Tonight I’m grateful for the delightful Moisture Festival, Seattle’s annual variety arts show each spring! It’s simply wonderful and all smiles.
https://moisturefestival.org/ Eleven more shows through April 12th!
Today I'm grateful for the Amtrak Cascades, taking me back north from Portland to Seattle late this evening. It's janky, wobbly, slow, unreliable, and far from world class, but it still connects me to family across Oregon and Washington, faster, cheaper, and more safely than a car. Choo choo!
Today I’m excited about our 30 new
https://wordplay.dev contributors, learning how to self-direct open source contributions to design, development, localization, research, verification, and more! It’s not easy to scale alone, but we’ll definitely do it together.
Wordplay: Accessible, Multilingual, Programmable Typography
An educational programming language for creating interactive typographic media with code.
It's Trans Day of Visibility. I'm trans. So are ~100 million other people. This world is being terrible to us now, stripping our rights, banning us from public life. You can help by telling your governments and friends to stop being assholes. Thanks!
Today I'm grateful for my uncle Dan, who passed yesterday after 7 years fighting prostate cancer. He was endlessly homophobic, transphobic, and orthodox in his evangelicalism, but he was always willing to debate in good faith about our differences on what it means to love. May he rest in peace.
Today I’m grateful for the 5th cohort of STEP CS, our pre-service teacher education pathway! I’m excited to spend the quarter learning and teaching with our excellent group of 9, sorting through CS, equity, and justice (and yes, AI).
@jmeowmeow They were neighborhood meetups, just to make hyper local organizing visible throughout the region. And I should probably make clear that I was there representing myself and my communities, not specifically the iSchool or UW, though I met lots of UW students today!
My favorite shot from the No Kings community organizing at Seattle center today: Trump babies, musk nazis, a general strike table, and in the background, thousands of people connecting, planning, plotting, and resisting.
Today I’m so excited about the cross lake connection, bringing together the east and west Seattle metro area, increasing frequencies, and opening transit to new communities in the south sound! Two decades of advocacy, engineering research, federal support, and taxpayer support are finally realized.
On July 1st, all trans Idahoans who need to pee will be forced to choose between risking violence or life in prison. Friends, come to WA, we will find you refuge, while fascist ID revels in its hate
https://open.substack.com/pub/transitics/p/trans-people-are-a-myth-idaho-republicans?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
‘Trans People Are a Myth’: Idaho Republicans Pass Extreme Bathroom Ban Carrying 5-Year Prison Sentence
House Bill 752 criminalizes trans bathroom use in all private businesses with severe penalties. While passing it, Republicans argued trans people won't be harmed because they don't exist.
