This is wild, I had no idea this was happening. Sneaky sneaky to work their way in through the county charter review positions!

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 14h ago

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Brian Heywood’s Plan to Take Over Snohomish County Government Must Be Stopped By Andrew Villeneuve (Guest Contributor) via @theurbanist.org

Just finished up Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I didn’t watch it through when it originally aired so lots of new stuff. I do kinda miss when shows got 20+ episode seasons, adds a lot that current shows miss. Now just need to finish up @greatesttrek.com run of DS9 episodes and figure out what’s next!

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last mo.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

This feels like the most American outcome www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brutal heat forces temporary closure of Great American State fair as Fourth of July holiday kicks off

More than 165 million people are enduring dangerous heat and humidity, with temperatures expected to stay at 38C (100F) for several days.

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It’s a @theverge.com Fathers Day miracle! I assume there’s a version in the labs somewhere that plays the theme song that I will be happy to upgrade to.

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Hahaha this is some insane stuff even by LinkedIn standards

The Play Nice ebook is on sale for $3.99 today! That's approximately 0.03% the cost of a Knicks ticket. Get it at your favorite digital store www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

Play Nice

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for t...

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The USA is doing sportswashing all wrong. The idea is you do a Russia or a Qatar and welcome everyone in, trying to appear super-cute so that people stop thinking about your appalling human rights violations and corruption. You're not meant to shine a light on it. Stupid country.

My launch day series X is still going strong, but dang this is tempting

XBOX@xbox.com · 3mo ago

A legacy forged in time. A future shared together. Introducing the XBOX Series X25 Limited Edition console and Special Edition controller: xbx.lv/3Q9VUIF | #XBOXShowcase

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Judge Orders Everyone to Know This Piece of Shit from Covington, Not Seattle: tinyurl.com/ysfbw6vh

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

RIP Costco calzone, not sure I love the idea of the replacement chicken strip item but we shall see old.reddit.com/r/Costco/com...

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Hey there 👋🏻, it’s me, the new snack from Costco you loved. You will never see me again

Brendan Carr is in fact a giant dummy!

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

Provisioned some AWS Aurora Serverless clusters this afternoon and was surprised to see they are platform version 4, which claims to be 30% faster than platform version 3. We definitely saw the performance improvement with version 3, excited to see more details about this! #aws #aurora #postgres

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

Do you enjoy old computers and live in the US Pacific Northwest? We're six weeks out from the first Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest since 2019! We'd love to see you there and we'd love your help getting the word out. Reposts appreciated! vcfpnw.org

If I can’t blame AI for bad code I might commit there’s no way that anyone can blame it for bombing a school.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Playing the new Diablo 2 update and listening to Gorillaz while we start a new forever war in the Middle East, as one does in (checks calendar) 2026. Thankfully this ended so well last time!

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Looking at bsky.app/profile/book..., it's similar to goodreads but built on top of atproto, super neat idea!

how we got here

I do sometimes see these at Winco out in Washington state and get them every time

Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/867244/...

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

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My hot take for the day: if you can’t complete your transaction and get out in 2ish minutes you do not belong in the drive thru lane in the pharmacy.

Time for a games beaten in 2026 thread, starting strong with a banger for #1: Ball x Pit. Not sure you can really "beat" this game, but did 100% achievements it so I'm counting it. An absolutely wonderful "pick up and have a great time with" video game that I'll keep coming back to.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."