If this time of year leaves your heart feeling heavier than usual, may lightness find you in surprising ways.

Let’s go Zags!!

Zags fam and others in Portland, do the Winter Lights drive through thing at Portland International Raceway. It’s really fun.

The Climate Pledge Curse is broken

I have 2 ADA tickets for tonight Gonzaga vs UCLA at Clare Pledge, section 07W, row Y, 1-2. Wheelchair accessible. We can’t make it. Before I put these on TM to resell, does anybody here want them? For a Zags fan who needs wheelchair or ADA (no stairs), I’ll make you an excellent deal.

@alejandrahope.bsky.social WTF???? I learned from *TikTok*, not from you here on Bsky, that the orcas of K Pod have a new calf???? (hat tip to @orcaconservancy.bsky.social whose account here appeares to be dormant, but TikTok has video)

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

PNW and Seattle area are experiencing massive flooding from the current storms. www.instagram.com/reel/DSEAdpG...

We are traveling soon for vacation, and it works out that in 3 consecutive days I get to see: * Gonzaga basketball * The Roots * Gonzaga basketball and have some beach time. LFG

Happy 750, Coach Few

Wait - we swapped saxophone players??

Wow clearly your move to SEA is good luck for your Jayhawks team @alejandrahope.bsky.social

My 19yo son go picked for jury duty today, and is in the courtroom Thu and Fri. He's excited - "This is the most exciting thing that's happened to me in months!!"

Look, before this offseason I was 100% a Josh Naylor fan. But after watching his contract signing press conference, I’m at 108%. (note, 2x54%) www.mlb.com/video/live-j...

I very rarely read the acknowledgment for a book (unless I think I might be acknowledged :-)). These are the closing words from Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by @annaleen.bsky.social . What a lovely way to end a very important and challenging topic.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

You should watch this report by Scott Pelley of @60minutes.bsky.social — while more of a synopsis of the earlier reporting on this utterly corrupt pardon of Binance’s founder as the Trumps feather their fetid nest, bringing it all together makes for a powerful indictment.

Dang. That would have been a horrific loss for the Rams to take 💔

Live from Sam Darnold’s visor

This Rams offense is good.

Finished up a rewatch of Breaking Bad and then Better Call Saul. It is a sign of great art when you come to love characters that you absolutely despise.

I may be in late-late-middle age, but I'm still proud to be able to rattle off my library card number from memory

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Which defense is more fun to watch right now - Seahawks or Zags? 🤯

Maybe this won’t calm my rage at Dem leadership in the Senate but I finally moved this to my currently-reading. Thanks for writing it @annaleen.bsky.social

If you want structured help on contacting your elected officials and with talking points on any specific issue, I highly recommend @5calls.org

Dear @murray.senate.gov , your voicemail is full so I emailed and will echo here. Washington voters demand strong, progressive leadership that does not cave to the starvation tactics of the Trump GOP. Serve the people, or be primaried with every ounce of energy, will and funding that we have.

Live view of Dem leadership trusting GOP promises to negotiate next month on ACA subsidies

Zags looking dang good tonight

Excellent thread about the Republican Party post-Trump and post-Kirk. It’s a long and worthwhile read - note that Bluesky doesn’t display the full thread correctly for me so you may have to look at the OP’s timeline to see all the posts

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Mamdani, with 97% of the vote in, has more votes than all the other candidates combined

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

After having discovered the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer late and reading it this fall, I’m now reading the fourth book, the prequel, Absolution. This is such wild, crazy unique stuff (it’s sci-fi/fantasy/horror/mystery/ecoterrorism). Love it and don’t understand 60% of it :-)

Happy Go Zags for the 2025-26 Season Day to all those who celebrate.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Now we can transition to Zags Basketball season 🎉

Unbelievable game and unbelievable series. Happy that George Springer lost too :-)

Wow. We go to November basebal.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I have a guest speaker for my class tonight - Heather Stringer, www.lifeinritual.com, helping us with how/why to make little rituals to help us process meaningful moments. Consider 3 questions: How do I want to live? How do I help myself become present? How do i imagine sharing my life w/others?

Uhh, this is important and dystopian

In case you need a personal reminder: COVID is still out there, and we're in an upswing again. Spouse and I picked it up two weekends ago, tested positive early last week. Started Paxlovid, but I was still testing positive a few days ago and had to cancel a business trip. Stay safe, mask up, etc

The people who think the government should be run like a business are killing something that has a 180% ROI. THAT is how you bankrupt a casino.

#HugOps to my friends who are at Amazon, waiting to see whether they get The Email today

Phew. Well, now I can go to bed

The baseball will continue until morale improves

Extra inning postseason baseball is so much easier on my cardiovascular system when I don’t really care which team wins

Marine Layer just got that Will Smith fly ball to CF 🤣