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@jayspeidell.bsky.social

Seattle. Take photos of bugs, mushrooms, birds, stuff like that.

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I walk it with a battery powered brush trimmer a couple times a year. It could really use a small team of folks, one in front cutting the blackberry and a couple following behind dabbing triclopyr on the stems with a brush.

09.11.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's awesome, thanks!

09.11.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails – Explore Seattle’s Largest Contiguous Forest

That would be awesome! You can get involved through wdgtrails.org. The organization needs more cyclists. The trails are multi-use currently but there is HEAVY resistance to advertising that fact.

09.11.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of ironic because Sawant campaigned with Jill Stein, who supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

08.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We got priced out of the 3rd floor at Westlake Park like 5 or 6 years ago and it's still vacant. That what happens when private equity owns everything. Only the hypothetical value of the property matters, not actual revenue.

08.11.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I worked on that block until recently and it had a high traffic volume. Lots of car-based drug deals, the alley coming from the parking lot was a drive-thru for fent pills. And there was a guy who would park for a lunch meth smoke session every day. Plus heavy commute time traffic.

08.11.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Parks staff are great and they shouldn't take heat for Parks leadership not taking their jobs seriously.

08.11.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm curious, do the counters have an opportunity to challenge the signature after seeing the ballot?

08.11.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's just like Lake Spokane Street, which persisted for years and didn't get drained until the road was redesigned. As long as cars can get around it SDOT won't care.

07.11.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why don't you want votes counted? We don't need MAGA in Seattle.

07.11.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly.

05.11.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The social contract will have been broken for sure.

05.11.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love the idea of Seattle and the pockets of progressivism and diversity, but the heart of this city is rotten.

05.11.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No single family homes.

05.11.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good work!

05.11.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, but is she blocking apartment construction? We all know that's the REAL way to create urban forests.

02.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A ghost tree spider in a naturalistic enclosure, perched on bark between moss in the background and baby tears in the foreground.

A ghost tree spider in a naturalistic enclosure, perched on bark between moss in the background and baby tears in the foreground.

Amazonius burgess, the Ghost Tree Spider. Freshly molted, about 1/2".

#bugsky #arachnid #spider #tarantula

02.11.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's the silent generation destroying our society. Most of the people responsible for where the world is today make the boomers look young. Trump, McConnell, Biden, Pelosi, etc. They're all in the silent generation. It's so depressing.

02.11.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me want to scream.

02.11.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! It took a whole month to build, I'm really happy with how it turned out.

31.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Huge ball python enclosure set up with a climbing wall.

Noodles settling into his new enclosure!

He's a male ball python and this is a 4'x2'x6' enclosure with a zebra isopod and springtail clean up crew.

#addherp #reptile #snake #ballpython #vivarium #terrarium #bioactive

31.10.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And it only took a week for the red light on the new marginal bike lane crossover to become optional.

30.10.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Her enclosure.

29.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Cape African house snake perched on a branch with a pinky mouse in its mouth.

A Cape African house snake perched on a branch with a pinky mouse in its mouth.

I love how good of an eater she is! She LAUNCHED at the mouse so hard that she almost flew out of the enclosure. She's a Cape African House Snake and I always think it's wild how she flings herself at food with what seems like reckless abandon.

#snake #reptile #herps #terrarium

29.10.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A black widow spider climbing a web upside down.

A black widow spider climbing a web upside down.

A 6x6x10 inch acrylic enclosure with a sand substrate, coir wall, and shelf mushrooms and a bit of cork bark attached to the walls.

A 6x6x10 inch acrylic enclosure with a sand substrate, coir wall, and shelf mushrooms and a bit of cork bark attached to the walls.

Just moved this black widow into a new enclosure.

#bugsky #spider #terrarium

29.10.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@hankgreen.bsky.social I'm just wondering if you've read the comments in your banana video and plan to do the different prep styles that result in different flavor profiles. I'm really curious now because I've told this fact before and before I correct myself I have to know 100%!

25.10.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And it's insanely slow and always breaks down.

The only bridge of its kind in the world. Literally. There's no other double rotating cantilever bridge on earth because it's such a bad idea.

Only the Seattle Processℒ️ can engineer something like this.

23.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes. They should just drop the mask and say they'd like to bring back redlining. These NIMBY groups cosplaying as activists are out of control.

23.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only way to get a pokemon to level 100 without dying of boredom!

23.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Swap out the endorphin rush with an adrenaline rush. Buy mountain bike! Then you're rewarded for your suffering with a sick downhill and jumps and shit.

23.10.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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