The #DoodleADay today is apparently a baby book dragon! I just started with the eyes and then tried to draw a frog but couldnât get it right so then veered towards baby dragon. Ta-da!
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The #DoodleADay today is apparently a baby book dragon! I just started with the eyes and then tried to draw a frog but couldnât get it right so then veered towards baby dragon. Ta-da!
đ¨ Seattle please pay attention to this: @amysundberg.bsky.social joined me to talk about the Council rushing an expansion of Seattleâs surveillance pilot when the Trump admin and ICE want to access the data for enforcement
#YEG #YEGPets Edmonton #YEG Highlands! Keep your eyes peeled for a long-haired grey cat. The grey cat, Fiasco is still on the loose. He's been chipped but he's not wearing his collar. More info here! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
Reddit users keep dismissing the concerns about a brand working with the U.S. DOD as âperformativeâ and say that people need to stop using all the other companies too⌠okay, but I can still be pissed that the company made this choice? We have to be able to criticize collusion.
The Reddit response from the CEO focused on clarifying the tech. He seems to have completely missed the moral question of colluding with the U.S. military.
Busy day in the southern Sierra today due to dry lightning in the last 24h.
If your city has a Black mayor prepare to face an invasion from the military before the end of the year
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
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I like it when a scientist goes on a tangent about their special interest at 3am and I learn about moss. I like it when a historian tells me about some esoteric but super cool person who did something goofy. I like it when someone shows me pretty art. I like it when someone loves the book I love
PSA! This feature has been sooo helpful, but unfortunately does not resolve the problem of having to scroll through my following list to find a name/profile to go with my vague sense of the profile photo đ
Calling the Seattle City Council to try and convince them that we DO NOT want them to green light more creepy surveillance cameras for SPD!
'Meanwhile, construction is well underway for an additional 1,500 new parking stalls along the S Line, new garages in Kent, Sumner, and Puyallup that are expected to cost $240,000 per parking stall.' That is about 2/3 of what 1BR condos are selling for in my building.
HELL MEANS THERE ARE APOLOGIES YOU NEVER GET phew there's a sentence what if we made it our damn work to do the accountability and repair here while we're still in these meatsuits, mothertruckers
my team are sabotaging my chocolate teapot strategy by refusing to use the chocolate teapots to make their tea. they say it's cos chocolate teapots are useless but that can't be true cos we've spent all our budget on chocolate teapots
The âlaw and orderâ response to this would be to remove said President from office, yea? *finger to ear* Iâm getting an update that the proposed course of action is to repeat âI know what you are, but what am I?â at the judge as long as possible.
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The announcement about the announcement doesnât say âPresident Trumpâ just THE PRESIDENT, yea? đ
block block block (COVID is a hoax conspiracy + antisemitism because of course) bsky.app/profile/covi...
Ok, if he is not dead though? I really love the idea of all of us being the grim reaper for halloween.
President throwing a five-minute âquick syncâ invite on the calendar for tomorrow
![xkcd 2557 [White Hat has raised his hand, palm up, as he addresses Cueball.] White Hat: See, it's good to get infected, because it gives you immunity. [White Hat has lowered his arm.] Cueball: Why would I want immunity? [Same setting.] White Hat: To protect you from getting inf⌠White Hat: âŚwait.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jpueb7qixk2cruzvnymsafkx/bafkreiel3qrqtx4oihylbkrfzverep2gkw6itx4x5xiix5xznlskeptsy4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Here's what SPD's proposed expansion of CCTV looks like. It isn't expanding into just certain areas, its going citywide. tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
Did a lap around downtown this afternoon, and PAX in town means the crowds are extra queer and better masked than most! Mask up, folks. Itâs really covidy out there.
Appreciate your tiktok summary services!
The more Trump talks shit about other cities the more cities have each others back. Like I'm a New Yorker defending LA. If he has me defending Boston I'm quitting and moving to Montreal.
YAY GREAT NEWS!! Fiasco, get your fluffy butt home!!
is your friend on verizon by any chance? (theyâre having a full system outage)
You are not necessarily going to have to specify what makes you high risk and therefore qualified for a Covid shot. You likely will only just have to click âyesâ - and the truth is EVERYONE IS HIGH RISK Getting covid puts you at risk for disability and chronic illness.
"Car light Pike Place will NEVER WORK because of emergency access" Actual Seattle Fire Department: "Who wants stickers?"
A Sara Nelson campaign email asserts that she is "pushing to get millions in unused housing funds off the shelf and into actual homes", which is news to me as a city hall reporter. Nelson has actually proposed borrowing against Office of Housing dollars to fill other budget holes.
Oooh yea, youâre right, some of the skipping around seemed to be to connect themes, but others felt like they were there to throw in another memorable anecdote to keep it going
Show about a space lawyer prosecuting billionaires who pollute the sky with satellite constellations
OH GOOD, ~3 hours of sleep.
I read it, but when I was done, I clicked just about every box on StoryGraph for content warnings. I expected some of them but not chapter after chapter of detailed medical trauma.
I was pretty sure there was another kid. Something about how people who nearly die with kid 1 like she did are generally sensible enough (unlike her) to avoid a second round
the world is still wonderful (and also I would love this)
Oceanâs 9 but itâs all these women suing the shit out of Meta and taking control of the company
If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administrationâs actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
Itâs baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just ⌠adequately cleaning indoor air
we're in a google system at work & recently it's started forcing "ai summaries" of conversations we are in the middle of in a chat. i need to stress how 99% of the time the summaries are wrong, like just wrong. Wrong assumptions, wrong understanding of what we're talking about, wrong on every level
How do you have it??? DVD? Itâs not streaming anywhere, we got a (used DVD), and when we paused for dinner, the old DVD player broke and wonât play anymore. So my partner has now only seen half. đ
âWalgreens appears to require prescriptions in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington State, West Virginia and Wisconsinâ
This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.
When the biggest AI boosters say they want to help you do your job better, they are lying (maybe to themselves, definitely to you). They are looking for parts of your job that can be automated. That isn't you doing your job better, that's you doing less of your job.
employees everywhere as execs are shoving âAIâ in just so they can say buzzwords
"An executive order by Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove has put 77,000 acres of older forests off-limits to logging...Upthegroveâs order would also allow logging to go forward on 29,000 acres of those almost-old-growth forests." www.kuow.org/stories/many...
Thanks! And check out the option in your settings that will remind you to add it before posting. Nice to see you on the new site. :)
This sounds great, but it wonât get much traction on bluesky without alt text! Weâre pro accessibility for the streets and the sites. :)
This happens as the USDA's salmonella-prevention programs have been deliberately undermined. Yet again, USA: Require that Congress affirm that the USDA will operate as it has ordered. And #ImpeachRollins . abc7.com/post/salmone...
Remember when Bob Ferguson (WA gov) stood for fighting back for the people? Where the fuck is he?
Understatement of the fucking year right here.
from the country that brought you 1984, here comes 2025
We literally pick up the stripy cat and announce, âAttention, attention for [cat name]!â
Okay, I wrote down the short essay thatâs been looping in my brain for the last hour and a half, maybe it will go away now please!
Why is CBP arresting Washington firefighters while they're working? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Reminder of some conditions that put you at high risk for severe disease: - âObeseâ â 43% (of the US) - Asthma â 8% (") - Depression - 8% (") - Diabetes â 11% (") - âDisabilityâ â 18% (") - Immunocompromised - 6.6% (") This is the current full list: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...
I hate the âsympatheticâ scripts that customer service (human or LLM, but fuck LLMs) use now while doing absolutely nothing about the actual issue.
Patriarchy is, at its core, adult menâs usurpation of the resources, centrality, and attention that should be flowing to infants, children, and other vulnerable groups. The ideal position for a healthy adult man in a patriarchal society is that if an infant with autonomy.
All the women so convinced they need a man that theyâre settling for worse than nothing â I wish them peace and a good divorce lawyer.
The comp het âsingle is sadâ women are always dating the worst men! Living with a man again now, and Iâm actually doing about half the living alone chores and not doing the ones I really hate. But if he didnât approach us that way or take care of me when Iâm struggling/sick, we would not be here!
Anyway go freeze your credit if you haven't already www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
The new LA Times article starts out hard on the Covid minimizing, but actually ends with telling people to mask up and care about indoor air quality, not just get vaccinated?!
I will repeat my ted talk of 2025: You feel this way because you do know what should be being done, not because you don't know what should be being done.
A good friend told me a few weeks ago: "I thought I would be different under fascism but I'm just the exact same person and it's profoundly disappointing to me." I think this is a more widespread view than is publicly discussed. I think that disappointment in ourselves is morphing into negativity.
The whole âmade to be deletedâ thing was cute until it meant rage deleting it every time you try to use it because itâs that bad of an experience and not, you know, getting to know or date anyone.
Canada has fully approved Modernaâs 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccine.
Yes! Willfully abuse or need different things or donât understand! For my work, I know that this is not going to be a top priority for my users, so how can I get them to do what we need them to while spending minimal cognitive load on the process itself? (Sometimes I do want to scream RTFM)
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This is an accessibility conversation that needs to happen but I donât know if I could articulate it w/o it coming out ableist. Like disability is not a bad word⌠but I donât have the language here to describe it like I might for a user who needs a louder volume or wonât hear any sound.
But yes, one home per standard lot development should be taxed far higher than multi unit because the city is *losing potential property tax* on that parcel compared to even 3 homes per lot.
I vote yes on pretty much any school funding and like the multi-family exemption amendment later in the thread, but it seems backward that the costs arenât landing on the NIMBY âneighborhood characterâ whose policies are pushing families out of Seattle.
this is a good approach at work generally when being asked to do something you think is unethical: say in writing why you think it is unethical and get the people making you do it to say, in writing, that they donât care and that they want you to do it anyway
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
Hey comms team - youâll get a LOT more traction on bluesky if you include appropriate alt text! Ex: here you would just copy and paste the text in the screenshot
I'm genuinely glad for Canada and this is a smart business play by Moderna but it also stings when you consider the Moderna vaccine exists because of $10 billion dollars of US taxpayer money. And RFK Jr. might kill our access.
I will also say that if you've ever had a problem with Airbnb and needed to deal with Airbnb's customer service: that person is now running the design of federal government websites.
Hey #Seattle - do you know about #FindItFixIt? App to quickly and easily report issues around the city like a pedestrian cross light bulb being out!
Itâs hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
I highly recommend folks go out and get a covid vaccine ASAP.
quoted post is essentially asking what the Dr.âs qualifications are for her stated observations (which is why the length of this thread is *chefâs kiss*)
(9/??) In one of my writer groups, Iâve been told this is the result of a new AI program they are using to assess packages Customs information is entered, the AI determines whether or not the item being shipped is obscene The AI passes judgment without any visual inspection of the contents
love to see statements about how age discrimination is not tolerated, but they have to specify â(over 40)â đ
the ânaturalâ part here would be hilarious if the stakes werenât so high
happy fresh planner pages & new organization system (that will definitely work this time) to all the ND folks starting a new school year!
If you're not already doing so, consider wearing a mask, especially in crowded or unventilated spaces.
I needed help, I didnât want anyone to touch me. These were two mutually exclusive states.
Canât remember the last time I had potato chips. I want potato chips. I also want the Cuomos and Harrells out of office.
Iâm done making the argument against Newsom. We have made MANY arguments over and over and over. Anti-trans, attacks on the homeless, anti-union, buddies with alt-right Nazis. At this point anyone asking why we donât like him is a troll, an op, or willfully ignorant. End of conversation.
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
I think as far as finding something pre-made, hanging it vertical and perpendicular to the opening is probably going to be easiest as dimensions go.
I totally get not wanting to stare at your bike all the time! The one you linked comes up every time I try to find other options! Do you want it horizontal for the space, bike lifting reasons, or something else?
But no. Weâve got some very fresh sharrows on a 6-8 lane high speed suburban stroad. Congrats everyone who made this happen. Because clearly thereâs not enough space for a little dedicated bike infrastructure on this road of abandoned office parks
happy Friday from Nibs
Short torsos, unite! I only switched to higher rises when I was having gastro issues and lower waistlines sat uncomfortably. I can also wear crop tops as ânormalâ shirts. Itâs interesting to me which measurements get scaled (or not) at different sizes, like jeans with Xâ rise in the style name.
I absolutely wish ill upon JK Rowling.