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freelance journalist. cat evangelist. jeopardy! enthusiast. words in @seattletimes @geekwire @thestranger nathaliemgraham @gmail .com
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In my column Play Date, I'm exploring Seattle subcultures, hobbies, pastimes, and places where you feel part of something. If you have something I should write about please let me know—I'd love to learn about it.
Here are some of the little worlds I've explored so far:
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look, I’m not anti-dog, but I’ve got a bone to pick with dog owners in this city assuming everyone enjoys their unleashed dogs at every public space
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The Pet Parent demographic is a terrifying political constituency
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Don’t even get me started on the pet parents who want to turn the parks their off-leash dogs have already degraded into dog parks
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Pet Parent is a certain kind of pet owner. You know who I’m talking about. (# Not All dog owners)
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look at this owl I saw at the Seattle Center last night
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Rep. Tom McClintock mask: "This mask is as useless as our governor." Unfortunately, this isn't the worst part of his speech:
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the mayor of the WA town that recently voted to not put up a Pride flag this month reasoned that they didn't need to because they already had a unifying flag flying—in fact the "most unifying symbol in the history of the world"— the American flag. And that's comedy to me
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The Seattle morning march just shut down the southbound I-5
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voting for the guy for governor who will implement a blue angels ban
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Chief Best says that "nobody joins the police department to get rich" and she would have picked a different profession if money were a motivator. Best was making just shy of $300k annually
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Police are gone and protesters are now in front of the East Precinct in Seattle. It’s been blocked since protests started last week. Trumpet Guy is playing and yelling that Mayor Jenny “has got to go.”
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Hi! This is my last week at
@TheStranger
. After over 3 years here—and one of them during a pandemic that cut our staff in half—I've decided to move on. Thanks to all of my colleagues who’ve helped me grow as a writer and a reporter and to all of you who have followed my work.
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Gov. Jay Inslee just announced that facial coverings will be mandatory statewide
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if you're an urbanist with lots of thoughts on this whole "making space for dogs in cities when we don't have enough space for people in cities" thing—or some tangental thought—please DM or email me! (DMs open, email in bio)
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cannot tell if this is a nice note or a threat from mayor durkan, but I'll take it
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Sawant's ban on SPD owning, buying, renting, or storing the use of crowd control weapons just passed the Seattle City Council unanimously
Sawant's chokehold ban unanimously passes. Now onto the ban of "crowd control weapons"
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Amazon blindsided its workforce last week when it kicked around 500,000 workers off its company-wide directory. The move siloed hourly-wage workers and contractors from the rest of Amazon just weeks before the Alabama fulfillment center's union vote.
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do the grocery stores near you all also have one of their entrances closed and is the entrance that's closed the one most convenient for pedestrians or is this just an every-Safeway-on-Capitol-Hill thing?
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I don’t know how exactly but this probably why they’re beating us in soccer
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath
HT
@modacitylife
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i’m with the every day morning march which just shut down the Ballard Bridge with a car barricade
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The Seattle Public Library just launched a lit line where you can call in and hear a librarian read you a story, poem, or historical article. I'm listening to Poe's "Annabel Lee" while eating lunch right now
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seattle woke up to a grey and chilly morning, donned its light sweaters, and breathed a collective sigh of relief
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Hard to tell how big this anti-alt right protest is but it's stretching for blocks as they make their way down Lenora
#Seattle
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my wager is no one on seattle love is blind has ever taken the bus
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Seattle wasn't providing enough hygiene services for the unhoused so a homeless advocate, a group of University of Washington professors, a Seattle architect, and a middle-schooler came up with a plan to install sinks across the city.
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I always feel so gaslit by people just out their living their lives as normal, raw dogging the wildfire apocalypse air
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You’d think Sound Transit’s escalator problem would’ve improved by now, not become literally unnavigable
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Ok sorry im back again the roof was scary here’s the protest
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The mayor's dept is speaking in this public safety committee meeting about their "fair system for accountability." Kshama Sawant just interrupted: "I'm sorry, I cannot listen to this. This is a charade. Did the deputy mayor just say we have a just and fair accountability system?"
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Some of the chaos from when state patrol arrested protesters. Erica was riding as a passenger with me and was told she was free to go until a different officer said she was “obstructing”
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to everyone who watched my streams (where I was stuck in the office a block away from the police precinct lol) I have made it home and am now going to sleep
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HUGE NEWS: I put my bike on the bus for the first time and it was easy. I am about to become unstoppable
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One thing about these protests is that Seattleites have finally found a use for the umbrella
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The Reclaiming of the Barriers is like some kind of weird team building exercise
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Update from Inslee: businesses across Washington won't be allowed to serve people who aren't wearing face masks starting next week
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I tried to track down who exactly has donated to Moms for Seattle. They aren't the most responsive bunch so I knocked on their doors:
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me, a coastal elite:
NEWS: Joe Biden has selected Pete Buttigieg to serve as secretary of transportation, per people familiar. Story coming with
@samjmintz
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Sawant's chokehold ban unanimously passes. Now onto the ban of "crowd control weapons"
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cannot believe this long, boring labor meeting ousted the cops, got Zoom-bombed with anime porn, and exposed bakers as simps for SPOG
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“They gave us the precinct and barricaded all the windows and doors... this is a set up... be careful,” marchers say.
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According to workers, management at the Whole Foods in South Lake Union said having "Black Lives Matter" written on their masks was too controversial
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More state patrol cars have rolled up even though there are already 8 present. When asked why, officer says “because we’ve got to take care of it.”
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Letting a car through because a passenger needs to get to a radiation appointment
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SPD's newest PR video is weird and bad. This is why:
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fyi king county elections told me today they expect to pick up around 250k ballots today—votes which weren't tallied in this initial drop.
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will they get a moat next
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I was in the car with the morning march when they shutdown I-5. Two protesters in my car were arrested. Nine were arrested in total. Here's the whole story:
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omg the light rail now instructs people at University Street to stay on the train for the University of Washington since there are three stations with “University” in them and Sound Transit refuses to change any of them to help anyone make sense of this city
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the best part of the Seattle snow, in my opinion, is being able to see how much dog piss is in Cal Anderson Park
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merry christmas remember when loren culp announced he wasn't conceding from the 2020 gubernatorial race on facebook live from the front seat of his car while someone smoked a cigarette in the back seat?
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yay for this, but it's also crazy to me that this wasn't already a thing. seattle is a fake big city sometimes
Music is in the air at Westlake Station! 🎶
Buskers will be performing at Link’s busiest downtown station under a pilot program in partnership with
@SeattleParks
every Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Learn more:
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Kshama Sawant responds to Mayor Jenny Durkan's letter to the council calling for an investigation of the council member.
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UPDATE: she called me and said this was a genuine well-wishing!
cannot tell if this is a nice note or a threat from mayor durkan, but I'll take it
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Crazy KUOW piece! The owner of University Village *texted* Mayor Bruce Harrell directly about the Denny Blaine nude beach—and how he wanted it closed. Then, Parks and Rec came up with the idea of making a playground for kids seemingly as a way to deter the nude beach
Who was the anonymous donor behind the controversial kid playground at Seattle's Denny Blaine's nude beach? We found out
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cringe porn is watching mayor jenny durkan get booed off the steps of city hall by people chanting "nikkita for mayor," the woman who came in third place to durkan in the 2017 mayoral election
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You should have serious fomo if you’re not at China Harbor rn, whole city is here
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huh, guess you must not like Seattle very much since my whole thing is finding and celebrating the parts of Seattle that make it a special place
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heard a blood curdling scream on our street, when we ran toward the noise we found a woman in jogging gear.
“Did you hear that scream?” We asked.
“Oh, yeah, sorry that was me,” she said. “I had a really bad day.”
Then she sprinted down the street in the rain. Fucking metal
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lmaaaaaoo some guy in the crowd is trying to sell his mix tape
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I can’t believe grocery stores just quietly closed all the most pedestrian-friendly entrances/exits during the pandemic and they seem to have no intention of bringing them back
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The "take off your riot gear, I don't see no riot here" chant is pretty persuasive on its own but especially when you see the breakdown of how much the Seattle Police Department's riot gear costs!
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i took a peek at some verrryyyy interesting emails
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Ok I couldn’t stay 100% away I went for a walk and ended up following this jazz band for a sec
#seattleprotest
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I’m pulling up to Magnuson Park for the
#SeattleProtest
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Even funnier, according to the lore, when she lived here she was living in her boyfriend-at-the-time’s parent’s house in Medina
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This guy with a proud boys tattoo is yelling at the crowd about Heather Heyer, the woman that was killed in Charlottesville. "You shouldn't have blocked traffic, Heather," he shouted.
#PatriotPrayer
#UWProtest
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To the
@TheCW
,
@cw_spn
, and
@mishacollins
, thanks for being a part of my life. I interviewed the cast for the
#BadIdeaTour
and reached my own personal Nirvana:
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I miss the part of the pandemic where volunteer park didn’t allow cars
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casting my eyes down, giving the wrong bus the cold shoulder so it doesn’t get any ideas about me, my intentions
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