I have so many! Pre-tech-boom Seattle in the 70’s-early 80’s, movie audiences were fun and rowdy! The crowd roared when the Death Star blew up; people yelled “Get ‘im, come on!” during the final fight in Rocky; we danced in the aisles during Stop Making Sense.

The Atlantic, acting like they know what labor solidarity looks like and scolding the left for not siding with racists. Ha fucking ha

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif

As a person with permanent vision loss from shingles, with scaring on my eye that means I may eventually lose sight on that side entirely, I am here to tell anyone who will listen: get your shingles vaccine as soon as you are eligible!

Okay, I’ll go. Five animals I’ve seen in the wild: Moose Grey whale Orca whales Sea turtle Puffin The moose was a few feet away. The whales I saw off boats (not whale watching ones); the orcas were a whole pod that went by on all sides of us. Swam with the turtle for a while. Puffins are cute.

Why is everyone talking about Star Wars today?

My daughter is at the Mariners game. According to her they have never lost when: 1) she’s wearing her Ichiro jersey, 2) she’s wearing her M’s pride cap, 3) she’s had her copy of Infinite Jest with her, or 4) she’s gotten food at the park. She’s doing all 4 today - let’s go Mariners! 🔱⚾️

Me

Ah, the Mariners giving us the disaster we knew was coming. As they do.

100% facts

I really didn’t think we’d be coming home 2-0 in the ALCS. Was hoping we could keep it to 1-1. This is unreal. I don’t even know what to do with myself. Go Mariners! 🔱

I’ve been watching the Mariners from the very beginning. I was 6 when I went to my first game, and my heart has been with them ever since (and it’s been broken so many times!). I’ve built a family of M’s fans. With everything being pretty terrible, we’re finding our spot of joy with this team. 🔱⚾️

I managed to hear almost nothing about Sinners except that I should go see it (on purpose). It was SO GOOD! SO GOOD

Happy birthday to Riley, my first baby. For those who have known me a long time, he turns 27 today. Enjoy feeling old along with me 😭

@clppng.bsky.social at Neumo’s, Seattle Amazing show! Plus they were repping my beloved Mariners, so it was basically a perfect night.

This is me, too. Trying to keep your child safe without letting them see you panic, all day, every day. It takes so much out of us.

Leftovers. iykyk

And this means uncomfortable conversations sometimes! I swear I feel like easily half of the ignorance we’ve been seeing from younger folks is because their parents were afraid to talk to them about hard things.

Happy birthday to my amazing twins - 19 years old today! Love you both forever and ever ❤️

Last night it got a little cold and I got out this blanket to put over my legs. My Obaachan (grandmother) crocheted this - most likely from leftovers from other projects. She died about 30 years ago. But here she is - her work, from her hands. How cool is that? 🧶 #crochet #craftiverse

My current #TemperatureBlanket progress - I’m a week behind because we had the Red Alder Fiber Arts show last week. But, I have moved to the second background color! And I know have some warmer temps coming… #crochet #TemperatureGang #craftiverse 🧶

In other news… #ShowMeYourKnits Stripes! This is my Shorescape sweater, designed by Amy Herzog, yarn 🧶 is Cariboubaa by @indigodragonfly.bsky.social I knit this about 8 years ago, still wear it all the time, and it still looks great (tight twist on the yarn and a firm gauge? Yes, please)!

This is my yarn shop. 🧶 We’re trying to run a business in a way that feels human and makes things a little better. Look to small businesses, because the big ones are rarely making those efforts.

Good job, WA! (I figured the reason we weren’t part of the other suit was because our AG was working on it - but its nice to have that confirmed)

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

Please please please at least do this. Please don’t agree but not actually do it. Please don’t wait and then not get around to it. Please.

I was already into this project but PHEW let me tell you, this #TemperatureBlanket project is saving me right now. Touching something grounded in both reality and creativity every day is keeping me sane, I swear. 🧶 #TemperatureGang #crochet #craftiverse

The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities”

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

The playing dumb of the media is so incredibly infuriating - and it causes so much damage. Aaarrrgh

Paul Krugman confirming what has been increasingly obvious to readers for years: New York Times editors are becoming increasingly indifferent to facts and obsessed with mollycoddling the right. contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

Any union members who voted for That Guy, hope you’re happy that he just effectively froze both the NLRB and the EEOC. Source in comments

#ShowMeYourKnits sweaters edition 🧶 I knit this sweater for my husband - I’m giving it to him for his birthday. Pattern is my own: a plain body with a nice big cable panel down the arms. This is also a WIP-finishing victory for me, because it sat dormant for a number of years. #knitting #craftiverse

This is my shop, and also where I’m plugging in to conversations beyond social media type posts. Please join in if you’d like a place for more chat-type engagement with people! 🧶

This is already an “if they’re in it, I’ll watch it” list for me. All of them? I’d buy a ticket now if they’d let me.

Come hang out tonight! I’ll bring my knitting and my crochet #TemperatureBlanket - maybe work on both. :) 🧶 #TemperatureGang

I’ve just emerged from a really excellent class on knitting pattern grading with @kateatherley.bsky.social She’s such a great teacher - can’t recommend her classes enough, honestly. 🧶

🧶 A little cluster of colder weather colors and our anniversary silvery gray make the first corner of my #TemperatureBlanket #crochet #TemperatureGang #craftiverse

Well so today is also my anniversary. Tough day to celebrate but what can you do. I crocheted a silver piece to add to my #TemperatureBlanket bc apparently 23 is the silver plate anniversary? I also made one for my husband’s birthday coming up - red for his birthstone. #TemperatureGang #crochet 🧶

Hospitals? Schools? Libraries? Every fucking halfway decent institution you can think of? I’m so angry.

Perfection: floof and bubbly water

Yesterday it got cold enough for me to have to break out the greenest green on my #TemperatureBlanket Which, to be clear, is not very cold for many of you. Seattle weather and all that. But hey it felt cold to us! 🧶 #TemperatureGang

I started a temperature blanket this year…and I’m crocheting it! This will be my biggest #crochet project EVER. My yarn is from Knitted Wit, in the palette from @seattleyarn.bsky.social I made green my coldest color because I like green the least 😂 My joining colors are neutrals in a gradient 🧶

Hello! If you’re here for the 🧶 content, please also go follow the account for @seattleyarn.bsky.social That is the LYS I own and operate, and I just made us an acct here - fresh new account smell! It’s mostly NOT my own stuff, but all #knitting #crochet #weaving #spinning related. Thanks!

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Looks like #ShowMeYourKnits is shawls right now, so I’m going to share my favorite of my shawl designs: The All In Shawl Most things I’ve designed I never make again, but I kind of want to make another of this one. #knitting #shawl #craftiverse

Night night sweet dreamies On days where it feels like everything is too much You are not strange or abnormal What is strange or abnormal is denying yourself the compassion that you would give so freely to others Be kind to yourself

I found out last night that my dad’s cousin’s house and entire neighborhood is gone in the Eaton Fire. My Obaachan (grandmother)’s sister and BIL bought that house in the late 50s, then their daughter raised their family there. I played there as a kid. (1/2)