Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Low-key I can't believe this didn't explode this morning when I removed the sides. 120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Okay, objectively one of the most unpleasant reads I've ever experienced, but this did pull me out of it and get me to cackle. The gender of it all. 000
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I put the litterbox in the bathroom over a week ago and it's taken me until tonight to realize what I've done. 250
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's okay. The town I spent my first ten years in is beige and Evansville is blueing. 010
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I almost screamed reading this passage, where a suitor for our ex-Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere propaganda artist is explaining how those responsible for the war crimes should take responsibility and, uh, apologize. Background unrelated. 000
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Me for the last two years: No photos out the window. Geoguessr would be way too easy and I have no idea what the impact could be. Me, tonight: I CAN POST MY CAT (and one other shot) FINALLY 130
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This has been a solid album KEXP had in their 6 Albums for the week. They really enjoyed Flight Simulator, but Chalk does it for me: youtu.be/TkTRa6a2zQI?... 000
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The failure for seven months for anyone to be brought to justice through legitimate means is driving loss of faith in the "justice" system. It is concerning to watch continued escalation of rhetoric that is the logical endpoint when the legal system cannot justify its malprotection any longer. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sometimes I walk back into the office a little bit extra harrowed from lunch reading. Today's start of W.A. Lewis's "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor" is one of them. 100
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I feel like this 2015 textbook by a right-winger has to have changed this page in more recent editions. 010
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Super excited to be enjoying a talk tonight by Don Morgan of the Bank of North Dakota about how he runs the nation's sole public bank. 030
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 15/07/2026All the glass sculpture in Cal Anderson have etched words in them that are better revealed with water and a little bit of light. 040
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I like this mailer because it really shows how many twists and turns it takes to get from A to B when all we want is an income tax and to kill the sales tax, which he could have actually pushed on if he didn't want to take us on a garden path of budget cuts next session. 120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I made it. It's done. I also made permanent (i.e. cardstock) patterns so I can make it again. I never want to make another one. I'm never forgetting my grocery bag. Thank you, impending return of my roommate from vacation, for forcing me to finish this after midnight. 130
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The facts, unchanged since SCOTUS outlawed the practice before foolishly repermitting it, regardless of how the practice gets modernized: 000
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Pattern pieces lined up reasonably well! It is giving me the knowledge I might need to starch the fabric. 020
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Fun fact: the scary pizza cutter is very good at going faster than scissors. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Moving forward on this one with the pattern ready for cutting. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I'm avoiding going grocery shopping by taking a pattern drafting course. So naturally my first pattern I draft is going to be a canvas paper bag. 170
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 19/05/2026It is over now. 2.05:1 for Sabio-Howell amongst party people willing to pay to hang out with candidates. 170
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The straw poll isn't over, but LD43 Dems are having a mixer and fundraiser tonight with an internal poll and these Senate results are certainly something. Congrats to @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social for the showing so far! 1120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Living a very modern life and getting invited to process a sheep fleece with a friend. 010
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I needed some planters to finally get my dahlias in soil and got sniped by a prickly pear that wanted a hug. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Also they noticed our vibe from across the bar and came closer 030
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Panic beard trim after someone suggested one of the gravest insults I've ever taken 180
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Karp's manifesto is Saruman, cooked beyond all saving by none other than the namesake of his company. 120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 28/03/2026All these fucking nerds cheering as we drop onto the floating bridge today. Seattle (and Bellevue), I love you. 040
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I love the FTC's honesty when you report fraud. "We can't resolve your individual report," or «The form you filled out will be ignored because we are pro-scam.» 100
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Okay, watching a machine do this while I just push a button and don't even pretend to care about all the other things I need to do to make it nice was insane. My boyfriend did immediately call it a line of buttholes when I showed him, though. 120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Every once in a while I have an important thought ("Was Harvey Milk a NIMBY?") and get lost down a rabbit hole going "No, but this dogshit line of his getting called socialism is the most painfully American thing I've ever read." 100
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The way Sound Transit is stopping the 2 car 2 line live integration testing trains in the middle of the platform rather than at the front end is a really nice touch. Anyways, here were the headways when I got onto the platform at Cap Hill. The most beautiful thing I've experienced in Seattle. 140
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The staff shirt: SEX, MUSIC, [BAR NAME]. The signage: 020
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 27/01/2026We also put up statements from our local today in my office, which felt kind of scary to do from inside the house. But they fucking killed our coworker. 120
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Okay, layer cut-away time and things are a little better. The texture is what I expected but I think I should have steeped the pandan longer than the recipe directed. The layering is very fun, though I think my two ladels are probably more different in size than I initially guessed. 020
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Recipe here. Final product cooking here, with its silly little fucky swirl going on that will be the end of my mental health for the next month. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is the last layering I did before I lost my mind and decided the whole thing was deeply ruined. 110
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Open up the pan sauna and it's time to add in the first layer! 120
![A screengrab of a quotation from Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (p. 203): “The media coup of the year and the issue that best symbolized Harvey’s theories on how government should work, centered on the mundane subject of dog feces. Survey after survey showed that sidewalk dog droppings were San Franciscans’ biggest complaint about city life. Milk, therefore, sponsored a bill requiring dog owners to clean up after their pets, waxing philosophically that, ‘It’s symbolic of all the problems of irresponsibility we face in big, depersonalized, alienating urban societies.’ […] ‘Whoever can solve the dogshit problem can be elected mayor of San Francisco, even President of the United States.’ Years later, some would claim Harvey was a socialist or various other sorts of ideologues, but, in reality, Harvey’s political philosophy was never more complicated than the issue of dogshit; government should solve people’s basic problems.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:muthjunnlxcyxj6apzuo6set/bafkreicfisujhpavjdsydsoeusa7jm43t6nzukuy7uztihmztpc27aglvm)
![A sign which originally and now states "Scooter and Bike Share Parking [somewhere to the right]". The S in Scooter and B in Bike have been marked over, and then the marker has been re-covered with another round of markings to correct back to what was there originally.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:muthjunnlxcyxj6apzuo6set/bafkreifdfi4fqstwk22safm73fzqpkxxhtybpd4afpfggldsvzlrzx5xvy)
