Colleen M
@arcsecant.bsky.social
Keep honking, I'm mentally floating around Lake Union in a hot tub boat listening to Killing Joke while trying to find an interesting way to describe a Japanese guitar's tone in 50 characters or less.
In case you were curious why Seattle didn't just float out to sea this week.
Here’s why Seattle wasn’t hugely impacted by flooding, rain
Here’s why Seattle wasn’t hugely impacted by flooding, rain
Seattle experienced dramatically less rainfall and had only a few localized road floods. That's due to the city's unique geographic landscape.
www.seattletimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
In case you were curious why Seattle didn't just float out to sea this week.
Today's/this week's general vibe.
crab from spongebob wearing a tuxedo and bow tie
Alt: Crab from spongebob wearing a tuxedo and bow tie shooting pressure streams out of his eyeballs. General mood.
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Today's/this week's general vibe.
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fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
But I think this one, the multiple times, is the really truth-teller.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Slayer
The War on Drugs
Front 242
Greyhounds (Amazing and if they are near you, I don't care what you listen to, GO.)
KMFDM (they were, in fact, doing it again.)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Slayer
The War on Drugs
Front 242
Greyhounds (Amazing and if they are near you, I don't care what you listen to, GO.)
KMFDM (they were, in fact, doing it again.)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
But I think this one, the multiple times, is the really truth-teller.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Slayer
The War on Drugs
Front 242
Greyhounds (Amazing and if they are near you, I don't care what you listen to, GO.)
KMFDM (they were, in fact, doing it again.)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Slayer
The War on Drugs
Front 242
Greyhounds (Amazing and if they are near you, I don't care what you listen to, GO.)
KMFDM (they were, in fact, doing it again.)
The real fun of this is tapping back through the thread to find, just based on the bands, the person who is undeniably your age and sub-genre.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
A random selection
-Electric Six
-Killing Joke
-PJ Harvey
-Einstürzende Neubauten
-Pop Will Eat Itself
A random selection
-Electric Six
-Killing Joke
-PJ Harvey
-Einstürzende Neubauten
-Pop Will Eat Itself
Introduce yourself with five concert you’ve seen.
David Bowie
Mudhoney
Public Enemy
Nirvana
White Stripes
David Bowie
Mudhoney
Public Enemy
Nirvana
White Stripes
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The real fun of this is tapping back through the thread to find, just based on the bands, the person who is undeniably your age and sub-genre.
Very disappointed to find out that the "OPE market" that is being aggressively advertised to me on LinkedIn has nothing to do with midwest speech mannerisms.
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Very disappointed to find out that the "OPE market" that is being aggressively advertised to me on LinkedIn has nothing to do with midwest speech mannerisms.
Yoga snooze, activate.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yoga snooze, activate.
Look, I loved LA for most of my time there and have many close friends that live and die for the Dodgers, which I get, but Toronto fans donated a ton of cash to Seattle Children's Hospital after they beat the Mariners as a thank you? Yeah.
Go Jays.
Go Jays.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Look, I loved LA for most of my time there and have many close friends that live and die for the Dodgers, which I get, but Toronto fans donated a ton of cash to Seattle Children's Hospital after they beat the Mariners as a thank you? Yeah.
Go Jays.
Go Jays.
Officially know you've been working too much when you read a personal email subject line that starts with "Satisfy" as "Salsify." @bookshop.org is not trying to sell me ecommerce solutions, just tasty treats. 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Officially know you've been working too much when you read a personal email subject line that starts with "Satisfy" as "Salsify." @bookshop.org is not trying to sell me ecommerce solutions, just tasty treats. 🎃
The glory of the new place is being able to have a headphone-free Leather Strip rager at my desk while my husband mixes a fiddle track in the living room. MOohoo-hoo. ROOMS, man! #FolkyInTheFront #DanishIndustrialInTheBack #ClausWouldApprove
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The glory of the new place is being able to have a headphone-free Leather Strip rager at my desk while my husband mixes a fiddle track in the living room. MOohoo-hoo. ROOMS, man! #FolkyInTheFront #DanishIndustrialInTheBack #ClausWouldApprove
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It’s not that things get boring as you get older it’s just that porches get exciting
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s not that things get boring as you get older it’s just that porches get exciting
We can hear fog horns (whistles is the proper term it seems?) from the new place, and as someone that has only ever lived near rivers, it is REALLY COOL. And weird. But mainly cool. Like, "oh shit, is a ship about to hit the building?" (It is not.)
a boat with the number 57 on the side
Alt: A small boat drives through a harbor with a man, who is possibly PSY?, onboard aggressively doing the Gangnam Style dance. For the older among us.
media.tenor.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We can hear fog horns (whistles is the proper term it seems?) from the new place, and as someone that has only ever lived near rivers, it is REALLY COOL. And weird. But mainly cool. Like, "oh shit, is a ship about to hit the building?" (It is not.)
Have asked a lot of the world this month, but if you have any lingering good vibes and luck to offer me between 8-11 this morning, I could use them. What a week. 
September 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Have asked a lot of the world this month, but if you have any lingering good vibes and luck to offer me between 8-11 this morning, I could use them. What a week. 
Every impromptu photo I try to take:
ME: i hope i get a cool photo of that crow
CROW: *boing*
CROW: *boing*
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Every impromptu photo I try to take:
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*taps sign*
September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
*taps sign*
If you happened to find my driver's license in West Seattle, Queen Anne, or Interbay yesterday, I'd love to know where it is. 🫠
Evidently that was the price for surviving the move. Which would be super-funny-ha-ha if my car tags didn't expire in 7 days.
Evidently that was the price for surviving the move. Which would be super-funny-ha-ha if my car tags didn't expire in 7 days.
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If you happened to find my driver's license in West Seattle, Queen Anne, or Interbay yesterday, I'd love to know where it is. 🫠
Evidently that was the price for surviving the move. Which would be super-funny-ha-ha if my car tags didn't expire in 7 days.
Evidently that was the price for surviving the move. Which would be super-funny-ha-ha if my car tags didn't expire in 7 days.
Can’t stop staring at the scale of these trees outside the hotel. Seattle move-in is today. 🎉🌲
September 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Can’t stop staring at the scale of these trees outside the hotel. Seattle move-in is today. 🎉🌲
Just called a waterproof windbreaker a "rain shirt" so packing for the move is going great, thanks.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just called a waterproof windbreaker a "rain shirt" so packing for the move is going great, thanks.
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Welp, things happened fast and we're moving to Seattle permanently. I just crossed the 20-years-in-LA line in mid August, so that's enough sun for one lifetime. Psyched to eat as much fresh King salmon as physically possible.
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Welp, things happened fast and we're moving to Seattle permanently. I just crossed the 20-years-in-LA line in mid August, so that's enough sun for one lifetime. Psyched to eat as much fresh King salmon as physically possible.
Good morning especially to any Danish company that would like to hire me for their marketing communications to/in North America.
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
August 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Good morning especially to any Danish company that would like to hire me for their marketing communications to/in North America.
Sometimes you go to send a reaction GIF that just opens a nostalgia cupboard in your brain. I need a Looney Tunes decompression day, dang.
a cartoon of bugs bunny with a bottle of carrot juice
Alt: Clip of a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon where he's standing in his rabbit hole in PJs exhausted, scratching his side. A bottle of carrot juice and a print copy of Variety are on his "doorstep."
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sometimes you go to send a reaction GIF that just opens a nostalgia cupboard in your brain. I need a Looney Tunes decompression day, dang.
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Asparagus makes EVERYONE's urine smell weird, but NOT EVERYONE can smell that smell. For years, scientists thought that asparagus made only SOME PEOPLE's urine smell, because some folks reported that it didn't. This is an example of why it's so important to ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION.
August 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Asparagus makes EVERYONE's urine smell weird, but NOT EVERYONE can smell that smell. For years, scientists thought that asparagus made only SOME PEOPLE's urine smell, because some folks reported that it didn't. This is an example of why it's so important to ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION.
There's a very niche audience for this post, but I must put it somewhere. My org uses a project tool called Wrike—I am the WRIKE MASTER for our team. I also want to get some exercise today. So my brain just blurted out, "Okay. Update Wrike...get on the bike...o/~ everybody walk the dinosaurrrr o/~ "
August 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There's a very niche audience for this post, but I must put it somewhere. My org uses a project tool called Wrike—I am the WRIKE MASTER for our team. I also want to get some exercise today. So my brain just blurted out, "Okay. Update Wrike...get on the bike...o/~ everybody walk the dinosaurrrr o/~ "
Put 80% of your salary in VTSAX until 29 then peace the fuck out into the woods forever.
If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice, what would it be?
Trust your gut and fail bravely: seven influential women on the advice they would give their 30-year-old selves
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Put 80% of your salary in VTSAX until 29 then peace the fuck out into the woods forever.