The US bombed Caracas. I don't know what to say. I'm so ashamed of being USian.

If you have a New Year's resolution to learn a new language, check to see if your local library has Mango. When I played around with it, it seemed way better and more in depth than Duolingo. #seattle Public Library's links and information to it is here […]

Some good news. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/klamath-indigenous-land-trust-announces-10000-acre-purchase-from-pacificorp/

RE: https://masto.ai/@venitamathias/115826592048122539 #union #unions

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/115824339431975101 @404mediaco Is this worth an article?

Tobacco sharecropper's daughter getting eggs from hen's nest in the henhouse. Enclosure for the pig is just beyond under the pine trees. Person County, North Carolina #northcarolina #undefined #photography #dorothealange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772338/

starting the new year somewhere beautiful

RE: https://boriken.social/@Jdm2/115822916985248727 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ❝ That young people like me made Stewart appointment TV while treating the rest of TV news as a sideshow to be ignored is just proof that a generation of so-called journalists failed at their jobs, helping to pave the […]

@ohmu understanding there is a broader context and these things don't happen on their own is the first step. After that I'd say not supporting algorithmic social media, supporting journalism and research. It makes sense the UW CIP exists here and not Indiana, for example

Our friend Estefania is going through something tremendously difficult. She's asked for help. Please help if you can. She is the only breadwinner in her family. Her job is here in #seattle while her father is sick with leukemia in Riverside. If you live in NE Seattle you may have seen flyers […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luizsantosmusic/115821723461742329 the league of starch pressed dorks

1/ Ever wonder how a rumor in MN becomes a physical confrontation in WA in 72 hours? It’s a new model: Participatory Disinformation. WA's digital ecosystem is perfectly primed for these outbreaks. 🧵

#seapol Happy No More Harrell and Nelson Day to all who celebrate! And Happy Wilson Day One! I've read this Ron Davis piece about Funded Inclusionary Zoning three times and I still don't understand the thing he's proposing as a fix towards the end. This is probably going to be an important […]

Good morning and happy new year. Katie Wilson became Mayor of Seattle at midnight.

#ds9 Of course LeVar Burton directed the episode where Rom forms a union and quotes the Communist Manifesto at Quark.

inaugurating my third annual #shoegaze awards with the lone inevitability of 2025, Best Song mind blowing on first listen & only expanded from there improbable fusion of beautiful, pastoral dreampop & heaviest rock, a perfect and inexplicable melding, the definition of magic @nojoy.bsky.social

My pay will increase by 3 something percent starting tomorrow. Same for represented employee in the #union coalition plus all the hourlies who got MeToo-ed in. Collective bargaining y'all. #unions

@AllKeysGDS I'm a gonna cook some Rockfish tonight. But I was an idiot and didn't get around to refilling the propane tanks so I can't fry it. (We don't fry fish indoors in this house.) I'm thinking of baking it. Put sliced onions and peppers down. Put the seasoned fish on that. Then bake it at […]

Talked to a 2nd grade girl who didn't want to come into our Science Fair drop-in help session today because when she did her first fair this year a boy laughed at her. I told her that mean boys will be mean whatever you do, so you may as well do the science because it's awesome. I talked to […]

[Eritrea - cruelty, suicide, torture, endless prisons] RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/115810949248921120 I used to work for an Eritrean-owned company. It's hard for me to come to grips with the regime they supported.

Note: if you want to discover a new clam species, you will have to train to be a taxonomist first. Taxonomists are biology's Batmen. They spend much of their time in seclusion deep in the cave of the specimen stacks, trying to discern fungus gnats by their genitalia and writing long letters […]

@ai6yr many teachers are pushing back on this but is a big concern, not just because of impact on student learning. Good podcast episode on this issue and what some teachers are doing at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-out-of-school/id1490313171?i=1000730679429

Another episode of #ds9 Another just amazing guest starring actor who died in the past few years. Wherever you are Tony Todd, I bet you're still mercilessly stealing scenes.

Does putting Æ at the start of one's handle indicate something?

YOUR CLAM YEAR IN REVIEW - There are over ten thousand known species of clams and tens of thousands more undescribed. Please do your part and find a few species next year. - Cultured bivalves alone help remove over 49,000 tons of nitrogen from our waterways every year, along with other […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/115798383242619189 I love it every time people discover Wendy Carlos. May I also suggest the "Switched on Pop" podcast. (Hint: the name sounding similar to "Switched on Bach was on purpose.) There's also excellent episodes on Moog and any story about Mr […]

A rare clear-eyed look at homelessness on the op/ed page of the Seattle Times (who snuck this through?) "Visual relief [from encampments] is blinding." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/home...

@emmettoconnell I found a copy of Seattle From the Margins in a Little Free Library. Reading it has been like wearing time travel X-ray specs. It's the first account of western Washington history I've read that doesn't feel like it's hiding anything. Where everything makes sense. I thought also […]

I need to free this item that surfaced in house cleaning. #gaming What species of Xbox 360 controller should I say it is?

Labor Movement Notched Crucial Wins in 2025 https://truthout.org/articles/despite-trumps-war-on-workers-labor-movement-notched-crucial-wins-in-2025/ #unions #union

#seattle It's kind of the perfect statement about Phinney Ridge that there is a repair clinic there but it ends before anybody with a regular job could ever get to it. Meanwhile, a few miles further north on Aurora, Shoreline has one that goes until 8 PM.

@DeliaChristina If I may ask, I'm curious if you stuck with the Gabapentin. I started on a double dose a month ago. I've been sticking with it for one reason only: my dreams stopped being awful.

¿Qué está cantando Neutrino? #Caturday

#caturday it's Wanda!

#caturday Belly Blue is all done now.

RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/115782207999466966 All of my my employer defined contribution plan (DCP) money is in a Vanguard "ladder fund". At a guess, it will take three weeks to a month to convert it all to cash. I wonder if I'll make it in time.

I've now met two people in person whom I met here first. So far, fedizens are pretty awesome.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot/115777552421436390 @futurebird

@evan @hwyaden CW3E staff wrote an excellent after action on the atmospheric rivers that hit Washington and Oregon early December and set records at several streamflow gages. Nice to see how many sondes they launched. https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-event-summary-8-12-december-2025/

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115775640818314224 Yes.

#SeaPol #WAPol As everyone here knows, I won't read #seattletimes#wapol#seapololumnist Danny Westneat. But ... impossible not to notice that Gov Ferguson splashed his 180 turn on taxing the rich *a single day after* Danny boy's column with a headline about taxing the rich bring so hot right now. Did […]

You ever end up in a position where you felt like you might be only one friendly with two people who huge followings at odds with one another?

RE: https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/115766728994316138 🗣 #elbowsup & FUCK THE FASCISTS #canada #cbs #tv #media

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115767245843883385 this is going to destroy so many systems built on MSWindows that if you are a CTO and not making contingencies to freeze further development on that OS & chart a path to migrate out to #linux, then why are you even in that job. Microsoft […]

RE: https://zirk.us/@GettyRoulette/115766947171803869 Finally

Pakistan-born US Army veteran Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was released from ICE detention after 3 months when a federal judge ruled his detention “flat out wrong.” Detained during a citizenship interview, he’ll remain free while his case continues. Zahid Chaudhry Released from ICE Detention […]

@ohmu My impression of him having spent a whole book reading the way he presents natural history is very positive. I also avoid The Atlantic... didn't know he had anything to do with that?

A quirk of the fedi. It's very easy for somebody to start accounts on a gazillion servers and not easy to tell which is their "main". Example: Would the real @tfooq please stand up?

New Orleans musicians share their favorite Christmas songs, from bounce to blues https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/nx-s1-5633218/new-orleans-musicians-share-their-favorite-christmas-songs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon