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Things I’m into: All things IT (also professionally), social and environmental justice/volunteering/activism, cooking, baking, eating, music (listening, singing, string instruments), fantasy books, audio-books, PC gaming, parenting, Germany, Seattle WA
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Have we really become so woke that we are no longer comfortable sending innocent people to die in torture camps?

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

Apologies to those who purchased our gift shop’s “flexible hula hoops” that turned out to be green anacondas. The good news is they are non-venomous!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

WA Republicans droned on for almost 5 hours over the edits to the so-called "Parent's Bill of Rights." But ultimately Dems shut down their Fox News inspired amendments and got a step closer to defanging the vague rightwing attack on LGBTQ+ students. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/parents...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I found this old Kindle Fire (HDX 8.9") ... Once a top-notch tablet, now, it's stuck on KitKat (Android 4.4) and getting anything to run on it is a challenge. It still works perfectly fine with a great display and even an okay battery life. For S&G I checked the trade-in value on Amazon: $5 🤣

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

And now, Seymour, tell those dirty Hippies that everything is their fault because of their futile attempt to defund me!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

PubliCola Questions: City Council District 2 Candidate Jamie Fackler Fackler, a building inspector and union steward, says he'd work to improve public safety by investing in the social safety net. publicola.com/2025/04/15/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Source is www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? alexanderell.is/posts/orange/

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Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

submitted 5 days ago • 396 comments

You can try the Microsoft just released a Quake 2 demo that runs on genAI. It forgets where you are you each time you look at the floor and soft-locks when it's to dark. A technological marvel. You can try the "Copilot Gaming Experience" here: copilot.microsoft.com/wham

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submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Some say "If you hire a clown, expect a circus". I say "If you hire a felon, expect insider trade".

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Telling on themselves: Seattle Times hyperventilates about the brief closure of a 10-seat high-end sushi restaurant (they had no permit to operate and lacked a handwashing sink, per the county) shortly after telling readers to report people selling fruit and tacos to the county. tinyurl.com/mttfs48n

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 204 comments

Raise your hand if you need some inspiration for your leftovers (and a cool new nickname!) An average family of four loses about $3,000 every year on wasted food. By using all of what you buy (including your leftovers) you can combat food waste and save money. Learn more: www.usefoodwell.org

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Republican Lawmakers Warn That Abortion Ban Exceptions Will Lead to Dangerous Shortage of Child Labor: tinyurl.com/4xtcmstd

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

What a time to be subsisting!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 7 days ago • 153 comments

www.businessinsider.com/adobe-ends-d...

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submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

It's like he wants to be removed from office and is trying dumber things each day to get there ... Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” to Bibi's face

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 8 days ago • 1292 comments

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 9 days ago • 1090 comments

To be fair, one man technically does not have this kind of power; he has it only because he has the support of an entire political party and its movement

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

On Tender dot com, you swipe inward.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments