Sad. On so many levels and in so many ways.

❤️ they’re home! May the evil illegal ICE activities end!

Related story today: Ammon Bundy found out that none of his allies really believed any of that shit about personal liberty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rode south for the first time and visited White Center. Stopped into Moonshot Coffee, good stuff, recommended.

Fog on the Columbia River.

I’m not even a fan of continuing the auto dependency in the USA. But I see us fall behind even more and it’s just sad. We should have held some market share but it’s gonna fall to nothing and eventually we won’t have a domestic market.

Not shocked. 🤣

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The southern resident orca wish you would live slightly closer together so they could ingest less of your brake dust.

“Seattle’s total narrowly edged out New York City, which produced 14,240 affordable apartments in the same time period from 2020 to 2024, and Austin, Texas, which produced 13,342.”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

So sad to watch.

❤️

She warned us all. Nobody wanted to listen. She was right about all of it. He’s even more unhinged than we imagined. We could be just living our peaceful lives right now. But, no.

Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities? This is your moment. Let's ride. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... (non 'zon in follow up!)

What is the best way to send money to help people in Minnesota? Links appreciated.

I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED

Loving the suburbanites for this. When y’all come in with truth, strength, and vigor for the community I welcome y’all! ✊🏻

Oh dear, sometimes I start a repo and am using different practices to manage the repo. A little git flow, a little merge, a little squashing, sometimes some rebasing...

Looking forward to many of the days coming, but also not looking forward to the fascist aspects of them. I'd rather not have the system get in the way of the freedom, liberty, and lives of the people.

This is an incredible round-up of the dozens of on-the-ground orgs in Minneapolis and across Minnesota, doing the hard work of supporting community and fighting ICE in every way possible. Find one (or ten) to support. www.standwithminnesota.com

For those that have paid attention to him. Have you ever noticed how Elon Musk has largely been wrong about things at a tactical level, and most things at a strategic level, but it's others that have lifted him into great wealth based on his financial maneuvers and posturing?

This would be a spectacular show!!! COME ON HOLLYWOOD MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!

Let’s do it! 🤘🏻

Holy shit. The endless attack on the rule of law and intent of roles, like the reserve chairman, are endlessly under attack by Trump and his goons exactly as they complained Biden was doing, except Biden wasn’t doing. It’s so sick and disheartening. America is pretty much dead and crumbling. 😟

Nobody should be on X. It, ICE, & the TSA, are just a few of the things that should be abolished & *maybe* reformed. The TSA is effectively useless. ICE only has negative effects ya on American society except in the heads of the mentally illogical & broken. X is a trash farm of bigotry and scams.

This. This is truly one of the lost insane things. Destroying the international order serves nobody except the most vile and disgusting leaders. It is only a disservice to the USA, setting us back decades upon decades.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

The End 2025 year in review, it's imploded. But hey, here's to hoping for a 2026 that isn't entirely a dumpster fire. Cheers! Cin! Cin! Sláinte! Şerefe! 乾杯 Salud! Prost! À votre santé! 건배 Skål! Gesondheid! 干杯 Υγεία Tagay! ชนแก้ว будмо compositecode.blog/2025/12/23/t...

Bill Clinton stepping up is not something I had on my scorecard. I thank him for doing so. 💙 Credit @occupydemocrats.bsky.social

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Good numbers, which continue to prove that congestion pricing is a GOOD THING! Let’s do it Seattle! The urban core would be perfect for this! 🤙🏻

Love this. Reviewing the Nazi like behaviors of Trump all via solid reporting at 60 minutes. But in the US it has been censored via indirect Government manipulation.

The fraud of this startup is one of many that just makes the “tech” industry a broken place to be. Tech has gone from “hopeful in the 90s/00s” to “giving you a real mental health problem by gaslighting you while reinventing the dumbest shit ever because of our broken systems of existence”… 😑

I was on @citycastseattle.bsky.social today with @bretthamil.bsky.social and @janehu.bsky.social to talk about Sunday's 100% preventable tragedy on Beacon Avenue and the community response that shut down the street later that evening. megaphone.link/CC8975728969

To note, BRT is great but it’s not even close to the highest capacity systems, but it knocks the socks off of automotive based single occupancy madness. 😑

A good read. Also looks like we ARE getting a crash for “Main Street” out of those tariffs presently. Next up is rando AI crashes!

Love that the three buses going by are carrying more people than what exist on the jam packed road next to them. 5 lanes in one. 😳

Real talk. You know what runs much more reliably? Pretty much EVERYTHING else.

When this embarrassment is gone, so many things are going to have their names reverted. Anybody with even a small bit of self-respect wouldn’t have shit named after this narcissistic fool.

got a bug report from a user in the comments if any of you work at Dropbox lol

Whenever you hear the "there's so many vacant houses, why are people homeless/houseless people..." You need to watch this before any opinions start being spouted. It's good to have an idea of what is actually happening out there. youtu.be/VlsDkN9tHHk?...

Setting Up TimescaleDB for Time Series Data with Postgres.app for all your “Time Scales”! I used an image from The Geological Society of America's "Time Scale" but this… https://compositecode.blog/2025/12/15/setting-up-timescaledb-for-time-series-data-with-postgres-app-for-all-your-time-scales/

At this vigil earlier, I actually watched a group of nearby residents come up and question the attendees on the specifics of the crash that killed Allie last night. Were they hit in the bike lane? Did they hit the beg button? Were they wearing all black? Etc. I could not actually believe it.

Say the hero’s name. Ahmed Al Ahmed. #Sydney #Bondi

One thing about having a bunch of blog entries that I write, because I like to write, but in this cursed era of AI slop everywhere-it adds to the pressure to NOT blog or NOT write. But fortunately I can toil away and entertain my own education and ignore that dehumanizing nature of the AI tooling.

😬 We are in do much shit and our entire administration is all “nothing to see here”!

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