If you haven't read it yet, please check out this public statement by creators from Silver Sprocket. Share the word and find out how to support the artists: cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art...

Cartoonists United@cartoonist.coop · 3w ago

Creators at Silver Sprocket have released a public statement regarding longstanding concerns with the business practices of the company which alleges issues around payment of royalties, poor treatment of staff, and lack of professionalism. Please read their statement: cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art...

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.

Thank you to the Finance, Native Communities & Tribal Governments Committee for unanimously approving my amendment for $300,000 to LGBTQ community organizations to support emergency shelter/housing, food access, employment support and other essential needs. (1/4)

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Your boss and your landlord have voted.

Hannah Krieg@hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Young people are on the ballot this election, but can we please get young people to the ballot BOX? So far, King County voters 65+ account for 4 times as many ballots as people under 35. You have until 8pm Tuesday to close that gap!

48 HOURS REMAIN! Our THIRD STRETCH GOAL unlocked MINUTES before crossing the two-day threshold! Have YOU 🫵👁️👁️reserved your copy (or *copies?!*) of Almost Real: the Speculative Biology series powered by an all-star cast of creators? www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

The NYT should acknowledge it directly contributed to this shameful state of affairs. Reporting on the consequences is better than *not* reporting it, but it does not erase their part in this national disgrace. These trans soldiers are braver than every single person at the NYT and in this regime.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gift link -- no paywall. Stunning reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

By contrast, the Seattle Times only issued 19 endorsements. The Stranger issued 27.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

58 races. 104 questionnaires received from candidates. 86 candidate interviews conducted. 44 endorsements issued. The most comprehensive voter's guide in Puget Sound. www.theurbanist.org/2026-primary...

leftycheatsheet.org#race=ld43_sen

Hannah Sabio-Howell@hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social · last wk.

Over a dozen of the local progressive grassroots orgs that brought us social housing & the wins of progressive champs like Mayor Wilson, Rep. Scott, & CM Rinck have issued an open letter in support of our change candidate: Hannah. 📣 Please share! 📣 More at hannahforwashington.com/open-letter. ✍🏽

A good reminder that Watch Duty is a fire/flood tracking app for the entire US. You can also access it from desktop. Stay safe from fires by following up to date info on activity. app.watchduty.org

Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · 3d ago

Been following the Watch Duty app for Spokane closely. It's awful how much the fires are destroying there and scary how fast some of them have grown. My heart goes out to everyone affected, and I'll keep hoping the fires don't spread any farther

The fact they're going full ragemonkey the week after the council majority just got their asses handed to them by Wilson on universal school meals is pretty telling. Tilting the scales, concocting a mirage of outraged consensus abt an absentee police chief who ran his dept like an honorary sinecure

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

Do y'all know about @electioncheatsheet.org? It's a nifty little customizable endorsement aggregator & makes it pretty clear who you should vote for in the **AUG 4 PRIMARY** (folks like @ronpdavis.bsky.social & @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social) Go check it out: electioncheatsheet.org

It was still within my lifetime that the fact of anybody personally pumping this kind of cash into elections would be a scandal all on its own, let alone an open Nazi doing it to pursue eliminationist policy.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5d ago

America's highest profile gutter racist to spend $100 million supporting the party of racism.

The amount of taxes we pay to the feds compared to what we get in return is outrageous. This needs much more attention, including from our businesses. The reason we keep increasing local taxes (the only ones we can keep 100%) is because so much of our state & fed taxes are going elsewhere.

Cascadia Journal@cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 6d ago

"In 2025 Washington state paid $69.3 billion more in federal taxes than it received back in funding." My latest for #Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/as-feds-hold...

If you ever want to know why the right accuses protesters of being paid agitators, it's because they do stuff like this. Literally had their $1300 court side seats paid for by right wing money.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d ago

Oh, so those girls at the Seattle Storm game were being obnoxious the entire time trying to provoke people and filming the reactions for content. Of course.

UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵

The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

Stopping gun violence is possible.

Mhgreen3000@mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 7d ago

If every life has equal value, every loss deserves equal mourning. My latest column examines why Seattle rallies after some tragedies but too often looks away when violence strikes Rainier Beach, Hillman City, Brighton, and other South Seattle neighborhoods.

extinction is forever

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Final day 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 (Be sure to make your posts “scientific” or else they will just toss them…)

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

I've said as much before, but ReedPop scamming professional comic artists - the lifeblood of comic conventions - out of $200 says everything you need to know about their shit company and their shit shows.

Cody Ziglar@yayforzig.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ll join Hydra before I pay for a professional badge for NYCC. SDCC gives them to you for free!!!

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AAAA Costa Rica was able to fully reverse deforestation HOPECOREEEE earth.org/how-costa-ri...

How Costa Rica Reversed Deforestation and Became an Environmental Model | Earth.Org

Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped, and subsequently reversed, deforestation. What can the rest of the world learn from the country?

earth.org

Our stretch goals are finally LIVE! Check out the update link and see what other wonders await if you back our spec bio zine series... it ain't over until the fat worm sings 🪱🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Oh hey, remember when I said you might be legally liable for feeding proprietary information to your LLM, when the levee breaks on the data lake? Claude remembers. Claude remembers *everything.*

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Um holy shit - Police Chief Shon Barnes got PISSED at @soseaemerald.bsky.social reporter Connor Nash when Nash asked about my reporting that Barnes is out of town a lot; Barnes said, "No YOU listen!" and then angrily said my "reports are WRONG." My reporting is based on his schedule.

Hana Kim on Instagram: "#seattle #spd #seattlecenter #washingtonstate #massshooting"

779 likes, 215 comments - hanakimontv on July 27, 2026: "#seattle #spd #seattlecenter #washingtonstate #massshooting".

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Two people are dead and others, including a toddler, are wounded. I'm so angry this keep happening. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Mass shooting at Seattle Center leaves 2 dead, toddler wounded

Police arrested two people Sunday evening following a mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle.

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