Thank you so much to Consul General Prakash Gupta and all the leaders in our region’s vibrant Indian diaspora community who gathered last night to welcome me and incoming King County Executive Girmay Zahilay (@girmayzahilay.bsky.social) with such warm hospitality!

Katie Wilson on affordability, homelessness, good governance, and what socialism means. Happy for her and for our city, AND for NYC, the Working Families Party, and the glimmering of an alternative to corporate-capture of political parties. #EndCitizensUnited www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNvm...

This is brilliant.

Ah yes, the scourge of undocumented immigrant homeowners, a real thing that actually exists

you know you elected a good mayor when the NYT does this in a headline

Mayor Mamdani. I am so thrilled for you, New York City!

What Trump wants: 90's style Seattle WTO black bloc mayhem. What Trump's getting: 2025 style inflatable frogs.

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

hell yeah

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

“We could hear them laughing.” Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. #OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

I mean... Does Idaho know about this?

"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be? A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR. TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Second look at Butlerian Jihad?

A print run of 50 of my '26 calendars will be on pre-order in my Etsy shop tmrw (Thurs) from 8pm UK time. I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them alters brain biochemistry & is likely to trigger dopamine release in your brain &...cont'd in following post 🧵

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

Huh. Don't remember that.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

The UW Anthropology department installed a story pole today outside Denny Hall. The story pole, titled skʷatač dxʷʔal x̌ʷəlč, was made by local Coast Salish carvers. An official celebration is scheduled for Sept. 18.

I don't think he did the reading.

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Flowers and neuroscience!

Love

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

I need to make an alt account that’s just “republicans being scared of cities”

I feel like this should be a #goals post for science communicators everywhere. 😂

This is absolutely a real thing. One more reason to support local journalism (like @theurbanist.org @typewriteralley.bsky.social).

Universal basic income and healthcare, free college, affordable childcare + housing, a strong democracy that ends gerrymandering and publicly finances elections. My American Dream is built on a foundation of universal human and economic rights, where no one experiences poverty and we all can thrive

as someone who was alive in the 90s this is a surreal headline to read. We actually defeated the Satan Bug

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse 🐭 💙 The Met 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

“People do not like to be conquered sir. And so they won’t be. Free men won’t start a war, but once it’s started they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader cannot do that. And so it’s always the herd men who win battles and free men who win the war.” The Moon is Down,John Steinbeck

Today on Volts: the sun doesn't shine at night, but if you add batteries it might as well! If you're not closely tracking the industry, you're probably not aware of just how cheap solar+storage is getting, and how quickly. I talk with the authors of a new Ember report about the good news.

We The People ✊ LA, CA

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Whenever Trumpist rule ends, business as usual, a return to “normalcy,” a project of mere restoration of the status quo ante won’t do. America will need something akin to Radical Reconstruction - a transformative vision that presents a response commensurate with this radical assault on democracy.

WTAF

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

Fuck this regime entirely.

ABC News can’t fire California Gov. Gavin Newsom for telling the truth about Stephen Miller.

Here's the footage I've been trying to get for at least 2 years: A wood duckling. Someone posted to here there are photography friendly wood ducklings in Eureka, CA where you can use reeds as blinds. I knew there had to be somewhere within 600 miles. Yesterday 10 were reported. 1 survived. 🪶 🐣

My god, yes, you're exactly right. Seemed like such an irrelevant example. Now I get it. Thanks.

Deep sea mining is a *problem* for the organisms living there, but there are so many problems rn that it sometimes falls off the radar. Wear a shirt! Start a conversation! Design by the ever fantastic @coreydanks.bsky.social Sales fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com

I *really* love an elephant quadriga. This sestertius minted under Titus depicts a deified Vespasian (holding a little statue of Victory) in a cart decorated with war trophies, pulled by four elephants. Incredible details - before the invention of eyeglasses. 👓 😵‍💫 🏺 80-81 CE, #MetMuseum 📸 me

Holy shit! Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer! You may know Tessa from her bicycle adventure stories: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2019/01/28/s... Her graphic memoir, which I can confirm is amazing, just won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for memoir and autobiography. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen... Congrats!