Starbucks: Screw you, Seattle. All our unionizing woes will be over once we leave you for Tennessee.

Tennessee:

For real, $13M is bad and KCRHA has been a miserable failure, but that amount is a drop in the bucket compared to SPD overtime abuse alone.

anthropomorphic cartoon drawing of a smiling crab rangoon captioned YOU'RE TELLING ME A CRAB GOONED IN THIS RAG?

Temu, NO!!!

Officer I have a different way of calculating blood alcohol percentage

Salmon's face with reddish eyes and dilated pupils

Cocaine Salmon Would Like to See You Swim That Far Upstream without a Little Bump: tinyurl.com/5er8hhhj

King County assessor in hot water after social media post King County Assessor John Wilson faces two charges of violating a court order in relation to an allegation of stalking from his ex-fiancée.

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

Buddy, it's one guy speaking at a rally. You've been in Seattle long enough to know that one guy speaking at a rally is probably not speaking for everyone else 😅

It’s where you end up if you view everything related to public employees through the lens of (justified) anger toward OPCD for slow-walking HB1110 compliance. I’m not saying I agree but considering the source? I do get it. Opacity leads to speculation.

City employees RTO started in late 2021 and has been in place for years. They were back in office before Amazon, even.

Amazon workers lobbied against RTO too, and no one accused them of not wanting to work. It is literally about having to commute to a desk, and how often.

I hope you can understand why reasonable people might look at the endless series of advisory groups and community outreach and see a tactic to avoid ever having to make big changes.

It's probably just a backdoor way of reducing headcount. Same thing the tech companies did.

Great timing to announce this on 4/20. This looks like made for stoner viewing.

I bus commute on Aurora, and people drive as fast as traffic allows. At 5:30AM, the traffic is light enough that it's reasonable to assume people are going faster than 40 (but even getting hit at 40 is still a recipe for catastrophic injury)

My next employer not only offered paid leave for kid #2, they treated it as normal and customary without a critical word, only congratulation. That in itself earned my loyalty and absolute best work. I'm still with that employer today, and would like to be long-term. That respect has stayed with me.

I felt disgusted and disrespected. I started looking for jobs while on leave. I came back completely checked out on that company. A kind supervisor tried to help lift my spirits, but the damage was done. Several months later I was gone with a smile on my face.

THAT was a huge problem for my employer at the time. They grudgingly complied to follow the law, but they teed off on me about it all the time, and let clients do the same. The day I signed the paperwork, they had their attack dog call me and try to talk me out of it last-minute.

For kid #1, they gave me an extra couple days off and acted like they had done me the hugest possible favor (we were in the hospital for a few extra days so it basically covered that). I did end up taking a month of FMLA five months later because my wife was doing so poorly and needed me.

This is almost exactly like our story, from the postpartum depression after kid #1 to the immense satisfaction of both being home after kid #2. There's always one aspect of our story that I tend to zero in on, which is the difference in employer relationships and just how pronounced it was:

"why don't people like AI?"

hmm a real poser...maybe because AI proponents are a collection of the worst people alive bragging about how badly it's going to fuck everything up, which is fine with them because they'll be rich?

that's one possibility

They want every unhoused person with substance use disorder to sit in jail indefinitely until they accept forced treatment, which they believe will automatically work, and they also believe that there is legal justification for this indefinite imprisonment that we're choosing to not use.

Good morning Bluesky.

Say hello to our resident Orca, in front of the Seattle waterfront during a gorgeous PNW sunset. He was traveling with his family and T034s, T037/T037Bs. Those little ones in the pods are always the most playful ones. We love our whales. This photo should be a poster!

I think we truly don’t appreciate how much the internet has influenced and given rise to the idea that *everything* is debatable and the ultimate arbiter of truth is determined by who is willing to talk the longest.

Nope, he was just picky!

That’s extreme. I have a friend who only ate boiled white pasta for the first decade of his life, and his parents indulged that too. I love him but that style of parenting didn’t do him favors as an adult. We have our kids make their own breakfast and lunch on school mornings.

Exactly one year ago today:

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros

U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One

www.dvidshub.net/video/100269...

#Artemis 🧪🔭

Yeah, for now you pay for the experience. It’s nice to envision a future where it’s competitively priced.

That's the prevailing messaging on the local NextDoor.

Katie Miller, looking at the cover of Weekly World News while waiting at the grocery checkout with her mother 20 years ago: "That Bat Child is such a dreamboat. Wonder if I'll ever find a boyfriend with such grotesque, macabre good looks."