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Working on being a better human and making this world a better place for as long as we have it.

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WA Office of the Secretary of State @secstatewa.bsky.social · 6h
Today is the official deadline to mail ballots to all registered voters for the Nov. 3 General Election. Go to VoteWA.gov to check your registration.
Image of a cartoon mailbox with an envelope character inside, smiling and waving. The mailbox is green with a purple flag. The envelope has a name tag sticker labeled "Mark." Text above reads "Ballots mailed!" in bold purple letters. A neighborhood setting is visible in the background.
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Jeremy 🇵🇸 @scribalpractices.bsky.social · 15h
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King County Elections @elections.kingcounty.gov · 14/10/2026
Ballots are in the mail, King County voters! If you don't receive yours by Monday, October 19, call us at 206-296-VOTE. Vote early! Use an official ballot drop box! kce.wiki/DropBox Track your ballot! kce.wiki/BallotAlert Tell your friends!
King County Elections key dates for the November General Election
October 14: Ballots mailed
October 26: Last day to register online
November 3: Election Day!
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This photo, also in the New York Times, is also good.
Color photo of young woman protestor with soldiers grappling at her.
SAUMYA KHANDELWAL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Indian Security Forces Quell Demonstration.
In an extraordinary move, throngs of people were detained for opposing a voting revision.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India.
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
gm! at 10 I'll be live-tweeting the emergency TRO hearing in Judge Reyes's "courtroom" (this is on Zoom) in D.C. Preservation League v. Department of Interior, otherwise known as the golf course case
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Please remember that a lot of the bad stuff in smoke will go right through a mask. Fumes aren't caught by n95 masks. A lot of the stuff that causes smoke inhalation is chemical in nature, not particulate.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Timeline cleanser 🧽
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tribe55+, a collective of Black women artists 55 and over, will offer workshops, performances, and exhibitions at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum as part of a yearlong residency entitled “Molding My Truth: Shaping My Story.” baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...
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What’s Poppin’ #88
High Zero, The Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston Street. September 24 to 27, times vary. highzero.org Now in its 28th year, High Zero brings together musicians who have never played together before to…
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026
Great question! If you can't get down to the ground on your own, Hold On becomes an important step: hold on to something as well as you can to prevent being thrown to the ground during shaking. Also get as low/stable as you comfortably can. More: www.earthquakecountry.org/accessibility
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Resources for People With Disabilities and Other Access or Functional Needs
Earthquake Country Alliance Resources Earthquake Preparedness Guide for People with Disabilities and Other Access or Functional Needs (8 pages) English: PDF | RTF   Español: PDF | RTF The following documents are available in 15 different languages, including
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 30/09/2026
Yesterday afternoon at ~2:05 pm PDT, the Seattle area was shaken up by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake. But this isn't unusual at all! Learn about the three types of earthquakes that can occur in the PNW region ➡️ loom.ly/WBQvUo0
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Jason Gilbert @jrgilbert.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is good! Read it! Share it with your HS aged kids!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
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New BCBSA Research Shows AI Billing Raises Health Care Costs
New BCBSA and BHI research finds AI‑enabled hospital billing may be driving higher health care costs by increasing diagnoses without corresponding treatment.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Dengue fever outbreak prompts Florida counties to declare state of emergency
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Dengue fever outbreak prompts Florida counties to declare state of emergency
CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level data
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 23/09/2026
Seattle Votes 7-2 to Restrict Algorithmic Grocery Pricing - It’s the First Law of Its Kind in the US
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Seattle Votes 7-2 to Restrict Algorithmic Grocery Pricing - The Stranger
The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to limit how companies use personal data to set prices in grocery stores. The move will prohibit large grocery stores from using algorithmic pricing for individu...
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🕸️Jessie!🕸️ @jessisamess.gay · 27/09/2026
ok we're masculinizing band names now Goo Goo Action Figures
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I’m now ready for my work day… Kids explain what their parents do for work…then parents tell us what they actually do for work 😂
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/09/2026
Hey, I wrote about this a year ago! www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/k...
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Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
As anyone who has read Techdirt for any length of time knows full well, there’s been a years-long campaign to demonize kids and social media. Never mind that actual experts have said the data doesn…
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
You feel bad because you have not eaten…nourish yourself Put something in your mouth
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is extraordinary.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Om jameel:After our tent collapsed due to shelling&we lost everything&My shoulder suffered severe complications Due to ligament tears.Drs have informed me that I need urgent arthroscopic surgery to save it a procedure costing $250 Save me so I can hold my kids again😭😭😭😭😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
A Palestinian man and woman, Mohammed and Om Jameel, sit with their five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help. five Palestinian children lie on dirty mattresses outside A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Boosting
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If your child were my little Sila,would you leave her to face the pain all alone?I appeal to you with a heart wrung by pain;she is suffering from severe malnutrition.Her eyes are swollen from incessant crying and illness—she is an innocent child.Please,do not let her down chuffed.org/project/1730...
A newborn baby, Sila, sleeping in a white blanket, rubbing her eyes with her left hand.
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Washington State Department of Commerce @wastatecommerce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Washington business owners can join ScaleUp, a free nine-week online series to grow your business. You’ll learn how to increase profitability, refine your marketing strategy, and more. There are four opportunities to join the weekly 90-minute courses. Register: mystartup365.com/programs/sca...
Promotional flyer for Washington State Department of Commerce's ScaleUp training series. It includes details about the free online business webinars and start dates in October.Promotional flyer for Washington State Department of Commerce's ScaleUp training series presented in Spanish. It includes details about the free online business webinars and the start date in September.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026
This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner @oicwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Join us tonight for our wildfire claims workshop in Spokane!
OIC wildfire claims workshop
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Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner @oicwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Join us this Monday, Sept. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., for our second wildfire claims workshop for Spokane-area wildfire survivors. OIC insurance experts will be joined by the NICB and United Policyholders with tips on preventing fraud and best practices on wildfire recovery. Learn more: bit.ly/3SH8y3k
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels is "Young Me".
In panel one we see a young version of Sarah, the protagonist. She says, "I want to achieve great things".
In panel two we zoom in a little on young Sarah's face. She continues, "An astounding career! An amazing house! World peace!"
The title for the last two panels is "Adult Me".
In panel three we see adult Sarah, looking down.
In panel four we zoom out and see she is in front of a basil plant. She simply says "I want to grow a basil plant".
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Farm workers are hard at work in the Cuyama CA area weeding carrot fields. They work 8 hours a day earning CA minimum wage carrots. The high this day was 104°. #WeFeedYou
A carrot field where workers are laboring
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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WSDOT Traffic @traffic.wsdot.wa.gov · 11/09/2026
JK. THE PAINT MAP IS BACK and Jimothy wants you to know there's a busy weekend ahead. Here's what happening: -I-5 express lanes will CLOSE 11p Fri(9/11) to 5a Mon(9/14) across the Ship Canal Bridge -The EB SR 520 off-ramp to Montlake Blvd will CLOSE 4:30p Sat(9/12) to 8a Sat(9/19)
A hand-drawn Paint Map for Sept. 11-14 displayed on a wooden easel. Jimothy the raccoon stands at the bottom holding a paintbrush, with a speech bubble that reads, “Who said Paint Maps were seasonal? WE’RE SO BACK!!!” The map is covered with playful drawings of geoducks representing weekend events, including Role Model, the Huskies, Weezer, Reign, BrickCon, the Mt. Baker Hill Climb and Washington State Fair. Orange signs point to major Puget Sound-area road closures. The previously planned southbound I-405 lane reductions and eastbound I-90 lane closures are crossed out and marked “CANCELED.” Raccoon paw prints and paint splatters surround Jimothy’s artwork.
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Sharon "Screams in Perimenopause" Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is awful. And Ashley makes a good point - it’s time to add some generative AI policies to your contracts.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
a friend’s nonprofit contracted someone for $25,000 for strategic planning work and got back 100 pages of ChatGPT slop please write it into your contracts that this is not what you’re paying for
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the verified fundraiser that will help Pierre Damas Bel's family with his funeral and repatriation costs. www.gofundme.com/f/pierre-dam...
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Donate to Pierre Damas Bel's Family Needs Care After His Loss, organized by Fidler Barb
In memory of Pierre Damas Bel Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old … Fidler Barb needs your support for Pierre Damas Bel's Family Needs Care After His Loss
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/09/2026
I think the thing i love most about family… all these people you get to love And then they have children and you get to love them
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BTW this is after the iconic image by Ricardo Levins Morales www.rlmartstudio.com/product/eigh...
black and white woodcut that says 8 hours for work / 8 for rest / 8 for what we will and there's someone working at (??) , someone sleeping and two people in a boat
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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pgzulian.bsky.social @pgzulian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now? theconversation.com/a-landmark-u...
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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?
It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 04/09/2026
We want to hear from you! 💬 Ecology is looking for comments on the proposed amendments to the Shoreline Management Act. The public comment period is open now to Nov. 17. Learn more about the rulemaking and share your thoughts here: ecology.wa.gov/sma-rulemaking
A view of a foggy, cloudy day at the beach with wood on the shore. The text says, "Comment on the Shoreline Management Act proposed rulemaking. June 16, 2025, 8 a.m. – Aug. 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Visit ecology.wa.gov/sma-rulemaking."
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