Mary Dickson

We don't talk about nostradamus

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secure.actblue.com/donate/jenla... running for school board is whack y'all, and

*9/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

Further to this post of mine ⬇️, @cjkarr.bsky.social just shared this post with me, and friends, I like the way we're all thinking.

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Shoutout to the neurodivergent parents of neurodivergent children just fucking exhausted and trying to do the best they can and never feeling like it's good enough

I've been using "heard, chef" since watching The Bear

“My friend Victor saved me though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit.” A child had to say these words.

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

This!! It's so goddamn annoying to point at his methods and be like yes, more of this, and louder, but not from that guy

Paragliders(?) on a soccer field on a clear day

How do I sign up for the "fly away from here" club?

I bought too many pine nuts a little while ago so now I'm just adding pine nuts to everything and it is delicious (and expensive)

Someone should phone in a wellness check

I’m also so thrilled to support Sarah Clark and Joe Mizrahi to be retained our School Board. They ask tough questions, listen to school communities, push SPS to serve kids better, and lead with integrity. And they write a 🔥 op-ed!

I am, as usual, with Beth on this

Op-Ed: Seattle Poised to Repeat Chicago’s School Closure Mistake » The Urbanist # Last week Seattle Public Schools (SPS) unveiled plans to embrace sweeping austerity, making major cuts to school programs and closing an unspecified number of schools in the 2025-26 school year. In ...

There is no reason to close schools in Seattle. Enrollment dropped in the early 2020s but has stabilized and slowly begun growing again. Closing schools has been shown to do enormous harm to students, and doesn't save very much money at all. It's the worst kind of austerity. More here: 3/

Woman and child holding a completed WA ballot and smiling at the camera

Get those ballots in, y'all! #waelex

Proud to support 2 neighbors in this one, @nathanrouse.bsky.social and Jen LaVallee (she'll be on the Nov ballot).

Also important to support anti "right sizing schools" (aka closing them) board members @joemiz.bsky.social and Sarah Clark.

Why is that man so afraid of the Epstein files, he is a cockroach who survives everything.

Look at me resisting the urge to put my pan into the oven until it's done preheating like an ADULT

fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

I got 9/26 on the fstrings.wtf quiz. Can you do better? fstrings.wtf

"saltines with butter and radishes" with an illustrative picture

I love any excuse to eat saltines and butter

They're not gone! She's just exploring 💖💖💖

A hard parenting lesson to learn is that when our kids feel loved and safe is when they show off their WORST behavior isn't that special for us 😭😂

Oh congrats you have a threenager

I am sorry to say they get smarter and funnier and you will get even more sass

Honestly, maybe we should let AI run some things, like the nation's diplomatic communications and trade agreements. It would probably go better than whatever this is.

This is a "y not both" moment if ever there was one!!

It's a headline that says "Married UH Archaeologists uncover 1,700 year old maya tomb". The two of them look like a nice Midwestern married couple in their 60's. The man wears a red button-up shirt, the woman a nice white blouse with a sort of black leaf-pattern or silk-screen on it. Behind them is a Mayan temple on a heavily forested hill.

It took me WAY too long to realize that this was about a pair of researchers at University of Houston (UH), and not that the headline was stalling to find a euphemism for what they REALLY are.

The Internet has ruined me.

But how is your brain?

SPS board must make it clear the well-resourced schools plan is done | Op-Ed A school board member writes that she is not convinced that there aren't other options to balance the Seattle district's 2025-26 budget.

Anyone who was paying attention knows that this editorial was a huge tipping point. "SPS board must make it clear the well-resourced schools plan is done | The Seattle Times" share.google/cU0vZw1mywR5...

Huge miss in failing to endorse Sarah Clark for SPS school board! She was the first member to say NO to the mass school closure plan. I'm sorry she didn't impress y'all or bring cupcakes but I've watched all the damn board meetings and she has impressed me many times with her spot-on questions.

Yes! The beginnings are the worst

Same! Are you doing intervals? (Ex: run 3 min, walk 2.) I thought I'd do them "to get back into the swing of things" but I think that might just be how I run now.

Also, I heard Lily Allen songs today TWICE before 7:30 am?? What is going on