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Stilty
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Interests: PNW, bicycling, whale watching from shore, antitrust, the work of Lina Khan and Frances Perkins, tech ethics, data analytics, parks, energy efficiency, Iceland, Mars, occupational safety, puffins, healthy air, karaoke, libraries, Tacoma
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I think Bruce Harrell should be *required* to continue posting tiktoks from the official city account, to prove he wasn't just using public resources to promote his campaign
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Orca in Olympia, Washington in June
📸Stan Zielenski
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Orca
Puffin
Sea turtle
Roosevelt Elk
Humpback whale
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Rattle snake
Sea turtle
Bobcat
Bison
Dolphins
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Grizzly bear
Wolf
Orca
Moose
Sea otter
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Pretty exciting news, a long-thought possibly - that dry dust storms produce enough static energy to create little lighting bolts - has been kind of observed on Mars!!
🧪🔭 #planetsci

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars - Nature
The SuperCam microphone aboard the Perseverance rover captured 55 triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars over two Martian years, providing implications for examining the planet’s surface ...
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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@gov.je our local climate change deniers use this argument for why Jersey shouldn’t bother with renewables and green policies. Here’s a good reply as to why we should continue to improve our environmental policies.
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.

Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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AS SEEN ON TWIN PEAKS!! "Dianne, the trees are amazing!"
NEW ARRIVAL: Ace Detective micro cassette recorder, 3 blank tapes and 2 rechargeable AA batteries package on sale now, ideal for poets, future rock stars and private eye interrogations -- only at TINKERTOPIA!
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
Tom Stoppard: A BBC Radio Drama Collection Audiobook on Libro.fm
The collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard One of the giants of British theatre, Sir Tom Stoppard has been writing for the stage and screen for over 50...
libro.fm
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Apropos of everything, here's a guide for breaking up with Chrome, Google Search, and their ever increasing flow of AI slop.

buttondown.com/natebowling/...
Breaking Up with Google Search
Today's newsletter is a bit of a hodgepodge. Hope and I are back in Tacoma and spending quality time with family along with attending our usual events and...
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Read my full story here!

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Starting your holiday shopping? Check this thread for independent artists to get amazing things from!

Let's support each other, not billionaires!
It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!

If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Good night, Bluesky!

Sunset over the Olympics as a Washington State ferry approaches Bremerton on Sinclair Inlet
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Fun fact! The tallest Sequoia outside of California is in Tacoma!
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It's not a love letter to a city, and its setting isn't just another character. Train Dreams' relationship to the Pacific Northwest is complex, which helps make it great:
Train Dreams stakes a complex claim in the Pacific Northwest cinematic canon
The rapidly changing Pacific Northwest fuels the haunting engine of Netflix's stunning reflection Train Dreams.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Letterboxd plans to launch the Letterboxd Video Store, a curated rental platform with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in December 2025 (Letterboxd)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Did you know the only published and printed #lesbianbar guide in history is from Berlin in 1928? Every other lezbiqueertrans tour guide includes many spaces beyond nightlife. Check it out here: www.queergeographies.com/the-only-les... #lesbian #bar #queer #trans #bisexual #dyke
The Only Lesbian Bar Guide in the World Is from 1928
Since the first episodes of the Our Dyke Histories podcast on the 1920s and 1930s will begin (in nine days!) in Berlin dyke bars*, it's only fair to bring the magic and visuals to you. What Berlin joy...
www.queergeographies.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What's your fav movie about an unexpected & intense 24-hr romance?

#Letterboxd #Filmsky
Of an Age (2022)
A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
boxd.it
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I love how @letterboxd.social can show me in 30 seconds all the French movies from the 60s that are free for me to stream.

Best $15 dollars ever spent. Saves me oodles of time! Plus LB made realize I can quit Netflix and not miss it at all!
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team????????

LET’S GOOOOOO
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In this 1989 interview, Kurt Cobain states for the record that Nirvana formed in Tacoma and Olympia
Hanging with Nirvana at Kurt’s House in 1989
In one of the band’s first interviews, their early history and sardonic attitude comes to life
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Kept my promise and took the pups on a 3 hour hike thru Point Defiance today!
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My hunch is this is a good soundtrack for an afternoon spent in Louis Armstrong Park!

cc: @jonnytench.bsky.social
500 Songs Supplemental 8 -- The Fat Man
A mixcloud playlist of all the songs excerpted in episode eight of my podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs". To hear that podcast, visit 500songs.com . This episode is on "The Fat Man" by Fat...
www.mixcloud.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM