Ristretto
@dbg18.bsky.social
📍West Seattle
Dogs 🐶 espresso ☕ books 📚 travel 🌎
Always wishing I was on Achill Island
Will always choose the 🐻 bear
Dogs 🐶 espresso ☕ books 📚 travel 🌎
Always wishing I was on Achill Island
Will always choose the 🐻 bear
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Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
Give them all an 🏆
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Give them all an 🏆
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Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
SOUND UP 🎶🎶
DAY 29 NOVEMBER 2O25
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
So thankful for all of you in these horrendous times
Tonight Something Wonderful
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the creation of Rock n Roll
Enjoy with Love ⬇️❤️
SOUND UP 🎶🎶
DAY 29 NOVEMBER 2O25
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
So thankful for all of you in these horrendous times
Tonight Something Wonderful
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the creation of Rock n Roll
Enjoy with Love ⬇️❤️
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
SOUND UP 🎶🎶
DAY 29 NOVEMBER 2O25
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
So thankful for all of you in these horrendous times
Tonight Something Wonderful
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the creation of Rock n Roll
Enjoy with Love ⬇️❤️
SOUND UP 🎶🎶
DAY 29 NOVEMBER 2O25
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
So thankful for all of you in these horrendous times
Tonight Something Wonderful
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the creation of Rock n Roll
Enjoy with Love ⬇️❤️
This is a different kind of Pup Cup.
A female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a different kind of Pup Cup.
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The world needs to know the utter destruction the Irish can impart with mere words.
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 PM
The world needs to know the utter destruction the Irish can impart with mere words.
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SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
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Please check your ballots to make sure they were counted. It takes 5 minutes. And fixing issues is just as quick.
There's still a lot of curable ballots from Seattle (about 1,800). Most are unsigned or signature mismatches, and most skew younger.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Please check your ballots to make sure they were counted. It takes 5 minutes. And fixing issues is just as quick.
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We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
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Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.
I'm the weirdo that loves the gray and dark days.
"I’m afraid to report all that is about to be replaced by insufferable eternal darkness, which I expect to last sometime well into tenebrous infinitude."
This is the local report: theneedling.com/2019/09/02/s...
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm the weirdo that loves the gray and dark days.
Saka should take a look at the org charts of both ST and Metro and maybe meet with the police chiefs of each before coming up with another useless layer of bureaucracy.
Rob Saka wants to take money *directly* from transit service funding to pay for a new "Chief Transit Security and Safety Officer" at the City of Seattle.
That's despite the fact that King County is directly in charge of many of the things this new position would be trying to direct.
That's despite the fact that King County is directly in charge of many of the things this new position would be trying to direct.
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Saka should take a look at the org charts of both ST and Metro and maybe meet with the police chiefs of each before coming up with another useless layer of bureaucracy.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
In our house, we call it the "Not-so-Rapid-Ride."
Seattle’s 2nd busiest bus is pausing this project waiting for a new president in 2029 instead of just deploying what they can for $90 million dollars.
How much does painting the lane cost? I’ll do it for $2 million dollars, then you can come back and finish the rest in 2037 or whatever
How much does painting the lane cost? I’ll do it for $2 million dollars, then you can come back and finish the rest in 2037 or whatever
King County Metro has slashed the budgets for the RapidRide K and R Lines by 20% to 25%, which could scale back planned reliability improvements and rider amenities. The move raises serious questions about the future of the overall RapidRide program.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/17/m...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/17/m...
October 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
In our house, we call it the "Not-so-Rapid-Ride."
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
And still the church won't take full accountability.
Thanks to Catherine Corless, the remains of almost 800 babies born to unmarried mothers at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, will finally have a proper burial
The scandal of 796 dead Irish babies — and one woman’s fight
www.thetimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
And still the church won't take full accountability.
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Democratic leaders, it's time to endorse Mamdani.
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic leaders, it's time to endorse Mamdani.
Less than two hours to slap the DOJ and that embarrassment of an agent.
Bravo jury!
Bravo jury!
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Less than two hours to slap the DOJ and that embarrassment of an agent.
Bravo jury!
Bravo jury!
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Day 2 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:
1. GOP controls government. They control what bills get voted on and the vote thresholds for each bill. Senate GOP can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.
2. Dems are fighting to lower costs and save healthcare.
1. GOP controls government. They control what bills get voted on and the vote thresholds for each bill. Senate GOP can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.
2. Dems are fighting to lower costs and save healthcare.
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Day 2 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:
1. GOP controls government. They control what bills get voted on and the vote thresholds for each bill. Senate GOP can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.
2. Dems are fighting to lower costs and save healthcare.
1. GOP controls government. They control what bills get voted on and the vote thresholds for each bill. Senate GOP can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.
2. Dems are fighting to lower costs and save healthcare.
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I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.
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We have learned something important today. One person can just throw a sandwich and run and it wastes the time of about half of them
August 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
We have learned something important today. One person can just throw a sandwich and run and it wastes the time of about half of them
Tell us your life philosophy
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I’m told I need to find a way to live together, in harmony, with these loathsome bigots, and I don’t really feel any desire to try. I would rather work to undermine them, to humiliate them, to deny them peace or joy.
August 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tell us your life philosophy
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If someone continues to remain employed at an institution that caves to fascism, that is a choice on their part. It might be a difficult choice. It might be a painful choice. But it is a choice.
People have the right to make that choice.
They have no right to be free of consequences.
People have the right to make that choice.
They have no right to be free of consequences.
July 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If someone continues to remain employed at an institution that caves to fascism, that is a choice on their part. It might be a difficult choice. It might be a painful choice. But it is a choice.
People have the right to make that choice.
They have no right to be free of consequences.
People have the right to make that choice.
They have no right to be free of consequences.
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Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
July 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.