Wilson has the stuffy Dems as scared as Mamdani does. Fuck off, Seattle wants a better mayor than the incumbent.

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

I've never been so called out before. “Nothing quite fills me with joy like watching Mother Earth’s vitality wither away before my very eyes.”

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

I have been talking about how this should be a thing for almost a decade now — especially in Seattle when it’s dark at 4:30pm.

Seattle Children’s is laying off over 150 staff and slashing hundreds of open positions. Why? Because of Trump and the Republicans' health care cuts. Republicans chose tax breaks for billionaires over care for our kids. This is Trump’s America.

…so have these people never had sex where you pause and check in because someone’s facial expression could be pain but actually they’re doing great and don’t have a clue why you’re asking if they’re okay? no? noted.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Oh my god his wife is dean of the USC School for Communication and Journalism “board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air” Interesting conversations prob going on in that house right now

And hybrid options for people who cannot safely attend in-person events.

The main thrust I see with this AI "inclusion" is generating Black & brown faces that will obediently say the words white folks want without talking back and nary a dollar will touch real Black & brown folks.

FWIW the Clean Air Act is estimated to have resulted in *trillions* of dollars in benefits for Americans’ health and welfare

whoever is running the most effective “PRIMARY ALL OF THEM. YES, ALL. I SAID ALL. I MEAN ALL” campaign can have literally all my money, time, and social media followers. Congressional fire sale, everything must go, no substitutions, all sales final. I’m so serious. this is irredeemable

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

"Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge to not do their jobs"

This person was hand-picked by people we didn’t vote for to replace someone we did vote for, and then they hand picked a date so he couldn’t even pretend represent us.

The Seattle City Council bullied District 2's elected council member into retirement, appointed their hand picked successor, and then scheduled the most important votes of the year for a day he told them a month and a half in advance that he wouldn't be able to make. So anti-democratic.

omg the KKK is a pyramid scheme

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Time to celebrate a well deserved and hard-fought win, Seattle. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/19/n...

In my youth I was the “did something wrong? slink away in shame and never touch the subject again” type (thank you, Suspect Upbringing) I wish someone had taught me then how destructive to myself & painful to others that would be??? As an adult, some of the interactions ➡️

Here's a photo of a street with substantial setbacks on both sides, and no substantial street trees to speak of. Setbacks aren't trees. If we want trees we need to plant them.

DEMOCRACY! 🫠

I accused a coworker of being unreasonable (not in those words), but it turns out I’m the one who made a mistake. Embarrassing! It reminded me to recommend (again) @theradr.bsky.social’s On Repentance and Repair for giving me a better framework of what to do about it.

Rivera has removed (from amendment 102) a provision that would let the city's planning office require developers to come up with alternative site plans if a development would require the removal of any tree.

It continues to boggle my mind in a majority renter city to hear city decision makers openly speak about us with such contempt.

While renters are "growth" that must be "mitigated" by requiring every part of the city to accept a fair share of them, house owners are "community" who deserve a veto over whether and how anyone else can live near them

Seattle's shrinking Black community (and its brown communities, which never get mentioned but are here and shrinking too) won't be helped by eliminating opportunities for renters to live in the city. The result of single-family preservation is always more displacement and erasure.

Vote their sorry asses out!

The fact that environmental review kicks in as soon as they add more density than the original proposal shows how backward the state requirements are, because it assumes that dense housing has negative environmental impacts while existing car-dependent single-family sprawl is neutral or positive.

Again, the desires of incumbent homeowners not to allow renters near them should not be the primary basis for land-use decisions that will determine where new residents can live, and whether existing residents who don't own houses will be able to stay here, for the next 20 years.

It's almost as if incumbent house owners shouldn't have the authority to line-item veto density. In any case, Rivera's proposal to reduce the size of the Wedgwood neighborhood center failed on the same lines as her proposal to shrink the one in Bryant.

Thank you to Lady Scribe and Abdi Jama for hosting us tonight and for a wonderful community conversation. It’s clear that a lot of people aren’t feeling seen or heard right now by our current city government. That will change when I’m in City Hall. #thisisyourcity

NH I get, but why isn’t VT here?

Oh look, Seattle City Council overwhelmingly ignoring anyone who isn’t a wealthy landowner and fucking over literally everyone. Again. Vote Sarah Nelson’s NIMBY ass out, and make sure she knows how shitty she’s being in the meantime.

As I've reported, councilmembers want to strip hundreds of acres of land out of proposed neighborhood centers, areas within a 3-minute (~800-foot) walk of major transit stops and commercial nodes.

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CW: hanging

Seattle mayor calls for other cities to bail him out because his failed homelessness response (among other things) left him 10 points down in the August primary

imagine spending billions of dollars only to have to go up in front of the world and present the exact same excuse as a 4th grader who watched too much TV last night

Midnight Light Rail Test Last Time It Will Ever Run That Late: tinyurl.com/45xm34js

There is, in essence, absolutely no way for me as a reporter, or you as a member of the public, to get information out of the Seattle Police Department in a timely fashion if they decide they don't want to do it. This is outrageous. They are PLAYING.

It's usually just a matter of filling out an online form or sending an email. And it helps for real. Library sales are very, very good for an author.

Why turn over information to the government for free when you can simply sell it?

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

1. No one is less qualified than I am to talk about the soft power implications of Oracle owning tiktok. 2. Reminder that Larry Ellison, CTO of Oracle, is David Ellison's dad. David Ellison is the new owner of Paramount who is looking at eating Warner Bros.

If you're in the U.S. and haven't gotten the 2025-2026 COVID vaccine yet, experts are recommending you schedule it NOW before Friday. If you live in a Republican-controlled state, I STRONGLY recommend you get it before Friday if you can, before the ACIP restricts access. #COVID19

Shrimp surgery! 🦐

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.