Seattle, WA
- A good painting contractor in Seattle?
I'm remodeling my house before the summer is over, and I'm looking for a reputable painting contractor in Seattle? Any suggestions?
- 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle according to The NY Timeswww.nytimes.com The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
Stellar Pacific Northwest seafood, an irreverent Japanese gastro pub and a steakhouse like no other are among our favorites.
- 8/1/23 Primary election results
Any thoughts?
https://www.kuow.org/stories/election-results-2023-primary-in-seattle-and-king-county
- List of Drive-in and outdoor theaters in Western Washingtonwww.king5.com Know before you go: Watching movies at drive-in theaters in Washington
It's time to pack a blanket, chair and drive on over to the various drive-in theaters across western Washington. Here's everything you need to know this summer.
There were way more of these than I knew!
- Downtown Seattle makes moves to become a 24/7 cityseattlemag.com Downtown Seattle makes moves to become a 24/7 city
Seattle to become a 24/7 city where businesses are more inclusive and there is a new layer of security, according to the Downtown Seattle Association
- I switched my daily news consumption to start with KUOW's morning news podcast and it's goodwww.kuow.org Seattle Now
Get up to speed on the stories shaping Seattle, every morning at 6 a.m. Hosted by Patricia Murphy and produced by KUOW, Seattle's NPR station.
Local news is less stressful because I feel proportionally less impotent to react to it. I recommend making this swap. I also like that they don't save the miscellaneous news till the end of the podcast, so if for whatever reason the daily topic isn't working for me, I already caught the headline round-up.
- NY and WA governors compared on COVIDtheweek.com Cuomo vs. Inslee: A COVID-19 tale of two governors
Cuomo got the credit. Inslee got the job done.
> That's what basic professionalism and competence looks like — a frankly kind of boring dude who works well with others, listens to experts, and doesn't view absolutely everything on Earth through the lens of "how can I make this about me?"
I'm a little cautious cheering too loudly for Inslee, because I remember all too well similar comparison pieces being written about Cuomo and Trump.
Still, nice to hear professionalism and competence getting their due.
For all that states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, I sometimes think the rest of the country doesn't like hearing results from out West. When California does something they can always dismiss it as sui generis--but Washington and Oregon are normal-sized states with a lot of problems the rest of the country shares, and there are a lot of local success stories that could be replicated elsewhere. Maybe COVID's a start--it's at least easier to argue that every state could be a Washington than that every state could be a Vietnam.
- anybody have a line on what I should be doing to oppose surveillance here?www.eff.org Seattle and Portland: Say No to Public-Private Surveillance Networks
An organization calling itself Safe Cities Northwest is aiming to create public-private surveillance networks in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. The organization claims that it is building off of a “successful model for public safety” that it built in San Francisco. However, it’s hard to.....
Not a fan of this!
Not even a little bit at all!
I am decently positioned to oppose such things.
Where are the conversations happening? To whom do I write? Whom must I call?
- A program teaches Seattle teenagers to make websites, providing them to Black-owned businesseswww.kuow.org Black-owned restaurants get tech assist from Seattle teens
In a program created by Seattle’s Office of Economic Development and the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, sixteen high school students learned to make glossy new websites for some of the city’s Black-owned restaurants. The goal was to provide the teens with job skills, while giving the restaura...
This is really cool and I wish more tech education could be so carefully targeted for social good. Is it weird to think that advanced Excel skills would be similarly useful deployed in such a way? Harder to make available to businesses, though.
Is the kind of PoS software I see everywhere on iPads extensible in ways that could be made useful to its users?
- earthquake satire should have us all feeling chastenedtheneedling.com /2021/02/25/poor-unprepared-texas-says-city-completely-unprepared-for-inevitably-colossal-earthquake/
it's sort of criminal that we don't learn in school how buildings are made, even a little. if my parents hadn't both worked construction I wouldn't even know the little I know. this is one area where newer building codes may have driven up the cost of construction, but with the result that the flimsiest tackiest new development should have you sleeping soundly where seismic guidelines are concerned.
well, unless it's built right on the coast where no residential development should ever have been allowed.
ugh.
- seattle ranks no. 1 for percentage of residents working in STEMwww.seattletimes.com Geek city: 1 in 5 Seattle residents work in STEM fields, top in U.S.
New census data shows that the number of Seattleites employed in STEM fields has more than doubled, hitting almost 89,700 in 2019. STEM workers make up a remarkable 19% of employed Seattle residents. At the other end of the spectrum,...
Well if this isn't just the most cursed news I'll get all day. Dear God.
I don't want to live in a city divorced from reality. I really don't want to live in a city that brings in an underclass from its exurbs to work its shitty jobs during the day. And yet, I look around...
- the fog this weekend that they kept predicting would clear up may have owed its persistence to wildfire smokecliffmass.blogspot.com Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?
This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics
I am truly delighted by this (and the mechanics are interesting). This is the silver lining to wildfires I never expected. Fog is lovely and I always hope for more than I get; this weekend was a joy for me.
- New study documents systemic racism in Seattle restaurantswww.seattletimes.com New study documents systemic racism in Seattle restaurants
What happens if a white server and a person of color with the same qualifications apply for jobs at 100 different upscale Seattle restaurants? A new study using pairs of actors found out.
I know that this kind of paired test must be really expensive and difficult to run, so it's frustrating that it's the only kind of thing that will convince Certain Types of Internet Commenters that racism wasn't solved in the 90s or whatever. Still! Nice to have a link on hand.
- the hotel that was lit up <3 <3 and then <3 BLM is back to <3 <3
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- Infectious disease experts: WA's phased reopening will mean fewer casesfivethirtyeight.com Infectious-Disease Experts Think Washington State’s Slow Reopening Will Mean Fewer Cases
Five counties with few cases are starting the state's second phase.
It's interesting to be The Case Study for going slow and doing it right.