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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 3d

i'm writing again!! pls enjoy this plea for eliminating plastic in gardens and let me know if there are other gardening things you'd like to read about, especially if they have to do with growing groceries in a landlord's yard

Conrad Swanson @conradswanson.bsky.social · 3d

Forget about pristine landscapes and perfect lawns, @kayah.bsky.social ky.social says. She's here to make the case for a messy garden.

I've been devouring her fresh produce for years now. If you're a gardener, I highly recommend you take her advice.

b-townblog.com/master-garde...

MASTER GARDENER: Five ways to move toward a zero-waste garden - The B-Town (Burien) Blog

Forget about pristine landscapes and perfect lawns. I’m here to make the case for a messy garden. Before you panic, I’m not advocating that you let noxious weeds run amok, leave plants to wither, or k...

b-townblog.com

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 4d

eric adams, it's your time

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 4d

I hope UNC's next head football coach is someone even more famous and less qualified to coach a college football team

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 4d

the bad news is i forgot i was getting my flu and covid shots today and wore a long sleeved shirt, so everyone in the UW student union saw my bra. the good news is the nurse felt so bad she gave me two lollipops

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 4d

a pic of donald trump that says “this post has been fact checked by real american patriots: true”

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 9d

every time i see someone in the regime call portland “war-ravaged” this is all i can think about

a still from a famous news clip of a woman falling while running in the snow right after telling a broadcaster it was the perfect texture for running. she’s sitting in the street grabbing her lower back while someone comes to her aid

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Conrad Swanson @conradswanson.bsky.social · 9d

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 9d

does anyone else ever see shit like this and just think "there is no place in the modern workforce where i won't have an existential crisis every single day"

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 10d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 11d

THIS.

The hardest part about the past decade for me has been realizing just how many people will simply never care. Your neighbors could get hauled away and you’d just shrug and carry on. We’re on a razor thin edge right now, soldiers are patrolling our streets, every speech is a declaration of war against our own citizens, and as long as nothing changes for you in the immediate, you don’t care. Our culture taught you selfishness, algorithms taught you hate and apathy, and history taught you nothing.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 16d

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 23d

sometimes i think about how my dad called me the morning after trump won in 2016 and told me i was overreacting while I sobbed. i don’t talk to that mf anymore but i sure hope wherever he is he feels like a real dumbass

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Conrad Swanson @conradswanson.bsky.social · 23d

If U.S. Customs and Border Patrol can unlawfully detain someone in secret, without notice or access to counsel, then no ones’ due-process rights are safe, one attorney said this morning.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Immigration lawyers sue over arrest of firefighter at WA's Big Gulch fire

Firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez has been detained at a Tacoma detention center since late last month.

www.seattletimes.com

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 25d

zillow 2nite queen? 👀

NPR @npr.org · 25d

JUST IN: The Federal reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday in an effort to cushion the sagging job market. The move comes as Fed policymakers face growing pressure from President Trump.

Facing Trump's pressure, the Fed cuts rates for the first time this year

The Federal reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday in an effort to cushion the sagging job market. The move comes as Fed policymakers face growing pressure from President Trump.

n.pr

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · 25d

old meme of a blond woman in four panels making confused faces with complex math diagrams superimposed over her face

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Sep 9

as a seattle freeze experiencer it always baffles me that PNWers don't make a bigger deal of this. like if you don't want new people to come here this is all you have to tell them. it would have worked on me but no one said anything and now i live in abject fear every september

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Sep 9

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Aug 29

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Conrad Swanson @conradswanson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Context that didn't make it into the story, a quick 🧵

About 60,000 people are currently in custody across the country, said Matt Adams, legal director for the nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · Aug 28

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 28

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Aug 28

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 26

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

Sarah Lazarus
@sarahclazarus
every day we have to wake up, confront the most upsetting shit we've ever seen, and then walk around obeying laws and saying "it's tomato season"
11:10 PM • 8/10/19 • Twitter for iPhone
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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 21

same here!! i never met him but we went to their headquarters. fellow conversion therapy survivor here to say i’m so glad you made it out. hope that hateful piece of shit rots forever in the hell i no longer believe in

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 21

me and all my fellow conversion therapy survivors legally get to do whatever we want today

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 21

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 20

i see they're swapping the blackshirts for the white hoods

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Aug 20

I dunno, Kornhusker Koncentration Kamp is RIGHT THERE
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/u...

Nebraska announces plan for immigration detention center dubbed the ‘Cornhusker Clink’ | CNN

Nebraska announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in the remote southwest corner of the state as President Donald Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary...

www.cnn.com

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 20

"America is not a good place to be an early adult" lmao no shit i entered the workforce 12 years ago this month and it's been an increasingly awful nightmare with each passing godforsaken year

Slate @slate.com · Aug 20

The trend may get even worse under Trump.

There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults

America is not a good place to be an early adult.

slate.com

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kayah 🎃 @kayah.bsky.social · Aug 18

excellent strategy. maybe i can combine the two somehow

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