Ogden Nash’s The Terrible People. “Some people’s money is merited, And other people’s is inherited,” stratfordcrier.com/the-poetry-c...

On U.S. match day, Lime carried more trips than any Seattle roadway other than I-5 and I-90 + Link unseated I-5 for top spot #SEAbikes #Seattle

I can breathe.

Rev. Ed King lived the kind of life that reminds us doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's always worth it. He stood with Mississippians fighting for justice when it would've been easier to stay quiet. Our state is better because he never backed down in the face of hatred and bigotry.

Kelsey Pfendler shattered the world record for solo rowing from California to Hawaii. 2,400 miles in 43 days, 17 hrs, 55 min. Finished at 1:54am PDT today. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Double rainbow over Lake Washington.

Four sacks of garlic and onions harvested and set away to cure. Four sacks sounds like a lot, but you leave the stems and roots on for the curing, and most of the plant is the stem. Nevertheless, I’m grateful, and they will be delicious for quite some time. 🌱

Want a policy win? ~40 million people suffer migraines. Those cold-blue-toned LED lights, especially the extra-flickers ones, can trigger them (and sensitivity). BAN THEM! Especially for headlights. They aren’t safe.

We hear all the time from folks who just don't know how to get ready for an emergency, what their first steps should be. THIS is the page to bookmark. mil.wa.gov/personal Don't have time right now? Start the discussion tonight or this weekend.

Stuff I’ve found in bike lanes: yard debris, yard watering overflow, a 2x4, glass, fast food packaging, garbage, metal, sticks, overgrown trees & shrubs, people walking/standing, and most common - Cars: Car doors, fully parked cars, cars partially parked in the lane, cars stopped “briefly…”

This part is key: "From the 1970s through the 1990s, people could stay for months at a time with on-site clinical support . . . Over time, as funding declined and costs rose, those homes were sold off. The system shifted toward housing vouchers and less structured support. The homes disappeared."

Sautéed garlic scapes with eggs and (freshly made) celery salt. 😋

They’re baaaack! Sassy carrots lounging by the pool. 🌱 #SassyCarrots #SassyCarrotSummer

Love living in a place with Craigslist ads for razor clam guns.

Forgot to report, that my new JFK rose bloomed this past week. It was a sign.

Just heard fireworks for the Knicks in Seattle. ¡Felicitaciones, New York!

Why does “Small Government” cost more than “Big Government?”

Happy calendula harvesting! 🌱

NYT Letter Boxed puzzle today: solved in 2 words. (This doesn’t happen often.)

Ever have someone you knew and loved, who died a long time ago, show up strongly in a dream? It Shakes you.

NYT Spelling Bee puzzle will not accept “manimal” as an answer today.

In case you missed it: person drove off a major street and took a right onto the light rail tracks. Drove 1/4 mile up an incline >on railroad tracks< before being stopped, because “GPS told me to.” www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/...

A reminder, if you live in Seattle and make 80% of the median income or less (92k single, 105k for 2 people), you qualify for the lottery for the new social housing building that got announced: track.pstmrk.it/3s/apply.sea...

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Oh my goodness! A crow fledgling hopped onto my foot! 🐦‍⬛👟 Junior got curious, popped over for a closer look, and then hopped up on my shoe and stared at me, as children are wont to do. I didn’t dare move. But I did say, “hello.” Then it hopped off and on its way. 🖤🖤🖤

Biked to work today for the first time in several years thanks to an e-bike discount voucher from @wsdot.wa.gov. So if you’re out and about in Seattle and see an old woman on an e-bike, give wide berth and feel free to wave (preferably without the middle finger extended.) 😉 🚴‍♂️

Seattleites, crows are fledging. This means you may see some pretty bid crows sitting on the ground for longer than yoi think normal. They are (probably?) just really big babies learning to fly. Keep pets away from them. Crow parents will come AT you.

Rewatched Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. 💚🪲🐛🤿🌳🪾💦 Per usual I now hear Beck’s song Nausea in my head, but he’s signing Nausicaä instead. I’d really like to hear that song with an overlay track of the kid singing the La La lalala La La… tune from the movie.

Salad from the garden: green leaf lettuce, 3 kinds of kale, Bok Choi, carrots, beets, dandelion greens, snow peas, celery salt, pepper, store bought avocado and olives, and a simple vinaigrette. I 💚 Spring. 🌱

btw if you think people shouldn't use the r word, and/or regret doing so as a youth, maybe apply that same logic to using "psychotic" to mean horrible, murderous, terrifying, lacking empathy, dangerous, or stupid 🤝

Do apes look at us like we look at sphinx cats and naked mole rats? Are we hypoallergenic primates?

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Did George Lucas name Queen/Sen. Padmé Amidala after the amygdala? #StarWars

Homemade peanut butter cookies fresh out of the oven. One of the best excuses not to do what needs doing.

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

Hey, @mariners.com, let’s do this… call him/her “Moose.”

In Callais v. Louisiana hat der von einer rechten Mehrheit dominierte Oberste Gerichtshof geschafft, was Ziel eines jahrzehntelangen Projekts war: Die effektive Abschaffung des 1965 verabschiedeten Voting Rights Acts. Oder, anders gesagt: SCOTUS läutet das Ende der multi-racial Demokratie ein.

Heartbreaking news from Seattle yesterday. A 19 year old trans woman was murdered in the laundry room of a UW contracted apartment complex. www.dailyuw.com/article/nord...

Glad I started about 3 dozen tomato plants from last year’s crop seeds. Can give the extra plants to friends and neighbors and still have an abundance of fruit.

Cost of living increases hitting us now don’t simply require we spend more for what we want, they require a lifestyle change. Things are starting to feel like my childhood. People didn’t eat out except on special occasions. Going to the movies was a big deal.

Happy Birthday to The Smart Girl who sat next to me during most of elementary school.

Dirty Cello at Kenyon Hall in West Seattle tonight. So fun! (My photos are bleh, but the music slapped.)

If political Party A passes laws negatively impacting minorities, leading to minorities to vote for Party B, then Party A’s gerrymander to dilute the vote of minorities - who don’t want laws that hurt them - is ok, because the gerrymander is about a political party & not racism? #SCOTUS

As long ago as 1992 a friend’s young, blonde sister married, moved to Alabama, and voted for the first time. The woman at the polling place showed her step by step how the process worked; then pointed out which were the white candidates. #Callais #SCOTUS

Seattle City Councilmembers Joy Hollingsworth and Maritza Rivera want to ban new tiny house villages from areas within 750 feet of playgrounds, parks, child cares, and schools. Guess no one told them that there are homeless children, and that some of them will be living in these shelters.

Feeling petty and irritated. Today’s NYT crossword puzzle clue for 18 down is wrong. Those two items use two different words; not the same one.

For anyone interested, I made an audio piece about my former employer CBS News Radio, which is scheduled to close May 22nd after nearly 100 years. It’s far from a complete history, but has some info about the network’s early days and its amazing WWII reporting. (1/2)

“…national population change has already generated so much demographic momentum that even if it were possible to halt all migration to the U.S., that would only change the expected date of a majority-minority nation by a few years.”

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌻🌿🌳 🍄‍🟫 Heading out to wash the birds’ water saucers, feed the seedlings and vegetable starts, and assess garden needs before heading off to work.