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garland

@garland@social.seattle.wa.us

Seattle, WA, USA
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moira, to MountainBiking
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please get finished with this stupid building

garland,
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@moira I wouldn’t mind big construction projects so much if they didn’t block sidewalks and bike lanes for years at a time.

garland, to NWSL
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I just want to see a normal Seattle soccer game.

moira, to random
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wow pulling out 2012 powerbook to run some intel shit is an... adjustment

garland,
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@moira I’m still running a late 2008 aluminum macbook as my primary computer (and using my much more recent phone for any website that won’t run on my laptop). There’s nothing wrong with the hardware! Apple just quit support in the software.

Rycaut, to Seattle
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visiting Seattle next week for my son's spring break, we'll be staying downtown, not going to have a car (but the whole family loves walking/taking trains places), we might do a boat tour one day, will definitely take the monorail (yes know it barely goes anywhere), probably the requisite Space Needle, and Pacific Science Center (has a reciprocal arrangement with our local Tech Interactive) what other kid friendly things should we do? (geeky kid/parent friendly things)

garland,
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@Rycaut The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) is pretty cool. It’s walking distance from downtown, or you can take the South Lake Union streetcar.

garland,
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@Rycaut I haven’t experienced the Burke natural history museum myself, but here’s someone else’s recommendation. Accessible via light rail. https://social.ridetrans.it/@JasonW/112227661877323077

Andres4NY, to random
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lawyers: still faxing 😭

garland,
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@Andres4NY Still faxing in medicine too 😕

garland, to Seattle
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I hate it when I see police casually breaking traffic laws, and I’m not even talking about emergency responses. It just shows their frank contempt for actual public safety and their belief that they are above the law. Here is how to report reckless driving by police officers. It’s doubtful that there will be any meaningful consequences to any single report, but I think it’s a good idea to build a record of their infractions.

https://www.thestranger.com/cops/2024/03/18/79425008/see-a-cop-driving-irresponsibly-report-it

karlnelson, to Seattle
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So I’m at a French bistro in and four mimes just walked in and they’re having dinner and gesticulating wildly and this is the best thing ever.

garland,
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@karlnelson @adam The only acceptable kind of smoking inside a restaurant.

seachanger, to random
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tfw you are on the M/V Kennicott ⛴️

garland,
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@seachanger Polite request for many ferry updates and pictures. This trip is on my bucket list. I started following you on your journey south last fall. Best wishes for a smooth voyage north!

Toastie, to random
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💡🤔 "To solve the housing crisis,

👷 🏗️ most experts agree that

🏘️ 😄 we’ll need more houses."

https://www.hcn.org/articles/could-building-on-public-land-address-the-housing-crisis/

garland,
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@Toastie
More housing: 🎉
Sprawl: 👎

seachanger, to random
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what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

garland,
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@seachanger “Nationwide High-Speed Rail Network Celebrates Thirty Years of Reliable Service”

garland,
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@seachanger Along these lines, here’s a headline from our actual timeline:

“Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping.”

These things are possible!

https://momentummag.com/paris-cycling-numbers-double/

susurros, to Palestine
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"Israel has generated 'famine-like conditions' in the Gaza Strip 'while obstructing and undermining the humanitarian response', according to a new report by humanitarian group Refugees International.

"'Our research makes clear that conditions inside of Gaza are apocalyptic,' said the report released on Thursday."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/7/israels-blocking-of-aid-creating-apocalyptic-conditions-in-gaza

@palestine

garland,
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@susurros @palestine I wonder how “famine-like conditions” differ from famine.

seachanger, to random
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“What trick is our minds playing on us that we can’t feel hopeful?” asks The Atlantic, in a manner both morally and grammatically incorrect

garland,
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@seachanger I once heard someone describe the stock market as “a graph of rich people’s feelings,” and I think about that pretty often when the topic of the economy comes up.

garland, to Seattle
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Suddenly snowing on First Hill, . Not sticking though.

Video of snow falling over an urban neighborhood, with two tall apartment towers in the background.

Toastie, to random
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OH GOODIE, it's the first of the month and my print edition is here. 🤓 📖 ☕

A magazine open to a two page spread. It's a set of infographics, illustrations of cars, trucks and pedestrians (one of whom is fleeing for their life), with a headline reading "highways of hazard".
Another page of the magazine. On the left is text surrounded by lots of white space and the headline "faces like mirrors." On the right is a portrait of a gray haired, multi-racial lesbian couple gently embracing.
Another page of the magazine, almost wall to wall text but with an illustration around the edges showing a seed sprouting and a wildflower stalk with a stack of purple buds. The headline says "Regeneration underground"

garland,
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@Toastie I just received my first print issue after subscribing recently. Looks great!

garland, to random
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I’ve been added to the mailing list of an organization calling itself “Tree Action Seattle.” I don’t know anything about it, but based on their first two emails, they strike me as a NIMBY group against building any new housing that might require cutting down any tree.

garland,
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My reply to Tree Action Seattle:

“I think the best way to protect trees is to build more dense multi-family housing in our city, and prevent sprawl and deforestation in our region. I live in First Hill, a neighborhood full of apartment buildings and beautiful mature street trees. Can you tell me what Tree Action Seattle is doing to advocate for the building of more dense urban housing in our city?”

jon, to random
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Question : Do you know how Norwegians fill out their tax returns?
Answer : They don´t.

This is an oversimplification, but years ago Norwegians started to get pre-filled tax returns in the mail. Later they stopped getting them, but instead had to do an OK online. Now even that is not needed. No comment means it is is OK. You can rectify and modify details online, if needed.

The reality is that the government already had most of the data needed for most individuals. Your salary is reported by the company you work for. Your bank details, including anything you have in your accounts, any loans, stocks, bonds, etc., is reported as well. Your kids are known as well. There might be details to add, but most is known. Why waste people´s time filling out details that are already known and risk people making mistakes?

When will the US get there?

garland,
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@jon This is not done in the US on purpose. Anti-tax politicians and activists want the process of filling out tax forms to be as painful as possible.

owen, to Seattle
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lol, Sara Nelson comes out against increasing voter turnout. No doubt she'd be a Republican if she lived in Oklahoma.

"Greater turnout doesn’t necessarily mean a better-informed public when it comes to the issues that impact people’s daily lives most directly, which is the stuff that comes out of City Hall"

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2024/01/30/79364743/council-president-sara-nelson-opposes-effort-to-increase-voter-turnout

garland,
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@owen How does she keep getting even worse?

moira, to baking
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let's go bakers let's goooooooooooo

garland,
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@moira Oh cool. I’ve never made my own bagels before. Do you have a favorite recipe?

garland, to Seattle
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Look outside , the evening sky and Cascade mountains are all pretty.

garland, to books
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I’ve been using Goodreads since 2008. I like keeping track of what books I’ve read, and seeing what some of my friends thought of those books. But I don’t feel great about using an Amazon-owned product. I’d be interested in any thoughts on fediverse book servers, or impressions of Storygraph, for those who have used them?

clive, (edited ) to random
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Superb thread here in which @shauna posts her notes from reading Jessie Singer’s book “There Are No Accidents”

It’s about how corporate interests create dangerous/lethal products — from automobiles to addictive medicines and more — then capture the regulators, so that reasonable precautions around their use are tossed out …

… then, when people are injured or killed, they say, “whoops just an accident”

Read the whole thread!

https://social.coop/@shauna/110187830523238194

garland,
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@clive @shauna It’s a really great book.

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    garland,
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    @seachanger Pre-movie ads are getting out of control. I don’t mind watching previews for other movies, but now it’s like a bunch of tv product ads. Cars! Sodas! Toys! I don’t have to endure a twenty-minute ad reel when I watch a movie at home.

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