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Weaver of digital words, reader of printable words, eater of delectable foods, knower of worthless conversational facts, acolyte of everything Seattle sports
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There's a usefulness to caring what people think about you—an extremely limited, penny-sized, often-self-cannibalizing stock of utility. Beyond that modicum of caring, any concern you have for what people think of you holds you back from being successful and achieving your goals. What I've learned.

submitted 23 hours ago • 49 comments

How anyone can admire this petulant overgrown fraud is beyond me.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's a highlight every year when the cherry blossoms let me know we're on the final stretch! #PNW

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The power, impact, and effectiveness of #LittleFreeLibraries on students and their #readingliteracy rates: www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What I can say for certain is that if I had infinity money this is NOT what I would be doing with it.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Best News you'll read today

submitted 4 days ago • 335 comments

Let's be clear: These "talks" are nothing of the sort. Putin and Trump "officials"? Call it what it really is: a strategy session. apnews.com/article/russ...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"At ##FortCampbellSchools, teachers had to remove all bulletin boards that reference ##BlackHistoryMonth and Black leaders such as #MartinLutherKingJr., ##HarrietTubman and ##RosaParks." The #DoDEA is trying to redefine American history at its #publicschools. #resist @neatoday.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

He who saves a country... what? Napoleon is warning us he's making a move Get ready, blue team.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Don't listen to the haters; Captain America: #BraveNewWorld is awesome. #PostCreditsScene

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Unless he has, in fact, broken the law he has no reason to post this utterly un-American, lawless statement. This is appalling on a historic scale.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cruelty is the point. There is nothing to gain from this save his sadistic ego and insatiable need to hurt. Don't ever forget that with this guy. #Stonewall

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

In a story attributed to him, #AbrahamLincoln once asked, "If you call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?" Answering his own question, he said, "The answer is four, because calling a horse's tail a leg doesn't make it one."

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

They’re running the “Twitter Files” playbook agains the entire US government, and just as in that case, the claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out of context communications.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

submitted 16 days ago • 79 comments

This is the beginning of state-run media in a fascist government.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Deportation protest march, Alki Beach, Seattle

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Just in case you needed perspective on the state of education in this country, specifically in the areas of #science and math: 49 percent of U.S. adults know how long it takes the earth to revolve around the sun. Source: National Science Foundation, 2020.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Don't think it's a stretch to say there should have been a law against something like this. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Hold on to your genes: "[The #Bennu samples supplied] more than enough to tease out the sodium-rich minerals and confirm the presence of amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia and even parts of the genetic code." #biology #GeneticCode apnews.com/article/aste...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes it takes a charming afternoon in Georgetown on a sunny winter Seattle day to gain my bearings. Gotta admit, life's been a little frustrating. #TheFlyingSquirrel 's pepperoni pizza, along with a trusty 20 oz. coffee #AllCityCoffee, made up for a whole lot. I love a good walk in Georgetown.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump is good at reading America the way a vulture is good at detecting prey. But he can never feel soul, and soul is what the river has to offer. Soul is safe at the river, even when your own soul hurts like hell." Damn. And there's more where that came from. #TheConfluence

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments