of the four corners of the mainland, you've got to admit we've got a good case for ourselves
Extinction Rebellion Seattle
IN THE FACE OF EXTINCTION, WE SAY REBELLION! THIS IS A CLIMATE EMERGENCY. Extinction Rebellion Seattle is a local chapter in the International Extinction Rebellion movement and one of 91 chapters in XR US. XR ... Read more
February 2025 Organizing Conference: Fight the Rich & Their Two Parties
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22456731
We need to use our momentum from getting out the vote for Jill Stein's antiwar pro-worker campaign to fight the rich and their two parties. To end the wars and the genocide in Gaza. To fight against racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression. To organize protests and strike actions to win a $25/hour minimum wage, Medicare for All, quality affordable housing, and good union jobs for all.
Both Democrats and Republicans are a dead end for workers, the union movement, and the antiwar struggle. We urgently need a new, independent, antiwar, working-class party that can take on the billionaires & warmongers and BREAK the two-party system.
Register now for Workers Strike Back's February Organizing Conference SATURDAY, Feb 22 @ 10 am PT!^[[1] https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference]
Link to signup for event: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference
Code Craft: Pop-up Generative Art Show in Seattle, November 23, 2024
Pleased to announce the next CodeCraft meetup and pop-up art show! Join us for a night of computational art, featuring:
Exponential Sums - Andriy Kashcha & Yixiao Kang @aria_xiao99
Fractured Dimensions - Maks Surguy @msurguy
Omniweb EEG Visualizer - Nicholas Bowen & Diana Xie @bowendigitalarts
The Quantum Quilt (Alpha) - Quba Michalski @qubaxr
RSVP: https://seattlecreativecode.com/
#creativecoding #generativeart #computationalart #algorithmicart #interactiveart #geometricart #processing #javascript #touchdesigner #unreal #shader #procedural #seattleart
The left tries to find its footing before Trump takes power again.
Freakout Festival was back in full force this weekend, featuring over 100 bands at seven venues. For their twelfth go around, the traditionally Ballard-only festival invited the good folks of Fremont along for the ride. While we sincerely wish we could have attended every set, that was literally imp...
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 Times
Stellar Pacific Northwest seafood, an irreverent Japanese gastro pub and a steakhouse like no other are among our favorites.
Hello Seattle!
Looking forward to seeing this community grow.
As a result of Seattle’s recently passed ordinance to protect most trees within city limits, unsheltered residents living in Seattle have taken to disguising themselves as red cedar, oak, whi…
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 good
A smart, daily podcast for a curious city. Seattle Now brings you quick, informal, and hyper-local news updates every weekday.
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 COVID
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
anybody have a line on what I should be doing to oppose surveillance here?
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 businesses
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 chastened
The degree to which Texas was utterly unprepared for last week’s freak freeze continues to baffle, confuse and appall thousands of Seattleites who say they’re more accustomed to being completely un…
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 STEM
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 smoke
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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.