Effie Parks

@elonmusk @elonmusk can you make me a wheelchair accessible vehicle please!

Cybertruck is so awesome. Until you’ve tried it out, you have no idea, because there’s nothing like it. Best product Tesla has ever made to date.

@SenBeauClaghorn @Notwokenow 5 cans of aquanet was 🫰 expensive!

@Notwokenow This is my budget.

What kind of budget do you have to have for prom these days??? This is insane.

@gregorykennedy And they hate cars.

@OnceUponAGene Why do local politicians have such a giant fetish for penalizing ride-share companies? I guess because they prove how efficient the free market can be.

Oh, look at this, it cost $143.78 for an Uber to the airport. Seattle, come on, this is insane! My flight to SF was $167.96. It's BONKER! 🤪

@shredwithQpid And it's the best therapy.

People who dismiss walking as 'not real exercise' have never tracked a consistent 10,000 steps daily for 3 months alongside a proper diet and then looked at their body composition. Walking is underrated by everyone who hasn't tried it seriously.

@Avonleebythesea Big families are the absolute best thing in life.

My cousin is getting married today, outdoors in the Colorado mountains. I used to babysit her when we were children. She is a natural beauty, athletic and down to earth, she forgot she was supposed to get makeup for her friend to use to do her makeup today. Between the cousins we had everything she needs, but I think it’s so sweet that the person she seems to be least concerned with is herself. What a difference from the self indulgence we’re so inundated with. Also, having a big family is so fun. People forget that having lots of kids extends far into the future. My grandmother had 9 children. There are 21 first cousins just on our side, and most of us have children. The kids were all running in the field behind the cabins last night while we chatted and laughed. It really doesn’t get much better. Anyway, she’s a gem and I’m so excited to see her in her dress today.

She should marry him immediately. Those kinds of nerds make the best husbands. They are so excited to have a woman that they do absolutely everything to beat the game! Also, I had a similar conversation on our first date: Him: I'm kind of a nerd Me: Ooooooohh. Not like a dungeons and dragons nerd??!! Or a magic nerd!! Him: (scoffs) my brother and I tested the prototype of the magic cards when he was inventing it - he worked with my dad. And I haven't played dungeons and dragons since I was a boy. No. We write our own games. I had no idea what that meant at the time. I was just relieved (I thought) that he wasn't into magic and dungeons and dragons. We still laugh about this hilarious moment on our date. All hail the nerds!! I can't believe i didn't know about them until I was 30!!!!!

at dinner with my wife couple next to us on a first date date’s going well, she’s into it then: guy: “i’m really into this really complicated card game” girl: “oh my god, is it canasta? i LOVE canasta!”” guy: “it’s called magic: the gathering.” me (inside): ohhh nooooo …

Cinnamon roll croissants - because shapes are fun.

@LadyNimby Baby dutch Blend- 5 eggs, 1 cup milk. 1 cup flour, torch vanilla. Pour into a lightly buttered cast iron or baking dish - drizzle 4 tablespoons melted butter over top. Bake for 25 ish minutes on 425. Until golden crispy peaks form. Serve with syrup and fresh bacon.

I am simply out of breakfast ideas for the girls. Oatmeal, bacon, toast, French toast, eggs, pancakes, waffles, sausage, hash browns…all done this week. Please somebody help

What I see when I'm invited:

@it_unprofession To be invited to an established group of gamers is more than rare. You are either going to be sacrificed or you're very, very liked.

My friend invited me to his "casual game night." I thought that meant snacks and maybe Uno. He dimmed the lights, pulled out a whiteboard, and said, "We'll start with Catan, obviously." Obviously. Within 20 minutes, three grown adults were accusing each other of "sheep hoarding" with the intensity of a custody battle. One guy slammed his hand on the table and yelled, "You broke our wheat alliance, Trevor." I don't even know Trevor. I'm just trying to figure out why there's a resource called "ore" and why I'm emotionally invested in it. At one point, someone looked me dead in the eye and asked if I wanted to trade wood. I haven't recovered. We finished at midnight and my friend said, "Next time we'll do something light, like Twilight Imperium." I Googled it. That's not a board game. That's a part-time job with lore.

If you do anything today, take just three minutes right now and listen to my beautiful angel of a mother in law. Last night she stood up in front of the city council and testified about making our beloved local park accessible and inclusive for everyone. Her words are pure love and wisdom. You won’t regret it. ❤️

@apeelsciences Beef

These kids weren’t born this way. We did this to them. We handed them devices during the darkest days of the pandemic and told them it was “education.” We normalized constant connectivity as “engagement.” And now we are shocked that they cannot sit through a 50 to 90-minute class without phantom vibrations pulsing in their pockets. I am begging you, please, for the love of God and these kids, let us return to what actually worked. Give them paper textbooks again. Real books with spines that crack when you open them, pages that smell like 1997, margins where they can scribble their thoughts and doodles in pencil. Let them underline, circle, argue in the white space. Let them feel the weight of knowledge in their hands instead of the weightless scroll of a screen. Hand them pencils, actual wooden pencils, and watch their handwriting slow down long enough for their brains to catch up. The research is clear, but more than that, my daily experience is undeniable… when the screens go away, something in them wakes up. They remember more. They argue more passionately. They sit longer with hard ideas. They endure. And for the love of everything holy in education, institute a complete, bell-to-bell ban on cell phones. Not “in your bag on silent.” Not “face down on the desk.” Not “only for emergencies.” Banned. Collected at the door, locked away until the final bell. Because every single time that tiny rectangle vibrates in a pocket, it rips another thread from the fragile fabric of their attention. We are not preparing them for the “real world” by letting them live in their pockets; we are training them to be terrible humans, distracted, shallow, unable to listen, unable to wait, unable to be present. They deserve better. They deserve to be here, fully, with us. I am not anti-technology. I am pro-child. I am pro-future. And right now our students are being robbed of the ability to think deeply, to read deeply, to feel deeply. Their eyes are tired. Their spirits are restless. Their minds are starving for something real in a world that keeps feeding them pixels. Please. Let us give them back the classroom they deserve. Let us give them paper, pencils, and the quiet dignity of undivided attention. Let us save them from the very devices we once thought would save them. Because if we don’t act now, we won’t just lose their focus. We will lose them.

@listen2tish Same

I must be shadow banned because no one sees my post

This is accessibility 💓💓💓

God bless @SweetwaterSound for the worlds greatest customer service.

@HansFiene I have the same skill.

Mormon physiognomy is a real thing. Having grown up in Utah, I can spot a Mormon at 50 yards. I did this on my honeymoon. My wife and I were holding the cruise ship elevator for a couple coming down the hallway and I told my wife "they're Mormons" and she said "how do you know," and I said "by looking at them" and she said "you can't tell if someone is Mormon just by looking at them" and I said "yes I can" and then they got in the elevator and I asked where they were from and they were from Utah and he had just finished his mission.

@davidvlynn @redheadranting A couple more wellness walks in a week and you'll be a ok! Also, good job!

@OnceUponAGene @redheadranting Effie, are you wanting me to regain the 15 pounds I just lost?

I'm thinking of making cinnamon rolls from scratch for Easter brunch, do I need to practice or is this something I can do right the first time? Also, I need other menu ideas for Easter brunch.

@aksunder @PeakSeattle @KCProsecutor Pretty sure most of them don't get to the prosecutors office - because the cops aren't allowed to arrest them. If they do - the judges are the ones refusing to jail them.

@PeakSeattle I hope this inspires the morons at @KCProsecutor to actually start enforcing the law. @KCProsecutor is the biggest blocker to a safer seattle. They refuse to jail people for non violent offenses (like open air drug use). Start enforcing the law these deadbeats will go elsewhere

And so it begins. After it's much celebrated opening this past weekend, the brand spankin' new Mercer Island light rail station has already had it's first OD. If you're wondering, the junkie survived after being revived with Narcan. And the funny thing is, urbanists and transit nerds mocked the kind of people featured in this Daily Mail article (which I actually found kind of funny) as NIMBYs and pearl clutchers. But it looks like their fears are already starting to be realized. No one should be surprised at this point. Word has it that transit police ask people to show their tickets, but not the vagrants. It's not clear whether that's due to them being directed to leave them alone, not wanting to do their job, or to so-called "equity" concerns. And a friend of mine told me yesterday that he was at Bellevue Square, and he saw a vagrant on every street corner there. Four different vagrants flying signs. He's never seen that there before. Get ready, Eastside. If you think that shitshow at the Plymouth Housing facility near Bellevue College was gonna be the last of it, guess again. Seattle is coming to your doorstep, whether you want it or not. tinyurl.com/jwajwkx6