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I've lost count of my reasons, but I need to add one more.

Balducci was endorsed by @greenjacketlady.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/gree...

So then we start reading the tea leaves a little harder, right?

And the thing I sorta picked up on was that Zahilay is a little more of a wild card, and Balducci is more of a known quantity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

And I have to admit, I like known quantities. I know it's unsexy, but 🤷‍♀️

Third, the thing that EVERYONE seems to agree on is that these two candidates are SO SIMILAR in their voting records that it feels like a toss up.

Second, and this is not my most logical reason, but the fact that @governorferguson.bsky.social endorsed Zahilay is an ANTI-VOTE. Bob has been a HUGE disappointment, and even his endorsement is a twisted truth. (See parenthetical re: delivery of mental health centers www.kuow.org/stories/the-...)

King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci riding the A Line bus through Tukwila in October 2025. KUOW Photo/Scott Greenstone SRC: https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-most-important-king-county-election-no-one-is-talking-about

First and foremost, Balducci is the transit whisperer.

"She deserves flowers for pushing Sound Transit to open the East Link despite delays and lobbying to open the Federal Way stations ahead of 2026." - @thestranger.com (I LOVE this photo: @scottgreenstone.bsky.social for @kuow.org )

#kingcounty

King County is BIG. It's not just Seattle. And even though The Stranger thought it was so clever to endorse Zahilay "a hair" (and thus make a bald joke) I don't think Zahilay is the right choice.

I'm voting for @claudiaforkcexec.bsky.social

Yes. Both are good, but I have a friend "on the inside" and she says "100% Claudia Balducci"

Ballot image showing Katie Wilson for City of Seattle Mayor, Ericka Evans for City of Seattle City Attorney, Eddie Lin for City of Seattle Council, Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City of Seattle Council, and Dionne Foster marked for City of Seattle Council.

Sorry about the delay in voting, y'all. Also: Forgot to take a picture of my ballot, but I am shameless stealing from @celticwnb.bsky.social because yes - let's fucking do this.
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social @alexis4seattle.bsky.social @linforseattle.bsky.social -- AND THE CRUCIAL -- DIONNE FOSTER!

Yep. This.

Okay. This one made me snort. #awsoutage #us-east-1

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud gi...

THIS:

"US-EAST-1 is AWS’s oldest and largest cloud region, a popular nerve center for online services, which has made it an Achilles heel for the internet over the years. Major outages originating from this same region also caused widespread disruptions in 2017, 2021, and 2023." @geekwire.com

And I'm 3000% sure that multiple people have written as much in multiple COEs (correction of errors) at Amazon.

But sometimes those CORE bits are REALLY hard to break apart so they stay that way because they're really well "protected" - as best as folks can manage.

So when you talk about having all your sites and services as "multi-AZ" (multiple availability zones) - you're all fine and dandy until something REAL BAD happens in this one specific place.

I think the real issue might be that US-EAST-1 still contains traces (or a lot?) of GLOBAL control plane bits.

US-EAST-1 is old. It's like the granddaddy of AWS. If there was ever going to be old crufty not-quite-best-practices orchestrationy bits, it would be there.

Okay ... Okay... I saw someone pleading for actual updates.

Here's my hunch as someone who knows nothing...

I would have put money on DynamoDB and/or DNS as those have been culprits in the past and I never liked those shifty services.

However, I honestly think this is a bigger issue. 🧵

Best explanation so far #awsoutage #aws #dynamodb #dns #itsalwaysdns

This cost-cutting is not just Colbert.

The same forces coming for smart comedy are coming for my mom’s rehab, the amazing health care - her second chance.

They canceled the most-watched late-night show.

Eventually, they’ll cancel her gen too—unless we stop them. #Medicare #Colbert #SaveDemocracy

My mother loves Colbert so much - we put her TV on KELO 11 at 7:45pm every night. Colbert is not on until after the news, but the remote in her room is so crappy that she accidentally changes the channel with the volume. She sits through the horrors of other CBS programming - just to watch Colbert.

Colbert’s Late Show was still the #1 broadcast late-night show with 2.4 million viewers in Q2 2025.

It grew its audience while others shrank. It wasn’t ratings that killed it.

It was money. It was politics. It was the long knives of “cost-cutting.”

I’m here because my mother is in her 20th day of rehab, recovering from a month-long hospitalization that nearly broke her.

She’s walking again. Barely. Slowly. But walking. That rehab—her hope—is paid for by Medicare.

A promise made to her generation.

It feels both cruel and poetic that I found out Stephen Colbert was being canceled from the sound of a Fox News segment echoing from the next room.

I was sitting with my beloved aunt and uncle, here in Mitchell, South Dakota.

My uncle is a wise man who worked in soil conservation his whole life.

If we’re lucky, Colbert is about to have a year-long DGAF era. The man’s off the leash. What are they gonna do, cancel him?

Seems like the right time to share this wonderful moment again, now with subtitles and some context at the beginning about what they were talking about before Jeff Goldblum shared a George Bernard Shaw quote with Stephen Colbert.

YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop I watched a Bit of FOX News - OMG

And now... a moment of zen from Canada ... youtu.be/VTJyYhBRDnU?...

"As you can see, this dataset probably holds a million different leads. It's too early to tell if any of them will pan out and become something bigger."

"If you're a journalist looking for a tip: Most of the members of the group only listed names, but a few listed phone numbers. If you have access to this data and are looking for a story, why not send the phone-number people Signal messages and ask what this group is about?"

"The message says, "The biggest crime was USG ignored these fabs for two years." That's it. The dataset doesn't include any other messages from this Signal group."

More on the #telemessage DUMP!

"... found a message sent to a Signal group called "US / China AI Race." The Signal group had 100 people in it. [... ] many of the group members hold prominent positions at major universities, the defense industry, and the military, [...]. "

#signalgate #ai

And i say again .... FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCK