Echo Mary

It's related to the stairs, but we have yet to find a realistic creative solution to the stairs themselves.
The idea of making an extremely custom "spiral" staircase out of rebar and angle iron seems more and more like a feasible plan for that one but oof.

A photo of a non-load-bearing wall stud which is actually four separate pieces of wood screwed into drywall.

I might leave this 4-part stud screwed in because it makes me feel better about myself and my own construction abilities when I see it

I ask people to consider planting native oaks and other keystone insect hosts, but they mostly don't 🥲

Collage-A-Thon! At Distant Worlds Coffeehouse in Seattle, WA. Features a QR code for more info. Friday August 15, 2025, 6-8pm. Free!

MOAR COLLAGE!! MOAR
I will bring everything you need to make the collage of your dreams. I'll also be bringing masks, since this indoor event can get crowded.
Who am I gonna see??
#CollageAThon

Insect biomass decline is one of those things I think about every day where it's like... I feel like I'm on a plane and the wing just fell off and it's crashing but everybody else is acting normal and so it makes me feel a little bit crazy?

75% decrease in insect biomass worldwide in the past 20ish years

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Pen & Ink Study

#stag #rusty #musky

Boosty commission for YURiCiao.

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Yyeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Local policy would be worse if it weren't for the gerrymandering happening here, but nothing helpful to the long-term picture is being done either way, and already vulnerable communities will always feel the brunt of this dysfunctional gridlock more than anyone else.

remove their voice entirely than it is to actually problem solve and fund the resources we need as an exploited region with loads of natural resources. But that would mean putting a way shorter leash on billionaire lumber companies... And the WA government won't do that.

a little dingus that reaches over and covers most of the population of Tacoma, so that the entire district also swings blue.

When a liberal state government fails to win the hearts and minds of underserved rural working class americans because their policy sucks, I guess it's a bigger priority to

Oh boy.
Our legislative district is drawn so that my rural county and the conservative rural areas of the county above us are lumped in with liberal Olympia, to make us a "blue" legislative district.
Our congressional district is the entirety of the consevative-leaning olympic peninsula except for

65,000 people in my county, 85% of whom are of European ancestry, just under 4% are indigenous, just under 10% are Latino, and now I need to look up how the district lines are drawn in relation to that.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

The only light is too bright.

More than Meets the Eye🌱

I wanted to fucking die when I read their response, but that's where a LOT of people are at! They're so caught up in the ways they're inconvenienced that they can't see the larger picture.

So PLEASE call this shit out in your friend groups when you see it. Don't leave fascist rhetoric unchallenged.

When presented with concrete information explaining how fascists were intentionally manufacturing their problems, their reaponse was to say, "Hey, republicans are kinda right, actually!" and then directly feed narratives used to defund healthcare, food stamps and other social services.

This particular queer person's response was to say that having problems with a systematically defunded service was still a problem with individual employees, and republicans are right to emphasize personal accountability when calling out how lazy people are.

public complaints could be used as ammo by fascists who can then say, "And look at how bad USPS is these days" while ignoring how the bad service was intentionally manufactured by fascist oligarchs seeking to privatize ALL shipping.

specific post office locations were targeted for funding cuts which led to resources being spread thin, machines breaking, and a high employee turnover rate, leading to overall bad performance.
I explained how this was intentional sabotage not only to shit on mail-in voting, but also so that

And what's even worse than folks ignoring this reality, are times when I see queer folks directly playing into these narratives, effectively walking right into the jaws of death.

A little while ago I was trying to communicate with someone who has been having issues with USPS.
I explained how their

The push to prioritize puritanism and militarism, to platform pseudoscientists sowing distrust in academia, to legislate queers out of existence, to push false narratives and dichotomies to encourage distrust, and to defund social services is all DIRECTLY connected to oligarchs like Peter Thiel.

folks do understand and want to ignore it because it's fucking scary.

In either case the only remedy I see is to keep on talking about it.
We're in the middle of a concerted and multi-pronged effort to destabilize and destroy all of the most beneficial aspects of our society.

The fact that so many folks are willing to prioritize their feelings of disgust over the need to draw a line in the sand regarding fascist policy is proof that many folks either don't fully understand the extent to which fascists are orchestrating these moves and how they're connected, or

That's definitely a legal action, and it makes drip coffee a lot better imo.

Fictional kinks can't hurt me but a fascist regime very much can and will.

If you genuinely think fictional content (yes, even the "too gross" ones) is WORSE than fascism, reprioritize your life.

I can curate what fictional content I engage with.
I can't content warning my way out of fascism lmfao