Per-precinct mid-election data (through last Friday, Nov. 7) are now available for King County, WA's general election. In the race for Seattle mayor, Katie Wilson closed the gap to 4,300 votes. (Wilson has since taken a 1,976-vote lead.) #seaElex #waElex #seattle #SeaElection #electionViz #dataviz

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Good morning! We have around 2300 accepted King County ballots left to add to the count this afternoon, around 1400 of which are Seattle ballots.

Katie Wilson is now almost certainly Seattle's 58th mayor. We spoke just now: "We’re going to wait for all of the ballots to be counted, but I think we won this race." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

🫡 Godspeed, Suica Penguin.

Many races on the King County ballot, including for the mayor of Seattle, are within one percentage point of each other. Please verify that your ballot was counted, and if not, you can “cure” your ballot to ensure that it counts.

Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who celebrate. youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.

BOOM. Wilson closes the gap, with many more ballots left. This is a tremendous result for her. She trails Harrell by just 1.9% and 4,300 votes. There are many more ballots remaining than at this point in the primary count.

Bonus election viz: here's how precincts shifted towards @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social (more orange) or away from Wilson (more blue) based on election night data, from the primary to the general election. Thanks @katherinemitchell.bsky.social for the suggestion! #seaElex #seattle #dataviz

Per-precinct Election Night data are now available for King County, Washington's general election. In the race for Seattle mayor, incumbent Bruce Harrell opened an 8000+ vote lead over Katie Wilson. #seaElex #waElex #seattle #SeaElection #electionViz #dataviz

Survey says: Seattleites actually LIKE Seattle!

Tashikametan is a turtle who promotes the Labor Standards Bureau. He uses a scope attached to his mask to check employers are being fair. He’s a surprisingly fast runner, but because his shell is heavy, he can’t get up if he falls backwards.

In a rare move, one of the monopoly electric utilities operating in Oregon is asking state regulators for permission to lower residential customer rates in 2026. The reduction, though small at less than 1%, is the result of Idaho Power’s break with coal: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/04/a...

i rode Rapid Ride D up to Ballard just to try the new pushbutton signal at 15th Ave NW and 51st St. i saw two different people use it within 5 mins. So happy to see a more people-friendly environment on what used to feel like a surface highway

What's so inspiring about Singapore is that you can have a world-class mass transit system, high-rise public housing, incredibly smart land use, extremely expensive car registration taxes, you can have all that, and still have an unremarkable car-centric street-level pedestrian experience.

⚡️ IT'S ALL HAPPENING TOMORROW ⚡️ #JupyterCon 2025 kicks off in San Diego! Join us for groundbreaking keynotes, real-world AI implementations & the #Jupyter community coming together! Register: bit.ly/47aTHCE

If you’re in #Seattle, vote! Get your ballots to a dropbox by tomorrow at 8:00 pm. Mailing in ballots may also work, although postal delays may mean your vote won’t get processed until next week. #waelex #seattleelex #Election2025

I was an ORCA card reader for Halloween

AI-generated students are taking advantage of community colleges in Washington state, filling classes, and spiriting away federal loans and grants.

Track your ballot, Washington State! voter.votewa.gov/portal2023/l...

It costs so much more to incarcerate a homeless person than it does to give them a permanent, supportive home. I’ve talked to multiple voters in Seattle who still favor the punitive approach, yet would call themselves fiscally conservative.

I've been calculating the amount of each Seattle neighborhood elementary attendance area that overlaps with its walk zone. In how much of the city can kids walk to their assigned neighborhood school? Here's the answer!

Either @bsky.app is getting inundated by bots, or I’m really popular among good-looking women who almost never post original thoughts

What’s the etiquette for when you’re in a room with someone wearing “smart glasses”, running software built by an ad tech company, that might be modified to not display a recording light? Is it OK to ask someone to put them away, even if they need corrective lenses to see clearly?

Seattle-area companies among donors to Trump’s White House ballroom: Amazon Microsoft T-Mobile

After a recent #Amtrak trip from #Seattle to #Portland, Amtrak’s survey includes questions about how positive of an impact my interactions with #homeless people were. That’s a survey question I haven’t seen before.

Plot twist: High-viz clothes are *more* dangerous for pedestrians. "Wearing high-visibility clothing could actually make [cars' pedestrian detection] technology less likely to spot a person strolling in the dark."

Back in January 2020, which feels like 1000 years ago, I joined @lauraloeseattle.bsky.social and @sharethecities.bsky.social at a jam-packed Wild Mountain Cafe to advocate in favor of a new mixed use building at 15th & 85th. Went up there today, and the building looks ready to open. Glad to see it!

I signed up for a 7-day free trial of Fox’s streaming service to watch Game 5 of the #ALDS in extra innings. Hopefully, this game will end before my trial period does. #DETvsSEA

The Starbucks Roastery, in addition to being a ridiculous tourist trap, was a wildly experimental space that was really cool to visit when I lived in the area. Amazing that Capitol Hill now has zero Starbucks stores that are outside of supermarkets.

Raspberry Pi 500+ now available for $200: Computer-in-a-mechanical keyboard with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD #ComputerInAKeyboard, #RaspberryPi, #RaspberryPi500Plus

Shout out to hotels dot com for recommending that I rent a giant SUV for my trip to (checks notes) central Tokyo

I love seeing older tech get “smart” upgrades like this.

As a @cmu.edu alumnus who also served on an advisory board, the university’s fixation on its U.S. News & World Report rankings was a major factor in my decision to stop donating and volunteering. The world doesn’t need more students and employees who rely on arbitrary rankings to make decisions.

Great news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.5% in August too! That's three months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business. Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...

Apollo and Daphne, artist unknown, 1630-60

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

if you want to write council to oppose this ridiculous amendment that neither supports housing or tree canopy, please send a quick email link w/ letter here: @theurbanist.org @ronpdavis.bsky.social @sightline.org @robertcruickshank.com @350seattle.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

In parts of Michigan, you can pick up a fairly ordinary chunk of limestone & with some polishing, reveal a coral formation that was laid down when this area was a tropical sea in the Devonian, 350 MYA. These are Petoskey stones, the state stone of Michigan.

Thank you to all the commenters who showed up at #Seattle City Hall to advocate for more #housing in the #compPlan. Our region’s vitality depends on us choosing to build the housing that we need.

This was on a Stay Healthy street. I did not stay healthy on this street

I made the mistake of registering a predictable Gmail address in 2004, and I’ve received an incredible amount of private data on it. One guy with a similar name to mine forwarded a bunch of his bank statements to me, thinking that (a) it was his email address and (b) this is how you do backups

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

Impressed that @cbssports.bsky.social is showing establishing shots of New Jersey during the #PITvsNYJ game. Most broadcasters act like the Jets and Giants play in midtown Manhattan.

If you disagree that folks like the Queen Anne Community Council should have the final word on whether neighborhoods are allowed to have more homes, let council know: actionnetwork.org/letters/walk...