One of the biggest problems in our infosphere is that the normal American literally cannot even IMAGINE how many documents a legit researcher needs to have read.

Astonished to learn that 68F is considered the recommended temp for "comfortable but not planet-killing" heat in the winter. I usually set ours to 60 - 64F in the daytime, and we don't normally heat the bedroom at night at all unless it gets down to the 30s.

Thanks to new rules that require reviewing social media of visa applicants creating month long backlogs for renewals, Apple & Google has warned employees not to leave the U.S. as they may be unable to return. This expands the war on immigrants coming to the U.S. to foreign workers who travel home

My grandmother was an illiterate tenant farmer's daughter in north Korea, and at age 15 she was plucked out of the fields to marry the scion of the landowning family due to my great-great-grandmother's eugenicist notions.

This case is notable because it is one of the first cold cases solved by the newish Washington state Missing and Murdered Women and Indigenous people squad. We need "wins" like this to continue funding.

Took Hundo for his meet-and-greet at a gigantic boarding facility. He did great behavior-wise, except he is still quite timid with strangers -- although the staff did discover that he knows the word "walkies"!

Do you feel safer now that anyone wearing a balaclava and a jacket that says FBI can come into your house and rob you? www.chronline.com/stories/they...?

Husband just walked into the bedroom, wordlessly plucked some blanket from me, gently arranged it around Hundo, and left again.

I’m leading 20 AGs in strongly opposing President Trump’s cruel new “public charge” rule giving immigration officers unchecked discretion to deny someone legal status for using government programs. California successfully fought Trump’s illegal public charge rule during his first term.

How many fucking times can you redact a relatively small corpus?!?? Pretty sure it's been at least 5 times by now.

Mother in law in Mexico says this is a huge scandal there. apnews.com/article/brit...

I've had so many friends, colleagues, and doctors who always go home for the holidays, and this is a super shitty thing to do to them.

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...

If you're not busy for the next week, there's no better time to donate blood! There were a lot of open appointments today at the bloodmobile I went to.

Puka Nacua, now is NOT the time to try to grow a brain and make "sick burns". We are all rooting for you to just STFU for a week.

I hate to admit this, but Blitz is one of the best NFL mascots :(

Check this page to see if your Congressperson is on this subcommittee: appropriations.house.gov/subcommittee...

When I was in the history program at Chicago, a lot of the American and European history students felt that non-Western history should be consigned to the "lang and lit" or area studies departments -- because non-Western history somehow isn't REAL history. Undergrad non-Western history majors

Utah people, y'all really need to check your Senator Mike Lee. Public lands managed by the Federal government are popular with every type of American and we do NOT want to sell them. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Apparently cyclists and other "recreators" are showing up at closed sections of Washington's freshly-flooded highways to ride without traffic. Look at these photos and reconsider. www.reddit.com/r/stevenspas...

I'm trying to get Hundo into a fancy dog boarding place -- the place we went before was much cheaper, but he kept getting giardia, pinkeye, and kennel cough! -- and I think now I kind of understand how parents become all about getting their kid into the right preschool and whatnot. :/

This regime continues its war against our public lands. Their budget proposal for 2026 calls for a BILLION DOLLAR CUT to the National Park Service. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Fucking Henry Cuellar. Should be in jail, not voting for legitimate medical care to be criminalized.

This sounds hella condescending but I kinda feel bad for Puka Nacua. Honestly he seems like a sweet naive human Golden Retriever who lacks the brainpower to work out why people are mad at him for his silly friends' jokes. Like something out of Spongebob more than a Stephen Miller type.

This is the equivalent of Highway 1 through Big Sur being closed repeatedly as it has been in recent years. Seriously ruinous for Leavenworth, the faux-Bavarian Christmas village. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/us-2-...

Some of the most important testimony in the history of this nation, and it is not open to the public. To the people.

Lil Jon is advertising a MINIVAN. WTF is happening. Am I that old?!?

Nigerians are among the best-educated groups to emigrate here, 30% of them already have a professional degree compared to 10% of native-borns.

Everyone in tech needs to understand that California law helps keep wages up for the whole industry. They have a six-figure minimum for programmers AND strong wage transparency.

I know this sounds weird, but Rob Reiner could have played Jose Andres in the movie even though the latter is 22 years younger than the former.

The entire run of _The League_ was before betting apps.

Mount Vernon invested in a river wall after the last big flood 5 years ago, and their downtown is nice and dry now.

Love to remove one little outdated node module (react-test-renderer), and now TypeScript says it's never heard of jsx :( Friday fucking afternoon too. JavaScript was a mistake.

Among other things, petroleum infrastructure is very brittle in climate emergencies auburnexaminer.com/fuel-spill-c...

Thanks for checking in on me friends, but for some bizarre reason my house has barely gotten any rain!! I can see that north and south of us things are dire but oddly enough right here in the petite forest we have been at mostly just sprinkle level for days.

We are dogsitting Hundo's best friend Batgirl, and for some reason I can't sleep with her, Hundo, and my husband all snoring!

We found a cheesy Christmas movie set at JBLM! It's called My Christmas Hero.

Did not get a job I really wanted, ironically because I've been doing too much React Native and Remix, and they wanted a "React person" :/

Well at least Hundo doesn't have giardia!

Congress just passed a law suggesting that ANY THC should be illegal in CBD... And now 47 is going to go hard in the opposite direction? Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?

Thinking dry thoughts for the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum, hard by the waterfront in La Conner WA where the Skagit River empties into Skagit Bay.

I have not heard of a single case where the DPRK sent a female programmer to either interview or work. So just hire Korean women and you won't have these problems! :)

If Bob Iger doesn't understand that this will go along with him licensing Disney characters to OpenAI... He is too old for the job. There is no way to differentiate between a loving parent making a video of a Disney princess for their child to assuage their fears before cancer treatment, and a

A level headed and detailed panel discussion on who can be denaturalized and how. www.kuow.org/stories/when...

Hahaha would fucking love to see how these people mocked up my grandmother. She was born a tenant farmer's daughter in North Korea in the 19th century and lived through the end of the Chinese, Russian, and Japanese empires.

OH: "I'm still getting used to seeing Landon Donovan with hair."

So one of the World Cup matches here on Seattle is supposed to celebrate LGBTQ+ fans. Unfortunately the two teams "randomly" selected to play that match are... Egypt and Iran. This World Cup is already cursed. www.outsports.com/2025/12/7/24...

Hahaha we wouldn't even HAVE science without a steady supply of immigrants!

One of my utility companies asked me to do SIX screens of captcha to pay my own fucking bill. Part of this was because I was asked to choose all the bags in a lineup, and I chose a suitcase -- which is a type of bag. Computers were a mistake.

I realized I only have like one maybe two friends here, defined as someone I wouldn't hesitate to ask to a short notice real-life outing for no particular reason. It's also more difficult for me now because it's hard for me to go places without Hundo, so I end up staying home with him a lot. Gotta