Kamala Harris/Andrew Camarata 2024

Dems are weakest with non-college educated and/or blue-collar voters, especially rural ones. Camarata will roll into every stump speech on a massive Caterpillar loader: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iS6VJjOcCE4

#harris2024

Sidhu Farms now has boysenberries, the world's tastiest berry. They're at many Seattle farmers markets: https://www.sidhufarms.com/farmers-markets

Schuh Farms (https://schuhfarmswa.com/) hasn't started picking yet. They estimate starting around the end of July.

#seattle #boysenberries

self-published ebooks that I am now (reasonably? over?) qualified to write

A Subset of the Many Ways to Fail at Online Dating

alternate title option: Failing at Online Dating in a Nutshell

#hinge #okcupid

can't wait to hear the next pandemic's counteroffer (NYT)

hat tip to David Hyde (Seattle) for "Left Alone? Absent Strong Leadership, KUOW Slips out of Balance": https://www.postalley.org/2024/05/24/left-alone-absent-strong-leadership-kuow-slips-out-of-balance/

> But the question of balance was met with blank stares followed by some version of, “Why would we need to do that?” It felt like a larger turning point, as the winds started to blow more strongly in favor of more partisan coverage.

#seattle

I'm replacing a few hard-wired smoke alarms due to age. the online comments are specific and awful. apparently all smoke alarms still suck?

the First Alert 3120B sounds a tiny bit less awful than the Kidde/Firex i4618AC… but the Kidde has a 1.6 out of 5 on their own site, so that's not saying much?

I don't need a 10 year sealed battery, but I do want an alarm that can go many years on an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery. the battery is only used for the ~2 hours/year when 120V power is out.

drinking 1 of the 5 bottles of Anchor Steam that I had when Anchor Brewing Company went bankrupt.

farewell Anchor Steam, hello summer.

if anyone knows of an obtainable substitute, I'd like to hear it. is there another lager brewed with ale yeast? Altbier? California Common? I came up empty on Reddit. I'm not into #beer, I just miss Anchor Steam in the summer.

A few people have shared how they use epoxy wire metal shelving as outdoor grow shelves:

https://www.aeorchids.com/orchid-growing-areas/affordable-flexible-benches-mounts-indoors-outdoors/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Greenhouses/comments/1ca9k8d/considering_a_greenhouse/#l0qxagd

I'm about to order one from https://www.webstaurantstore.com/48403/regency-shelving.html?filter=finish:black-epoxy:green-epoxy&multi=true

#urbanag #growyourown #greenhouse

In Seattle, today is tomato planting day #1. The future is bright, or at least warm at night.

#seattle #growyourown

achievement unlocked: drove 400 miles in a minivan without bumping any rigid objects

Here's what an organized Substack / Hacker News plagiarism campaign looks like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077

#substack