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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Xfinity is so desperate to get mobile customers, but they really need to improve their in-store experience a pick-up. Waited at least 10 min for just get checked in. That's when I realized there are at least two people who have been waiting that long before me. I hate how Apple Stores ruined LINES.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Any idea why someone would be lighting fireworks tonight in north Seattle tonight around 10:40? (5/20) (Terrified the border collie - thx y'all. 😢💙😢💙😢)
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#udub #uw #uwpolice #universityofwashington #seattle #thedailyuw #dailyuw #universityvillage 💙
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.dailyuw.com/article/ed76...
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UWPD investigating death at Nordheim Court as homicide
UWPD investigating death at Nordheim Court as homicide
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
emergency.uw.edu/2026/05/10/u...
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UW Alert
10:40 p.m.: UW Police Department officers are investigating a death that occurred at Nordheim Court Apartments building 7 reported at about 10:20 p.m. The death is being investigated as a homicide.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Stay away from the area around the Silver Cloud Hotel in the U-District tonight. Something very bad and potentially very sad happened there, I think. 💜💙 I started listening to the police scanners after I saw a #SPD car shoot up our street around 10:30. (I found nothing for our neighborhood oddly.)
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
amen
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There is still time for folks to vote. I just did. May 19th is still 33 days away.
5. SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING ADDITIONAL REPORTING ON
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7. SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING A MANDATORY INDEPENDENT
BOARD CHAIR POLICY More Details

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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For my old fart amzn peeps: Vote Shares by May 19, 2026
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For my old fart amzn peeps: Vote Shares by May 19, 2026
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
And also... Fuck those guys.
Shareholder vote card showing AGAINST the election of Jeffrey P. Bezos and Andrew R. Jassy.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hello. It's me. Doing the bare minimum.
Shareholder vote card showing votes FOR on line items 5, 6, and 7 for the upcoming Amazon Shareholder Meeting. These demand accountability on data centers, climate commitments, and the board as a whole (but this last one really targets Jeff specifically).
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I love me a good graph, and this is indeed a good graph.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Watching the youtube version of the @hasanminhaj.com Annie Jacobsen interview right now, and I am having a similarly weird night. Maybe I should pivot to watching old Firefly episodes.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Fuckin' truth. That set of Collier's is still under Aunt Lena's funeral peace lily, and they are still full of good knowledge.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Well said.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I offer an alternative. The current vibe is take your meds, try to stretch so you don't eff up your joints, don't work too much because that is dweeb shit, get some movement in, have some hobbies, hang out with entertaining people, eat something delicious, take a nap, maybe key the car of fascists.
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 29/01/2026
DDoSecrets has moved from .com to ddosecrets.org - spread the word!
To whom it may concern,

Distributed Denial of Secrets has moved our domain to ddosecrets.org immediately. Please switch all links and email addresses from .com to .org right away. If you receive any email from an @ddosecrets.com address it is illegitimate; please contact us immediately by Signal or social media and let us know if you receive email from our old domain. Our Signal and Cwtch contacts and onion addresses remain unchanged. Technical details follow.

Our domain registration lapsed on January 28th. Our domain registrar had invalid contact information, and so we were not notified that domain auto-renewal had failed until they released the domain name and it was purchased by a domain squatter.

To our knowledge no services have been deployed maliciously using our old domain, and no emails have been sent from our old addresses.

User data, publicly published, and limited distribution data has not been compromised. Our document submission system Globaleaks is unaffected, and libraryofleaks.org remains unchanged. All of our servers are online and intact, just with a new domain name. We will keep you updated as the situation develops.

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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#Shoreline #Seattle #ICE Hannah is a journalist. She has vetted this story. Furthermore, the author is someone doing the work. A quick deep dive leads quickly to sites like #NDLON - National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Learn more about how to help on Wed at 4pm: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
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ICE Out of Our Communities National Call · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Another person, Alex Pretti, was murdered by ICE—one of far too many lives taken with impunity. Whether you are angry, heartbroken, scared, or exhausted, what we cannot afford right now is numbness. W...
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Follow up to my previous repost: @katestarbird.bsky.social also shared their 2023 published paper on @acm.org that outlines their visualization technique. (free access) I am grateful that there are researchers funded to pull accurate pictures of the social media sentiments and disinformation.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Interesting rapid fire analysis of how the conversation evolved over on X yesterday. For a data nerd like myself, this gave me a little bit of hope.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Today!
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Girmay, please have someone from your office ensure that this report on #ICE flights to KCIA is still being run. It is now Jan 24, 2026, and there are no entries in the log from 2026. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/exec...
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Flights - King County, Washington
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The workshop, intended to teach participants how to convincingly blur truth and fiction, was reportedly no match for a night devoted entirely to the cold realities of the human colon.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Seattle, WA — A local woman confirmed Saturday that she would be unable to attend a workshop on writing “Real Fake News,” citing prior obligations to consume only clear liquids and repeatedly question her life choices.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Awww. Poop. I legit cannot go to this, and it sounds awesome. Here's my absurdist oversharing headline to explain why -> Seattle Woman Forced to Skip "Real Fake News" Satire Workshop: Colonoscopy Prep Too Real To Fake theneedling.com/2024/10/30/t...
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The Needling In-Person Real Fake Newsroom Workshop
Want to be a real fake news (satire) reporter too? Join The Needling’s *in-person* 3-week real fake newsroom workshop! Dates: Wednesday nights of Jan. 7, 14, 21 Time: 6:30—8 p.m. Location:&nbs…
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/01/2026
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.
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Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
@angierasmussen.bsky.social lays out some important context to any calls to align our vaccines with other "peer" countries: youtu.be/60VRcuXUztg #denmarkisnottheusa #vaccinessavelives (thx to @microbetv.bsky.social for publishing this!)
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Rasmussen Retorts: The anti-vaccine calls are coming from the White House
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/06/2025
#WASHINGTON Projected to lose coverage entirely: Medicaid expansion: ~420,000 ACA exchange: ~61,000 Paperwork Hell and/or MASSIVE Rate Hikes: Medicaid expansion: ~205,000 ACA exchange plans: ~247,000
Washington State - breakout of healthcare coverage of total populationWashington state - impact on net ACA benchmark premiums for various households if IRA subsidies expire
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Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner @oicwa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Open enrollment is underway and many people are experiencing sticker shock. Commissioner Kuderer explains what she’s been doing to urge Congress to extend the enhanced premium tax credits and what’s at stake if they fail to act.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
the seattle times says it is from "Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Reporting by Gene Balk, graphic by Mark Nowlin / The Seattle TImes)" will have to make my own chart sometime to see what's up here...
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
But there is something wrong with this data from the seattle times.. Or non-seattle fire fighters in king county are really getting underpaid because starting is 98k for firefighters in seattle. www.seattle.gov/fire/jobs-an...
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Benefits - Fire | seattle.gov
Benefits, Salary and Career Opportunities.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Uff da. We are slowly sliding into Minority Report, aren't we? ( I am still agog at the idea of a 42% raise for SPD. ) Also, I wonder how the SFD firefighters feel about this salary ... cough ... discrepancy. #seattle #publicola #seattlepolice #seattlefiredepartment
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
BTW : Washington doesn't look to be bad (yet) with regards to norovirus, but that is JUST from the wastewater scan website in Snohomish. I haven't found anything else to give more local context. I am just gonna keep... washing my hands. :-)
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course
A natural experiment found that herpes zoster vaccination reduced the occurrence of mild cognitive impairment and deaths due to dementia, indicating that the vaccine may slow the progression of dement...
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I am listening to their latest clinical update with <3 Daniel <3 and they're talking about how the shingles vaccine is a good thing, and I am once again jealous because I am not yet 50 so not eligible to get it... www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-12...
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TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the positive side effect of the shingles vaccine on dementia outcomes and how one dose of the HPV vaccine is non-inferior to t...
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
And then ended up here: www.microbe.tv/twiv/?s=noro... And seeing that they didn't have any RECENT references to it my panic subsided. Until...
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norovirus | This Week in Virology
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Started here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhjy...
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Winter Vomiting Disease | Trump's Cocaine Double Standard | Melania En Español | Drunk Raccoon
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My night? Procrastinating chemistry homework by watching and old Colbert episode that mentions the uptick of norovirus "winter vomiting disease" and then floundering for a reputable source I finally landed back on TWiV and now am EXTRA anxious about getting my shingles vaccine SOONER THAN LATER.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
They also kicked out the local food bank trucks. (They used to let them park there, now they have to park them ... *waves hands* in any spot you can safely park a box truck?) Kroger is being quite the bag of d##### now.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And by #thedreamteamelect I mean these lovely people with HUGE jobs to do. #seattle #lakecityway 💙💙💙 @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Erika Evans Dionne Foster @alexis4seattle.bsky.social @linforseattle.bsky.social
Ballot image showing Katie Wilson, Erika Evans, Eddie Lin, Alexis Mercedes Rink, Dioanne Foster bubbled in.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This coming Tuesday November the 18th @seattleparks.bsky.social is hearing ideas for the fenced off Lake City Mini Park. I know it is early to hope for a lot from #thedreamteamelect but I am hoping at least one of them sees this opportunity. engageseattleparks.com/lake-city-mi...
A cleaned up shot from Google Street View of the Lake City Mini Park - now fenced off.A cleaned up shot from Google Street View of King County Metro routes serving the stop across from the Lake City Mini Park - the 75 and the 65.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The Sioux Falls mobile grocery was a pilot project. The inside of the trailer was brightly lit; it took all modern forms of payment; it had refrigeration and freezer space; it was AMAZING. I hope they figure out a way to bring it back. The prices were reasonable too. It was definitely run with love.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Here's a crazy idea for the Lake City Mini Park: a mobile grocery store like this one I visited in South Dakota. It would be an amazing way for the City of Seattle to show the grocery store mafia that we will still care for people - even if corporations will not. siouxfallsthrive.org/eatwell/
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Eat Well Sioux Falls Mobile Market
We’re a grocery store on wheels bringing healthy, affordable food right to your neighborhood. Everyone is welcome to shop with us! Learn more.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I heard on the news that he quoted Bruce Lee about failure - and they made it sound like he was predicting it for Katie? It was.. weird. Gonna have to give it a speed listen I guess - just out of morbid curiosity.😂
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Gorgeous. 💙 (So sorry for your loss. I know it hurts like hell. 💙) But... If any breed deserved to be the face of a science article on dogs, it is definitely the border collie - and definitely yours. He/she was beautiful!
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
So then we start reading the tea leaves a little harder, right? And the thing I sorta picked up on was that Zahilay is a little more of a wild card, and Balducci is more of a known quantity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... And I have to admit, I like known quantities. I know it's unsexy, but 🤷‍♀️
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Third, the thing that EVERYONE seems to agree on is that these two candidates are SO SIMILAR in their voting records that it feels like a toss up.
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Second, and this is not my most logical reason, but the fact that @governorferguson.bsky.social endorsed Zahilay is an ANTI-VOTE. Bob has been a HUGE disappointment, and even his endorsement is a twisted truth. (See parenthetical re: delivery of mental health centers www.kuow.org/stories/the-...)
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
First and foremost, Balducci is the transit whisperer. "She deserves flowers for pushing Sound Transit to open the East Link despite delays and lobbying to open the Federal Way stations ahead of 2026." - @thestranger.com (I LOVE this photo: @scottgreenstone.bsky.social for @kuow.org ) #kingcounty
King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci riding the A Line bus through Tukwila in October 2025. KUOW Photo/Scott Greenstone 
SRC: https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-most-important-king-county-election-no-one-is-talking-about
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