Beware the toilet rats

Curious if this ends up just being a massive gift to Philip Morris

My outfit for the day it happens.

On the bright side, in the event of societal collapse it will be exceedingly easy to catch and eat people like this

You will be visited by 3 spirits

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

A big green stinkbug flew out of my Christmas tree, is this some lore I don’t know about? “See the stinkbug fly, candy cane in your eye” or some such

I haven’t seen either of these yet but as a native Michigander I agree with this statement regardless of context

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

hey! if you're in the US and in a state that restricts gender affirming care, my friend flies for an amazing organization that will give you free flights to states/clinics that can help u get access. elevatedaccess.org

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Having facilitated and taken/distributed notes for thousands of meetings - full transcripts are far less useful than a concise summary of outputs, particularly decisions and action items. And I personally would never record as fact or distribute an AI summary without review/edit.

I love that their leading attempt toward character assassination of Wilson is “she does not own a car”

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

An amazing person

The product strategy of AI companies seems to be causing as much mental illness as possible

This should go great with a fractured and and increasingly unreliable media environment

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... Ask everyone you know, especially under 40 to track their ballots, Seattle!

If the Trump admin gives these clowns financial backing while starving poor kids and tearing up the White House for the Orange Temple of Ego, every Dem needs to shout about it from now till the midterms

Teen Vogue has done fantastic journalism and this sucks

The Seattle public safety survey that has long monitored citizens trust in the Seattle Police Department is open until November 30th. I highly recommend everyone take it. They usually send these out to white, affluent neighborhoods 😃 #seattle #pnw #acab www.publicsafetysurvey.org/index.html

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

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-...

Today is the final day the USPS recommends mailing your ballot in. MAGA attacks on the postal service mean that if you mail it after today, it may not be counted. If you can’t mail today, turn it in at your nearest ballot drop box, locations can be found here: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

If you are able, please support your local food bank. We must do what we can as ordinary citizens to cancel out the cruelty of Trump's GOP. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/08/a...

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

'Severe pressure': Krugman reveals how Trump's economy is on par with 2008 crisis

1) I’d rather peel off my own face and eat it than talk to a computer all day 2) My Windows laptop can’t run Win11 and Win11 is looking like such a gigantic debacle that I got a MacBook Air instead. Well played Microsoft, I’m no longer a customer 3) Imagine this in open plan offices

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “Taxonomy, that’s easy right?”

TIL Jared Leto’s hobby is making movies worse by involving himself in them

Whether you're in Chicago or any other U.S. city, remember federal agents and military troops are bound by the Constitution. Know your rights if you're approached by federal forces. aclu.org/deployment_kyr

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Accident rates are not the only type of safety measure. The more autonomous cars on the road, the more bad actors will figure out ways to exploit them.

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Searched for “liquid glass” to see articles/comments about Apple’s new operating system, and as a bonus got the occasional cocktail skeet mixed in. Which works on multiple levels since Liquid Glass the OS seems to make a lot of people want liquid in a glass

Probably my last #flowerreport of the year. #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky

Trump and the Republican budget bill cut MILLIONS in environmental cleanup, leading the Dept. of Defense to quietly postpone PFAS cleanup at military bases in WA and OR, pushing it decades into the future. Communities will suffer in the hands of the Republican agenda.

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

#Seattle please tell Sinclair if you disagree with them pre-empting Jimmy Kimmel on KOMO 4 when his show returns tomorrow.

Really good starter pack

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Online safety is more important than ever right now, and most people give away their location online unknowingly. I'm Eliza Orlins, a career public defender for 15 years in Manhattan. I spend a lot of time thinking about safety—both offline and online. Here are 10 ways to keep yourself safe 👇

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.