49ers fans: "I hope Drew Lock plays tonight" *monkey paw curls*

I love the phrasing in the executive order: "creating irresistibly good transit service". We should strive to make public transit the undeniably superior option! (two years of I-5 lane closures + the full opening of line 2 may give us a good push towards this vision)

I received my share of scammy texts over the years, even some of them pretending to be my boss, but that's the first one that is pretending to be my wife 😳 everyone stay safe out there!

OMG we did it @poulchapman.bsky.social!!! Proof that enough complaining to SDOT works!

We were expecting Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson at our event tonight, turns out we'll have Mayor-elect Katie Wilson instead 🥳 join us at Stoup Capitol Hill starting at 6.30pm!

We're proud to announce our endorsed candidates and ballot measures for the upcoming August primary election! 🧵 Congrats to all of our endorsed candidates, and thanks to all 197 community members who attended the meeting. #Endorsement #Seattle #KingCounty #SeattlePublicSchools #PortOfSeattle

It's got to be France winning the World Cup at home in 1998. "Après avoir vu ça on peut mourir tranquille" / "After seeing this we can die in peace." youtu.be/Jqm20HVyxDA?...

This conversation reminds me of the dress meme. If you interpret ChatGPT as the underlying LLM, then of course it's not a search engine. If you read it as the product that OpenAI sells you for $20 a month, then yes it includes a search engine (and other capabilities).

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Governor Ferguson is working for us, the people of Washington State. If like me you've been very disappointed in his first 100 days, especially his lack of support for progressive taxation, let him know!

It's been proven again and again that early education pays for itself multiple times. It's an investment we absolutely need to make here in Washington as federal funds are drying up. Cutting programs like this is just unfathomable. www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

Dune and Dune II are among the very first PC games I ever played many, many moons ago. I still love them and it's a very cool homage from the @duneawakening.com devs to incorporate both excellent soundtracks into their game. duneawakening.com/en/the-class...

Free speech expert: The myth of the censorship industrial complex is so ludicrous that even the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismissed it out of hand last year.

If only there was a procedural tool to force them to join you at the negotiation table... 🤔

If he barely scraped together 8 votes and almost 40 Dem senators vote no on the CR, on such a consequential vote, the only logical next step would be to move to replace him as Minority Leader. @murray.senate.gov would make a great leader who actually does meet the moment.

If he barely scraped together 8 votes and almost 40 Dem senators vote no on the CR, on such a consequential vote, the only logical next step would be to move to replace him as Minority Leader. @murray.senate.gov would make a great leader who actually does meet the moment.

Every single person from @team18f.bsky.social I've had the chance to meet was kind, smart and dedicated to public service. I'm not surprised they led the pushback against Musk's goons, and I hope everyone will land on their feet as soon as possible.

Gov. Ferguson's budget proposal in a nutshell.

Our daughter was born just a few hours after the Alaska Airlines exit door incident, so you bet she's always flying in her own seat! But I acknowledge we are also privileged to be able to afford the extra full-price ticket. apnews.com/article/toro...

I love it! We need to tell the stories of these many dedicated public servants whose lives are being destroyed by Elon Musk and his goons.

In the face of adversity, we all have the agency to make our own choices and not to compromise our values. Ms. Sassoon deserves praise for her courage and refusing to engage in blatant corruption. May we all show the same courage when it is called upon us.

This is heartbreaking. Once again, dedicated and loyal workers bear the burden of Musk's incompetence and arrogance, all while he gets rewarded with expensive government contracts. Cut costs for thee but not for me!

Overwhelming support for funding more affordable housing 🎉 despite City Council trying very hard to confuse the s**t out of voters with their prop 1B. Mayor Harrell and City Council – the message from the people is loud and clear, and the upcoming Comp Plan should reflect it.

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

Out of all our elected officials, AG @nickbrownnow.bsky.social is among those few who seem to be truly meeting the moment. 👏

we need to make cynicism uncool. like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!) giving up is not actually that sophisticated!

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up: Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief. If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

A lot of folks underestimate how much good will we received from other countries over the past century for being a reliable ally and partner. Even if we manage to rebuild trust, our foreign relationships are bound to become primarily transactional for the foreseeable future, mainly to our detriment.

Lol this is North Korea level of propaganda.

I don't think we'll be able to pinpoint one firing or one board dissolution to explain what happened tonight, but berating millions of public servants, many of them tasked to keep us safe, takes an enormous mental toll on them and creates the conditions for such catastrophes to happen.

Hey folks, before worm brains even enters the chamber, I am going to encourage EVERY SINGLE PERSON to get themselves and their kids, if you have them, VACCINATED. CVS has all of these vaccines available. If you're missing anything, GO THIS WEEK AND GET VACCINATED. 💉

@dansup.bsky.social , who is the founder of pixelfed, sent this letter to Mark Zuckerberg/Meta regarding their blocking of links to Pixelfed.

And not just the things that are locked up. When our local QFC decided to lock up ice cream (of all things!), we started to get our groceries somewhere else. Why would we bother going to both QFC and another place when we can just get everything at the other place without hassle?

This got me curious about the demographics of Seattle, and while it is obvious the city is not very kid-friendly, I didn't expect the pyramid to be so lopsided. There are 3x more people 25-35 than teenagers! 😳 Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...

No thank you.

Christmas gift *and* spiting that guy at the same time? Count me in! Just donated $50.

This me 👇😭

An interesting side effect of the US potentially adopting Standard Time permanently is that the EU would likely have to do the same. No way they keep a time difference of 7 hours with NY, 10 hours with SF (for countries observing CET).

I love this so much. The average age of one city council was 68! www.knkx.org/government/2...

A fun holiday tradition 😊 although really it is a race for second place this year. Still, I'm curious if Brian Chesky will finally manage to make it to round 2 this year thanks to his "founder mode" BS. And props to Matt Mullenweg for making himself a viable contender this year!

Would welcome more restraint by people on Bluesky as far as sharing tweets by Elon Musk. Not saying it's never appropriate, just saying it's rarely appropriate. We know he's full of shit without hourly reminders. Thanks for considering.

yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

It's easy to see the half-empty glass and focus on what could have been instead of the oversized Alaskan Way, but the Seattle Waterfront used to be shameful and now we don't have the viaduct, we have direct access from Pike Place, large pedestrian areas... a huge improvement across the board.

Where you're from, giffy style

When asked if she'd join Bluesky, the French secretary for digital affairs replied "we haven't made progress on this question." I know we love bureaucracy in France, but what progress is there to make? It takes five minutes to create an account! Just do it!

This is, unsurprisingly, yet another conflict of interest given that Tesla provides credit financing to car and solar panel buyers, whereas the CFPB regulates said consumer credit.

If there’s one thing that comes out of this dark time, I truly hope that Americans will stop equating wealth with brilliance, leadership, moral superiority or common sense.

This feels like the best outcome possible for Kerry Hall. I've lived within blocks of the building for 13 years now and I've always enjoyed hearing students practice their craft during the day. Hopefully it will continue with STG programs. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

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