THAT'S SEATTLE, BAYBEE

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d ago

macklemore and dave matthews will be our pete seeger and woody guthrie won’t they. 70 years from now they'll be remembered as principled songwriters whose music is ideologically admired but rarely listened to. it won’t be any of the earnest folk revival types it’ll be macklemore and dave matthews

(This is not a call to glaze the guy uncritically, everybody is free to keep their opinions)

Macklemore has this extremely Seattle earnestness that is pure cringe to 90% of the rest of the country, but I knew it would see him through in the end. What is cringe but earnestness persevering

You can also apparently enter your personal collections into the state fair, because the last thing I saw before I left this building was some guy's Trek collection. Including a Tom Paris (and others) commemorative plate!

Washington State Fair craft thread!

the only good thing billionaires have ever given us is their ex-wives, evergreen

Uplifting News@upliftingnews.bsky.social · 4d ago

A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.

My neighborhood Mission bar/restaurant that I've been going to for 20+ years has replaced their coloring page kids' menu & crayons with this. I'll be sending a strongly worded email to management, which is frankly more punk than this nonsense.

You know what they say: Practice makes more...you practice to perfect...perfection is....you gotta practice what you preach.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d ago

hasn't he been painting for like fifteen years at this point how is he still so bad at it

it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!

Apropos of smartwatch news, here's a quick plug for the e-ink, Bluetooth-only Pebble smartwatch, which does a limited number of things well (notifications for messages, weather, limited maps, normal clock stuff) and lasts a week+ on one charge. There's even an LCARS display option. repebble.com

my favorite part about having two kids is the nine separate bicycles I’m forced to store in my single-car garage

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

"Watch this! It's based off of Wile E. Coyote!" What every parent wants to hear when they walk into a room

I don't remember this requirement during that one year earlier in the pandemic when the legislature funded meals statewide. Has this always been the case?

Lee Scheinbeim@lee.scheinbe.im · 2w ago

so the free school meals now implemented in Seattle... kids have to pick 3 out of 5 categories and it has to have at least 1/2 cup of fruits or veg. if the meal doesn't meet these requirements you get charged www.seattleschools.org/departments/...

How are Seattle kids getting to school? 🎒 From School Streets, Walking School Buses, to Bike Trains, there are many ways to make the trip safer and fun. Our back-to-school guide offers ideas for families to walk, bike, and roll. Read back to school guide ⬇️ www.streetsalliance.org/get-involved...

Fuck this administration generally, and fuck them specifically today for blocking the routine renewal of my kids' beloved piano teacher's O-1B visa, meaning he can't teach the lessons he was supposed to start this week and might never be back as their teacher. Hate it!!!

FOLLOWED BY THIS EMAIL Someone is having a terrible professional night, and I feel for them, but come on. This is the largest school district in the state. This is embarrassing.

SAL@sarahannelloyd.com · 2w ago

lol someone forgot to uncheck the robocall box for the 11 p.m. strike update

Bonne rentrée à tous les parents!

Pro tip! The less you post about "Lake America," the less written evidence of its use there is, and the less likely any reputable dictionary company will enter it into their dictionaries. ONLY *YOU* CAN PREVENT BAD LEXICOGRAPHY

The eight-year-old has taken to wrapping herself in a blanket and gliding imperiously through the house, intoning "FEAR ME, CATS," so yeah, you could say we're ready for summer vacation to be done.

42 minutes is 6 Blueys (the accepted standard measure of time in a 2020s household with children)

Nothing says "We respect the concerns of busy Seattle Public School parents" like sending them all a 42-minute youtube video message to watch. No captions, either, which is an odd choice when special ed is one of the big negotiating sticking points.

Sigh. (It's AI. Among many other tells, no one, not even a professional statue, would leave a baby that age unsupported on the edge of a bench. You don't need to know anything about babies; I promise your hands would shoot out to grab it instinctively.)

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2w ago

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

The word “y’all” is the South’s gift to the English speaking world. A warm, genderless, elegant solution to the language’s odd lack of a formal contraction for “you all”. You can use it. Really, we don’t care.

This specific line reading actually bubbles up in my mind at least three or four times a year. I loved this movie so much.

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 3w ago

The horniest Disney movie of all time, with a dazzlingly campy villain, and it’s still so much fun.

My favorite "Hold up, is that...Tim Curry??" voice-acting role is, of course, mad scientist Dr. Anton Sevarius from GARGOYLES, whose lab coat has short sleeves (?) and who at one point fakes his own death by electric eels

Muppet Treasure Island is a perfect movie.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports

hard to believe sometimes but i still think evil people are also capable of dying