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Near the Ballard Goodwill! I had no idea I was living this close to a celebrity all these years. I hope to see Jimothy art soon along the Tumbletown art fence near that Goodwill.

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Home | Elect Danica Noble

She will bring a unique background to Olympia, where she can leverage her expertise and experience on our behalf, in a way that no other candidate in her race can. www.electdanica.com

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Elect Danica Noble for State Representative in Washington's 32nd Legislative District.

She is a consumer protection attorney and a community advocate who has been working on national and state issues for years. She has been responsible for bringing hundreds of people to Olympia to lobby their reps for a better state over the last 15 years.

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.

Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This makes me question all their endorsements.

Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The startup I work for is hiring a remote, staff level SRE. If that’s relevant to you, message me for the link. Looks like you’re new to the Seattle area, welcome!

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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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I saw one while on the Edmonds-Kingston Washington State Ferry & was so surprised!

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?

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.

The 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 walkout

A crowd holding signs in support of light rail to Ballard, in a park on a mostly sunny day

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.

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

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 · 29/11/2025

KM had a political sign for RFK Jr in her yard when he was running for US prez in 2024

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 · 24/09/2025

It’s such a classic scene, the bicycle in the tornado turning into the witch on her broom!

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.

Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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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 · 16/04/2025

Modern day street view from about the same point. Now there are: trolley buses, a light rail station just over the bridge, two nearby bike trails, an intersection with a major state highway a block away, and lots of cars.

A street view screenshot of the area just south of Montlake bridge in Seattle

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/his

Screenshot 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”

Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 20/03/2025

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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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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.

Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Recently tripled my time in front of the light therapy lamp (to over an hour in the morning) and it’s made a huge difference.

Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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"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/

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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

Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

There is the Transit Go App, where you can buy tickets for buses, light rail, etc. No tapping & need to buy the tickets through the app. (Definitely not the same thing as being able to tap the iphone directly like in many major cities.)

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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

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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.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Seattle/King county has a LOT of articulated buses. I got curious and according to Wikipedia 42% of the bus fleet is articulated. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Co...

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King County Metro fleet - Wikipedia