Kate Langsdorf

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

They can kill millions of people, and they might, but if the goal is to make it illegal to make fun of authority figures, I'm really sorry, it's never gonna happen for you.

Have you met teens, have you tried going up to teens and saying it's illegal to laugh at me, a grown-up who has authority

a black and white photo of a group of soldiers getting off a boat in the ocean . Alt: Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches in WW2.

Anti-fascists (Antifa) storming the beaches of Normandy.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
Jane Addams, born on this day in 1860

Resident Subsidized Housing As a small and wholly residential community, the Town is home to a great number of philanthropic individuals who are community minded and committed to the continued sustainability of the Town and the region. The Town would create a program where owners may register existing affordable housing units, and sign up residents who wish to support additional affordable units in either conversion of existing space or newly developed dwellings by individually subsidizing them. This somewhat novel approach is not as established as large affordable housing development approaches, but there is evidence that this already occurs in the Town and across our region in other communities, and the legislature's interpretation presented earlier in this document supports this as well. Given the extraordinary circumstances our region faces, the Town believes that taking novel approaches which match the scale and typologies of a community to affordable housing is important when addressing a state and regional issue at a local level. The Town is also keenly sensitive to the need for age-in-place solutions for its seniors and residents on fixed incomes. This approach will enhance the valued demographic diversity of the community

The town of Yarrow Point (pop. 1,130, median home sale price $4.4 million) has a new proposal to increase its stock of affordable housing: cataloging all of the "philanthropic individuals" who are renting their houses out and getting credit for that.

New York’s hottest saint is Elizabeth Ann Seton. Born into a prominent Episcopalian family, this saint has everything: a dead mom, a divorced dad, life set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, TUBERCULOSIS, a religious conversion, the composition of a banger top 40 hymn, the War of 1812

a stuffed animal is laying in a bed with a pink blanket Alt: Alf, the alien puppet from 80s television, sick on the couch like me.

3 weeks into covid, I’m now also sick with some new thing, and I hereby formally submit my complaint to the Department of No Fairs.

My favorite James Dobson fact is he believed that a lot of wives bait their husbands into hitting them.

James Dobson Meets His Maker. (It Is The Devil.) Get the fuck out, Dobson, goodbye!

James Dobson Meets His Maker. (It Is The Devil.)
www.wonkette.com/p/james-dobs...

By Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social

a cartoon of a family sitting around a table with the words this is me now Alt: Flashes of Gene from Bob’s Burgers in various outlandish costumes with the words “This is me now!”

Just downloaded the Merlin birdwatching app. My beginner PNW birding book couldn’t tell me what the orange-crowned warbler on my porch was, apparently because it’s uncommon, and now that I’ve got an uncommon bird on my list, this app is my whole personality.

Kate at the box in Ford’s Theatre where the thing happened. You know which thing.

The nice ceiling at Ford’s Theatre

Ford’s Theatre exterior early on a frosty February morning

Kate’s reflection in the mirror in the Petersen Boarding House, where Abraham Lincoln died

Somehow, my last day working at Ford’s Theatre was 10 years ago. Time stopped being linear after that 🤷‍♀️

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

This is excellent reporting and writing of what Rocha went through in the private, GEO Group run ICE detention center in Tacoma. Highly recommend reading from start to finish.

Bless them and the bravery of their work, their calling to shine a light on the horrors. The least the rest of us can do is look — Just a little, as much as we can bear; and act, as much as we’re able, within all the limits of any power we have.

Mercer Island’s Growth Plan Ruled Out of Compliance with State Law » The Urbanist # After the state's Growth Management Hearings Board struck down its plan, Mercer Island now has a year to update its Comprehensive Plan to meet affordable housing requirements. The initial version pr...

Late last week, the state growth management hearings board found Mercer Island's growth plan out of compliance with state law. The decision is likely to have a seismic impact on how cities across the state are required to plan for affordable housing.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/06/m...

the word i voted is on a yellow background with stars ALT: the word i voted is on a yellow background with stars

Washington! Vote your faces off. Get your ballots into a drop box by tomorrow 8/5 at 8pm, lest your community descend into madness or tyranny or the like. Local elections are super important!

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

Abandoned K-Mart exterior with gritty marks of removed old K-Mart sign

McMenamins to Challenge Itself by Restoring Historic Tacoma K-Mart: tinyurl.com/2cfcx565

Vote, Washington!. If want help with city or county people in King, Pierce, or Snohomish counties, I can point you in the right direction for values alignment or, in some cases, whether they’ve personally wronged me! (But I DO have 2 endorsements who’ve personally wronged me, so 🤷‍♀️)

Happy July 4! 🇺🇸

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The time draws nigh! Our fiscal year ends at midnight, & you can help us reach our $20k matching grant.

We believe theater has the extraordinary ability to foster empathy, cultivate understanding, & strengthen communities. By amplifying diverse voices & championing new works, we invite audiences to engage with stories that challenge, inspire, & reflect the complexities of our shared human experience.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room . ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room .

Hi from karaoke night where me & @oldschoolhero.bsky.social now feel STRONGLY that @nordicmuseum.org ought to put up an A-ha exhibition, preferably wherein you kinda get pulled into the “Take On Me” music video please & thank you

At the evening service tonight, the rector led a moment of silence acknowledging the US strikes in Iran & the impending uncertainty, & the church bell tolled ~12 times. I'm fairly new to mainline Protestantism & have never heard that many tolls before.

Are those the "everything is okay" tolls?

a man is holding a fire extinguisher and saying " i 'll just put this over here " with the rest of the fire ALT: a man is holding a fire extinguisher and saying " i 'll just put this over here " with the rest of the fire

Welp

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.

I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

it is funny how tech overlords, whose sole work experience is pretending to have something to sell while getting and burning through tons of outside capital with an end game that is solely enriching themselves, just assumed government jobs were as inefficient, corrupt, and pointless as their own

a puppet is standing next to a boy and saying `` it is the american way '' . ALT: a puppet is standing next to a boy and saying `` it is the american way '' .

Lovely community & glorious turnout in Covington, WA today for Charlie's first protest. No pics for social, but trust that he was a patriotic cutie-pie 🇺🇸