Smitha

@smithakp.bsky.social

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She/they. SEA+PIT+ATL+徳島県. UX designer for good + against Big Tech and AI. Volcanoes, violins, not violence (except defending against fascists). That Pirates of Dark Water (.net) lady. PFP: Australian robin: a rotund bird w/ blue+pink feathers. Not AI!

Apple Maps screenshot of I-5. There’s a street view inset of a car parked on a street, with a concrete wall and door in the background.
Screenshot from the new opening for Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers, the sequel to the show also known as Ronin Warriors. Silhouettes of people with their arms in the air dance before a glowing golden background with large faces and banners.
Cropped screenshot of Time Magazine's website. Article headline reads: "The Kids Aren't Alright With MAGA." (There's also a Subscribe link, two tags: "Politics" and "The D.C. Brief," and an "Add Time on Google" button.)
Screenshot of the previous tweet. The autocomplete lists 5 words in kanji. English translations are scribbled above: Miyoshi, Awa City, Mima City, Naruto City (yes, that’s really its name), Naka District.
Quick sketch diagram describing the difference between a volcano, crater, and caldera.
A view from the air of Glacier Peak in the distance (top right). Lake Washington and wooded suburbia are in the foreground.
YouTube screenshot of a red SUV parked on the tracks in a train station, with cops and people in hi-vis vests standing on the platform staring at it. Text on the image’s top-left reads “BREAKING NEWS,” and the KING-5 logo’s in the top right. Below the image, the text reads: “Car drives onto light rail tracks in Seattle.”
Mobile screenshot of a couple of spam emails. From: Adey zino Received: 1:47 PM Subject: Upcoming renewal scheduled for your plan Body: Upcoming renewal scheduled for your plan Renewal Date: 2026-05-06 04:46:25 Members... From: Amerra WRIGHG Received: 1:42 PM Subject: Your subscription is set to renew shortly Body: Your subscription is set to renew shortly Renewal Date: 2026-05-06 04:41:48 Membership ID: 5...
Photo of a tall, dark brown, rectangular shelf, with a Japanese-style paper lampshade at the top and two shelves in the middle.
Screenshot of a social media post, with a background photo of a wintry coastal European town with mountains in the background. Text reads: From: trond_solberg71 Hi 😊 Norwegian here. A hard thing to explain about social democracy is that we WANT our taxes to go to the "undeserving". Not because we're naive. Because it works. Healthy people cost less. Educated people contribute more. Housed people are more stable. The "undeserving" are actually pretty good investments. But the main point is that in a healthy society there are no "undeserving". There are just people. Follow for more from a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
YouTube screenshot of Max Velocity’s livestream, showing footage of a large mesocyclone and wall cloud near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Photo of Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood from a high-rise vantage point. There are skyscrapers in the background, shorter apartment buildings in the foreground, and a monorail line running between both.
A Black guy is smiling in the top panel, and then dismayed in the bottom one.
Photo of a TV with a gameplay screen displaying a map. A map label reads, “Pirates of Shallow Water.” Image caption reads: “Playing Final Fantasy 14 and this is one of the quest names”
An anime-style young man with black hair and glasses is gesturing at a yellow butterfly. Badly hand-drawn overlay text reads: “Is this a mid-life crisis?”
Photo of a LinkedIn post by the National Park Service with a badger. Text reads: Warning: Going to sleep on Sunday will cause Monday. Staying awake all night does not prevent Monday. See you on Monday. P.S. The American badger (Taxidea taxus) is found throughout the western and central U.S. They are mostly nocturnal and can vouch that staying up all night does not prevent Monday from happening. Please do not badger them about it. We speak from experience. Also, avoid talk of snakes and mushrooms. Image: A badger with a "meh" expression sits in front of two boulders surrounded by grass and wildflowers at Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. Photo/Jacob W.Frank
Screenshot of a Reddit post in r/issaquah titled: “ICE IN ISSAQUAH TODAY 10/28” Attached photo is of several men in sweatshirts, caps, masks, and vests saying “POLICE,” surrounding a parked Honda car with a man sitting inside. Bishop’s Cut and Color is behind them, which is in a shopping center on Gilman Rd. in Issaquah, WA. Text reads: Reports of McDonald's and QFC getting hit. People being pulled over being asked to prove citizenship indiscriminately. If you see them and are safety able to record them, please do so but at your own risk. The Mayor of Issaquah remains silent. Use this photo and tag on socials. Get the word out
An image from Microsoft's design website that features a suite of new icons in a grid, in shades of blue, purple, green, and orange.
Alternate image of the previously displayed keyboard, taken from Best Buy's site. It is very, very pink.
Photo of a dark pink semi-transparent wireless full-sized keyboard with white keys.
Short video of two cats. A black cat is sitting on top of a floor heat vent, in no hurry to go anywhere. A grey cat is sitting behind the black cat, waiting expectantly. Caption reads, "There is currently (1) cat in front of you for the heat vent. Estimated wait time: 2 hours." Background music is that ubiquitous and popular groovy synth holding music.
FlightRadar24 mobile screenshot of western North America, filtered to only show flights to or from ATL. Korean Air 9036, a 747-8 from ATL to ICN, is selected. It’s flying northwest over British Columbia.
FlightRadar24 mobile screenshot showing the aforementioned unmarked plane. It turned west and south and is flying parallel to the Pacific coast.
FlightRadar24 mobile screenshot showing an unmarked Boeing 737 taking off from Boeing Field, AKA King County Airport, in Seattle.
A Sheetz convenience store backlit by a cloud-strewn dawn sky.
A creature with a humanoid body and dragon’s head and wings. His skin is purple except for his grey lower jaw and throat, and he’s wearing brown chest armor and pauldrons with a white furry collar and a blue shirt with yellow striped sleeves. He’s standing in a cave, one hand on his hip, the other up in the air like he’s expressing frustration.
Photo of the front passenger window of a parked grey car, with a black SUV and the lit windows of a building behind it. Inside the car is a dog with a huge mane of light hair and light-colored snout, looking in the camera’s direction.
Video of an Asian woman with a black tanktop, grey wraparound skirt, and canvas bag walking through a doorway multiple times to demonstrate how Japanese office greetings change over the slow, grinding march of time: 1 month in Japan: Eager smile, big bow: “Ohayou gozaimasu.” 6 months in Japan: Eager smile, big bow: “Ohayou.” 1 year in Japan: Fading smile, less deep bow: “Gozaimasu.” 2 years in Japan: Not smiling, quick bobbing bow, less energetic stride: “Masu.” 3 years in Japan: Walking in slowly, just nodding: “Ssss.”
A violin is lying on a grey rubber mat. There’s a salmon-colored sticky note on the body with “finished — please ship” written on it…and it’s pinned INTO the violin?!?!
A poorly-rendered AI-generated white-faced dog lying on a wooden floor
Cropped screenshot of Weather Underground's Wundermap with weather stations enabled, showing a wide range of temperatures and wind directions. The temp is 65F by Pike Place and 80 by Madrona, just a couple of miles east, and the winds in the Central District are coming from all 4 directions.
Mockup of the forthcoming Mount St. Helens license plate in Washington State. It features a teal-tinted polygonal illustration with a mountain goat in the foreground, and the post-1980 volcano and Spirit Lake in the background.
Cropped photo of my laptop screen, showing KING5 News’s website and one specific law. Text reads: ESHB 1531 This bill requires public health responses to communicable diseases to be guided by the best available science. It stipulates that state and local officials must implement and promote evidence-based, appropriate measures to control the spread of communicable diseases, including immunizations and vaccines.
Quick sketch of a blue flag with a red horizontal stripe and a white circle.
Screengrab of a video taken by Jean-Claude Van Justice (@justsomefucker) at an anti-ICE protest in Portland, Oregon. After dark, cops move in on the protestors and fire various forms of ammunition.
Screenshot from the Aurora iOS app, showing a map of the western US and southwestern Canada with green, yellow, and red stripes overlaid on it. Seattle is within the yellow, just above the green.
The empty stage of the Paramount Theater in Seattle. “Riverdance 30: The New Generation” is being projected onto the backdrop. There are purple pillars to the sides.
Composite of 3 graphic tanktops, being worn by a dark-skinned woman with grey pants. On the left is a series of teal and white waves, where the whitecaps are cats. In the middle is a floral pattern in yellow and aqua on a dark green background. On the right is an autumn leaf pattern, oranges on a green background. And I just realized that I kind of like green, actually.
A lotus-shaped table lamp on a bedside table, shining slightly rose-gold-tinted light, with teal jungle wallpaper in the background.
Screenshot of the bookshop.org entry for the book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better,” by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao. But bookshop.org only lists Jackson as an author. And the $16.00 issue price has been discounted to $14.88.
Screenshot of a Reddit post in r/StarWars by u/Tasty_Bodybuilder_33. It’s titled, “Supposedly every confirmed Star Wars project.” It shows a 3x6 grid of brightly colored, disparately designed logos of forthcoming Disney Star Wars projects. Andor, season 2 Maul, Shadow Lord Tales of the Underworld Visions, season 3 Ahsoka, season 2 The Mandalorian and Grogu Starfighter Lando Dawn of the Jedi New Jedi Order Rogue Squadron A Droid Story Visions: The Ninth Jedi Taika Waititi’s movie Dave Filoni’s movie Simon Kinberg’s trilogy Dillard & Owens’ project Rian Johnson’s trilogy (All the above titles have “Star Wars” somewhere in them.)
Screenshot of the MyRadar app, showing a line of storms from Indiana to Texas with roughly 28 tornado warning polygons overlaid on it. YouTube’s in a picture-and-picture window, showing a tornado close by.
RadarScope screenshot with YouTube picture-in-picture, showing a huge hook echo on radar and a picture of the massive tornado.
The outside of Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The marquee reads: STG Presents Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Mar 25+26 7:30 PM
Noah Wyle in both his TV doctor roles: John Carter on ER 1990s-2000s, and Michael “Dr. Robby” Robinavitch on The Pitt (2025-).
Screenshot from the Libby library app. Searching for “the ai con” returned quite a different book indeed: “A Farewell to Arfs: a Chet & Bernie Mystery” by Spencer Quinn, #15 in a series. Truncated blurb reads: “Chet the dog, ‘the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction’ (Boston Globe) and his human partner Pl Bernie Little are on to a new case, and...”
Mobile screenshot of Wunderground, showing a weather radar app of metro Atlanta. An intense storm system is moving northeast of the city, but there’s a complete gap in the precipitation where Lake Lanier is.
Screenshot of my phone email app, listing six spam messages. Five are in Japanese. They’re from e-Orico, AT-UNET, visajapan, Amazon (the one with “meiwaku” in the subject), Lottery AI Alert (this message is in English), and Saison Card.
RadarScope storm relative velocity screenshot of the Olympic Peninsula, showing winds and their relative directions.
Screenshot of an ebook page, titled “how to read this book.” Text reads: This book has been designed for maximum accessibility for readers who are neurodivergent. Words are printed in a sans serif font and left angled to make reading the text easier. Paragraphs and chapters are short and main points are bolded to account for both attention and comprehension needs, and literal interpretations are offered of any metaphors used for clarity. I have written this book to be comprehensive without being too long or intimidating. However, if you feel you do not have the capacity to read the whole book right now, please follow my shortcut journey through the book. This abridged way of reading the book should only take you thirty minutes to one hour depending on your reading speed. Begin with the first page.