Jessi

My new mood is that maybe library life isn't so great and I should look into other options. This is not something I expected to feel. Even after 20 years.

Good news, you can leave some on the shelf for several more days to lengthen your check out time while you decide what to read first.

Then put a couple back on hold and return them! That's what I do when I forget to suspend.

Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People » The Urbanist # Some library staff say that a new enforcement crackdown led by the Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is turning librarians into part-time cops, and they’re not happy about it. Justin War...

NEW STORY // Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People

By Justin Ward via @urbanistorg.bsky.social //

www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...

This is state violence.

Bill Gates in suit hands clasped in front of chest intently explaining to someone

Bill Gates Clarifies He Only Hung Out with Child Sex Trafficker for Fun, Light-hearted Conversation: tinyurl.com/3ek228xc

Facebook asked me if I wanted its AI to improve my posts and the example it gave was changing my post about Yoon getting life in prison from "May he suffer" to "I cannot create content that wishes harm on others."

Not an improvement, and not something I will ever want.

A message from the Seattle Waterfront:

A segment of the waterfront bike lane will be closed near Pier 62 as early as February 25.

Sound Transit Greenlights Overnight Express Bus to Sea-Tac Airport » The Urbanist # Late-night bus service starting March 28 will give riders with late flights at Sea-Tac more breathing room. The pilot is one element of Sound Transit's planned overnight bus network queued to launch...

www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/16/s...

I can’t wait until there are more and better bike and transit connections between West Seattle, South Park, and Rainier Valley.
I signed up with Duwamish Valley Safe Streets this weekend to do what I can more directly, and you can too.

duwamishvalley.seattlegreenways.org

Let's get a gofundme going for Seattle business owners to take a trip up to Vancouver for some meetings.

The ones along 35th Ave NE, perhaps.

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Summary The Council directed the staff to bring forward an Interim Official Control Ordinance (IOC) on bulk building regulations. The purpose of the IOC is to ensure that while the middle housing codes are being implemented that Medina doesn’t create housing that burdens the other residents with noise, light, and loss of privacy. The attached IOC makes the following changes to the Medina Municipal Code: 1. Increases side yard setbacks to increase separation and privacy between homes. (MMC 16.22.030.A.) 2. Requires a new side yard setback that is 5’ wider than the base side yard setback for second stories and above. (MMC 16.22.030.A.) 3. Reduces the extent of side yard protrusions and requires a landscape buffer for structures over 30 inches. (MMC 16.22.040.) 4. Reduces extent of protrusion for decks or patios into side yard setbacks from 50 percent to 25 percent intrusion and requires a dense landscape buffer when protrusion is a deck or patio. (MMC 16.22.040.C.2.c.) 5. Requires fountains and other similar installations in setbacks that make noise to not be heard by neighboring properties. (MMC 16.22.040.K.7.) 6. Eliminates height bonuses. (MMC 16.23.050 and MMC 16.23.060.) 7. Requires vacant homes to keep interior lights off if those lights are visible to neighbors when the house is not occupied (MMC 16.44.040.H.) 8. Requires vacant homes to avoid exterior lighting that creates light trespass to neighbors. (MMC 16.44.040.I.)

Oh my god. Medina is set to adopt an emergency ordinance adding a bunch of restrictions to prevent "housing that burdens the other residents with noise, light, and loss of privacy."

They include a ban on yard fountains that can be heard from neighboring properties & interior lights in vacant homes.

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston Utah trail cameras show vital impact of wildlife crossings

Wow. Wildlife crossings reduce crashing into animals crossing freeways by 77%. I would not have guessed it’s that high.

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I haven't seen this reported anywhere: the Tukwila City Council is set to adopt a six month moratorium on any applications for correctional institutions or detention facilities on Monday night.
records.tukwilawa.gov/WebLink/Elec...

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Current Republican speaker - who has announced they are not running for reelection - says that part of the problems we have today is there is one set of expectations for behavior for police officers and one set for the general public. Which, you know, we're just saying wild stuff now! #waleg

Actual nightmare fuel

i can’t stop laughing

It might be required.

Finally found a name for my organization that will reduce @cascade.org to a ride hosting service.

I blocked some friends on instagram tonight b/c they found it amusing to repost some AI slop they “generated“. This stuff is built with stolen material, is bad for the environment, bad for your brain, and feeds into an authoritarian surveillance system. AI IS BAD! DON’T USE IT! I will block you.

1/ Let’s talk about #RapidResponse at WAISN and why we don’t use whistles 🧵👇

Fobazi's essay on vocational awe is by far the most important and impactful writing I've ever read on librarianship in years of graduate school and work and this is such a loss. My heart goes out to her loved ones.

The WA legislative bill SB 6002 having to do with ALPRs (license plate readers) passed the Senate today.

Unfortunately it passed with the amendment to increase data retention length from 72 hours to 21 days, which is concerning.

Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back home to reunite with her father A 10-year-old Minnesota girl has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas, school officials said, one of hundreds of children detained at the facility. Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, a fourth-grader, and her mother walked free from the immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, on Tuesday night. Elizabeth is a student in the school district of Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, which is also home to five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was released from Dilley over the weekend amid widespread outrage about his detention. Continue reading...

Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention

Anti-ICE protesters

Anti-ICE protesters

Anti-ICE protesters

A group of demonstrators, some holding a sign that says “Labor says ICE out!”

Huge crowd at Elizabeth Caruthers Park for a labor against ICE protest in Portland. Many different local labor groups represented, speakers saying fighting against authoritarianism and ICE is an important issue for labor to take on.

Seattle Mayor, police guild spar over ICE protection directives The Seattle Police Officers Guild is refusing to cooperate with a recent directive from Mayor Katie Wilson ordering officers to investigate and document ICE activity in the city.

Any SPD officer who refuses to carry out Mayor Wilson's order on monitoring ICE should be fired, and any SPD commander who refuses to order it be carried out should also be fired.

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

Picture of many bicyclists gathered in a snowy park.

Today
I rode a bicycle

With 2-3 thousand Minnesotans

To rember Alex Pretti

To show neighbors we care

To show the nation we will defy tyrrany and violence

To end The Occupation.

My oldest asked permission to skip class and walk out with his classmates on Monday, of course I said yes. The local indivisible group is organizing to be lookouts for them bc teens protesting earlier this week got drive-by pepper sprayed.