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Picture of an absolutely wrecked blue ORCA card. The laminate is peeling on three of the four visible corners. (The bottom is partially obscured by a piece of paper that hides the full details of the ORCA card's number and security code.) What look like burn spots, but are actually just surface wear from where the card was stored, are on either end of the front. Tape is visible around all of the edges, showing how the peeling laminate was "fixed". This whole mess sits atop a keyboard with translucent white keys over a rainbow light motif.
Video clip of Jeopardy host Ken Jennings interviewing Jeopardy contestant Caleb Groen on the Alex Trebek Stage set. There are no video-specific elements that are not described in the audio.
Picture of four folded maps on a table. The left two maps are the purple and green regional transit maps for Seattle's hosting of some World Cup games. The third map is the Trailhead Direct for the Mount Si route, showing a picture of Mount Si in the background. The fourth map is the Trailhead Direct for the Issaquah route, showing a picture of the Issaquah Alps in the background.
Screenshot of text, the text reads: "BALLOT ALERT Your ballot has been mailed. If you do not receive your ballot within 5 days, call KC Elections at 206-296-8683. Happy voting!"
Screenshot of a text message. It reads: "BALLOT ALERT Your ballot has been mailed. If you do not receive your ballot within 5 days, call KC Elections at 206-296-8683. Happy voting!"
Screenshot of text that reads: "Team Gerry. BREAKING NEWS: The Seattle Times just..."
Picture of a whole bunch of people marching in a parade, holding each holding a copy of the flag of Norway
Picture of Nathan W. Pyle's "Strange Planet" comic. Three aliens, each wearing magenta baseball caps, are talking to each other: Child alien: "Why do we observe the orb-catchers if it makes us so sad?" Adult alien on the left: "We didn't *know* it would." Adult alien on the right: "We just knew it was likely to." Adult left: "Statistically, most observers experience general sadness at the end..." Adult right: "...but this is about joining a group of beings to be *specifically* sad with." Adult left: "Unique pain.." Adult right: "...in particular hats."
Picture of a box truck and a work van both illegally parked in curb spaces marked “ZipCar parking only”. A rental Lime bike looks on, perched at the edge of the sidewalk in a way that is sure to infuriate drivers across the region who have no issue with what the owners of the trucks have done.
Video clip of Ken Jennings interviewing a contestant on Jeopardy!.
Screenshot of text that reads: All 2026 Primary Election Endorsements At our most recent special member meeting on June 25th, Transit Riders Union members voted to endorse the following amazing candidates for the 2026 Primary elections coming up in August. Thank you to all of the candidates who participated and to our excellent endorsement committee for compiling questions and bringing their recommendations. 37th Legislative District (Washington State Senate): Tatiana Brown 43rd Legislative District (Washington State Senate): Hannah Sabio-Howell 32nd Legislative District (Washington State House): Imraan Siddiqi 37th Legislative District (Washington State House): Kelabe Tewolde As a reminder, members have previously voted to endorse these candidates: 32nd Legislative District (Washington State House): Danica Noble King County Council District 2: Toshiko Grace Hasegawa and Rebecca Saldaña Seattle City Council District 5: Nilu Jenks And TRU made an early endorsement in March for this candidate: 46th Legislative District (Washington State House): Ron Davis
Picture of two rolling carts laden down with soda. The left one is a canvas bag on a two-wheel trolley, filled with bottles of fruit-flavored fizzy water. The right is a mesh-style rectangular "granny cart" stocked with twelve 12-packs of canned soda.
Picture of a sign at Pioneer Square Station's platform. It is a large green square with white lettering that reads "EXIT". Below the word is a pictogram of a human but instead of the usual "standing up" or "walking" style to indicate where people go, the figure is in the pose of a person kicking a soccer ball. There is a soccer ball next to the figure's left foot. A large white arrow pointing right indicates direction.
Screenshot of text that reads: “Some blame the victim by saying we moved into a loud neighborhood,” Grossman says. “When we moved here, we had people going to and from clubs, and a little rowdiness. We did not have street racing, cars with no mufflers, dozens of unlicensed food booths blasting music, and street takeovers.”
Picture of a portion of the King County Metro service map from 1988 showing a dark blue line labeled "46" going up Seaview Ave NW.
Screenshot of a Google Maps view from 2009. The large picture shows a King County Metro route 46 bus stop sign. The inset map to the bottom left shows the location of the picture at Seaview Ave NW just north of where it would intersect with NW 70th Street, if 70th continued on to the water.
Freeze frame from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation depicting physicist Stephen Hawking playing poker. In front of him is an augmented display and a hand of cards. Hawking is grinning at the camera. The caption reads "HAWKING: Wrong again, Albert."
Screenshot of an electronic map view showing a handful of empty lots nestled up by a freeway, a single train station, and the outline of a RapidRide bus route.
Screenshot of three posts crapping on Fox showing RFK on screen, all made within six seconds of each other
Picture of a sticker on an ORCA card vending machine. The sticker reads "special edition ORCA Cards Available Here. This machine, limited supply. ORCA, SEA26." On the right of the sticker is a hand holding up an example of the commemorative ORCA card. It is Native art decked out in forest green and navy blue imagery with the ORCA card and "SEA26" logos in the bottom right.
Picture of a folder purple and teal transit map pamphlet with text reading "hop on, game on. regional transit map, summer 2026" leaned onto a water bottle with various stickers adorning it.
Picture of a navy blue and orange circular sign with a list of rules and opening hours. The relevant text here reads "Bikes and scooters must be walked".
Picture of an entrance to the Thornton Place trail with a sign reading "[up-left arrow] [bicycle symbol] Northgate Station via Trail"
Screenshot of text that reads: "ST Alerts 1 Line & 2 Line trains are delayed due to a vehicle on the tracks at Mount Baker Station"
Picture of a Nolan Ryan autographed baseball card sitting on a piece of foam next to a cut-out of cardboard and a rubber band
Picture of a classic livery (brown, forest green, and off-white) Amtrak Cascades Talgo trainset operating through, but not stopping at, Kent Station on a bright day with a handful of clouds and some tall green trees visible behind.
Picture of two black t-shirts, one on top of the other. The top shirt reads: "This is the 1 Line to Northgate" with the number 1 in white on a green filled circle. The bottom shirt reads: "This is the 2 Line to Northgate" with the number 2 in white on a blue filled circle.
Picture of a folding keyboard on a table in front of an iPad. The iPad is displaying the remote console session of a Unix virtual machine.
Picture of a purple King County Metro trolleybus operating as route 3 in the Central District.
Picture of a bunch of merchandise hanging on pegs. The relevant bits are two columns of film photo cameras to the right and a single column of black & white 355m roll film on the left
Screenshot of text from Seattle Parks that reads: “Local access: People driving to homes along the boulevard because they live there, are visiting, or making deliveries are allowed from the nearest cross street.   Parking lots are open and will be accessible from the nearest cross street (see parking details and map below).”
Picture of a dark blue and grey sky with multiple grey clouds looking out across the other deck of I-90's bridge onto Lake Washington.
Picture of a blue and white King County ballot drop box sitting outside an entrance to the Northgate branch of the Seattle library
Picture of a Rad Power Bike electric bike parked in front of a lit up sign reading "Drive Thru Open" with a Burger King brown bag and an Impossible Whopper perched on the rear seat.
Picture of a red King County Metro RapidRide bus operating as route 67 to the University District via Roosevelt in Northgate.
Screenshot of a comment and its reply. The first comment reads: > This is a really good thread on why this technology is becoming a problem for "open" anything. The argument "we can create our own separate web" is fine until all of your services are behind the web that locks you into owning a Google approved or Apple approved mobile device. The reply reads: > I like to ride my bicycle with my friends in rides organized by the (Pacific Northwest) Cascade Bicycle Club. They require that I solve a Google reCAPTCHA in order to register for a ride. Google is already completely locking me out from being able to do that. When I try to click on the squares to select whatever items it's asking, it indefinitely loops. When I try using the audio version, it completely blocks me from using it saying that there has been suspicious activity. > That means that I ride alone these days. I did not renew my membership this year. > The last time I experienced something like this was when Facebook starting being the only way to participate in certain events. Back when that happened, I simply counted myself as excluded and did other things with my time and money.
Screenshot of text from the electronic form of a book. The text reads: "We were moving relatively quickly then and I made the mistake of getting optimistic. Then we got to a border and found the only option was to rent a ground vehicle and drive across two unaffiliated zones because both had zero mass transport. Zero. Mass. Transport. This is supposed to be a civilized space station, in space, why the fuck am I driving a ground vehicle to get to a fucking port on a fucking- (Emotion check: I am absolutely fine.)"
Screenshot of a user interface showing an audiobook for sale. The audiobook is "Platform Decay - Murderbot Diaries book #8" by Martha Wells and narrated by Kevin R. Free. An error message at the bottom reads "Credit purchase unavailable - This title will be eligible for purchase with membership credits on August 03, 2026."
Screenshot of the ORCA app interface that reads, in relevant part: “Physical cards are plastic. Virtual cards are stored in your phone's wallet app. Want to convert your physical card to virtual? Tap the Actions tab.”
Screenshot of election results from May 2nd's initial vote count via the Dallas Morning News. From top to bottom, on the question of "Stay in DART?" Addison: For - 1,499 votes, 70%; Against - 642 votes, 30% Highland Park: Against - 1,076 votes, 69.7%; For - 468 votes, 30.3% University Park: For - 1,461 votes, 53.7%; Against - 1,262 votes, 46.3%
Picture of a two-car light rail train on tracks leaving Redmond Technology Station next to SR 520 with a pedestrian bridge in the distance.
Picture of two black t-shirts, one laid on top of the other. The one on top, slightly older, reads: "This is the 1 Line to Northgate" with the number 1 in a green circle. The one on bottom, newest, reads: "This is the 2 Line to Northgate" with the number 2 in a blue circle.
Picture of two TriMet light rail vehicles at Rose Quarter. On the left is the retiring type 1 in white, on the right is a shiny new type 6 in navy blue.
Picture of a white, green, and blue Tacoma Link vehicle operating just ahead of its first station at the Dome
Picture of a book with the title “it’s never this nice, a doom loop collection” by Brett Hamil being held atop a brown paper bag in front of a sign that reads “local comics and zines”.
Short video clip showing the user interface to an Azure service. The audio asks, in the same voice as is used for announcements on Sound Transit's Link Light Rail, "why is a schoolteacher in space, question?"
Screenshot of article text that reads, in relevant part: "The old vacant Sam’s Club at 13550 Aurora Ave. N. will continue to be vacant for the foreseeable future. ... The city issued a SEPA determination of non-significance for the project last fall, which was then appealed to the city Hearing Examiner by an entity called Lake Washington Working Families, which is represented by a Portland law firm. Last week, the Hearing Examiner overturned the city’s prior SEPA determination. Thus, WinCo could appeal that local decision in state court, or it could submit a full environmental impact statement — which would add at least a year to the permit process. Or it could walk away from the big box, which is owned by Florida investor Benderson Development."
Screen shot of a slide from East Link Connections showing "revised route 542" operating from 10-15 minutes most of the day on weekdays, and 15-30 minutes on weekends. Nights would be hourly.
Picture of a King County Metro RapidRide bus in red operating as route 67 to Northgate
Picture of the inside of a Sound Transit bus showing most seats occupied.
Picture of the movie poster for "Empire Records" showing the cast of characters in front of a concentric circle background. A dog, wearing headphones, sits on a boombox in the lower right corner.
Picture of a Burger King food wrapper with two labels. The label on the left reads “Impossible Whopper” and the label on the right reads “Bacon King”.
Screenshot of stylized text reading "Sound Transit, ride the wave".