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Evergreen.

With basically all the ballots in the city of Seattle's mayoral election counted, Katie Wilson is now above 50 percent, with Mayor Bruce Harrell sliding to 49.6 percent. They're currently within the mandatory recount requirements, but machine recounts don't generally change things much.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month.

All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I’ve come to the very grudging conclusion that the current era ends either in violence or stepwise acquiescence to dictatorship. I don’t like either option, because it is frankly unlikely the former option ends much better than the latter. But denial of the choice is just opting for door 2.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

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Alexander Calder mobile if a fish with green blue red and clear glass for the scales with the shadow of the fish below.

#BlueSkyArtShow #LightAndShadow

Hey friends who are proficient at either making, coding or both: I need a simple 'universal' remote for my mom who has dementia. All of the remotes I've found only do "Power, Vol +/-, Channel +/-". I need one that also does "Play/Pause, FF/Rew" for VHS because she loves watching videos. 1/2

A crow sitting on a building with blue horizontal stripes.

#BlueSkyArtShow #lines

Delicious teas with geeky names.

Sunset in a lake with a man and his dog on a paddle board in silhouette

#Silhouette #BlueSkyArtShow

A stone arch over a street with flags between the buildings

#Arch #BlueSkyArtShow

Diner window with a blue neon sign that says late night food there is also a yellow neon burger with lettuce and tomato.

Late Night Eats #photography #neon

A red and black motorbike in front of a pink building with bright pink graffiti that says work

#TheJourney #BlueSkyArtShow

If you see this, post or quote post a tree. 🌲

Yellow and pink blooms on branch with pointy dark green leaves

Spring Flowers

Sum shining through red and yellow leaves of a tree with dark branches crisscrossing

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight

The jump from fascist goons disappearing US permanent residents to your US citizen neighbors, friends, and colleagues being disposed of in broad daylight is REAL SHORT

#Windows #BlueSkyArtShow

Black and white photo of the corner of a glass skyscraper that creates a series of triangles.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

I want my tax dollars to go to Elmo not Elon, created by Doodle by Meg Featuring Elmo and Oscar the Grouch

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For any WA folks, there is a bill for rent stabilization that is in danger of not making it out of committee. This link sends emails to your legislators in support. With the current economic situation, this is vital homelessness prevention secure.everyaction.com/1Ue7N76rxEiM...

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

A white and black boat at dock surrounded by fog on the water with a few other boats peeking out of the fog.

Foggy morning