garden roses in a yellow vase & a bowl of cherries

those few weeks of garden roses at the market are truly luxurious.

thank you! a good meatball recipe is always a delightful gift.

a favorite in our house is april bloomfeld's lamb meatballs, a vaguely eastern med/n african vibe & very very good - food52.com/story/9631-a...

reduce the risk of a fatal outcome is lower speed limits in such neighborhoods.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social had a really great interview a few years ago with the author of a book about the miscategorization of "accidents" & how we can make different collective choices.

re the example of cars where children unexpectedly arriving in the lane of travel one choice that would

@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social reposting bc not sure tag worked. apologies for spamming you if this is duplicative!

screenshot of lrb podcast episode of discussion between tom crewe & james butler re gaze in caillebotte, Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations 1400-1750 by the historian Noel Malcolm, & lots more.

@tomandlorenzo this is a super interesting discussion throughout, thought of you in the discussion of current cultural representation of homosexuality e.g. heated rivalry near the end. recommend, really think you would enjoy & find productive of thought.

@thewesternedge.bsky.social & @ryanjhaas.bsky.social who broke this story are linked in the @techcrunch.com piece. western edge are excellent.

the thought of having to vote for porter makes me 🤮. i'd do it if the only two names on the ballot are porter or a republican, but seriously she needs to step away from all public service & dedicate herself to never again abusing people.

malheur.

frankly, reporting on extremism from the eastern seaboard is inadequate. endless analysis of the "intellectual" roots of the right that ignores the origins & contemporary development of extremism in the west, for ex around issues of access to fed land, is not fit for the present moment.

haas & @leahsottile.bsky.social have been producing news & analysis of national importance from the pac nw, & beyond, for years.

@leahsottile.bsky.social has produced work that is critical to understanding how we got where we are as a nation with deep reporting on the murrah bombing, ruby ridge &

this story should headline national outlets.

when it does, they must credit @ryanjhaas.bsky.social original reporting in the western edge.

helicopter reporting is particularly bad in the west outside of a narrow slice of coastal california (& it's plenty bad even there).

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working.

A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first.

www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

rich pickings for blocks these days!

those women's drinks & who put it there.

this is not a person fit to hold any public office.

that cnn story was written very carefully in several different ways. one notable: presenting two women having on different occasions had drinks in a bar with the same man & then experiencing memory loss.

when women encounter this information day-to-day they apply a working theory of what was in

when two women tell the national press that drinking with a man in a bar resulted in memory loss i have a working theory about what was in their drinks & who put it there.

immature red tail hawk on a rooftop.

juvenile red tail hawk on the roof of the building next door this evening.

please pass along knitting pod reccs, thx.

please stay as safe as you can manage!

i very fondly remember the late evening phone calls of my stepdaughter & her pals to my partner, asking for family recipes of various beloved family cakes, tarts, cookies, etc., just wonderful they were all high as kites 🤣🤣🤣

excellent knitwear

knitting from here in san francisco. worth keeping an eye out for a congenial group as a mid- long-term life enjoyment strategy!

sunday mornings, first tuesday evening of the month (when my knitting guild meets), goal is to work towards some kind of knitting group connection. it's so hard when both parents are working & the kid(s) is young. sending much solidarity although alas cannot make a date for in person tea &

you need a knitting group & a saturday morning to bullshit & seam in company. guaranteed to make it happen & pleasantly so.

the best sound, so so good

this is worth clicking on a substack link

Fixing Housing Means Fixing Finance: Why We Can’t Deregulate Our Way to Affordability - Groundwork Collaborative

have you read @jwmason.bsky.social 's paper on public financing to boost housing production?

groundworkcollaborative.org/work/fixing-...

hi @swordsjew.bsky.social strongly suspect you'll enjoy this thread & the link for several different reasons ❤️

this is a great, useful conversation, highly recommend & have a hold on lubrano's book at the library already.

This was a delight!