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This blog is where @moira writes in longer form, and also where she has collected all her old blogs and journals (LJ, Dreamwidth) into a single […]

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## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.7

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.7 – 23 November 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.7.

This release contains two major corrections to the 2 Line Bike Connector Map […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic.
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.6(a)

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.6 – 1 November 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.6a.

This release reflects a two-week intermittent closure of the Sammamish River […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Screen resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.6a, big enough to see the special warning signs on the two affected trails.
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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## Get on ’em RIGHT NOW

We saw what happened last night. If you didn’t: eight fuckheads went over (7 Democrats, 1 Republican) to end the shutdown. They got **_absolutely fucking nothing_** for it. **_NOTHING_**.

The Democrats and one independant siding with […]

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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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## Why Tesla matters so much

This is why some of us are still out there, week after week, protesting at Tesla dealerships:

Here’s the story. It’s old, but it’s still pretty much true. Driving the stake through the heart of Tesla is how to take down the rest […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Mark Chadbourn on Bluesky posting: "Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk's entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he's structured the companies' finances." with a big Tesla logo on probably? the trunk of one of their cars, with rain.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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## Hey Washington State, there’s still time to vote!

You can still drop off your ballot at a ballot dropoff box until 8pm. Not later! But until 8pm Cascadian/Pacific.

California, I don’t know how your elections work but I do know that your voting also goes […]

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November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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## Northshore (Seattle) voters, pay attention to school boards!

HEY IF YOU’RE IN NORTHSHORE AND CAN VOTE – vote FOR Kimberlee Kelly and vote FOR Sandy R. Hayes for school board!

Their opponents are people who were either low-key or openly anti-trans in the […]

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November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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## as we head into the SNAP shutdown

As we head into the SNAP shutdown – however long it may last, and while I’d love be surprised and see it end tomorrow with the Republicans giving in on their whole refusal-to-negotiate shutdown bullshit, I’m leaning towards […]

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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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## I really gotta point something out here

I really, really, _really_ gotta point something out here.

This “ballroom” Trump Shitstain the First says he’s building is 90,000 square feet, and is going to cost THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Apparently. That’s […]

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October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.5

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.5 – 17 October 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.5.

This release is very small, containing two major upgrades, and some additional […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. A screen-resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.5.
October 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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## post your reality, part two

I’ve been calling for people to post pictures, video, whatever, of their towns when Herr Fuckface describes them as war zones, as hellholes, as whatever he pukes up this time. Particularly Chicago, and now, _extra_ particularly […]

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October 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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## I do think there was a point to Bondi’s performance

Pamela Bondi went before Senate Oversight on Tuesday determined not to testify to Democrats, and to help Republicans deflect and defend the Trump regime’s fascism. That’s obvious; it happens fairly […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) posting "has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?" over a video of Pamela Bondi not saying anything with "An error occurred" superimposed over the image below her face.
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.4

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.4 – 3 October 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.4.

There are major additions in Seattle with the opening of two south Seattle routes […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Screen-resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.4.
October 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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## confederates never learn a goddamn thing

If anyone’s wondering whether US farmers exporting to China just need a little “temporary help” to get over Trump’s trade war, read this thread from farmer Sarah Taber on Mastodon. She’s a farmer from North Carolina […]

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October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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## Chicagoans, post pics and video!

Fascist Trump’s allies are out today repeating the “cities are war zones” lie, so anybody in Chicago needs to get out there and starting posting pictures of their “war zone” just like Portland.

“Chicago’s a nightmare, it is […]

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September 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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## it is all lies

Before things get a lot worse, which it looks like they’re about to do given Trump’s “full force” order and his “anti-fascism is terrorism” executive memo, I need to reiterate:

It’s lies. This shit about Portland? It’s all lies.

The lies […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. A still image grabbed from the linked webcam of a lightly-populated salmon-coloured stone public square in downtown Portland, Oregon, with a variety of banners up and tables out in early autumn.
September 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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## I wrote another letter today, this one to Sinclair Broadcasting. You should too.

A couple of days ago, I wrote about writing Disney a letter – a physical, paper letter, with an ENVELOPE and a STAMP – and went into why those are so. damned. scary. to […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Business-format letter to Sinclair and KOMO telling them this isn't how this goes, with a ruler covering my signature and an envelope covering my address. I'd paste the letter's text in, but there's not enough room in this alt-text box. Hopefully OCR can read it for you.
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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## Write Disney a LETTER.

WRITE DISNEY-ABC A LETTER TODAY.

Not email, don’t @ them on social media – or do that, that’s fine, but it’s not a substitute. It’s not as good. Do that too, but mostly…

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. A business-format letter to Disney-ABC about their censorship of Jimmy Kimmel, likening it to Putin's destruction of independent Russian media, with my return address and signature hidden.
September 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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## Maps Release: MEGAMAP 2.0.3

Greater Northshore MEGAMAP 2.0.3 – 19 September 2025 – is now available on github.

As there are no changes in the core Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map – the north-end-only map – no new version has been generated. Latest […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. A screen-resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.3, with its tiny number of changes.
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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[Report: FBI to designate trans people 'violent extremists']

## Report: FBI to designate trans people ‘violent extremists’

I would like to wish all the people who fought with me and sneered at me about how Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris were no better than […]

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September 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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## greg gutfield’s fascist rant

I do not believe it’s a minor thing that Greg “let’s reclaim the word Nazi” Gutfield is repurposing Hitler’s “Jewish hypnotism” libel against trans people to transfer guilt from a cis white boy from a conservative family:

> […]

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September 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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## the regime going all in on censorship, while advisors push for mass arrests

The grim times we’ve been expecting are here.

Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX) calls trans people a virus and a cancer that must be censored, isolated, and imprisoned en masse […]

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September 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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## charlie kirk got his wish, why are they complaining?

Charlie Kirk was a vicious racist, misogynist, and anti-queer activist working to recruit anyone he could into his beliefs, someone who wanted LGBT people killed, who considered empathy a “new age” […]

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September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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## “root causes”

I hate linking to _The Hill_ , but here we go:

RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September

No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach […]

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August 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.2

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.2 – 4 August 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.2.

Mostly small updates again this time, but there’s one big one – the Redmond […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic. Screen-resolution preview of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map
August 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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## we didn’t plan to go to worldcon

we didn’t plan to go to worldcon

like, at all

even though it was fucken _here_ , right downtown

because until a few months ago it was going to be utterly impossible, economically (we’ve only really dug out of a two-year […]

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August 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM