Sean
wxgeek.bsky.social
Sean
@wxgeek.bsky.social
Birder, motorcyclist, catcher, woodworker, electron-inconveniencer.

📖 A Memory Called Empire
🎧 HINT!
🎶 Bluegrass
Cal was robbed.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I guess I’m glad it’s coming to light and all but I do not like living in “true detective season one if everyone had a head injury” world
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
chips and salsa
motorcycle
Stanley #4 hand plane
dog and dog and dog
finding exactly the right mountain goats song for the moment
waking up to gentle 8 ft Atlantic swells in your bunk, & smell of coffee
the lights above Arby's
best coat in cold wind
exhaustion after good work
taco night
trains
get to know your mutuals - list 10 random things you like:

peperomia plants
the smell of cat feet
when stores have cute frivolous merch
going barefoot
carbonated coffee
Rachmaninov
touching the tips of Mexican bush sage when I walk by it
dried mango
aquaphor as lip balm
get to know your mutuals - list 10 random things you like:

gradient yarn
black licorice
classical music played on electric guitars
supernatural horror movies
popcorn with nacho cheese seasoning
the smiths
cold brew coffee
ice breakers bubble gum
standard transmissions
the smell of zippo lighters
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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FIVE HUNDRED MEN SACKED FOR REFUSING
TO EVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
THE VOICES DOWN THE AGES WARNING
NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
YOU MUST NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.

Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.

Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
anyone else have fairly predictable nightmares on nyquil, and also a fairly predictable waking up at the 4 hr mark?
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I think it’s now safe to call this race.

Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.
Seattle's mayor race update:

Katie Wilson's lead grows to 1,346 votes over and incumbent corporate-Democrat Bruce Harrell.

Kate Wilson won 61.23% of the 6,121 ballots counted today.

Overall total:

Katie Wilson 50.08% 137,217
Bruce Harrell 49.59% 135,871
Write-in 0.33% 908
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Turns out the President will read anything you hand him on a note card.

Literally, it was just this one advisor freelancing, nobody else in the admin knew about 50 yr mortgages (which are so broken that even Republicans don't want them)
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡

@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.

My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.

I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.

My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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People say wolves are intelligent, but a third of our staff was able to beat them in head-to-head Chutes and Ladders.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Either Schumer couldn't control his caucus or organized the capitulation. Either way, what good is he?

I've just emailed both my senators asking them to remove him from leadership. He's clearly toast.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This...this is something different. This is special. This speech is immediately going into the history books.
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Perhaps there were two sandwiches. The regular one and…







the grassy roll
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Let me teach yinz about Haluski, which only seems to exist in Pittsburgh and which I describe as "What the steelworker's wife made 2 days before payday."

You NEED:
- 1 small head of cabbage, or half a bigger one
- 1 bag of egg noodles (I like the extra wide ones)
- Half-ish a stick of butter
- S&P
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I have $13 until my next pay check (in 1.5 weeks)..."

...which gave us the best recipe thread ever.

share.google/VvhM7lQK6Qpy...
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Friends don’t let friends get bent out of shape over Axios “reporting” that relies on three vague rumors in a trench coat for a source.
did any of you who brought this cheap ragebait act over here from twitter even read the linked piece? it’s axios, it’s not like it’s long or uses big words.
Senate Democrats about to roll over. Goddamnit.
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM