Legit laugh at the location for this video. I cannot wait to vote for Katie Wilson for Seattle mayor.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

It's Friday afternoon and the Mariners return to the playoffs tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DLP...

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Lots of (appropriate) dunking on this article, but I haven’t seen many people with this particular dunk: cars are HUGE now! The biggest SUVs are SEVEN FEET TALL and have a FIFTEEN FOOT front blind spot. My teeny tiny 8yo doesn’t stand a chance against these.

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

Journalism. Vouchers. The American journalism desert is rapidly expanding, and ideas like this might be the only short-term means of expanding hard local reporting at a time when the Fourth Estate is desperately needed to counterbalance, uh, certain events. Yes to Katie Wilson for Seattle mayor.

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You're missing some context. Rob Dunlop's in charge of what was formerly known as KCTS, the PBS member station in Seattle, which changed its name to Cascade when it acquired/consolidated with Crosscut 10 years ago. And...it *is* a nonprofit.

Related to this: Some public entity should create a FREE catalog of all summer programs that operate in the area, private and public. Provide a 2-sentence description, dates and times (incl. registration dates), location, and link to sign up. Filter by interest, switch bw calendar/list, etc.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

Driving around 10-year-olds who are earnestly singing along to "What It Sounds Like" from K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is, and I actually mean this, just the best

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

I don't know how to fix this, but I do know that KCTS/Cascade Public Media and the Seattle Channel produce are still here, too. That's something.

I'm proofreading a braille text. I noticed that the software coded most apostrophes as closing single quote marks, which is an entirely different character(s) in braille. ⠄ = apostrophe ⠠⠴ = closing single quote mark This is why we proofread. Don't trust automated transcriptions (or translations).

ANY OPPORTUNITY TO BOOST THIS SUPER FUN SHOW

As a word person, most of my knowledge of "AI" impacts are in that space, so it was really useful for me to read stories from folks working in the visual creative sectors. I dunno, man. Seems bad.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

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Mom Declares Garage Her Next Big Project https://theonion.com/mom-declares-garage-her-next-big-project-1819579239/

a millionaire? I’ve got two toilets in my house, man. what more could you want

Authors love to bitch about a subpar copy editing experience, so I wanted to share how GREAT mine has been on my forthcoming novella, Foundling Fathers. (Tachyon 2026) This CE caught comma splices, unintentional Britishisms, and made fixes per CMS but also:

This has been true for years, but every Kae Tempest song I hear impresses me more than the last. "Statue in the Square" is a banger that I always stop to listen to in its entirety. But this one, where he raps over his younger self and basically time travels? ART ART ART

Sci fi writers working in settings hundreds of years in the future stop assuming that when a woman marries a man she'll probably take his surname challenge

It's important to have two cats so at least one can be a Trip Hazard at all times

A lot of people have been calling me the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.

Love u, SNW, but this essay is great ❤️ Related: The thesis of PRODIGY is that your biology and background don't determine who you are; rather, how you treat others and how you pursue knowledge do. It is the Trekkiest possible show, and it isn't even on Paramount+ anymore, which is baffling!

Chilli talking about installing a fish pond in "Stumpfest" (season 2 ep 6), and then the fish pond not getting installed until "Tradies" (season 3, ep 32), is both a great detail for parents watching BLUEY *and* still a pretty optimistic timeline, in my yard-infrastructure experience.

I needed to see this today.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Wildfire smoke staging a Norman invasion into my home and basically doubling the usual CO2

Ethan Peck's commitment to the Trek pronunciation of "sensor" on SNW is Art.

I love you, @merriam-webster.com, but you walked right into this one

I also worked at a Cold Stone in high school; my intrusive song is "I've been working on the Cold Stone, all the live-long daaaay." In college there was a different slab-based ice cream store near campus with dim lighting and grimy stickers where cool punk kids worked and I was so envious of them

“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”

Wilson already has my vote by a long shot. If her administration can make this happen, I will burst into happy tears.

This scans like a Sondheim lyric

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

In America we have city cops, different cops for your county, cops for the whole state, cops for soldiers, cops for malls, presidential cops, cops for the stock market, mail cops, federal cops, cops we secretly send to other countries. Even your neighbors get to pretend to be cops. We’re very safe

Cool! New Half Mile of Bike Lane Funnels Cyclists Straight into Portal to Hell: tinyurl.com/79pnj5fu

fellow authors, it’s our duty to financially ruin the AI industry

I know this is miles from the point, but you're telling me the whistleblower of the leak of a massive, secret, ephemeral library of data is named Borges?

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

“We’re working on it.” That’s fine. Pull it, keep working, and when it’s not going to kill anyone’s child when used exactly as designed, you can bring it back. Until then, you are liable for the damage you do, just like somebody who’s still working on their driving and drives into a house.