Columbia City Gallery just now! The lawn chair next to the prawn throne is gorgeous, like a woven sunflower thing.

A gallery window with some colorful art chairs including an amazing curvy orange shrimp chair

All you can seat shrimp

It's an entertaining intersection between creatures and sportsball, paging @sabs.bsky.social!
Sea life rejects the concept of referees, I reject using a penguin as a ball.

"Are you just going to carry that thing around all night?" they say

I hope the new building is named Prince Tugboat

I now want to open a business named robot/baby

I have baked a couple of those for Finnish pals based on one I found in a book, with a layer of quark custard under the rhubarb. Delicious, but I think of it as closer to a yeast dough coffee cake sort of thing, I was pretty confused that the pals call it pie.

Take your bag of dicks to Orca's Island I guess

Eavesdropping on someone's work chat made me realize that some East Coast people think Washington has a specific Orca Island to go see orcas, which is funny in at least two ways.

Humpy would never

Seattle used to have almost no mosquitoes and now they're an itchy little menace. Idk if you've tried the heat method but I get great relief (I use a hair dryer, cook em just to the "ouch that's pretty hot" stage without actually burning myself.) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Super happy for my neighborhood's most interesting restaurant. It's been a rough year for them (for, I think, all but the popular breakfast place) and hopefully they're getting a needed heap of reservations from this.

Hopefully not the space toilet company

Distant view of Mt Tahoma from the Smith Tower. The foreground is low- and mid-rise brick building separated by two major arterials. There are almost no cars on the streets.

Smith Tower as shown from the tide line of Habitat Beach. Big rocks and a log in the foreground, winter trees and mid-rise brick buildings in the middle.

A pal with a Smith Tower office share took me to the observation deck/bar yesterday. Goofy beautiful, great raspberry mint fizz drink, now noticing how much better it would be without all the car business.
Habitat beach is also 10/10. (My slow self crossed ok, but two scooter dopes didn't yield.)

Thank you for this, I'll aim for that sweet spot this year. My figs, garlic and bay are so happy and I expected dill to be as thoughtlessly easy. That's how they (herbs) getcha. I sure notice that we've been shifting to a more 2-season climate over my years of gardening here.

Keeping it alive. I've tried seed and starts, and once even replanted the roots I cut off plants purchased from a cucumber farm because the woman at the counter seemed insistent about it.

I have had the worst trouble growing dill here. Seattle + dill should be easy! Any advice?

There was a famous (infamous?) floating space turd a while back and I suppose that after that situation a fart is nbd in social-space situations

A mended space toilet and a living tortoise, morning news is going ok so far, I should stop scrolling huh

This includes the phrase Chekov's Urine Filter and is a necessary follow-up to my brief chat with @apollo18.bsky.social yesterday about space toilet gossip.

Biggest windows in space should pivot to most reliable space toilets!

Space toilet gossip is my new favorite gossip, thank you so much.
I kind of need a "worst space toilet breaking story" now but I suspect I would regret it almost immediately.

Is this a general expectation like a Sound Transit escalator or do you have space toilet gossip?!

My publisher and my primary freelance outlet have basically put "thou shalt not use AI" in my contracts. I know my situation isn't unusual, but many non-writer pals find it surprising in these times. They are getting pushed to use it for, like, email, so they assume I use it for my writing.

So many of my neighbors have done this it has reached a possibly weird place on my block, like crows are the mean girls (complimentary) and everyone does their bidding (also complimentary).

That Washington is an absolutely lovely city...if only it wasn't also the capital.

Hope they sue the company rather than just "reminding the voters!"

Our AG office is generally pretty smart as far as going after basically sure wins. If it's sports betting, which their own ad seems to say, it's illegal in WA unless it's at a tribal casino. That's still true in a few other states, it'll be interesting to see if they join this suit.

Sports betting is illegal in WA if it's not within a tribal casino. WA also has laws that allow residents to sue for losses on illegal sports bets. So the math on their "ultimate responsibility" will be easy to figure out.

In WA you are welcome to bet on sports by visiting a tribal casino and betting in person. This relationship is probably the only reason we haven't done what so many other states have.