“Don’t mind Grandpa. He’s old and racist but what are you gonna do?” Except Grandpa is the fucking President.

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This app did the thing yet again where it updated itself and turned “Require alt text before posting” off, so if you have that set, go into Settings > Accessibility and turn it back on (and if you don’t have it set, I recommend doing that)

Ha. I had this exact conversation with my therapist. I’m low key envious of those horrible people that can live that kind of unencumbered life.

Woke may come in and out of fashion. But I've been Black this whole time.🤷🏿‍♂️ I don't get to call time out. Similarly, trans kids don't get to call timeout. Gay folk don't hop back in the closet for a few years during a US fashy crash out. So my recommendation: stay true to your allyship values.👍🏿

Hey @murray.senate.gov. At lunch the other day I suggested that y’all start talking about long term goals and start with a set of constitutional amendments. My suggestions were eliminating the electoral college and fixing citizens united. @ramez.bsky.social has a more comprehensive list here.

Making Ribollita for dinner. I you are also finding some calm and routine in this chaos.

i hope i never hear that encryption is only for criminals “i have nothing to hide” ever again

281 days. I had lunch with @murray.senate.gov the other day and she, rightly, put the disaster we are in at the feet of republicans and said that Dems need to take the Senate. My response: "I don't think we can last that long" Also stressed that there is no returning to the old world.

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14

A friend just pointed me to this site if you want to figure out how to help. www.standwithminnesota.com

It’s funny. If you steal people’s shit and devalue their creativity and work they don’t like it. Who knew?

If congresspeople need to give DHS 7 day notice if they want to inspect, why not just flood them with a request for every day starting in a week? Put them on notice that you may show up any day.

when kubernetes was barely known & the community of folks around it was super excited to be working on it, no one in that community insulted or belittled other people for not using or trusting it. they were just like “ok cool, you do you”

New email thing: I'm getting a ton of responses from companies about tickets being opened that I didn't open. Someone is using my email to create tickets in my name. I create unique email per service so I can tell this is someone scraping from discord somewhere. We can't have nice things.

So tired of Google just being broken by AI shit. It turns out that, in fact, the Moxa ioLogik E2200 does *not* support a restful API. *sigh*

I know ICE is setting the bar for out of control cops but, as a reminder, ACAB. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

The people in Minneapolis are not creating chaos—Trump is. ICE is completely out of control.   Trump is terrorizing an entire city as an act of political retribution.   It's Minneapolis today, it could be Seattle or New York tomorrow. Speaking up matters right now.

Just called and left messages for my reps to use any power they have (orthodox or not) to rein in ICE and stop the occupation of the twin cities. Now is the time to show strength and stand up. Anything less is tacit approval. @jayapal.house.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov

Classic blunder. Never invade Russia in the winter.

This is evil. It makes me so angry.

"And let's also not forget, Dude, that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city — that isn't legal either"

This article is BS. The subtext here is that they want to boost birthrates of the "right" people. Famillies need support and stability. But all of those social services (food, housing, health, child care, parental leave) apply to everyone. The right can't have that.

Sat down with Alexa Griffith for her podcast, Alexa's Input (AI). We talked about a whole bunch of things related to both Kubernetes and careers and such in general. Check it out! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1kpy... YouTube: youtu.be/Im5ghJX2z0k?... Thanks for having me, Alexa!

new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...

/3 Think about it. Faced with lawless, violent thugs who feel entitled to murder and abuse, and faced with an unimaginably powerful government openly praising and endorsing murder and lying to justify it, these people are still showing up, often for people they don’t even know.

We do it not alone

Renee Good's death has me spinning. I'm angry and sad. We could have a better world if we wanted to and instead we have... this. All we have is each other.

I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper

Compare and contrast with the absolutely useless statement from @cantwell.senate.gov.

Unimportant in the grand scheme of things but just got spam from “SquareSpace Domains” because apparently google is selling my email now for marketing purposes when they sold the domain business. I never consented to spam from google or squarespace.

My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.

Hey! Go follow my new account, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social !

HAPPY UPDATE - GOOSE FOUND!!!

Crypto has, at this point, become load bearing bullshit. I hate it. It is largely gambling and money laundering. And it isn’t going away.

Hey! Some friends of ours had their doggo, Goose, escape from a training place in Bellevue. If you see him let me know!

The best banana bread recipe ever. I picked this up at a Trader Joe’s next to the bananas something like 25 years ago. Key is over ripe bananas and lots of them. Making it now. I’ll post a pic when it is done.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

No matter how hard they try, they can’t make us like them. No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.

1/3: Gender-affirming care is legal and protected in Washington state. ✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.

I’m loving the San Juan County flag!

oh yea thats the stuff

If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids. You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.

It is so clear that @cantwell.senate.gov needs to go. She just got reelected but I won’t forget her weakness and am ready to support a primary challenger when the time comes.

Is someone keeping a list of all the Dems we need to primary and why? I don’t want to forget these betrayals.

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas’d me, complexions that lik’d me, and breaths that I defied not