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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

what sites/apps do folks use for planning travel these days?

Oooh, i'm gonna go to first thursday next week for once. ping me if you wanna hang out!

E Marginal Way Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting! Bike Counter is Live :)

Thanks again to the fine doctors, vet techs, and staff at Mercer Street Veterinary Clinic, Veterinary Emergency Group, and Compassion for Paws.

Back when I'd decided I was ready to have cats, I knew I wanted a tortie. Tortie isn't a breed, but "tortitude" is real and Twitch had it in spades along with polydactyly. She had 26 toes and was 20 years old. Both she and Twitter enriched my life infinitely and I will treasure the memories forever.

Twitch the cat died peacefully in my arms this morning after a long battle with numerous illnesses including feline chronic kidney disease and bladder cancer. For over 12 years she was a source of comfort, hilarity, and joy, and taught me so much about resilience.

YouTube video by The Cure - Topic All Cats Are Grey (2005 Remaster)

All Cats Are Grey
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The weird duties of planning a pet's end of life...

happy negroni week!

All this time, I had no idea who took this photograph! Fantastic!

I can tell how tired I was when I wrote something by the number of typos.

Hearing from a reader that part of the Bicycle Weekend route (this is the penultimate one of the year) is closed off to people walking and biking for what looks like a Rivian commercial shoot. Real classy, Seattle. We get only a handful of car-free days a year, and you give one to a car company.

y'all, really?

YouTube video by MSNBC 'F---ing crazy': ICE swoops in on firefighters IN THE MIDDLE of battling wildfire

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Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

Design without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EO A former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work.

"Great design in government isn’t about fonts and colors. It’s about whether a small business owner can get help without waiting months; whether a senior can see their doctor without wondering who will be peering through her files ... ." —@erie.bsky.social

working as expected.

When elections go the way I like: return to normalcy and common sense
When elections go the way that I don't like: "ideological drama"

Product managers tell me that you don't need UX when you can just "build measure learn" your way to product market fit.

But if your sense-response mechanism is entirely built around trying new shit, and the new shit fails - what are you going to do? Continuing to tweak it only upsets users more.

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

TW: Might make your blood boil

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English 'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered in Chile

youtu.be/aBHQ4HnrxO4?...

Back to work.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

I am still on vacation.

Well he should have!

so good!

are we going to have a ukrainian yusho? possibly!