Every day, all over the country, people get released like this. I volunteered waiting outside a detention center for releases since 2018 and they are all like this. Family notified across the country that day, released in clothing they entered in 6 months ago, no phone, money, OR IDEA WHERE THEY ARE

To borrow an old gem... I, uh, wrote a thing... www.seattlemet.com/health-and-w...

To borrow an old gem... I, uh, wrote a thing... www.seattlemet.com/health-and-w...

Perdida?

My little pro-bono project, www.successfulpitches.com is back online after some security and formatting issues. It's a resource to see what pitches that got commissioned look like. For folks new to the industry, it's a peek at what good ones look like.

We recently acquired the first automatic transmission car of either my husband or my adult life, and it only took me two months to almost die because I pressed on the brake like it was a clutch. (On the curve at the north end of green lake on Aurora.)

People who don't like writing want to be writers for the same reason people who hate working out want to be Olympians Because by the time the final product at the highest level gets to you, it seems cool as hell and no one is broadcasting the practices. Hope this helps!

Seattle's historic 1906 King Street Station tower framed by the forty-five foot tall traditional Pai-Lau gateway marking the western entrance to Seattle's Chinatown, constructed 2007 with 8,000 ceramic tiles from southern China:

Thrilled to report the new hype bagel places bagels are mediocre so I don’t have to wrestle with my feelings on their borderline antisemitic social media.

Simultaneously, they mock & degrade women athletes for not being athletic enough, and then when a few of us are that athletic, they say we must not be real women. The end state of this reasoning is a world where “real” women don’t — and then can’t — play sports. Policing gender hurts women athletes.

The weekend I visited the college I ended up going to, it snowed, was 90 degrees, and there was an earthquake. But I was an athletic recruit and didn’t really have much in the way of options.

It’s funny because when the meme about “the incident” at your HS goes around, I am always like “too many!” Which is why I, and most people I talked to about it, only have vague recollections of this.

This is a great story and also yes, I did visit the Rico’s nacho cheese company museum when I was in San Antonio, and yes, I do know why more people don’t listen to my travel advice.

I know I posted this on Twitter, but we are here now, so… Like the third most interesting thing about Officer Cookie is that she taught D.A.R.E. to my 5th grade class. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t work.)

GENO SUÁREZ YOU BEAUTIFUL KOALA MAN

Any of the ones to a park, where we would learn to lick banana slugs (numbs the tongue) and sting ourselves with nettles to learn which plants eased the pain. Also the fortune cookie factory.

Search your camera roll for ‘hell’ The actual first photo that came up, for reasons only my phone knows, was me on a hard-hat tour of a hotel in Brisbane on a hot day after landing at 7am that morning which, accurate. But the word? This.

Seattle folks, I made a game for you! (The rest of you can play too, but it's like 8/10 hard for Seattleites, it's gonna be real tough for anyone else) www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

Re: that last reskeet, just thinking about the fact that WA has had the same two senators my entire voting life and I am... not particularly young.

I hope there's a plan in motion for someone to primary Cantwell in 2030. She keeps pulling this type of thing, and Washingtonians are noticing.

I recently fell down a truly lovely internet rabbit hole, and I am hashtag-blessed to have a job that sometimes is just braindumping after crawling out of such a rabbit hole. Please meet the nearly forgotten Mrs. Pizza Express. www.seattlemet.com/eat-and-drin...

The first episode of this is wild because a) I know most of the people interviewed (and knew them well at times) and b) provides such a perfect glimpse at Garfield in that era.

This is the most Encyclopedia Brown-ass shit I've ever seen in real life and I fucking love it.

Big day for people who know nothing about ski racing talking on the internet. (Doesn’t help that the announcers said a few things that, while not wrong, are misleading.)

Those of you who followed me on Twitter may remember that my absolute favorite beat in the world is the intersection of food and the Olympics. Things are just getting warmed up, but stories we are following now: 1) the pierogi plushie held by the Polish figure skating team in the kiss ‘n’ cry.

Lol the scaremongering of the Wallingford council is cracking me up. I live in a craftsman next door to a six story apartment building, I promise it’s actually pretty awesome?

Hear me out: White Lotus fan fic of a travel writer on a press trip who decides to actually look into why people keep dying at the resort.

A totally healthy and thriving industry!

As someone who built a career and much of my community on that app and feels, largely, like I have lost great swaths of both since leaving, I still cannot fathom someone still being on there.

This is who runs this account

also, if you yourself run some kind of freelancer-hiring outfit, and you think ‘you know what would really take my business to the next level is some brand new payroll software,’ know that i hate you. know…that i hate you

I know we said we were sick of living in unprecedented times… but these were not the precedents we wanted to relive.

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