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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Little known fact: the commenters on the WSB are mostly traffic engineers and parking experts

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

West Seattle is getting paid parking! The horror! The moral turpitude! Outrageous! westseattleblog.com/2026/09/sdot...

Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Bluesky after all. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Putting on my "well actually" glasses. At best this would be a cove, but one could also argue it's a slight depression in the shoreline. The Depression of Cleveland seems spot on.

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I walked to a friend's house today for an ad hoc happy hour. I wish everyone was able to do that

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We live in the dumbest timeline. An Idiocracy future would be a step up at this point

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They pull in water from the sound , so I sure hope so 🥶

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Parks really needs to get their priorities straight. The pool could be year round with the right infrastructure. Imagine watching the Christmas boats while taking a swim

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If anyone reports anything CM Saka says without an ounce of scrutiny, you know they are cooked. He's a barely coherent mess

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I must say it every single day especially when talking about certain city council members

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'll say that fatal shootings in 2012 were 211, and in 2024 there were 541. And post-pandemic, it increased exponentially," Rivera said. None of these things are true. There were 26 fatal shootings in 2012 and 55 in 2024.

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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 05/09/2026

Seattle city council's District 5 has been held by pro-business backed candidates for a long time. Debora Juarez has held this seat on-and-off for nearly a decade. Cathy Moore won the seat in 2024, but resigned 18 months later. There is a special election *right now* to fill the seat until 2028.

Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods map for D5: Bitter Lake, Haller Lake, Pinehurst, Lake City, Broadview, Blue Ridge, Crown Hill, Greenwood, Licton Springs, Northgate, Maple Leaf, Wedgwood

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

not out of the woods yet, but biscuit is breathing much better than yesterday, and the cardiologist says her condition should be treatable. I am BEYOND relieved now the bad news: this has been hellaciously expensive. if you can help in any way, it'd be massively appreciated

gofund.me

Donate to Help Biscuit recover from heart failure and keep being alive, organized by Nathan Grayson

Hi, I'm Nathan Grayson. At least some of you probably know me… Nathan Grayson needs your support for Help Biscuit recover from heart failure and keep being alive

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you want to see the most prominent commenters on the West Seattle Blog in person, that's the place to do it

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As my eighth grader told us the other day, "It's weird that we are allowed to use AI but not Wikipedia." It sure is kid

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I assume this is what the WSJ meant when they said Steak 'n Shake is going full MAGA

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Less than 2 weeks until @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social live! There’s gonna be guests, Breakmaster Cylinder, me sitting on a stage talking to you. Can you imagine anything better??! we’ll see you there! Tickets.hyperfixedpod.com

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Meanwhile the other half is worse

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finishing up Hater's Week with my favorite hater 🤩

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I usually make at least 4x this recipe, because the urge to pickle things hits me quite often especially this time of year. My partner and child are less enthusiastic, but that just means more pickled veggies for me.

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Take a look at the quick pickle guidance in Six Seasons. It's my go-to brine for pickling so many things. I made pickled baby turnips the other day, and they are great!

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is why local media is important. You can't rely on the New York Times to know fuck all about Seattle. We need people like @ericacbarnett.bsky.social to look into the nitty gritty and hold Chicago residents like Shon Barnes to account

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can we really blame him for not knowing anything? He wasn't even in the state.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The mainstream media have been blaming Katie Wilson for getting inaccurate information out there. Why aren't they talking about the fact that the police chief gave out information that appears to have been completely wrong, leading to inaccurate media reports like this one in the NYT?

nytimes.com

Ghost Gun Was Used in Seattle Festival Shooting, Police Say

Untraceable firearms purchased without background checks and assembled from parts that have no serial numbers remain a growing problem, despite Biden-era prohibitions.

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've played NeoScavenger for years. I'm still terrible at it. But I'm heartened to see Blue Bottle Games extremely thorough and thoughtful response. There is no fucking way AI would create a game where you are starting with a plastic bag and some glass shards. That's 100% human pervert shit

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The song makes you wish Snow was still making hits

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I really hope Seattle can move on from a lot of these CMs. I will definitely be doing my damnedest to make sure Saka doesn't get another term as mine

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I didn't see Kettle coming in as a yes

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sure they slow everything down and mostly don't have merit, but why would we want to change anything

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love scolding and tone policing from an old white guy. If I wanted that I would just yell at myself in the mirror

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He looks like he got the worst news of his life, but, to be fair, finding out I was working for Bari Weiss would wreck my day too

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You could pair that with a few tacos from across the street just don't look too hard at the menu 🙃

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If I didn't know more about him, I might look at more of his content, which appears to start like this, then some "spicier" takes, then full on fascist content. Meta has been doing this for years, and seems to only have gotten worse. 2/2

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is what the beginning of a radicalization rabbit hole looks like. I mostly follow local businesses and youth soccer on Instagram and never interact with far-right accounts or content. Yet here is Meta "helpfully" serving up this anodyne Matt Walsh content. 1/2

A Instagram post of a screenshot of a Xitter post from far-right activist, Matt Walsh

"Youth sports went completely insane at some
point over the past several years. Parents
spending thousands of dollars, devoting
multiple days a week, traveling all around, all so
their kid can obsessively play a particular sport
and then graduate high school and never play it
again. I actually think the "everybody's a
winner, the score doesn't matter" approach
was preferable to this. Bring back the
participation trophies if this is the alternative."

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Can confirm. I grew up in an evangelical Christian household, but my brother and I were also taught to think for ourselves. That's probably why we are both agnostic and still have a good relationship with our parents. My child has never been to religious service but are welcome to if they decide

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I too am getting tired of everything on here being fodder for "discourse" on this platform

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's incredibly rare. This is the first time it's ever been seen in raccoons, but it has been recorded several times in dogs. I must see raccoons at least once a week. Some of the coolest animals around IMO, but annoying if you don't want your trash scattered everywhere

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just search for Jimothy, and, if you use Google, you get a bonus easter egg

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

St. Jimothy is the boost my city and this podcast needs to get us through the rest of summer

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Made two comments on some credulous repost Casey Newton made about the OpenAI "hack" and got blocked almost instantly. I've got that @edzitron.com rizz apparently

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's so weird that OpenAI disclosed all of this a week after this report www.adweek.com/media/openai... and then Futurism reposted the same info a day before the disclosure. Suddenly a super scary agent that can hack into anything emerges

adweek.com

OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast By 90%, Analyst Says

OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market at just $5.41 billion.

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And OpenAI wouldn't lie because Sam Altman has always told the truth. And Hugging Face, out of the goodness of their heart disclosed the hack because they have no vested interest in AI being scary but also interesting. There's literally no independently verified information outside spurious sources

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What prompt and instruction sets were used for these agents? Were humans in the loop at any point? Were agents allowed to connect to the Internet? Has this even been verified by a party without a vested interest? Basic information is missing and unasked. Stinks of a marketing stunt

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm just an engineer. Why am I asking questions that no journalist seems to be asking or at least publishing? This all stinks of marketing bullshit with little to no substance behind it. I could be wrong, but at least I wonder about the possibilities.

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Why don't we know anything about the prompt(s) that were used to initiate this? Were there humans in the approval loop? Why did this come out on the heels of bad press that OpenAI was woefully behind on sales targets? 3/

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Mr. Fun @funraindrop9328.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Think about how long it takes for a bank to tell its customers that they were hacked, and they always minimize the severity. In this case it was quickly disclosed, and then published widely by credulous journalists who have done nothing more than repeat OpenAI and HuggingFace's narrative. 2/

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