Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

25.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 3283    🔁 1020    💬 34    📌 54

a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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06.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 80    🔁 32    💬 6    📌 4

a text box that says: "White - Specify" More Specific White [and then I get to write whatever specific white I am here]

Filled out my kid's application for city preschool and this is the prompt I got when I checked the box for "white"

14.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 2791    🔁 285    💬 482    📌 397

Josh for season 20!

23.01.2025 03:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0