Finn @finn@social.seattle.wa.us

it's just gone from pouring rain and cloudy outside, to pouring rain and blindingly sunny.

Welcome to the weekend, #Seattle

C c c colors #seattle

Related: any #Seattle folk who would like a couple of boxes of computer books? Some of them, plus all my Dr. Dobbs and Wired magazines, are going to a grandson. The rest I'll otherwise be dropping off somewhere.

#seattle residents, especially on the North Side, please take a few minutes to examine the proposed revamp for transit that will happen when the new Link stations open. There is an opportunity to give feedback and you would be well served to take advantage of it.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/programs-projects/fares-routes-and-service/north-link-connections.aspx

Today in #Seattle there were two shootings. Downtown is a mess and busses have been re-routed since the first incident.

Cops shot a guy in Belltown just after 3pm, and then a couple hours later, a shooter killed one person and injured 6 others near Westlake before escaping.

Link goes to 2nd incident, KING5's coverage,
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/witnesses-on-seattle-shooting/281-547107b8-59a0-4e53-8a66-0f109bd03e9c

Crossing signal #gnome, spotted on #PhinneyRidge #Seattle

Free Vaccinations in Federal Way, WA for 18 and under.

https://twitter.com/FWPS210/status/1217221687755735040

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hi! if anybody knows someone in the seattle area who's queer and does taxes (especially small business taxes) professionally I would love to pay them! feel free to DM me a contact :)

Futel — New public phone at Open Signal, NE Martin Luther King Jr at NE Graham St #pdx
https://futelco.tumblr.com/post/190301981914/new-public-phone-at-open-signal-ne-martin-luther

ebooks that are only released with DRM are basically telling me "if you want to read this you have to pirate it" and if that's what they want, so be it. Liberate them for everyone https://thufie.lain.haus/liberation.html#free

You could also just, y'know, not publish with DRM on an ebook platform.

Aberdeen (WA) is getting quite a bit of snow. Not sure how everyone else is doing.

How are you doing #pnw -esterners?

i told my kid that a rule can be bad, and that a rule is bad if it causes you to hurt people. the example of a bad rule i gave was it being illegal in some places to give food to houseless people.

i said that being arrested doesn't mean that you've done something bad, and it typically means that you've broken a rule. so i told her that the job of police is to arrest and punish people who have broken a rule, even if the rule is one that hurts people.

Rubber ducky snow day #Seattle

If anyone in #Seattle needs #EmergencyShelter from the cold weather, I saw this flyer about the Seattle Center Exhibiton Hall being open nights for January 12th thru January 19th. Sorry it's Salvation Army run, but it is open to all genders 18+ so please get out of the freezing temps if you are #houseless.

This image was screencapped from birbsite, from the #Seattle NWS office.

A Tale Of Two Lynnwoods, aka The #ConvergenceZone

These two pictures are the same city, just two mile apart.