Roe v Wade is almost certainly going to be overturned. It’s awful. It’s going to mean a lot of women, trans men nonbinary people, and other people who can get pregnant are going to have much worse life outcomes. Including, but hardly limited to, dying in childbirth and raising unwanted children. Awful.

It will probably be state by state for a while. Here in Washington abortion will still be legal for now. Of course the people who spent the last several decades talking about states rights will try to take bans national.

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

Forgot about this. Running behind, but at least there’s a thread.

I don’t claim any expertise in the Seattle Community Court. But it seems good. And I certainly don’t trust Ann Davison. So, I am pretty skeptical of her plan to send fewer people there and more to prison. Especially if they are only committing very low level misdemeanors.

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

Good morning to everyone except for the people in Edmonds trying to criminalize homelessness. Jesus, man. 5 years in prison for a second offense. And they have the temerity to call their approach “compassionate”? Get the fuck out of here.

Anyway, I am glad it didn’t pass, but I couldn’t figure out from the article when it will be heard again. So if you live in Edmonds, you may want to contact your city council members and, politely, ask them to actually be compassionate, rather than using it as a buzzword while doing the opposite.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you haven’t yet.

Sorry, sorry. I got the first alert that I was in proximity to someone with COVID-19 since the pandemic started. Honestly, I wasn’t sure it was working. My contact was last Monday, but honestly I don’t know when that would be. Best guess someone else in my building at work, but it’s weird that nobody else at my job got the notice. Anyway, I was working from home today, and I slept in this morning, then just dropped the ball.

But it’s out of an abundance of caution now because I have no symptoms and am testing negative. Hurray for vaccines and boosters.

It feels weird that advice reporting in the President coming to town is treated as a traffic story. I don’t know, his Earth Day speech will probably be pretty important, avoid Seward Park.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get the fuck vaccinated or boosted.

I think everyone who (a) drives and (b) lives in Seattle’s urban core has taken a mistaken drive through Pike Place Market. I can remember not being able to find parking, so I took a punt on the market. Will, who used to write here, was a passenger and he was making fun of me the whole time. It’s so slow going, and you don’t really know how people are going to behave. found a spot, but it was just so miserable.

And that, more than the obvious improvement for pedestrians, has always baffled me about the debate about closing the market to cars. Honestly, it’s slow and awful. You don’t get to the other side faster than going down First Ave.

Driving in Seattle can be pretty shit at times. But Seattle can save new people from that particular mistake. And make the Market better for the people who use it.

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

Good morning to everyone except Mike Kreidler. Come on, guy. At a minimum, there needs to be a serious investigation. At this point, he should seriously consider resigning. I am not really OK with throwing out an election based on a couple of (very serious) articles. But it has already been more than a month and I don’t see any signs of a serious investigation. I assume there are more shoes to drop.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re enough of a dumdum not have done it yet.

“You are bad at driving, and should stop.” I feel like Seattle drivers have got worse recently. Maybe they forget post commute. But also, it seems like a lot of the bad driving is Uber and Lyft drivers. Parking in the crosswalk, crossing multiple lanes to drop people off. Blowing through red lights.

So when I see something, especially if they come close to hitting a a pedestrian, a bike, or a car, I just say, loudly but not yelling, “you are bad at driving, and should stop.” I hope if you have come close to hitting someone, or if you actually have, that you will take this advice.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And of you’re unvaccinated or unboosted, get that done.

Good morning to everyone except the right wing jackals who are trying to repeal the capital gains tax. Seriously, pay your fair share. I can’t imagine having $100,000 to spend on an initiative, and not thinking that you have too much money. Just, like, morally.

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

As spring comes, I have been walking around town more. And my goodness has the sweeps heavy approach to homeless been not effective. Now whole blocks are lined with tents.

But at least the police are still investigating important things. Oh. Well um. They should probably investigate rape more than harrass homeless people with nowhere to go.

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

I went to Art Walk yesterday. There was some interesting art, but I want to talk about masks.

I don’t understand how in some places everyone was masked up, and in others hardly anyone did. One had a sign saying that masks were still required, but even in several galleries that didn’t, everyone, or almost everyone was masked. In another, it was maybe a quarter. Presumably it’s the same people going from one gallery to the next.

I really love the vibe of Art Walk. That kind of free fun in old, cramped Pioneer Square buildings. I have been going since I was a kid. But the last couple years learning about disease spread, and COVID-19 in particular, I think I’ll keep the mask for a while.

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

Sorry I missed Monday’s thread. Anyway…

Man, if anything can unite drivers, bicycle riders, bus riders, and walkers it’s fuck those jerks blocking the box. Seriously, they think they’re being soooo goddam smart. Like congratulations on getting 3 feet closer to your destination while fucking things over for everyone else during rush hour.

So, yeah. Fuck those dipshits. Enforce the rules on them. Instead of being angry, we can smile at the fines they’ll get. Much more satisfying than honking or giving them the finger (although obvi, you can do both).

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And if you aren’t vaccinated or boosted, get on it.

Oh hey, Governor Inslee signed the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert law. I suppose that we all knew this would happen when it passed both Houses of the Legislature unanimously. Still, it’s good that it’s official. I hope that it helps.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you aren’t yet.

Green Lake should let bikes back on the main trail. I haven’t taken my bike there since the pandemic, but have walked around it a few times. It’s fine. But I never noticed a problem walking on the path pre pandemic. It made a certain amount of sense when we didn’t realize how much being outside helped curb the spread. But there’s no reason to keep bicycles off the path now.

Anyway, wash your hands right now, you filthy weirdo. And for goodness sake get vaccinated or boosted if you are eligible.