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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 11h

"following Kant, we believe it is a moral imperative to minimize suffering for our beloved Claude," intones the Anthropic executive, as he steps over a homeless man on the sidewalk on his way to ink another contract with the pentagon

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13h

silver lining: we are almost certainly about to enter a true renaissance of independent and foreign cinema

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 14h

@paleofuture.bsky.social is correct but also the deficit for FY2026 is ~$1.96T (per fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...) and social security spending for FY 2026 is $1.45T (per www.usaspending.us/categories/s...) so maybe he does mean all of it man

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 16h

imagine my surprise when i learned that the presumptive GOP CO house minority leader was an absolute dipshit who used to buy me beer when i was underage thank god he lost his election a few years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_L...

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Colin Larson - Wikipedia

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 17h

as someone who does not particularly care for the field of political economics, my research into petroleum extraction clientelism has nonetheless prepared me surprisingly well to understand the vibecession debate

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 18h

we don't bully tech people enough frankly

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 19h

we're discovering all kinds of problems that "void the SPOG contract, police unions are illegitimate by definition" would solve

The Seattle Police Management Association and Teamsters 117, the two unions that represent a small number of the SPD employees who were overpaid, have policies in their contracts for resolving overpayment. Employees who aren’t represented by unions will have to pay the money back, in accordance with state law on overpayments.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 20h

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. Officers got retroactive paychecks that were as much as $32,000 too high. If the city wants to recover the money, they have to cut a deal with the police union.

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SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. - PubliCola

. By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more…

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not my wonkiest critique but why are all cops fucking doofuses

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

natalie’s dad killed himself fyi

Work is something you do until everyone and everything you are responsible for is taken care of to the best of your ability

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i mean nixon watched patton and dubya watched black hawk down before they ordered invasions propaganda gonna propaganda

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the most GOP-coded thing this council has ever done is take a blowtorch to the city budget and then throw a hissy fit when a socialist mayor tries to fix their mess

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the underlying OIG report is full of potential data vulnerabilities via axon: “While [SPD] policy prohibits proactive surveillance, the Axon Fusus software does not currently have a process to prevent or monitor this kind of activity…” 🧵

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we should stop interviewing john yoo

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my favorite part of seattle’s zoning code? that’s easy! it’s gotta be that we only allow high-density residential along arterials! thank goodness - how else would i guarantee all these FUCKING SIRENS going past my GODDAMN LIVING ROOM every day? thanks, generations of (homeowning) council members!

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

black hawk down? the film the DOD forced script changes on to hide the fact that the real-life marine that ewan mcgregor was portraying was court-martialed and imprisoned for raping his minor daughter? that film?

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

not that it surprises me, but burgess also drastically oversimplifies the "rule of 60%" as a way to argue for hiring hundreds more SPD officers

Police Department Staffing Levels

No national standards specify how many officers a city needs. Determining the right number requires assessing 911 call volume, call types, geography, and response times to Priority 1 incidents (imminent life-threatening danger, serious injuries, or extreme risks), as well as whether the “rule of 60%” is met: 60% of all officers are assigned to patrol functions, and those officers spend no more than 60% of their time on 911 dispatches, leaving 40% for proactive, community-focused policing. Seattle’s police service does not meet the 60% rule and misses the Priority 1 response goal in three of five precincts because we are short by hundreds of officers.

Rule of 60 Guidelines
As a general guideline, ICMA applies a “Rule of 60” to evaluate police department staffing
allocation and deployment. This Rule of 60 applies to three critical variables:
1. There should be approximately 60 percent of the total number of sworn officers in a
department assigned to the patrol function. According to the table the mean patrol
percentage is 66.1 percent. In other words the average department in this study assigns
about two-thirds of its officers to patrol.
2. The average workload for patrol staffing should not exceed 60 percent. The mean
workloads presented above for winter weekdays and weekends and summer weekdays
and weekends are 26.6 percent, 28.4 percent, 28.7 percent, and 31.8 percent, respectively.
This indicates that less than one-third of the available patrol resources are committed to
demands from the community in the average department.
The highest reported means in the sample of communities studied does not exceed the 60
percent threshold. In other words, the busiest communities in the ICMA analysis do not
dedicate more than 60 percent of their patrol resources towards workload (which includes
public initiated CFS, police-initiated CFS, administrative and out-of-service time, as well
as directed patrol time).
3. The Total Service Time (officer-minutes) should not exceed a factor of 60. The mean
service times presented above are 22.1 officer-minutes for a police initiated CFS, and
48.0 officer-minutes for a CFS received from the public through 911.

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

whiskey pete, you are no josé antonio páez

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

not to get too specific about this, pete, but isn't your boss's buddy putin helping iran kill us servicemembers

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

if you went to a private high school i do generally think less of you as a person, although you do edge out graduates of new trier

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

take the train out of pueblo, it’s lovely

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

i would hope for either this or penalties to the landowner for developing hardscape of a certain square footage without canopy i imagine this only applies to a few major properties, but any incentive to make parking lots better (economically productive, green, active) is good!

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

then he went on the charlie kirk show to talk to a guy who got fired by the marines for nazi-posting on main

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i have time to continue my self-flagellation (read: watching the 9/25/26 budget presentation of SPD to our city council) picking up the action with rivera's questions around the timestamp below vid link for sickos: www.seattlechannel.org/BudgetCommit...

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Budget Committee Meeting Session I 09-25-26

Agenda: Call to Order; Approval of the Agenda; Seattle Police Department (SPD); Adjournment.

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a lifelong, dedicated bureaucrat saying something is "surprising" is not a good sign if this city council had any political instincts *at all* they would attempt to streamline permitting, but alas,

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

by the way if anyone was wondering why i have started referring to bob kettle as "the burger king" it's because he refers to himself as "BK" in his (totally, completely necessary 🙄) bite of seattle shooting timeline...

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

some of the council members have even started inventing charter sections out of whole cloth!

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

really dan? i'd like to know why you asked SPR to delay the reopening of ballard commons park until st. lukes was undergoing renovations and unable to provide food pantry services, that's what i'd like to know

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“traffic safety is my top priority,” says guy who refuses to call the transportation committee he leads by its actual name because he wants to force “sports” onto the beginning of it

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wait until strauss learns about historic preservation, he’s gonna lose his tiny little mind

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if only the politician most responsible for siting this station here could be given an unelected seat on the city council

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

starbucks is really getting out of pocket with the new menu items

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

rivera doesn’t invoke the charter nearly as much when discussing, say, libraries

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

made it ~15 minutes into the new GBBO before making the macaulay culkin face this whole signature challenge, yikes

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this presentation is delivered by andre sayles, interim SPD chief, and dan eder, executive director of budget, SPD i hate myself too much/the right amount here we goooo

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wanted to dig into this exchange a little bit so i watched the recording (c'mon, seattle channel, bookmark your THREE HOUR VIDEOS better) i ended up watching the entire Q&A of the parks department. thoughts below:

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"our response is never to learn from other cities' failure" @ericacbarnett.bsky.social leaks the name of the centrist CM's internal chat

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you can limit true detective to season 1 then ranking game of thrones in its entirety at #6 is basically a criminal act

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

for the record i wrote about war movies for my masters degree i did not expect to have to read articles about treasury bond yields ten years later just to understand my social media

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favorite part of this interview is actually when dumbass #1 asked dumbass #2 about climate change and the response was, uh, really something (screenshots in thread)

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i particularly like the part where he says "some friends you have" like his national security minister doesn't wear a noose lapel pin sometimes

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

those who can't, run for council in district 6

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if only there was a pending impeachment motion against the secretary of defense waiting for a vote when the house reconvenes wait

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.

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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i demand councilmember kettle hold a news conference to demand answers from councilmember kettle as to why councilmember kettle caused these delays

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