Robert Getch
@stumptoemerald.bsky.social
Guy who likes walking, trains, buses and bikes. Work in Banking, frequently mistaken for competent. Seattle now, from Portland.
Lately I’ve been realizing my problem with (many) straight guys stems from their belief it’s okay to need (or demand) all women in their life treat them like a child and need to be taken care of.
likeluke@likeluke.bsky.social · 3d agoThere's also whatever point this person is trying to make. Parking really creates interesting conversations.
I was wrong in my last ferry tweet, they made it a whole like one more day before a total collapse
SAL@sarahannelloyd.com · 4d agoFYI, this is happening because WSF is refusing to even give engineers a cost of living adjustment in their next contract. The salary they mention here just happens to be the highest out of six. Also, it's illegal to not give them sick leave. It's not a flex!
Matthew Shepard was killed and for a while Laramie felt shame collectively. A few years later some folks went back and reinterviewed people, largely the shame was replaced with indifference, lies, and conspiracies. People can see the light for a minute but without help don’t find their way to it.
Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 6d agoA Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I think it’s funny how WA State is like we can’t pay for passenger fast ferries because we have to run the big ferry and the big ferry is frequently pulling this shit. It struggled last weekend to and I doubt this will be the last time.
Joe Veyera@joeveyera.bsky.social · 5d agoAfter warning of service disruptions this afternoon due to a lack of qualified crew, Washington State Ferries says the Seattle-to-Bainbridge route will close for the rest of Sunday after completing the 5:35 & 6:25 p.m. sailings out of Seattle if relief crew aren't found. Other routes also impacted.
Do I want to go to Portland Tonight or in the morning hmmm
Hahahahaha
Scott Alspach@salspach.bsky.social · last wk.@sound-transit.bsky.social, could someone explain why you put a big photo of District 5 City Council Candidate Julie Kang at the newly opened Pinehurst Station? This is an outrageous use of public resources. This photo needs to be taken down, or at least covered up, until after the election.
🧵 I don’t think I’ve ever come across documents that told a story about cops covering their tracks so clearly before. The text messages below tell the story better than any exposition. They sent most of these messages less than a day after they’d killed a man in a mental health crisis with AR-15s.
RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · last wk.The messages in which officers Daniel Valencia and Matthew Stewart strategized their reports were part of a longer string of texts that started one hour and 14 minutes after they’d killed Joshua Musselman from more than 100 feet away as he was fleeing into his apartment.
These officers have no place in polite society, let alone serving on a police force.
Aaron Hedge@aaronhedge.bsky.social · last wk.🧵 I don’t think I’ve ever come across documents that told a story about cops covering their tracks so clearly before. The text messages below tell the story better than any exposition. They sent most of these messages less than a day after they’d killed a man in a mental health crisis with AR-15s.
These officers are disgusting, we put the wrong people in jail way too much
RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · last wk.The messages in which officers Daniel Valencia and Matthew Stewart strategized their reports were part of a longer string of texts that started one hour and 14 minutes after they’d killed Joshua Musselman from more than 100 feet away as he was fleeing into his apartment.
Please tell me that there is a portrait of Debora Juarez somewhere in the Pinehurst station
Company posted a new policy that we cannot use AI to generate an analysis of virtually anything. Combined with other policies we’re basically at don’t use it except to search for sources or to find emails in outlook.
I really do not understand why the rail lines in Seattle seem so unreliable nor why they need to close huge chunks so often.
Yup, the AI people seem to believe skynet is here when the reality is more like this. If we’re all going to die it’s because it’s incapable of not lying
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
1) The article seems to be almost entirely ai generated trash 2) The nurses actions seem noble and I’m sorry they had to do this versus leaving their patient in the hands of unjust government violence 3) reminder that coworkers are not your friends and IT will always give you up
Newsweek@newsweek.com · last wk.A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.
I still don’t understand why we have to do this (provide the last four of a card number which is extra complicated for virtual/mobile/phone cards) versus just tapping the card on the inspection device like I’ve done everywhere else.
I think the main thing that will happen when the sounders who’ve averaged 30-43k per game previously when they move to a 25k stadium is they will charge more per game particularly events because instead of massively increasing capacity it will be limited below today’s average attendance per game
They must mean they can export the data because two seconds prior this was regaled as SAAS
Sounder at Heart@sounderatheart.com · 2w agoI’m a technology luddite but it sounds like Jump will give Sounders a lot more flexibility beause they “own the platform.”
I think the “there’s a train stop there” is so ignorant. If you think it’s just a scheduling issue you have done no work at all. It’s far beyond just “scheduling”
Sounder at Heart@sounderatheart.com · 2w agoHanauer: “There is a train stop there and I understand it doesn’t run on our schedule and that would need to be solved. That land is adjacent to a new Seattle Children’s Hospital. They are undoubtedly interested in public transit. There are a lot of people see that part of county developed.”
As a person who interviews people, I never minded people having a beverage and I’m not sure I ever would unless maybe they were late and had a beverage they clearly bought “to go”?
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2w agomy take on the iced coffee conversation, personally, is that i'd just prefer not being in an office with someone who'd care that someone brought an iced coffee to an interview.
basically everything is timed in a way to be maximally painful without any freedom to go do something pleasant in the interval
It’s wild that we have a better system for finding good baseball players than we do good politicians.
Do people not understand you can defraud companies
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoThat's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.
I feel like folks are focused on this traceable incident, meanwhile they’ve (the govt) have lost track of hundreds of millions of these parts over its history just not clearly as traceable
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w agohahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
A crazy thing about tariffs to remember when democrats start proposing them again is they basically only serve to drive costs up in exchange for protecting domestic business. You can agree that’s fine but it will drive costs upwards over imports.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w agoLooks like US-made textiles and clothing have gotten more expensive since Trump imposed tariffs in April 2025.
"It’s hard to imagine anyone who embodied social justice more than KL Shannon. "If you attended a protest or action related to racial or social justice in Seattle over the past few decades, it’s highly likely Shannon was there with you." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘A great, immeasurable loss’: Seattle social justice organizer dies at 59
Organizer, activist and community leader KL Shannon left a long legacy of fighting for social and racial justice in the Seattle area, writes Naomi Ishisaka.
seattletimes.com
Obamacare covers a lot of High Deductible plans which cover $0 outside of “preventative” items (for example an annual physical, wherein if you ask a single question about something it may convert to a real dr visit!) where it is literally cheaper to pay out of pocket sometimes for things
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoDr Oz: "There are 5 times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes"
