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.
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.”
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!
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.
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.
but I still had to cut off a bit of the southernmost parts of Seattle to keep it square
kinda thinking of making an extra version that has the full Seattle map on the left and a bunch of open space centre and right, and labelling it "Here there be dragons, and also, Renton"
i suspect strongly this is another case of Only Funny to Moira but it is funny to me
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
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.