SEATTLE: sign the letter for our representatives to voice our dissent against the proposed 5 new datacenters, which will use 1/3 of the city's energy, and also generally contribute to the scourge that is generative AI. actionnetwork.org/letters/18b9...

I wonder if The Pitt has impacted Pittsburgh’s tourism numbers? The exterior shots are all the real thing. PGH Trauma Med Center = real-world Allegheny General Hospital. They even use actual Allegheny Health Network choppers! It’s such a great city. I’m grateful for all my years there.

shoutout to all the people calling The Pitt just Pitt hail to Pitt, I guess, right

Just. Throw all the gold statuettes at Noah Wyle. Jesus.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I keep hearing people say that this pandemic broke our society, that this pandemic profoundly broke our society, and while that may be I cannot help but think that what this pandemic has truly done to our society is reveal just how profoundly broken it already was.

WHAT, there was a waterspout over Puget Sound within the hour?!?? #tornado #waterspout #seawx #wawx #seattle #PugetSound www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

Every other politician in the United States RN

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

He’s in prison with labor for 6 months, and he’s barred from being anywhere with women, children, and vulnerable groups for 5 years. Prison labor might = factory work. Kind of shitty to use incarcerated people for cheap labor. (US brands have done the same.) But, GOOD RIDDANCE. #JohnnySomali

“Accuses”

FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

What non-problematic stores can I go to for trash cans and home organization stuff? Target, Home Depot, and Lowe’s are out. Walmart was never in. Ace Hardware doesn’t have the types of trash cans I’m looking for. I flat-out can’t think of anyone else.

Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.

www.amazon.in/Tackling-Con... I just discovered that #Amazon is charging for a Kindle copy of my e-book, which the publishers and I published CC-licensed and free of cost. We didn't list it on Amazon, only on Archive .org, the publisher's site, and Google Play.

Someone died on the floor. Workers were instructed to just go around them and keep working. This is only the latest in a long series of horrific incidents out of Amazon.

It isn’t that Meta didn’t know about the dangers. It’s that Meta hoped that the complaining organizations would be too distracted by current events to notice them. Meta is run by a cesspool full of ghouls.

Pirates of Dark Water fans: JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER It’s quiet and easy to keep up with. And it’s a really friendly and welcoming crowd…or, dare I say, a loyal crew of misfits. ☺️ discord.gg/3x3dRCq9Hn #PiratesOfDarkWater #ThePiratesOfDarkWater

Took them long enough. Let's just hope that they don't forget this by 2028.

Geology-specific Japanese question. Wondering if there's a different meaning besides "snowmelt" that pertains to volcanoes.

I just started donating a few dollars a month to DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute. They’re deeply embedded in the tech world, and they do excellent work around moving towards equitable futures (and away from AI and the broligarchy). If you’re anti-AI, do look them up. dair-institute.org

I caught a 15-second clip from the leaked Avatar: Legend of Aang movie. If it’s real, it is freaking gorgeous. But I’m very much content to wait until the actual release.

Since around midnight PDT, there's been quite an active swarm of earthquakes at the Juan de Fuca Ridge, about 250 miles offshore WA. With 18 detected so far, up to M4.2, locations show that these are NOT at the Axial Seamount Volcano. They do not pose a hazard to the PNW onshore. ⚒️

Earthquake swarm on Juan De Fuca’s divergent western boundary (not the Cascadia fault). Too far north to be an Axial Seamount eruption. Started within the last couple of hours.

we’ve talked a lot about how AI might con people into believing bad things, but it is sad to think of how it will also make us stop believing in wondrous things too

Absolutely fantastic video explaining capitalism, economics, and finance, in a way that has helped me FINALLY understand so much of it. (It’s really gloomy, though.) youtu.be/gqtrNXdlraM

Mild Dr. Stone spoilers… * * * * * The newest cour is really lazy and sloppy. Who were the people they unfroze? How did they learn each others’ languages so quickly? WHY DID THE 21ST-CEN SPANISH PEOPLE WEAR 15TH-CEN NECK RUFFLES?? And they’re off to India next. I have a bad feeling about this. :(

I adore Japan…but why does their government keep doing stupid shit like this, regardless of the current PM and administration… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Let’s see how eager all the AI bootlickers are when our power bills go up by 30%. For once, an affluent urban area is being affected by this trash. It isn’t being “hidden away” in rural and/or poorer areas. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seen at local pubs...by Primitive Brewing, Seattle

The IG algorithm finally showed me some positive content — turns out the chefs of some European embassies have been participating in, what seems to be, a cooking challenge in DC 🧑‍🍳 Norway ⬇️

In case you don't know the reference: youtu.be/PmyByJ4nqN0

Public Education forever

It’s like a Cookie Monster jack-o-lantern!

I used to venerate Pixar. Now, between this and the recent “female employees are warned that John Lasseter gets pretty handsy” write-up…disgusting.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Have any UX designers switched from MacOS to Linux? I'm really curious about how the tools of our trade work outside of The Duopoly. #UX #UXDesign #UXDesigner

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

there’s a reason we have diplomats and ambassadors and foreign services and do not simply conduct international negotiations by off the cuff social media posts the new system we have is not “disruptive” it is not “bold” it is not “unorthodox” it is “tremendously fucking stupid”

Just negotiation tactics. Perfectly relatable. #SubhahAgarwal youtube.com/shorts/IstSf...

Pakistan saved the world. (Suck on that, Hindutva/BJP/RSS/Islamophobes, lol)

I am old enough to remember when Pakistan was considered a loose cannon and too unstable to have nuclear weapons. A fair-weather ally. A US liability It would appear that Pakistan is far more suited to owning nuclear weapons than my own country

pakistan and china brokering a ceasefire, a masterful gambit by the western foreign policy establishment

trump and hegseth are exactly the kinds of guys who look at the giant stockpile of weapons we have and wonder why we haven't used them yet. they're the kid eating the marshmallow now instead of waiting for two. they're the political equivalent of lighting every firework at the same time.

I wish I still lived in Pittsburgh, so I could have driven to DC within a few hours to march and protest.

We should never have gotten to this point. And hopefully Pakistan and others can help find an exit ramp. but we need to be realistic about the severity of this moment. I'm not sure Americans fully appreciate it.

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

Okay are there ACTUAL LEGITIMATE VETTED SOURCES covering the alleged launch of American B-52 bombers from the UK? I only see blurry unvetted photos and video, and questionable blogs. May Pakistan save us all.