Just got this from Cheetolini. When he gets desperate he gets creepy.

A favorite local hike, from Evergreen State College parking lot F to the beach, is now strongly discouraged due to a cougar sighting.

I'm sure it would rather eat deer than human. But we're a lot easier to catch. So if you hike, bring a friend who's slower than you.

Considering how well camouflaged and secretive these cats are, it was probably there for some time before it revealed itself.

(Photo by Michael Smith; I don't know if it's the same cougar.)

In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

Find the cat.

#Donolf deftly snares the youth vote.
#politics

Saying goodbye to an old T-shirt (yeah I know it's silly). This rag was from the first year I did the AIDS/LifeCycle Ride -- a pivotal year for me. The community I found there, where the only real rule was to support and find joy in each other, has been my ideal, my benchmark, for community ever since.

Happy Stonewall Day!

Washington is absolutely bonkers in some ways. There are 28 people running for governor -- at least four times as many as for any other office, though there's a candidate for US Senate who calls himself "Goodspaceguy" and that's got to count for something.
I'll call it today: the two who go on to the general will be Bob Ferguson and Mark Mullet, both Democrats (though the latter is really a libertarian).
#politics
#craziness

I love it when judges troll each other. Here, Elena Kagan trolls Sam Alito.

(via https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/elena-kagan-makes-the-best-possible-dig-at-samuel-alito/, originally spotted by Gabe Roth on the ex-bird, https://twitter.com/FixTheCourt/status/1793653614298444117/photo/1? )

@Alfred Can you please tell where this picture was taken?

This made me mad at first, but then I remembered they never do anything when they're in Washington but rag on whoever's Speaker this month and try to impeach someone (anyone!) so I guess it's fine if they spend the day fawning on Coupsolini like a pack of hounds.

That's a new one: blue-headed grosbeak at the feeder. Though they're sufficiently similar to rufous-sided towhees that I think I may have seen one before and misidentified it.

He's not shy, at any rate, or maybe he's tired. He's sitting in the feeder like he owns it. And given his size relative to the usual juncos and chickadees, he effectively does.
(Not my photo!)

Trailside trillium in Grass Lake Nature Reserve, Olympia. I lost count of all the trillium out there. There were lots of pink ones too.

Wondering how a picture of a young blonde with big breasts in a pile of grey fluff is supposed to inspire me to buy solar panels.

Finally let my fiddle teacher know I've been wearing this to every lesson for the last couple months. My kids gave it to me years ago.

Saw one of these guys the other day -- a Varied Thrush, also known as "what the hell bird is that?" It's a secretive bird that keeps to itself, though with plumage like that you'd think hiding wouldn't be the first thing on it mind.

Today is Confederate Flag Day.

Republicans are embarrassing. I would give equal blame to Democrats, but is there any Democrat as embarrassingly stupid as Cotton, Boebert, Greene ....?

Good God this guy is an embarrassment.

Also at Seattle Art Museum, Nicholas Galanin's "Neon American Anthem."