"Don't be evil."

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest… After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud”

J-SAR, my own design for a science mission I'd like to see: flying a weather radar around Jupiter to study the dynamics of its atmosphere. (Made with Blender)

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

it can matter to you because it matters to, say, katherine (or orin or john or whomever else). it can matter to you because other things that matter are easier to engage with amidst joy than amidst misery. it can matter to you because nothing awaits you in the divine for resisting your own joy.

when I am walking past all the parked cars that for some reason are closer to the airport than the train station, I do NOT want to be honked at because a golf cart carrying three people wants to drive at 20 mph down the path

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · last wk.

The next port commissioners election I'm a single issue voter for removing the golf cart from the pedestrian path at seatac.

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

wired.com

said “good morning” to my neighbor at 1:00pm

Two anti-LGBT initiatives are on the ballot, the state is settling lawsuits by allowing foster parents to discriminate against queer kids, and Seattle's NPR affiliate is inviting the board chair of an organization aiming to ban gay marriage onto their Friday chat show. Things are going great.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Re-upping this since Paul Guppy was on Week in Review again today

There is no hate like Christian love.

Washington state can no longer require foster parents to provide an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ children and youth, according to a settlement the state reached with a religious couple.

WA foster parents no longer have to support LGBTQ+ kids in their care

Washington state can no longer require foster parents to provide an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ children and youth, according to a settlement the state reached with a religious couple.

kuow.org

Astronomers discover the 1st ever green star, a cosmic zombie just in time for Halloween This stellar corpse is feeding on planetary debris 326 light years away. Sodium in its extreme atmosphere absorbs orange light, giving it a ghastly green glow. The universe is beyond strange. ✨🧟

Astronomers discover the 1st ever green star, a cosmic zombie just in time for Halloween

"The traces of sodium in the atmosphere of this white dwarf absorb the orange part of the spectrum, leaving behind a ghostly green glow."

space.com

Decrying 'premeditated road violence,' Toronto bike riders successfully blocked crews from removing Bloor Street bike lanes for at least one night #SEAbikes #Seattle

Decrying ‘premeditated road violence,’ Toronto bike riders successfully blocked crews from removing Bloor Street bike lanes for at least one night

Today's front page in Toronto. Read the story online. Hundreds of people stood with their bikes to prevent work crews from dismantling the protected bike lanes on Bloor Street Tuesday evening. Work crews showed up, but after speaking with protestors who were lining both sides of the work zone decided to leave. “To destroy Toronto’s complete streets, and to make it illegal to build them anywhere in the province is to guarantee violent, preventable deaths,” said Jess Spieker of Friends and Families for Safe Streets to the Toronto Star…

seattlebikeblog.com

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

bloomberg.com

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

An early Space Shuttle concept was to rendezvous with Skylab and use a space tug called the Teleoperator Retrieval System to boost it into a higher orbit. Ultimately it was cancelled. (The Shuttle would be farther away, but I fudged it a little) (Blender + NASA public domain)

Tuesday

For the love of god, please read this thread lol I also made fun of orca/tree NIMBYs for this here: youtu.be/GB7n56k5HZc My dream is for urbanists to stop obsessing about their made up tree talking points (esp about how they help w/ stormwater) & understand real stormwater/river restoration solns

TCA Orca Appeal Webinar Reaction Video #2 (stormwater!!)

YouTube video by Cities for Salmon

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[MS]@rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dear The Seattle Times, I'm an engineer with a BS and MS degree in stormwater, a PE license, and have over 20 years of professional experience. If you have a musician to explain why development in Seattle hurts orcas, would you let me explain why she's full of shit? Love, MS

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

erininthemorning.com

Hubble found a strange chemical signature around a white dwarf that may be a second generation planet forming from the material expelled from the dying star. TESS data might show a Jupiter sized world orbiting nearby as well. Even dying stars birth new worlds. 🔭✨🤯

Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died

A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS ...

sciencedaily.com

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Happy second birthday to the Overlook Walk, a piece of infrastructure that I can't imagine Seattle without at this point.

The one thing keeping wikipedia resilient against invasions of aislop is the gatekeeping territorial nerds

How it feels like quoting Mean Girls when it was released over 22 years ago: 😂

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home