Hoping the attacks on water infrastructure get a lot of coverage because us governments at all levels do magnificent things and we rarely have to engage with defending them.

Literally a week after Barnes was fired the hours of the CARE team were expanded from 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM - 1:00 AM. Firing Barnes got results fast! www.instagram.com/p/DboFnMosVVJ/

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Seattle's crisis response team leader Amy Barden hasn't met with Police Chief Shon Barnes since Bruce Harrell appointed him in 2024, despite the fact that the two departments are supposed to work together to decide which 911 calls require cops and which require a social work/mental health response.

we're running a deficit like it doesn't matter to have eternal infinite debt and also we culturally have decided that taxes are not community-building investments but punitive policies for people we do not like. not sure how we reconcile any of that.

Bluesky proving itself worthy tonight.

it is a tell that climate change is not taken seriously by the left that large, rich, cities that could be spearheading huge climate addressing change just aren't. Parks maintenance is still done with 2 stroke engines. Concrete is not required to be net negative CO2. Every flat roof requires solar.

is there any way to get out of the debt trap? 40T bucks, hundreds of billions in interest each year. 1T deficit. What does. an honest balanced revenue system look like? I have been told lately this is crazy, but white sheeted - assuming no change in spending, how might you even collect an extra Tril

it seems like all of this tax discourse about removing taxes has completely lost the plot. taxes aren't supposed to be punitive things, they're part of a commitment to community. But since we're running 1t deficits, it obviously just feels like it is all meaningless and paying taxes is for jokers.

It’s crazy making and president keeps pardoning the worst people and then says he has no idea about it.

It is funny all the stress over congressional machinations when article 1 basically isn’t in effect.

bluesky is obviously not reality, most people dont understand the intricacies of this, and GOP senators seemingly gleeful willingness to extend this into 2026 (!) mean that the actual structural impacts to the federal government are important to consider here. if it all hollows out, they win anyway.

it is something that the dems have now setup a vote on ACA subsidies that will be hurting pretty bad in December - but the amount of media mobilization to make that vote really hurt is just something thats extra hard in the current environment.

its just pretty lame that the entirety of the political press has just given up on the republicans being reasonable governing actors so it all just rests on democrats, who are currently without any real power. Just fundamentally wild. Meanwhile corp elites are investing like the dictatorship is on.

one does not need to agree with mamdani to just appreciate a candidate who seems happy in the place they are running and wanting to make that place better. we've nationalized politics so much that we often forget to ask - to our detriment - why do you even want to represent this place?

So Nevada has a pretty entrenched bipartisan opposition to the yucca mountain nuclear storage facility, a relatively remote deep mine storage site, I’m sure open air testing here is gonna go over great.

the republicans want to share the blame for the bad effects of the budget bill, especially on healthcare, by keeping the filibuster around. they could change the rules tonight and end the filibuster - even narrowly (e.g. 50+1 for situations when there is an imminent shutdown in less than 12 hours).

It’s not impossible for members of marginalized communities to commit violent acts, but it’s very unlikely because we have centuries of knowing how to handle ideologues coming for us. Community building and mutual aid is where we turn first. Basically never violence.

Gpt should be a liberating moment for writing.

It’s as if we built a bunch of political play boxes for adults with fake knobs.

If the top five thing that to use ai for continues to be rewrite very simple things that are barely longer than a prompt I’m not sure the tech is gonna catch on.

Looking forward to public water provision being called too socialist and woke.

Diving into how gpt works and it’s about as misunderstood in the zeitgeist as social media feeds, and both are really bad for understanding reality.

It’s hard to see a city of 8m people have a political machine that should be modeling a future away from our current national trajectory doubling down on a nepo baby who is barely from the city, has a poor managerial track record, and is a serial sexual abuser and general asshole bully.

1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med... Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.

Pat Bagley@bagleycartoons.bsky.social · last yr.

They want to give away YOUR land to their rich asshole buddies

the bad part is cutting funding for basically what exists as a safety net. the wild part is allocating more funding for camps for a nonexistent immigration crisis (really, we wouldn't be deporting lawfully here people if it was what they say). the sneaky awful part is undermining the rule of law.

so wild we have reached a point where government spending is just not considered real so that taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy is just not talked about as a huge economy tanking thing.

every person has an idea of what a leader is, but given the complexity of situations in the world, this archetype often wrong, or at least, wrong for the moment. unpacking our own assumptions that guide our preferences, especially in the workplace, is the only way to healthier more effective orgs.

since I do not understand how it works but see it behaving with as much confidence as the hype guy at my overvalued tech firm, I assume that ai will take over shortly, and probably should for the good or civilization or something.

If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.

More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

theguardian.com

a pretty durable personal opinion is that there are over 300m people in the United States, many of whom could if called upon lead reasonably well. The idea there are special people whose lack of values, ethics, or compassion nonetheless make it necessary they lead is dumb.

The fact that so many of the people that they’re disappearing without due process are lawful residents without criminal records should be a clue that the migrant crime wave hysteria was all made up. If they could find thousands of actual criminals they’d be going through public due process on tv.