Okay we lost, but I did get the band to spell out my initials and that was pretty cool.

On Wednesday I harvested indigo and submerged the leaves on stems in water. The next day I remembered that they need to be warm so added heated blankets. Today, indoxyl has arrived! (Hydrolysis of indican yields indoxyl and glucose).

You ever think about Barbara Mundy’s theories on the 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan? latinamericanstudies.org/aztecs/tenoc...

I’m at a research station and I know this is an everyday thing for the people who live here but I freak the f out like I’m seeing a celebrity each morning when this beauty graces me with it’s presence.

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y ago

Apple is aiming to release a foldable iPhone in 2026 📱 (via WSJ)

Halftime, the UW marching band plays Bowie’s Space Oddity - I turn to my bestie, “seems like a sad song for halftime.” but the band swoops in spirals & a formation like an eye from above, staring out from the field & I just love being home in my weird town. Very Langley Schools Music Project vibes

Just went to the Coast Salish weaving fashion show at Burke Museum and it was so beautiful. Every garment, movement, moment of music, stunned me. So glad to be home.

Was looking for a red fresno pepper at the co-op today-found a squat red pepper with no sign. Asked 20-something produce guy what it was ; “it’s a cherry bomb, but watch out, contrary to its name, it’s super hot” … do the children no longer know the deep wisdom…about ch-ch-ch-cherry bombs?🍒

UPDATE: a friend at church has obtained the Iran War special edition prawn crackers while they were traveling in Japan

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 5mo ago

This is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠

Seattle peeps, Spokane, WA is dealing with large wild fires in residential areas tonight. KHQ-TV is covering live. www.youtube.com/live/rGM8JMo...

NonStop Local KHQ | BREAKING WILDFIRE COVERAGE | Old Trails Fire in Spokane County

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Artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) used the genre of Expressionism to stress the emotional toll of poverty, war and grief #womensart

I spent a formative summer as a 19 year old bartender in Oxford, England, thirty years ago. So I’ve had this song stuck in my head for 30 years and I as a result I’m required to root for England tonight. youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?...

Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) (Official Video)

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Wishing a very good morning to the woman on NPR Puzzle today who is retired and spends her time writing biblical erotica.

I'd like to hear Hernan Diaz's thoughts on this SpaceX IPO.... it feels like something straight out of Trust.

New job: Curator of Early Printed Books The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70053

I’m at the football game, I’m at the Corgi race, I’m at the combination Corgi Football race.

Where are we bombing tonight? Kharg Island

When my insomnia kicks in I’ll spend time on Google Maps wandering the streets, cafes, bakeries, and ice cream shops of the places the US is bombing that week. This week has been Beirut, a place I’ve always wanted to go.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Love to these people and to this city.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 9mo ago

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Anti-ICE graphics package number 5 is here! Download, print, share, fight back! justseeds.org/graphic/abol...

Just a reminder that the federal building in Minneapolis where ICE is holding protesters, immigrants, citizens, etc. A place where you are not guaranteed a “one phone call”, where you have no due process, is the same land where they held Indigenous people in a pen in the late 1800s.

Visited @letter-kunde.bsky.social’s walhalla of printing presses today. It was a good day! #bookhistory 💙📚📜

This is a horrific moment and I want to talk about this picture to highlight the contrasts here: paramilitary government employee and large scale tyrannosaurus. Having lived in Minneapolis for a short time I can tell you that it is a big city but with small town community connections.

A.I. hotel art is such a horrible combination of words. It's so gross to see people using AI to a) steal from Andy Warhol and b) take away the small spaces in the visual landscape where living artists could have made something lovely. Also, I bet the Warhol estate would be upset by this.

Alex Steed@alexsteed.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I know we have bigger first to fry but this sucks so fucking bad. Location: Midtown Hotel Boston

Printmaking internship prepping for the Venice Biennale through my friends at Scuola Internazionale Di Graphica - this looks like a great opportunity for a printmaker interested in contemporary art. scuolagrafica.it/en/erasmus/e...

ERASMUS + Internship Venice Biennale 2026 - Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia

The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Culture, invites applications for Erasmus+ Internships

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I interrupted the homeowner.

Wonderful time at Seattle Art Museum at Farm to Table-it wove Impressionism, French foodways, colonialism, socioeconomics of food production. A rich experience with my niece-we saw these iron marks in late 1800s paintings & talked about the people who would have done the ironing and how they did it

the good that you do persists in this world

Seattle! Check your ballots! I had to cure mine and it only took a minute. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 11mo ago

Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...