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Emily Y

@eyspahn.bsky.social
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Data nerd for fun & profit. Environmental issues. Music maker. Pacific Northwest. Show me your cute critters! ⓥ

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 08/10/2026
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.” [anyhumanever.com]
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you’re in the Washington 32nd LD, covering N King & S Snohomish counties: You are a lucky duck who gets to vote for Danica Noble, endorsed by The Urbanist, Fuse, many unions, and all sorts of great orgs.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This makes me question all their endorsements.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Joined 750 of my neighbors to take in the US-Australia World Cup match on Juneteenth at a local park. Free ice water, the cleanest portable toilets I’ve seen, spray park on for the kids on a hot day. Thanks Seattle Parks Dept! #seattle #worldcup
A panorama photo of a crowd of people sitting on blankets in a park. There is a large screen to the right, and an assortment of pop up canopies at the edges of the crowd.
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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! 🌈🫶 [ #cuteart #illustration #pride ]
My long cat character, named Pride, who looks like a rainbow connected by two clouds (their torso & bottom) looking cheerful and happy. Over them it says “happy pride month.”
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My spouse made banana nut muffins but left out the chocolate chips because he wanted to be able to share a little with our dog. ❤️ #dog #keeshond #dogsofbluesky
A beige and black fluffy dog, lying down on cedar chips under a picnic tree. The dog is looking to the right of the camera, mouth slightly open, with alert ears pointing up. He has some gray around his muzzle, indicating his wise age (he’s 11).
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is great! We’re doing bathrooms next, right?
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Every day, I look at the state of the world and feel a little more like Frank Grimes.
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a cartoon of a man wearing glasses and a name tag that says ' bart simpson ' on it
Alt: a cartoon of an exasperated man wearing glasses
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Wow this is actually a real headline. I regularly walked a mile up a giant hill because this bus was so unreliable (due mostly to car congestion). It was great for my quads, but imagine being disabled & reliant on this bus line. A long overdue improvement for Seattle.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Went to a rally & walk in support of completing Seattle’s light rail to the Ballard neighborhood. Heartened to see the support from the community & local electeds. Frustrated by Sound Transit for not committing to the system we voted for.
A homemade sign, with the words “no more missing links” at the top and an outline of a heart enclosing the word “Ballard” and a logo of a light railThe photographer is taking a selfie with a homemade sign reading “Ballard” followed by a heart symbol and a light rail icon. Behind is a crowd of people at a park, assembling for a rally & community walkoutA crowd holding signs in support of light rail to Ballard, in a park on a mostly sunny day
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
…a WHAT intern?
A job posting for a “Wartime Engineering Intern”. The blurb states “build and deliver tech that has real-world operational impact for Warfighters”
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It’s so wrong that Seattle has so many great coffee shops and so few public toilets.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This was exactly the video I needed after having a rough day.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sometimes life imitates art #keeshond Fun fact, the Wikipedia page for keeshond lists “dire pomeranian” under other names
A fluffy keeshond dog looking happy
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Saw some delightful lenticular clouds floating above the Olympic mountains today. Seattle has some great scenery. We see these kinds of clouds often over Mt Rainier, but I’ve not seen them over the Olympics before.
A photo showing three lenticular clouds over a snow-capped mountain ridge. The photo was taken in Seattle looking west to the Olympic mountains.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Earning an income these days really feels like a choice between good ethics and good money. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
mcsweeneys.net
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Harrell’s folks might be spending buckets of money on the Seattle mayoral race, but I’ve had multiple door knockers from Katie Wilson and nothing from Harrell. Excited to vote for Wilson & hopeful she’ll be my next mayor.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
When I’m riding around on my bike I channel one of these two women
A photo of Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher from “Murder She Wrote”, riding a bicycle.A still from the Wizard of Oz, with Margaret Hamilton as Miss Elmira Gulch / the Wicked Witch of the West riding a bicycle.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“distillery raises money using crypto” is … a real thing?!? 🥴 (via seattle Inno) Personally, I don’t care about my whisky having “exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.”
A news story from Geekwire, a blurb that reads:

Gig Harbor-based Heritage Distilling Holding
Co. Inc. announced it has raised $223.8 million.

Heritage raised the money through a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing, which is a means for public companies to sell shares to select investors at a discount.
According to an Aug. 25 news release, $95
million will be cash and $128.8 million will be in the cryptocurrency token $IP, the native token of the blockchain company

Heritage, founded in 2011, makes whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and canned cocktails.A screenshot of the heritage distilling website, a blurb reads:

By aligning its reserves with Story’s AI-native infrastructure for registering, licensing, and monetizing IP, Heritage gains exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.
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Green Jacket Lady @greenjacketlady.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Evergreen.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Looks very interesting.
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI. If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
TLDR: AI-generated news erases women’s achievements. Recently a woman was appointed as Interim Executive of King County, WA. She is the first woman in that role & local news mentioned it. I then saw this AI “news” account generated an article…repeatedly calling the exec he/him/his.
A screenshot of a post from “Citizen Portal News Washington.” The image shows a blond woman, the post & linked article refer to this person as he/him/hisScreenshot of the article from citizenportal.ai, referring to Exec Braddock as he/him/his.

There is a note “This article was created by AI using a video recording of the meeting”
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@urbanviewradio.bsky.social @claycane.bsky.social
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 20/03/2025
TBC because the OP is framing this like libgen is evil: META are the bad guys here. Libgen is one of the only tools archiving rapidly disappearing digital libraries of ebooks. Now more than ever with banned books on the rise, we need resources like libgen. Meta has no right to scrape that archive.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Seattle Opera is performing Tosca soon, so I looked up the Wikipedia page. Love that they contain public domain recordings of arias from over 100 years ago! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca
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Tosca - Wikipedia
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now more than ever.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The #pwhl hockey game in Seattle had great energy! Unsure how they decided that Boston would be considered the home team, though.
A photo of the hockey arena during gameplay, at the PWHL Seattle takeover game between Montreal Victoire and Boston Fleet, at Climate Pledge Arena.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Yes, he got to lick the bowl when I was done with my oatmeal.
A fluffy brown and black and silver dog with expressive eyebrows and point ears, looking sad and resting his head on his human’s knee to beg for food.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"While Esri is the 'industry standard' in the majority of GIS training programs, it also develops mapping and geo-spatial analysis services for police departments across Canada and the USA. [... this zine] consists of open source and low cost alternatives to Esri" geoz.one/zines/esri/
geoz.one
Beyond ESRI Resource Guide – GEOZONe
An archive of mayhem-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Seattle folks, if anyone is interested, the Seattle Bach Choir is holding a concert Sunday Nov 23 (tomorrow!) at 3 pm, at trinity parish episcopal church downtown. Program is about an hour long; free but donation suggested. seattlebachchoir.org/event/dawn/
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Dawn – Seattle Bach Choir
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thinking I’ll check out the (free!) SeaGL conference this Fri & Sat. (SeaGL = Seattle GNU/Linux) pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedul...
pretalx.seagl.org
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/#2024-11-08
SeaGL 2024 Get different formats: curl https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/\?format=table (default) curl https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/\?format=list 2024-11-08...
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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I wrote about the face search website PimEyes, the creepiness of finding my images in there, and the absurdities of opting out. Gift link: wapo.st/3NRDqbg
wapo.st
Column | They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out.
Face search websites can help protect your privacy, but they can also be abused. Try these steps to protect yourself.
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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Friendly reminder (2019) [ #art ]
Illustration depicting a goldfish in a bowl with the text "Drink More Water".Illustration depicting a hamster chewing on a sunflower seed with the text "Eat Some Food"Illustration depicting a frog taking a deep breath with the text "Remember to Breathe"Illustration depicting a hen cuddling a chick with the text "Be Kind to Yourself"
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
I took a vacation and United showed ads for Jira in my entertainment & the airport had ads for Anthropic. Can’t escape #tech.
A poster ad for the Claude LLM by the AI company Anthropic, in the San Francisco airport. Large text in white on an orange background reads “A jet pack for your thoughts”, with “Claude by Anthropic” in smaller black letters underneath.The United Airlines in-flight entertainment system showing an ad for JIRA by Atlassian, as a panel in the selection menu. The text is black on a white panel and reads “In-flight inspiration starts with Jira” in the middle, with a small logo & “Atlassian Jira” in the lower right corner.
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Heather H (she/her/Heather) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
I’m not the biggest John Mulaney fan but fuck yes. sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/c...
sfstandard.com
Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
"Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
ICYMI: LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI by default. I was opted-in without giving explicit consent; you may be too. The opt-out link is here: linkedin.com/mypreference... Steps: Click "Me" on top, Settings and Privacy > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement
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LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn
Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
PSA, especially for US folks: there was a massive data breach. Now is a great time to freeze your credit with the 3 credit bureaus. Links to do this: www.experian.com/freeze/cente... www.transunion.com/credit-freeze www.equifax.com/personal/cre...
experian.com
Freeze or Unfreeze Your Credit File for Free - Experian
A security freeze, often known as a credit freeze, will limit access to your Experian credit report. Here's how to freeze and unfreeze your Experian credit report for free.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Planning to attend duckcon on Thursday in Seattle, if any other data nerds want to chat! (It’s free & there are still tickets) duckdb.org/2024/08/15/d...
duckdb.org
DuckCon #5 in Seattle
DuckDB is an in-process database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has binding...
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
This is the way I find out the Blue Angels fly Boeing jets !?! 🥴
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
The biggest disaster of the last 24 hours is actually the Supreme Court ruling that overturns 40 years of deference to the expertise of regulators in cases about pollution, drug safety, food safety, climate change — you name it, the Court just gelded it. Even if Biden is reelected, we're weakened.
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Visited Deception Pass last weekend but the most important part is that I took some 0.5x photos of my dog there 🥰 #keeshond #dog
A smiling dog in the foreground, with the puget sound coastline and islands in the back.
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
When office decorations go not quite right. “Huh, I wonder what these old books are, that are being used as office decoration?” “Oh, an anthology of works of Joseph Conrad” “The WHAT of the Narcissus?!”
A display of small books with blank paper covers on them, as decoration in an officeA book opened to the title page, showing the title “The Portable Conrad”An image of the table of contents, including the story “The N-word of the Narcissus”
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Modern medical care is telling yourself it’s not that bad as you look up exercises posted by an influencer physical therapist.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
I’m so pissed about my doorbell camera, it’s totally not doing the job of notifying me when cute dogs are being walked past my home 😤
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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Henry Kissinger died on my birthday and that’s all the gift I need ☺️
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