PNW friends, if you are looking at our summer forecast and looking for a low effort / low water usage way to keep your plant friends hydrated: consider ollas www.nativeseeds.org/blogs/blog-n...

I’m anticipation of sun (and summer), I dropped the ollas back into our raised bed. They worked SO WELL for vegetables the past few years. I’m curious if newly transplanted raspberry canes, with their shallow roots, will also like them. 🌱

Titanic was originally meant to be more of an ensemble film, following the many characters aboard, but early test audiences loved the Rose and Jack of it all, so it was recut into their love story.

HEY SEATTLE did you know that 4 mega corps are currently courting Seattle City Light with data center proposals? Sabey, Prologis, Equinix and another unnamed real estate developer are in talks with our local power company to decide if they can build new centers here.

Found a story about baseball manufacturer quality control & then felt a little sad finding out that only one baseball player has cared to visit the baseball factory in the past 30 years: www.cbc.ca/sports/baseb...

watching baseball & knitting when a ball of yarn spits out a snarl somehow involving three strands, none of which comes from the center of the ball. 🧶 ⚾️ I’ve spent two innings trying to detangle this thing & I’m starting to wonder if my spatial reasoning skills are outmatched

They don’t let us tape things to our doors at work, but I don’t think they could stop me from getting it framed for the wall.

HUMPY SAVES!!!

I’m really hoping they make Humpy the Redeemer a permanent feature of the third base ramp #goms

Beware fake images of today's No Kings - this was *not* Seattle today. I don't know what the motivation is to post slop like this when the real thing was so epic.

Let me give a hale & hardy: suck it, Kemper Freeman. For the majority of my 50+ yrs, he made it his private vendetta to keep the riff-raff from Seattle from easily getting to the Eastside via transit. And, finally, we beat him. Drinking the rage tears of Freeman on No Kings Day?

Grammarly dude literally just got deposed by The Verge lol.

I’m ready to take on all challengers (jk, but I did have fun with this sassy little quiz) What's My JND? 0.0012 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

TAKE ACTION against Flock and dragnet surveillance: Sign and share WA People's Privacy "People's Petition to WA House & Senate Democrats: ESSB 6002 needs *SIGNIFICANT* strengthening" form.jotform.com/wapeoplespri... The vote is tomorrow, so please help get the word out tonight! #waleg

Another critical action in Washington state: tell Governor Ferguson to stop Department of Licensing from sharing data with ICE and CBP. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #StopDOLShares #StopDOLSharing

A great example of one of our major concerns about SB 6002, the bill regulating Flock and other ALPRs. Weak "guardrails" don't protect us, but *do* give an for cities to turn the cameras back on -- and undercut local organizing in cities that haven't turned off the cameras yet. #waleg

If a 27 year old woman was randomly killed on the streets of Capitol Hill by *anything* other than a motor vehicle it would be all over the front pages this morning. Cars are the thing that make me fear the most for my safety in this city and yet this is how the local paper of record responds.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

What a double dip. Contracted by DHS to help in their trafficking efforts, and raking in cash from the people lucky enough to go home. Props to good Samaritan, and fuck Delta. #3E

A friend of mine (a hijabi physician on a J1 visa) just got an email from her sponsoring institution that was like "carry every single piece of paperwork you have on your person at all times, don't visit home, don't post shit on social media and remember we're Nonspecifically Here For You ❤️" >

< and it made me wonder... this is obviously *not* a good or helpful message to receive from your employer at this point. But what would a good message *be*? (Best option is "hey, if you want, we'll assign someone to walk you to work and throw down on your behalf," but other than that?)

Not a single #WALeg Republican could find their spine to vote against masked secret police invading our state. They hate our freedom and want to take it away just like their MAGA allies in the federal GOP.

TOMORROW, Seattle! If you can attend this town hall at 4:30pm Monday 1/26, please do! This will be a chance for folks to discuss Seattle's response to federal threats/ICE, including the city's surveillance apparatus. I'm hearing there will be a listening component.

I’m the sort of cat that can help make that happen

Murray is the chief Democratic appropriator. She negotiated the DHS funding deal. She needs to present a new plan now

Guillermo Rogel Jr says Gov. Ferguson's plan will harm health & safety of low income people & communities of color in WA. He said that Democrats promised Climate Commitment Act "funds would go to mitigate the causes of climate change, help us reduce pollution, and help us wean off of fossil fuels."

🚨🚨VERIFIED STRIKE FUND LINK ALERT🚨🚨

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Remember when you travel in Germany, say, and you wonder, "How did they build Dauchau, here, in a town?" This is how.

Enknitification

If you’re interested in how Washington is permitting data centers and shaping state policy around AI, please check out the work Front and Centered is doing:

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Keeping rats out of our toilets seems like an important yet heretofore unexplored climate action talking point.

The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves. myedmondsnews.com/2025/12/than...

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.) Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].

also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams. and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.

i’m so happy for him

Welp, after years of planning, pots of dedicated funding, promises that despite other elements getting yanked from the plans that sidewalk repairs were still on the table, the only sidewalk on LWB that got repaved this year was the segment right in front of Bruce's house.

What I first said in sarcasm I increasingly think is a real thing to consider: Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas. We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy. But we can kill a lot of their perks. Bet Kav would retire fast.

I’m thankful for brave women like Lindsey Boylan in NY and Monisha Harrell in Seattle. They stood up to men in power, held them accountable, didn’t relent, and helped defeat them. All at great personal cost.

Making a knit flower garland for a friend (think this shape:🌸) 🧶 Me reading through the pattern: “huh, they sure do mention a lot about how essential blocking is.” Me half way through the knitting: “ah yes, I see why they said that so many times”

It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.

Attention WA/Seattle area! Oscar is a 5 year old male (fixed) cat looking for a home! His owner recently passed away and my brother is looking for a new home for him. He's up to date on all his shots. If you know anyone who is looking for a companion, let me know! Boosts are appreciated.

Sara Nelson losing by 16 points is pretty fantastic. Ann Davison losing by 25 is even better.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Professor Olaf’s Scientifically Accurate Fortunes is set up to disperse fortunes from the multiverse, candy & treats to the trick or treaters of Ballard. 🔮🧪

no fr having a string quartet playing popular music at our wedding (during the cocktail hour and when folks walked down the aisle) made me SO happy, I was hype haha

If you’re getting in the spirit with family and friends this Halloween or making some last-minute purchases, buy union-made! ✊🎃

From the Transportation Library's Instagram - the C&O's Chessie and her family Peake, Nip, and Tuck for #NationalCatDay. www.instagram.com/p/DQaAaRzEiXO/