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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 02:28 UTC

Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7 day running average is, well, sucky. The last 7DRA calculation was on 8/25. The only thing I can say about this is that this running average was just bouncing around, but then completely busted out in the two days from 8/23 to 8/25. It will be good to get some more data points next week to tell us if this is some super crazy outlier or not.

Also, you might notice the banner above the graph that says: "The CDC updated how it measures wastewater viral activity level (WVAL) in August 2026. Our dashboard currently uses the previous method while we work to incorporate these new updates." WVALs are the CDC categories used to describe very high/high/moderate/low/very low virus detection levels, and they get a fair amount of criticism because the category recalculations result in changing baselines that obscure year-over-year trends. I believe these WVAL categories get used in the state's "Statewide view" tab, so the CDC changes will affect that. By contrast, the facility-level graphs that I post each week are linearly-scaled graphs of seven day running averages of detected concentration levels. Whatever happens with the WVAL category definitions, it won't affect this facility-level reporting.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

#washingtonstate #kingcounty #seattle #covid #covid19 #wastewater

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-09-02 · 15:57 UTC

Island Soul Carries a Family Tradition of Food, Entrepreneurship and Community https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/19666/ #AfricanAmericanCommunity #BlackBusinesses #BlackCommunity #CityOfSeattle #education #IslandSoulRestaurant #KingCounty #PackTheHouseCampaign #Seattle #SeattleMedium #SoulFoodKitchen #SoulFoodKitchens #SoulFoodRestaurant #SoulFoodRestaurants #TheSeattleMedium #TheoMartin

#africanamericancommunity #blackbusinesses #blackcommunity #cityofseattle #education #islandsoulrestaurant

Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @[email protected] · 2026-08-31 · 19:28 UTC

A friend of mine was scared today by a scammer pretending to be with the local Sheriff's dept claiming he had a warrant for her arrest over failing to show for jury duty and she'd go to jail if she didn't immediately pay him $3k.*

It's apparently a very common scam in Seattle right now.

The King County Sheriff's office is very clear they do NOT demand payments over the phone.

Also, Failure to Appear for Jury Duty is a misdemeanor in WA and will never carry a threat of incarceration. It involves a fine payable only at the courthouse.**

*She realized it was a scam in time to not hand over financial data, thankfully. But was still worried about "But what is there IS a warrant..." There is not.

** Which isn't to say you shouldn't observe your jury summons as the only penalty is financial. You should. It's fundamental to society and one of the few parts of the US government that seems to still be functioning.

#KingCounty #Seattle #Scams

#kingcounty #seattle #scams

DavidGSeibold @[email protected] · 2025-01-03 · 13:31 UTC

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

#fin_flipping #finflipping #hogwash_book_twenty_three #hogwashbooktwentythree #pike_place #pikeplace

Queer Satanic @[email protected] · 2024-09-26 · 01:54 UTC

Hell yes: Washington state court dismisses latest lawsuit by Satanic Temple targeting former members

http://queersatanic.com/moreover-we-are-no-longer-being-sued-by-the-satanic-temple-in-federal-district-court-or-king-county-superior-court/

Judge determines TST “has no rights to or interest” to Facebook memes page the national for-profit Satanic corporation has been suing to get since 2020

#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #Satanism #WashingtonState #Seattle #KingCounty #QueerSatanic #Lawsuits #SLAPP #Lawfare