Did you know the LDS missionary gay romcom Latter Days can be watched for free on Tubi? My quibbles with it are very minor and it’s pretty cute.
Did you know the LDS missionary gay romcom Latter Days can be watched for free on Tubi? My quibbles with it are very minor and it’s pretty cute.
self-love, self-transformation 🧵
I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK
I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.
This is why when I asked my students yesterday what % of Americans think climate change was a hoax they guessed between 40% - 60%. It’s actually around 11% and has been for almost 20 years! But we HEAR from deniers SO MUCH (especially the White House) that people think the numbers are higher.
If you are anywhere near Seattle next Saturday-- the opening of this park promises to be one of Seattle's cultural events for some time to come-- Click the image to read the preview/schedule-- @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social #SeattleMusic #SeattleArt #SeattleDance #SeattleTheater #PictureThisPost
“Productivity is chilling around in the office before checking the kitchen for a free soda, that’ll be $200,000 please. No, I don’t need working hands for that.”
A lot of the things that reduce emissions have great second order effects; better mass transit, more biking infrastructure, less local air pollution! Focusing a city’s functionality around cars chokes the life out of it.
As far as I can tell he truly means it, yeah. He loves Elon and posted a photo of them being buds during his visit.
The tweet with this video from Salesforce CEO Benioff: “Elon’s Tesla Optimus 🤖🔥 is here! Dawn of the physical Agentforce revolution, tackling human work for $200K–$500K. Productivity game-changer! Congrats @elonmusk, and thank you for always being so kind to me! 🚀 #Tesla #Optimus”
They tried! It didn’t go so well!
If state attorneys general want to crack down on fraud, they will find a surprising effect on disinformation. The same tools are used, and in both fraud and disinfo someone is lying for profit or power. The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
The everyday filter has higher breathability buuuut you don’t want to use it when doing anything active because the filtration efficiency goes down with higher airflow.
The everyday filter they rec for up to 20 hours use, the pro for up to 40, filters cost around $1.25 a piece and come in small boxes of fifty and you can keep a year’s worth with very small amounts of storage space. Pro filter is FFP2 rated.
IMO the reason why people yearn for tools that generate code is that programming is broken—everything now is giant layer cakes of huge, complex and intransparent frameworks designed by and for large teams in giant tech companies.
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
He tried at a rally but the audience booed him and he took the hint and stopped.
Important info about ads and how your fave content maker might think they're operating according to their values and doing what needs doing to ensure that, but corps may be screwing them and engaging you for profit (obvs).
Goodhart’s Law isn’t real, I tell myself as I force all my employees to use the confabulation engine to create all my infrastructure.
this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂
The last time Seattle Opera staged the Ring Cycle around a decade ago, local transit ran the rather impressive announcement "The monorail will continue to operate after GOTTERDAMMERUNG."
So this ant...can give birth to male clones of its own species AND of a different species... then mates with the male clones of the other species to produce hybrid workers...and mates with males of its own species to produce new queens... 🐜 Yo these ants are wildin' 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also, is their algorithm prepared for passive aggressive all way stop chicken?!?
Seattle can have such...unique road configurations in places; I wonder what they've done to compensate or if they're already in other similarly confusing places. I've seen multiple videos of Tesla auto driving biff it along 4th for instance, though I know Waymo's tech is much more solid
For anybody curious about the website:
One of the wildest astrophysics facts I have learned is that even outside of tides, the theoretical "sea level" around the world is not a sphere or even an spheroid based on the mass of the Earth, but a "geoid" whose irregular shape is a factor of local density and centrifugal potential energy.
In Sweden they taught them to dispose of cigarette butts
“From 2017 to 2023, the number of cars in Seattle remained effectively unchanged at just over 460,000.”
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
By a 4-1 vote, the Seattle Council's land use committee just approved @alexis4seattle.bsky.social's Roots to Roofs bonus pilot program, which retools the Connected Communities program that was rejected by the same committee in 2024. CM Rivera cast the no vote. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/30/r...
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Of 1950s (!!) Ireland, Fintan O'Toole notes that 75% of rural dwellings got their water from a hand-well or pump and the average household was pumping water around an hour and a half *every day* - almost entirely done by women. 10.5 hours per week; 550 hours per year.
strange fungi
Let's get clickbait out of local news. We are a group of Idaho and Washington journalists, and our publishing company, McClatchy, wants the ability to punish us for not meeting arbitrary story quotas. THREAD
Our friends at @wadnr.bsky.social have an update on smoke conditions. Read the latest at wasmoke.blogspot.com #wawildfire
The federal government can print money and run at a deficit, the states are much more restricted, so I think it’s a nonstarter even if the mechanics could work.
Husband woke up. “I had a bad dream. I was working at Florent, a table of 10 Canadians came in hungry and no one knew how to do anything in the kitchen, Diane came by and I was embarrassed, and also a lion was loose in the city.” Even his bad dreams about his job in the ‘90s are precious to me.
Sorry for misgendering you, beautiful Neptune!
Her lil head is just too exquisitely perfect, how could it be real!
It also wasn’t great for the people experiencing it and the bump was temporary!
so far as 18th & 19th century asshole poets go i see a lot of people taking easy shots at byron when dante gabriel rossetti is right there, digging up his wife's grave to get the book of poetry he buried with her
Oh god, someone on a thread invoked “Light of the World” aka the Piss Christ and I am really tired and just got off a plane but my impassioned screed on it was on Twitter and as some of you know, I have FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC.
I feel like I should go on a CostCo shopping spree and then bring a folding table to a local park and give joy to every passer by.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Social media for an Asymmetrical Account™ is like posting a sign looking for a missing cat with your phone number on a telephone pole but then people dox you and hundreds show up at your house with random stray animals and get mad when you don't want them
Recently I watched this video documenting What Happened with Joe Rogan and wooooooof what an exquisite drubbing
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Way before Jan 6, when a Trump speech was followed by his fans storming the capitol, there was the PBA riot, when a Giuliani speech was followed by NYPD cops storming NY City Hall, calling Dinkins, the city's 1st Black mayor, the n-word, and threatening him with harm. Giuliani won the next election
Holy shit. The Stranger's @vivmccall.bsky.social attends the Sean Feucht prayer rally in Gas Works Park and walks away with one of the best pieces of magazine writing I've seen come out of Seattle in a long time. @thestranger.com
Due to the Seattle community understanding the threat and Feucht’s playbook- this is the only propaganda they were able to cut. Folks waving their flags, holding signs and looking great doing it. Great job Seattle.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
Matching masks aaaah
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
A lot of people are blaming consultants but Nelson\Nygaard gave us our money's worth on this comprehensive multi-volume study. It was Mayor Durkan who killed it.
If you would like more information than this let me know! Oh—nose wires in a good mask are generally needed to get a good seal around the nose area as well.
A good question! Ok so a good mask is one that filters and seals closely to your face, sometimes these are referred to as respirators. About the lowest on the tier that protect are Kn94s with ear loops but for many people the seal on that is hinky. Better are N95 with head loops!
She’s done!❤️🦣 #Embroidery
“Looks like it’s Nine Inch Nails time for this lil lady again!” my nursing home assistant croons
Sarah lays things out so clearly, even though she shouldn't have to for folks to understand how truly twisted the UK government is right now. Her story brings heartbreaking clarity to what we mean when we say the UK has outlawed trans people. So many people "followed the rules" to this awful result.
🧵There's a lot of talk today to the effect that "public health shouldn't be political," & with respect: The notion that government has a responsibility to guide & support the health of every last resident, regardless of background, status, & to some extent even citizenship, is PROFOUNDLY political.
Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle’s King County International Airport to witness deportation flights and spread word of where they are going and how many people are aboard. Until recently, they could keep track of the flights using publicly accessible websites.
Issendai’s essays are a classic in this space
First up in #WinsforWorkers this #LaborDay: We worked with @governorferguson.bsky.social and @atg.wa.gov to make sure O’Reilly Auto Parts paid thousands of their workers across Washington state back for hours of paid sick leave they owed them:
therapist: idk what you mean by chatty brain me: idky u don’t understand. Are you not gay? Does your brain not just CHAT? therapist: what does it say? me: inane things, like about Calvinism therapist: do you feel compelled to act these thoughts? me: only weirdos find Calvinism compelling wtf!?
when people claim that a governor is 'fighting back' against trump this is what that would look like. not posting AI slop memes and launching crypto scams.
With all the contempt I can muster: it figures. And telling Swisher who helped credulously hagriography Musk into a position where he could wreck the federal government also tracks.
This is *very* bad news for Medicare recipients. (Thank Dr. Oz.) Not only will it slow down & prevent access to treatment, but it will suck resources from providers that they need to spend elsewhere. The 6 year pilot starts next year in AZ, NJ, OH, OK, TX, & WA. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
What's fun is that when I leave a voicemail for my senator saying stuff like, "He thinks he can see into the mitochondrial conditions of children at the airport" and "And the new guy was on camera saying it should be legal for people to sell their kidneys," I sound like *I'm* the crazy person.
Yesterday, at approximately 9:30pm U.S. Central Daylight Time, somebody aboard the International Space Station rocked an astronomically impressive piss:
Another fun thing besides them being safe is we’ve gotten better at making vaccines so that even though we’re vaccinating for more diseases we used to, the number of antigens in those vaccines an order of magnitude fewer!
And if you like seeing shots like these, Washington's National Parks could use all the help they can get given the ongoing federal funding shortfalls: wnpf.org/support-park...
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
I do and he absolutely does
The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those. Maybe that is my vaccine.
Imagine having to pretend this hard that you care about your product’s externalities
Look, they’ve reduced non ideal responses for mental health emergencies by *25 percent* in the new version! I mean sure they gave people the old version back within 48 hours of retiring it after getting screamed at but
What was interesting about writing this post was I didn't know how to fact check it. Five years ago I would have typed "Mariners roster by age" into Google. Today I got an mix of wrong AI summary, followed by links to sites that ranged from out-of-date and wrong, to AI slop and wrong, to correct.
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
He’s busy doing graft in his home state at the moment.
When scientists say things like, "opening a window lowers the risk of transmission by 38%", where do they get these numbers? Well, they use airborne transmission models. In my latest explainer video I walk through the history of these models, what they do, and what the don't.
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Important to note they spent hours questioning firefighters and ultimately detaining two while we're facing a RED FLAG WARNING. Just completely unhinged.
She’s guest of honor at @norwescon.org next year!
A bit farther ahead, it's increasingly looking like a rather extreme late-season ridge & heatwave event may develop over Pacific NW & British Columbia in about a week--with some degree of anomalous warmth extending across most of the West (including California). #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx
Have you seen what @cidrap.bsky.social has been up to lately?
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Direct link to pattern in the shop:
New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
Welp, today I learned that’s not an Alanis Morissette song like I’d always assumed.
Singing “brooks brothers riot” to the tune of zoot suit riot
Do you want $473 in audio plugins for literally less than $3 because guitar center pissed off Sam Pura? If you use the discount code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER to get his everything bundle you can live this dream.
Two nudibranchs for #Invertefest (and #MolluscMonday). The one on the right is Chromodoris willani; the one on the left is either C. lochi or C. Elisabethina. Pic from Anilao. #MarineLife 🌿
I think it’s weird they’re making so much fuss about a brand that sounds like a slur used to describe a Trump rally