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Kate Macfarlane
@katemacfarlane.bsky.social
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Seattleite. Likes: maps, dogs, plants, ice cream, walkable cities. Dislikes: fascist takeovers, climate change, most zoning, beets

Hawking whistles since 2025 (@wawhistles.bsky.social)
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I helped develop this bill! So fun to see it in the wild.

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Drake meme. Top panel, with Drake looking away, says “convincing city councils to legalize more housing” Bottom panel, with Drake happily pointing, says “statewide housing bills”
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Familiar Touch
Moving poster for Familiar Touch
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Remember these prescription lists from the last Trump administration?

That’s a lot of Ambien and Provigil (fighter pilot speed), not to mention ketamine, morphine, fentanyl, xanax…..

media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/...
Screen shot of exhibit from linked report. Shows handwritten entries for 2000 tabs of ambien and 1000 of provigil, among others Screen shot of exhibit from linked report. Shows handwritten entries for 4000+ tabs of ambien, 1900 of provigil, also lorazepam, diazepam, ketamine, morphine, fentanyl…
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Gross
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Seattle showed up today!

We got there late and missed the rally, but the march was massive, joyful, and multigenerational.
Also totally non-violent as far as I could tell. We marched towards the end of the parade and didn’t see any graffiti or smashed windows
Me and my dog Koji. I’m a white woman wearing a yellow fleece, Smokey the Bear hat, and a sign that says Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars. Koji is a large grey labradoodle wearing red and orange fire costume with a sign that says Melt ICE Protest signs from the parade in downtown Seattle. Prominent signs read Chicken a la No King” and “CAST DOWN the mighty from their thrones, and LIFT UP the lowly!” Lots of pride flags, costumes, and other signs, including drawing of Trump on the toilet Phot from Seattle No Kings march, showing the protest moving past the Showgirls building on 1st. There’s an inflatable pink unicorn, a giraffe, lots of pride flags, and a sign that says “Fuck You you traitorous trouter turd rancid bigot” Koji on the bus. He’s a large grey labradoodle lying in the floor of the bus, wearing a fire costume that says Melt Ice
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Seattle crows, welcome to the war on cars
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Volunteer Park dahlia garden is popping off #seattle
Beautiful red pink dahlia with other colors of dahlias in the background Big pink yellow dahlia
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Don’t forget this chinless wonder
Screenshot from post video showing face of older white man wearing ERO tactical vest and baseball cap. Because of fat on neck and face he has no chin whatsoever. Screenshot from post video showing face of older white man wearing ERO tactical vest and baseball cap. Because of fat on neck and face he has no chin whatsoever. Side profile shows his big weird ears and grey hair.
October 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Nathan Rouse mailer Reverse side of Nathan Rouse mailer
July 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Sara Nelson mailer. Don’t vote for Sara Nelson though - vote Dionne Foster Back side of Sara Nelson mailer. Don’t vote for Sara Nelson though - vote Dionne Foster
July 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Text from Stand Up America supporting Seattle Prop 1
July 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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The fight took place in the mature Prunus tree outside my 3rd floor apartment, more specifically over a ratty nest. Actual rat’s nest? Or maybe the squirrel’s nest, although I didn’t think they used plastic. Either way there was lots of cawing and skittering.
Photo of the fight location: dense foliage and branches near the crown of a large plum tree. In the middle there’s a shadowy mass of sticks and plastic, presumably somebody’s nest.
July 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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To their credit, SDOT plans to improve this section this year.

www.seattle.gov/transportati...

But, the example is barely an improvement. It’s just paint and finger-wagging signs, the latter placed out of the way to avoid inconveniencing drivers even mildly.
photo on SDOT website, titled “permanent treatment options” with caption “Example of permanent Healthy Street sign base and planter from the Ballard Healthy Street.” It shows slightly more robust concrete bases for the Street Closed signs. Painted arrows suggest the illusion of a narrowing street. But the street is not physically narrowed at all, and the Street Closed signs are positioned in the parking lane and out of the roadway.
July 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Somehow I don’t feel very comfortable walking in this “Healthy Street.”
View of a street and sidewalk - Columbia St at 13th, facing east. In the parking strip there’s a sandwich board advertising a “Healthy Streets Survey.” Several feet away in the street lie the crumpled remains of a “Street Closed” sign, with the words barely visible and facing the ground. The sign and its bright orange base were clearly run over. Several orange traffic sit nearby, close enough to warn speeding drivers of the potential hazard but positioned out of the roadway.
July 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Vic Bishop? Literal dinosaur Vic Bishop?
- 84yo, retired in 2007
- thinks widening roads solves congestion (it doesn’t)
-doesn’t think humans are accelerating climate change (we are)
- loser for state representative
- lives in $2M home (bought in 2001 for 491k)

patch.com/washington/s...
Photo of Vic Bishop, an elderly white man, taken in 2019
July 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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So who is Al Rosenthal, the guy suing to block 100 homes for people exiting homelessness?

-3x loser for state representative

-lives in a $1.6M home in Bellevue (bought in 1993 for 215k)

-owns 3 commercial properties: a Safeway parking lot (value: $5.6M), strip mall ($4M), and another in Redmond
Photo of Al Rosenthal, balding white man, wearing a suit
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Dog tax
Dog wearing Melt Ice costume with fake fire
June 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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#Seattle protest today against ICE at the Federal Building
Black and white flyer reading ICE OUT! Show up today Wed 6/11 * 1 pm- Federal building 2nd and Madison Downtown Seattle We heart supplies: water, more water, food, saline solution, spare black clothes, umbrellas, trash bags, gloves Come anytime: 1 pm is best. Later is great too. Join when you can. Bring a friend.
June 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This absolute unit at 21st & E Pine
Giant tree (oak?) planted in a traffic circle. Its trunk is wrapped in red yard or string
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Huge crowds at Seattle Center today for #handsoff. Lots of kids, dogs, amazing signs and costumes.
Photo of protestors. Signs read “Looks like America stepped in some DOGE shit” and “Alexa change the president” Photo of crowd of protestors in front of the space needle Child sitting in the grass with a sign that says “down with the patriarchy” written in rainbow crayon Fluffy grey dog wearing sign that says “Dogs against DOGE” and “No Kings”
April 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Worse, the 163 number includes e-bikes.

Seattle has a lot of e-bikes.
Screenshot of first paragraph and a half of the KUOW article linked in initial tweet. Highlighted text: “163 serious injuries from e-scooters or e-bikes”
April 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM