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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 10h

I dunno man. The way you look isn't some weird hex placed on you via your words and deeds.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 23h

Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be clear, Kettle is suggesting Seattle reduce its overall funding for affordable housing in order to fund more police.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 29/09/2026

The Urbanist and Ryan Packer in particular did an amazing job raising awareness of this issue early and often! Without that journalism and efforts from transit advocates, things would likely have turned out differently. Thank you, and this again highlights why local media matters.

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Brak Obama 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @justbangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Erica once again bringing fantastic reporting on the Seattle SC. Read through this and never have Imposter Syndrome again.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 28/09/2026

“There is a lot of malnutrition going on in these raccoons due to a diet that is very, very high in tortilla chips,” said Nessie O’Neil, a raccoon biologist and lead author of the study. —https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/science/raccoons-toys-cozumel-mexico-research.html

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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas)

Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have been beating this drum for a decade. It's basically the default position in technical docs IA (and if we're real, lots of other IA) that if we just figure out what role the user is, we can show them just the stuff that they need.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So excited for this! How Infrastructure Works was one of the big hits of my IA class last spring, despite being late in the quarter.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The enormous 90s trench coat I just got (to channel Miracle on 34th St (1994) obviously) is really earning its keep today.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is so good, I hugely recommend it. I'm never a "less is more" person, but it really doesn't need the cheese, it's so rich it's better without it.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is, btw, entirely a product of Wilson Derangement Syndrome that we are still talking about why a press conference in July didn't happen sooner than it did. If you rely on mainstream press for your news, you'll think this is all that's happening (that and rampant murder sprees across Seattle ofc)

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't need to belabor how incredibly shitty the coverage of Mayor Wilson is, but a lot of outlets have reported inaccurate information, seemingly in service to their obsessive negative coverage of the mayor.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By and large, SPD is not good at solving crimes. This is true of the recent shootings that happened in Belltown, which is an area with cameras, and it's true of this shooting. SPD still hasn't found a suspect.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hear me out

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isaac @sevier.io · 24/09/2026

People who are not our political allies because they endanger immigrants, trans and queer folks, and more with their ideas and labor cannot and should not be trusted, and not everyone has to read every inch of their text or listen to their every podcast to keep up with their evil.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 23/09/2026

Having a discussion earlier about how the process *is* the art of creation, and that's really true. You can never know what the thing you're making is until you start actually making it, and that's at least as true for nonfiction stuff like I mostly do as for fiction.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, a lot of LLMs can pass the Turing Test, but they can't get blackout wasted and call their ex from a payphone or feel the hot shame of letting their partner down by wasting time talking about cryptids. The human experience is not just expression, it's Proustian experience.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the key safety milestones for the industry has been the introduction of CRM (Crew Resource Management) which includes things like team building, respectful communication among pilots and crew, and other soft workplace skills that have been derided as "woke" and "DEI" over the past decade.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vancouver/UBC friends, a reminder that this is weekly, free and open to everyone, bring whatever handwork project you’re working on. Tomorrow I’ll be talking and reading about synthetic and natural fibres.* *expect to see my wrist/foream tattoo of collagen structure used as a visual aid

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw a great production over the weekend: Twelfth Night set to Duke Ellington’s music. The music from Play On! has been dancing through my head ever since. If I had the time, I’d go and see it again. If you’re in Chicago, I highly recommend it. chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2026...

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Review: If music is the food of love, then Chicago Shakes’ buoyant ‘Play On’ is a feast

The musical, based on the music of Duke Ellington that borrows its scaffolding from Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” shines with an exceptional cast that delivers show-stopping performan...

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R. Eric VanNewkirk @sotsogm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This point header comes up for me every time I see yet another lawyer called out for submitting an error-riddled, LLM-generated legal brief. I've NO doubt an LLM can construct a bad legal brief; I've got every doubt about a lawyer who submits a document to the court that they neither wrote nor read.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I now understand the Democratic leadership’s screeching, apocalyptic hatred of Mamdani. His success is a daily, damning indictment of decades of Democratic Party intransigence and failure.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Urbanist is in the middle of our fall membership drive right now, and our pitch is pretty straightforward: we want to provide more REPORTING and not AI slop. www.theurbanist.org/membership/

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Advocacy Journalism for Better Cities

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 17/09/2026

Fun fact Seattle people: Surveillance pricing is getting potentially banned soon in here, so if you see a bunch of marketing material by a bunch of people who exploit that telling you your coupons are gonna get banned, that's why. www.theurbanist.org/seattle-adva...

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Seattle Advances Ban on Surveillance Pricing, Targeting Grocery Giants

The Seattle City Council has taken up a trailblazing ordinance aiming to encourage fair pricing for groceries by banning surveillance pricing. It’s another piece of Mayor Katie Wilson’s affordability ...

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've made this and SK's bialy babka and they are both fantastic, super fun to make.

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saving "running an entire amp stack through one power strip" as a very useful description of the kind of automation that a lot of tech people love and that gives me the creeps.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saving "spinning that prayerwheel of cortisol" for the next time I need to explain to myself that I should go and do something else for a while.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This pushback is so confusing to me. When I talk to parents (let's be real, mothers) about how they spend their time, the modal response is "what time? I just drive the kids around to all their stuff." The fact that kids don't drive in a driver-oriented world is hugely consequential.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that the bus lanes are helping bus riders and not substantially impacting drivers...it's not a news story at all.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 08/09/2026

Can you imagine Werner Herzog’s voice in your head saying “you will fail” and “you are alone” devastating

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sharing this because, - it’s a fabulous show and if you’ve not heard it, you bloody should - it’s a great episode in its own right, with a really compelling backstory - AH is a lovely guy and there aren’t enough of them in this world I really am going to have to dig out my CD of it now…

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh man, I could make one of these.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not the highlighted part of this, but that's co-parents are for? A ton of my and my husband's before bed conversations are about how we handled parenting situations, what we think is going on, what patterns we noticed.

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TSM @tenshookmars.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Taste is a muscle. Go watch all the weird movies. Read old magazines. Walk through museums broke but curious. Listen to albums nobody recommended. Become difficult to algorithmically predict.

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Scott Collette @scottcollette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This what happens when I go see “Coyote vs. Acme.” I wind up dissecting a Looney Tunes short like it’s the Zapruder Film.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My seven year old shrieked with delight throughout, I wasn't bored for a minute, it's a great frame for discussing things about the world, couldn't ask for more from a movie. Go see it!

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

datamation covers from the 60s and early 70s are a real vibe

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.

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Scott Collette @scottcollette.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My wife worked on this film, by the way. We're excited!

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

as a big boobs and good morals haver i think i speak for all if us when i say we will miss our leader

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/08/2026

something that should be obvious but is rarely acknowledged: humans do not adopt first principles at birth and apply them logically to each new situation. we learn what behaviors are expected and acceptable, and stories about why we do those things

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I know it's been said before, but if you're struggling with the *everything*, consider making something. It won't make the everything go away, but you'll feel good about what you made, and that one thing will be far more good than the evil fuckwits have ever produced in their lives.

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Took the 8 home with the kid this afternoon, it was like night and day from last summer when it took 40 minutes to get from Westlake to I5. Thank you @mayor.seattle.gov !

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