Tony Andrews

Tony Andrews

@barely.live

Developer of the CrewNerd.app for rowing & paddling 🚣🏼‍♀️ Band nerd (tuba & euphonium) ♫ Co-founder of the Seattle League of Activist Musicians slamband.org ♫ Volunteer with nwcombailfund.org 💵 Atheist 😈 Troublemaker Draft AOC in '28!

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french protests make very clear how much u.s. protests self-restrain and how bizarrely obsessed we are with the fear of being demonized by entities that are demonizing us anyway

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ICE is still using WA driver data in their arrests & detentions, while Ferguson fails to act to plug the data flow (New York state shows it's possible). I also wrote about a Bellevue incident showing ICE/DHS is using this data channel to identify local ICE observers.

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Even Idiocracy didn’t have a president so dumb that he bragged about being able to tell apart a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake. Our reality is actually dumber than a parody.

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Rule # 1 of winning debates (and elections) is force your opponent to fight on your turf, don't ever wander onto theirs. Pedophile protector party has zero space to talk about people's lives & choices - attack your opponent not the people your opponent shames, blames and reviles.

The Humanist Report@humanistreport.bsky.social

Democrats will never learn.

I’ll be attending the Bellevue City council meeting on Tuesday to speak out against putting an expensive road through this new park.

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Can we call it apartheid now

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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Geoffrey Hinton, better known as the "Godfather of AI," said Congress may only have 1 year left to regulate AI before we lose control of it. This dire warning cannot be ignored. We need Congress to act NOW to rein in greedy and reckless Big Tech companies.

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He added that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Evan Hubinger, an alignment science lead at Anthropic, said that not only was Coxon’s statement “correct,” but also that Anthropic has no plan for this scenario. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a...

cnbc.comAnthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans' after colleague quitsAn Anthropic safety researcher said there is a greater than 10% chance AI could "kill all humans" after a former colleague quits over safety concerns.

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The more he fails to dominate, the more insane Trump gets Can reporters see it? Yes, veteran journalist Mark Jacob told me. But they are afraid. A THREAD.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. For about a fortnight, I have been offering readers a variation on a theme of insanity. www.editorialboard.com/trump-make/

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Or Apple Maps could just have a setting ✅ Prefer common names over official names "Common names" gets you "Lake Ontario" and it's on by default. (h/t david harrison for this common sense revision)

Steve Hayman 🇨🇦@shayman.bsky.social

Dear Apple Maps Team: I know you're getting pressured. How about making it opt-in? Just have a hard-to-find switch in System Settings, "Use Incorrect Names for Bodies of Water", off by default.

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I-638 is the most extreme MAGA measure of its kind in the country and it discriminates against girls. If we really cared about girls' sports, we’d remove barriers for all girls, not put up more barriers like invasive genital exam requirements. Vote NO on I-638 this November. #NoHateWAState

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Can we talk about this video as an example of excellent political communication that should be receiving national attention

AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck@alexis4seattle.bsky.social

Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)

"The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people." Yeah, they def won't do that, then 🤦 www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

nbcnews.comICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocksCivil rights advocates expressed alarm, saying ICE officers already face criticism for their use of force with little oversight or accountability while enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration c...

If the Dark Rail has fewer power-related service disruptions, count me in!

The Needling@theneedling.com

Sound Transit Threatens to Unleash Dark Rail If Riders Keep Ignoring Posted Warnings: tinyurl.com/2dmtw3zp

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I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.

Like we needed any more reasons to avoid anything connected to Elon @teslatakedown.com

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

SpaceXAI’s Grok coding assistant was busted uploading entire codebases independent of privacy settings. Elon is in full hotdog costume mode promising to fire whoever did this. Anyone foolish enough to use Grok to do real work can only blame themselves.

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The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

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Replying to @elienyc.bsky.social

"Do you want to use religion to do some bigotry?" Nahmon. I just need my hair. "Are you black?" Yeahmon. "GET FUCKED LOSER" --today at the Supreme Court