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Steve @laskevitch.com · 5h

I don't recall ever seeing the Olympics so snowless. #seattle

A distant mountain range with foreground vegetation and a body of water in front of it, all under a sunny sky

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 05/10/2026

Our membership grows—with good reason

Stylized portrait of Jack Smith with text: Jack Smith Fan Club

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 02/10/2026

Love those pix. Made a poster once with them and Sinatra’s:

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 29/09/2026

Seattle knows how to greet an author!

A symphony hall filling with readers to hear an author speak

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 24/09/2026

There were 4 wicks in this hastily cobbled candle. Now there are two. Which one will survive to be the John Wick?

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 18/09/2026

What could go wrong?

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps Al drug program

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 12/09/2026

"New Killer Apps". I wonder if that was the prompt. Not the wisest choice

PAUL FORD
A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 11/09/2026

At the Seattle Asian Art Museum, I laughed when I realized that I could actually read these very large scrolls! It was much harder to realize that up close, but upon backing up, it becomes clearer. 1/2

Two scrolls hanging side-by-side with characters that at first resemble Chinese calligraphy but are actually stylized English words. On the left, "Moving Forward In Time" and, smaller, "Xu Bing" (the artist's name).
On the right, "Learning From The Past" and, smaller, "For Seattle Art Museum".

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 10/09/2026

It's easy and prudent to check your voter registration status *without joining someone's mailing list* www.vote411.org/check-regist...

poster with the words "keep calm and resist and check your voter registration!" with a graphic of gears with a wrench amongst them

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 30/08/2026

Wonder what source Apple Maps uses

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 12/08/2026

Thank you for the link! The image of the rig (in the how-to vid) speaks to the time and planning.

Black-and-white photo of a man standing beside a seated man on an elevated platform, with actors sitting at tables in the foreground.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 25/07/2026

Can't hear (or read) "blue-plate special" without thinking of this

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 24/07/2026

Remember need me of a lovely bar here in Seattle www.canonseattle.com/gallery

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 16/07/2026

JWST ain't so bad (right). But yeah, I'll be sad that day, too.

Space telescope images of the "Pillars of Creation"

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 15/07/2026

And the folks there are so nice. I will get a treat and walk out to the bluff, look at Puget Sound and the mountains and not think of calories

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 05/07/2026

A ferry nice morning

A Washington state ferry transiting from Vashon Island to Southworth. Seagulls and blue skies accompanying

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 04/07/2026

Jack smith fan club

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 24/06/2026

Pantone color of the year: American flag blue

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 20/06/2026

I love curve of the stairs there, too. Two images, years apart: 2011 (toned b&w) and 2023. Of course, we enjoyed the art there as well. Rembrandt's Lucretia destroys me every time #NGA

curving marble staircase descending from light into shadow

Wide view of a marble stairway in a marble hallway, light shining from a space above

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 19/06/2026

Rainbow cupcakes—with no artificial dyes

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 15/06/2026

Was just in the Chinatown-International District and had a coffee drink at Meiro (665 S King St). Fantastic! Also stopped at the Seattle Art Museum which is always a treat: from ancient to contemporary art; indigenous, international, local. Lots of cool stuff near there, too

Exhibit of Indigenous Northwest Coast art featuring two large painted totem poles with bird figures, surrounded by carved masks and a decorated drum on display stands

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 08/06/2026

Unlike in San Francisco, many folks in Seattle don't know how to safely park on hills. I really, really wish they did. So I made this

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 07/06/2026

A favorite album cover—and the playing is fab too music.apple.com/us/album/bac...

Violinist with long curly hair with a semi-disassembled bow waving in front of his face

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 22/05/2026

This photo from today’s @gettymuseum.bsky.social newsletter is so gorgeous. The colors, expressions, light… and it’s about art. media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0...

A man and a child sitting on a bench in an art museum; the man gestures to something behind the camera, the child looks rapt

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 18/05/2026

From the book "The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest" by William Dietrich. (But I guess the mountain did do worse and faster)

There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about President Jimmy Carter’s flight across the foothills of southwest Washington to view the devastation caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Peering down at the shaven hills, the president expressed horror at the destruction below him. The state officials who were his guides had to gently explain that the helicopter had not reached the volcano blast area yet, that was Carter was seeing was clearcut logging.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 14/05/2026

Discovered that the @gettymuseum.bsky.social has a delightful online collection of images of daguerreotype plates with no images on them. Got me thinking about spectral responses of emulsions c. 1850 and what images to impose on those plates.... I love to sim old processes!

What appears to be a mid-nineteenth century daguerreotype of Big Ben, nearby buildings, a foreground iron fence, and just maybe something more contemporary in the background.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 04/05/2026

Lovely. And reminds me of another image I had used as my cellphone background! Another museum, too. Science Museum, London. Fun! Photo conversing

Atomic model shadows on frosted glass in purples and blues

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 03/05/2026

I like shadows on art museums. Geometric like yours (triangles on triangles!) or less so….

Shadow of a tree falling on the travertine exterior wall of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The sunset light makes the stone look orange while the shadowed area seems almost purple.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 30/04/2026

81 years ago today, Hitler killed himself. I love this photo of members of the Dutch resistance at the moment they heard early next morning, likely via the BBC, whose announcement I've integrated here. Gathered around a table with a radio, their elation is palpable. Fascism fell...may it always do.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 27/04/2026

How to slice low-moisture mozzarella thinly? Cheese plane & mandoline were fails (this cheese grabs those surfaces like a gecko). I've tried a wire slicer—works, but hard to get it nicely and consistently thin. The deli won't slice it. They know something? What's an amateur pizza maker to do?

The hands of my pizza hero, Brian Spangler, laying down low-moisture mozzarella on dough. Yes, sauce goes on top of that. So thin, so consistent. I'd love to have cheese like that

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 26/04/2026

From NY Times reporting...WTF?! I thought this kind of gathering of top admin officials wasn't supposed to happen.

There was a heavy police presence outside the Washington Hilton, but no security screening required to enter the hotel. There were numerous pre-parties hosted on various floors of the hotel, as well as a red carpet.
In addition to the president, First Lady and Vice President, many members of the president's cabinet and senior staff were in attendance at the dinner. Among the attendees: Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary; Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary; Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary; Steven Cheung, the White House communications director; and Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 13/04/2026

Only through inquiry can we discover truth —Carl Sagan

a view of the moon as a crescent with earth setting over its edge

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 20/03/2026

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day! goes double for @vspouse.bsky.social

A Celtic knot in the shape of a stylized four-leaf clover

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 01/02/2026

Seen at my local library

A sign apparently prohibiting the hugging of tree branches. Its cute cartoonish illustration features a rounded-branch, leafless tree, green grass below, and a classic stick figure clinging to one branch with arms and legs. The whole within a red circle with red slash diagonally through it. Pretty cute for a sign that discourages tree affection—or climbing

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 01/01/2026

Wishing you hope, happiness, and resilience (and more) in 2026.

A card in landscape format made of textured paper. It has a decorative border composed of vines (whose stems are the electrical resistance symbol) and snowflakes made of crosses of Lorraine and whose centers are the symbol for the rebel alliance in Star Wars. The text says "Wishing you hope, happiness, and RESILIENCE in 2026" with another word faintly visible under "resilience".

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 27/12/2025

Pacific Northwest morning greeting!

A bit of Puget Sound water in the foreground with the freshly snow-whitened Olympic Mountains behind on this partly cloudy morning

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 23/12/2025

Enshittification starts with hyphenation

Cover of book with a hyphenated title. TBH I get it, from a design POV. But generally, I really don’t like hyphens.

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Steve @laskevitch.com · 21/12/2025

AI audio project that I won’t get to: Use Trump’s voice for Die Hard’s Ellis (aka skeevy scheming coworker). It seems a good fit. Change no lines, just the voice. Oh, and Yippee Ki Yay to those who celebrate

Photo of a bearded businessman, clearly pleased with himself and thinking himself smarter than he is— which is not smart. In this photo he believes he is negotiating the release of himself and his coworkers who are being held hostage by terrorists. He has that face you just wanna hit. I will not disclose what actually happens to him in case you have not seen Die hard, the classic Christmas movie.

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