“What’s Nashville have that we ain’t got in Seattle?” New Jim Crow, strict abortion ban, union-busting, low wages, unchecked poverty, and gun deaths in spades. Just what Starbucks was looking for, John Burbank opines. Op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-starbu...

Munnopsid (breast-stroke) isopod carrying sargassum. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Seattle Mayor Apologizes to Starbucks, Thought It Knew Everyone Here Hated Them Already: tinyurl.com/yt2k2d3t

When people get upset with younger generations for posting videos in the middle of an emergency/ disaster I think about photos like this. You might not like it, but documenting your disaster experience is not unique to one generation -- we've always done it to the extent that technology allows.

After two weeks of deliberation, today the esteemed Laurelhurst Community Council generously agreed to let sick and severely injured airlifted children live instead of die from unnecessarily delayed care in an unnecessary ambulance ride a mile away from Seattle Children’s.

I have analyzed the census data in Seattle and found that 90% of the car free households are in denser solutions than a single family home and yet we shove them on the busy car streets and leave quiet low car streets for single family homes. We should reverse that zoning plan

Once upon a time I bought programs that came in a box. I would install them on the computer and there they would stay until I uninstalled them. They worked the same way every day. I didn’t have to worry about some guy in Seattle or San Francisco rearranging the buttons and menus overnight.

Laurelhurst Generously Agrees to Let Sick Children Live: tinyurl.com/3s5duryr

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

This is a fantastic story pairing for the Laurelhurst Community Council vs Seattle Children's Hospital Flight for life helicopter debacle.

Excellent article and thread about the thing I have been calling "the snake oil model of capitalism" This bit, though. 🤌

Report: Laurelhurst Residents Blocking Helicopter Landings at Seattle Children’s Ain’t Heard Shit Yet: tinyurl.com/yc3u8ukh

I love it when this kind of thing happens because all of my thoughts are replaced by this gif.

Used to live next to the hospital (with the rest of the poors) in this neighborhood, and I can confirm after years of being exposed to the neighborhood nextdoor conversations, yes, they would totally do this.

‘White Female Mamdani’ Mayor of Seattle Caught Blowing Taxpayer Money on Personal Limousine: tinyurl.com/3n2k7jsv

If the Man the Hunter Symposium (1966) has no haters, I'm dead.

Now do stocks.

It's Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday. Here's a nice story on Seattle's robust independent bookstore landscape. It's one of my favorite things about this city. My goal this Saturday is 5-6 stores, if I can muster the energy. Gotta plan a route! (Yes, I take it seriously)

Re-racking your weights is part of the workout.

Video footage of the Puget Sound #Waterspout that occurred this afternoon at ~3pm PDT (15 Apr 2026) about 3mi/5km W of #Magnolia #WA to the NW of downtown #Seattle WA! H/T: 🎥 BadAssBitch /Reddit #WAwx

Yep yep yep. Evangelicals will make allowances for Catholic Supreme Court justices, because they align on key issues (like abortion and gay people). But make no mistake, evangelicals do not like Catholics. Most evangelicals do not even consider Catholics to be Christians.

Seattle: there is a proposal to build five of these things in our city. Yes, really.

Garnish

Friends, I haven't seen much of this yet, but let's nip it in the bud. In an era of needless war and and the gutting of public resources, maybe let's just not "why are we going to the moon when people are sick and starving here?" NASA is not why people are suffering.

HAPPY WEDNESDAY LET’S GO TO THE FUCKIN MOON

It is, in fact, movement to expand slavery and slavery labor.

private equity is sucking the life out of everything around us

If medical providers have an upper limit of patients they can reasonably care for safely, then their non-clinical support staff should also have an upper limit of patients they can reasonably assist safely.

Tattoo this on me

Huge anti-Trump NO KINGS protest in Seattle ❤

my 76-year-old mother doesn’t go to protests, but she has said some shit on the phone that has made me be like MOM, THEY COULD BE LISTENING, CHRIST

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

Law enforcement officers in Washington state can no longer cover their faces to conceal their identities. The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Bob Ferguson, seeks to unmask federal immigration agents. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/19/f...

thank you for logging onto social media ☺️ There is bad news ☹️

*taps sign tiredly*

There are a total of 54 autonomic specialists in the whole USA. They are not evenly distributed. Some only do consultation visits for anything other than the most severe cases. Some require autonomic testing up front. Some do not take insurance.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

My nearly full (both sides) 6' x 6' kallax bookshelf agrees. Relatedly, so do the floor joists of every apartment I have ever lived in.

I describe Ocean Shores as both a charming horror movie set and a skin cancer survivor accessible beach town. In any case, it is lovely.

Got some locally grown and ground wheat flour for a different baked goods and decided I would try to make my first wheat loaf. Here's hoping it tastes as good as it looks #breadsky #baking

Reposting TikTok by @alltimeisaac.bsky.social who appears not to be too active on here Former cop is now head of security at Seattle Public Libraries, doing cop shit call to action is contacting Chief Librarian Tom Faye ([email protected]) or Board of Trustees ([email protected])

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that white evangelicals believe that both the genocide of Palestinians and war with Iran are prerequisites to the Rapture and the subsequent establishment of Christ’s reign on earth. That’s the end goal here - complete, global Christian homogeneity.

So The Gorillaz are really going through a Beatles thing, eh?*