Which bar is the only #plantbased (and a non-sports bar) location to host #worldcup viewing in #Seattle ? You guessed it: #LifeOnMars , owned by KEXP @djjohnrichards.bsky.social | You should check it out. Great food, fantastic vibe, fun crowd. #music #sports #community

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

holy shit

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

A daily reminder: there's so much hope in our world. You are not alone. Did your morning DJ open their set with Sir Ian McKellen's monologue from Shakspear's play "Sir Thomas More"? Oh... huh. Well... 14-day streaming archive at KEXP. #kexp #TheLateShowwithStephenColbert #djjohnrichards

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

"People can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world." -Joe Strummer Special thanks to @djjohnrichards.bsky.social and KEXP for the best walking song to serenade our Winter Walk to School. "Radio Clash" had us skipping to school at 7am. #internationalclashday

Seahawks by 50

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

We are so broken

Super Bowl advice? Hand the ball off.

Heads up, Seattle: Aki Kurose Middle School in Hillman City and Cleveland STEM High School in Beacon Hill are sheltering in place after ICE activity was reported in the area.

Two Seattle schools shelter in place due to reported ICE activity

Seattle Public Schools that ICE agents might be trying to draw out families who intended to bring their children home from school after news of ICE activity.

seattletimes.com

I had no idea the Seahawks would win on the the first play of the game. But that’s all they needed. They just needed 7 points.

Dreamy

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 8mo ago

Small businesses shouldn’t have to navigate 6,000 regulations and rules to start and stay open in NYC. Today, I signed an executive order to cut the fines and fees small businesses pay and finally deliver relief.

Once again the absolute dumbest people you and I know will be downright gleeful about this. Disgraceful.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

forbes.com

Sure. That’s the main thing here to consider, NPR.

NPR@npr.org · 9mo ago

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is. n.pr/4pzjWsl

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service

huffpost.com

This is sad.

Grace Panetta@gracepanetta.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

You burn the house down and walk away. That’s what you do.

KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org · 9mo ago

Wet rat winter? Here's what to do if you find a rat coming through your toilet following heavy Western Washington rain and floods.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Please indulge yourself at the mountain goats merch table this week to offset how poorly I’ve controlled my book buying habit at Magus and Elliott Bay in Seattle, thank you, I tried to control myself but didn’t

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Completely unrelated, but this little shop wouldn’t be compliant in new construction in Seattle where retail mandates a 30’ depth for some arbitrary reason. Zoning codes and city planners do not know how to make good buildings.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:

Dreamy

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

theguardian.com

#Spain ‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

theguardian.com

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector. 100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land. That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.