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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 01/09/2026

This is a silly take, I grew up in a city with the council-manager form of government and it doesn't make any of the issues the author lists go away 🤦 www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...

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Seattle deserves a better city government. Here's how to do it | Op-Ed

A former City of Seattle department head suggests moving to a council-manager form of government would result in a better-run city.

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Tantek Çelik @tantek.com.web.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb? As several have shared before me: * own your domain and publish some content on it That’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or however you would […]

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2026

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Guess who didn’t even get an interview for the Aurora Advisory group? Don’t worry, I’ll still keep imagining what is realistically possible

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 01/03/2026

Delete the turn lane down Greenwood Ave. Waiting to cross on foot with my family at a marked intersection, first car in a line of cars stops to let us cross, car behind the stopped car whips around and zooms past waving the finger. aLL iNtERsECtIoNs are cRoSsWaLks in sEaTtLe 🤪

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“After their humans were disappeared by ICE”

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

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Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust

Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I was reading an article about the cancellation of food aid to Minnesota, and it reminded me of a story about my dad. He was a vet, an organizer and very deeply involved in his church. And one day he stood up and asked a question: “what the f*ck’s the point of having a church?”

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 28/10/2025

When / if you become a parent, you quickly learn you will give it all up for your kid(s) if that's what it takes. I would. For Harrell to hold that against Katie is the appalling cherry on the top of a grotesque cake and I don't like it. It makes Harrell look bad as a person, not just a leader.

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 09/09/2025

Design is how it ages and how it's disposed of. --Not Tim Cook (benjaminturner.me/notes/1757437468)

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 25/08/2025

If you have to indicate you're a Democrat on the yard sign, that might be a bad sign (benjaminturner.me/notes/1756160234)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/07/2025

Fellow Seattleites: I beg you. Please do not reelect this absolute tool, this non-entity, this empty suit. Please elect someone who will put Seattle's purported progressive values into action. (Her name is Katie Wilson.)

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 20/01/2025

I upgraded my personal website from an ancient Django version to a newer ancient version without blowing the dang thing up (benjaminturner.me/notes/1737355076)

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 22/11/2024

Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady red, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow instead. (benjaminturner.me/notes/1732309771)

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 06/11/2024

I deleted my facebook account 11 years ago and never looked back. I felt an attachment to my twitter account because of the relationships formed there, but that has waned considerably in recent years. The following tab has become dormant over time and […] benjaminturner.me/notes/1730928835

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 28/10/2024

> They really want, when they’re in Paris, to feel like they’re in Paris. They don’t want to feel the same as they do in Kansas City KC isn't called "Paris if the Plains" for nothing, bad comparison Airbnb CEO guy (benjaminturner.me/replies/1730141228)

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Benjamin Turner @benjaminturner.me · 08/10/2024

We fought against tag soup in the 2010s only to be served component slop in the 2020s (benjaminturner.me/notes/1728405817)

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