The reflecting pool. Oh, the reflecting pool

#TeamAlgae

The reflecting pool and algae homeland
miraculously still reflects

First a link to a Today Explained segment wherein algae experts are definitely having a moment.

The Reflecting Pool fiasco - Today, Explained - Apple Podcasts

There is a link to a transcript.

There are NUMEROUS scientists commenting about the wonders and persistence of algae. Any organism millions of years and photosynthesizes deserves respect.

RantWoman enthusiastically embraces the science and will henceforth strive to get a handle on every reflex that might prosaically be considered Trump derangement syndrome. RantWoman MAY also go look for the T-shirts that come in either "olive green" or "military green" imprinted with the words "American Flag Blue.

It is not like there are not floods of other things to doomscroll about or that President #StableGenius is going to run out of other ways to cause consternation and hopefully motivate people to rise up and GO VOTE.

Reflecting Pool’s “American Flag Blue” Turns Green Due to Algae - Washingtonian

As for "vandalism," former federal prosecutor Gleen Kirschner brings some receipts, er, evidence (?), along with a quote: "Cross examination is the greatest legal weapon for discovering the truth."

More Trump Reflecting Pool Nonsense!

Unsolicited clothing tips for Blanche, recently proclaimed Icelandair's World's Worst Photographer.

Blanche, Icelandair's "World's Worst photographer" is heading out on the promised 10-day trip around Iceland! 

RantWoman has mastered enough Instagram skills to search for specific channels, to like videos, to absorb ads for all sorts of travel giveaways (Clue: RantWoman seems to have a bit of a travel bug). RantWoman truly enjoys, for instance all the joy and energy and hope flowing from the Obama Presidential Center. RantWoman, who spends a bit of her time loathing #bikeshare vehicles also noticed someone, perhaps a Qatari "football" fan trundling around downtown Seattle on a #LimeBike. RantWoman has not really mastered sharing, reels / Threads, or how to target the floods of things one might want to share. Hence the need to offer unsolicited advice in blogland.

Back to IcelandAir and Blanche. Yesterday there was advice, mostly in Icelandic with tiny print that MAY be subtitles, for Blanche. Today both IcelandAir and Blanche posted a video that is almost to jittery and visually busy for RantWoman to appreciate. 

RantWoman did, though, notice that Blanche might need advice from one of the numerous "what to wear" / "how to pack for Iceland" videos.

Here, in case it is helpful are a couple such examples.

Rain Gear: How to Stay DRY in Iceland

There. Now RantWoman has to speak about Seattle. No need for rain gear, at least for a couple days. Temperatures have hit close to 90 F a few days in a row. RantWoman, who has lived in hotter climes, has gotten used to the need to whine about the heat anytime the temperature rises above about 80F. 

The summer temperature yo-yo in Seattle, for better or worse, does not include as much summer rain / heavy mist as was Seattle's reputation when RantWoman first moved here decades ago. The important point for tonight's ramble: weather definitely not as variable as Iceland but a young intern RantWoman knows will in fact, for the next few days, need the wrap RantWoman encouraged her to get.

Yes! A summer bus route from Ballard to Golden Gardens

#NonDriver #KingCountyMetro #GoldenGardens 

RantWoman has once or twice walked from Golden Gardens south to Ballard. Not in a few years.

RantWoman is THRILLED to read this summer bus. RantWoman will check to see whether her ORCA Card and bus pass work to pay the fare, but RantWoman is THRILLED. 

Stay tuned for more raves.

Kenyan court orders halt to construction of Ebola isolation facility that would serve only people from the US

 #Kenya #Ebola

This whole controversy is classic President #StableGenius

--pull out of international bodies

--try to manipulate individual leaders into expressing "appreciation" for all the US has done in the past.

--Bring a horrific disease into a country where it is not present and then make only promises about safeguarding the local population.

RantWoman is horrified by the US approach and hopes the Kenyan courts NEVER let it go forward.

Elon Musk proudly trampling environmental standards in TWO states with help fro governors and the DoJ

#DataCenter #MSpol #TNpol 

US Hosting?

 #FIFAWorldCup 

RantWoman is not capable of just calming down and watching some #FIFA rah-rah mainstream coverage.

RantWoman appreciates high quality ranting.

Hang in there until about minute 32 for very pointed observations about Somali referee Omar Artan.

Waymo anecdotally, and in the news

 First a Waymo news item, posted without further comment.

Next, one of RantWoman's best friends from high school visited Seattle over the weekend. This friend is now a doctor based in LA. She and another best friend recently had a somewhat harrowing experience involving hills in San Francisco. RantWoman does not recall all the details. Sigh.

Doctor friend noted a frequent problem reported to her: the Waymo just arrives and announces that it is around a corner, down a block, too far away for someone with a walker to reach at all or within the time Waymo allows. Let us not forget need to cross a busy street. There is also the same issue blind people report with Uber: how to find the Uber or Waymo

RantWoman knows there is software in the world that helps a driver get near someone with a cellphone. RantWoman has NO idea why implementing that should not be automatic. RantWoman also has no opinion about how blind people can identify a place it is safe to wait.

Doctor friend noted that there are many reasons that people might need extra time to get into or out of the vehicle. RantWoman wonders whether there could be some options either to configure a setting or to adjust for each different passenger.

RantWoman did learn that there are now Waymo vans. This sounds promising for people who use wheelchairs, but RantWoman has yet to see any information about securing one's mobility device once one gets inside.

But Onward!