Peter Abrahamsen

Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"

the damn brands know too much

okay fine you got me

My first formal remarks as mayor-elect: When I say, “This is your city,” I mean you have a right to be here, no matter your background. But I also mean that we have a collective responsibility to this place and each other.

#thisisyourcity

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We saw this same issue — voting day bomb threats — in 2024. Motive could be strategic voter suppression, but in 2024 it was likely foreign interference designed to cause mayhem and further erode trust in US election. These tactics can also provide pretext for contesting elections later.

King County Looks to Replace Program Diverting Youth from Jail » The Urbanist # King County Executive Shannon Braddock has proposed a series of changes to one of the county’s pre-filing youth diversion programs, currently called Restorative Community Pathways, replacing the com...

NEW STORY // King County Looks to Replace Program Diverting Youth from Jail

Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/30/k...

Petitioning Sound Transit for an infill station for the Crest Theater.

Betsy's especially.

That’s a 404

Air traffic controllers are so undervalued.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Rewriting most of my JavaScript code in SQL, as Dog intended.

Cormac McCarthy wasn't Scottish??

BATS

Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

OMG the new edition of The Sacred Harp is going to be so well typeset. #sacredHarp

Washington Bee Atlas nets over 25 new or rare bee species in its first year As a primarily volunteer effort, the Washington Bee Atlas has discovered over 25 new or rare bee species in the state. More volunteers are needed to help document Washington's native bees.

It's nice to see our work bear fruit.

Oh hey, the Temporal API was included in Firefox 139. Maybe in a couple years we can forget Date ever existed in JavaScript.

Streissguth!

By rights, the bees get his money. It should all go to native bee conservation and meadow restoration.

Trump didn’t order CMPD to pepper spray protestors in Charlotte, Trump’s Marines didn’t open up with tear gas in LA, Trump didn’t tell cops in Savannah to detain a protestor for wearing a medical mask. It’s worth asking why electeds in those heavily blue places won’t answer for any of that.

FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance

Read the new groundbreaking investigative report by @glentalk.bsky.social in @realchangenews.bsky.social on the FBI and SPD’s extensive infiltration and surveillance of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, including the use of confidential informants:
www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/05...

Stay safe, y'all.

Scheduled to give a short talk on native bees in a couple weeks, for a class focused on pollination. Tempted to make the whole thing about flies. Respect flies, people. They're gorgeous, they're valid, they're living their truths.

The Builder’s Remedy is Coming to Washington State - The Urbanist # Senate Bill 5148, signed into law Tuesday, sets up a brand new framework of accountability around state housing law. The bill includes a so-called

Yesterday Bob Ferguson signed @jessdbateman.bsky.social's Housing Accountability Act into law, which will create a brand new framework for oversight over local housing plans...and bring the Builder's Remedy to Washington State.
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Last-Minute Rug Pull Leaves Lake City's Sanctioned Encampment, Tent City 4, With Nowhere to Go - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Back in February, SHARE and WHEEL—the shelter providers and homeless advocacy groups that have run self-managed…

Last-Minute Rug Pull Leaves Lake City's Sanctioned Encampment, Tent City 4, With Nowhere to Go

Residents say they plan to move on Saturday, with or without a new lease.

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They’ll let your pervy self get pretty close with your phone.

Hairy Bear Scarab Beetles (Paracotalpa granicollis) mating on Balsamroot last week in Richland, Washington.

A screenshot of the Apple TV+ app running on macOS. A popover reads, "403 Forbidden", with another error window on top of that.

Not quite an application, not quite a webpage. Somehow, the worst of both.