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Aerospace engineer, sometime photographer, loves western Washington, cats, dogs, and science fiction, hates authoritarianism
It probably wouldn’t be quite this idyllic, but sometimes it’s still possible to imagine this Bedford Falls timeline rather than the Pottersville timeline we’re stuck in right now. Let’s make sure we switch it back there again.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
It probably wouldn’t be quite this idyllic, but sometimes it’s still possible to imagine this Bedford Falls timeline rather than the Pottersville timeline we’re stuck in right now. Let’s make sure we switch it back there again.
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Halloween’s super-scary at the White House this year. 😐
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Halloween’s super-scary at the White House this year. 😐
Comet Lemmon over the Hood Canal and the Olympics, near Seabeck, Washington last night.
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Comet Lemmon over the Hood Canal and the Olympics, near Seabeck, Washington last night.
My favorite signs from yesterday. Not bold, controversial, or loaded with slick graphics. Just a quiet voice, witness to events now and in the past, a whisper reminding us of the elemental rightness of these words... and what is so very wrong about what is happening to our country right now.
October 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My favorite signs from yesterday. Not bold, controversial, or loaded with slick graphics. Just a quiet voice, witness to events now and in the past, a whisper reminding us of the elemental rightness of these words... and what is so very wrong about what is happening to our country right now.
Some photos of the northern lights a year ago, from Seabeck, Washington.
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Some photos of the northern lights a year ago, from Seabeck, Washington.
Early morning sky over the Olympics #HarvestMoon #photography
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Early morning sky over the Olympics #HarvestMoon #photography
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Yeah…the city is burned to a crisp.
October 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Yeah…the city is burned to a crisp.
Took these photos of a pileated woodpecker in my backyard. A pair has been hanging around in a stand of firs just to the south, but occasionally probe some snags I'd left in the yard for just this reason. #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Took these photos of a pileated woodpecker in my backyard. A pair has been hanging around in a stand of firs just to the south, but occasionally probe some snags I'd left in the yard for just this reason. #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
If Stephen Miller dislikes being compared to Goebbels, maybe he should stop giving speeches clearly inspired by him.
September 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If Stephen Miller dislikes being compared to Goebbels, maybe he should stop giving speeches clearly inspired by him.
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Hi!
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hi!
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
Well said.
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Well said.
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For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It
Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Congratulations, Texas, on becoming the most racist state in the Union. It gives me no pleasure to say this about my home state, which I once loved.
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Congratulations, Texas, on becoming the most racist state in the Union. It gives me no pleasure to say this about my home state, which I once loved.
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Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
August 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
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Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.
A western tiger swallowtail butterfly in a mock orange —a native here in the PNW.
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
June 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A western tiger swallowtail butterfly in a mock orange —a native here in the PNW.
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
A focus stack of speedwell blooms complete with bumblebee…24 exposures, Canon R5 with 100mm macro lens.
#Bloomscrolling #flower #flowerphotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
#Bloomscrolling #flower #flowerphotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
June 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A focus stack of speedwell blooms complete with bumblebee…24 exposures, Canon R5 with 100mm macro lens.
#Bloomscrolling #flower #flowerphotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
#Bloomscrolling #flower #flowerphotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
😂
I feel like getting the phrase “George W. Trump” trending on social media is all it would take to deter him from going to war with Iran
June 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
😂
Some eagles on the Hood canal yesterday
June 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Some eagles on the Hood canal yesterday
Some photos of eagles taken over the last two weeks, Hood Canal, Washington.
June 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Some photos of eagles taken over the last two weeks, Hood Canal, Washington.
#BlueMonday…a sunrise in Monument Valley, late March.
June 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#BlueMonday…a sunrise in Monument Valley, late March.
Boiling it down to the basics, there’s no success here.
The amount of Starship IFT-9 spin in certain places is amazing...
In short, the super heavy booster was lost during it's landing burn, Starship made SECO, but failed to deploy its starlink simulators, lost control & was lost during uncontrolled re-entry.
Good luck for the next flight but Ouch...
In short, the super heavy booster was lost during it's landing burn, Starship made SECO, but failed to deploy its starlink simulators, lost control & was lost during uncontrolled re-entry.
Good luck for the next flight but Ouch...
May 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Boiling it down to the basics, there’s no success here.
By the skin of our teeth. It shouldn’t be close. The First Amendment is abundantly clear. But we were lucky this time.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating a significant victory for Oklahoma families and the separation of state and church after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case involving the nation’s first religious public charter school. ffrf.us/3SjA5E6
FFRF hails Supreme Court split blocking nation’s first religious public charter school
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating a significant victory for Oklahoma families and the separation of state and church after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case involving t...
ffrf.us
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
By the skin of our teeth. It shouldn’t be close. The First Amendment is abundantly clear. But we were lucky this time.
Lib owning is getting rather expensive
May 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Lib owning is getting rather expensive