Trainado, Area Grill Dad
@tarnado.bsky.social
Bikes are freedom. Anacortes. Strong Towns Lyfe. Plants are cool and so are soil biota! Fecund. Never cede anything to TERFS, not even 🦖
Oooh, you mean 'red areas' are smart about food? The people who elected the man who destroyed their export markets? JFC
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Oooh, you mean 'red areas' are smart about food? The people who elected the man who destroyed their export markets? JFC
Spokane leaping from W to W
Wowzers! 6 out of 7 Spokane City Council seats will now be made of liberals and progressives 🤯
Zero votes left to count! It appears Sarah Dixit has won a seat on Spokane City Council by more than 100 votes. Because the percentage difference is more than 1% it will not go to a recount.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Spokane leaping from W to W
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Warren Buffet said goodbye today. His final thoughts in his farewell letter:
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Warren Buffet said goodbye today. His final thoughts in his farewell letter:
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today. Check out the post quoted below that remaps older satellite data and uses ERA5 reanalysis to look back at the #weather on that day. #history 1/2 🧪
The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
hot diggety!!!
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
hot diggety!!!
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the Seattle mayor, police chief, and fire chief deleted 8 months of texts during the 2020 protests in defiance of public records law and nothing happened to them. the guy who declined to prosecute them is now governor
bsky.app/profile/brad...
bsky.app/profile/brad...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
the Seattle mayor, police chief, and fire chief deleted 8 months of texts during the 2020 protests in defiance of public records law and nothing happened to them. the guy who declined to prosecute them is now governor
bsky.app/profile/brad...
bsky.app/profile/brad...
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (Washington State section) is holding their Safety Conference on Nov 19th at the Tukwila Community Center.
I am struggling to make it to the event, simply because transit connections to the Tukwila Community Center are abysmal! Non-existent, in fact!
I am struggling to make it to the event, simply because transit connections to the Tukwila Community Center are abysmal! Non-existent, in fact!
2025 ITE Washington Safety Conference – ITE Washington
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November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (Washington State section) is holding their Safety Conference on Nov 19th at the Tukwila Community Center.
I am struggling to make it to the event, simply because transit connections to the Tukwila Community Center are abysmal! Non-existent, in fact!
I am struggling to make it to the event, simply because transit connections to the Tukwila Community Center are abysmal! Non-existent, in fact!
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a 50 year mortgage means monthly payment would be slightly lower over a 30 year mortgage - but the payment on interest would be nearly double the sales price.
an $800k home becomes $2.3M in payments. bye bye middle class wealth
an $800k home becomes $2.3M in payments. bye bye middle class wealth
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
a 50 year mortgage means monthly payment would be slightly lower over a 30 year mortgage - but the payment on interest would be nearly double the sales price.
an $800k home becomes $2.3M in payments. bye bye middle class wealth
an $800k home becomes $2.3M in payments. bye bye middle class wealth
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So (long story short), I told my guy to just go back to spamming what works. Because until your opponent actually demonstrates that they can counter you, there is absolutely no reason to stop.
I am thinking about that moment for no particular reason, I swear.
I am thinking about that moment for no particular reason, I swear.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So (long story short), I told my guy to just go back to spamming what works. Because until your opponent actually demonstrates that they can counter you, there is absolutely no reason to stop.
I am thinking about that moment for no particular reason, I swear.
I am thinking about that moment for no particular reason, I swear.
Due to lax federal regulations (in fact, sometimes due to federal surplusing), the coast of Washington State is riddled with Russian Submarines (zombie vessels that will sink as soon as you look at them)
Last Thursday we responded to a sinking tugboat off the Kitsap Peninsula. No, not the Dominion tugboat which sunk earlier last month – this was another vessel, the Mollusk. The 64-ft tugboat lost engine power, broke free of its anchor & started breaking apart against the Kingston Marina breakwater.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Due to lax federal regulations (in fact, sometimes due to federal surplusing), the coast of Washington State is riddled with Russian Submarines (zombie vessels that will sink as soon as you look at them)
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News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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This is such an easy solution to a problem and will save lives.
Having a four-lane, 40-mph road next to an elementary school is a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, residents of Cedar Park, Texas, recently got the design of this street changed so students can get to school safely.
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is such an easy solution to a problem and will save lives.
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
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My feeling is this: It's OUR party, the oligarchs can go kick rocks
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My feeling is this: It's OUR party, the oligarchs can go kick rocks
Kitten Update: sunbeam
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Kitten Update: sunbeam
[me, with comically large megaphone]: "eliminating parking requirements allowed a mature tree to be saved"
Parking was one of the more controversial aspects to Portland's Residential Infill Project.
This newly built triplex at SE 16th & Morrison is a good example of how eliminating parking requirements allowed a mature tree to be saved. www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/...
This newly built triplex at SE 16th & Morrison is a good example of how eliminating parking requirements allowed a mature tree to be saved. www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
[me, with comically large megaphone]: "eliminating parking requirements allowed a mature tree to be saved"
Passenger rail services from Portland through Boise and Salt Lake City to Denver would be amazing.
Any such service *should* connect to Washington's South Smile (Seattle-Yakima-Kennewick-Spokane) but it would also be a stupid detour to do so. How to connect them?
Any such service *should* connect to Washington's South Smile (Seattle-Yakima-Kennewick-Spokane) but it would also be a stupid detour to do so. How to connect them?
Train line from Portland to Salt Lake City would bridge rural and urban gap, advocates say • Oregon Capital Chronicle
PORTLAND— In November 2023, Baker City resident Matt Krabacher helped organize a petition pushing to restore a train line that would connect Portland and Salt Lake City. By the following January, he ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Passenger rail services from Portland through Boise and Salt Lake City to Denver would be amazing.
Any such service *should* connect to Washington's South Smile (Seattle-Yakima-Kennewick-Spokane) but it would also be a stupid detour to do so. How to connect them?
Any such service *should* connect to Washington's South Smile (Seattle-Yakima-Kennewick-Spokane) but it would also be a stupid detour to do so. How to connect them?
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I understand the impulse to say "how can you celebrate one small piece of good news when [all the bad news]" or even "how can you celebrate the mere temporary absence of bad news on this topic"
but I am, and I will.
but I am, and I will.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I understand the impulse to say "how can you celebrate one small piece of good news when [all the bad news]" or even "how can you celebrate the mere temporary absence of bad news on this topic"
but I am, and I will.
but I am, and I will.
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How is he always so effortlessly dapper?
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
How is he always so effortlessly dapper?
Yew trees are catious and wary, and as tough and old as the sinews of the very earth.
Ps @scicommic.bsky.social I lost a whole yew tree! Iwent down to check if it had any berries, but i couldnt find the tree, which, if memory serves, is right over the trail. Very embarrassing
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Yew trees are catious and wary, and as tough and old as the sinews of the very earth.
Another Anacortes sunset from the Guemes Channel Trail. It's warm, too. I am wearing a vest over my t-shirt, but the vest is making me sweat.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Another Anacortes sunset from the Guemes Channel Trail. It's warm, too. I am wearing a vest over my t-shirt, but the vest is making me sweat.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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if there is a reasonable definition of "suicidal empathy," it's "giving even a momentary shit about a billionaire's feelings"
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
if there is a reasonable definition of "suicidal empathy," it's "giving even a momentary shit about a billionaire's feelings"