I'm a @seattletimes.com subscriber, because I do want to support actual journalism, and in the bigger scheme of our country I do think the ST is helpful. ANYWAY this wording is sooo telling in the wake of their explicit "no" vote endorsement for this very levy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Me: omg, I want to go out and get some fresh air The AQI: hahahahaha NOPE (Also, it's 86 degrees. Bleh.)

Earlier tonight I watched a video on Cirque du Soleil's YouTube channel that had a clip of the OG Alegria, and my first thought was, "That really was a special show." My second: "...and I saw it in Boeing's parking lot." Strange but true.

A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.

Seattle library levy leads in Tuesday’s vote counts

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Lots chatter in these social media streets bout Children of Blood and Bone. ALL BLACK EVERYTHING flick got ALL BLACK DRAMA. But this blog ain't bout none of that. Instead, I tackle another related controversy about the joys, rewards, perils, and pitfalls of writing African-inspired fantasy.

Africa, Fantasy, and Worldbuilding

Movie still featuring royal family in film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone Over the past few weeks there’s been a lot of discourse about the film adaptation of Nigerian-American writ…

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A little air quality map for you. hahahahaaaaa everything's fine

Easily one of the most dystopian things about our current reality, right there.

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There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Let's recap. Spokane is suffering widespread destruction, hundreds of people have lost their homes, and we're all choking on smoke thanks to an arsonist who was out of prison despite having killed his father for being asked to do the dishes? Just so we're clear. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Investigators arrest 37-year-old man in connection to devastating Spokane County wildfire

A 37-year-old man accused of setting the fire that destroyed a swath of northwest Spokane, including hundreds of homes, was arrested Monday 4 miles from the site where it began.

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oh noes! my air filter is haunted!

Welp. The air’s smelling smoky and it’s hazy as hell, and our temperature’s about to climb. Lovely. *sigh* Remember when wildfire season wasn’t a thing? Because I swear, it wasn’t that long ago when it just WAS NOT LIKE THIS.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Officially the funniest awards-system notification I've ever received. like...oh, no what will I do without it

Sometimes I look at the names in IKEA and it’s like…did you seriously just name a French press coffee maker “heat up”? And yes. Yes, they did.

A series of wildfires exploded into massive conflagrations over the weekend in the Spokane area, forcing more than 60,000 people out of their homes.

Spokane wildfires force over 60K to evacuate; hundreds of homes burn

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It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

tfw you look up at the Lollapalooza stream just in time to see that every display above the performing DJ simply says WUBS

My sincere wish for you all…

I'm having an upsetting day, with ants in it. My day (and my home) didn't need ants in.

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Orchids return to grassland after 28 Years Later filming

Fountains Abbey staff left grounds unmown to appear abandoned for film shoot - but orchids returned.

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Stumbled onto all this earlier, and...sigh. I've gone back and forth on this guy so many times, but this is where I'm calling it a day. www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighte...

From the nerdfighters community on Reddit: On Hank admitting he used ChatGPT for his latest video.

Explore this post and more from the nerdfighters community

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So today’s shopping expedition basically went like this: went out in search of new glasses, felt unconvinced about the look of most of them, had a minor meltdown about the cost of the rest of them, panicked and bought a small stuffed goat. …oops?

Random updates from the field: There’s nothing quite like a hip-hop song that starts with a bored-ass dude tonelessly repeating “yeah” about a dozen times.

This is an important story, beyond the world of sports. There were BIG MONEY interests at stake here. But *organized opposition* to a cartoonishly corrupt sell-off torpedoed the plan. Almost immediately. There is a lesson here.

Infantino scraps FIFA World Cup sell-off plan after backlash

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash, including from within global soccer's governing body, and a threatened boycott by European Nations.

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Today in techbro hell: already had to deal with someone in pervert glasses, and then some idiot in a brand new Cybertruck (temp plates and all) who nearly drove the wrong way down a one-way street. Some days I really do want to go flee for the hills and live in a yurt or something.

Catch me watching the crowd at I-dle's Lollapalooza set and judging them not BECAUSE they're filming on their phones, but HOW they're doing it. The ones actually filming in landscape format: you will be spared. The guy using his iPad needs to sit down and think about what he's doing with his life.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Not sure why this is news, it's called a lunch break