Had to put my phone in for repair yesterday so I ended up phoneless so in the evening I devoured @seamas.bsky.social's Prestige Drama in one sitting in the pub. Might be the best Irish novel I've read in years. Witty, laugh out loud, moving and just really engaging small novel, well worth a read

Massage Parlor Organizing Project (of Seattle) which I helped to start 7 years ago has stylish new bilingual merch for fundraiser! www.instagram.com/p/DY-w_KfAZM... I’m buying the swallow totes for myself and Crush ICE shirt for my nephew. Get great designs and support migrant worker organizing!

I don't care how many good germans felt bad pulling triggers I care about the fact they pulled triggers. And that's really where we're at. We have concentration camps, people getting shot in the streets, and entire groups of people getting legislated out of things like medicine & using bathrooms.

Today I got to experience Szechuan peppercorns for the 1st time. I didn't like how numbing the numbing effect was. That's ok. Kid loved it & finished off whatever I didn't eat.

Consultants should be hounded, heckled, and marched straight off campus. They are the enemy of education: an extractive beast who seeks to loot Universities of all their worth and leave behind a wreckage.

This is a very helpful resource from the former EiC of Science: a template for commenting on the proposed changes to OMB regulations that threaten the continued existence of US Science.

Okay! We have a V2.0 of the Pull Bug. Improvements over V1: 🪲 Now made of corrugated plastic (re-used yard sign), so it should have less of a problem with weather/warping. 🪲 Eyelets added to the back keep the string in the center (the string was blowing in the wind and getting caught on the legs)

The BART dragon dance started as a whimsical idea for a wall scroll painting a few years ago, and is now a real life prop that I bring to Bay Area transit-related rallies and celebrations. 🚃🚃🚃

Please help support @puzosuperelli.bsky.social and his family during this time of need. He brings such joy and fun to every space he’s in & has helped bring so many new folks into biking via @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social .

'My First Name' - by Susan Harlan (2017) No, you can’t call me By my first name, And yes, I know that A male professor Told you that titles Are silly Because a certain genre Of man Is always dying To performatively Divest himself Of his easily won Authority.

Makers, a Canadian chain that carries products made by local artisans in each location, has expanded to Seattle, opening near Pike Place Market in the former Sock Harbor space off of 1st and Pike.

I think a person who cared more than I do could write a very compelling essay about the gendered acceptance of AI and what it means that so many men are excited to throw away their autonomy in service of surety.

Over these long months, Souad has several times told me that she doesn't think she can cope anymore. I assure her that she will; but each time it comes to that, something of the old Souad is lost. I wonder if, should she survive it all, she'll remember how to smile. She badly needs help. #Gaza 🍉

Procedure went fine & I can eat solid food again. I need to eat more fiber. Good thing we won't able to afford anything but beans soon.

We must also acknowledge that there are forces such as the automobile industry, road construction industry, associated lobbies and other actors that want to keep us all dependent on cars. This force continues to play a part in keeping the United States behind the rest of the world in transportation.

During Trujillo’s 31 yrs in power, the regime violently repressed civil liberties and dissent. The Mirabal sisters organized & led the underground movement challenging his regime. Their murder inspired the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. #DominicanRepublic #History

By the guys who wrote this: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... They're doing the good work.

Caribbean Matters: How Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s brutal legacy lives on today www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

True adoption history: "...the single Korean mothers of these children were loath to relinquish their children... mothers often hid their 'Amerasian' babies from white missionary workers and men like Harry Holt— not out of shame but because they were afraid of being coerced to give them up...” 🥚

Few things can be worse for a parent than having to give their child water they know isn't safe. In the heat of Gaza's summer, even that is drying up. Only with outside help can Samaa make sure her girls get enough to drink; and finding food now is a similar struggle. Please help if you can. #Gaza 🍉

U.S.-backed Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of over 20,000 Haitian people and people assumed to be Haitian in the Parsley Massacre— even though he had Haitian ancestry himself. He began as sugar cane plantation guard was later trained by American Marines occupying D.R.

in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

So, you search on an "ebike" that you saw. That personalized search then hides the legal ones and shows you an alternate universe of only high powered illegal emotos. The market share of illegal emotos grows. Then everyone in your city screams about ebikes.

Horrors of Personalized Search™: I read a story about an ebike that caught fire & killed someone in San Jose. Did a search on the bike in the picture. Clicked on the Amazon link. The listed specs made it not a legal ebike. But subsequent searches on ebikes showed only illegal emotos. 1/

18% of cases required hospitalization. Of those, 70% required supplemental oxygen to breathe.

"Rapid and far-reaching transitions across all sectors and systems are necessary to achieve deep and sustained emissions reductions and secure a liveable and sustainable future for all." Lest we forget, as we often do. #ClimateHeating www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 241 of The Continent Africa loses $90bn a year to illicit financial flows. Cameroon officially exported just one suitcase worth of gold in 2023 — but records abroad showed more than 15 tonnes, mostly heading to the UAE. bit.ly/241_TC

A source at an Atlanta Midtown hotel tells 11Alive News that they projected $600,000 in #WorldCup revenue for June. As of May 27, the employee tells Chase that they only have $13,000 in reservations for that month. #FIFA #TrumpEconomy

Seventh graders weren't allowed to finish reading The Marrow Thieves. "They pivoted instead to watching a short film adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle story, and then to a multi-week exercise analyzing four magazine ads." 🤦‍♀️

Not a good look for Seattle Public Schools

Today's showstopping custom design - shipping out to Sarah in Wisconsin! Can't wait to see this one in the wild.... #cargobike #custom #bunchfam

Preorders for 2026 Tea Advent Calendars are open through 8/15! You have FIVE options this year: 🍵 Loose Mixed Caffeine 🍵 Bagged Mixed Caffeine 🍵 Loose Decaf 🍵 Bagged Decaf 🍵 Loose Single Origin Preorders help us plan for a smooth fulfillment season! www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...

I'm really looking forward to the results here!

Did you know Kampala has an entire road reserved for pedestrians, wheelchairs & cyclists 24/7?

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Totalitarianism: That which is not compulsory is forbidden. Hypercapitalism: That which is not monetizable is punished.

This little spine of mine*, I'm gonna let it shine... *Yes, it's from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social again, why do you ask? 😂

This has been me since I got my ebike in November.

In addition to the commissions still being open I'm also available and looking for more large client projects.

"Time and again the wolves can be seen getting a grip on the #beaver, usually its tail, and at one point can be seen carrying it off between them, only for the plucky beaver to break free again and fight for its life by launching a counterattack against one of the wolves." #wolf #trailcam #Estonia

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Americans abroad, by and large tend to be Golden Retrievers who are soooo happy to meet you whose tails are coincidentally right at table height.

BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

Making smoked salmon penne earlier this week, I discovered the "1 pound" box of Barilla pasta only had 3/4 of a pound of pasta in it.

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ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

"What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative." ...is a pretty good comment on AI

Scientific and intellectual freedom will be destroyed. Even where research currently "align[s] with the President’s policy priorities", researchers will not have the freedom to report accurately the results of their investigations lest their funding be terminated "at any time for any reason."

If these changes go through, it will be impossible to do effective science in the United States. Logistically, labs will not be able to function under these constraints. Team science—vital to almost every discipline—will be impossible under the rules around international collaboration.