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Most #Seattle Public #Library branches have fax machines. You can send faxes free.
Fax, you say? It's long dead to 80s throwback! Who cares!
Answer: Many medical providers will still only accept info requests via fax. IFYKYK
For comparison. The last time I sent a fax from a copy shop, they charged me $27.
#PublicLibraries
Been a while since I posted a greenhouse status update. The roof is almomost completely done, only missing one pane - I broke one putting it up, and itis taken a while to get a replacement.
Also almost halfway done with the wall glass - just two more pones for the bottom concourse. It's really starting to feel like a proher structure!
#seattle crew,
looking for bars / breweries that:
- are dog friendly
- have non alcoholic bevs / mocktails
- would be cool if they had snacks but not required
i know about elysian
it’s a proper poster ratio now
all the margins are the same against the black foamcore
(ignore the weird indent on the upper left this is a quick and crude paste-up on an older map)
This beautiful little junco watercolor is available in my etsy shop. Love these lil buddies
https://maggiepaintsnprints.etsy.com/listing/1816979269/spring-junco-5x7-original-watercolor
So naturally Bob Kettle, city council's most excited ex-cop who wants a spy network, refused to turn over video footage of my assault directly infront of his home surveillance camera
I guess Bob Kettle likes his privacy more than solving crimes.
Yet here we are, spying on a few thousand old asian grannies in the CID and probably helping get them in trouble with ICE.
The constitution, 4th amendment, sound crime research and public comment didn't work, concerned Seattle citizens held a noise demo at Bob Kettle's house. City council's loudest supporter of this crap, ex-SPD cop and current neighborhood watch captain of Queen Anne.
And you know what? Bob's band of sundown town vigilantes violently attacked the protesters and I was smashed in the head for holding a fucking sign.
This legislation SOAP/SODA zones, put forth by Cathy Moore (an ex-Native reservation Court judge) was strongly opposed.
None the less the city council rammed this legislature through.
And Mayor Bruce Harrell, whose up for re-election, happily signed off on this cop city bullshit.
They crushed public comment with massive police presences and violent arrests, with several public commentators still facing charges!
As we said months ago when the city council voted for this dragnet spy network, there are now people whose entire day and life will be on these cameras.
Each of these near neighborhood-wide deployments cover critical services and in some cases enough essential services that a person might be on camera everytime they leave home for years on end.
Seattle's big brother camera network is being deployed along Aurora and in two very dense deployments in the Central District (CID) and a swath of Downtown.
16 on Aurora
17 in CID
30 cameras downtown
The police have self reported the locations of sixty cameras so far on the dashboard below:
https://www.seattle.gov/police/community-policing/community-programs/cctv
Seattle cops have just activated their new 24/7 citywide AI surveillance camera network.
Cops at operations centers will be watching the video from over SIXTY HD cameras in three neighborhoods.
The cops are storing video for 30 days, or indefinably if a cop decides they want to keep it for "investigation".
Seattle residents tried to stop this dragnet, saying it will only empower Trump in our region.
https://stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/spd-cctv-cameras-are-live/