Why would Major League Baseball, a league replete with immigrants and people of color, allow @espn.com to air the #ICE ads that use a slur to refer to immigrants? @mlb.com Would the @mariners.com agree to the airing of such ads?

Join the Friends of San Juans on October 11, 2025 in Friday Harbor for Spirit of Water with Chenoa Egawa. Song, story, and ceremony honor the Salish Sea and Indigenous wisdom. Come ready to connect, learn, and stand for the waters that sustain us all. redpopnews.com/spirit-of-wa...

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

It is not too late to tell City Council we want more housing. Sign the Seattle YIMBY petition to the Council supporting what we think are the best amendments. The more signatures the greater impact it will have. And send to your friends. actionnetwork.org/petitions/4f...

Still managed to experience sticker shock at the yarn shop today, despite knowing tariffs are coming for our hobbies: $160 for four 400+ yard skeins 🧶🥵 Can’t confirm it is due to tariffs (yarn stores, don’t be shy about putting that on receipts!), but a few months ago I would have expected $120

Slightly diminish a book The Long Way to a Small Grouchy Planet

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.

Might have a little cry of relief + processing how it has come to this. Just earlier today I reorganized our safety supplies and found a bag of cloth masks. I don’t remember when I bagged them up because we finally had better options, but seeing them again sure did bring back memories.

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

If you’re around Elliott Bay Book Co maybe I hid some stickers in the book I recently illustrated that came out today.

Is there any good Moby Dick discourse going around these days? I just uncovered a few hot takes from the tail end of the last century.

If not, why not? That’s my question.

This is so embarrassing. I don’t even know what else to say.

AI boosters should put up or shut up. If it's so harmless, fine. Trade households with the communities living near data centers, then. YOU raise your kids with an omnipresent background hum and a precarious water supply since you love it so much.

I might frame this thread & hang it in my office:

This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.

Is Dan Strauss your city councilmember? Take his resident survey about neighborhood centers for the comp plan and select *only* option C to get us the abundant housing we deserve! #Seattle #urbanism #YIMBY (h/t to @seattleyimby.bsky.social) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Yes, yes 47 home runs is impressive, but stopping the wave in a stadium full of little leaguers? That’s the real MVP work imo

This article is an excellent guide to what you can and should be doing right now. Many people seem to think that fascism is a switch that gets flipped, but it's really a machine that the government needs to keep feeding quarters into. Your job is to exhaust the state until they quit.

I wish ill on JK Rowling @bsky.app

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

This one will definitely be sticking with me though the next few election cycles. Tax the rich!

They are disappearing our most vulnerable neighbors. Help Real Change fight back. These folks often don't have anyone else looking out for them. 💸 RC Legal Defense Fund: givebutter.com/RCLegalDefense

All the cats have wanted to do today is come upstairs to the cats-are-here-with-supervision-only room & sleep on the floor. If it means I must lounge on a daybed all afternoon reading a book about walking around Amsterdam, so be it. I’ll take this one for the team.

Really damning that Amazon is costing taxpayers $30M and Walmart $28M per year for its Washington State workers who must resort to Medicaid for themselves and their families to have healthcare.

Takes 10 second and do it!

I find this very interesting because if you replace the average American with an Asian and the AI with an American this is exactly how the developing world feels when climate change conversations originate here

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Tried this for the first time last year & it was like a miracle. I still needed a recovery day but it was nothing compared to the priors.

The Republican budget bill is almost perfectly designed to take money from hard-working Americans—from all walks of life—to line the pockets of the rich.

I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Whether or not you are charged and punished for a crime is more about who you are than what you did. Most of the ppl that cause the most harm are not in prison. They have always been among us.

I said a version of the part about figuring it out to a group chat like an hour ago You stay good at thinking by doing thinking. There's no way around that. If you let someone else do your thinking for you, they're sharpening their skills while yours decline. Same with an LLM.

My harp teacher suggested this sign when I told her why I needed to reschedule this afternoon’s lesson.

The fascist machine wants to break community ties because community strength can resist fascism. Individuals with no ties to anyone are much easier to control. Enabling fascism is a feature, not a bug.

I have strong feelings about this as a basic test of society. It's not just about capacity, it's about intention. The reason we don't have public bathrooms is to exclude people from public space and control who can participate. This is also why we have anti trans bathroom bills

Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.

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hi! this is a very weird ask, but I am looking to speak to someone who visited the old Nintendo Redmond office (the one active in the 90s and 00s that's now a tennis court) who feels they remember the lobby pretty well. just have a couple quick questions, trying to verify something for a story.

Hooray for pedestrian streets! Today I walked from near the downtown public library to the market, ordered lunch from Maíz, sat down to eat, and walked back within an hour. Last time I tried this, I ended up eating at my desk because it took so much time to navigate cars & crowded sidewalks.

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I was just informed that people (who block me on here lol) are still spreading the completely false narrative that Seattle's public library is doing a fascism by banning frontline staff from intervening when ICE comes storming through. The story was false, and the followup is mostly false.

Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists. Ann is an author. Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct. Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.

Personally, I would be thrilled if the city greatly increased its budget for planting and maintaining street trees, but no one has proposed this

Michael Baumgartner just voted to hike student loan payments on people in WA-5 to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. He voted for a massive giveaway to Sallie Mae & Wall St banks who are going to flood the zone with private loans (16/20)

NEW: A DOGE staffer who is helping carry out the downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling, ProPublica has found.

Great thread on Washington State parks & the Governor’s regressive austerity budget. As an AGO employee who blithely said in 2024, “yeah, I think he’d make a good governor…” I have real regrets about not digging deeper. My hat goes off to @qwickening.bsky.social for doing this work.

If anyone has the original documentation that said these bathrooms were supposed to remain open to the public can you please send us it! We think this is a violation of the original agreement with the city and the developer. This isn’t the only case of this, too! Please send us all the instances!