– The new drug possession law is harsher than I would have preferred. I am also not sure what “encourages prosecutors to divert drug possession cases to treatment” will mean in practice.

– It’s filing week, so file for office. Seriously, go for it. If there’s a local position and you don’t like what the incumbent is doing or you don’t like anyone in the race for an open sea,well, make it happen.

– The Queen Anne Taco Bell is far too expensive.

– Multnomah County, get your shit together and spend the money allocated for homeless people. For God’s sake.

– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

It’s too hot. Please for goodness sake, someone do something about it. Like another week of this in May. In May? May? Seriously, May. I don’t like it. We just skipped from low 60’s to mid 80’s? Fuck. In goddam May. This is supposed to be some of the nicest time of the year. Instead it’s just too hot.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

– Cinerama is coming back after a few years of uncertainty. I am looking forward to the very tasty popcorn that makes me kind of sick, as well as the great movie experience.

– Stay cool in this hot times. The forecast just says toooooo hoooooot so do your best here.

– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

– Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and will almost certainly be the Republican nominee. It won’t be less obvious that he’s a serial sexual assailant than the last two times he ran, but this time there’s a jury verdict, too.

– Trailhead Direct is back starting this weekend. So ignore your mothers and go hiking.

– I was following the legislature pretty closely, but I missed the law to protect trans kids from their estranged parents. Good work from the legislature.

Get fucking vaccinated or boosted if you’re goddam eligible.

– Oh look, the transit tunnel is back to almost normal hours today and then full hours tomorrow.

– Here’s something cool Portland is doing with safe rest villages.

– And cool that here in Seattle, the first new affordable housing high-rise tower in decades is opening.

– Get vaccinated or boosted. It’s well past time. Just, fucking get it done.

– I don’t believe that all cops are bastards, but my goodness do we need to do more about the bastard cops.

– This is a tough story about homelessness in Spokane.

– Senator Marko Liias gets a lot of shit for being great.

– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Jay Inslee is not going to seek a 4th term. Not totally unexpected, but still, it feels like the end of an era. It’s still a year and a half away from the election to replace him, so no need to pick just yet. Ferguson and Franz have both done a good job at their current positions, although I was not impressed with Ferguson on the King County Council. Should be an exciting campaign.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

A new connection between Downtown and the waterfront just opened. I live nearby, so I gave it a bit of a test walk. It’s not as bad as maybe Twitter would have you believe. There are buildings blocking most of it from the waterfront. So it isn’t Viaduct Part 2, but at the same time, there isn’t much of a view.

There are sidewalks and bike paths. They may be smaller than you might want, but I am glad that activists have made that sort of thing necessary in projects, even if they absolutely shouldn’t be satisfied. I think when family comes to town and we show them Pike Place, it’ll be easier to show them the waterfront.

But ultimately, the issue is more cars on the waterfront and in the urban core. And yeah, there are already a lot of cars on it. I imagine it will be gridlocked pretty frequently, especially during rush hour.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

– What is happening with the transit tunnel? I understand the tracks needing repair. Shitty but it happens. But if hypothetically, I want to go North, I go to the South platform and make sure the bus is Northbound (presumably from the direction, but also hopefully signage and the intercom). I’m sure there will be signs, but what a mess.

– Man, Jenny Durkan, the more that comes out. Jeez.

The Seattle/ King County free clinic is happening at Seattle Center. Happening now through the weekend.

Hey, hey. Hey you. Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

I wasn’t too worried when the legislature didn’t pass a permanent drug possession bill. I would have preferred money and effort to get people help. Still, we shouldn’t criminalize addiction. And sometimes no solution can be better than a bad solution just to make a deadline. But man, some of the localities that would fill the void. Gross on toast.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Don’t forget to get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by tomorrow. If you live in King County, please vote yes. If you don’t like voting on levies regularly, you can take an Office chair from Tim Eyman.

Anyway, please vote yes on the King County crisis center levy. I have been told that the Vashon parks levy is a good one.

Anyway, Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

After the Tacoma boat fire, I have been thinking about why it got so much less attention than East Palestine. It got plenty of attention locally, and it wasn’t ignored nationally. But national media and activists just haven’t run with it the same.

The visuals are as compelling, and the toxicity is probably worse. It will effect more people, because it’s in a city.

It might be as simple as it is in a city, and people have pretty fucked up notions about cities are dirty already. It might be Tacoma specific: A very diverse place, with a certain reputation plays different from a heartland town. There are also some left activists who are obsessed with blaming everything bad on Pete Buttigieg, and maybe a fishing boat isn’t an excuse to complain about him winning the Iowa Caucasus. Maybe I am too cynical.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Good morning. Yes, SPD should apologize for how it handled the 2020 protests. But as noted in the article, Chief Diaz has already apologized. The department should apologize and apologize and apologize. It was really bad. But absent real reform, or more, does anyone believe it wouldn’t happen again?

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

I got rid of my car recently. I didn’t use it during the pandemic. And then I hardly ever used it outside of commuting. So I finally ditched it. I don’t really miss it.

So I am glad to live in a city where you can (usually) get around without a car. In more cases than a lot of people realize, it’s easier than driving. I’m lucky enough to have an employer who pays for my ORCA Card, so it’s much cheaper.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

More than you might ever want to know about Seattle street trees? Impossible! The map! The pictures! The personal stories! The tree ordinance! What a great read.

Anyway, for gosh sake, wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.