Today was such a Monday of Mondays and I am irritated to no end. This week is going to be a lot. At least there is Stanley Cup playoff hockey 🚨

Wild, indeed

The Films of Billy Wilder: Some Notes on Crying in the Bathroom Billy Wilder is the director whose stories I carry with me if I need to cry in the bathroom.

The Films of Billy Wilder: Some Notes on Crying in the Bathroom

You're telling me I could live somewhere else? But why.

Smith Tower from Pioneer Square

Downtown Seattle from Kerry Park

Downtown from the water's edge at Pier 62

Folks at UW quad enjoying cherry blossoms

I love Seattle.

If there's one thing I've learned in the past year-plus it's that the best medicine is reading Miriam Toews. Heartbroken? Toews. Dismayed at the world? Toews. Need to laugh at the absurdity of it all? Toews. Feeling like you want to give up? Toews. Remembering what matters vs. what's bullshit? Toews

this is insane

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Part of me is glad he’s wasting his time on bullshit, because it’s less dangerous for rule of law, for the American public,” one official told me, “but it also means we don’t have a real functioning FBI director.” Whewwwwwwww

maybe more

today was the kind of day where about 7 Manhattans would be good

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

The unstoppable @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on AI: the greatest art heist in history

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

yeah Maine!!!

(license plate redacted to protect the innocent)

secret Spokanite/arts supporter parked outside my building in Seattle, reveal thyself! 🤣

I guess now we know what Ted Cruz was promised in order to quiet down

I have been working remotely from a Les Schwab for four hours so I guess I live here now and maybe also I work here now too

They actively prevented already-purchased food from being distributed to starving people across the globe because...abortion?

what in the actual fuck. Women and children and elders are dying across the globe because these idiots couldn't be bothered to read two sentences about USAID during the 50+ years it existed? This is because a woman was running it? fucking hell

Real journalism instead of national puff pieces designed to appease a billionaire whose entire business model revolves around telling employees to look away and keep working even when their coworker dies right in front of them? Yeah I'll take the actual journalism, please and thank you

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”

jd vance negotiating with Iran

A Mariners come-back win? okay

But there is just so much of it, and I'm tired. Because I write about this, I get told a lot of stuff in private, so I carry that too. I'm so tired of rapists. I'm so tired of rape culture. I'm so tired of the dehumanization of girls and women.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Iranian national soccer players pose solemnly with tiny purple and pink backpacks in front of them

Wow 🥺 The Iranian national soccer team players with tiny backpacks as tribute to honor the children and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran ❤️‍🩹

Read 250 pages of submissions today and honestly regardless of how I scored them: what a relief to read words crafted with thought and intention from individual, unique humans as opposed to poorly imitative machines garbling trash. Words matter. Fuck AI.

Curious if this is also the case in Seattle...