This estate tax cut just passed 38-11.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

bleeding hearts 💕

I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM

The proliferation of mobile games where your character opens a small business with almost no money and quickly becomes a millionaire is a capitalist tool to devalue labor and promote the myth that low-income workers can easily “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In this essay I will

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

“Inventing the Renaissance” is having another $3.99 ebook sale. I think this one is Uk/Canada/AU/NZ too! If bit, that sale is coming in a couple days.

This 6x6 original oil painting of the path at St Edwards State Park is ready to go to a new home! maggiepaintsnprints.etsy.com/listing/4458... #oilpainting #seattle #artforsale #traditionalart

Still keaposting

Bleeding heart Wanted to try white on white and a narrow value range

Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.

Seen several friends react to this and I share the initial snap reaction, but I find myself compelled to go further in on it for people who might not know. Professional wrestling and by extension, professional wrestling fans are not who you think they are. And in Mr. Takei's case, they're his fans.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

We’ve all been losing our minds about how limp Democratic opposition has been and now we’re in the thick of primary season and there are like 4 Senate races and 20 House races that could alter the composition of Congress and people don’t seem that invested. Feels like opportunities are being missed.

New podcast episode out! The second segment is all about ICE. I want to emphasize again what I called out during the podcast, which is that even though we're not in the middle of an ICE "surge" here, people are living in fear and there are detentions happening every day.

Really enjoyed this Searching for Birds data visualization from @nadiehbremer.com and team. Lots of great info (and I wouldn't have guess the species estimated to be the second most-numerous in the U.S. if given 50 tries) searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

NO price can be put on a human life. But since Daniel Auderer, former VP of SPOG, thinks Jaahnavi Kandula had "limited value" let me show you, in concrete terms, what her *wrongful death* cost Seattle:

got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Archaeopteryx looks like it would be bitey, a little asshole flying lizard. Probably smart for its size too. Imagine a pigeon-sized lizard crow with a mouthful of sharp teeth that looks at everything as having too many fingers and not bleeding nearly enough

Here are some nice mushrooms

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

🐟 #fish #polychromos #art #illustration

Research that ties together chemistry, history, and archaeology always tends to be neat, IMO. This one is about birds, to boot.

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

We have SIX DAYS to get this out of the Washington State Senate. NEXT TUESDAY is the legislative deadline to get bills out their house of origin. If it doesn't pass by then, it likely dies till 2027. Since farmworkers were written out of labor laws in 1937, we have to win at the state level.

Seattle Renters: join the fight for affordability! We are extending the deadline for the Seattle Renter’s Survey to February 20 and we want to hear from as many different communities as possible. Find all survey links below. English: forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKt

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Even more bad news for Atlanta local journalism: @atlpresscollective.com, which has extensively covered "Cop City", ICE, and Flock cameras, and a finalist for the @inn.org Insight Award for Visual Journalism, announced today that they have run out of cash to stay open beyond the end of March.

Today's pigeon is in her forest crone era. From a photo by @bobbby.online

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

I was curious about the NM airspace closure, so I went to look at the area Google Earth and wow. It’s a real geological treasure.

The Color of Seattle for 2026-02-10 #ColorOfSeattleDaily

Ancestral Rage mixed media on paper, with digital editing Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... Original for sale: ko-fi.com/s/8506347f88

King County folks, you have 1 hour left to vote online here:

This has happened here in Seattle, too. A nurse took an immigrant family in after the father was detained and they were afraid to go home.

Uiiii. This has the potential to be really, really cool. 🔭🧪⚛️

King County Metro has a winning play: take transit to the Seahawks Victory Parade. Our region's great transit agencies are pitching in with extra service, including north-south shuttles in downtown Seattle to keep transit riders moving: kingcountymetro.blog/2026/02/09/i...

Highlights from judging the elementary school science fair. An investigation of which household objects conduct electricity. Can cheese conduct electricity? Apparently so. Me: You and cheese both conduct electricity. What do you two have in common? Student: We are both thick Me: Ah yes of course

One of the properties ICE is leasing is in Tukwila, WA at Riverfront Technical Park.

FYI-- ICE already leases office space in downtown Seattle

Realfood.gov's AI just told me to go eat Snickers and Tostitos.

Some #waleg background info: Floor week is all about the clock. The Dems are trying to vote as many bills as possible off the floor, and as the majority party we decide what bills get a floor vote. By the time a bill hits the floor, it means we are confident we have the votes to pass it. (cont'd)

It's funny that all plans for the Ballard Bridge replacement call for this new pickleball complex to be demolished in order to build a freeway interchange.

Thread. 🧵 (1/x) On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes. To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

dread it. run from it. agglomeration effects come for your antiwoke AI company all the same www.geekwire.com/2026/elon-mu...

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable