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Scott Richardson
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Child of the space age, observer of things in flight, tickler of the ether, struggler with the pen and pinhole. ☮️ 👨‍👩‍👧🖖🏻73 N7ITU
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The President is a crook —and everyone should understand, when it comes to FEMA, these are taxpayer dollars he’s abusing, this isn’t Trump’s money.

Trump is punishing Blue states and rewarding Red states—and he could not be more transparent about his corruption.
Bomb cyclone FEMA denial stings WA as Trump touts aid to red states
A year after Washington's bomb cyclone, the Trump administration has withheld aid even as the president has bragged about awards to states that voted for him.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I am not doing enough but I did this

#BlueskyArtShow #vertical #nokings #olympia @olyindivisible.bsky.social
Facing the legislative building in Olympia, Washington, where a large crowd of people has gathered. At the base of the eight columns are giant, colorful handmade letters spelling RESIST.
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Gosh those things are small
Five green leaves of a Himalayan blackberry vine. On one is a Pacific chorus frog, also green, covering only about one-eighth of one leaf.
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Photographic still life with a molded Charlie Brown atop a wooden block, a baseball atop an antique bottle, a jade plant, and a transistor radio antenna. The baseball is branded Seattle Mariners.
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Set them down and was struck by the pattern
A Micron pen, closed, rests on a Moleskine journal, green and also closed, on a blue-gray cushion. They are crossed by angular shadows from (unseen) blinds letting through much sun.
September 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Charlatan = faker, quack
cantwell.senate.gov Sen. Maria Cantwell @cantwell.senate.gov · Sep 4
RFK Jr. is a charlatan. He is undermining the whole health care delivery system and taking away the science and technology that has saved millions of lives.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sq...
Sen. Cantwell to RFK Jr.: "You're a Charlatan"
YouTube video by Senator Maria Cantwell
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September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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“miserable, hate-filled wretch”

I like how my Senator characterizes people honestly and openly.

And how she keeps directing the conversation toward better alternatives than the current administration’s operating mode.
murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Aug 20
Our immigration enforcement should be focused on violent criminals and true threats to public safety.

We should not divert resources to round up law-abiding, taxpaying immigrant workers just because Stephen Miller is a miserable, hate-filled wretch.

Washington will keep fighting.
Gov. Bob Ferguson to U.S. AG Pam Bondi: WA won’t ‘bend the knee’ to Trump regime
On Tuesday, the governor responded to the U.S. attorney general’s recent letter demanding that Washington drop its sanctuary policies.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Shadow selfie at Hanwoori Garden, which opened in Federal Way, Washington, in June 2025. The space is impeccably designed, expertly crafted, and warmly inviting. It is the first traditional Korean garden in the state. Find it adjacent to Panther Lake.
Semi rectangular stone obelisk with a sloping top edge interrupted by a circle depicting a taegeuk. Letters spelling “we are one” are stacked on the left side. Shadows of tree leaves and the torso of a human figure are cast on the yellow-toned, sun-warmed gray surface.
August 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Startling conclusion
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#1515
August 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Aptly named dragonfly: common whitetail

#odonata
A dragonfly clings to a sun-faded fence board. It has black bands on clear wings and a pale chalk-blue abdomen. The top quarter of the image reveals glossy green leaves behind the board, some tinged yellow.
July 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Interesting shapes 13: Valley.
Wordle 1500
July 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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“SeaHorse” by Ben Dye, constructed from repurposed above ground oil tanks, installed in Covington, Washington in 2014 (2009).
The head and neck of a crafted seahorse against a gray sky. The sculpture rises above trees in the background.
July 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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“Unit 77”

King Street Station, Lumen Field, and a touch of T-Mobile Park in the distance beyond a Seattle Fire station.
See post. An open door at the fire station reveals a fire engine with the number 77.
July 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Heard 4 stations on TEVEL2-3 but 5W to an Arrow was insufficient for me to break the squelch on a 35° pass 🙁
July 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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It is Suchitra Mattai whose show is nearly done. Hurry. Really. Get to SAAM.
Detail from suchitra mattai piece at Seattle Asian Art Museum. Vintage saris woven and ornamented. Brightly colored cool and hot. Pappy’s house (detail), 2024, Suchitra Mattai, Guyana, b. 1973, worn saris, aluminum, beaded trim, tinsel, 216 x 110.96 x 81.38 in. Photo: Scott Richardson, 2025.
July 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Ai Weiwei’s “Water Lilies,” on view for 1 more day at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, is almost 50 feet long and contains 650,000 toy bricks.
An abstract art piece dominates the frame with shades of blue, pink, and yellow shifting to black, red, and purple from left to right. At the far end, a person stands and looks at the art.
July 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Tinkered with the @11ty.dev import feature along with both blogger and bluesky this morning. Learned a little but successes fell short.
July 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Setting down the Arrow after a couple of passes. CQd through MO-122 but no CW takers. Worked 3 on AO-91.
#hamradio
A small antenna on a lawn: two series of aluminum tubes at right angles mounted on a square boom.
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Wordle milestone reached at number 1480. Played about 150 games before this set, but the stats mysteriously disappeared. My average hovers around 3.9.

Thanks for the fun, @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk
Cropped screenshot from Wordle showing statistics: 1000 played, 99 win %, 90 current streak, 181 max streak.
July 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Fun shapes returns. I blew through 19 letters on this one. It was frightening.
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Wordle 1,475
July 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Saprophytic
Two pale, slender mushrooms grow together from a lawn between rows of nearly identical gravestones. The perspective is from ground level.
July 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I’ll take this to be a fine demonstration of Morse code advocacy, even though that’s not what they meant. #hamradio
A chain link fence with large block letters (purple with gold outline) woven in that spell C W SOARS. Trees and partly cloudy sky form the backdrop.
June 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow

These steps were added to Robert Morris Earthwork (1979) at Johnson Pit No. 30 in Kent, Washington, to help prevent erosion.

Yes, they are #narrow.

FMI: preservewa.org/most_endange...
Wooden steps set into a hillside, seen from the approach from above. The steps down lead through a dried-grass landscape with layers of roughly oblong terracing in the distance.
June 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Detail from a mural, at St Helens and S Baker in Tacoma, by Natalie Oswald and Joel Barber, made as part of the Tacoma Murals Project. #crow #corvid
Artist’s rendition of a crow using opera glasses against a backdrop of blue sky and leafed tree branch.
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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My father when he was just a little more than half my age. Time flies.
Portrait of a smiling white male, mid 30s, with a butch haircut and a tooth gap, wearing a wide-plaid button-front shirt.
June 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM