Apparently I need to update my Seattle Seasons chart.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Around 20% of hospital beds in the US are in Christianist facilities, most Catholic, that have happily been denying reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for decades AND enjoying a nonprofit status. Most people don't realize the stranglehold the church has until it's too late.

Coming soon: Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

The Kickstarter for the sequel to my award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror launches on Monday!

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The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Hello friends and also enemies, Behind the Bastards has been nominated for a Webby! This is the first award I've ever been nominated for, so if you'd like to vote for my show I'd appreciate it:

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The cover of Shards of Reflections. The header says Kickstarting now! There are several tags with arrows pointing to the book telling you what the book has in store. - Supernatural noir - Art deco future setting - Identity crisis - Unreliable POV - Psychological mystery - Vampires are capitalists - Stand alone in shared universe - She can do a little murder, as a treat

Shards of Reflection needs 2k in 10 days! www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...
Here's a run down of everything you can get! Firstly the book, Shards of Reflection about a newly made vampire trying to find their sire. #comics #webcomics #urbanfantasy #vampires #werewolves

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍🌈💗💙🤍

this claim originates from a badly written article extrapolating from a paper the author misread. as a result I expect to see the 9C/16F figure bandied about everywhere now.

It looks like I need to write a blog post about how sex works in fruit trees.

I keep seeing people passing around the myth that only male trees are planted to prevent people from having access to fruit.

photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

Man walking the streets of San Diego with a black hat and a flag that says "FUCK ICE"

Returning to land just in time for the protests

Underwater shot of an Alaskan king crab standing on the sea floor on what looks like coral with their legs raised high and claws held closely to their crabby face.

No kings but our magnificent crustacean sovereign, Alaska King Crab 🦀👑

A post reading “Carolyn Barber... @cb... • 6h And it begins, ICE KIDNAPPINGS from planes... An unidentified, masked ICE agent removed two American citizens from a plane in Texas-no warrant or articulated probable cause, just threats. This raises serious concerns about unlawful detention and abuse of federal authority. We should ALL be ICE OUT OF AIRPORTS!!! I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHEN KARMA KNOCKS YOUR DOOR! With a video showing an obviously stage scene of a flight attendant and an ICE agent standing at the front of a plane.

I can tell this is fake before even hitting play. Flight attendants are not allowed to hem their skirts that high, not wear stockings, and not wear wings. Nor is that even a flight attendant uniform.

C’mon folks. Spreading misinfo doesn’t help our immigrant neighbors.

Man wearing sunglasses laying back on a sunny grass at Gas Works Park

‘Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This,’ Says Seattle Man Enjoying 37-Minute Window of Sunshine at Gas Works: tinyurl.com/24fw2w75

You’d never know from reading the @nytimes.com that a blockade is an act of war. That this is a war of aggression. That suddenly depriving millions of people of safe drinking water is a war crime. That this unprecedented humanitarian disaster was deliberately engineered by Donald Trump for leverage.

Official portrait of Joe Kent with American flag behind him

Joe Kent Resigns in Protest of Starting Wars Against Brown People Abroad Instead of at Home: tinyurl.com/3nvh3dp4

I choked.

Creating stories for people who are hungry is what it's all about

When I was in elementary school most of the fifth or sixth grade classes in my region went to Camp Orkila on Orcas Island for about a week. Also tide-pooling around Puget Sound and the Seattle Aquarium.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Good news! Thrilling news! Keep a lookout...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

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For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.