Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Car advocates are planning to be there this Saturday to demand Lake Washington Boulevard return to a speedway for pleasure driving 24/7/365 🙄. Will you be there to show support for the mayor's decision to OPEN the boulevard to ALL people to 🚶🏻‍♂️🧑🏽‍🦼🚴🏿‍♀️🛹👨🏽‍🦽🛴🛼🏃🏼‍♀️ this summer?

The demand for transit accessible pedestrianized streets cannot be overstated.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

The Seattle Times take:

JFC There could never be an easier case for impeaching a president. The fact that impeachment & removal is universally acknowledged among the political class to be impossible is the clearest possible sign that the constitutional order has collapsed into some form of dictatorship.

I don't have access to your full article to know where you go with this, but by cleaning house of harassers you clean house of a whole lot of corruption. hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

“What I didn’t expect from him was a running narrative about the weakness of renewable energy and the gift of Big Oil for everyday citizens. The series presents uneven, almost always one-sided arguments against renewable energy and the work of climate activists.” Some DISINFORMATION in LANDMAN.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Kids should be able to play in the street. The weekly play street in my neighborhood has become so popular that we now have a food truck every week. Consider doing this in your neighborhood. Permitting is free and you can usually get one issued in a matter of days. www.seattle.gov/transportati...

I promise to read this but first thing this reminds me of is being in a meeting with @nrdc.org staffer who said re: preaching to the choir, "The choir needs to practice." Which I took to mean that we do need to keep repeating ourselves, refining, to ourselves and to others.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Some of you know I have a big thing about Terminator 2: "no fate but what we make." So here's the commando madonna from that epic.

This hasn’t just broken containment. It’s reaching escape velocity.

“Almost all of the associations have an affiliated research institute or foundation that provides an appearance of independence while supporting industry priorities…Yet their funding sources and staff almost always come from the same place, with the same motives.” — @ucs.org #UrbanTruth

Don’t stop the Laurelhurst hate with Seattle children’s guys now let’s go after how they let Talaris site go into disrepair instead of opening it up as housing or as a public park

When the CEO of one of the world’s largest mining companies calls out fossil fuel subsidies while backing renewables and storage as the future, you don’t ignore it. This isn’t activism, it’s economics. A fading model vs cheaper, faster, scalable energy. The system is flipping. Momentum is shifting.

"As prices soar for gas and groceries and everything in between, we in the Republican Party have listened to ordinary Americans. We will be providing them what they need and what they demand -- a tacky gilded ballroom where the president can do his little jerk-off dance to the Village People 'YMCA'"

To be clear: There is no "backlash" against this project that the citizens of Seattle have been demanding for YEARS 😂 The daily mail is doing that ragebait thing that they do!

As a start, I think Bicycle Weekends should include all of Lake Washington Boulevard.

I’m fighting for the foundations families need to thrive: health care, housing, education, and good paying jobs. That’s why I support the @workingfamilies.org guarantee.

I am strongly supporting @ronpdavis.bsky.social for the 46th District House seat against Gerry Pollet. He’s the true progressive in the race. Accept no substitutes. Especially one who clerked for Kavanaugh

Ah, the Shirley Exception! White people’s unshakable belief that no matter how cruel or senseless a party or policy they support is, it’s ultimately okay because, “Surely there will be an exception for people like ME!”

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

The Harrell administration squashed plans that would have made MLK Jr Way S safer. Will the Wilson administration revive them? drive.google.com/file/d/1YzeL...

We don’t have to live like this. We all deserve better than this. Image with alt text:

Seems like a good time for the media to run their ‘get every elected official on the record about whether they think the President is fit for office’ playbook. It was all they were doing in June-July 2024, so we know they know how.

The reason abolition is scary is because we've all been told the US prison system is normal and we're all in danger without it. That's a lie. Prison labor is a $9 billion industry annually. That's why they lie to you. We don't need prisons. We need healthcare, housing, and education for all.

People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We will ride."

this is the most common way the Times launders right wing views into its news coverage. this is a news desk problem, not an opinion page problem.

Today!

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

Reposted to add alt to image in quoted post, and support friend, and share a cool event I’d go to if I wasn’t so far!

Make no mistake. TSA workers could get paid tomorrow, but Trump said no.   We have a bipartisan solution to pay TSA workers, members of the Coast Guard, and every other DHS employee except ICE. Trump rejected the offer. Let that sink in.

Tonight's cozy graphic novel is perfect for fans of Heated Rivalry and Heartstopper. See you at Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest at 7 to discuss Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu @ngoziu.com! - Pick up your copy there! 🏒 ♥️ #Hockey #Comics #CheckPlease

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism. (This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

There are often challenges with competence in Republican administrations. Please let me give you an example. This is sick, AF. 😆🤷‍♂️😳🤬

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet another example of how local policymakers burden home building with extra costs that should instead be funded through a broad tax because they provide broad public benefits. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...