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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I haven't seen any news coverage yet of Cameron Hamilton's announcement that he has re-defined the entire field of emergency management to include only preparedness and response activities related to coordinating police, fire, and EMS. Seems like something that should get some attention.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026

Wild to see a video of fish reacting to the earthquake yesterday! Thanks @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social! How did YOU react? Did you Drop, Cover, and Hold On?

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

get your bread and get your roses! I saw a lot of great theatre & live music during my NYC years but I never did make it to the Met Opera and I regret that

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

morning sermon

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

not me watching Sherman and thinking about this poem again

the text of the poem What Resembles the Grave But Isn't by Anne Boyer which is too long for the alt text character limit but can be read here: https://billmoyers.com/story/poetry-month-what-resembles-the-grave-but-isnt/

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Brothers-henge to all who celebrate.

The sun sets in the crook between The Brothers, a pair of peaks in the Olympic Mountains. The view is framed by a Seattle street lined with parked cars, trees and power lines, and over the nearby hill of the Magnolia neighborhood.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A second Cascades volcano tissue box has hit my possession. Lawetlat’la will stay at home since Tahoma is on my desk in the office. Thanks @phaneritic.bsky.social !

A rainbow striped 3D printed tissue box with the top shaped like Lawetlat’la (Mt St Helens) and tissues erupting out of the crater

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Homs, according to the follow-up post, and some part of my brain is playing Sarout singing Jannah Jannah as I watch this

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Turkey's anti-LGBT "My Family is Safe" campaign includes prosecuting journalists who have written on LGBT issues

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a genuinely frightening escalation (after a decade of increasingly vicious homophobic/transphobic rhetoric and more scattershot bursts of crackdown repression) and it’s not getting enough international attention

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I managed to catch the close pass J pod made at Lime Kiln lighthouse today. Enjoy! #srkw #orcas #sanjuanisland #folks

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LGBTQ+ people's houses, associations and workplaces were raided by the police last night in Turkey. So far 26 people have been taken into custody. Strikingly the operation is called "My Family is Safe.' Legal proceedings were launched against 162 people, 9 associations, and 13 businesses in+

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Petition condemning the raid on LGBT individuals, communities and press in Turkey over the last few days. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

google.com

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

his trajectory from "that tall dude I used to see open for the Blue Scholars" has really been a wild ride. full respect.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The list of detained and raided here is all the LGBTQ movement groups I can think of at least, which despite everything have been working in Turkey for decades

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a Sunday reminder for Washingtonians out there Washington is the only state where a MAJORITY of the state Supreme Court is on the ballot, all at once a very rare situation no party label on the ballot but candidates are still aligned with parties! important to learn: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On 9/11, hundreds of boxes of historical artifacts from New York's African Burial Ground and Five Points were in Sherrill Wilson's research lab at 6 World Trade Center. While most of the African Burial Ground artifacts were later recovered, the Five Points artifacts (~850,000) were destroyed.

nationalgeographic.com

The Archaeological Treasures That Survived 9/11

Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve said this before, but growing up around Nisei neighbors and elders was in many ways my most formative political education; they prepared me to recognize what I was seeing unfold after 9/11

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Only 11 boxes remain available!

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

on a very cool Port of Seattle boat tour of the Duwamish industrial waterway

More fishing boats with containers in the background

A California sea lion chilling on a floating structure in the water

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Almost let the day pass without posting this one!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That’s because dykes can place higher than fifth.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

oh are we doing the dialect quiz again? because it nailed my ass despite having spent most of my adult life on the east coast & overseas (moved west again five years ago, then to CA, and only back to the PNW this year)

dialect map with result as "Washington" and the whole red coast in the most-similar red

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone is consistently recommending this portal for direct donations to Nepal Donate to the Government of Nepal Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund Please consider donating today! I have! pmdrf.nchl.com.np

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

onbeing.org

The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

or you can just read the whole poem here:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peaches, Wendell Berry. And because I am not as well adjusted as he: God dammit, cosmos, take the destroyers and leave us the artists.

A Meeting

In a Dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

goddamn it, the reaper is just coming for fave after fave this month

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/08/2026

The article mentions the area was once home to dozens of strawberry farms owned by Japanese immigrant families who were dispossessed of their land during their WWII internment. It fails to mention that Freeman's grandfather founded the Anti-Japanese League that advocated for internment. Weird.

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Bellevue's retail core is for sale after 80 years of family ownership

A whopper is hitting the real estate market: The Bellevue Collection, a 5.5 million-square-foot mixed-use complex in downtown Bellevue.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a very excellent explainer of the scientific reconstruction of the Nepal debris flow. Lots of interactive data and visuals in the report. 23 minutes between the glacial collapse/landslide before it reached the border station.⚒️

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rodneyse was my assembly member the last few years I lived in Brooklyn and I would be more tickled by the prospect of this part of the Eric Adams Extended Universe going viral here were it not for the actual circumstances

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Eos @eos.org · 26/08/2026

There was a devastating debris flow in Nepal and Tibet today which has already claimed hundreds of lives. The disaster was triggered by a glacial lake outburst flood. @davepetley.bsky.social is tracking the ongoing situation on The Landslide Blog: eos.org/thelandslide...

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The 26 August 2026 catastrophic debris flow in Nepal and Tibet

Initial observations on the 26 August 2026 catastrophic debris flow in Nepal and Tibet, which has killed hundreds of people.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some early reports said that the horrifying flooding in Nepal was the result of an earthquake. However, the signal was actually the recording of the landslide. TL:DR - there was no earthquake, it was a landslide. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Screen shot showing the USGS event page. The landslide released the same amount of energy as a M5.2 earthquake

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.

Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_

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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this week is homophobic

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

did not think I would be planning a second Hunt For Red October memorial rewatch so soon 😢

Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, captain”

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