atomicMKR
@atomicmkr.bsky.social
Agender cat person, adoptee, autist, historian, novel reader. She/They/He/Etc.
It's really fun to keep receiving reminders from my healthcare group to schedule my mammogram -- I've been trying for 6 weeks. The ONLY technician at the location I normally go to is out for at least 4 months. I do not live in a rural area; this is a city, my location is a mid-sized medical center.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's really fun to keep receiving reminders from my healthcare group to schedule my mammogram -- I've been trying for 6 weeks. The ONLY technician at the location I normally go to is out for at least 4 months. I do not live in a rural area; this is a city, my location is a mid-sized medical center.
"Seattle citizens live the act of planning, but they are reticent about submitting to the discipline of following a plan." Walt Crowley in 1993 writing about our failed 1970 Forward Thrust transit gambit. *Sigh*
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Seattle citizens live the act of planning, but they are reticent about submitting to the discipline of following a plan." Walt Crowley in 1993 writing about our failed 1970 Forward Thrust transit gambit. *Sigh*
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In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
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Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
September 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
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HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
It's possible a wheelchair could go over this hole, but a walker or a cane or a foot could easily get caught. This warning seems less than ideal. #soundtransit #seattle #safetyfail.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's possible a wheelchair could go over this hole, but a walker or a cane or a foot could easily get caught. This warning seems less than ideal. #soundtransit #seattle #safetyfail.
#seattle #tree folks -- you have an opportunity Saturday morning to meaningfully support trees in #chinatownid at the Spring Clean -- Sign up for tree maintenance at signup.com/go/swwpoNZ
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
C-ID Spring Clean 2025
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June 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#seattle #tree folks -- you have an opportunity Saturday morning to meaningfully support trees in #chinatownid at the Spring Clean -- Sign up for tree maintenance at signup.com/go/swwpoNZ
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
I stand with librarians -- the LOC cannot have "inappropriate" books -- if such things exist. It collects all our books.
Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
May 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I stand with librarians -- the LOC cannot have "inappropriate" books -- if such things exist. It collects all our books.
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I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
April 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I just did something that's been on my to-do list since October. I did the first half (identify the problem) in January. 4 months ago.
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
April 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I just did something that's been on my to-do list since October. I did the first half (identify the problem) in January. 4 months ago.
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
Had the opportunity to visit the CDC Museum yesterday while friends were getting laid off. The number of programs is so far beyond what we see. We have undermined our own country, and so many others.
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Had the opportunity to visit the CDC Museum yesterday while friends were getting laid off. The number of programs is so far beyond what we see. We have undermined our own country, and so many others.
This weekend I get to visit a family member recovering from a month on a respirator from "just the flu" and a college friend currently facing down job loss due to the massive Federal HHS cuts. In case I wasn't able to make the argument that the personal is always political.
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This weekend I get to visit a family member recovering from a month on a respirator from "just the flu" and a college friend currently facing down job loss due to the massive Federal HHS cuts. In case I wasn't able to make the argument that the personal is always political.
In my house, a smidgen is less than a smidge which is less than a pinch. But also, my partner's fingers are bigger than mine, so their pinch is closer to my mom's pinch, as her fingers were also bigger than mine. My pinch is closer to my mom's smidge, but she mostly called it "a bit."
March 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In my house, a smidgen is less than a smidge which is less than a pinch. But also, my partner's fingers are bigger than mine, so their pinch is closer to my mom's pinch, as her fingers were also bigger than mine. My pinch is closer to my mom's smidge, but she mostly called it "a bit."
I agree. What more is there to say? Sound Transit is one of the biggest infrastructure project drivers in our region, and a secretive hiring process is a disservice to all of us.
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
Sound Transit’s CEO Search Should Be About Leadership, Not Political Deals - PubliCola
By Francois Kaeppelin and Trevor Reed Imagine applying for a high-powered job where you get to pick half of the…
publicola.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I agree. What more is there to say? Sound Transit is one of the biggest infrastructure project drivers in our region, and a secretive hiring process is a disservice to all of us.
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
"I’d really like to stop reading major geo-political updates in the form of shitposts on Truth Social." SAME, friend. Same.
Relatedly, I remember the utter disbelief in Steve Inskeep's NPR voice when he was reporting "news" FROM "Twitter" not that many years ago.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
Relatedly, I remember the utter disbelief in Steve Inskeep's NPR voice when he was reporting "news" FROM "Twitter" not that many years ago.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
Slog AM: College Crackdown, Good Karen Energy, and The Tariff Train Continues
The Stranger's morning news roundup
www.thestranger.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"I’d really like to stop reading major geo-political updates in the form of shitposts on Truth Social." SAME, friend. Same.
Relatedly, I remember the utter disbelief in Steve Inskeep's NPR voice when he was reporting "news" FROM "Twitter" not that many years ago.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
Relatedly, I remember the utter disbelief in Steve Inskeep's NPR voice when he was reporting "news" FROM "Twitter" not that many years ago.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
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The real friends were the corporate tax loopholes we closed to fund low income housing along the way.
First up, HB 1858, which is a @organizewithshaun.bsky.social bill that eliminates a loophole in the document recording fee that lets banks sell your mortgage as many times as they want without paying the doc recording fee, which funds a bunch of good things. #waleg
March 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The real friends were the corporate tax loopholes we closed to fund low income housing along the way.
Sanity. Sleep. Angry cats. The cafe running out of doughnuts before I got there.
Daylight Saved. But at what cost?
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sanity. Sleep. Angry cats. The cafe running out of doughnuts before I got there.
People need food to live. Feed children. And elders. And everyone in between. While we're at it, let's feed pets, too.
People need care when they are ill. Let them see doctors without going bankrupt. Give them sick time so that they don't infect everyone around them & so they can get well.
People need care when they are ill. Let them see doctors without going bankrupt. Give them sick time so that they don't infect everyone around them & so they can get well.
March 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
People need food to live. Feed children. And elders. And everyone in between. While we're at it, let's feed pets, too.
People need care when they are ill. Let them see doctors without going bankrupt. Give them sick time so that they don't infect everyone around them & so they can get well.
People need care when they are ill. Let them see doctors without going bankrupt. Give them sick time so that they don't infect everyone around them & so they can get well.
SAME.🥚
I have a half sibling from my bio-dad, and an also adopted sibling I grew up with, but I have no contact with the first, and little with the second.
I have a half sibling from my bio-dad, and an also adopted sibling I grew up with, but I have no contact with the first, and little with the second.
it is in my opinion absolutely no accident that my (birth) mother never had another child. 🥚
I wonder if the "low birth rate" obsessives will ever factor adoption and other forms of child loss into their calculations about causation. IMHO a century of arbitrarily snatching babies, mostly from poor unmarried mothers, has had an effect. S. Korea's current birth rate, for a good example.
March 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
SAME.🥚
I have a half sibling from my bio-dad, and an also adopted sibling I grew up with, but I have no contact with the first, and little with the second.
I have a half sibling from my bio-dad, and an also adopted sibling I grew up with, but I have no contact with the first, and little with the second.
I got friendly woofed at by a very good dog on my way to the bus today. I'm going to hold onto that Good Thing today, as the world continues to crumble.
February 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I got friendly woofed at by a very good dog on my way to the bus today. I'm going to hold onto that Good Thing today, as the world continues to crumble.
As a non-academic researcher, I hit journal paywalls & academic index paywalls often. It can be hard to decide what to pay for when some academic studies lend themselves to practical use & some don't -- & the abstracts don't tell me the difference. If only I could afford to be a student forever.
February 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
As a non-academic researcher, I hit journal paywalls & academic index paywalls often. It can be hard to decide what to pay for when some academic studies lend themselves to practical use & some don't -- & the abstracts don't tell me the difference. If only I could afford to be a student forever.
Sitting in my bathroom with my weak, painful hands fighting a "safety cap" on my damn generic pain reliever. This is for people with arthritis! Design better! #universaldesign
February 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sitting in my bathroom with my weak, painful hands fighting a "safety cap" on my damn generic pain reliever. This is for people with arthritis! Design better! #universaldesign
So far as I can tell, this Republican admin's plan for most of us is death. Starting with anyone currently ill or disabled.
New EO (link below) orders HHS to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID (section 2iv). Share widely on all platforms. This is a perfect example of how this administration does not care about Americans. If this is efficiency, then what IS Trump's plan for people with Long COVID?
February 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So far as I can tell, this Republican admin's plan for most of us is death. Starting with anyone currently ill or disabled.