Robin McWaters

Reader, Eater, Traveler, Gardener
@[email protected]

[Seattle Weather Blog @KSeattleWeather]

⚠️ DRY ON THE WETTEST DAY OF THE YEAR ⚠️

It’s rained more times on Nov. 19 in Seattle than on any other day of the year. But not so this time around!

Enjoy a rare rain-free Nov. 19 as we log our 12th dry day in a row.

[Hayley Campbell @hayleycampbell]

this is like when americans become unbearably earnest for one day over thanksgiving except it’s all of you

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

So many of you are akin to my neighbors’ cat. I don’t really know you, but feel as if we have all been in conversation for years. And I’ll miss you when this glorious, problematic mess of a space is gone.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

My neighbors’ cat and I look for each other every day, through the window.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

My next door neighbor has a cat. I have met neither my neighbors nor their cat. But the cat and I see each other everyday, usually several times a day, through the window. That cat and I don’t know each other, but we have a relationship.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

And most importantly, in those moments that felt momentous, you were not alone. You were in conversation, or maybe just in the corner, listening to the conversation. But you were part of it, whatever it was.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

If you were lucky, you saw glimpses of people’s friends and families, and watched them celebrate personal victories.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

You got to see people’s interesting little hobbies (crows, knitting about the weather, Keanu…) and learn which seasons to unfollow people because they got weird about sports.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

We could stitch together our own newspaper, complete with a witty, mile-a-minute entertainment section, and an op-Ed page that went on and on, and had Roxane Gay!

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

Just last week, in the waning days of twitter, I found out the author of a book I love, now lives locally. For me this summarizes the glorious mess of this place : the collision of hyper-local and global.

[Alasdair Beckett-King @MisterABK]

People say Twitter-as-news has made us stupider, but deducing what actually happened from the jokes is a SKILL. You try and make sense of the Bay of Pigs Invasion from two hundred accounts tweeting, 'It's me, I'm the pigs.'

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

How to say “let me give you my opinion” in different languages:

5. Let me put a penny in the bag (Dutch)
4. Here’s my two cents (US English)
3. Let me interrupt with my three pennies (Polish)
2. These are my five kopecks (Russian)
1. I would like to add my mustard (German)

[smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen]

My new cookbook SMITTEN KITCHEN KEEPERS is out this week and I cannot thank you enough for sharing my enthusiasm over this book; you're my favorite part of this. What makes a recipe a keeper? How do you make the swirly green cover dish asap? It's all here: https://t.co/EI0reGhAsL

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

A relevant reminder for anybody interested in mobility innovation.

[BART @SFBART]

🔥Hot transit merch alert!🔥

The BART ugly holiday sweater is for those who want to turn heads.

On sale now for $50!!
https://t.co/L4iw9IbF3b or in person at the Customer Services Center at the Lake Merritt BART Station.

Or enter to win one: https://t.co/2KGBs8f9eR

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

There is power in your vote. 

Vote today on Election Day.

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

@anjanettedelgad Repeatedly.

[King County Elections @kcelections]

Looking for something to do this rainy Sunday? Maybe make some Election Cake, which goes especiallywell with coffee and voting.

[Pappy Pillé @keithpille]

oh my god we're living out the 80s kids movie trope of "an evil rich guy bought the community center where we hang out and is gonna destroy it"

FUCK we'd all better learn to break dance really fast

[Robin McWaters @crouchingtyler]

It is as if Twitter is helping me get bored with Twitter, and thus able to leave it, by becoming mostly the one billionaire news network, w/ the occasional tweet about goats or romance novels sneaking through.