Tory Franklin

go ahead and tell me charisma is a dump stat now, shithead

Discounts to Visit Seattle Art Museum To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience art, SAM offers monthly free days and various discounts for visiting our locations.

Today and every Wednesday through Dec. 17, get free admission to the Seattle Art Museum with a donation of at least two non-perishable canned food items, supporting the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank. Details below:

Potato as well.

Yuuup. And if we can stop spending ungodly amounts of money on a ramped up houseless sweeps schedule and a pointless graffiti war that would be amazing. Even better if she can get rid of SODA, SOAP and those cameras that Renton just found out were being shared with 🧊 without their knowlage.

Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!

He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.

That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.

Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.

Really glad we have a new city attorney too. Hope they can slash some terrible programs that were pushed through the last few years…

When I saw the times in victrola this afternoon saying it was pretty much happening I knew it was gonna be a good day. Was bummed that the times ticker doesn’t work any more so I couldn’t keep checking out the window at work. But eventually someone sent me that they called it!

Is the sphinx going up on your website? I want!

Ooooh

Womp womp. Just found out that Gods Junk Drawer by Peter Clines is delayed until January. Got all ready to download and boom no book. Looks like I’m listening to something else while I print this edition.

They’re a bit pricey but Logi makes some great ergonomic ones you can program! I have different profiles for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Baulders Gate 3 and it’s lovely that it just knows which program it’s in and weather the side wheel or the top wheel or the 6 programmable buttons do what.

I was responding to someone who said they would be continue to be produced through next year which is not what I was seeing anywhere in the news, hence linking to this article that says they are the final minted ones. Doesn’t matter who gets em if they’re not being made anymore…

The last-ever penny was minted today in Philadelphia | CNN Business The American penny passed away today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old.

No today was the last day of production. But yes they are still legal tender.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...

US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’ Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.

José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:

“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Install day went well. Can’t wait to see this without all the ladders and lift and install chaos. But it’s out of my house and hung so yayyyyy!

Ohhhhh that makes way more sense!

Does this mean they were copying from other books? Sorry I’m not down on what occurs in the literary industry.

Really glad that there was a sale on brioche sandwich bread because that makes a damn fine grilled cheese….both my close grocery stores this week are having big sales on staples to try and get people to stretch their buck. haven’t seen sliced cheese under a buck all pandemmy.

Man now I have another reason to hate Amazon for the fact that I can’t read another Indexing book…what a bummer

As a sign maker this deeply offends me. Not that I want him wasting our money, but just spend the few hundred bucks to have a proper raised sign made. It’s a drop in the bucket as to what’s being spent. But they have to go the cheapest tackiest and most terrible typeface to look like bad printouts.

So excited I’ll have several of these to catch up on when I finally finish up the Cradle coverage.

This is what one tier (out of three that stack) will hang like. The back of the Tyvek did get glazed after this hanging system test.

Just finished trimming 9 banners for the piece I’m making for the Cornish staff show that opens Friday the 14th at The Behnke Family Gallery across the street from Cornish on the corner of Boren and Lenora. Opening is 4:30-7 pm if you’re in the Denny Regrade area of Seattle (South Lake Union)

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Holy crap. Yeah I wish seattle food was cheaper.

Curious as to how cheap are leeks where you’re at. I made this with my own potatoes last month and it cost me almost 18 bucks for the leeks….

Ooooh. This sounds amazing!

A thing about the weird right wing reaction to masking for covid is like, you realize that even if your risk of death dropped with vaccination…not everyone has a low risk, right? And the people who are at a higher risk are the ones masking? So you’re just..haranguing people in danger?

Sandpaper superglued to a dowel to sand in side curves on CNC routed wood

CNC routed triangle frames made of plywood. A red hand sander is in one of the triangles

Baby blue wood stain on a wooden triangle frame. Stain pint and chipbrush are on the paper underneath the triangle.

Blue wood stain wiped away to show some of the wood grain on a triangle frame. HVAC vent sucking away the solvent smell.

This week has been all about getting these triangle frames cut, sanded and stained to hang the screen printed banners I’m putting in the Cornish staff show. Not shown is the pile of airline cable, wire snips, turnbuckles, eye bolts, quick links and crimps accumulating to assemble the hanging system.

As someone who is lucky enough to have some space but lives in the PNW where the season is much shorter, the amount of energy it takes to get even a small harvest is a lot. It takes months to ripen and does not last long, and is realistically a few meals. 12 planters of potatoes is like 12 meals.