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General Disarray

@qotm31.bsky.social
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Feral childless cat lady in the PNW. Word nerd, techy worker, tea drinker, plant grower, fast car driver, mask wearer. Where I come from the salad contains marshmallows.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 11h
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Woman Says "YUP" on Bravo
Alt: Woman Says "YUP" on Bravo
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investigatewest.bsky.social @investigatewest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Come join our team! InvestigateWest is hiring for two positions: a one-year reporting position with @opencampus.org to report on community colleges, and a full-time audience engagement manager. www.investigatewest.org/careersandin...
investigatewest.org
Work with Us
Job Openings: * Audience Engagement Manager * InvestigateWest/Open Campus Investigative Reporter Internships InvestigateWest typically hosts one or two interns each quarter. Prospective inte...
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SPOOKY SEASON SPOOKY SEASON SPOOKY SEASON
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
calmatters.org
Who’s buying your personal data: Disney, GM, your insurer and bank. Here’s what they get
Consumers asked a major data broker for their personal files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, drinking habits and more
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A list of examples of Trump using the presidency as a pay to play operation
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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EPIC @epic.org · 28/09/2026
EPIC and consumer groups are urging the FTC to crack down on surveillance pricing, a practice in which companies charge different people different prices based on their personal data. Telling consumers it's happening isn't enough. The practice should be prohibited. epic.org/epic-and-con...
epic.org
EPIC and Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Treat Surveillance Pricing as an Unfair Practice
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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Furious is so good. Everyone should win everything for this show
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hate these people with the fire of 1000 suns
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good
cascadepbs.org
Bikini baristas win $1.85M in back pay from coffee hut owner
Judge finds bikini coffee hut owner Alan Tagle violated state labor laws, shorting workers' pay.
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 23/09/2026
It was the 25th court loss in a row for the Trump administration as it seeks private voter data from states.
seattletimes.com
DOJ loses 25th lawsuit seeking voter records as judge tosses WA case
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love that in the year of Al Gore’s blessed Internet 2026 for every question like “how do I change X in Microsoft Outlook” the answer is instructions for regedit
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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How is this not the source of more conversation. This is absolutely amazing and SO damning of the ineptitude of Bruce Harrell. It also (again) vindicates Wilson's decision to ask Chief Barnes to leave. She knows what she's doing, much more than her predecessor.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trebek’s ghost is having fun
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good review of many of Trump’s failures
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This sucks
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
POV: you’re Gen Z in Seattle and it’s a weekday at 8pm. Everything is closed so you can’t find a spot to grab dinner with your friends. What is our reputation as “sleepy” Seattle really costing us? 🔗📚⬇️ publicola.com/2026/09/14/g...
publicola.com
Greater Seattle: Third Places - PubliCola
By Josh Feit 5,250 > 778 Here’s a rejoinder to those who complain that Seattle’s taxes on big business are…
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MAGA Make Asthma Great Again
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AI is somehow both Skynet and a finicky houseplant
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport
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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Starbucks is sending their employees to a city where they are almost 50% more likely to be murdered than in Seattle, and where their doctors can be charged with felonies for performing an abortion. Very concerned citizens, I see.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gimme gimme
Screenshot of an email from Kickstarter 

You’re all set.

We’ve collected your pledge for Three New Books from Clive Barker, and the funds are making their way over to Clive Barker Ink.	

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$25,000 goal
$1,505,437 pledged
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We wanted housing for people and instead we’re getting housing for computers that lie to us
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This will continue to escalate unabated until there’s legislation requiring a warrant to perform ALPR searches
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So, if your health system decides to use this, your medical data goes into ChatGPT and there’s nothing you can do about it. Our most sensitive data handed over to a massive scam operation
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
nytimes.com
How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
80 year olds going back to work for minimum wage to make ends meet is a sign we have failed as a society
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Profoundly disappointing
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@adamsmith.house.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
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Madrox Prime @primemadrox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lewiston Maine is honoring Tim today too...
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh this could be so funny
arstechnica.com
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Horrible We are completely unprepared for the myriad ways climate change is coming for us
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
x.com
The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
youtube.com
What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is performative cruelty that has nothing to do with security or safety I’m so sorry for this family
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investigatewest.bsky.social @investigatewest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In 2021, Washington lawmakers passed a law aimed at keeping problem officers out of law enforcement. But we found police agencies have kept hiring cops accused of serious misconduct, who often manage to avoid a state investigation altogether. www.investigatewest.org/a-2021-law-e...
investigatewest.org
WA cops accused of misconduct evade decertification law
An InvestigateWest review shows how Washington police agencies keep hiring cops accused of serious misconduct
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures.” - Julia Curlee www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The best thing I’ve read regarding extremist conservative/far right worldview
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport
Flower, Dahlia - Mystery Day (Dinnerplate). Deep red-purple petals with white tips. Flowers, Penstemon Sensation mix - red with white throats.
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Zuckerberg continues to be an awkward weirdo who is entirely unable to comprehend regular people’s lives, yet feels a profound sense of entitlement to tell everyone how he plans for our future lives to operate
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
static.klipy.com
This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
Alt: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Amazing stuff
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Trump administration wants to defund wastewater monitoring for communicable diseases. Write to your members of Congress:
actionnetwork.org
Congress Must Fully Fund CDC Wastewater Surveillance Program
The CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System remains one of the most valuable public health tools for detecting the increased spread of infectious diseases in the US, such as SARS-CoV-2, measles,...
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve never seen any of these weird sad MAGA attempts to be online bullies and get attention, unless others repost them, and if I did I wouldn’t react to it. Block them, ignore them, and starve them of attention - it’s not hard
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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
And when we do appreciate patina, it’s on cars
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/08/2026
U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and job gains for the two previous months were weaker than initially reported, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. n.pr/45RROJn
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Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market
U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and job gains for the two previous months were weaker than initially reported, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department.
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