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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For me the issue isn’t whether the owners are “pure,” but that we do not know who the owners are! And Walkinshaw has committed to keeping their identities secret, with only a pinky-promise that conflicts of interest will not affect endorsements.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I catch the bus at 3rd and James, and most of the people I talk to are very polite. Those who aren’t are typically moving slow enough that they’re easy to avoid, unlike the folks who come tearing through, weaving among people, on e-bikes.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As a daily downtown / Pioneer Square commuter, I feel 1000 times more endangered by the sidewalk use of e-bikes and scooters than fentanyl.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Interesting this house a couple doors down is blurred out on Google Maps. maps.app.goo.gl?link=https:/...

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Dr. Davis mentioned you in a talk at a public defense gathering today!

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yes! IIRC the placards discussed these works only in the context of labor, which, yes, but also…

Painting of two men with long beards dancing together

Painting of a man holding a sledgehammer (?) pictured from the back, centering his muscular buttocks

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I missed his introduction and at first was utterly bewildered by this “DSA” guy’s answers.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I believe I’d support this, but this legislation would exempt Nutella-type products, right?

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In my experience,Westlaw’s 50 state survey feature provides links to at least some of the relevant statutes 95%+ of the time, which is a phenomenal time saver. It also provides truthful and helpful text answers 40-60% of the time, but oc I don’t know which ones they are until I check the links.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In totality, his comments make it hard for me to believe he misread the comment he liked about IcE doing God’s work.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I also don’t have context, but wonder if this is true if it would be doable to also come up with an additional metric that only measured same students’ progress from one year to the next to contextualize the existing metric.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

So glad Bruce is gone — he couldn’t construct a surveillance state fast enough.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You mean Best Elected Official Bruce Harrell? 😆

List of MLK Labor Oscar winners, including Best Elected Official Mayor Bruce Harrell

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

They’re not even pretending not to hate neurodivergent people.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I think some sort of licensure for food vendors (especially meat and eggs) makes sense, but with regulations only designed to promote safety, not to hinder vendors’ business.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Local officials should stop pretending that it’s a lack of education that is stopping vendors from getting all the permits and not their lack of support for vendors. I bet if Seattle just copied Portland’s model, we’d host more licensed vendors by 1-2 orders of magnitude.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is a really good point. Restaurant health codes are enforced by the county through civil procedures — restaurants don’t have SPD busting in and checking water temperatures.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Here, mobile food units need to rent commissary space. In contrast, in Portland, only mobile food units (which needn’t even move) that cook raw animal meat and eggs need to rent commissary space. multco.us/file/plan_re...

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I think the fees to obtain the permits are the tip of the iceberg, and the requirements to get the permits are likely the larger issue.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This document lays out a lot of the requirements. cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king...

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

One $ hurdle seems to be renting use of a commissary kitchen (instead of operating out of a home kitchen). cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king...

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Just glancing at the health website and Reddits from people setting up trucks, I don’t think the need for education about requirements (which CM Rob Saka has been focusing on) is the primary issue, but rather the requirements themselves. And the lack of city support in infrastructure for this.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It is a King County requirement for all food establishments, according to the document I linked.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I know nothing about this, but just looking online, seems you need to have bathroom access for employees within 500 feet (and for customers if seating). I think that’s a couple blocks. Is that feasible for most late night food vendors? cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king...

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Flight AS 308 from SEA to Palm Springs on “indefinite delay” due to lack of air traffic controllers in Southern California.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here in Seattle we would never know whether local media outlet @thestranger.com had a conflict of interest in its reporting or opinion pieces because it keeps its stakeholder list secret.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Amazon folks: Cancel vacation in PeopleSoft as soon as you get layoff notice, before access is cut off. In WA, unused “regular PTO” is paid out on separation. But if you have vacation scheduled during your notice period, your leave balance will be debited by that amount.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It’s a sign of how lost the liberal establishment is that its primary solution to egregious, ineffective, illegal government repression is to require ICE use more surveillance technology while it keeps doing what it does.

Judge requires ice to use body cameras after tear gas.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you press the button before the doors are closed, doesn’t that stop the doors from closing? I feel like I have observed this and it isn’t just ritual behavior on my part. But I could be wrong.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I hear you. I vaguely remember Sound Transit asking for input on whether there should be elevators or escalators, and I was 100% for escalators. Today one of the elevators was out, it was all that much worse.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is about 14 commercial building floors. I guess if there are no other exits, it could be a lot. And hard for rescue folks to get there if something happened to someone midway. And maybe hard to know if someone needed help.

Steel door to Beacon Hill Light Rail Station stairway with sign that says Emergency Exit Only, Alarm Will Sound, and 167 feet with no exit until ground level.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2025

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Within four blocks of two elementary schools.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It does seem that the reply referred to multiple communications, not just this specific one.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It’s hard to root for them when you don’t know who you’re rooting for. I assume the secrecy of the ownership list means they want to hide their conflicts of interest.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“If a public record request is made at a time when such record exists but is scheduled for destruction in the near future, the agency … shall retain possession of the record, and may not destroy or erase the record until the request is resolved.” app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default....

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RCW 42.56.100: Protection of public records—Public access.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

You really ought to have a coverage plan in place before you leave. 😆

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Spent the afternoon admiring the new home of the local Books to Prisoners here in Seattle, was so good to chat with volunteers and see lots and lots of your books on the shelves!

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This article notes that many incarcerated folks need to turn to commissaries to ensure adequate nutrition, but those menus are also largely starch-based, with only a couple proteins (eg, tuna and high-sodium beef stew) and no fiber-rich produce.

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Mid Beacon Hill @midbeaconhill.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

How I first learned about places like Tirana and Riga.

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