Oh nice. Seattle Public Library has created a membership type for "13 to 26 year olds anywhere in the US" to be able to sign out e and audiobooks as a response to those locales banning books...
We've been on the #fediverse for almost 6 months now! So we thought we'd do a little reintroduction.
Hi! We're KCTS 9, #Seattle's local #PBS affiliate station. We share updates about national PBS programs, as well as our awesome locally produced series' and news from our newsroom at #Crosscut.
We're excited to be here and connect with our community! 🤗
I used to be proud that Boeing planes were made in Seattle. Now I’m actually scared to fly on them. The McDonnell Douglas merger was the worst thing that ever happened to American aerospace.
This whistleblower’s death is profoundly suspicious.
In the wake of a Seattle cop(the VP of the cop union) getting caught laughing about a woman the department had killed, SPD ends contract with the company responsible for reviewing body cam footage.
Why is this even a contract managed by the cops? Really seems like anything involving bodycam management should not be run by the corrupt cops.
Yo #Seattle I need to give you my Mid-century modern 1935 Baldwin Acrosonic upright piano. Boosts appreciated as it is hard to unload pianos these days.
Unexpectedly stumbled on this giant troll sculpture while birdwatching in West Seattle! I knew there were new troll sculptures around; didn’t know I’d be seeing one today. 😄
Permeable sidewalks #FTW! It’s drenching rain in #WestSeattle this morning and look at the difference between these two surfaces. Better for walking and better for the water table!
UPDATE: as of TODAY i have been kicked out by my roomie
so i'm here to ask for three things:
1. housing in seattle
this is the biggest one. i am now so desperate i'm looking for couches to crash on temporarily right away, but also i'd like to seek out something medium to long term so i have time to get my shit together. i'm currently broke and unemployed, with no family or anything to support me, so i can't really pay rent or anything like that yet (i am aware of how huge an ask this is). i will update this post if that changes. and hopefully it will, because...
2. job leads
i'm currently doing my best to job search. after having an utterly sanity-destroying time working in fast food pre-pandemic, that drove me to the brink of suicide, i am extremely wary of fast food or retail and have basically set the hard limit that i can't do anything public-facing for my own mental health's sake. my various mental illnesses further complicate matters, but i'm trying my best to find something that will work for me. my work portfolio is at https://vanta.work
3. donations to keep me going in the meantime
and finally, i'm requesting donations to help keep me afloat. no real goal here, i can tell i'm gonna need as much slack as possible cut to avoid things going south... so, seriously, anything helps give me a bit more breathing room. thank you so much 🖤
86% of #Indigenous people in America live outside reservations, often in cities like #Denver, #Seattle and #Portland, where they resettled following the Relocation Act (hi 👋 ).
Indigenous people comprise 2.6% of America’s population, but in 2023, they accounted for 3.9% of those experiencing homelessness. And the #housing inequity is worse in Western cities.
But building affordable housing for Natives is tricky.
If you’re in #infosec and know @rfparty, you might want to know that the author @nullagent is being abused, threatened, and harassed by a #Seattle landlord (how dare you build tools that help hold cops accountable) and is trying to leave the abusive housing situation: https://gofund.me/2be47dfa
Unexpectedly ran into another one of Thomas Dambo’s giant troll sculptures while out walking in a park. This time on Vashon Island. I knew they were around - it’s pretty amazing to just walk along and suddenly there it is. This one has a crown of birdhouses.
The destruction of People's Park in #Berkeley, the eviction of the Camp Nenookaasi encampment in #Minneapolis, the bulldozing of Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden in #Seattle, and attacks on refugee families in #NewYork - all are being carried out by Democrats following a wave of misinformation surrounding encampments and "retail crime."
Both parties offer no solutions to the crisis of housing, the exploding cost of living, and the need to care for the most vulnerable in a society rocked by massive inequality and soaring corporate profits.
Today's attacks show why we must build power from below and our capacity to create an active material force based on mutual aid, community defense, and our ability to resist attacks by the State.
Mastodon, I need your help. I'm looking to relocate to a new instance to start off the new year but there's so many to choose from. What's a good fit for me? I'm a #scottish expat, currently living in #Seattle. I toot about #politics, #music, #poetry, running a #smallbusiness, and the occasional #meme. I am a member of the #lgbtq community, and a proud #trans woman. I have two #cats and a #husband who I love dearly and in very different ways. I tend to post with a heavy dose of #wit &/or #snark.
So, here's what I know about the Library Chicken. My son was at the Central Branch doing microfiche research up on the 9th floor.
At 5 pm, he said he sat up to take a break and a saw full grown, live chicken run, full speed, across his line of sight and launch itself (in that weird way chickens do when they try to fly) down the stairs.
Several minutes later, he says he saw two security guards running in the direction of the chicken.
By this point, I assume, the chicken had escaped and security was left with a mystery. That, or there's a chicken haunting the Central Branch tonight. Either are acceptable in my view, really.
I, and apparently loads of other people (judging from the boosts), would love to have the 411 on the Library Chicken.
If you, or someone you know, works at the Central Branch, do fill us in!
AEW WRESTLEDREAM Discussion Thread 10/01/23 (kbin.social)
Tonight, AEW comes to us LIVE from Seattle, Washington with their brand new PPV: Wrestledream! The stacked card includes:...