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Okay, folks- I know we all have plenty to do, but if you're at all concerned about the White House & historic preservation, please consider submitting public comment on Trump's ballroom project; info in this thread. First, a direct link for submitting written statements: www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

Reddish liquid gushes from a glacier in -20C temps. (Short read.)

Thank you for the lovely Valentine’s Day. 😚

Clear glass with a wide shallow bowl, a wooden skewer and a curl of orange rind. A lovely amber manhattan.

“The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.”
Nick Charles, The Thin Man

Shaking to fox-trot time tonight

Yes!

Seahawks Super Bowl Trophy Celebration Finale. 🎶 We Are the Champions 🎸🎤 🏆

Lumen Field sign saying “2026 World Champions” “12 as One”

Stands filling up at the stadium. A screen with scenes from the year in Seahawks football.

The stadium floor with trucks and vans and the bus.

Seahawks Trophy Ceremony at Lumen Field! Let’s go!

The dog got a bath last Saturday. Three days later she comes in from the yard with a dirt streak on her face like she’s Rambo.

Every. Single. Time.

“Queen of Chess” (Netflix) tells Judit Polgár’s story. Top woman in the world for 26 years (when she retired.) The only woman to break into the world’s top 10 in chess. Talent, brains, and apparently down to earth.

My high school history teacher just posted on socials that he listened to the first Super Bowl in Vietnam, and just watched the 60th.

And he’s still as crusty and lefty as he was then. Love that man.

And the name of the place is “Conejo”

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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Decked out in Seahawks blue, green, and silver. Dogs bathed and in jerseys.

Snacks on board.

Enchiladas and black beans coming up on deck within the hour.

Thanks for the thought prompt. I spend a good deal of time trying to piece together how this history seeped into the nooks and crannies of my own life, and I’m taken aback regularly with how much of the everyday, ordinary goings on of growing up then and there still needs rooting out.

Would it normalize a culture of active justice? Would it require confession of wrongs done and still being done, because otherwise why would anyone need to remedy things? Would kids question what they witness and form alliances outside the status quo? Would it break privilege?

Would teaching that white leaders worked to change the systems and culture of oppression teach generations that the majority has a responsibility to act for a better world? Would it teach kids that society admires these leaders and holds them up as roll models, embracing the culture they lived?

The easy answer is to say “racism,” which is obvious, but this makes it easy to skip over digging into the details to find all the devils. Were white people pretending this wasn’t their problem? Subverting coordination of action amongst those with privilege? Was there shame or fear?

Did general news sources cover this? To what extent, I don’t know. There was a real hyper-local aspect to the work. My father could have given you lists of who did what in towns we lived in, but even he didn’t necessarily know about folks farther afield. I wish he were here to ask.

Bear with me. For a seemingly simple question, it has me thinking how many layers of choice played a part. The information wasn’t in our books, and I suspect teachers weren’t taught it. States chose books and districts chose curricula, and someone chose the info for the books that were bought. 🧵

Tahini oat bars baking.

Will prep the enchiladas for tomorrow.

Double check the game snacks…

When my family puts items on the grocery list, I’m pretty sure what they mean is “we would like to move into the grocery store.”

Moncler x Oskar Metsavaht for Team Brazil 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony #fashionsky

People Are Loving Mongolia’s 2026 Olympic Outfits With Heritage-Driven Style These Olympic outfits pay homage to Mongolia’s cultural heritage while simultaneously serving as modern reinterpretations fit for athletes.

Magnolia’s 2026 Olympic uniforms are drawing global attention not for athletic performance, but for their powerful use of fashion as cultural expression. trib.al/1jBV55b

While we wait for World Cup jerseys, let's take a minute for Haiti's Winter Olympic uniforms 🇭🇹

A work of art 😍

Granted, I grew up in the Deep South in the CR and post CR era, but we weren’t even taught about the white civil rights figures who were threatened but >weren’t< murdered. Many were local to a place, so perhaps weren’t well known. But some were regionally active, like Will Campbell.

Just realized the word “bib” most likely stems from the word for “to drink,” as in “imbibe.”

Thank you. I didn’t know this.