and it makes me crazy that so many people can’t see that.