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@paparatti@phire.place
Seattle based, UK born human being with a wildly swinging pendulum of interests, not limited to: reading, stationery, geopolitics, gardening, television, film, fashion (not fast) and food.
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Joined November 14, 2022
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Try it. Post a picture of moss. See what happens.
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PSA for Western WA people: the Visiting Nurses are back giving COVID and flu shots - specifically at Seattle Public Schools between September 25th and November 22nd, but also in Bothell, Edmonds, Kirkland, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Redmond, Renton, and Sammamish too. They take insurance, but if you don't have it: out of pocket costs are $60 for a flu shot and $200 for a Moderna COVID shot. Lots of appointments available.
https://www.seattlevna.com
#seattle #health #flu #covid #vaccinations
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pro-AI people, stay out of my mentions <3 I don't like you, I don't respect you, and if you try to engage me in a debate, I *will* drag you
good morning from these professional wrestling champions!
#cats
Uhhhhhh the Neuromancer trailer looks good???
https://youtu.be/g79GPZSQHBk?is=MnvKPFpKxfNwdwJE
Anyone fancy a Māori anti-colonial gothic horror film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrQE0o1EDg
#film #movies #Aotearoa #NewZealand #maori #indigenous #horror
Oh hey, Seattle PSA: someone is trying to start an artist collective meetup at the Rainier Beach community center (next session: June 14th 3 - 5pm). More info here, or on the flyer image:
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Us: we want a bonded pair
Them: *sleep apart the first chance they get*
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Tonight they are all set up in the laundry room, but we're going to work on getting them adjusted to the rest of the house before July 4th because then they'll have plenty of places to hide from the firework noise.
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Also if anyone wants to adopt their mom, she is a ✨doll✨ and their foster is amazing to work with:
https://www.petfinder.com/cat/florence-4e2b9aaa-ed97-40ea-8588-b746e00d5292/wa/seattle/alley-cat-project-wa500/details/
#cats #seattle
! Congratulations to the student Cockroach protestors of India today: after weeks of protests (and abuse by Delhi police) the education minister has resigned and all their demands have been accepted by the Indian government. And no one died!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Delhi_Jantar_Mantar_protests
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indias-modi-under-pressure-youth-protest-leaders-set-more-talks-2026-07-25/
#India #protests
Seen on MLK:
I logged in to Nextdoor just to look at all the threads of obscenely wealthy Boomers complaining about the Lake Washington Blvd bike weekends. Did you know they do this with their real names? Amazing.
More good news from this fine state: Washington is relaunching it's eBike rebate program.
In gardening news: I am still unhappy with the growth rate of anything in the raised beds. Tomatoes are coming in, but the plants themselves are weedy compared to the ones in the pots and grow bags. It's big fertilizing weekend, so that might help, but I think after 10 years, adding mushroom/home compost is not enough to amend the soil. They need more.
(advice welcome!)
#gardening
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theoretical me: obligation done, time to play a video game!
practical me: actually time to pull the rest of the garlic before it rains
Local PSA: Seattle Parks & Rec are refurbishing the restroom at Genessee Playfields to meet safety/accessibility standards.
"This will likely include individually accessed, all-gender toilet facilities, and new accessible parking area."
If anyone else has been wondering where Boots Riley gets his hats, here is the answer: Uptown Yardie, a British/Jamaican company in London. Big hats for all your big problems.
https://sf.gazetteer.co/an-incomplete-history-of-boots-rileys-incredible-hats
Dua Lipa interviews Claire Keegan, who is one of my all time favorite authors (and needs to write at least 5 more books because I have read them all), about her short story So Late In The Day and the themes of misogyny therein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRL491yBQs
#ClaireKeegan #books #interview #DuaLipa #feminism #misogyny #writing
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Today in petty annoyances: more than one eBay seller has put some plastic tat into my order as a "thank you" recently, which goes against half the reason I buy secondhand goods: to avoid plastic tat.
This afternoon I'm rewatching Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves, which is one of my all time favorite films. I can't help but wonder if the same film, gender flipped to be about the government/war, would garner the same kind of criticism as this film does w/r/t misogyny and female suffering.
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@SunnJax@tech.lgbt whoa, I'm so glad you're in one piece! Those cars are a nightmare. (Unsolicited advice, please disregard as much as you like: I was hit by a car in a similar way as a pedestrian once, and it's worth keeping an eye on yourself over the next few days in case bruises/joint pain kick in on a delayed schedule.)
Today in Parenting: I almost made it from kindergarten to the end of 8th grade without being asked to buy a display board for a school presentation.
Today, that streak ends.
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@hungryjoe@functional.cafe that's the part you're supposed to work out by yourself! Everything gets a hashtag, for your own sanity and the good of someone else's organic search.
So the US just indicted Raul Castro. I wonder if Putin had enough forethought to plan an extraction, or if he's just leaving the old man (and the Cuban people) to whatever awaits him.
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Damn, the light rail just ran off the tracks in the ID?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1vdb6te/light_rail_crashed_in_front_of_us_at/
#seattle