Tonight, in Seattle, the book tour continues ... I'll be at Town Hall Seattle with the luminous and brilliant Lindy West, talking about how to recognize psyops and maybe even defuse them -- using stories! Tickets available here: https://townhallseattle.org/event/annalee-newitz-with-lindy-west/
The bike part of the bike and sidewalk improvements on 73rd Ave NE in Kenmore are complete! There's still a little work to be done on the sidewalks, but it's good enough for me for now.
Also some updates to bike shop locations (deleting some in Seattle; adding some in Greater Northshore) and a word correction in the MEGAMAP box.
Yo fellow #Seattle#library nerds: given that SPL is down due to ransomware, remember: you also live in King County which has an excellent library system and online services: https://kcls.org
Okay, I'm calling it: RC1 is Release Version 1.2 of the MEGAMAP, the combined bike map including Greater Northshore, complete Seattle (the complete part is new), and 2 Link Eastside maps, with also a little chunk from King County Regional Trails to get us all of Lake Washington.
It be LORGE but it be FAIRLY COMPLETE as bike maps go of Northwest King County, except ironically for the little KC-maintained section. But what that does buy you is the last section of the Lake Washington Loop. So I think it's worth it.
I grew up in the #Seattle area. We may have a La Niña year during which it rains, and rains, and rains - for months. Sometimes La Niña goes 2 years in the PNW and the California transplants give up and leave us.
The #seattle monorail is such a bizarre thing. Basically just a tiny little connector between two parts of the city. But super useful if you’re going between them!
Here's one of the statements Wing Luke staff walked out over. 👀
"Explanatory panels highlight a rising tide of #antisemitism and hate crimes in #Seattle. The exhibit says that graffiti sprayed in November on the Herzl-Ner Tamid #Synagogue on Mercer Island that said “stop killing” was antisemitism “disguised as "antiZionism ... as if the #Jews of Mercer Island could control the actions of the #Israeli government.”
they say #northcarolina is a purple state, but it’s more like a bimodal “flaming red” AND “ice blue” state depending on where you are
imo the blue parts feel far more liberal than any part of #seattle. i debate if that’s because the south is just more superficial about everything, or if people in seattle simply don’t talk to literally anyone so we don’t actually know if it’s a liberal or conservative area
Got caught in the rain today, and waited out the shower under a rhododendron. Not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes. Entertained myself watching a crow across the street, looking picturesque in a blooming dogwood.
does anybody in seattle wanna trade for my librem 5 linux phone + 3D printed phone case + nexdock + laptop carrying case? i'd reckon that's at least a $1,500 value
in return i'm asking for the following in good condition: a 1TB OLED steamdeck and recent-ish (like within the past five years) modern laptop with good specs (at least 1 TB memory, 32 gigs RAM, and ten hours of battery life) that i can put linux on
i'm down in federal way rn if you'd wanna meet up here, or i'll be in the city this saturday for pride and can bring it then
How much does it cost Sound Transit to opearate the fair compliance program, including staffing? How much money have they recovered from the "fare evaders" since they reinstated the program back in November? In Japan, I think nothing when a train conductor comes to my car and starts inspecting the tickets. Here, as soon as I see a fare enforcement person onboard, I feel like vomiting.
CM Rivera is turning out as expected. She just introduced, in dead quiet, an amendment to kill a key program in #Seattle that funds affordable #housing and other equitable development.
The link below is to a web form CM Morales' office created to send email to the Council and Mayor. It took me about three minutes and most of that was me picking the right email address to use.
The #Seattle public library catalog, computers, website, and ebook checkout are currently down after a ransomware attack. They're still manually lending paper books while it's sorted out.
"In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 25 — just one day before we were prepared to take our systems offline to conduct planned maintenance on a server over Memorial Day weekend — the Library became aware of a ransomware event affecting our technology systems."
Anyone know why Seattle Public Library's website is offline? They had a banner up on Friday about some maintenance that was due to happen this weekend, but now it seems like all their DNS servers are down too. 😬