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Monterey Bay Aquarium has some of the best background visuals to make your stress melt away. 💙🦈

"Why do you schedule work during (insert major event here)? Why do you hate me?" We don't hate you. But we do we have 117 major projects scheduled this summer, which means you should expect road work on your way to that Major Event. Allow us to explain: wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/send...

PSA for any reporting about “the bleach community:” What they are promoting/using is a bleaching agent but is not “bleach” that we know. Laundry bleach is ~5% sodium hypochlorite & can bleach clothes & break down skin. ‘Miracle mineral solution’ is 25-30% or more sodium hypochlorite. It is poison.

I know I've been promoting lots of things lately: two books, new story, orthcoming class, but don't forget the Amazing and Impossible Animals @storybundle.bsky.social because some proceeds go to @doctorswithoutborders.org and you surely love animals more than you love me! storybundle.com/animals

Uh oh! Time to call them AGAIN, folks. Yesterday our calls made them let the advocates in again, but today they’re up to their old tricks.

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵

Kiwi Dragon.

NOW: DHS police are at the Seattle Federal Building, warning dozens of protesters who are trying to disrupt ICE from detaining immigrants after their court hearings to disperse.

Night-blooming cactus early this morning ☀️🌵🏜️

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

TRUMP: Los Angeles would be burning today, just like their houses were burning months ago. Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion ... as commander in chief, I will not let that happen FORT BRAGG TROOPS: *Hurrrraa!*

Removing pepperball residue from clothing and other items. This is based on my (unfortunately extensive) personal experience and experimentiation. Pepperballs contain powdered PAVA, an oily, synthetic capsaicin analog. The only reliable way to remove it is with a good surfactant soap and water. 1/

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

man I got into a Lyft like a week after this happened in the summer of 2020 and the driver told me all about it. I suspect every service worker in Portland was talking about it. (Media couldn't corroborate until much later.) They pissed off an entire city's service industry with no real consequences

The gray male, Wyoming's oldest wolf ever documented, lived a mysterious existence amid human development, perched in the mountainsides overlooking Teton Valley, Idaho. "Super savvy wolves," a biologist said. "Most people don’t know they’re there."

the Uber CEO tells Trump his company supports the MAGA reconciliation bill (that will strip millions of healthcare and food support)

This is so cool. I’m pleased to share version 1 of our new dashboard for displaying data from our wastewater metagenomic project. This is a collaborative projected between MU, U. Wisc, and SecureBio; funded by Inkfish and Open Philanthropy. 1/ lungfish-science.github.io/wastewater-d...

this is all triggering as fuck for those of us who grew up with the national guard invasion of 1992

The horrifying conservative assault on what you care about is just a distraction from the horrifying conservative assault on what I care about.

Cotton grass dragon.

in 2020 the Seattle PD fired so many flashbangs directly at reporters *ON LIVE TV* that the city council outlawed their use...which they repealed this year, just in time to grease the skids for the Gestapo

you are the richest man in the world with many young children and you are spending the fleeting moments of your life arguing with a robot you made yourself

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with “Cities are where very, very large numbers of Americans live” discourse, with real Census data and everything.

I think if people could move the locus of how they define patriotism from the American state to the American people and their honorable history of opposing tyranny, from the workers to women to immigrants to Black Americans, they’d find a useful, uniting, galvanizing feeling there

In Seattle or NW Washington this month? Come celebrate Pride with me and support local queer art! I’ll be at events in Anacortes and Seattle with my visual art and embroidery, talking about how the ocean is queer.

I recently asked an agency contracting officer how she learned about IT. She said she wanted to learn the basics so she enrolled in a “low-level” programming class, not realizing that’s hard core. She was months into learning assembly before she discovered her mistake, so she rolled with it. Wow.

it's absolutely important to couch every statement from this guy in the context that he hired a person based solely on the credential that the guy strangled one of my neighbors to death. no background in software or finance, just murder.

the fact that it's essentially impossible to hold a federal agent responsible for their unconstitutional behavior should be a bigger deal while federal agents are assaulting a city

47 years ago today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reintegrated its priesthood and temples and restored the Church to its universal roots. Today we remember some of those who slipped past the walls of exclusion to receive priesthood ordination or temple rituals before June 1978. 1/12

sorry took me so long to respond, your text hung over me like a guillotine, growing like a tumor inside my messages, until the guilt became so unbearable i simply had to respond if only to relieve myself of the prison of your text, so yeah what’s up, how u doing?

folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Weekly aggregate update for #COVID-19 / #SARS-CoV-2 #Wastewater levels in Washington state. Overall statewide trends over the past two weeks are increasing in 6 sites (unchanged, decreasing in 19 (up from 6), steady in 2 (down from 6), and 'out of date' in 5 (down from 14). [1/2]

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina: Covid vaccines for pregnancy and babies: Sorting fact from chaos open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

i saw this post out of context, and thought it was a video game thread… but it isn’t. everybody should read the whole thing.

A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks. Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD. From the collections at the Museum of London. 📸 me 🏺 #archaeology