truly we have arrived

No cone! All healed!

Seattle voters appear to have taken warnings about possible mail delays to heart. Officials are dealing with more than 190,000 drop-box ballots -- a whopping 69% of the total. 2021's total? Just under 59% www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/11/elec...

Still my favorite shot from the day. There was only one place with enough space to guarantee a glimpse of LA's winning team: the freeway overpasses. Or, for a handful of fans who bravely scurried down a slope of spiky century plants, the freeway itself. Let's just have next year's parade there?

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

We have officially entered "it was dark when I started and I got rained on but it just felt that good to be outside" running season here in the Northwest

What's a lose-lose in criticizing situations like this is that it's then judged on the basis of whether the call ends up panning out, but that's only a small aspect of the question of whether it should have been made.

Calls are about certainty and not risking people's confidence in the final result. Speeding through for competition is not good and irresponsible.

Decision Desk "calling" Seattle's mayor race is quite startling & premature. Will Harrell win? Very plausible: I'd even rather be him at this stage! But not what calls are about. About 60% has been counted. Gap is 5.7%. Wilson needs to win what's left by 9%; she won what was counted today by 3.5%.

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Another Primer in Plant Sciences! 🎉 🌱 Fantastic topic, lots of nuances reviewed here to clear up misconceptions. Check out the appendix for an extended glossary and some questions you can use to assess student understanding. Please consider writing a primer in your area of expertise!

“Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.”

Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jowi...

Thursday drop. Wilson trails Harrell by 9,908, 5.7%. The gap begins to close. We are apparently STILL not into a drop box sample yet, or only including some drop box data. There's a TON of votes expected to lean Wilson out there.

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

When I joined the UW Biology department in 2001, everyone else had a nice nameplate on their office door — but I got a piece of paper with my name on it taped to the wall. It was a newly implemented cost-saving measure, I was told. You cheap-ass bastards, I thought. Anyway, now I feel better.

Several of our students have run into an issue where their "official transcript" is password protected/encrypted which prevents them from being able to upload. If they un-encrypt the document, it removes the "official transcript" watermark. Complete Catch-22 here, does anyone have a work around?

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

that sound you hear is every seattle journalist sighing very loudly before getting up to make another cup of coffee

What is this, an Enterprise for ants? This spaceship needs to be at least... three times bigger than this!

pairing Ro with a shuttle is diabolical

also stuck on "fOr"

"what if MFN in Medicaid, but voluntary?"

This is super cool, and a real validation of the ecosystem. Forget all the whining about filter bubbles or what not. What's happening here is important, in large part because it allows people to build cool shit, not wait for some billionaire to order a lackey to build what they want at your expense

Brown pelicans are one of only two species of pelicans that plunge dive for their food, and the only one you could see do it here in the US. Watching a flock hammer the water like cannonballs is really something else! Here is a striking male in breeding plumage I saw recently! #birds #birding 🪶

okay I did NOT expect a bonus kit featuring minifig Ensign Ro www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

It is one of the great joys of my life to work two offices down from one of my personal heroes, but it is an even greater privilege still to call @gregggonsalves.bsky.social a friend, and to take inspiration from him when there is nothing left to do but speak honestly about how we arrived here

We don’t have to let them get away with it forever. And we must not. Start building will toward fixing things. So if we are lucky enough to have a chance, we don’t blow it.

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets of President Trump, his heirs, his companies, and all related organizations.”

“In 2029 we will use antitrust law to break up all companies that went through mergers after donating more than one million $ to President Trump while merger was being reviewed.”

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

A little bird told me that there's a comic here for you to read! Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)

the hero we deserve

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

Once again, Jeanine Pirro's highest-profile prosecution before she was a USA was when she failed to convict Robert Durst, a man who looked like a Supernatural demon and confessed to murder every time someone sneezed

me when I see the sign at a TSA checkpoint telling me I have the right to opt-out of the face scanner

bro are you fucking kidding me

Today, like all days, is a great day to impeach RFK jr. #ScienceSky

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Prosanta is amazing and this piece is amazing. “Letting your colleagues see your vulnerability and letting them share their concern, well-wishes and help gives you an opportunity to embrace their compassion when you need it the most.”

"I find the defendants' (the DOJ) evidence simply not credible."

I talk about this a lot, but in the Seattle school district all kids get free breakfast/lunch regardless, and not only does it take care of the stigma, it’s an ENORMOUS time and energy saver. I have never once packed a school lunch, nor do I need to worry about getting food into them before school

BTW, in the 1960s, the New York Times ran a dozen "Are Homosexuals Ruining Culture?" essays, all on the premise that it was a completely reasonable area for an interesting debate, one to be settled by straight people. The editorial rationale has aged even more poorly than the stories.

Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

Another 23k ballots added to Seattle's return statistics this morning. Turnout is now at 54.83% (and inching higher), comparable to the 55.3% turnout in 2021.

Between this and “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” I wonder why anyone left of center still subscribes to the NYT

If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)