#kingcounty — Public Fediverse posts

WA produce safe from national Cyclospora scare https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/7587/ #cyclosporiasis #Health #KingCounty #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA produce safe from national Cyclospora scare https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/7587/ #cyclosporiasis #Health #KingCounty #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA produce safe from national Cyclospora scare https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/7587/ #cyclosporiasis #Health #KingCounty #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA produce safe from national Cyclospora scare https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/7587/ #cyclosporiasis #Health #KingCounty #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

I am not safe in Kentucky nor with my toxic roommate as a disabled trans woman. I need $1650 to break my lease. I don't know if I'll even be able to afford rent next month. I also need to figure out who I can crash with while I figure things out.

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Venmo: @twentykal
https://ko-fi.com/kebokyo

Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #FediHelp #QueerMutualAid #TransMoving #MastodonMutualAid #FediMutualAid #Chicago #NYC #SanFrancisco #Philidelphia #Pittsburgh #Milwaukee #Seattle #Portland #KingCounty #Detroit

I am not safe in Kentucky nor with my toxic roommate as a disabled trans woman. I need $1650 to break my lease. I don't know if I'll even be able to afford rent next month. I also need to figure out who I can crash with while I figure things out.

PLEASE BOOST AND SHARE.

Venmo: @twentykal
https://ko-fi.com/kebokyo
https://liberapay.com/kebokyo/

Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #FediHelp #QueerMutualAid #TransMoving #MastodonMutualAid #FediMutualAid #Chicago #NYC #SanFrancisco #Philidelphia #Pittsburgh #Milwaukee #Seattle #Portland #KingCounty #Detroit

I am not safe in Kentucky nor with my toxic roommate as a disabled trans woman. I need $1650 to break my lease. I don't know if I'll even be able to afford rent next month. I also need to figure out who I can crash with while I figure things out.

PLEASE BOOST AND SHARE.

Venmo: @twentykal
https://ko-fi.com/kebokyo

Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #FediHelp #QueerMutualAid #TransMoving #MastodonMutualAid #FediMutualAid #Chicago #NYC #SanFrancisco #Philidelphia #Pittsburgh #Milwaukee #Seattle #Portland #KingCounty #Detroit

I am not safe in Kentucky nor with my toxic roommate as a disabled trans woman. I need $1650 to break my lease. I don't know if I'll even be able to afford rent next month. I also need to figure out who I can crash with while I figure things out.

PLEASE BOOST AND SHARE.

Venmo: @twentykal
https://ko-fi.com/kebokyo

Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #FediHelp #QueerMutualAid #TransMoving #MastodonMutualAid #FediMutualAid #Chicago #NYC #SanFrancisco #Philidelphia #Pittsburgh #Milwaukee #Seattle #Portland #KingCounty #Detroit

I am not safe in Kentucky nor with my toxic roommate as a disabled trans woman. I need $1650 to break my lease. I don't know if I'll even be able to afford rent next month. I also need to figure out who I can crash with while I figure things out.

PLEASE BOOST AND SHARE.

Venmo: @twentykal
https://ko-fi.com/kebokyo

Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #FediHelp #QueerMutualAid #TransMoving #MastodonMutualAid #FediMutualAid #Chicago #NYC #SanFrancisco #Philidelphia #Pittsburgh #Milwaukee #Seattle #Portland #KingCounty #Detroit

Seattle restaurant listed among best new spots of 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6819/ #FoodDrink #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Seattle restaurant listed among best new spots of 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6819/ #FoodDrink #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Seattle restaurant listed among best new spots of 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6819/ #FoodDrink #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Seattle restaurant listed among best new spots of 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6819/ #FoodDrink #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA health expert explains cyclospora safety https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5479/ #cyclosporiasis #FoodDrink #Health #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA health expert explains cyclospora safety https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5479/ #cyclosporiasis #FoodDrink #Health #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA health expert explains cyclospora safety https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5479/ #cyclosporiasis #FoodDrink #Health #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

WA health expert explains cyclospora safety https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5479/ #cyclosporiasis #FoodDrink #Health #KingCounty #lifestyle #News #Seattle #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense.

#seattle #kingcounty

https://www.vox.com/politics/501579/transgender-washington-midterms-ballot-measure-girls-sports-athlete

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense.

#seattle #kingcounty

https://www.vox.com/politics/501579/transgender-washington-midterms-ballot-measure-girls-sports-athlete

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense.

#seattle #kingcounty

https://www.vox.com/politics/501579/transgender-washington-midterms-ballot-measure-girls-sports-athlete

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense.

#seattle #kingcounty

https://www.vox.com/politics/501579/transgender-washington-midterms-ballot-measure-girls-sports-athlete

This is an excellent Vox article on I-638, the Brian Heywood initiative that would force all #washingtonstate girls who want to play school sports to submit to physical genitalia exams, or get genetic or hormonal testing done, all at to_be_determined’s expense.

#seattle #kingcounty

https://www.vox.com/politics/501579/transgender-washington-midterms-ballot-measure-girls-sports-athlete

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25968/ #business #KingCounty #money #news #Restaurant #Restaurants #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25968/ #business #KingCounty #money #news #Restaurant #Restaurants #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25968/ #business #KingCounty #money #news #Restaurant #Restaurants #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2447/ #Business #KingCounty #money #News #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2447/ #Business #KingCounty #money #News #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2447/ #Business #KingCounty #money #News #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Restaurant owner sounds alarm on unaffordability in Seattle https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2447/ #Business #KingCounty #money #News #Seattle #SmallBusiness #Us #Wa #Washington #WashingtonDining #WashingtonFood #WashingtonGroceryStores #WashingtonRestaurants #WashingtonState #WashingtonStateDining #WashingtonStateFood #WashingtonStateGroceryStores #WashingtonStateRestaurants

Beyond The 100-Year Flood - Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment For King And Pierce Counties Under Future Climate Scenarios
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-3231-2026 <-- shared #openacess paper
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[part of my old stomping ground as an engineering geologist]
H/T @Kees Nederhoff
“Flood maps are usually built from a single design storm. For King and Pierce Counties in the Pacific Northwest (USA), [the authors] tried the opposite - simulate 82 years of actual coastal and river conditions (plus 18 synthetic years) with SFINCS and let the statistics fall out cell by cell. That took about 5,400 yearly simulations and 194,000 CPU hours on USGS's Hovenweep HPC. Worth it!
The design-event shortcut turns out to hide a real hazard. A deterministic 10-year event underestimated flood depths by up to half a meter compared to the continuous runs.
The bigger surprise [to the authors] was how one-sided the climate signal is. One metre of sea level rise takes King County's expected annual flooded area from 161 --> 787 hectares, almost a factor of five. Changes in storminess over the same horizon barely register. And somewhere between 100 and 150 cm of SLR, land that never floods today starts flooding fast. If you plan adaptation in Puget Sound, that threshold matters more than any single return-period map.
[They] also propose Expected Annual Flooded Area (EAFA) as a probability-weighted alternative to the binary "inside or outside the 100-year zone" label…”
#USGS #supercomputing #Hovenweep #HPC #coast #coastal #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest #risk #hazard #riskmanagement #model #modeling #CFRM #deterministic #probabilistic #climatechange #extremeweather #fedscience #WA #KingCounty #PierceCounty #WashingtonState #USA #flood #flooding #compoundflooding #floodmaps #SFINCS #storm #weather #climate #climatechange #rainfall #precipitation #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #100yearflood #floodhazardmapping #returnperiods #pluvial #fluvial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #streamgage #history #historicflooding #projections #predictions
#USGS

Media coverage of the Lake Forest Park MayDay protests. I’d said I was pretty sure my belated photo count was low, probably quite low, because they always are - and it was. This is like 3% of LFP’s population and a big deal.

From: @www.shorelineareanews.com
https://www.shorelineareanews.com/2025/05/400-protest-in-lake-forest-park-on-may.html

#MayDay #MayDayRally #protest #protests #LakeForestPark #northshore #seattle #cascadia #CascadiaStrong #KingCounty

Fin Flipping

Esox Lucius was really excited to see that there was a place named after him. That is, until he realized people were buying his brothers and sisters and eating them. Disgusting!

Seattle, Washington 2016
Full-size image: https://flic.kr/p/21S4XN8

#Fin_Flipping #FinFlipping #Hogwash_Book_Twenty_Three #HogwashBookTwentyThree #Pike_Place #PikePlace #Seattle #Washington #King_County #KingCounty #Hog_Wash #Hogwash #photography

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE (maybe)

We have a voluntary dismissal of what remained of The Satanic Temple's federal court case against us.

United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
Notice of Voluntary Dismissal (case) — Document No. 58
District Court, W.D. Washington
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/58/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

So we may finally get to take this part out of the ol' standby:

"Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in f̷e̷d̷e̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷c̷o̷u̷r̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷w̷ King County Superior Court."

If you would like to help us cover our ongoing legal expenses as they are about to reach into a fourth year, you have some options here:

-https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-for-victims-of-satanic-temple1
-https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/queersatanic
-https://cash.app/$queersatanic
-https://www.patreon.com/QueerSatanic
-https://www.redbubble.com/people/queersatanic/shop

If you need a refresher on how we got here, including the #NinthCircuit opening the door for TST to have another crack at its #defamation claims:
https://queersatanic.com/ninth-circuit-gives-satanic-temples-slapp-suit-mixed-response/

If you're wondering, "Wait, why is The Satanic Temple (still) suing you?" or want to help other people with questions understand what's going on:
https://queersatanic.com/wait-why-is-the-satanic-temple-still-suing-you/

#TheSatanicTemple is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, TST is now suing a #TikToker in #Texas for talking about our case.

The #Newsweek case continues to progress, the #TikTok creator not so much:
https://queersatanic.com/2023-was-a-very-bad-year-for-the-satanic-temple-in-court/

If we're very lucky, The #SatanicTemple will finally take its L and use this as an opportunity to close out its state case, too.

However, more likely is #TST will add in the defamation to the currently stayed case sitting in #KingCounty Superior court to consolidate everything there, and we will have to beat them there instead, the devil willing.

If you're still a member or know people who are, see if you can get TST's owners to justify using other people's money to keep a failing #SLAPP action going four years after they started it and lost every step along the way.

How much is enough?

The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases (December 2023)

https://the.satanic.wiki/index.php?title=The_Satanic_Temple#Lawsuits

https://reddit.com/r/TheSatanicCirclejerk/comments/18nctl4/comment/ke9vznd/

Changes from November include:

* Confirmation both #TravisCounty, #Texas, lawsuits have not seen any new filings in more than one year.

* #NinthCircuit granted #TST partial victory in form of an additional opportunity to make defamation claims in federal district court against Johnson et al Defendants.

https://queersatanic.com/ninth-circuit-gives-satanic-temples-slapp-suit-mixed-response/

Moreover, we’re still being sued by #TheSatanicTemple in federal appellate court and now #KingCounty Superior Court.

TST is also still suing #Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, the #SatanicTemple is now suing a #TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the pinned post for more.

#TheSatanicTempleIsVeryBadAtCourtCases

The future of one of tree-sparse South King County’s largest forested parks could be decided by [checks notes] the FAA Reauthorization being considered in the Senate rn ahead of a government shutdown. https://crosscut.com/investigations/2023/09/effort-save-seatacs-biggest-forest-amid-airport-expansion #NorthSeaTacPark #SeaTac #SeaTacAirport #FAA #GovernmentShutdown #HeatIslands #NoisePollution #AirPollution #PortOfSeattle #UrbanForests #Seattle #KingCounty

As a former #PollWorker, it is fascinating that #KingCounty #Seattle does their elections (or at least tomorrow’s primary?) 100% by mail-in ballots and ballot boxes. I was hoping to volunteer as a worker for some future election again - clearly it’ll have to be in another capacity!

Shout-out to #AlleghenyCounty + #Pittsburgh for helping me catch the civic-duty bug! I miss the old polling place where I worked several elections that was LITERALLY THE GARAGE OF A DUDE’S HOUSE.