New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices...

Heeey Seattle.... /cc @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

They sending this out on Thanksgiving to try to cover that shit up. That's how you know it's super bad

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

Georgia prosecutor drops charges in case against Trump and allies over their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election https://cnn.it/4psHRtO

Taxpayers have shelled out nearly $71 million for Trump's golf hobby since he retook office — and he's on track to exceed an eye-popping figure

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

I just realized what he reminds me of.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

This is absolutely brilliant.

We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.

"Oh-ho, I had a contrary experience which means that you are wrong, and not that there are a multitude of deeply varying experiences in the vastness of the world!" What a joke. Source: me, someone who watched 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball/Countdown to the Ball with equal high interest.

The remarkable thing here is that it's not even about businesses and people having competing interests* but cars vs. everyone. This is a baffling step backward from @pikeplacemarket.bsky.social. *there was that one guy wrung his hands very loudly before the numbers made it clear how silly that was

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

"...we need to make it possible for more and more people to live in this city without owning a car... I mean, as more people continue to move to Seattle in our region, we just have limited space, and it’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road." @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...

OH WELL WHY NOT

We were on @kuow.org in Seattle talking about LIFE AFTER CARS. Take a listen!

If you’re increasingly disappointed and concerned with BlueSky moderation decisions, there is a social media platform which is different because billionaires can’t own it. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Uplink (2001). I felt like a leet hax0r playing this game on the family HP.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Here's a massive scoop from Ed showing OpenAI has been lying about their revenue for years

House Democrats are fighting for a discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits for 3 years. We’re pushing to save health care for millions of Americans and stop premiums from doubling or tripling. Republicans should join us.

Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

40 days for what? Why cave now? Why these particular Dem Senators? *Looks at map of cities most impacted by flight cancellations.* Ah... Schumer (NY) 🛫 Booker (NJ) 🛫 King (ME) Hassan (NH) Durbin (IL) 🛫 Ossoff (GA) 🛫 Shaheen (NH) Gillibrand (NY) 🛫 Masto (NV) Warner (VA) 🛫

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Maybe you forgot to sign your ballot, or your signature didn't quite match the one on record. If you received a signature challenge letter and have questions, we have a web page for that. kce.wiki/SignatureCha... Folks who need to resolve a signature challenge have until 4:30 pm on November 24.

There are no words for how evil this is

There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.