“Everything happens for a reason” needs more haters.

Fran Lebowitz had it 100% right with this, and we all should have listened to her. I always knew he was unintelligent, but I admit I fell for the “he has a kind of animal cunning, a salesman’s knack” bit for awhile. There’s nothing in his brain pan except reptilian predation & random 80s trivia.

This might be a “Berenstein Bears” false memory, but I’m certain—CERTAIN!—that there was a longer version of this commercial that included the lines: “Take a sniff…pull it out…the taste is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth.”

ok, these billionaires who are destroying our civilization are *stupid* stupid. (Andreessen conehead watch: head is slightly less pointy here than in the last photo I saw of him.)

Maybe they shouldn’t have capitulated with Na-zhays

See? It wasn’t ever that hard to say no.

I’m spending my morning learning about the leader of the UK Green Party and someday-maybe future PM, who is: -gay -Jewish (+ from the same Mancunian community as my grandfather) -a former actor and hypnotherapist -apparently from this pic has a decent sense of humor

We at AVCX crosswords believe that N and Ñ are different letters

Tukwila City Council unanimously approved a 6-month moratorium on new detention facilities after reports ICE and DHS were exploring expansion in the area. Jaquelyn Jimenez Romero reports here: soseaem.org/3ZYfEjV #TukwilaNews #SeattleNews

Para los hispanohablantes que odian la IA.

Sir Deadass is my new favorite New Yorker.

“Bears have the potential tonight to put their defecation habits on more stable ground—if they don’t shit in the woods.”

“The sun has the potential to put itself on a new course and rise in the west tomorrow—if it doesn’t rise in the east.”

Herb & Butter Rice-a-Roni. I cannot defend it, but it has my lifelong allegiance (unless they seriously fuck with the recipe).

Happy Arrest Day of Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor to all who celebrate.

Community exclusion and shaming now, trials and convictions later. It’s a good thing this data is being collected outside the US.

I had this shirt in high school in the 90s. and yes, in the PNW.

1.5: I hate cottage cheese and will not eat it unless it’s puréed into blintz filling. I have tried snails before and might give them a 2nd try another time, but wasn’t a fan. I dislike ranch dressing and raisins but not enough to count them here.

fyi to #Seattle area #ICEwatch: the Wired list only has one WA location: the Riverfront Technical Park in Tukwila, which, iirc, is already a long-established ICE office. So expect some expansion of activities there. #StopICE

all the folks Capt A listed, + The whole cast of Abbott Elementary in add’n to Quinta, esp Janelle James Chris Fleming Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social Martin Short Reggie Watts John Darnielle @themountaingoats.bsky.social Tessa Thompson Margo Martindale Wanda Sykes

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

I remember this! I graduated GHS in ‘96, never had Mr. Hudson as a teacher, and never took his Survival after school class, but he was *beloved* by several of my classmates. Good to see local journalists taking on the story.

This has been true for the entirety of human history. Young men killed off in wars, disease, famine etc before having a chance to make babies. Women too, but no one’s whining about their gene pools, are they?

Pogroms and post-WWI depression.

I just found out that we gave Nardwuar the Order of Canada and we did it under his full professional title. Canada undefeated.🫡 www.gg.ca/en/appointme...

Saaaaaaame! 🌽🍅↔️🌾🐖

Stumbled onto the Wiki page for 17th-Century Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku. Howling at the chapter names for his book "The Great Mirror of Male Love." My top three: Love Letter Sent in a Sea Bass Fireflies Also Work Their Asses at Night Loved by a Man in a Box

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

I’ve been a fan of this Dick Nixon parody/roleplaying account for several years. One thing I love about it is that he sometimes delivers a real truth bomb, and still manages to do so in the voice of one of America’s worst presidents. Anyway, this one hit me this morning.

Anyone ordering anti-ICE #stickers from a heavily targeted city— now #Portland, #Minneapolis, Chicago, DC, etc.— I'll throw in extra ICE GO HOME stickers to help, because fuck these chuds. nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com

Indeed. Certainly we know that it doesn’t work the other way: drill-and-kill test score boosting methods don’t make kids kinder or more empathetic. We urgently need more non-Assholes; academics are a separate concern.

One thing that would definitely work to increase the birth rate is decreasing the length of pregnancy. 9 women could work together in a team to produce a baby in one month

RIP to a real one. I wish we’d been taught about Claudette Colvin in the same breath as Rosa Parks, but I am hopeful that more young people, especially 15 year olds, are learning about her now.

36 people have died at ICE's hands in the past year may of these deaths did not happen on camera, but it does not make them any less horrifying and unacceptable this is a list of their names, where they lived before being abducted, and a link to crowdfunding if i can find it

I would like to learn to cook the perfect dan-dan noodles. Open to advice and recos of dried or frozen noodle brands.

I bagged groceries for Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, New Year’s Eve, 1994. (Paper inside Plastic, if you’re wondering.)

I’ll remind everyone that Epic and Lovely is also about a young blonde fucking an old man and that I earn out at 1000 copies: annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

Hey everyone: skip this garbage and buy all your loved ones “Epic and Lovely” by @modaviau.bsky.social for the holidays instead!

Astonishing graphic, and an unfortunately necessary reminder of the miracle of vaccines; but I would like to speak to the editor about “year 0.” 😒

Sure it was more pervasive pre-, idk, ‘10, but just yesterday I saw a celebrity news headline about how a famous person’s 15 year old daughter “looks so grown up” at a public event. (Reader, she looked 15.) It’s still baked into our culture that teen girls exist to be ogled and interfered with.

This should be the final word on Epstein and his typing. It’s not that he didn’t know spelling and grammar; it’s that he believed that everyone else on earth was beneath him. He and Trump were pals because they matched in their titanic narcissism.

FUCK.

Having my morning coffee with a little cardamom in honor of Mayor-Elect Mr. Cardamom. Congratulations NYC!

No-recipe minestrone: 1. sauté in olive oil onions, garlic until soft 2. add any combo of these: diced bell pepper, leek, carrot, celery, cabbage, potato, other long-cooking veg, sauté until soft 3. add one of the these (optional): diced pancetta, sausage (veg or meat), salami, sauté /1

TIL Curtis Sliwa got caught cheating in a matzoh ball eating contest. TIL also that it is possible to cheat in a matzoh ball eating contest.

Enough of them realized that this country would collapse in hours if the price of coffee went too high.

Genuinely the moment in US (and to a significant extent, world) history in my own lifetime where shit went deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe, as I do, that a Gore admin would’ve likely prevented 9/11, then even more so.

I’m a bucatini hater. I like short tube pasta, but long tube? The sauce can’t get in there, so what’s the point?

I’m gonna have to break with the dictionary here and insist that “butt naked” is is own thing, and legit.

Best sign so far today at the Seattle #NoKings.