Simple thing I like about public works communication in Seattle (Orlando also did this well): leaning into cute/weird/goofy when folks will get mad about disruptions anyway.

*AND* also linking to excellent, detailed, digestible info with plenty of historical context for the work: https://wsdot.wa.gov/construction-planning/search-projects/revive-i-5-ship-canal-bridge-preservation

People constantly complain about state/local maintenance work and not being informed, yet I find that few actually ever use the wealth of info they often provide in advance.

#localgovernment

So, they don’t have anything against *that* type of gender-affirming care https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/08/american-men-are-hungry-for-injectable-testosterone

@Schneems I can’t even function more than a few days without my Evoluent vertical mouse.

Today I asked GPT about some technical stuff. It quoted some official manual, including a link.

I asked it to double-check it, which it did searching the internet, and confirmed the quotation was correct.

I opened the link and of course it wasn't, which I told it. GPT searched the web again, assuring me again that the quotation was verbatim.

I copy-pasted the page of the manual. At that point it surrendered and admitted it wasn't true.

Of course I was sure it was lying, but what if it's a topic I don't know much about? Assuming 10% of people is willing to challenge the answer, only 1% would have triple-checked it.

People, get off of Facebook. Seriously.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

It’s heartbreaking to think that Floridians won’t cherish and try to preserve Florida’s raw beauty until cataclysmic hurricanes start truly decimating it and claiming many lives.

Even then I’m not sure they would.

Imagining GTA6 becoming a piece of archeology is just... 😞

Fired CDC scientists respond: “Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, health care providers and the US public trust ACIP. For the past 18 years, the National Immunization Survey has shown that 99 of every 100 children in the US have received at least some recommended vaccines by 2 years of age. This does not suggest the population is so distrustful that it warrants dismantling the process by which vaccines have been recommended.”

It sprawled like this for three miles, through downtown and across the river and back. Tens of thousands of Portlanders of all ages, lots of families, kids, seniors. Cars honking in support. From the Hawthorne Bridge, you could just make out the protest line heading back on the Morrison Bridge.

The scale of the rally in Portland is MASSIVE. Simultaneously crossing the Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges in one long parade of democracy. Tens of thousands of people. #NoKings

“Hands off our democracy!” Portland, Oregon came together challenging tyranny! #NoKings #Oregon #HandsOff @educate.motivate.evolve

Can I contribute this to #NoKings day?

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

Some of you protesting are far too into publicly posting identifiable pics and videos of folks in protest crowds without good reason.

If you brought a camera to the protest point it at the authorities, not your compatriots. Document and publicize incidents of abuse, but don't facilitate your fellow protestors being identified and punished for showing up. Assume every face you post will be recognized and catalogued. They're not there to be your photo op.

#Protest #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Activism

This is not a drill.

All is takes is 3.5% of a population engaging in peaceful protest to hold back authoritarian movements.

See you tomorrow. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill

IYKYK but y’all can’t call it old fashioned anymore, huh?!
#xoxofest

A Mexican-American friend who lives here on a Green Card and is the mother of five US citizens, including a US Army Vet and an LAPD officer, just collapsed into my arms crying, saying that she no longer drives on the freeway because she's afraid of being stopped by ICE and kidnapped.

“When we internalize the belief that nothing can change, we stop demanding change. When we accept corruption as normal, we stop fighting it. When we dismiss documentation of wrongdoing as pointless, we give wrongdoers exactly what they want: permission to continue unchecked and with no record of their actions.”

Grateful for @molly0xfff’s work every day, but especially today: https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

You can feel the efficiency.

5+ hour downtime on the USCIS website while immigrants who “did it the right way” hang in the balance.

Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response

Feels relevant.

Watch this cop deliberately shoot a less lethal round into an Australian reporter who was not in the line of fire at all. 👀