Make a joyful noise. Kazoos. Christians

Full disclosure 1: RantWoman always finds Cal Anderson Park cramped and uncomfortable, for reasons she can't quite put her finger on. RantWoman thinks Gas Works Park sounds like a MUCH more fun place to hold a rally / worship service than Cal Anderson Park. Sun. Water. Rehabilitated industrial site. Sense of spaciousnes, the glory of God. 

Full Disclosure 2: statement from RantWoman's faith community, the North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends about welcoming transgender people

Minute on welcoming transgender and non-conforming people

Full Disclosure #3: RantWoman has not researched which other faith communities identify as open and affirming. RantWoman thinks it would be a very good idea for local faith communities to speak up frankly about free exercise of religion (for any faith or no faith) and respect for religious pluralism.

Full Disclosure #4: Ditto for anyone running for office, not just Mayor Harrell.

Worship rally sparks controversy in Seattle

Worship rally in Seattle sparks controversy

Religious rally and counter-protest draw crowds at Gas Works Park

Week In Review September 5, 2025

Kazoos, Christians Segment intro 11:45. Story 14:45

And for background and great moments leading up to the event.

Seattle LGBTQ+ Commission calls the cops on detransitioner

RantWoman is entertained by the thought of a potluck and sleepover at Cal Anderson Park.

Also quite critical comments from the "alphabet soup" people. 

And a clip from a Seattle LGBTQIA+ Commission.

What to expect when 3IAtlas comes by in late October and in March?

Something 1/2 THE SIZE of the SUN has Entered our Solar System 👁️‍🗨️ THI...

Imagine: LabLm will read a bunch of scientific papers aloud.

What can people on Earth expect when this interstellar object passes through the heliosphere?

Does a blind person actually need to interact with the images or is there plenty of information in the narration in spite of "this one here" and "that one there."

complex dusty plasma

Mua Mua

Strange Metal Signatures Detected from 3I/ATLAS as it Begins to GROW a Tail ☄️

Earth Evolution

And for MORE measurements

Energy Analytics

AGAIN, Amazon? AGAIIN?

 Remember RantWoman's recent rant.

Adventures of RantWoman: Dear Amazon, Amazon Day means Amazon Day

RantWoman is again neglecting various local and global crises to tend to AMAZON DELIVERY ISSUES.

Amazon has DONE IT AGAIN.

Last week RantWoman ordered 3 items none of which would fit into her mailbox in the mailroom to be delivered on her Amazon Day.

Amazon Day came. No delivery. 

RantWoman thinks she was even home and could have received the packages if someone had made the slightest effort to, say, knock on RantWoman's door.

RantWoman checked her Amazon app for delivery status. Shipped by USPS with something that purports to be tracking number.

Fascinating. The only thing more fun than one dumb hassle is TWO dumb hassles.

Finally, today, Monday a charming pink package delivery slip from the post office showed up in RantWoman's mail. Pink slip had acres of tiny print and some tiny handwritten notations. RantWoman whipped out her phone and blew things up large enough to make out both the handwriting and what purports to be a tracking number. 

The PROBLEM: the tracking number on the annoying pink slip looks NOTHING like the tracking number in the Amazon app. 

There is the promise of another delivery attempt the next day. RantWoman will even be in her building. RantWoman just has no way to know when her delivery MIGHT occur. 

Just for grins this time, RantWoman here includes a screenshot of part of the delivery status .

Screen shot

And for FURTHER GRINS, relevant info from the USPS slip.

The USPS tracking number

 

And now...because RantWoman is procrastinating, some bonus free UX consulting, with absolutely no warrant that RantWoman's approach will work for a totally blind user, or an elderly person who has not spent their whole life steeped in tech.

Use the QR code! Miraculously the QR code takes one to a form about scheduling redelivery. The form is even auto-populated with the bar code number. The form asks for usual contact info: name, delivery address, phone, email.

There is no way on the form to be sure one has saved the data input so RantWoman went looking on the hamburger at the top left of the phone. Oh, here, some kind of login page. At this point RantWoman made one guess about whether she might have set up a sign-in on the USPS page. Nah. One guess is all RantWoman has in her tonight, but MAYBE RantWoman will try again tomorrow.

And, again, you're welcome for the free UX consulting.

1. Try the QR code.

2. Ooh. Magic

Leave Epstein etc. to Jon Stewart, et al.

CONTENT WARNING: Epstein, vulgar language, references to child sex abuse, body parts, racism, pretty much the whole disgusting #PedoInChief gamut.

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein D...

The Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret

WSJ's Trump-Epstein Birthday Letter Bombshell Rocks MAGA; Trump's Doodles Resurface: A Closer Look

Bird Flu. Cats. Other species. Beware. Be reasonable

RantWoman recommends that people, especially cat people take a break from multiple strands of human insanity and focus on care of cats and other animals.

Uh, actually we are not necessarily taking a complete break from human insanity so a few tips before the video.

--RantWoman has a friend from high school who is now an infectious disease doctor. So far she is pretty blase about bird flu in humans. Her advice: stay up to date on flu and COVID shots. A tiny number of people have gotten bird flu due to work exposure for example to raw milk. There is still no evidence, though, of human to human transmission.

--Digressing to the price of eggs, NPR reported recently that there is a vaccine against bird flu for chickens. So far it is not widely used because external buyers are resistant to buying products affected by the vaccines. On the other hand, if the President is going to go bananas about a trade war and tariffs, vaccinating chicken flocks could end the need to cull flocks and get the level of egg production up to a point that MAYBE the price of domestically produced eggs would come down.

But now cat tips, with an inventory of all the other species that have gotten bird flu.

And, at the end, STRONG note for the interviewer who is into raw food that maybe he will need to rethink that.

Also, look in the notes for more resources.

PS. This is RantWoman's "light reading" for the night.

Judge Michael Luttig: Only Kamala Harris can be trusted to honor the peaceful transfer of power.

RantWoman has decided not to go to law school.

RantWoman keeps revisiting but not regretting that decision.

That said, two lawyer heroes of the day are Marc E Elias of Democracy Docket and Judge Michael Luttig.

Look here for ways to find more of them.

RantWoman's comment, a TAD off topic of this exact video:

All these legal arguments matter. And #DelusionalDonOld is a danger to himself and others. At this point, even though I hated the "LockHerUp" chants about Hillary, I think it's time to contain this dementia patient under mental health grounds. I know this is a controversial view. I can live with that opinion.

Democracy Docket with Jamie Raskin on what could come next

Do the Puyallup???

RantWoman does not apologize if the title is an out of date advertising slogan.

 Forget RantWoman's flirtation with the idea of a Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing expedition to Burning Man.

Forget the biomedical fantasy of 3-printing new body parts to spec.

This week's task is, on short notice, consider a group trip to the Washington State Fair Events Center - Puyallup, WA (thefair.com) 

Today RantWoman only cares about the transportation piece. Can a group of people with wheelchairs and sundry mobility aids travel together, arrive not completely exhausted, have decent time to have fun at the fair, and get home at a reasonable hour?

Can RantWoman learn anything about such options from the fair website? Uhhhh, download an app and here are the instructions for PARKING. Also try Uber or Lyft.  No mention of bicycles. No mention of transit options let alone the transit stops.

Did RantWoman mention mobility aids?  Are Uber and Lyft known for reliable capacity to serve people with mobility devices? NO!!

So F+ about helping people with disabilities and other non-drivers make travel plans. Luckily RantWoman is persistent and has her fingers on many look up a routing options.

One website implied that there are special Sounder runs every 4 hours but RantWoman on first pass has not identified any such. Oh wait, maybe RantWoman needs to put the right date into the trip planner.

Both SoundTransit.org and FindARide.org/tripplanner suggest basically the same 3 bus routing as the simplest. Remmember, RantWoman is talking a GROUP of people with different mobility devices. RantWoman's experience: wheelchair accessibility on some SoundTransit coaches, especially the ones that serve intercity routes leaves a lot to be desired. Ideally for group travel, a driver might deploy the ramp once, get everyone onto the bus and secured and then take up the ramp. The thought of using a lift one at a time for more than about two wheelchair users per trip is just too painful to contemplate.

But wait: there MIGHT be a vehicle? Can it go outside of King County? Stay tuned.. 

In the meantime, add bus-sized autonomous flying carpets to innovations that might someday emerge from RantWoman and her neighbors.

It's Time for The DNC!

UPDATED.

The first time RantWoman remembers a Democratic convention in Chicago.

The RantFamily's very low-key neighbors had recently gotten a color TV and gave the RantFamily their hand-me-down black and white. The RantFamily was still figuring how to interact.

"Daddy, what's going on?"

Daddy was a junior college music professor. Combing piquant analysis out of the new electronic presence was not his strong suit. 

RantWoman's first and only political convention ever.

In 1988, RantWoman lived in Bloomington IN. RantWoman lived in a neighborhood that voted VERY avidly. for Jesse Jackson. RantWoman has NO IDEA which meeting she was going to got her named the alternate delegate to the IN Democratic convention. The official delegate could not attend.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the trip was the ride to Indianapolis. RantWoman's chauffeur was a very astute African minister from the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Ernie Butler had many stories. One: he was the first African Americanto serve on the IN Federal Grand Jury. 

RantWoman is not good at schmoozing and was not anywhere close to anything interesting such as wordsmithing the platform. There was some point of contention about whether to seat a white or Black delegation from a city in Northern IN, but RantWoman wasn't anywhere near that either.

This was before the age of blogging. RantWoman is probably nowhere near the level of social media influencer to try for credentials, but RantWoman is thrilled to think independent voices will also be there.

Seattle in Chicago

Both former Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant and the My Pillow Guy, Mike Lindell are in Chicago. Correction: Mr Aptonym, local commentator Jason Rantz is alive and well and sounding off in Elon's sandbox.

RantWoman so wishes Councilmember Sawant could have her feet on the ground a little more steadily. Even if RantWoman disagrees with a bunch of policies, RantWoman wants a candidate who can hit the ground running about global crises and Jill Stein just does not ring that bell..

#EndTheOccupation #CeaseFireInGazaNow

The DNC in Elon's sandbox: probably worth a full-scale rant all on its own. Just not tonight.

Finally, insights from Stephen Colbert. Don't miss the wayward Waymo item at the end.

Chicago Community calendar with Stephen Colbert and Sean Hayes

RantWoman spins The Dementia Patient's visit to MT.

 Today in festive celebration of Nagasaki Day, the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in FESTIVE celebration of the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Milhous Nixon, $DonSnoreleone, the former President and current GOP aspirant visited...MONTANA.

Kidding (?) about the anniversary observances, the day was sufficient unto itself in terms of notable moments. RantWoman may or may not get every reference linked, but please consider each comment here as its own minefield in terms of US life as a democracy.

Preparing the field

CBS Morning: Jon Tester. The farmer who went to Washington

from 3 years ago. Mentions Tester's book Grounded.

Lawrence O'Donell interview Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown

NBC MT interviews Tim Sheehy about military service, his business, other issues

Not a high opinion of The Daily Beast or the MT Free Press

NBC Montana: unpaid bills from past campaign visits to MT

NBC Montana interviews GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy

much mention of military experience and failures lreated to event security.

Blatant lies blaming Biden

exhorting people to get out and vote.

Actual issues though through a Trumpling lens

Endless "immigrants streaming across our border" is a tiresome narrative that has no positive vision of what immigrants bring and no context about what dynamics drive people to come to the US.

PBS MT JUly 2024 US Senate Debate

here for reference and so RantWoman can find it again easily.

A few days before

NBC Montana interviews migratory merch vendors

Blistering Chris Hayes segment about why That Guy is campaigning in MT

Short version: in 2018 after Dr. Ronnie Jackson was demoted to captain and retired from his gig running basically a pill mill at the White House, #CadetBone Spurs wanted to make CAPT. Jackson Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a position he was probably even less qualified to hold than White House physician. Sen. Tester as head of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee quashed the nomination, and #FelonDon is on the next leg of his revenge tour.

MT is NOT a swing state but #DonTheCon and his fraudster fam are in the state panhandling, er fundraising for down-ballot Republicans. Interesting PERHAPS that a campaign built on complaining about coastal liberals is bring in East Coast fraudsters looking for handouts. Maybe they could also pay off some old bills, on account of paying bills and preferably on time is a pretty MT value.

Events the Day Of

As crowd gathers, video of someone in the far background playing "Send in the Clowns."

Trump plane diverted to Billings because of a hydraulic problem

chatter on X about poor maintenance practices and preferences about which company to buy jet fuel from.

Someone had a loaner plane available.

At the rally #DonOld played Celine Dion performing the theme from Titanic. RantWoman is unclear whether the campaign actually secured rights to use the song. More to the point, RantWoman is sort of geographically fixated about MT geological history: there may have been ice tens of thousands of years ago and an inland ocean a million or so years ago. But for a guy who doesn't believe in #ClimateChange, somehow the thematic choice seems way to prehistoric even as counter to the other party and #WeWontGoBack.

NBC Montana early afternoon before rally

Luke Beasley: Trump posts video after emergency landing

Meidas Touch: Trump falls apart in disastrous speech

A bunch of typical #TFG gaffes and not enough analysis of other themes here.

And for extra context

Reese Waters: the MAGA exodus begins

A WHOLE BUNCH of great statements about why people are voting for Harris/Walz

Christopher Titus Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz

For anyone who has the stomach

NBC Montana: the WHOLE speech

Brian Tyler Cohen clip of Celine Dion NOT authorizing use of her image at the MT rally

Real Housewives in the House?

RantWoman is out of town.

Please enjoy some comedy moments.

Criminal Defendant seeking supporters to greet him before and after daily trial appearances

RantWoman's excuse for missing the joyful opening of the @SoundTransit #2Line is NOT "I have to stay home and fill out evaluations after two days at the #OpenThePaths conference.

RantWoman's excuse for missing the joyful opening of the @SoundTransit #2Line thankfully is NOT "Too many vertical conveyance issues for RantWoman's accessibility needs."

RantWoman's excuse for missing the joyful opening of the @SoundTransit #2Line is NOT "I am running off to an annual event near Ellensburg."  This time, RantWoman is skipping in-person and soaking up the Zoom, but RantWoman has flagged "check current electric car logistics" because she is on the planning committee for the next event in the fall and one proud electric car user who did not go this time mentioned concerns about availability of charging stations.

RantWoman's excuse for missing the joyful opening of the @SoundTransit #2Line is NOT "I have to stay home and do some major household chores," but only because procrastination still prevails.

Truth to tell, RantWoman decided she will try out the new rail line sometime soon and not on a day when everything is packed with celebration.

That leaves RantWoman plenty of time to post snark and occasionally go near SERIOUS POINTS about the week's news.

Consider the many legal venues where our illustrious FORMER President has scheduled appearances either in person or by proxy.

RantWoman's comment.

#OrangeFoolius wants crowds. There is I THINK a parody account wanting to send him tubas, trombones, kazoos? to serenade his comings and goings outside Trump Tower. I think a kazoo flashmob playing Hail to the Chief morning or evening would be just fabulous. I WISH there were some musicians in NY actually pulling this off.

RantWoman notes MANY reports of the defendant in the NY Election Interference trial suffering gaseous digestive eruptions and falling asleep in court. RantWoman would suggest a steady diet of legumes to build up intestinal flora helpful for the former problem. As for the latter, RantWoman wonders whether the very best way for #DonSnoreleone to assist in his own defense would be to nap as much as possible if only to avoid antagonizing the judge.

Oh but wait: now the Supreme Court and #DonTheCon claims of presidential immunity.

RantWoman has not listened to the government's side of the hearing, only the petitioner. RantWoman can't help but think that things might start off better if the lead attorney had a last name other than Sauer and also if he did not sound like a goblin.

The Supremes' key question "whether and to what extent the President enjoys immunity from prosecution," lately interpreted as when is something a private act, for instance in service to a campaign, and when is it an official act.

Kudos to Justice Coney Barrett though for getting the attorney to acknowledge that many of the specific acts listed in the Washington DC indictment are most likely private acts in service to his campaign. Based on what RantWoman made of questions from the Supremes to the petitioner's attorney, RantWoman thinks a perfectly reasonable approach would be just to send the case back to Judge Chutkan to try the facts and THEN let the defendant come back to the appeals chain to assert immunity related to specific facts. It's not like Mr. Sauer's presentation has any better foundation than the 60 some lawsuits that #TheNodFather and his campaign lost after the 2020 election.

On the other hand, if the Supremes are going to find in favor of across the board Presidential immunity, RantWoman would encourage President Biden to immediately dispatch EX President Gropesaurus to some kind of secure but comfortable facility for an extended mental health evaluation of at least a year. OF COURSE this would interfere with someone's ability to campaign. Too bad. MAYBE if President Biden were a good sport, this evaluation could start before the #GOP convention so that there would be some opportunity to settle on a different Republican candidate.

Is RantWoman's imagination running away from her...? Uh.....

VOTED!

Outgoing ballot envelope
on top of incoming one

RantWoman is on a tear to deal with PAPERWORK, taxes and other things. Taxes this year are in the realm of "Good problem to have," except for the part about figuring out whichever online tool RantWoman decides to wade through.

Other PAPERWORK depends on tax information and whatever testing of a new portal RantWoman decides to wade into. Joy. And temptation to procrastinate commenting on any number of topics roiling the infosphere.

But there RantWoman's ballot is on her desk screaming "DEAL WITH IT."

Deal with RAGE about the Supreme court, Section 3 of the 14th amendment, the lesson in post-civil-war reconstruction history that we are all dealing with. RantWoman actually recognizes complexity about names on ballots, party machinations, conventions, and different state standards. RantWoman just thingsk SCOTUS has handled all of this badly and is glad for some persistent teams of voting rights lawyers tackling SOME associated issues.

Deal with it: RantWoman also is particularly inclined toward scorn for the most junior member of SCOTUS, the one crammed onto the court a month before #DonTheCon was resoundingly voted OUT OF OFFICE: dialing back controversy seems EXTREMELY beside the point when one party is happy to place at the top of the ticket a guy who tried last time violently to overturn the will of the people. RantWoman also has RAGE about various other dimensions of campaigns. NONE of that solves the immediate problem of how to deal with the WA state Presidential primary.

Deal gratefully with ballots instead of caucuses which, the times RantWoman has gone, have proven an absolute nightmare on accessibility and aggravation grounds.

Deal with a wish somewhere for a statewide list of every county in WA with opportunity to vote in person using accessible voting methods, the location and hours of in-person early voting opportunities. 

Wait. Wait. EARTH TO RANTWOMAN.

Check out: sos.wa.gov .see the following link for County elections offices

County Elections Offices in Washington State | WA Secretary of State

This page has a nice combo box where people can look up county office location, hours, and contact info.

Choosing the county you want in the combo box is a better idea than just letting JAWS read the county names off the Google map. 

Urk! RantWOman sometimes gets impatient and makes bad assumptions based on my visual experience. RantWoman did that here and then decided just to try the Immersive reader in MS Edge and that cleared things up nicely. Once RantWoman found the info with the immersive reader, she also went back and did the same thing with JAWS and it worked fine.

There are other ways to find this info on county websites, but this statewide view is really nice.

Deal with it for the mental lint RantWoman is accumulating about how different states handle accessible voting practices, which states are doing accessible online voting, glacial evolution of enthusiasm by the WA Secretary of State to tackle this statewide in WA...

Deal with it for the line in tiny print on King County ballot envelopes where one is supposed to share an email or a phone number openly on the outside of an envelope.

And FINALLY, deal with the actual ballot which RantWoman thankfully has enough eyesight to spend her daily allotment of tiny print tolerance handling on her own.

--a desire to make a protest vote and irritation that by the time national elections reach WA, protest options have more than once already dropped out.

--The thought of just picking a party and then sending in a blank ballot.

--a number of OH HELL NO names.

--temptation to game out "well if the vote went this way...what about that way...?

How has RantWoman actually dealt with this???

RantWoman prefers to remain a woman of mystery with the following caveat:

There are LOTS of ways to make an impact on elections. Grab one and go for it.

And for an extra bonus rant on behalf of everyone currently asking RantWoman to opine about AI

1. Sight dependent readers who do not have a screen reader, hover the mouse over the photo for commentary about AI in RantWoman's phone camera.

2. Every dang platform RantWoman regularly interacts with is currently asking RantWoman some version of "help us improve our search" or "Wouldn't you like to try our AI?" NO! RantWoman would like to g-d get done the work she is trying to do. MAYBE LATER.

3. Reminder: RantWoman has enough vision to deal with Blogger backend. RantWoman strives to make posts  accessible, usable but cannot vouch for Blogger as a useful platform for people who are totally blind. One quirky note: RantWoman frequently uses photos from her phone. This works fine when creating the post but when RantWoman reopens, the post automatically reopens in HTML mode. In order to resave and see the photo, RantWoman has to click some button to accept whatever Blogger does to satisfy itself about the resulting HTML code. RantWoman would not mind having this fixed but has not taken the time to complain in the appropriate direction about the problem.

 

There are not enough wars going on; we must have media flamefest about ...the White House Christmas celebration.

The Damage Report re the White House Christmas party

Watch this video FIRST for spirit of the season.

Lean into our better selves.

RantWoman is not that into tap but she is more than tired of the Nutcracker as a seasonal phenomenon and this performance is such a great pickup.

Plus apparently RantWoman needs practice praying for the souls of these poor commentators.

Apparently though heaping scorn on White House Christmas celebrations is part of how the national zeitgest fights the war on Christmas.

See the comments in the first video about Melania Trump, bless her heart.

RantWoman also remembers the year that the punditocracy were just horrified, I say horrified that Michelle's theme for the season was just too brown.

Come on, everyone, we all need to find ways to be nicer to each other. Anyone who does not like someone's holiday decorations is free to decorate to taste in their own home, faith community, front yard....

The Jones Act? What's that?

RantWoman highly recommends the What is Going on With Shipping YouTube channel for:

--Masses of interesting vocabulary new to RantWoman

--Narrtive that continually sheds light on all kinds of world affairs.

Can anyone say "Nerd and Proud?"

Do I still have to get my shit together even if the online form is not fully accessible?

Elon Musk, thankfully, has not managed to completely obliterate Twitter / X usefulness to online communities. For instance, recently someone on Twitter / X (can anyone teall RantWoman HATES the rebrand?) was howling into the ether about how, the first time they saw a new medical provider, the first thing the provider asked about was does the patient have a POLST order (This site is monolingual; RantWoman MAY previously have linked something topical that has many language variants.

RantWoman invites readers who do not know what a POLST order is to click on the link above or use their search engines for more information. The point is I am pretty sure exactly NO ONE wants "have you thought about dying?" to be the first thing one deals with when meeting a new provider.

Tonight though a friend sent RantWoman something that at least starts out on a more palatable footing the Get your shit together checklist

RantWoman definitely recommends readers check it out!

Is it fully accessible? Ummm it reads fine with the screen reader but suppose one wanted to fill it out online without having to do a bunch of adaptations themselves? 

And about people who can get their shit together better if they start in other languages?

In any case, RantWoman WILL be trying to wade into some of this with the reast of the Rant Family. Stay tuned....

Verizon edX extensive catalog of FREE online academic and career related courses.

RantWoman is procrastinating about whether to get a new phone and which parts of her cellphone and internet options to reconfigure.

In the meantime, links for entirely FREE online courses from Verizon and EdX showed up in RantWoman's inbox.

LOTS of things seem worthwhile to check out!

Build new Skills Advance your career 

Course catalog View all online courses

Accessibility note: These two websites behave well enough for RantWoman and her tools, for screen readers. The catalog includes links to many academic institutions so mileage may vary.

Shoutout about online coursework especially for everyone for whom #WeekWithoutDriving lasts all year.

#NDEAM

Dear Fremont, About Lenin..and Twitter...and controversy...and job security and open discussion

 RantWoman wishes to thank KUOW for finally enlightening her about what the controversy is with now former Seattle Times columnist David Volodzo

Original Seattle Times Op-Ed about the Fremont Lenin

RantWoman particularly asks readers to note: the first time the issue of why Lenin was worse than Nazis was Volodzo QUOTING HIS GRANDFATHER who had life experience with both.

Apparently a Tweet restating something along those lines has been taken down and now Mr. Volodzo's Twitter stream is following an arc typical of many Twitter storms: multiple layers of misunderstanding, name calling, virtue signaling screeching, and gross ignorance about basic facts of history.

RantWoman has not felt obliged to wade too far into these posts. For one thing, RantWoman is already devoting far more time than she really should be to the addictive and sometimes supermarket tabloid level of sensationalism and disinformation available in many flavors if one is paying attention to anything related to Russia's assault on Ukraine. 

RantWoman is grateful for professional communications in two parts of RantWoman's life early in the Russian "special military operation:" Messaging something like "we know people with many different views live and work in Seattle. Let's all work to live well together and to maintain professional standards about the work we do."

This week RantWoman's own social media output in various fora has been fairly repetitive: horrific interethnic relations and strategically obtuse political meddling in military affairs are why Russia is getting clobbered in Ukraine. #UltraMAGA House leadership is trying very hard to put the same dynamics in action for the US military.

And by the way, AL Sen. Tommy Tuberville is also drawing more ire than the Fremont Lenin

As an aside, RantWoman strongly encourages readers willing to wade into social media streams to try to suss out the precise meaning of the argot of these posts.  Anyone tempted to take personally any slang or invective flung at them, just don't. It's not worth it unless you think you have a prayer of pulling conversation in some constructive direction.

Back to the Fremont Lenin, at least temporarily.

A previous post about statues with links to other Lenin statue themed posts

The KUOW broadcast mentioned previous removal of a statue in Volunteer Park honoring the daughters of the Confederacy. RantWoman did not feel urgent need to remove that statue partly because she has known two members of that organization who are glad to live in Seattle where there is room to have mixed feelings about the heritage the statue represents.

Finally, RantWoman has never been an editor of anything but her own blog. That said, RantWoman respectfully dissents from many voices in her Twitter stream: RantWoman would NOT have fired Mr. Volodzo, at least not on the first pass.

Word.

Hasta en las mejores familias: Zoom documentation edition

Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth2023 Everyone

Browsing tech support pages is exactly the sort of nerd activity RantWoman sometimes grabs when there is an unexpected gap in time mentally scheduled for something else.

Today's excursion: reading about all the accessibility features one can adjust in Zoom.

https://explore.zoom.us/en/accessibility/

RantWoman was zipping along in her notice existence but don't remember details mode until...RantWoman reached the section about screen reader support.

Behold 

Can any of RantWoman's
super supportive groupies, well-intentioned allies, 
or random passers by tell what is wrong
with a screen shot about this exact information?

(Psst: this is a snapshot in time. If the image disappears because RantWoman has brought the issue of inaccessible inforrmation aimed at exactly the people who need this particular accessibility information, it MIGHT be because RantWoman has connected this post with Zoom tech support and the problem has been fixed.)

Fear not. Y'all are in good company. Why just yesterday RantWoman had to pen a similar piece about Zoom instructions  received in connection with an event in RantWoman's beloved faith community. The post is full of jargon, but perhaps readers will still get the point. New frontiers in meeting accessibility planning.

As long as RantWoman is going off, RantWoman would like to add that it is very nice to ask people whether they need any specific reasonable accommodations. HOWEVER, it would also be lovely to invite others to share accessibility tips. 

For example, consider always sharing the mute / unmute command, *6, and the raise / lower hand *9 commands when there are people dialed in by phone.

Also, many people like to lip-read. People have lots of reasons to keep cameras off. RantWoman considers it good manners to turn camera on when speaking. People who like to lip read might also prefer Speaker view to gallery view.

 

Fast Growing Trees: the answer to LOTS of things.

Yes, OF COURSE, the world waits breathlessly for shoes to drop in Trump indictment land. RantWoman is, weirdly, in the "don't count your chickens before they hatch" mode.

But RantWoman can't say enough about FastGrowingTrees.com

RantWoman needs a break from destruction of the Kakhovka dam, time-lapse of the Quebec wildfire smoke filling the skies of New York, second amendment fetishization, fearmongering about militant environmentalists coming for people's gas stoves and the dreaded drag queen menace.

So a slightly deeper dive into one of RantWoman's regular Youtube visits: the Meidas Touch Network, available on a link through the above video.

Remember FastGrowingTrees.com

RantWoman generally appreciates The Meidas Touch network for a variety of voices, for more than enough legal procedural detail to make RantWoman revisit her repeated decisions not to go to law school.

What RantWoman most wants to comment on tonight though is the quest for sponsors and the recent introduction of enthusiastic ad material in the middle of the legal content.

RantWoman is the wrong demographic for a line of men's clothing and some hangover prevention potion. RantWoman appreciates it when lack of size range eliminates any temptation to buy T-shirts. RantWoman is entertained by Moink, grass fed low chemical meat products and by a home composter she can't remember the name of. Tonight, what is most delighting RantWoman though is But FastGrowingTrees.com . 

RantWoman WILL visit the site, but the point is a whole lot of today's news feeds could use some Fast Growing Trees.

Trae Crowder: Full Special "Damn Boy."

RantWoman needed to laugh.

RantWoman laughed very hard.

Content warning: language; also brief but frank commentary about a gruesome topic