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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 1h

That's was a factor driving private schools in the 80s. Looking back. I can't think of any non-white or hispanic kids at 2 seperate private schools I attended over 6 years, one pentacostal, one baptist. Thankfully I was able to attend public high school, a bit more diverse.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 2h

Self loathing gays are the worst.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 2h

We got our lead the old fashioned way, tail pipes and paint chips.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 2h

It's moot, they already were ignoring and circumventing laws.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 1d

Weird, the guy you chose to honor last month, Charlie Kirk, had a different view.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to the giant "sidewalk iPads"? Please don't tell me this is what will be on those "iPads" between commercials.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 2d

Locals aren't surprised by Kruse's MAGA grift, they're performing surprise to avoid admitting they enabled it. Her "both sides" shtick platformed right-wing frames but made them feel sophisticated. She admitted going MAGA made her "more successful." The incentive structure was obvious.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 3d

CPB is where this has been festering. Love visiting Canada or most any other country, feel so welcomed.
Loathe returning to the US.

Had a CPB agent give me shit for filling out one customs form for me and my husband the day before gay marriage was legalized.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3d

From admins to agents: if you work for ICE, you're not a good person.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 4d

A job that pays $17-$27/ hr? Yeah funk that noise.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 5d

They just need somewhere to eat lunch and take a piss. Thinking maybe some Honey Buckets & a mobile Mc Ds would do.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 5d

Seattle checking in, silver medalists in passive-aggression! My East Coast husband has gone full native, mastering the "that's interesting" and strategic pause.

Canada still holds the gold though. You've had centuries more practice at being polite while roasting someone. 🍁

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful piece. The key insight: Harrell worth $15M told struggling Black entrepreneurs at Columbia Tower Club to stop asking for help and just "compete." Meanwhile he raids affordable housing $ for wealthy donors. Representation without material change is theater. We need accountability.

Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 6d

Extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced from one of Seattle’s best, Marcus Harrison Greene:

southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'

From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

southseattleemerald.org

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

My brothers and cousins here in the US, drug addicted, dead or moved back to Sweden where they live on disability.

I've done ok, as I was gifted, read encycylopedias and rode my bike to the library multiple times a week in grade school.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

Also many immigrants were given a solid education in their home country, something we fail to deliver here. My parents were immigrants, as did 3 of my dad's brothers.

My cousins in Norway and Sweden, school mostly paid for. Health care, covered. Doctor's, Biologists, Physicists & programmers.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

The "immigrant empire builder" highlights rare exceptions, not typical experiences. Most immigrants AND native-born people work hard and struggle. The real issue: an economy where hard work no longer guarantees security. Comparing exceptions to averages obscures systemic problems affecting everyone.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

Just started researching my father's exposure to Nazis who occupied his home in Norway and how it might have shaped his personality. He was born less than a year before the invasion, and spoke better German than Norwegian at the age of 5. He also bonded with Polish POWs, they gave him candy which.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

We see it. The people who could actually stop this are too invested in the system to use real power. So it falls to the rest of us to build something that doesn't depend on their permission.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

Same pattern everywhere: Proven automated enforcement gets blocked by "freedom" rhetoric and intimidation, so politicians choose expensive surveillance theater instead. Car lobby wins, public safety loses. At least Munich got it right, Seattle and much of the US are still stuck.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

You're right. Unmonitored cameras can't stop crime in real time, so they're just building surveillance infrastructure for later.

Seattle's building a police state instead of solving problems. Pining for "hard on crime" '90s, when crime is at historic low levels.

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

San Francisco uses cameras to enforce traffic laws, reduce crashes, and fund safety.

Seattle uses cameras to watch people, expand police surveillance, and drain budgets.

Katie Wilson will bring proven solutions to Seattle. Harrell chose backward priorities.

#WilsonForMayor

🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

Seattle's "Real Time Crime Center":
• $3.1M taxpayer cost
• Expensive staff monitoring 14 hours/day (can't afford 24/7)
• ZERO revenue generation
• Effectiveness unproven
• Built while cutting $1.8M in rental assistance

This is surveillance theater, not public safety.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months:
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements

This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.

Split-screen illustration comparing two public safety models: the left shows an automated speed camera reducing speeding and funding a “Community Safety Fund” in green-blue tones, while the right shows a dim red surveillance control room labeled “Resource Drain” with operators watching multiple screens.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

IF cameras literally turn off for 10 hours:
→ Criminal activity just shifts to the 10-hour dark window
→ Surveillance becomes theater, not deterrent
→ $3.1M for part-time cameras is even worse value

EITHER WAY: This undermines every justification for the investment

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 7d

IF cameras record 24/7 but are only "monitored" 14/7:
→ Then we're building a $3.1M archive system, not a crime prevention system
→ Footage reviewed AFTER crimes occur, not preventing them
→ This is evidence collection, not the "real-time" crime prevention claimed

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