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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hello, here are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government. The West […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Just got spam email from the President of the United States begging for money for his PAC. Blocked the POTUS. What a supremely weird world we live in. Relatedly, cannot wait for my ballot to arrive.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Greetings, here are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. A reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government. The West […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This is a fascinating article about how an El Niño related phenomenon affects sea levels and sea temperatures up and down the west coast of all the Americas. #giftlink […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Via Betsy Ladyzhets at The Sick Times, the CDC says there will be an interruption in the reporting for about 200 respiratory disease #wastewater testing sites as they change contracts for testing companies: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/nationa…. The note at […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Yesterday I tagged along with a friend who wanted to check out the Tieton river nature trail. This is an easy path that starts below the lovely Royal Columns. Pluses: the columns 😍, birdy past the Quonset Hut bridge. Minuses: some road noise, and the path is […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A large basalt column formation beneath a partly cloudy sky. There is a scrubby hillside leading up to the base.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I am a bit late on this, but yesterday the Seattle Times had an Else Takahama article about the current state of access to and insurance for winter respiratory vaccines in Washington State. It includes discussion about the new mRNA flu vaccine, now available to people aged 50+ […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The US taxpayers are paying to run a 2024 Trump campaign ad in which — as god as my witness — he rails against warmongers. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/us/polit…

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Hey #Bellingham folks, Doctober, the documentary film festival, is coming up. Full schedule here: www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/doctober One of the entries in their short doc program is an 18-minute movie called _Into the Dark_. It's about night photographer Pete Mauney, who makes […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I did my first phone-banking shift of the mid terms this week. There are a lot of states with toss-up house and senate races that can use remote help. You can find out about volunteer opportunities here: www.mobilize.us If anyone is thinking, “I just don’t have the personality for […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“I don’t know what they want”: residents on edge as gigantic sloop approaches Bellevue business district

Through the miracle of zoom lenses a sailboat out for evening tour of Lake Washington dwarfs the Bellevue downtown corridor

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The CDC finally moved ahead with #COVID #COVID19 vaccine ordering under its Vaccines for Children program. Half of US children get their vaccines through this program. #giftlink wapo.st/4rvrgYp

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

My wife has revealed to me that we’re getting a dog this winter. I am on board with this! But our much-missed dog was an amazing sweetheart, just the ~absolute best~. Big paws to fill and all that.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The CDC is delaying making #COVID #COVID19 vaccines available through its Vaccines for Children program. That program provides vaccine access to about half of all US children. #giftlink […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Confession: I don't understand how visibility works when replying via Bluesky bridging. I was replying to someone who was defending Brian Heywood's I-638 by saying that the initiative didn't even use the word "genital." (Link […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A screencap of a toot from me saying:

That is correct, the word "genital" does not appear in the text of I-638. Instead, it uses the words "reproductive anatomy."

The text of Initiative Measure No. IL26-638 is on file at the Washington State Secretary of State's office and is available in full at https://sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files. This is what is up before Washington State voters this November.

If passed it requires EVERY girl who wants to participate in individual or team school sports in the state to have her health provider sign a form attesting to her gender based on (1) reproductive anatomy, or (2), some sort of genetic test, or (3), some sort of testosterone level test.

I have attached a screencap of the pertinent section in case it is too much of a burden to click through.

Inception alt text time! Here is the alt text for the screencap I attached to this screencap.

(2) A student who elects to (emp) participate in individual or team competition activities intended for female students (emp) only governed under subsection (1) of this section shall provide, as part of the required routine sports physical examination, a health examination and consent form or other statement (emp) signed by the student's personal health care provider that verifies the student's biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student's reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.(emp)

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[US federal government official] Problem : I would like to deport this individual, but they have an entirely valid legal claim to be in the US, and I have the documents that prove it. 💡 Solution 💡: Just withhold the documents. #giftlink […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

For the #lunareclipse I had this plan to go up to Hurricane Ridge for a wide-angle shot with the lunar eclipse on one side and the Milky Way core on the other. Hurricane Ridge was like, nope, I'd rather spend this evening in a cloud bank, thankyouverymuch […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A nighttime scene of an waterfront area, taken from a sandy hook jutting out. The lunar eclipsing moon is on the left, poking out a porthole of clouds. It's bright enough, even eclipsed, to make the water below to shimmer. There are lights all along the waterline. The one that is particularly bright might be the Black Ball ferry in its berth, but I am not 100% sure.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I cleaned up my lunar eclipse image from a few weeks ago. I gave it a tighter crop and tweaked the curves a bit to bring out some of the stars in the background and the looming cloud bank below. But, fair warning, it's going to be pretty hard to see the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A mostly-eclipsed moon. The upper slice of the moon is very bright, while the rest is in enough of Earth's shadow that surface details are discernable and bathed in red. There are a few small specks of light coming from stars in the background. There is a barely-discernable cloud-like thing along the bottom, which is in fact a cloud.

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garland @garland.social.seattle.wa.us.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@cremevax Walgreens pharmacies show COVID vaccine appointments available today at multiple locations in Seattle. I have dual COVID/flu shots scheduled for later this month at Walgreens.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A friend tried to get her #COVID #COVID19 vaccine at Kaiser in #seattle this week, and was told they’d be available in about three weeks. So, first week in October-ish?

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense. #seattle #kingcounty […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government. Last week I […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Chise posted a nice thread on Bluesky about ensitrelvir, an anti viral that has been shown to prevent symptomatic #covid #covid-19 infection in people who have been exposed to it through household contacts. It needs to be given within 72 hours of the index case's initial symptoms and reduces […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The 2026-2027 #covid #covid19 vaccines are shipping. Maggie Astor has a writeup on the state-by-state availability here. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/well/liv… Reminder #1: the FDA has approved the vaccines for everyone 65+ and people younger than […]

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER. Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots. This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

The Problem with Mail Delivery

By law, we must certify the election by a specific deadline. For the primary, that date was August 18, 2026, two weeks after Election Day. Any ballot that arrives after this date cannot be counted, even if it was mailed on time.

We are seeing two main problems with the post office:

* Slow Mail: Many people mailed their ballots well before Election Day, but the ballots sat in post office sorting centers for weeks. In one case, a ballot was mailed in late July but didn't reach our office until after the August 18 deadline. It took 19 days to arrive, so it could not be counted.

* Ballots sent Between Counties: In Washington State, you can drop your ballot into any official drop box in the state. Other counties collect those ballots and mail them back to us using USPS Priority Mail. In the past, this worked well. But this year, mail sent on August 5 didn't reach us until August 24, six days after the deadline.

So far, our office has received 70 valid ballots that arrived after the certification deadline. This has never happened before, and it means those votes could not be counted. One ballot took 19 days to reach us.

What We Are Doing for November

No voter should lose their vote when they’ve followed every rule.

To fix this for the November election, we will no longer rely on the post office to send ballots between counties. Instead, our team will personally drive to neighboring counties to pick up and hand-deliver these ballots ourselves. Even though this costs extra money and time, it is necessary to make sure every vote counts.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Current status: feeling smug that I procrastinated sooo long about migrating my family off LastPass that I get to skip out on migrating off OnePassword. Seriously, I wish there was a reasonably well featured, cross platform solution here that my family members have a prayer of using without […]

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

It may be the most photographed deep sky object in the night sky, but the Orion Nebula is still rewarding. Here's what I got from an hour and 40 minutes of exposure time just before morning twilight last night. As usual all data from my Seestar S30 Pro, processed […] [Original post on aus.social]

Astrophotograph of M42, the Great Nebula of Orion. It's a big, bright emission nebula in red, pink and blueish grey colours with lots of structure and a number of bright stars.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

This law-abiding Washington State man with work documents and a pending USCIS application was kidnapped by ICE at an airport and deprived of his liberty for four months, until a judge ordered him freed. ICE withheld his medication and when they were forced to release him, they dumped him in […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Katelyn Jetelina (“Your Local Epidemiologist”) on Pemgarda for #COVID #COVID19 protection for immunocompromised people, plus the CDC measles reporting clusterfuck[*]. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.co… [*] - those of us that live in the US are in […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Jamelle Bouie wrote about this in his newsletter. I think he is absolutely correct about the MAGA 2026 game plan and what we’re going to have to fight this fall. Unfortunately […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

The headlines are about the ongoing court battles to prevent the USPS from delivering mail ballots this fall, but the USPS is already successfully messing with mail ballot returns. #GiftLink […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Getting back to my ~solar~ eclipse post processing. This is a HDR I made from a bracket of five images showing the prominences, inner corona, outer corona, plus a tiny hint of earthshine. I mostly followed @naztronomy’s YT eclipse processing video from […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

An image of a solar eclipse. There’s a large pink prominence of the lower left of the moon’s disk, and some smaller ones peeking out on the upper right. Emanating from the disk are tendril-like coronal streamers. There’s a tiny bit of illumination of the moon’s surface on the upper right.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

We visited James Island Marine State Park today. It’s a small island with a limited trail system, but a fine place for beach-wandering, picnicking, dozing in the sun, etc. All of which we did. James Island is also part of the Cascadia Marine Trail and has […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A pano view of the Rosario Strait from a grassy field on top of some small cliffs. There are a few trees here and there, and there’s a rocky beach below. It’s mostly sunny with a few clouds.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Cloud cover made #lunareclipse viewing difficult on the Olympic Peninsula, but the moon did make occasional appearances.

A night sky with a moon and a couple of stars in it. The moon is quite bright on top, but the rest of the moon is bathed in a light reddish shadow in which surface details are visible.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Greetings, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government. The […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

This is the C1/C2 diamond ring; the pic I posted before was the C2/C3 diamond ring. The #eclipse diamond ring fairy was feeling generous! 🧚‍♀️ #iceland #astrophotography

An image of a solar eclipse with a very bright “diamond ring” effect from just before the sun was obliterated by the moon. Happy to report that the sun rallied 90 seconds later.

Also in the picture: a gorgeous, very red prominence on the lower left; some chromosphere action behind the diamond ring ; and the inner corona.

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