Just gonna say it again, anyone who worked at Tower Records on 8th in Bellevue in the 90s could have told you that Bill Gates is a super creep. Dude bought the creepiest porn.

This is why you close the lid!

I do love a good thread of people defending LLMs and the wholesale theft of other people’s work. Just a wonderful source of people to block.

Having worked in community health in a variety of settings, could not agree more!

I don’t know who is running the website for my local pizza spot (Zeek’s) but if they say it’s going to be ready in 20 minutes it shouldn’t be at least that every time. Set expectations appropriately and most people won’t be mad!

Alaska's Western Arctic is one of the largest, most biodiverse tracts of public land in the United States. Yet the Trump admin. just greenlit a plan to destroy it with bulldozers and 95,000-pound "thumper trucks." The Center and allies sued to stop it. Please stand with us ➡️ bit.ly/3N9CZMc

For the first time in Seattle Children’s Hospital’s 118-year history, its unionized nurses are on the verge of a strike.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown intensified across Washington in the late summer and early fall, new data indicates.

A Portland jury acquitted Indigenous community member Tracy Molina, also known as Cozca, of every charge submitted to them after a two-day trial centered on washable chalk messages written on a police precinct window, and police testimony riddled with lies the jury ultimately rejected.

A public disclosure office that takes a year to provide one document, while providing absolutely nothing at all in response to other requests for the entirety of 2025, is doing concealment, not disclosure.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We remember lives lost and call for safety, dignity, and justice. Archives can help us understand past sex worker struggles: womenshistorynetwork.org/reading-agai... #IDEVASW #SexWorkers

No, I didn't watch the address. I see plenty of patients with dementia at work and I am off the clock, thanks.

@propublica.org part of an effective newsroom requires trust. Listen to your amazing workers who are trying to help you! Unlabeled AI slop will erode trust and confidence in your reporting.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

NEW: CBP is doubling down on a surveillance strategy built around small, human-portable drones, pushing border enforcement toward a distributed surveillance network that can operate in harsh climes and mixed terrain to rapidly cue agents.

A stark reminder that Washington is also home to depraved, morally bankrupt psychopaths.

Confidential Informant Mickey Windecker entrapped several activists during the George Floyd uprising in Denver. Increasingly, we're seeing a model where CIs are used to initiate entrapment, which is then passed off to "their friend" (an undercover agent.) The TILF case in LA matches this pattern.

Excerpt: Che Guevara on Revolutionary Medicine and the Social Role of Doctors open.substack.com/pub/sevensto...

Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case. Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

Now imagine if people did this AND stopped flying all over the world.

The man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been named: The hero’s name is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two, who owns a fruit shop.

Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah. Antisemitism is evil.

Whatcom County has three locations where flood-impacted residents and businesses can dispose of flood debris for free.

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

It’s a very conflicting feeling to be having a typeface related conversation with a bunch of people who don’t know anything about #typography Hooray! We’re talking about type! Boo! Idiots who don’t know a serif from a sand bar are making it weird and gross

It can sometimes feel like the forces we're up against are all powerful, but we hold more political power than we realize. Check out Choose Democracy's video on the 'Pillars of Support' and share what ways your community is using non-cooperation to go after the pillars propping up Trump's regime 👇

It’s disappointing that Gwen Stefani is an anti-choice shill. 😕 www.them.us/story/gwen-s...

This is the way

Police officer domestic violence is a structural failure—not just the isolated misconduct of "a few bad apples."

OMFG! Look at this handsome devil!

I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions. "If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”

Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.

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Books about “Asian wife sharing” that included detailed descriptions of orgies and scenes involving “ladyboys.” That’s what our reporter discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official. What came next was even wilder.

Our Komodo dragon is fine. He’s faking the limp because last time the vet gave him ketamine.

Sometimes I make jokes on the internet and they don’t land 😕

In more signs that Everything is Perfect™️, we continue to be short staffed so can’t schedule everyone for their pre-surgical screening. It’s fine. I mean they might die or have irreversible heart damage as a result but that’s the price we pay for having Maximum Freedom healthcare.

This is very on brand for 2025

Just finished “All That We See Or Seem” by @kyliu99.bsky.social . Very fun read with insightful thinking about possible futures for tech and what it means to be connected to people.

Go-kit, sandbag and other emergency information if you are affected by the flooding.

What lesson are young people supposed to take from our country violating every law they can? I certainly can’t imagine that it’s going to be to “respect” laws or any other societal norms.

If you spoil my kittycat-cat for Krampus-mas just know I will spoil you back so much💕 I did update/add some good stuffs for her on my Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

One of the many mixed blessings of being a nurse is sometimes I walk by someone and can smell what’s wrong with them. 🤢 The horrors that my poor nose has endured. #rn