Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seattle apartment buildings used to be called things like "The Cedar Arms" and now they're all called FLUX or interSector. Even if I was in tech, I would not want to live in FLUX or interSector. 7597843
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Heads up, #science people, this "Earth BioGenome Project/Genomes on a Tree (GoaT)" uses generative AI extensively in their advertising, so I would definitely not trust anything that comes out of this. If they can't be bothered to use real graphics and make their own posts, I doubt their app is good. 1117552
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 27/09/2026Open Letter to the Board of @tomoffinland.org, from former Artists in Residence We are deeply concerned by the lack of transparency and abrupt interruption of several programs, including the artist in residence program, by the current administration. archive.is/GvKuL 4214105
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131864907
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🧊🛩️ ONE DAY LATER, an Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW), dispatched overnight from Texas to replace the broken down ICE plane, departs Seattle with a load of humans who may been shackled for almost 24 hours 👀 25579341
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity. 8689250
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103554412
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To celebrate Spooky Season, let's learn why this vampire bat is running on a treadmill. The three species of vampire bats are the only known mammals to be obligate hemophages: 100% of their calories come from blood. The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) prefers mammals... (📷: Giulia Rossi) 18709267
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026ABSOLUTE CLASSIC 2467
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest... 45237612209
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"embrace slop to create things that do not exist from a sample that was probably donated by some kid with the premise of studying their disease" Conflating AI and genAI on purpose is loser behavior and Nikon Small World will always have that label to me 🧪 3269
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW: The Grand Illusion Cinema lives! The single-screen movie house that'd been in Seattle’s University District for more than 50 years before closing in January 2025 is coming home. It will be now taking over at the Varsity Theatre 📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen... 1517353
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 41480231
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/09/2026The Ohio Democratic Party is repeatedly deleting criticism of Marcy Kaptur, who has released an ad calling transgender people an “ideology” that should be banned in schools. Still think Dems can’t become Labour? 341265332
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Four Seattle police officers kneeled on Keenan Pearson before he died in Georgetown last weekend. Multiple eyewitnesses saw it. DivestSPD spoke to one. www.divestspd.com/seattle-poli...open.substack.comSeattle police kneeled on man who died last week, witness saidA woman who witnessed the in-custody death in Georgetown last Saturday said four officers were on top of Keenan Pearson, he stopped responding, and appeared to be dead by the time aid arrived. 15537652027
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/09/2026“Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi” pays homage to 38 Dakota men executed by President Abraham Lincoln in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1862.hyperallergic.comBuffalo Puppet Procession Traces Native History Through NYC’s Streets“Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi” pays homage to 38 Dakota men executed by President Abraham Lincoln in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1862. 14523
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque. 5146061230
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again 504060636
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026LinkedIn removed my post about my latest story because the images of Republicans doing Republican things violated their community guidelines. Imagine being such assholes that even LinkedIn is like "nahhh that's too much." 291378314
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13770773270
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...gillianbrockell.comThe truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been. 3245801498
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am 147206395681
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Alison Lührs @alisontheperson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026static.klipy.comHomestar Runner: Todaybor Day is Labor Day!ALT: Homestar Runner: Todaybor Day is Labor Day! 3356160
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comRevealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIHAn agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. 26444377
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13139981090
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026While the Bite of Seattle Shooting got lots of press, along with the firing of the absentee Seattle Police Chief, a black man in my area disappeared for almost a month, before his body was found in a nearby green-zone SPD has been silent about this EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS death, 30 days and no updates 12520211
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026It isn’t a coincidence that many rich countries are accelerating policies to reduce immigration at the same time we are witnessing more natural disasters supercharged by climate change. 16914290
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this. 173062983
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I just witnessed an ICE abduction in N Seattle, after following several black SUV's traveling almost double the speed limit I followed them to The Crown Inn where they stopped a man in a white work truck and abducted him I tried to raise the attention of cars and bystanders but most ignored me 20141771793
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135088679
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2026Gary, Indiana is without power for the 11th straight day after storms. This is climate injustice. 8829071017
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this! 7756637
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I don't really have words for how this article makes me feel, except grateful for Ms. Rashid and the other lawyers who are representing trans people so each of them does not have to go through this alone. 139987
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"Hey Jess, why do you spend so much of the classroom time of your genetics course talking about ethics?" 616149
Val 🏳️⚧️ @microvalevolent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yes, we don’t have a set link but this would be a proposal I’d discuss with the board of directors. Feel free to dm me to talk more details and schedule! 111
Val 🏳️⚧️ @microvalevolent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I mean I’m biased, because I’m the president and research director of Center on Contemporary Art cocaseattle.org buuuut I know there are others 💜cocaseattle.orgCoCA Seattle 120
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 19/07/2026One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that 483427944
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026#OnThisDay in 1970, at a Bastille celebration in Pioneer Square, an accident occurred that left onlooker Shelly Bauman gravely wounded. Eventually, the tragedy resulted in the opening of Seattle’s first disco, Shelly’s Leg. historylink.org/File/22605 1135
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti 156161615495
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️rekati.bsky.social @rekati.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I cannot tell you how upsetting this is for me and so many others who have lived through the continued senseless and random extra-judicial kidnappings of our neighbors. Stand strong Seattle. We are with you. 19362032716
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days. 344213735865
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2) 91006329
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026What we already know is horrific. Imagine how bad discovery would be if the government is willing to pay our fees (something the government doesn’t readily do) just to avoid it. 11674141650
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 06/07/2026A new exhibition on Charles Seliger, one of the youngest Abstract Expressionists, “brings overdue attention to this wonderful artist, who saw beauty in the invisible structures and patterns governing the visual world,” says art critic John Yau.hyperallergic.comCharles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible ArchitectureOne of the youngest Abstract Expressionists, the artist charted an independent path guided by the beauty and intricacy of cellular structures. 0112
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/ 81505601
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8883365512534
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 02/07/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Guardian The military junta in Niger has started a govt-sponsors witch-hunt to round up LGBTQ+ people and incarcerate them. At least 40 people have been arrested and 16 men, including high-ranking military officials, imprisoned.theguardian.com‘Witch-hunt’ in Niger as military regime rounds up LGBTQ+ populationFears of resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic’ climate 14623
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Lorna Harris, PhD @lornaharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026One from the Peatpedia archives for Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Highlighting key facts about the beautiful #peatlands or #muskeg of Canada: open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi... peatpedia.substack.com 1/11 161
Reposted by Val 🏳️⚧️Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am not made for Capitalism. Every relationship I have feels cheapened and dehumanized by the exchange of money. Everything becomes a hollow experience because it is meted out by an arbitrary quantification of worth. It makes me feel as if the only true emotion or relational value is exploitation 4453261065