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Fat lady with glasses & curly hair near Seattle. Have inhaler will travel. She/her. 60ish. Decades in QA.

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Washington State Standard @washingtonstatestandard.com · 6h
Washington’s minimum wage workers will get a 3.5% pay bump in 2027. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/10/01/w...
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WA’s nation-high minimum wage rising to nearly $18 an hour in 2027 • Washington State Standard
The minimum wage in Washington state will rise to nearly $18 an hour next year. That will be the highest of any state in the nation.
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Transit Trekker @transittrekker.bsky.social · 7h
Nondrivers need and deserve mobility that lets us fully participate in our lives and communities. That includes access to recreation. #WeekWithoutDriving
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zac-neuman.bsky.social @zac-neuman.bsky.social · 8h
wapo.st/4yIRvOd Those "fools" who invest in whatever Trump sells HAVE ALWAYS LOST! They trusted him to be honest in his dealings. Guess what, YOU GOT SCAMMED!
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Trump loses favor with crypto fans who call him out for cashing in
The president’s 2024 campaign leaned into crypto to attract young men, a demographic that is deserting Republicans in the midterms.
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David B @aardvark007.bsky.social · 8h
A 3-year old with a gun. And his father is a cop. I think more people need to read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book on gun violence, "The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic"
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Parents Are Charged After Toddler Pulls Out Loaded Gun at Day Care (Gift Article)
No one was hurt in what the police described as a shocking episode that was captured on video inside a day care center in Canton, Mich., on Monday.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 8h
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t know too much about Koko, but am pretty sure the comparison is unfair to him.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 11h
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social · 7h
Having an early night.
A closeup of a cat, Frankie, sleeping in a small beige armchair. He’s on his side with his belly showing, and he’s snuggling his favourite tattered white blanket. 
#CatsOfBlueSky
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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 9h
#OnThisDay in 2010, Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base merged to create Joint Base Lewis-McChord. historylink.org/File/9900
Color guard, joint basing ceremony, Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) headquarters, October 1, 2010
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h
DUDE
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h
It’s still striking how shamelessly Musk went in and manipulated Grok when it diverged from his very specific deranged world view and the coverage of Ai scarcely ever even acknowledges that power as a real problem.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11h
Pausing an unpopular during an election is usually more effective when you don't explicitly tell voters you're only pausing the unpopular war because there's an election.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattleites are most concerned about traffic safety because we all experience it regularly: narrowly missing getting hit while walking in a crosswalk, seeing people using center turn lanes as their personal speedway, etc. Most people also know someone who has died or been seriously injured:
Info graphic showing most people will know 6 people who die in a car crash and 28 who have major injuries
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
full toon bsky.app/profile/bret...
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JaneLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 10h
she is My Queen
Fiona cat loafing on my bed. She is so beautiful
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 10h
Doctors shouldn’t be punished for providing their patients with legal abortion care—and extremists in Louisiana have no business dictating what doctors in Seattle can and can't do. This was never about states' rights—it was ALWAYS about banning abortion nationwide.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11h
Eastside friends! The PACs are ramping up their spending on ads in the 48th LD race between Amy Walen and Jessica Forsythe. If you see any of these ads, can you send me a screenshot? I'm really interested to see what the messaging is looking like in this race.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h
I was just about to post this! Ask JAN is very helpful in looking up what accommodations you can ask for. You can actually ask for a lot and the ADA is fairly strict in what an employer can say is "unreasonable" under the law.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 11h
Too many proposals to regulate AI treat data privacy, children's safety, worker rights, and market concentration as separate issues. My National AI Charter policy changes the entire market structure, forcing AI companies to shut down their dangerous models BEFORE harm occurs.
A graphic titled "A National AI Charter Could Stop Dangerous AI Before Harm Occurs" lists several points: 

1. End to Big Tech Monopolies
2. Ban on Mass Surveillance
3. Ban on AI Theft
4. Ban on Labor Exploitation
5. Ban on Rogue AI
6. Ban on AI That Can Create Catastrophic Risks
7. Ban on Exploitative AI
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wichita chinaman @swaggy.website · 11h
bizarre in a state where it's illegal to record a phone call without the consent of both parties. i fucking hate this guy
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 13h
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 13h
Folks, I'm here to tell you that holy wars often end badly. This is no exception.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16h
woke up angry and felt like taking the whole world with me GET ON MY BUS
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School Bus Stunt: Lets Go!
Alt: A School Bus Stunt: Lets Go!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16h
No, you are not less of a lesbian if you hang out with bisexuals! No, you are not destined for violence if you are a man! No, we don't need to obsess about creating safe bathroom spaces for women and somehow make it trans women's problem! I am running out of characters and also time!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16h
Do we NEED to have two political parties? lol Do we NEED to have an ever increasing GDP? lol MUST we have continuous economic and population growth? Is AI ACTUALLY inevitable? Are we ACTUALLY powerless? Are the only two choices ACTUALLY violence or submission?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17h
Yep! I wrote about this in @ballsandstrikes.org last year after I was like hmmmm this legal argument sounds......familiar! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Anti-Abortion States Are Trying to Enforce a Modern Fugitive Slave Act
A Louisiana prosecutor’s decision to indict a New York doctor for mailing abortion bills calls to mind one of the ugliest chapters in this country’s history.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16h
ah yes, let's have important identity documents arrive in very clear packaging that makes it easy for thieves to distinguish and have access to vital information that they can then use to steal identities. I see no potential problems with this!
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Elizabeth Wingfield @quirkygrrrl.bsky.social · 16h
Do you think Elon or Hegseth or any of them have had the required regular and random drug testing required by the military and of contractors?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19h
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 16h
OMG ARE YOU TRYING TO GET SAT ON
A tiny black kitten blending very effectively with the black seat of my work chair
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 15h
Burn down AI customer service systems like raining hellfire It should not take me 45 minutes of navigating AI menus to get to a person who can get me a tow truck, State Farm
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 21h
Single payer that covered luxury face bones (and eyes and ears) would remarkably both offload that cognitive load from households AND from employer HR. While reducing costs and providing a human right. No data scraping presumptuous sand required.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15h
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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SummerReed @cafsbsky.bsky.social · 17h
...70% have no criminal record. We are living in WW II era Germany, where most of the populace pretends notto see. www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
I absolutely love my nieces and nephews, but if any of them ever pointed to my profession as proof that they themselves are super geniuses, I -- and the rest of my family -- would never stop mocking them for it.
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Brooklyn Rousseau's Lonely Heart @glamgothcollective.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Jessica & the Revenge of the Librarian 💉 @mlisrevenge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's time for the public to learn that public services cannot run on the concept of doing more with less. When there are large cuts to services that rely on public monies, people should feel the results. Libraries, universities, etc. need to stop trying to lessen the visibility of funding cuts.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good job, California. 15 states to go. No child should marry. A child who marries isn’t emancipated, her (and it’s usually a girl) new spouse becomes her guardian. If he abuses her, she cannot go to a domestic violence shelter. She cannot initiate a divorce. She can’t have her own money.
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California bans child marriage, even with parental permission
Supporters hail ban on child marriage and companion bill to address forced marriages as “most comprehensive framework” in the U.S.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Donald doesn't seem to understand the concept that building a military complex on top of a ballroom makes said ballroom a legitimate military target. He's basically using everyone who comes to events in said nonexistent ballroom into human shields, which, last I checked, is a war crime.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
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California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
Gov Gavin Newsom called it a "long overdue measure to protect young Californians".
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hopper painted Railroad Sunset (1929) from memories of American train journeys. It places a stark railroad signal tower against a biblical-scale sunset. The precise geometry and vast sky embody his vision of modernity amid eternal landscapes.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope you have a nice day. I also hope your tea is always warm, your cats are mostly agreeable, and you can always find room for one more book on your crowded bookshelves.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bus drivers, ride hail & taxi drivers, microtransit drivers: life as a nondriver wouldn't be possible without them, and it's important these are living wage jobs with security and benefits. That's why I was honored today to accept an award from the Driver's Union today... #WeekWithoutDriving
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hegseth is a great example of a common type of officer who's ended up in charge of something, doesn't have a clue how to do the job, and just falls back on PT, grooming, slogans, and searching for scapegoats. If you put him in charge of a Cinnabon he would do the exact same things.
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Katrina Lehto @lithera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any day I see my favorite sea troll is a good one.
Me and the Seattle Kraken's mascot Buoy.
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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sitting pretty on #WhiskersWednesday
A closeup of two cats, litter mates, sitting beside each other on a bookcase. On the left is tabby cat Joe, looking into the camera. On the right is grey and white Frankie, looking to the side. They’re both very handsome.
#CatsOfBlueSky
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