Knight of the Cedar Grove

if you're fighting against DEI you're gonna get DIA

Second time as farce. First time as farce. Every time as farce because fascism is just the world's most lethal joke.

ah shit i panicked and accidently switched my throwing food and my eating food, lunch is ruined

Drawing from the Seattle Dog and Seattle Sushi roll let's skip the middle man and use entire tubs of cream cheese.

also when did we decide putting cream cheese on something made it Seattle-ified.

gonna be funnier than usual when the Chamber of Commerce ghoul shows up to the budget hearing this year and argues Seattle doesn't want progressive stuff

this is no laughing matter, he was dilled in the line of duty

Twitter screenshot from user Knight of the Cedar Grove: "SE Puget sound really only needs Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma. with SeaTac as neutral ground. and frankly Bellevue is pushing it but perhaps us seafaring Seattle folk need not concern ourselves with the business of inland territories."

There's also the arg that we shouldn't be messing with other city's elections...but we're all so tightly connected. I think if it could work, county level would be best

And I stand by this old statement. to dredge up size/makeup of city council arg again I think 10billion CMs > "local control" lol

reason #17 why most of King County should reform into Mega Seattle.

Subway really needs a new marketing strat, I think we've found it.

I can't use my Democracy Vouchers for that, right? Only Seattle stuff?

Woops meant in Seattle, but thanks for highlighting! I didn't know about him.

Dozen reasons why AI should be kept from everything public service, especially for decision making! Even best case scenario, no reason to believe AI fairer than humans + few accountability measures. but tech companies, either of own volition or by Trump's actively muddying models w/ "anti DEI" shit.

im a single issue voter. we need a Public Works Admin purely to build more and more elaborate playgrounds. the hoover dam of playgrounds.

The Dakotas become colonies of Minnesota, who nationalizes (state-ilizes??) their oil.

I can get if there's hang-ups about her not being a socialist but there isn't a DSA candidate and hasn't been one in ages (or ever, other than Shaun Scott? idk). A lack of DSA endorsements and the restructuring of The Stranger means there's a huge hole in the the already disorganized Seattle Left.

Never give up, never surrender.

Playground structure surrounded by tall evergreens. Central tower is about 10-15 meters tall and has a slide coming down from both the higher and lower levels.

ooooh is that this one? I haven't been to discovery park in a disturbingly-long amount of time lol.

Looks lovely, and this tower looks both practical and fun :D

visiting Australia was frustrating for me because it feels like it is SO achievable. Like most of the built environment isn't anything THAT radically different from what we have in the US yet it all comes together much more cohesively. Even the suburbs seemed a little better than ours.

A playground with a large wooden tower climbing structure, maybe 30 meters tall, with a roof. Giant slide swirls down from the top.

and here's an awesome one just out of Sydney, the playground structure itself is large enough to offer shade, at least to the kiddos, maybe not so much for the parents 😅

more thoughtful playground equipment seems very achievable. The one at Seattle Center probably comes close to this?

Public square with abundance of large trees, umbrellas, and a modern, abstract-design curved cover, about 5 meters high, offering a bit of shade to seating or a play structure underneath.

Yep just went with sails cuz, I assume, theyre cheaper (at least initially) and imo are more whimsical, less claustrophobic as theyre higher

but browsing Sydney playgrounds shows TONS of great examples. Really we should copy their whole waterfront! here's some combined strats inc. shade structure

this was 2 months before the first tesla takedown protest so really riding the line of acceptability...

Playground with a sail raised and stretched over it, providing a lot of shade.

In Australia I saw a lot of playgrounds that look like this. We ought to copy it.

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hot take, I know.

been at SIFF all week watching Kurosawa films. Just saw 7 samurai. oh man. truly one of the all time greats.

"It's whimsical!" her friend argued.

lmao woman behind me on the bus having a dig at our MOST SACRED CUSTOMS, micro neighborhood naming conventions. "'Freelard?' Eat my ass. Are you kidding me?"

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

building bike lanes literally does all of those things! protecting with concrete keeps cars out, and thinner roads are proven to slow drivers down. and if they STILL don't slow down they will become friends with the concrete rather than a pedestrian.

this is the Back to the Future reboot they're gonna greenlight the second Zemeckis dies.