Farewell, you two amazing humans!! It's be a joy to come along for the ride. 💜💚

120 teachers were given the pink slip this week. kiro7.com/news/local/yel…

A couple neat slides from a webinar tonight by Julia Kintsch, #roadecology maven in Colorado:

1) constructed brushpile designed to provide cover for small mammals and herpetofauna as they move through an underpass, w/ 'photo booth' to capture animal usage;

2) weasel!

If you're wondering why Google search seems directionless and flat out bad this episode should help explain

Washington State History Museum to offer free admission to service members this summer. kiro7.com/news/local/was…

This week's newsletter is about AI's great bait-and-switch, where companies like OpenAI, Rabbit and Humane raise millions of dollars and make outlandish promises about the future, only to deliver a deeply mediocre version of the present.
wheresyoured.at/expectations-v…

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Whoever owns Deadspin appears to be quietly deleting old articles, so if you ever wrote for the site and want to keep your clips, this would probably be a good time to download them.

The driver of a Tesla Cybertruck left behind evidence after damaging a roundabout in Snoqualmie, according to police. kiro7.com/news/local/man…

From my front yard

I’m still tripping over what I saw Friday night.

“Segregation of people based on their romantic lives is not Orthodoxy, nor is it humane. [Sexuality cannot be] the single criterion to either accept or reject people. These are unprecedented things & the result of an imported western puritanism—it is completely anti-Christian.”

Last night the northern lights came out early and disappeared fast.
Spokane Wa

Applies well to Spokane as well.

“My house was on fire and my husband was under the rubble and he didn’t respond to me”, - said 82-year-old Eastern border town Vovchansk resident Tetyana Vasylivna who lost her husband in Russian airstrike today.

apnews.com/article/russia…

There is no weighter evidence of the ROC falling off the Orthodox rails than its construction of the narrative that St. Seraphim of Sarov, who peacefully fed bears in forest, foretold and blessed nuclear weapons. Sad manipulation of his memory. Read here: publicorthodoxy.org/2024/05/09/are…

Sarov is now the home of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, their main centre for nuclear weapons research. I don’t think Seraphim would have approved.

It's been a warm couple of days! Here is a look at some of the record highs and record maximum lows across the region from today and yesterday! Enjoy the sun while it lasts! 🌞 #wawx