fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What state recently came out of an 11-year drought? Ah yes—Queensland. And the Australian wildfires in 2020 are when I first learned of the existence of “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds. Sounds like a great place for a data center. 😐 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialThe Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm 1052639545
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Creep glasses and neckspies. Coolcool world we’re living in 000
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding. 241417303
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees. 3548951
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I just read @amybrown.xyz ‘s piece out loud to my Bay Area-born spouse. He said, “I’m so glad to live in a place that passes a library bond by 70%” rather than voting against it by 70%. bsky.app/profile/amyb... 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Who sang the Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) best? a) Marshall and Ted in HIMYM b) Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in Slow Horses, or c) Farmer George (Hugh Jackman) in Sheep Detectives? 100
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialWeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Excited for the return of plague epidemics. Maybe influencers will convince us that buboes are sexy. We can cover them with self tanner and glitter. Call them wellness bumps. 1131
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialEric Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I think the car horn is too unwieldy of a tool, and you should be able to send messages to other cars, like how ships can hail one another on Star Trek, but the only things you can say are brief things like “fuck you!” or “sorry!” or “i like your stickers” 121
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I don't know which is worse: he's either a man who thinks women are not equal beings with agency or he knows that they are and wants to punish them for it 2237
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026From the immortal pen of Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Just drank my bowl of water #HydrationBreakstatic.klipy.comAmy Madigan as Aunt Gladys Snaps TwigAlt: gif of Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys snapping a twig over a bowl of water before performing her witchery 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The only heat stroke cases I’m hoping for today: these mfers 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Today I watched a young rat that had fallen into a swimming pool. Someone was trying to scoop it out with a net, and the rat was swimming underwater, its tail working like a little rudder. It was impressive and horrifying: now I understand how they can swim up pipes and into your toilet. 😳 000
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026There's something very satisfying about cutting up a plastic six-pack holder. We may not have been able to stave off global warming, but by god, no young turtle will have its shell constricted by plastic rings on my watch 2233
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I’ve got a windowless window seat on my flight. 😒 @alaskaairlines.bsky.social You guys gotta mark that on your seat selection map! 000
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/06/2026Somewhere in the list of things for the next administration to do beyond prosecuting everyone in the present administration and restoring the White House as-was, I'd like to see the word "homeland" removed from all governmental uses and, if possible, from the English language altogether. 1768898
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialDeanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026His joy is so refreshing. 0442
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. Prince 2. The Replacements 3. New Order 4. The Damned 5. Love and Rockets 6. Soul Asylum 7. Sugarcubes 8. Bob Mould 9. Shriekback 10. Pixies 120
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I see folks dragging the NY Times opinion piece about college (“Have you ever *seen* an ag school?!”), but I thought it had great points. I hate the students-as-consumers model, the grades arms race, all of it. I want education to be valued for education’s sake. We need to fund it as a social good. 331
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026This is Our Year, celery lovers! I’m finally gonna make this www.allrecipes.com/recipe/26511...allrecipes.comCelery SorbetChef John's celery sorbet recipe has only five ingredients: sugar, water, celery, salt, and lime juice, but dozens of applications, both sweet and savory. 241
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/05/2026go ahead, keep adding tasks to my to do list. i will only get sleepier 25991165
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialCailín Walsh 🍀 @cailin.dev · 12/05/2026Oliver is doing a murder 241243134
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I loved this piece. As a bread snob (and really, just bread! I’ll microwave leftover coffee! I’ll eat cereal for dinner! I’m not proud), I dislike even the concept of “warm bread”…it messes with the crumb and the flavor. I’ll gladly pay for a good bread basket at a restaurant. But this is a delight! 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026As Douglas Adams said, we’re “so amazingly primitive that [we] still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026media.tenor.coma man sitting on a bench with the words i ain t slept in five days below himAlt: Joe Pesci in a scene from My Cousin Vinny, sitting on a bench saying “I ain’t slept in five days!” 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I’d be an Arbequina.media.tenor.comDoor Doors GIFAlt: Scene from Severance when Dylan’s outie interviews at Great Doors. The interviewer asks, “How old were you when you knew you loved doors?” 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Yes. That “American carnage” motherfucker needs to stop dripping his poison into Trump’s ear, first thing. Trials later. 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026"But what kind of American are you?" is the national question right now. 23912
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialtaber @kvetch.gay · 24/01/2026genuinely don't give a fractional fuck how cornball civics class it sounds, the promise of America is so tremendous that it's worth choking back the cynicism and fighting towards its realization with the rest of our lives 28218
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I hope Leica licenses this photo for their new ad campaign 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025This is so fucking offensive. I can’t wait until these assholes are out of office. “Democrat-led shutdown,” ha. Your correct hyphenation doesn’t make it any more believable. 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025So we’ve entered our Entartete Kunst period now 020
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialJack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Seattle No Kings from the monorail 221118702984
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025#NoKings #NoTyrants Just a Reign of Frogs #NoKingsSeattle 1101
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Ordered the “Benedict special” at a highly regarded Seattle restaurant. They should have called it the EGG Benedict special—singular egg. Charge me more for 2 eggs, for chrissakes, don’t serve me that sad solo egg like you’re doing me a favor. This was a good 15 years ago and I’ve never been back. 130
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Now I want Weird Al to do something with magic beds. Or a song about Weird A.I. 030
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2 [about]? 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialThe Needling @theneedling.com · 28/08/2025The largest wildfire burning in the state of Washington is still alive today thanks to brave federal U.S. Border Patrol and ICE agents who arrested firefighters caught in the act of attempting to kill it. 10364146
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I remember being so bummed in Stranger Than Fiction when Will Ferrell’s character brings flours and Maggie Gyllenhaal was not delighted, as a real baker would be. We would’ve been identifying them! The color, the feel, the taste…media.tenor.coma person holding a cardboard box that says i brought you flours on itALT: a person holding a cardboard box that says i brought you flours on it 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025(A tangent, I know—but I never want to see this woman’s picture/have to think about her ever again) 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialRobert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I never cease to be impressed by the public administration of certain band and tribal governments. There's a tsunami heading this way -- and it comes during the big intertribal paddle 'festival' with dozens of First Nations canoes and hundreds of paddlers on the ocean right now. 543980