KHAK’ TO THE FUTURE (2027) — My Back to the Future reboot in which every character in every era is wearing khakis. Presented by Dockers.

this is exactly the kind of extremist-view laundering that got me to cancel my subscription of many years “gaining traction” hot-dog-guy meme

oh wow some of us were going to catch up AFTER WORK 😤

This reminds me I need to always be promoting The Riddle Ages (Megan Cavell & Friends) which keeps growing and growing If you’re not familiar with the fascinating world of early medieval riddling be warned, it’s rabbit holes all the way down

Admins Hate This One Weird Trick (Quoting Mission & Values Back to Them)

i can’t find it so i’ll recreate it because it made me laugh so fucking hard.

impressive resonance w Old English descriptions of warrior-Christ’s crucifixion “In fact Leschi seemed to be the coolest of any on the scaffold. He was in good flesh and had a firm step and mounted the scaffold without assistance, and as well as I did myself."

obviously I’m going to reskeet this apropos medieval citation

Seattle PSA Gogol Bordello play The Showbox on March 4, touring for their new album We Mean It, Man!

they said they wanted an ai with 'phd-level intelligence', and they got one that's 6 months from its submission date and has just had a meeting with its supervisor

bloody commies

Vancouver Art Gallery is your source for Emily Carr (1871–1945) paintings, and they've got a proper retrospective on currently (usually she's tucked away in the attic) these two totem paintings contrast her later-in-life shift from "flat" documentary realism to animist psycho-geography

“There’s my guy” SON OF A… This is gonna cost me some money

“Look, officer, I was doing 95 in a 35mph because I was in a HURRY to get home from Costco with my rotisserie chicken still hot! It is simply not POSSIBLE otherwise. That’s PHYSICS. And now YOU are why it’s gone cold!”

Ol'medieval Langland ahead of the game: Do well. Do bet. Do best. GET ON THE SPECTRUM. GET ON IT. ANYWHERE. START THERE. (And then keep going if you can.)

“Hills Like White Elephants” (1927), by Ernest Hemingway

But only if it was evidence-based (looking at you, CDC)

oh I need to read this

WSJ: “New female CEOs grew scarcer last year. Just 9% of new appointments went to women, down from 15% a year earlier. Overall, about 9% of CEOs in the S&P 1500 are women”

“once again, Kara, you notice the Italian strategy is to look so sexy their opponents walk into a wall”

This (without yucking anyone else’s yum) explains to me why I said oh NO THANK YOU to the series after the [Hogwart’s] prank where Academy characters are zapped into public spaces in their underwear To put it another way, they crossed the streams

I'm not dead, this is just how I look

obviously drama requires, at times, a willing suspension of disbelief but the idea that Will Trent’s Faith Mitchell (Iantha Richardson) is struggling to find dates is testing my limits

my thinking on the Olympics

this platform doesn’t have enough manul cats but it *does* have burrowing owls so that’s something

I emailed @newyorker.com Customer Care ([email protected]) with a request to cancel my subscription and just received an email confirming Condé Nast has cancelled my WIRED subscription instead? What an amazing world.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Norwich Cathedral, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Stunday #photography

I never thought anything could make me consider going back to a tube TV. However,

Classic Zelenskyy: "We can also give ceasefire for Russians if they will do elections in Russia."😏🤌

Seattle Times reprints an NYT story about robot-companion eldercare pilot program that (I think) relies heavily on access to months of the subject’s private, recorded conversations with the robot—without that fact explicitly making it into the story? (1

A WWI era grotesque on Smith Hall, in the Liberal Arts Quadrangle at the University of Washington #Seattle #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #Architecture #BNW #ClassicMono #GasMask #UDub #UofW #Photography #Photography

Bad Bunny's Grass People: Where Are They Now [oral history]

I apologize, Vancouver Public Libray, I was not familiar with your game/jeu 9 floors of books/holdings (reasonable medieval Eng lit section) a wild amount of reading/study spaces spread throughout gorgeous enclosed atrium and top-floor view patio lots of art/photography on the walls

Hadn’t been paying attention but the Amtrak Cascade route is getting new trainsets “before the end of the year.” However I’m being told by insiders the Siemens-built “Airo” cars’ seating is a tough-wearing, easy-clean, plasticky material that is not as comfy as you’d hope.

If you know anyone getting older, read this. Wholly seconded. www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

two days ago I looked at Apple Weather to pack for the Vancouver expedition and it said “cloudy and 100% chance of rain” for both days rejecting this negativity I left my raincoat at home & brought sunglasses (admittedly I got drizzled on yesterday)

Last night for Vancouverites to see this: “T’əl,” choreographed by Cameron Fraser-Monroe; music, Cris Derksen; costumes, Asa Benally—had high hopes for this atmospheric piece danced by Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and they were met and surpassed

I’m in the hotel bar and initially thought this person was holding the strangest phone call but she was having AI create the art for their Valentine’s cocktails promotion and *that* was why she kept telling them to move the candles or delete them but stay luxurious, glamorous

One of Our Trains is Missing (2026) actually, @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov , we’re south of Vancouver Central station waiting for a freight train to be cleared follow for updates

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

I don’t know if it’s Remnick or some Condé Nast VP who’s responsible for all the MAGA profiles in @newyorker.com (not one but two Tucker pieces in just over a year) but my conflicted feedback is thanks because I can skip them without compunction so it saves a little time

Did you know that there was no Super Bowl in the Middle Ages?

I just feel if the Amtrak train is running 45 minutes late there was a distinct opportunity to text me earlier than 20 minutes before its original departure

becoming disappointed with modern philosophers at an astonishing rate

Happy for all the Seahawks folks out here. The Seahawks are the official NFL team of Bluesky, the official app of sports.

Remember Seattle no jaywalking when swarming the streets 😂😂😂🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳