Cosmos! found on our drizzly walk this afternoon.

google photo memories just gave me this and I completely don't remember what was going on here but it's too good not to share

Poor Tallie had to have follow up surgery on her paw after the one we had in June. She's definitely on the good drugs but send her all the ear scritches & good luck 💙

Happy 55th Exploding Whale Day! (This was written in 2020 which is why it says 50th, mmkay?)

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

What’s that? We haven’t had a Tallie’s Butt automated album update in a while? Well we do now and it’s a good one. I present to you… the front half of Tallie, dropped into the “Tallie’s Butt” smart label album by our AI overlords

So this will sound silly, but Tallie *never* causes trouble at home. She is an angel. Tonight, we got home from nosework training, and she found this piece of paper that had been used as padding in a package and decided to.... steal and shred it?! I was laughing too much to yell at her.

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

We're officially at the point in November where my raincoats (please note plural here!) aren't drying out before the next dog walk and I have to decide which is least damp and annoying to put on. ☔ Have a damp Tallie-as-a-puppy-her-first-Seattle-November while we get drenched again:

Long live the jury trial in America.

EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

Says assault requires a “reasonable fear of immediate bodily harm,” and none exists given agent’s long-sleeve shirt, long pants, boots, gloves and ballistic vest that is created to “keep you safe from military rifle fire” and so is “definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich.”

Curbside grocery pickup, shetland sheepdog edition

Did Pilates ✅ Dropped off ballot ✅ Ok now I’m ready to go have ice cream for lunch or something 🤣

Apple Store Genius Bar trip for fuzzbutt this morning- she had the bestest time saying hi to people while we had a Macbook reset.

I know we're in the last days of all the dahlias in our neighborhood, but they were so lovely on our afternoon walk! And a bonus "paws up" on a staircase as another doggo walked by us on the sidewalk.*

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Some exciting nosework news, Tallie got into a Level 1 Containers nosework trial in early December! (Image is Tallie celebrating with her nosework trainer after a successful container search in training)

NEW: The number of phones being searched at the US border just hit another high - 16,000 devices were searched in the last three months—a record high for a quarter - 55,000 in the fiscal year 2025 (Oct-Sept)—a yearly record high Story with @dell.bsky.social here: www.wired.com/story/cbp-se...

It has been pouring all day so thankfully we had nosework class to go to tonight

Fun legal fact of the day: Florence, OR, where federal agents famously (and illegally) used a thermal imager to detect Danny Kyllo's grow operation in 1992, is the the same oceanfront community that, in 1970, famously (and disastrously) tried to dispose of a beached whale carcass using dynamite.

Tallie: walked around Pike Place market & Seattle waterfront, got home and played soooooo much fetch & did nosework practice. Played w neighbor kid. Still thinks it’s time for Zoomies around the kitchen island. I feel like this is classic “be careful if you think you want a herding dog” territory 😂

Yup. A few months ago, I pointed out that part of the reason for ICE employees covering their faces, was that some of them were likely government contractors and not law enforcement, and so has no legal authority to detain. People that know nothing about criminal justice reform yelled at me.🤷🏿‍♂️

Well done, West #Seattle #nokings

Mariners Win!!! "The City is Shaking!" # SeizeTheMoment @Mariners @MLB @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Do I get blasé about this being 5 minutes straight downhill from our house? Yes. Far too much.

Honestly, they should show the video half-screen, on mute, overlayed with a discussion of the Hatch Act as well as relevant local/state ordinances.

*screams in Word*

It's time for Poorly Drawn Pets, one of the best pet fundraisers each year! arliowa.typeform.com/poorlydrawnp... Here is Tallie's fabulous portrait & the source photo 🤩

SOAK IT UP, SEATTLE! Tuesday is very likely the last 70+ degree day until, well, I'll say spring. Highs drop to the 50s later this week as shower chances return -- and maybe even some mountain snow above 5,000 feet over the weekend.(!) #wawx (Photo courtesy: Space Needle Web Cam)

If you've been following my six-month quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, huge news: I won. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

9 years ago today, I got sworn into the WA State bar in a courtroom in Arlington, Virginia because my husband was in DC on active duty orders. That remains the one and only time so far I've appeared in a courtroom as an attorney. 😂

Imagine a prosecutor dumping videos, digital records, and interviews into an AI model and asking it to structure a prosecution. You don’t have to imagine anymore.

Today is Tallie bear's gotcha day. She was such a smol smidge 4 years ago!

10 years ago I lived near El Sol in DC & I’m soooo happy I squeezed in a visit while we’re here 😋

Seattle uses this too 😕

Happy 236th birthday to the Judiciary Act of 1789, which set the number of Supreme Court justices to six. That number is not an immutable law of nature.

The Pokémon Company criticized DHS’s use of its brand in a montage of immigration raids set to the theme song, ending with mock arrest cards. Their former legal chief cautioned the company against suing given many employees are on green cards. What a depressing world 49.7% of voters chose for us.

Unlocked & unattended laptop count this AM stands at 2 so far. CISO me is dying.

Seattle holidays we celebrate: Copper River King Salmon arrives Cherry blossoms in February Post 9-PM sunsets in the Spring Larches in the mountains Café au Lait Dinner Plate Dahlias at the Farmer's Market

I look forward to AI figuring out what the heck to click in the Entra or InTune portals instead of me. Hopefully it's better than CoPilot, because that one is just a time waster. 🫥 (I mean, or Microsoft could make the millions of admin options easier to manage with better presets? 🤔)

If you, like me, grew up eating Italian Deli cookies and miss them horribly in Seattle, I have a fix for you. Tremonte’s even made a special batch of rainbow sprinkle cookies for me because I was missing them from my childhood so much 😋 tremontesseattle.com

Tallie says this is great September weather for exploring Seattle

iphone camera vs shaking dog for your Friday

Attacks against F/OSS projects & leveraging package management infrastructure are on the rise. If you maintain any F/OSS project, maybe go enable 2FA now & be cautious when clicking links.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

Must read. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

the Google Images Person/Pets labeler gods have seen fit to give us a weekend gift, another photo in the Tallie Butts album. I'm undecided about whether this one is a misfire. I think yes, we can't really see her butt?