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Casey

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Out here making friends on the internet like my parents told me not to. she/they 🐈‍⬛🏳️‍🌈📚🌲🧠😷

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · Sep 16

📞 The void is experiencing unusually high call volumes. Please continue to supply treats, and your request will be processed in the order which she feels like. Thank you for your patience and treats, and please know we are proud of you for asking for help.

A black cat with an orange collar looking almost right at the camera

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 2h

You’re literally doing “but what was she wearing?” here. Gross.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

It's up to drivers to drive safely, and bright colors don't make a difference when drivers aren't paying attention.

screenshot of a post by the Surrey Road Policing Unit (UK), which has an attached photo showing a police car with hi-viz yellow paint, and the rear wheel has been crushed into the side of the car by another driver. the post text reads:
How have you turned this into a discussion about high viz?
We have cars covered in it and big flashy lights and drivers STILL don't see us.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3h

OOP!!!! I love that. “ChatGPT is for third party thinkers.”

We have no choice but to drag them.

Tayci @taycibear.bsky.social · 3h

When I asked my eldest if he's ever used that he said he's not a third party thinker.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes the red heart just feels a bit too personal/romantic for online folks. I think I tend to default to one of 🩵💙💜 where 🩵 feels extra bluesky to me.

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tammymorales.bsky.social @tammymorales.bsky.social · 3h

🤦🏽‍♀️
The mayor's budget priorities speak volumes. If you're not wealthy, he just doesn't care about your livability in this city.
#VoteforKatie
#ThisIsYourCity

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6h

With 22 full time employees devoted to graffiti abatement in Bruce Harrell's 2026 budget, that team would officially be twice as large as SDOT's Vision Zero team (11 people).

“One Seattle Graffiti Plan” - Citywide initiative for graffiti removal, including targeted enforcement
and assistance for impacted businesses, support for public art and volunteer clean-up efforts.
• The 2026 Proposed Budget adds $2.1 million and 6 FTE, bringing the total Citywide expenditures
for graffiti abetment to $6.1 million and 22 FTE.
• Proposed budget also includes transfer of existing staff and funding from SPU to SPR. Details will
be further discussed in the upcoming Seattle Parks and Recreation presentation.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 3h

But wait!, there's more!

I (and probs you too, dear reader) live in a capitalist society where the best-paying jobs are mostly all thought work.

Covid fucks with your brain in many ways, just take a gander at the research.

By consistently masking in public spaces, I'm protecting my earning power.

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 4h

Brains are asshole liars sometimes! I really love the happy little bots you make, and the reminders to take meds and do my stretchies. 💜

Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 4h

Any tips on dealing with Air Canada missing checked luggage? Special hone numbers or magic phrases?
Family member has a difficult to replace piece of equipment currently missing. :/

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

He's a problem-maker, not a problem-solver.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 4h

As people start thinking about holiday donation drive: reminder that the Salvation Army is both homophobic and requires people to attend Christian religious services to get aid, there are lots of organizations out there that don't hate some of your employees, and you should support one of them!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Posts about people returning to their homes are designed to elicit a sense of conclusion, of normality, that simply does not exist when Israel dropped the equivalent of multiple nuclear weapons on an area the size of Seattle.

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 4h

If I weren’t embarrassed about some of the things I used to believe, that would mean I’d never grown!

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 4h

~I~ used to be less accepting of differences. ~I~ used to be less progressive. ~I~ used to not see my own biases and prejudices. I can say those things because of how much I disagree with my past-self. I don't spend any of my remaining air defending the younger version of me who sucked.

Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

Are you fucking kidding me?!?

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7h

Council Takes Up Harrell's "Inherently Unsustainable" Budget; New Spending Includes $800,000 in Speculative AI Spending

Today's Morning Fizz:

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Council Takes Up Harrell's "Inherently Unsustainable" Budget; New Spending Includes $800,000 in Speculative AI Spending - PubliCola

1. Your sales taxes are going up next year, thanks to a vote by the City Council Tuesday that approved…

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

hopefully your noise cancelling headphones are charged!

Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

AND we could stop ICE from detaining an absurd number of people? (or anyone, really)

Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

We’re all subject to propaganda, especially when it’s so pervasive.

I WANT there to be true peace.
I WANT us to not have to worry about COVID.

That doesn’t make them true.

Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

We’ve watched this happen with COVID. The lie is more convenient to those in power, so that becomes the narrative, even as people continue to be hurt and die.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

I feel thrown by the widespread proclamations of a glorious, lasting peace in Gaza. A lot even treats “now that it’s all over” as the unquestioned premise.

It still looks like a disaster to me. Am I way off? Are my domestic politics distorting my view? Either the consensus is wrong or I am.

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 11h

or rallying around white mediocrity when competence and courage are most needed.

White liberals love to distance themselves from conservatives, as if complicity requires a MAGA hat.

But history keeps proving that when whiteness feels threatened,

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

Please do not fall for a legislature's pretextual excuse just because they have chosen a pretext you happen to agree with.

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 22h

very cool 😎

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

Remember: You can't force a site or service to treat minors differently than adults without requiring EVERY USER to establish whether they're an adult. Which is, inherently, a deanonymization mandate, because to verify age, you must verify identity.

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 23h

Yep! And I like songs and get them stuck in my head and everything. I do struggle when people try to point out certain technical details and no one has ever accused me of having rhythm. 😅

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 23h

It’s me! I don’t dislike music, and I understand why people can get really passionate about it, but I clearly don’t have that kind of intensity about it. I can go weeks without opening the music app. If most people go from “music is great” to “music is the best thing ever” and I think it’s fine?

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