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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social Last night, an intruder broke into the Legislative Building and damaged several facilities and historical artifacts. There was significant damage in our State Reception Room, which is a particularly important space. We are still assessing the damage. We have the most beautiful Capitol in the country. | am grateful for the quick work of our Department of Enterprise Services and the Washington State Patrol to bring this individual safely into custody. October 6, 2025 - 11:04 AM

Washington State Legislative Building broken into over the weekend.

Not finding an article yet, just this announcement. Context is important.

#news #WashingtonState #olympia #cascadia

A screenshot of a Mastodon notification which reads "WA Department of Health favorited your post: Resolving NOT to smoke crack tonight in favor of WaDeptHealth rejoining the fediverse"

The Fediverse is a magical place

Windows 11 Setup Driver Challenges Working around quirks in the newer Win11 Setup with grumpy disk drivers

I'd been pulling my hair out while trying to deal with challenges with a storage driver, Windows PE, and the updated Windows 11 setup, and finally found the fix today.

https://liamsteckler.com/blog/windows-11-setup-driver-challenges/

#Windows #Windows11 #Automation #Deployment #SysAdmin

A spoof of Bruce's yard signs, with the bright green and orange he's used on both of his campaigns. The text on the sign reads: Re-elect Bruce Harrell- this is not the time for hope

@ericacbarnett.bsky.social Visionary leadership, right here. /s

Sorry, transit users. If you want special treatment, drive a Maserati.

🚨 Katie Wilson's campaign has hit the DVP fundraising limit, but Harrell's corporate-funded PAC is still raking in tons of $ from big businesses and CEOs.

Help by making a contribution to the grassroots PAC to counter: https://secure.anedot.com/kw4aas/text-3

#Seattle #Mayor #KatieWilsonForMayor

The city has done little beyond shaking its rhetorical fists in response to Trump's threats to invade blue US cities, but I don't think adding more police or graffiti squads or emergency responders or whatever will have any impact on the Trump Administration's thinking.

@qagggy.bsky.social One argument in favor of dual endorsing is when an initial endorsement was for the wrong candidate because of low meeting attendance/etc, then fixing it with a dual endorsement at a later meeting, which at least cancels it out.

A look inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. There are columns of bookshelves seeming suspended at various levels from the ceiling with walkways connecting and that keep going into the far distance. Light from glass skylights many stories up and interior lighting are throughout. On the bottom floor, slightly lower than the camera vantage is the skeleton of a whale

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#DasCDMX

Maximilian, a black shorthair cat, sits on the edge of the grey sofa, looking at the camera with his golden eyes.

Stamper, the ginger tabby, sits upright in the window sill, face turned upward in a smile, basking in sunlight.

It’s Caturday, and our boys are looking majestic AF.

A screenshot of a post by Crystal Fincher KOMO, Seattle’s Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate, will not be airing ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ when it returns on Tuesday. The post has a quote post from Brian Stelter inside This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

...and this is why the boycott pressure needs to keep going.

#Seattle #KOMO #Sinclair #JimmyKimmel #JimmyKimmelLive #Censorship

A screenshot of a donation to Wilson for Seattle for $20.20

Just donated $20.20 to Katie's campaign, in reference to the last year Pete was involved in a campaign he had no business being in

Home | Elect Katie Wilson I love this city and I know that we can solve our most pressing problems and accomplish great things together. We don’t have to settle for half measures. But we need to take initiative. We need to be bold, and smart, and fearless. Elect Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor.

Anyways, if you have the means (or time), please consider donating to or volunteering with Katie Wilson's campaign, and send her your Democracy Vouchers if you haven't used them: https://wilsonforseattle.com/

Coool. Pete Buttigieg endorsed Harrell for mayor, guess it checks out that centrist losers would stick together 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Seattle

Just saw a near miss with a biker almost getting hit on Lake Washington Boulevard through the Arboretum.

We really need to #BanCars through here

#Seattle #BikeTooter

MLK Labor has now dual endorsed Katie Wilson for Mayor! 🎉

(too little too late... but still glad to have this not be something that can be held over her)

#KatieWilson #KatieWilsonForMayor #Seattle #KingCounty #KCElex

@grants.bsky.social hot vax summer

Thank goodness for Councilmeber Alexis Mercedes Rinck, I'm glad we've got one sane and smart person on council to speak out against this abhorrent expansion of surveillance.

(yeah, the rest of them are all that bad)
#Seattle #SeattleCityCouncil

A screenshot of the above post, the emoji in the middle are a multipart Link Light Rail Series 2 Light Rail Vehicle on top of waves

(For those of you on Bluesky or whose clients' don't support custom emoji, this is what the above post should look like)

Happy #LinkLightRail live wire testing day to all who celebrate!

:series2lrv_1: :series2lrv_2: :series2lrv_3: :series2lrv_4: :series2lrv_5: :series2lrv_6:
🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

#SoundTransit #2Line #Seattle

Runway construction doing a ground hold for 1h15m during the day? Seems odd...

@AirportStatusBot https://mastodon.social/@AirportStatusBot/115165605714881072

#DEN #Denver #DenverCO

One deer sitting in a meadow, and other grazing

A beautiful blue lake, with mountains in the distance and a rocky shore along the right side

Four moose across a small mountain lake

Lovely hike up to Blue Lake with Mom, @AlpenHiker!

#Hiking #BoulderCO #Colorado

@grants.bsky.social boo forest fires, but that's a really cool photo!

A newer (6268) KCM RapidRide branded bus, running the notoriously late Route 8

Presenting... The RapidL8 (also wow, twice in one day!)

#RapidRide #FixTheL8

King County Metro bus 6024, painted in the RapidRide red scheme, waiting to turn left off of Montlake Blvd E towards SR520. Its route number sign is showing 255 to Kirkland

A rare spot in the wild- one of the older RapidRide New Flyers running Route 255 service, seen here at Montlake

#KingCountyMetro #Bus #PublicTransit #PublicTransportation

MarkerMatic v4 Cross-platform UI stuff is still rough (thanks, Windows 🙄), but better than I remember it

And to go along with it, I wrote about the process that led to this in my semi-annualish blog post

https://liamsteckler.com/blog/markermatic-v4/

#OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Python #Blog

MarkerMatic A tool to automate cueing and marker placement between consoles and digital audio workstations (DAWs), primarily used for multitrack recordings.

My latest development work has been joining Justin in making the v4.0 version of MarkerMatic (fka Digico-Reaper Link) for dropping markers in your multitracks automatically.

It's now available, and works with more consoles!

https://markermatic.com/

#Software #Multitrack #MusicalTheatre

MarkerMatic v4 Cross-platform UI stuff is still rough (thanks, Windows 🙄), but better than I remember it

And to go along with it, I wrote about the process that led to this in my semi-annualish blog post

https://liamsteckler.com/blog/markermatic-v4/

#Blog #SoftwareDevelopment #Python

My latest development work has been joining Justin in making the v4.0 version of MarkerMatic (fka Digico-Reaper Link) for dropping markers in your multitracks automatically.

It's now available, and works with more consoles!

https://markermatic.com/

#OpenSource #Software #Multitrack […]