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Peter Abrahamsen
@rainhead.bsky.social
Seattle. Naturalist (bees, wildflowers) with the Mountaineers, Washington Bee Atlas, iNaturalist, Orcasound. Sings from the Sacred Harp. Bicyclist.
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Comic by adamtots on IG
October 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
okay fine you got me
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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My first formal remarks as mayor-elect: When I say, “This is your city,” I mean you have a right to be here, no matter your background. But I also mean that we have a collective responsibility to this place and each other.

#thisisyourcity
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We saw this same issue — voting day bomb threats — in 2024. Motive could be strategic voter suppression, but in 2024 it was likely foreign interference designed to cause mayhem and further erode trust in US election. These tactics can also provide pretext for contesting elections later.
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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NEW STORY // King County Looks to Replace Program Diverting Youth from Jail

Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/30/k...
King County Looks to Replace Program Diverting Youth from Jail » The Urbanist
# King County Executive Shannon Braddock has proposed a series of changes to one of the county’s pre-filing youth diversion programs, currently called Restorative Community Pathways, replacing the com...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Petitioning Sound Transit for an infill station for the Crest Theater.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Rewriting most of my JavaScript code in SQL, as Dog intended.
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Cormac McCarthy wasn't Scottish??
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
BATS
August 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
OMG the new edition of The Sacred Harp is going to be so well typeset. #sacredHarp
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Oh hey, the Temporal API was included in Firefox 139. Maybe in a couple years we can forget Date ever existed in JavaScript.
July 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
By rights, the bees get his money. It should all go to native bee conservation and meadow restoration.
June 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Trump didn’t order CMPD to pepper spray protestors in Charlotte, Trump’s Marines didn’t open up with tear gas in LA, Trump didn’t tell cops in Savannah to detain a protestor for wearing a medical mask. It’s worth asking why electeds in those heavily blue places won’t answer for any of that.
June 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Read the new groundbreaking investigative report by @glentalk.bsky.social in @realchangenews.bsky.social on the FBI and SPD’s extensive infiltration and surveillance of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, including the use of confidential informants:
www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/05...
FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance
FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance
www.realchangenews.org
May 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Scheduled to give a short talk on native bees in a couple weeks, for a class focused on pollination. Tempted to make the whole thing about flies. Respect flies, people. They're gorgeous, they're valid, they're living their truths.
May 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Yesterday Bob Ferguson signed @jessdbateman.bsky.social's Housing Accountability Act into law, which will create a brand new framework for oversight over local housing plans...and bring the Builder's Remedy to Washington State.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/14/t...
The Builder’s Remedy is Coming to Washington State - The Urbanist
# Senate Bill 5148, signed into law Tuesday, sets up a brand new framework of accountability around state housing law. The bill includes a so-called
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May 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Last-Minute Rug Pull Leaves Lake City's Sanctioned Encampment, Tent City 4, With Nowhere to Go

Residents say they plan to move on Saturday, with or without a new lease.

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Last-Minute Rug Pull Leaves Lake City's Sanctioned Encampment, Tent City 4, With Nowhere to Go - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Back in February, SHARE and WHEEL—the shelter providers and homeless advocacy groups that have run self-managed…
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May 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hairy Bear Scarab Beetles (Paracotalpa granicollis) mating on Balsamroot last week in Richland, Washington.
April 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Not quite an application, not quite a webpage. Somehow, the worst of both.
April 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM