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Hey all, "quick" intro summary- I grew up in Northern WA 'bout 30 mins from Kenmore. My educational upbringing was complex, I'd attended 6 different schools in Washington throughout my K-12 journey, one was Inglemoor. My primary tether in that journey was Washington's stellar ecological educational pathways. Imagine my disdain & hopelessness when I encountered the attached info board last week in the Kenmore Schools Arboretum, maybe 500ft from an elementary school where children are learning how to read. Info: this was installed within the last month. It was done with maintenance of the park, which is highly appreciated. However, A.I "info" is NOT. Before you ask, as an artist myself, I'm about 99.9% sure these images are A.I generated. There were absolutely 0 credits done on this information board. No sources cited, not a single person or organizations name was available. I originally emailed Kenmore city council about this in a fit and was informed this park is maintained by Northshore School District. Apologies bc I was honestly so pissed off that I was shaking, but there's a typo in the first pic: "spin as they fail!" and arbitrary quotes around "mouse tails". We are teaching the next generation thoughtlessness; this info board has no business next to an elementary school where children are taking in their first bits of information about the world, building their foundations. Children should be learning to collaborate with other people, how to communicate the language they are learning and becoming passionate and excited about the world around them - not learning computer generated fantasy while techies get rich off their ignorance and vulnerabilities. Just wanted you to know, as I know there are many parents who don't make it often to this arboretum due to the lack of maintenance over the years. Now that it's again accessible, I'm hoping more of our community members having this visibility can increase pressure to negotiate with NSD to remove this and add regulations against A.I being used unvetted for childrens educational materials. For the lazy, busy or otherwise nonchalant, here's a TLDR: There's A.I slop in a Northshore School District owned park not 700ft from an elementary school; it has typoes and A.I generated art on it. You should tell Northshore Schools this is unacceptable.

I've tried quite a few around here, and they all seem to have some level of scammy payment systems. Ballard Modern Dentistry being among the worst. Anyone know of a normal dentist?

It makes me incredibly sad and break down into tears when I think about how hard its been to make genuine friends in this city. And I don't mean acquaintances or the people you talk to at work. I mean genuine friends that you can text about your promotion and they're genuinely happy for you or who check in on you when you tell them that you've been struggling with your mental health. People who actually put in the effort to give a shit about you and who want to make it feel like you have a supportive community of people around you. I moved from Bellingham to Seattle at 18 to go to University of Washington. I got a CS degree, I work at FAANG, I'm a left-leaning white man, and honestly I am about as much of a stereotype as you could think of when you think of a Seattleite. It's so easy to find someone who matches my profile but somehow it feels like forming genuine, intimate connections with any of those people is impossible. I think in the past 13 years I have made maybe 1-2 honest-to-God, real friends in this city, BOTH of them during college. After college it's been nobody, and those 1-2 honest friends have moved out of the city. There have been a ton of acquaintances through work and through my partner's friend circle. But jobs change and suddenly I never talk to those people again. I break up with my partner and suddenly I never hear from those people again. I try reaching out to some of those people and make more genuine connections with them, but the moment I put in less effort with them or stop texting for a week, the "friendship" I was trying to form just suddenly vanishes. And then I get really sad because I'm reminded that it's the same cycle over and over again with people in this city. It's just so frustrating how it feels like nobody wants to connect with anybody here. I try and be open and welcoming and to try and get to know people, but every single fucking friendship is either incredibly surface level, has some sort of string attached (like working at the same company) or it just fizzles. I do love living in this city. I really really do. I have a great apartment in a great part of the city. I genuinely like my job. I make really good money. I'm a 2 hour drive away from my family. It's why I've stayed here my entire adult life, and it's borderline perfect for me in a lot of ways. But I'm so so so so tired of how impossible it feels to make friends in this city and its gotten to the point where I'm so sad and feel so disconnected that I feel like I want to leave. Please, I just want to feel connected with people for once in this city.

And we are back! It's Tuesday - not Monday - but it's time for the Council to start meeting again. Today we start the Budget Summit. It's not glorious work, I bet its tedious, and I bet no one has fun at the meetings - but it's also important. This meeting will lay out the financial situation going forward, address Council priorities and discuss the process for adopting the budget. It is slated to be 3 hours long. I will be watching from home this time, but if you can it is important that you attend. Agenda - default As always, 6PM, in the Council Chambers at the Govt complex on 44th. You can attend in person or virtually. City Council Meetings – City of Lynnwood Next week they meet back on the regular Monday.

I keep going to the Goodwill Outlet in Sodo on weekday mornings and it’s completely hit or miss. I work freelance so I can usually get there when it’s not totally insane. Found a pair of Salomon trail shoes last month that were somehow almost exactly my size. They were filthy but after a couple hours cleaning them they were fine. Before that I swear I went like 5 or 6 weeks without finding anything worth taking home. Mostly busted fleece stuff and jackets that had clearly been through some things lol. I hike around Issaquah and Tiger Mountain pretty often and I’m slowly trying to build up my gear without buying everything new at REI. I can afford some of it, I just really hate paying full price when the same stuff might be sitting in a thrift store for $15. Anyone local have spots I should try? Mostly looking for hiking stuff. I’ve had pretty bad luck at Value Village so far.

I’ve only flown Delta out of Seattle and have run into issues where baggage check lanes don’t open until 4 or 5am…I’ll be flying Air Canada and was planning to check my bag until I remembered how early my flight is. Has anyone flown Air Canada out of Seattle this early (5am) and checked a bag on time? I can’t find information when they open their baggage check lane(s) to know if I’ll be cutting it close or miss my flight just from waiting in line. Note that I do have TSA precheck so I’m not too worried about time getting through after my bag is handled.

Hey everyone, My neighbors, friends and I have been woken up by repeat noise violations in the Factoria Mall area (more specifically in the T&T Parking lot area) usually by people using 3 simultaneous leaf blowers and other equipment as early as 6:10 AM (other times at 5:45!). Other times, there has been things such as the street lamps in the mall parking lot being replaced it looked like (like the actual whole entire metal portion of the lamps were being lifted by some construction vehicles) at 5:30 AM! It's extremely upsetting given my neighbors have a recent newborn only 15 days old and they can't get sleep with the leaf blowers going from 6:10 in the morning for longer than 2 hours (it's 8:20 AM right now and they're still at it). I simply went to ask who hired them to ask the hiring people to change the hours but the workers mocked me saying "it's almost 7, why you complain?". I made it clear that I'm not trying to get them specifically in trouble or anything, rather I'm trying to find out who is hiring them and they refused to answer yet instead again mocking with "go call police, they don't care". My neighbors are too afraid to make reports so I've taken it upon myself to do so and this would be the 4th time but no change is happening. I've asked for a Reference # this time and honestly it doesn't seem like a report is actually being filed when I call the 425-577-5656 Non-emergency line I've been directed to call (apparently this most recent Ref # is "660").

New Comedy Open Mic in North Seattle, at Broadview Tap House, presented by TourComedy (a Seattle-based national comedy company). Come grab a locally brewed beverage on-tap (non-alcoholic and tap rootbeer too), watch Seattle's top local comedy talent, and/or try out stand-up comedy! All ages welcome.

The dark days are sneaking up upon us and I will need to be walking alone before the sun comes up. Specifically I will be walking from first hill to cap hill around 5am. I know some people that have been followed a couple times when leaving work at the hospitals late. How safe or unsafe will this be?

I found the place that rents 14’ 9.9 boats for the day. Would it be reasonable to get from Pt Defiance over to Gig Harbor? It looks like it, but Im not familiar with your waterways. Second time to the area, tons of boat experience, even in big water. New York state, lake ontario & st. Lawrence river, used to quick changing weather/conditions and navigating ships/large boats in smaller vessels. Any recommendations of other places that rent boats? Would rather drive myself than charter a captain. Any Fishing tips for simple catches around the point? Ill be using whatever crap you can rent from the parks. TLDR - I know it’s dependent on the day and conditions but would it generally be safe to travel from Pt defiance to gig harbor in a little boat? Thanks & see you guys next week!