hello I wrote a poem. It's called Indiana Jones Learns About The Holocaust. You can read it here, no patreon membership required: www.patreon.com/posts/poem-i... Ok, well have a good day.

Geological.Biological. Hydrological. Climatic. These aren't just"natural disasters" anymore. They are nature's systemic response to human imposition. Our greed accelerates the frequency. It's not an "act of God," but a reaction to human action. #ClimateAction #Anthropocene

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

As someone aptly pointed-out on another platform: the Epstein files aren't filled with trans people. They're filled with wealthy, straight, white, cisgender men.

New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

There's going to be a "De-Trumpification" program when he's gone like Germany had to de-nazify all the buildings

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Anyone who looks at Trump & sees *more than nothing* -- whether good or bad -- is not telling you anything about Trump, they are telling you about themselves, their own worldview, what they want. They are ascribing content, plans, intentionality, self-awareness, where there is none.

no audio on this bc of copyright issues but I was very charmed by this video from twice sold tales in seattle pitching residents near new link light rail stations on how they can easily access twice sold tales by taking link to capital hill. this is what transit does for small businesses!

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Watched two Teslas with bald summer tires fail to make it up a steep hill in the rain, which means it’s officially winter in Seattle

You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go

Where are Democratic leaders in Congress on this?! This is literally Gestapo behavior, happening right here in the United States and for fundamentally and explicitly racist reasons. Have Dem leaders filed a bill and a discharge petition to stop this? Have they filed articles of impeachment?

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

Exactly this. People who work in technology and live here aren't opposed to new things; we're opposed to *harmful* things, and "AI" LLMs are increasingly in the second category. bsky.app/profile/seat...

I don't expect Geekwire to go into it for the same reason I'm not shocked that the linked blog post doesn't go into it: There are a hundred reasons why people here are opposed to "AI" and it's not just "because boring". Creative theft, environmental destruction, and worker rights are huge here.

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

LINK FIXED: “Bureaucrats” Losing Jobs in King County Shakeup Say They Were Blindsided by Zahilay’s Emailed Layoff Announcement “Knowing how much institutional knowledge is going to be walking out the door—it’s going to have an impact,” one employee said. publicola.com/2025/12/02/b...

Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

A very easy solution is to make a lovely punch. Put a bottle of rum on the side for people who want it alcoholic. Same with eggnog. I mean have other stuff too but a lot of classic holiday beverages are really easy to just do non-alcoholic as the default.

This is genuinely good news (it’s wild that regulators only consider impacts to male bodies in their testing). But we desperately need safety testing for people outside vehicles. The auto industry keeps building models with higher crosswalk kill rates, but regulators don’t even test this so 5 Stars!

Welp, after years of planning, pots of dedicated funding, promises that despite other elements getting yanked from the plans that sidewalk repairs were still on the table, the only sidewalk on LWB that got repaved this year was the segment right in front of Bruce's house.

I love the internet. jmail.world

Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

I do think something on this sign should tell you which direction to stand on to catch a train to downtown Seattle.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

One of the independent bookstores I visited in Chicago last week had free whistles at their cash register. Is this something that Seattle, Portland, and other areas would consider implementing?

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

LOL. MAGA destroyed Christmas.

New York Times Editors High-Fiving: Oh boy, this profile is awful, people are going to hate it, we're gonna get so many clicks.

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens. Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays. Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.

Oh man, can we please not share the new Nuzzi thing? The NYT cannot determine the difference between hate-clicks and sincere clicks. The only way to win the fight to rehabilitate Nuzzi is to ignore everything to do with her.

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites