Joseph in the PNW
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Riding bikes, staying one step ahead of my garden some of the time. No need to follow back - if you follow me we'll both be lost.
I spotted this squirrel in the park. Maybe it's looking for nuts?
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I spotted this squirrel in the park. Maybe it's looking for nuts?
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This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play “Pins and Needles,” which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. Let's talk about this moment of labor feminism meeting popular culture!
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play “Pins and Needles,” which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. Let's talk about this moment of labor feminism meeting popular culture!
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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It's hard to describe how helpful the chickens are when transplanting winter leeks
🌱 #gardensky #chickens
🌱 #gardensky #chickens
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's hard to describe how helpful the chickens are when transplanting winter leeks
🌱 #gardensky #chickens
🌱 #gardensky #chickens
Something I haven't seen before - one of my leek seed heads has tiny bulbils forming at the center of the head. I often see the seeds sprout on the head, which then falls over and launches next year's plants.
#gardensky 🌱
#gardensky 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Something I haven't seen before - one of my leek seed heads has tiny bulbils forming at the center of the head. I often see the seeds sprout on the head, which then falls over and launches next year's plants.
#gardensky 🌱
#gardensky 🌱
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Boston’s about to see the birth of a thriving black metal music scene, as foretold in the prophecy that hath now come to pass.
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Alass paw Yaawk
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This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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A man who sees his power collapsing and is trying to claw it back. This is weakness, not strength.
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A man who sees his power collapsing and is trying to claw it back. This is weakness, not strength.
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Interesting fact: even with the nickel fare, the Seattle streetcar system was profitable before servicing debt right up to the year the tracks were pulled up. Labor, maintenance, operations, etc. were all covered.
The debt from building the system, though, could not be borne by the nickel fare.
The debt from building the system, though, could not be borne by the nickel fare.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Interesting fact: even with the nickel fare, the Seattle streetcar system was profitable before servicing debt right up to the year the tracks were pulled up. Labor, maintenance, operations, etc. were all covered.
The debt from building the system, though, could not be borne by the nickel fare.
The debt from building the system, though, could not be borne by the nickel fare.
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Working remotely from friends' house and spent several hours yesterday on the phone with IT trying to figure out why I couldn't access the company server. Long story short, the company server and one of their devices had the same IP address. Which device you ask? The stove/oven...I kid you not.
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Working remotely from friends' house and spent several hours yesterday on the phone with IT trying to figure out why I couldn't access the company server. Long story short, the company server and one of their devices had the same IP address. Which device you ask? The stove/oven...I kid you not.
Somehow one "Gloriosa" dahlia is hanging on. This spot stays slightly warmer - the rest of the tender plants succumbed to frost weeks ago.
🌱 #gardensky
🌱 #gardensky
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Somehow one "Gloriosa" dahlia is hanging on. This spot stays slightly warmer - the rest of the tender plants succumbed to frost weeks ago.
🌱 #gardensky
🌱 #gardensky
This hellebore is in full bloom, two months earlier than expected. The rest of my hellebores bloom in midwinter.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This hellebore is in full bloom, two months earlier than expected. The rest of my hellebores bloom in midwinter.
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Some winter garden color
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November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Some winter garden color
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And there’s there’s his famous last telegram, sent to Big Bill Haywood reading, “Good-bye Bill. I will die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.”
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And there’s there’s his famous last telegram, sent to Big Bill Haywood reading, “Good-bye Bill. I will die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.”
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This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!
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It probably isn't possible to pinpoint when traditional journalism went off the rails (though I might look very closely at 2016) but this should be the kind of thing that galvanizes resistance from journalists, not something that passes with a shrug.
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It probably isn't possible to pinpoint when traditional journalism went off the rails (though I might look very closely at 2016) but this should be the kind of thing that galvanizes resistance from journalists, not something that passes with a shrug.
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Mandatory genital inspection of children is a weird, weird thing to want to do.
Brian Heywood's 2 new dangerous initiatives — IL26-001/IL26-638 — threaten the safety of ALL kids, especially trans & queer students, by forcing invasive genital exams on children who want to play sports.
Decline to sign these dangerous initiatives. Take the pledge here: bit.ly/WFFDecline
Decline to sign these dangerous initiatives. Take the pledge here: bit.ly/WFFDecline
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Mandatory genital inspection of children is a weird, weird thing to want to do.
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I debated whether to post this since it's a little off-brand for me, but once an idea like this starts it's hard to stop it coming out. But be relieved this wasn't a flow chart.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I debated whether to post this since it's a little off-brand for me, but once an idea like this starts it's hard to stop it coming out. But be relieved this wasn't a flow chart.