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Cheerful adjacent in Seattle.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 9h
this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
last week, my flight from SFO to LAX was delayed because we just didn't have a plane? and no one was sure where the plane was? kind of stuff that happens all the time and whatever, it was two hours, but there was one difference
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Skittles Scary Skeletons ☕ @skittles6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He'd be snugged with a fuzzy pink blanket, have water, acetaminophen & electrolytes at the ready when he got up. Not to mention the bucket available in case he gets sick. Women are the protectors men claim to be.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Eastcoastitnotes @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rude
Panel 1: a man points at a black bird sitting on a fence and says "Ahh! A bad omen!"
Panel 2: the bird responds "Oh yeah dude! We're the ones who fucked the planet and put a continent of garbage in the ocean"
Panel 3: The bird says "Prick"
Panel 4: The bird points and says "You know what you're the bad fucking omen"
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Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its *second* new light rail station
Screen capture of Jackson Park Golf Course in Google Maps with the Shoreline South and Pinehurst stations at either corner of the golf course circled in red
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026
Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep
Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026
We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.
Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind themA young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the cameraA young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the cameraA barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it actually doesn't rain very often in the pacific northwest. i visited seattle for a couple days one time and it didn't rain the entire time i was there
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Italian gelato shop Gelatiamo has filed plans with the City of Seattle for the former Starbucks location in lower Queen Anne, on the ground floor of the Mediterranean Inn hotel.
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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hot tip: if u don’t know things and haven’t been studying the thing for a while with a deep grasp of its nuances, it’s totally ok to be quiet lol especially if you’re a man! You will be ok, I promise! No one has ever told you this before perhaps!
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Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sound Transit will host an ST3 town hall in Ballard on the evening of Monday, October 19, agency CEO Dow Constantine said just now. Location is TBD.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 18/09/2026
It appears that many of you liked the video above. Please enjoy its prequel: a day in the life of an enshittificator. By @forbrukerradet.bsky.social
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
maybe AI can help her come up with [something more left leaning]
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE remains very active in WA State, but there is less news coverage about it, along with a concern that their abductions are becoming normalized. ICE abductions continue to happen all the time in the Puget Sound area. Sounds like this weekend might have been particularly busy.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
VICTORY TO THE CRAFTERS ONLY ONE KINDA POTTER SHALL REMAIN: ACTUAL POTTERS NOT THOSE WIZARD IMPOSTERS HOORAY
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Elmo Excited in Fuego
ALT: Elmo Excited in Fuego
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John T @jrtonca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enshittification: Step 1: Be good for users. Lock them in via the network effect. Step 2: Screw the users, be good for business customers. Lock them in. Step 3: Screw everyone, capture all value for yourself once everybody is locked in. All of Meta is now fully in Step 3. @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/09/2026
what
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Cops: Body found in police vehicle at Calumet District station
A death investigation is underway after a body was found inside a police car at a CPD station on the city’s Far South Side Thursday morning, authorities said.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A couple of months ago King County's office of labor relations was abolished.
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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the triumvirate (2026)
a woman stands with hands on her hips after driving a red SUV up train tracks into Seattle's Mt Baker light rail stationa white sedan drives on Seattle's I-90 pedestrian trail as a woman in a green shirt walks in front of ita black SUV stopped after driving down a flight of stairs at Seattle's Post Alley
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 02/09/2026
Yes. This isn’t about separating art from the artist. This is about the fact that if you watch or give any attention to this show (including piracy) you are putting money into a bigotry machine. You’re literally funding hate.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Kemper organization also spends a lot of time and energy on trying to maintain Bellevue's car-centricism.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/08/2026
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Sarah Michelle Gellar reveals uncredited role Dolly Parton played in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - video Dailymotion
Sarah Michelle Gellar has revealed an uncredited role Dolly Parton played in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.Source: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 24/08/2026
"A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing," contends writer Mike Schur in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter
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Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
Let’s begin with a statement of fact: mega mergers in Hollywood are bad for writers. They’re also bad for actors and directors, for production designers and caterers, for carpenters and Teamsters and electricians and set decorators. They are bad for consumers, who get fewer choices in entertainment controlled by fewer bosses with narrower worldviews. Mergers are bad for local businesses, who lose paying customers from disappearing productions. They are bad for high level TV and film executives, and entry-level assistants, and everyone in between.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
asscam
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
notable that he thinks his fiance getting abducted by ICE is something that happened to him, as opposed to her
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Seattle-based (very good coffee company) Caffe Vita is donating 10% of all orders made through Sunday to fighting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest www.caffevita.com
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Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Co.
Independent and locally owned coffee roaster since 1995. Our coffee is always fresh and hand-roasted on site at one of our three roasteries in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Phoenix.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 06/08/2026
Local Woman Just Thinks Flaming Forest Could Find More Peaceful Way to Protest Climate Change: tinyurl.com/k8dmr9d7
Older white blonde woman looking judgmentally out of living room window at flaming forest
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
jesusfuckingchrist
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Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson
A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.
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Seattle Public Library @spl.org · 05/08/2026
Thank you, Seattle voters! Proposition 1, the Seattle Library Levy, is currently passing with 72% of voters saying yes. Learn more about what this will fund at www.spl.org/2026Levy
An image of the Central Library with the words, Thank you Seattle over it. Below, Thank you, Seattle voters!
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Has Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine held a press conference about the train derailment yet?
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Kyler @simplydistracting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hahahahaha
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Saturday is the deadline for Sound Transit to produce a timeline for the full construction of Ballard Link given currently available resources, per a Dan Strauss amendment to the ST3 system plan the board adopted in May. ST confirmed with me today they DO expected to release something before then.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 29/07/2026
“I’d like to think that when I fly back to Chicago every weekend to be with my wife and family, I can trust Mayor Wilson has the leadership skills and composure to conduct this investigation and update the public on it in a timely manner, but I guess she just can’t,” said Chief Shon Barnes.
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