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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/25/21, 7:55 am

What the actual fuck is going on in the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Office? Like how do you combine all of that bullshit into one office? Like, weird COVID-19 garbage should be enough to keep him away from office, and it’s not even the height of his garbage. It’s really incredible. Just lawlessness. Terrible person, and terrible office.

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

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Open Thread Monday Morning

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/23/21, 7:57 am

Good morning. Now that the mask mandate is back in Washington, I want to make sure you do one simple thing. Please, please, please don’t take your mask off to sneeze. You absolute fuckers.

I mean, come on. You have a mask on for a reason. And sneezing into the bus or plane, or whatever is the exact opposite of that reason.

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

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Friday Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/20/21, 7:55 am

I am mostly on board with Governor Inslee’s vaccine and mask mandates. If anything, they could lean harder on vaccination. I also don’t love making vaccinated people wear masks, but it’s better than not having an enforcement mechanism for the unvaccinated. Still, keeping the pressure on for state employees to get vaccinated is a good step.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated if you haven’t already.

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It’s Wednesday. It’s Thread. It’s Open. It’s August. It’s 18. It’s 2021.

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/18/21, 7:56 am

Good morning to everyone who didn’t protest homeless people using the Silver Cloud. Seriously, fuck them. Awful, awful people who should be ashamed of themselves. Protesting in favor of an empty building. Demanding people still live on the street. Fuck off.

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

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Open Thread Monday, August 16, 2021

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/16/21, 6:10 pm

I am back from a lovely vacation. But I did forget to hit Publish.

Anyway, it looks like the heat wave was probably more deadly than we originally thought. I guess those heat events are here to stay. Or at least more common. Pffft

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

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Thursday Afternoon Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Thursday, 8/12/21, 3:43 pm

Happy Thursday, everyone.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/11/21, 6:41 am

Carl has access to WiFi for a few minutes edition.

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Sunday Open Thread?

by Carl Ballard — Sunday, 8/8/21, 12:25 pm

Here’s one.

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Monday Evening Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/2/21, 8:04 pm

Enjoy.

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/30/21, 8:34 am

Over the next few weeks, I will be on vacation. So the open threads will probably be a bit more sporadic. I will be flying for the first time in a couple years, and I really wish more of you had been vaccinated.

Anyway, just a heads up that these threads will be later and potentially weirder than normal.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet. Make a plan today.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/28/21, 8:31 am

Good morning to everyone who got vaccinated. And a gigantic fuck off to the rest of you (those with legitimate medical reasons — not some bullshit you saw on Facebook — excluded). We’re going backwards because you are whiny pathetic shits. So mask mandates are probably back, because you pieces of shit couldn’t act responsibility. Hospitalization is up because you wanted to impress bots on social media.

Honestly, if it’s some made up religious reason, stay in your house. Don’t ever leave. If it’s worth it to you to cosplay the end times, you also can’t buy anything, so stay the fuck away from retail workers.

If you haven’t yet had the vaccine, for God’s sake make an appointment today.

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Open Monday Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/26/21, 8:04 am

I was going to write about how your ballot should have arrived if you live in Washington, and get it postmarked or dropped off by August 3. That’s still true, but I want to talk about masks.

I still wear one inside. I am vaccinated and that’s much better protection than a mask. But the mask provides a bit more protection against breakthrough cases. So I still wear it grocery shopping, in the common areas of my apartment building, etc. I don’t wear glasses or have stink breath, so wearing one isn’t bad for me. You might have made a different calculation, and that’s fine.

So this morning, I got some food at a coffee shop near me. And the barista was very insistent about how it wasn’t necessary. We went through several rounds of “You don’t need to wear that.” “I know.”

It seems weird to push against masks, just in general. There are still a lot of non vaccinated people, even in Seattle. And maybe one employee isn’t a lot, but I don’t like it.

Anyway, yes, the vaccine is still the single most effective way to fight COVID-19. So please get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

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Friday Morning Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/23/21, 7:58 am

Fingers crossed, but so far it has been smoke free in and around Seattle. But for the rest of the state, it’s already there. So I think the City of Seattle’s Wildfire Smoke Guide is pretty good. Alot of it is pretty basic, but it’s a good start.

And speaking of things that can make it tough to breathe, get your COVID-19 vaccine today if you haven’t yet.

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Wednesday is for Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/21/21, 7:55 am

Man am I depressed by the after effects of the heatwave (and future of climate change). So, shellfish are dead and the surviving ones are more likely to have vibrio bacteria. Hawks and terns (and probably other birds) are dying. It’s bleak.

Anyway, please get vaccinated if you haven’t been yet.

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If it’s Monday, it’s Open Thread.

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/19/21, 7:58 am

In 40 years, we’re going to tell young people that it wasn’t always this hot. That 80+ degree days West of the Cascades were a rarity. That we never thought about smoke. Let’s at least not leave them the worst possible outcome.

And, hey let’s also leave them with a COVID-19 free word, so get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

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