- 🇺🇸 On Monday we took advantage of having the day off to hop the light rail into downtown Seattle and go to the Save the Civil Service / 50501 protest in front of the Federal building. Lots of people showed up, which was great (though I do wish we didn’t need to do this). I uploaded a Flickr album with photos of signs and the crowds.
- 🤖 I’ve added a short AI disclaimer for this blog to the sidebar. In short: No generative AI, traditional/iterative AI for video captions (first pass only, then manually reviewed and corrected before finalizing).
📸 Photos
Even at protests, I can get a little arty with my photos sometimes.
📝 Writing
- I thought I found a bug with Feedbin’s RSS feeds…but nope!
- I answered some questions about music in a blog meme.
📚 Reading
Finished three books (well…a graphic novel, a government pamphlet, and a magazine) this week:
- Indiginerds, a graphic novel anthology.
- The infamous Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
- Clarkesworld Issue 221.
And I’ve started reading Lucy Worsley’s A Very British Murder. It’s good to get at least one non-fiction book in each year.
📺 Watching
- Our current reality show is season 19 of Project Runway, and then we’re continuing to get caught up on Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and NCIS. All three of these shows are great for watching people having worse days than us. Scrubs continues to keep things a little light.
- After a long pause, I picked back up with my ongoing project to watch all of Star Trek in chronological order (current progress 30.57% complete), and started season two of TNG. Two episodes in (“The Child” and “Where Silence Has Lease”), many, many to go.
🎧 Listening
- I’m finally getting started practicing for DJing at Norwescon this year, and as always, I’m recording and posting my sessions. Here’s Difficult Listening Hour 2025.02.22. These are always random, seat-of-the-pants, unplanned sessions, so the song selections are a bit all over the place.
- I also decided to sunset my DJ Wüdi blog (one gig and a few practice sessions a year doesn’t really need its own separate blog), and moved all of the posts that were there over onto this blog. All my mashups and mixes are now part of everything else here on Eclecticism.
🔗 Linking
- The Nerd Capital of America: “Washington tops yet another list — this time for something that actually matters: full-throttle, no-holds-barred nerdery.” And this article doesn’t even mention Norwescon or Seattle Worldcon 2025!
- Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch: “‘The Democrats have brought a lectern to a social media war.’ Masses of enraged, terrified people are looking at the analog, slow-motion leadership of Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer and the zero-calorie rhetoric of House leader Hakeem Jeffries and want them replaced by people who know how to fight.”
- Airlines Challenge Biden-Era Wheelchair Accessibility Rule: “Some of the biggest US airlines are seeking to overturn a sweeping Biden administration rule that would impose higher standards for accommodating passengers with disabilities, particularly wheelchair users.”
- It’s disappointing to learn that the horrible video of deportees in chains that the official White House X account posted was filmed here in Seattle at Boeing Field. I mean, I knew the flights had to go out from somewhere, but I guess I just assumed it would be someplace a little less blue. How depressingly naïve of me.
- The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world: “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”
- Here’s a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been implemented. Currently at 34%.