Feeling really hopeful in Seattle. For so many reasons. ⚾️ 🗳️

As someone allergic to I ibuprofen, thank fucking goodness for Tylenol. It’s pretty much all I can take.

Seattle Theatre Group says it has paused all scheduled advertising on KOMO at this time.

Fab final day of summer hanging in Seattle with @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social! We went to Canonball Arts, walked to the Market for lunch, and supported @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social & Dionne Foster at the WA Stonewall Dems event! I also support Erika Evans but had to head home to walk my pup!

(Open social media) That looks like a lovely vacation. The FBI wants to do what?! Congrats on the wedding! Israel is literally sniping children in the head. Ooh I should visit that new bar. Thousands more laid off. Will I be fired for just liking this post? Happy anniversary! (Close social media)

The almost-autumn palate cleanser BlueSky needs

This is how local TV ownership breaks down in Seattle: KIRO: Paramount/CBS (Canceled Colbert) KOMO: Sinclair (Cut off Kimmel AND demands he donate to Charlie Kirk's family & co.) KING 5: Tegna which Nexstar wants to buy pending FCC approval. (Cut off Kimmel) Fox 13: Fox (was Nexstar until 2019!)

I had NO idea Jimmy Kimmel started in Seattle. So very 2025: I get my 90’s “news” from @theneedling.com and I’m defending Kimmel. Real fake news, indeed. Make it stop please.

After I gave birth at UCSF in 2006, I asked my pediatrician about decoupling some vaccines to space them out more for my new baby. He talked me out of it. He explained it would be MORE shots, appointments, bus rides, and reactions. And I listened and took the advice of my doctor! That’s how it works

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

Got my Covid, flu, and pneumonia vaccines today at CVS. Easy peasy and free! 💉

A lot of people have been calling me the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

Yesterday, some horrible man was chasing Katie Wilson down after she spoke and shared her story of heartbreak and loss at the Women’s Rights Rally. Mama bear activated and I helped block this awful man from her. Come to find out the terrible person was Jonathon Choe. Piece of 💩

Sometimes smart people make choices too early or out of fear. l've made mistakes I’ve had to correct. It’s more than the below leaders: many legislators, labor orgs, and advocates have been silent. To progressive leaders, please act on your values and support/endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

Moody’s thinks Washington is already in a (reasonably bad) recession.

It all feels very arbitrary and halfway, which feels like it promotes so much confusion. No one can keep track of when the bicycle weekends happen - including the city - because they’re essentially random summer weekends. Really, couldn’t it be every weekend?

What this says to me is @seattleparksandrec.bsky.social doesn’t take Bicycle Weekends seriously. At all. My guess is there was zero awareness with the permitting staff that Bicycle Weekends was happening.

This is all wrapped up. I spoke to the on-site coordinator. Rivian left early because the crowd control was too much of a hassle. They weren’t told it was going to be Bicycle Weekend by any of the permitting agencies at the city.

Had to double check to make sure this wasn’t @theneedling.com

Hearing from a reader that part of the Bicycle Weekend route (this is the penultimate one of the year) is closed off to people walking and biking for what looks like a Rivian commercial shoot. Real classy, Seattle. We get only a handful of car-free days a year, and you give one to a car company.

😬 “Sinderman was paid $50,000 during the transition period, then $52,000 for the rest of 2022. That rose to $58,000 in 2023 and $67,000 in 2024. Those … were just below the thresholds that would require a city consulting contract to be advertised for competition — in 2024, the limit was $67,000.”

Sometimes smart people make choices too early or out of fear. l've made mistakes I’ve had to correct. It’s more than the below leaders: many legislators, labor orgs, and advocates have been silent. To progressive leaders, please act on your values and support/endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

Perfect September Seattle day to rally for women’s rights, support @ppact.org & @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Seattle’s next Mayoral & @electerikaevans.bsky.social Seattle’s next City Attorney! Let’s make Seattle an affordable, safe, and caring community! The @36thdems.bsky.social showed up!

Yeah, Mitch McConnell, welcome to the nightmare we’ve all been living in and many dying in. But do tell: Why did you fund this tyrannical government government when you didn’t have to? Shut it down and don’t fund it again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Question of the day: Is President tRump f*cking Satan? 👹 #TheMoreYouKnow 🌈

This GenXer did this before there was an app for that. Ghat’s GenX for you—always saying how we passed important milestones —like dating loser men—before digital options made our mistakes more apparent. @theneedling.com always nails it!

I fucking love Seattle.

Beavers are the best. Really and also I’m an Oregon State Beaver so doubly impressed with beavers.

Reading this, I realize I’m not prepared at all. I think I might go to the Comet? Or Stoup Broadway, just out of habit. But what if traffic is jammed and the Late 8 is stalled? Is there a place closer by in Queen Anne? Should I prep a go-bag just in case? What supplies should I hoard?

Spotify is terrible but this is awesome.

I fucking love Seattle.

Don’t believe the hype. Believe @theonion.com who reported what’s really going on back on August 11.

Taylor Swift Hints New Album Could Be About Her https://theonion.com/taylor-swift-hints-new-album-could-be-about-her/

An Amazon software engineer spent 4 weeks in jail this summer due to Seattle Police faulty interpretation of surveillance video and credit card transaction data.

What we know: Trump went dark for days, JD's comments, old pics, sketchy photos released that might not be him or he looks ill, stuff thrown out WH windows, weird reports at Walter Reed, and they lie about everything. But this is the only news outlet digging? www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

I am getting ALL the vaccines! I have multiple appointments for the flu, Covid, and pneumonia vaccines—CVS and work. I am hoping next week’s appt happens; I don’t that the flu shot is recommended for late Sept. If my CVS appt works, I will cancel the work appt. I got my shingles vaccine already.

we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing

Got a September appointment for my flu and Covid vaccination shots! I had options through my pharmacy, work, and medical provider, so a wide range of choices. Whew. Definitely pursue appointments for these important vaccines!

Fuck this timeline for so many reasons but I’m glad it gave us The Leftovers. This story cuts so deep: the needing and wanting connection, the power of chosen family, loving people aren’t perfect, and showing vulnerability. Justin Theroux is amazing/hot but Carrie Coon is the queen.

Sent my medical provider a request for the Covid vaccine today. I’m hoping I will still be able to get the vaccine as I have each year. I’m with UW Medical in Seattle. Anyone else having any luck finding/getting a vax appointment? Also, PSA to get all your other vaccinations asap!

TIL there is an Eldest Daughters Day and that day is today. I’m spending my special day getting my child his passport, grooming my dog, meeting with a city candidate to help her win, and going to a political meeting. I’m very glad I’ve outgrown the stereotype.

The forgotten part of the forgotten generation: younger than the Brat Pack/Hughes 80s & older than Clueless/10 Things I Hate About You. But these characters are my age: Before Sunrise Heathers Stranger Things Reality Bites E.T.: Elliot Goonies: Mikey The Americans: Henry, who’s also forgotten

Looking for the primer on how to turn AI off products like google search, Siri, MS Word, etc. I don’t want AI learning from me or my writing at work or home.

OpenAI is one of the monstrous companies @rweingarten.bsky.social has partnered with to push "A.i." into schools. INTO SCHOOLS. Tell your schools HELL NO TO "A.i." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/08/o...

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Documents obtained by @prospect.org show that EPA managers are attempting to require prior approval for union-protected organizing activities—on non-duty time. This is a federal agency and employer trying to tell workers what they can do when they're off the clock. James Baratta reports: