Just Inevitable

One more reason for me to take public transit.

Imagine being on one of the most beautiful roads in the area and having the opportunity to take it in and go slow and he wants to… yell? I thought most people accepted that ok pretty days, that’s a bike road.

Forgot to post the title: How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley

Finished this one this week and man was it a read. Highly recommend. You're going to be so mad, but it gives a great base of information that's important and sadly still relevant.

it’s that time of year again

Every time I posted about how much my insurance was through the Exchange, people would say, “what are you talking about? I’m only paying $33 a month.”

Those people are about to find out they were on Medicaid.

New York Times headline from 7/3/81: "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals." The single-column story ran on page 20.

This now-famous story, published 44 years ago today, was the NYT's first report on AIDS (which did not yet have a name). The subject was considered so minor that the NYT ran only 2 more stories about it in the year following. By the time the story made the front page, the death toll was over 1000.

This was so much fun. Laugh out loud laughs.

This month’s win is that I’m finally back to pre-move savings and only about 10k away from my savings goal. I might get this knocked out within a year.

It wasn’t just the move that took me out. It was also helping family. Had to put a pause in that for a minute.

There was a study published in Science just under 15 years ago that showed that rats in a lab were able to show empathy & altruism for one another.

When challenged, they would choose to free a captive buddy over food. Later in the tests, the liberating rat would save treats for the captive rat.

Body is snatched! Show off them stems

This is a reference to the iconic,
Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

Image from The Old Toronto Facebook page: Image is of traffic leaving Toronto on the 401 near Morningside Ave on May 2-4 in 1972. Credit: Old toronto series

There are only about 100 cars in this photo.

I don’t know what it was like in the 70s, but today during rush hour, nearly all of these cars would have just one person in them. So there’d only be about 100 people in this photo.

One Toronto Streetcar holds over 160 people. One bus, over 50.

I recently watched To Catch a Thief and it was superb. Vertigo is so intense.

gays explaining this drama:

Some books are better the second time. Less is one of them. I’m thoroughly enjoying it more this time than the first time around.

Bahahahaha

The reason men have such a visceral reaction to the idea that they should step in when they see another man treating a woman poorly is that men are scared of other men.

This reaction is not rooted in anger, it is rooted in fear.

Men are frightened because they know what other men are capable of.

Stevie Nicks didn’t write nor sing Everywhere and Little Lies outside of backing vocals. That was the amazing Christine McVie. I see people not realizing this.

Silver Springs
Planets of the Universe
For What It’s Worth
Gold Dust Woman
Rhiannon
Leather and Lace
After the Glitter Fades

Masked ICE agent at Seattle Immigration Court this week as a man who sought asylum is taken away by other masked ICE agents

Local Conservative Clarifies He’s Only Okay with Wearing Masks to Ruin Lives, Not Save Them: tinyurl.com/3pabcukx

tinned fishing
#art

This was my first of hers and it still hold up. Timeless.

I lost mind 5 years ago, but I’ve followed your journey enough to know how huge this is and I love reading every post. I’m genuinely thrilled for you so please keep on sharing here.

Occasionally I run into "is it safe to take the light rail in Seattle, I want to go to Pike Place but I'm so scared" type posts on Reddit, usually from would-be tourists, and I am rendered temporarily speechless. This is a safe and fairly bougie city. Rightwing media must really be working overtime

Chicago pope

If you only care about the trees lost to development it isn't trees you actually care about

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!