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@marythought.bsky.social

Software developer, knitting, parenting, Seattle stuff

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We don't talk about nostradamus

20.09.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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secure.actblue.com/donate/jenla... running for school board is whack y'all, and

09.09.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*9/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

Further to this post of mine โฌ‡๏ธ, @cjkarr.bsky.social just shared this post with me, and friends, I like the way we're all thinking.

5/

08.09.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shoutout to the neurodivergent parents of neurodivergent children just fucking exhausted and trying to do the best they can and never feeling like it's good enough

07.09.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been using "heard, chef" since watching The Bear

31.08.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œMy friend Victor saved me though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit.โ€ A child had to say these words.

27.08.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 799    ๐Ÿ” 94    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

27.08.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11634    ๐Ÿ” 2440    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 272    ๐Ÿ“Œ 98

This!! It's so goddamn annoying to point at his methods and be like yes, more of this, and louder, but not from that guy

23.08.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Paragliders(?) on a soccer field on a clear day

Paragliders(?) on a soccer field on a clear day

How do I sign up for the "fly away from here" club?

22.08.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I bought too many pine nuts a little while ago so now I'm just adding pine nuts to everything and it is delicious (and expensive)

09.08.2025 02:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone should phone in a wellness check

04.08.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m also so thrilled to support Sarah Clark and Joe Mizrahi to be retained our School Board. They ask tough questions, listen to school communities, push SPS to serve kids better, and lead with integrity. And they write a ๐Ÿ”ฅ op-ed!

09.05.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am, as usual, with Beth on this

03.08.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Op-Ed: Seattle Poised to Repeat Chicagoโ€™s School Closure Mistake ยป The Urbanist # Last week Seattle Public Schools (SPS) unveiled plans to embrace sweeping austerity, making major cuts to school programs and closing an unspecified number of schools in the 2025-26 school year. In ...

There is no reason to close schools in Seattle. Enrollment dropped in the early 2020s but has stabilized and slowly begun growing again. Closing schools has been shown to do enormous harm to students, and doesn't save very much money at all. It's the worst kind of austerity. More here: 3/

02.08.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Woman and child holding a completed WA ballot and smiling at the camera

Woman and child holding a completed WA ballot and smiling at the camera

Get those ballots in, y'all! #waelex

Proud to support 2 neighbors in this one, @nathanrouse.bsky.social and Jen LaVallee (she'll be on the Nov ballot).

Also important to support anti "right sizing schools" (aka closing them) board members @joemiz.bsky.social and Sarah Clark.

03.08.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why is that man so afraid of the Epstein files, he is a cockroach who survives everything.

24.07.2025 10:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Look at me resisting the urge to put my pan into the oven until it's done preheating like an ADULT

24.07.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

I got 9/26 on the fstrings.wtf quiz. Can you do better? fstrings.wtf

21.07.2025 02:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"saltines with butter and radishes" with an illustrative picture

"saltines with butter and radishes" with an illustrative picture

I love any excuse to eat saltines and butter

19.07.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're not gone! She's just exploring ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’–

A hard parenting lesson to learn is that when our kids feel loved and safe is when they show off their WORST behavior isn't that special for us ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜‚

19.07.2025 01:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh congrats you have a threenager

I am sorry to say they get smarter and funnier and you will get even more sass

19.07.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Honestly, maybe we should let AI run some things, like the nation's diplomatic communications and trade agreements. It would probably go better than whatever this is.

11.07.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a "y not both" moment if ever there was one!!

11.07.2025 06:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
It's a headline that says "Married UH Archaeologists uncover 1,700 year old maya tomb".  The two of them look like a nice Midwestern married couple in their 60's.  The man wears a red button-up shirt, the woman a nice white blouse with a sort of black leaf-pattern or silk-screen on it.  Behind them is a Mayan temple on a heavily forested hill.

It's a headline that says "Married UH Archaeologists uncover 1,700 year old maya tomb". The two of them look like a nice Midwestern married couple in their 60's. The man wears a red button-up shirt, the woman a nice white blouse with a sort of black leaf-pattern or silk-screen on it. Behind them is a Mayan temple on a heavily forested hill.

It took me WAY too long to realize that this was about a pair of researchers at University of Houston (UH), and not that the headline was stalling to find a euphemism for what they REALLY are.

The Internet has ruined me.

11.07.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5680    ๐Ÿ” 895    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 198    ๐Ÿ“Œ 90

But how is your brain?

11.07.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SPS board must make it clear the well-resourced schools plan is done | Op-Ed A school board member writes that she is not convinced that there aren't other options to balance the Seattle district'sย 2025-26 budget.

Anyone who was paying attention knows that this editorial was a huge tipping point. "SPS board must make it clear the well-resourced schools plan is done | The Seattle Times" share.google/cU0vZw1mywR5...

11.07.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huge miss in failing to endorse Sarah Clark for SPS school board! She was the first member to say NO to the mass school closure plan. I'm sorry she didn't impress y'all or bring cupcakes but I've watched all the damn board meetings and she has impressed me many times with her spot-on questions.

11.07.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! The beginnings are the worst

07.07.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same! Are you doing intervals? (Ex: run 3 min, walk 2.) I thought I'd do them "to get back into the swing of things" but I think that might just be how I run now.

07.07.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also, I heard Lily Allen songs today TWICE before 7:30 am?? What is going on

04.07.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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