Hahaha, that's silly!

Yes.

I made partner. :)

Everything Everywhere All At Once

What a magical movie.

Orca with speech bubble saying “Apartments are fine actually”

Listening to Rick Rizzs call a winning game while I recuperate is healing.

light rail every five minutes RULES

Comic cover with the title "What Does HIV Mean?" by Jordan Collver & Jaime Garcia Iglesias featuring a patchwork quilt.

Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition. TEXT: Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not. A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person. Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure… [background sign]: CLINIC thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition. [phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus. [building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known. [handbag]: VINTAGE CITY “When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP) Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life. “The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg) Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility. But it wasn’t always this way.

Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room. We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges. Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose. TEXT: Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s… [sign]: HOSPITAL it was a matter of life and, very often, death. [sign]: STAFF ONLY [sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.” “Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…” “…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…” “and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white) “It was a fear-filled time… But…” “…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)

I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research!

"What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2

If we get swept by the Padres I'm walking into the ocean.

Holy shit, 500,000 downloads on the little podcast that could. Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this adventure!!

This thunderstorm produced a waterspout over Puget Sound! Photo via Reddit.

#OnThisDay in 1954, windshield pits caused mass delusion throughout Western WA. historylink.org/File/5136

Ever seen a pickoff like this?

Josh Naylor fooled the runner before getting the out! 🤯

Screen grab of an email: At an upcoming performance of Carmen on Saturday, May 16, Seattle Opera will be hosting a Furry Night with a special pre-show meet-and-greet with bass-baritone Christian Pursell, who plays Escamillo in the opera. Pursell will appear as his fursona, Chester the Geroo, and will be available for photos before the show. Although Pursell will not be in his fursuit onstage, we are encouraging audience members to attend the opera in their own costumes and fursuits, if they would like.

This amazing (real!) thing that is happening next month would make an absolutely incredible episode of Frasier

colorful anthropomorphized moon smiling at a small Orion spacecraft in space

“you came back!” ✨🥹

Paying for parking requires a parking meter or pay station. It needs to accept both cards and cash.

"Oh but it's so easy to use an app-"

No. Technology will surpass you someday the way it is surpassing older generations. Paying for parking is not a good reason to hand over data to another company.

Day baseball on a Monday hits different. Goms.

Naylz finally gets on the board with a pair of bombs.

#Mariners | #TridentsUp

Husband watching me go through the five stages of grief this evening just to have the Ms win it in the bottom of the 9th

A giant inflatable salmon wearing floaties and a life preserver emblazoned Humpy looms over faithful Mariners fans making their pilgrimage up the third base ramp at Safeco Field.

I’m really hoping they make Humpy the Redeemer a permanent feature of the third base ramp #goms

And now we get to do it again yay baseball season

A black and white sticker depicting Luigi Mangione hung on a fridge with a magnet shaped like a heart that says Venezia

Someone printed me a sticker of a photo of luigi mangione a while back and i left it on my counter and my housekeeper hung it on my fridge bc she thought he was my boyfriend

Fire the W.

Mariners games are like concentrated Sunday Scaries. Even when we win.

There you have it!

Hometown Holiday

Good morning!

Titanic departed Southampton and began its fateful voyage today 114 years ago.

Here is part of a British Pathé newsreel released post-disaster, with footage of Titanic on 2 April leaving Belfast.

A photo of Frances Perkins standing behind a desk. Credit: Library of Congress.

If you work, you owe your thanks to former labor Secretary Frances Perkins – the architect behind the 40-hour workweek, the minimum wage, unemployment insurance, and Social Security.

On her birthday today and every day, America’s unions celebrate her legacy and leadership.