KrisztinaStar
@krisztinastar.bsky.social
Seattle, WA based lover of cats, seals, whales, snow sports, rivers, lakes, oceans, pickleball & electronic music. West Seattle Seal Sitter EmeraldCityEDM.com/upcoming-edm-events-calendar/
LMAO A city overtaken by Christians wanted invocations. It got “Hail Satan” instead. #BattleGround, WA’s Christian-backed invocation policy backfired when a member of The #SatanicTemple claimed the first available slot
Christian Nationalists in Battle Ground, Washington wanted prayers before city council meetings. They probably assumed only Christians would volunteer. The first person to sign up was a Satanist. You truly love to see it. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-city-ove...
Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From #AntarcticKrill ;A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life: insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...
Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill - Inside Climate News
A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life.
insideclimatenews.org
Who doesn't want to stab their children after a rollover crash in the middle of i5! Not this woman! YIKES Soldiers restrain woman after children stabbed in I-5 crash in Pierce Count: www.king5.com/article/news...
king5.com
Impressive! “Smith successfully ran the scheme for seven years without detection.” Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift; Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
arstechnica.com
Save the #chestnuts! One of America’s Last #ChestnutGroves Is About to Be Destroyed for a #DataCenter; Developers and conservationists clash over 200 blight-surviving trees in Mason County, with site boundary records still undisclosed: www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
gadgetreview.com
I love living in Seattle by OMG out 911 is so incompetent! #Seattle911 is directly partially responsible for the death of my two cats, loss of my home and almost killed my neighbor! Anyways, #BanPitBulls these things have no place in civilized society! seattlered.com/jason-rantz/...
Seattle 911 skipped required screening after dog attack
Seattle's 911 center skipped required screening after a dog was attacked in Belltown, an internal CARE review obtained by The Jason Rantz Show concedes.
seattlered.com
MX reproductive care taking off ... #AbortionIsHealthcare "Prior to this, I could not have imagined placing more trust in the healthcare system in Mexico than the United States. But that was before Texas became a draconian landscape for reproductive rights." elpasomatters.org/2026/10/06/o...
Opinion: El Paso women cannot underestimate the danger in Texas’ extreme reproductive policies
After experiencing miscarriages in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, Rebecca Guerrero reflects on why she felt better supported across the border and urges Texans to vote for reproductive health protections.
elpasomatters.org
J31 has one living offspring, a 7-year-old daughter, but has lost at least eight other calves before or just after birth. 💔 #SRKW Another grieving orca mom carries dead calf on her nose off Washington state: www.kuow.org/climate/2026...
Another grieving orca mom carries dead calf on her nose off Washington state
Whale researchers spotted the 30-year-old female orca carrying a tiny carcass through the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Saturday.
kuow.org
They all know it’s BS … Every Active Federal Judge in Nashville Recuses From #JackSmith Case - All four district judges have recused themselves from a lawsuit brought by Republican Tennessee Senator #MarshaBlackburn against former special counsel Jack Smith: www.newsweek.com/every-active...
Every active federal judge in Nashville recuses from Jack Smith case
Blackburn filed the lawsuit on September 30 over Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
newsweek.com
❤️❤️❤️🐆 Wildlife camera in #Guatemala captures a once-in-a-decade snapshot; The recent photographs confirm that #jaguars still travel along an important wildlife corridor. www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wildlife camera in Guatemala captures a once-in-a-decade snapshot
The recent photographs confirm that jaguars still travel along an important wildlife corridor.
popsci.com
#CindyRyu said she was ready to expand the tax to apply to household net incomes as low as $250,000. THERE IT IS, THEYRE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT LOWERING THE THRESHOLD! Vote YES on #i645 #Initiative645 We are already taxed SO MUCH, and they want more 🤬 www.kuow.org/topics/sound...
Candidates in tight state Senate race diverge on expanding WA’s new income tax
State Sen. Jesse Salomon, the incumbent since 2018, is facing a challenge in Legislative District 32 from long-time state Rep. Cindy Ryu.
kuow.org
Good, I hope they win! 2nd lawsuit alleges that feds are conspiring against the civil rights of people in MN! "the Trump administration has been aggressively using conspiracy charges" ... lawyers seem to be "turning that tactic on its head" by arguing that the administration is conspiring ♥ ♥ ♥
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent last January in Minneapolis set off a firestorm of protests around the U.S. Her family is speaking out for the first time.
WTAF “The Trump administration spent nearly $10 billion placing more than 100,000 #federalworkers on #paidadministrativeleave for extended periods last year” some IT executives coming back from an extended period of paid administrative leave: www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
‘Nobody knows anything.’ Displaced IRS staff move from one project to another with few details why
IRS employees who completed a stint in taxpayer services are moving onto their next assignment, and some IT executives coming back from an extended period of paid administrative leave
govexec.com
Oh my! #BeechMountain Horrifying video shows skiers blasted with freezing water after pipe bursts under #chairlift: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Skiers blasted with freezing water after pipe bursts under chairlift
‘We believe everyone is okay outside of the unfortunate situation, and operations are on a regular schedule,’ says Beech Mountain Ski Resort, after a snowmaking device started drenching customers
independent.co.uk
UGH #USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling #SurveillanceCameras www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turn...
USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras
USPS is testing forward-facing cameras in 100 D.C. mail trucks to scan roads, but key data retention and privacy details remain undisclosed.
gadgetreview.com
We are so F’d #ClimateChange “The rate of #oceanwarming has doubled over the past 20 years and sea surface temperatures reached record highs in 2023, 2024 and again in 2026.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/c...
Scientists deliver ‘starkest warning yet’ of profound changes sweeping the planet’s oceans | CNN
The world’s oceans are warming at an alarming pace as humans burn fossil fuels, with far-reaching consequences, according to a report by more than 100 scientists.
cnn.com
Hmmm … they are definitely fun to listen to 👀 #AIMusic #JoshFawaz’s AI Clapback Spectacularly Proves His Critics’ Point: au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Josh Fawaz’s AI Clapback Spectacularly Proves His Critics’ Point
The chart-topping producer has responded to criticism of his AI-assisted music by showing how he uses Suno to completely transform his voice
au.rollingstone.com
"There's no good option here for the government, and that's reflective of just how insane, unplanned and unstrategic this whole grand conspiracy prosecution is in the first place," MAGA judge #AileenCannon caught in a 'trickbox' of her own making: www.rawstory.com/aileen-canno...
MAGA judge Aileen Cannon caught in a 'trickbox' of her own making: analyst
President Donald Trump's "grand conspiracy" case against everyone who has prosecuted him in the past took a twist this week, as officials involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case sought cl...
rawstory.com
Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces #Parkinson’s lawsuits in US #Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the #EPA as #paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US
Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans
theguardian.com
#HurricanePolo is officially the strongest tropical cyclone anywhere on Earth so far in 2026. #ElNino #ClimateChange weather.com/2026/09/22/s...
Category 5 Hurricane Polo among most intense on record
Monday it was a tropical storm. Tuesday, Category 5 Hurricane Polo was the most intense hurricane of 2026. Here's why this storm off Mexico's coast went nuts.
weather.com
#ElNino is here “This is one of the strongest storms ever in the (Pacific) Basin”! Category 5 #HurricanePolo is an ‘extremely dangerous’ storm off the coast of Mexico: apnews.com/article/hurr...
Category 5 Hurricane Polo is an 'extremely dangerous' storm off the coast of Mexico
Hurricane Polo is gaining strength as it moves along Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 cyclone.
apnews.com
WOW #misogyny #blatantisogyny A Top #Tokyo Medical School Rigged Its Exams for a Decade to Keep Women Out: theverifiedpost.com/article/toky...
A Top Tokyo Medical School Rigged Its Exams for a Decade to Keep Women Out
For over a decade, Tokyo Medical University secretly cut women's entrance-exam scores to keep them out. The first year it stopped, women beat the men.
theverifiedpost.com
Good! Normal dogs dont kill cats for fun, #banpitbulls Police have charged a #Sharon woman after neighbors reported that her dogs attacked and ate two cats; #Pitbulls kill, eat cats; police charge Sharon woman: www.wfmj.com/news/local-n...
Pit bulls kill, eat cats; police charge Sharon woman
SHARON - Police have charged a Sharon woman after neighbors reported that her dogs attacked and ate two cats.
wfmj.com
New species of wild cat discovered in #Bolivia’s cloud forest #LeopardusTilcayo is the first wild cat species described by scientists in more than a century: www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
New species of wild cat discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forest | Discover Wildlife
Leopardus tilcayo is the first wild cat species described by scientists in more than a century
discoverwildlife.com
“Activists, Instagram influencers and Republican Party officials — including state and federal lawmakers — are doubling down on what experts describe as a disinformation campaign” #abortionishealthcare 19thnews.org/2026/06/drin...
No, abortion pills aren’t polluting your water — but the EPA is testing for it
Under pressure from anti-abortion advocates and officials, the EPA has agreed to study whether mifepristone and misoprostol are in the water supply in multiple cities.
19thnews.org
Officials have also mandated a return to fast and full suppression, shifting away from recent policies that took a softer approach to containing flames that could be beneficial to a landscape. firefighters say US gvt is failing them amid intense #wildfire season: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire
theguardian.com