'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Gofundme has a roundup of verified Spokane fundraisers for folks who have, for the most part, lost everything:

Washington Wildfire Relief: See the GoFundMe Community’s Impact

Discover how the GoFundMe community supports Washington Wildfire Relief. See stories, updates, and how much has been raised for Washington Wildfire Relief so far

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As you know, with a for-profit prison industrial complex, every unincarcerated person is lost revenue. Disgusting.

this is really, really bad, and Spokane is ... not exactly on the national radar. I know there are infinite people and places that need help, and everyone's resources are finite, but some options if you are so inclined:

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people. n.pr/3Sbed19

So weird how "just stick to sports" doesn't apply when it comes to hosting anti-trans hate rallies at WNBA games

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

For those who want to follow along or learn the backstory for each embroidered icon, you can find the descriptions with news links here: www.jessicacalarco.com/stitchthenews

Stitch-the-News — Jessica Calarco

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.

jessicacalarco.com

Therapists using LLMs to transcribe or summarize your sessions: Here's what you're missing. The thinking. #TherapistSky

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

The fact that no one in the mainstream press (or, more understandably, on the knives-out city council) seems to think SPD bears any culpability for inaccurate information SPD has put out and for SPD's actions on Sunday night is bonkers, and goes to show how differently this mayor is being treated.

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

I immediately cancelled my financial support of ProPublica when the union challenged mgmt's foot-dragging and refusal to bargain. Congrats to PPG.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 5d ago

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

What are the classics for? Well, one thing they're for is providing an opportunity to look at This Modern World with enough of a plausible distance to try to really see ourselves. Nolan asks "what if, in your hubris, you undermine the very values that made your society what it is?"

This is good old "hate the sin, love the sinner" cognitive dissonance to the nth degree.

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · last wk.

Coming out as trans convinced me that both things are true because Republicans are stupid and cannot see basic connections between things. They can like every trans person they know, think trans people should be wiped out, and not understand how the trans people they know would be impacted by this.

Local journalism matters. @publicola.com.web.brid.gy's reporting on Barnes' frequent absences started long before this past week's Seattle Center shootings, but it finally bore fruit when he was held to account by @mayor.seattle.gov. The Seattle Times sure didn't try here.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hearing on good authority that Police Chief Shon Barnes has just been fired. He just left the mayor's office this evening after being inside for quite a while. Barnes is currently calling around the police department to tell his captains. Still waiting on confirmation from mayor's office and SPD.

When Bruce Harrell was mayor, SPD kept information around a potential serial killer in Capitol Hill and First Hill from the public for a number of weeks, something that did not get as much media attention as a press conference being delayed for three hours. www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/05/poli...

Revising this to -75 years, my options are Home Ec teacher, Mechanical Engineer, Home Ec teacher, and U.S. Forestry Service ranger. So probably the teacher. At -100 (GGPs): PE teacher, school principal, homemaker, Home Ec teacher, coal miner, teacher, seamstress. So again, teacher.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

“Best-case scenario is we lose track of Jimothy in a few months,” Castillo-Vardaro says. In other words, LEAVE JIMOTHY ALONE. www.wired.com/story/dont-g...

Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy

Urban wildlife biologists say the stumpy raccoon seems to have adapted well to his environment and spinal condition—but his internet fame presents a new threat.

wired.com

Noting that housing opponents have compared housing for renters to nuclear power plants and highways today, Lin says, "I don't think housing and future residents are toxic waste or pollution that need to be studied for years and years and years on end. I believe housing is a human right." !!!

Nolan's hardly an underdog, but I really do think we need to get away from the idea that fidelity to source material is an index of quality. There are absolutely problems with the film, but it's an entertainment designed to warn audiences that complex civilization is coming unglued. It succeeds.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Me when people ask "Do you watch ["Couple Therapy," "Shrinking," "In Treatment," etc.] ⬇️

Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · last wk.

I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.

"Brought about a collapse" Sea Peoples 🤝 Emily Wilson

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

Short answer: yes. Our tech team are working on it and we hope to be back to normal soon. Emily Wilson is on the LRB Podcast in the meantime: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

hey if you live in Georgia's 13th congressional district, YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TOMORROW. Apparently only 10k/500K elligible voters have voted early -- so uhhhh please go vote???????? find your polling location> mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

Anybody concerned about what the Seattle shooting means in terms of Seattle's policing situation: don't be more concerned than our own Chief of Police who wasn't even in town (per usual) because he lives in Chicago.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · last wk.

During today’s shooting, and currently, Seattle police chief shon Barnes was out of town. He had planned to be out of the city until mid-August.

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

People have been predicting "post-scarcity" for ~100 years, and the problem is never that we don't have enough to feed, clothe, house, and educate everyone. The problem is oligarchs, like Musk, would disappear in that environment, *so they fight like hell against it*.

Total corruption and self-dealing.

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

this time honored classic

Oh god having relatives in Kenosha WI and Savannah, GA at the same time when I was in HS meant every break, I came back with a new accent Binge-watched "Slow Horses" and I was annoying myself. Two weeks in the UK? y'wot?

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you