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Mossback's Northwest is back with a new season! Today, host Knute Berger dives into the history of Salish Sea pirates — outlaws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who caused a scourge, grabbing money, cargo, and salmon! 🏴‍☠️🦜

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Okay #PortfolioDay let's go. I'm Lucy Bellwood, Adventure Cartoonist. I tell stories that ignite a sense of possibility! If I’m going somewhere, I want you to come with me. I love traditional media, the postal service, great big boats, & using comics to make people feel less alone. lucybellwood.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

if this post doesn't apply to you, would still appreciate you sharing around.

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That’s the point behind every public execution - Roman crucifixions, Tudor beheadings, the guillotine of the French Revolution and the lynchings of the American South. It’s not about justice. It’s about fear.

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[MS] @rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Dear The Seattle Times, I'm an engineer with a BS and MS degree in stormwater, a PE license, and have over 20 years of professional experience. If you have a musician to explain why development in Seattle hurts orcas, would you let me explain why she's full of shit? Love, MS

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'Orca Appeal': A science nerd's challenge to Seattle's building plan

As City Hall continues to roll out the biggest remaking in Seattle's history, one musician challenges the underlying science. It is the story of our time.

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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For the love of god, please read this thread lol I also made fun of orca/tree NIMBYs for this here: youtu.be/GB7n56k5HZc My dream is for urbanists to stop obsessing about their made up tree talking points (esp about how they help w/ stormwater) & understand real stormwater/river restoration solns

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TCA Orca Appeal Webinar Reaction Video #2 (stormwater!!)

YouTube video by Cities for Salmon

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
Text:
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not true in the least. But meanwhile Russia kidnapping 20,000 Ukrainian kids is very well documented, on top of all the murders by Russian bombing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_a...

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Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

“add a negligence component for criminal liability with regards to hacking” seems like a pretty straightforward and necessary fix here

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

“oh well, nothing we can do here” is not a legal approach we take to any other tools that are used to commit crimes and I don’t see why we should with these ones, even if they aren’t being specifically directed to do so

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Annemarie Dooley @annemariedooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Awful sign outside the hospital. I-638 would require young girls in WA state to have a genital exam before they’re allowed to play sports. Supporters say not so, but young girls will be exposed to all sorts of harm. If this was too controversial for Florida, why the hell is it on our ballot.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El Niño is fueling record-breaking sea surface temperatures (SST) off the coast of SoCal. Warmer-than-normal seas take up more volume and push tides higher. SST anomalies of +13F along the coast of Baja California will aid the intensification of Tropical Storm #Rachel as it approaches land.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026

Christ. "Conservatism" now means overruling local government, imposing regulations, and restricting property rights. What a f'ing joke.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

there are many reasons I think Night Watch is the best Discworld book it has some of Terry’s best character work, and sharpest social commentary, and tightest plotting, and getting to see the younger version of everyone is a blast and also it has maybe the best stupid pun he ever wrote

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

holy fuck this absolutely rocks so hard

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

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Non-place - Wikipedia

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/pook... At the same time these billionaire pedophiles set fire to all the anthropological places, they also razed life milestones. This induced liminality, a different kind of non-place a human is not meant to exist in and can't.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A non-place isn't quite a liminal space, but a space where *your identity doesn't matter and cannot be expressed anyway* It's a place where you're literally reduced to traffic, *even if* it was your destination.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

like in my lifetime I got to witness parents demanding their kids like me go play until the streetlights come on. and then as we grew up, "NO LOITERING" was everywhere, stranger danger was everywhere, malls or convenience stores or parks saw us all shuffled on and we had nowhere left but home PCs

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 05/10/2026

Learning from Larry @ Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery With @jrock08.bsky.social and @kellyjiang.bsky.social: “The most important thing is to get the tires off the road” and “reduce the tire-miles-per-person. Thats why I’m telling people to ride the bus!”

Larry from FISH, in an orange hat and volunteers vest, talking to a group of people

Larry and our group on the bridge at Issaquah Salmon Days

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The reality is that you can’t fund a cradle to grave welfare state just by taxing billionaires. Higher taxes on car dealers, landlords, mid-size business owners, doctors and dentists, lawyers and consultants, and other “Main Street millionaires” are needed - but Dems are afraid to speak up.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We spoke to eight voters at a liberal coffee shop and they stared at us and then went back to drinking coffee because this is Seattle

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026

This is another reason why you should write to the Seattle mayor, councilmembers, and Parks department about a different vision for our publicly-owned park in the north end, accessible via 2 new light rail stations! actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...

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Rename "Jackson" Park and turn it into a free public green space for more neighbors

Two new light rail stations will be opening next to "Jackson" Park Golf Course in the next couple of years. The 148th St. station is set to open in 2024, and the 130th St. station in 2026. Right no...

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026

Besides intense water use, ~1000-3500 gallons of the most toxic EPA Tier-1 pesticides are applied on Jackson Park each year. This kills urban insects, pollinators, and aquatic bugs; contributes to bird population declines; and injects toxic runoff into our creeks. jp4all.org/learn-more/e...

Jackson Golf pesticide usage by Seattle Parks
Values are listed in gallons
Tier 1 (most toxic)
2007: 3585
2008: 2230
2010: 410
2011: 1708
2012: 1370
2013: 1459
2014: 2272
2015: 2240
2016: 1312

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026

Seattle uses the 160-acre Jackson Park as a golf course. What does this mean for salmon? 2 creeks flow thru into Lake Washington & would be exceptional salmon habitat BUT >66% of the water in the North Fork is drained to irrigate the course, at a rate of >30k gallons/hr. jp4all.org/learn-more/e...

Golf course with two swiggly blue lines pictured. The longer one, Thornton Creek North Fork, starts at 145th and I-5 and crosses the lower 1/3 left corner of the golf course, then travels east and goes a little bit north and exits the map. The other, Little's Creek, clips the right top 1/4 corner of the course.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 9th, 2017. My cousin D’maine Dugar was killed at 29 in a hit and run walking to work in Kent.

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Vanessa 🍁 @nesfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have both here & this is the best way to explain how to tell which is which 😂 You will know.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 24/09/2026

The Cedar River provides about 70% of the total inflow of water into Lake Washington. It helps keep the lake clean, the floating bridges/light rail afloat, & the Ballard Locks operating. In short, Cedar River is doing the most. Come experience its majesty and power and SALMON with us on Oct 11th!

Picture of the Cedar River flowing under the Renton Library at twilight

Picture of 2025 winter Cedar River flooding below the Renton Library.

Side note: I went there to experience the flooding during this time and you could hear the river super loud from the library beams! And the librarian said they were there when there was a super huge log that ran into the library beams earlier that week! WHOA

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