Most cancers comes for us all: Even for Edmonds’ personal prolific journey author, Rick Steves. Steves, who I’m going to dub “the gem of Edmonds,” was not too long ago recognized with prostate most cancers. Fortunately, he caught the most cancers early, earlier than it had unfold. Perhaps issues will probably be okay. Within the meantime, Steves stated he is viewing the having most cancers factor very similar to touring. “You study much more about your private home typically by leaving it and taking a look at it from a distance,” he advised the New York Instances. “The expertise [of treatment] is, I’m assembly fantastic individuals, I’m gaining an appreciation of issues I wouldn’t have gained in any other case, and I’m being reminded of what’s essential in life.”
Mariners minimize their coach: Thursday was a tragic day in Mariners land and a sadder day for group supervisor Scott Servais. After 9 years on the helm, Servais came upon he’d misplaced his job through information alert. The Mariners, who had been in first place of their division for a lot of the extremely lengthy (some could say too lengthy?) baseball season, have returned to “being the Mariners” not too long ago by dropping a fuck-load of video games. Sadly, as an alternative of recognizing that the group is cursed, group president Jerry Dipoto (who followers seem to hate) figured Servais was accountable and minimize him unfastened. This is Servais’s assertion:
Assertion from Scott Servais pic.twitter.com/SAoHLV8cVa
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) August 23, 2024
Need to purchase a lifeless billionaire’s treasures? Properly, you could have an opportunity relying on how deep your pockets are. Microsoft’s co-founder, Paul Allen, was a infamous collector of all issues and an enormous affect in Seattle tradition. After he died in 2018, components of his property had been auctioned off. Now, three extra auctions that may chip away at extra of Allen’s collections are deliberate for August and September. One public sale, referred to as “Firsts,” will characteristic gadgets of significance in technological and computing historical past. A lot of that may probably come from Allen’s Residing Pc Museum, which shuttered for good earlier this 12 months. That public sale begins on-line Friday. It simply goes to indicate that there isn’t a such factor as a everlasting legacy.
Bob Ferguson declines a debate: Washington gubernatorial candidate and one-time Stranger heart-throb Bob Ferguson is not going to attend an Oct. 11 debate towards his opponent, Republican Dave Reichert, in Ellensburg, WA. In a tweet, Washington State Debate Coalition Govt Director Alicia Crank introduced the cancellation of the occasion, saying Ferguson “withdrew” from the controversy. In a textual content, a spokesperson stated Ferguson by no means “dedicated” to the controversy. He added that Ferguson will debate Reichert on Sept 10 in Seattle and Sept 18 in Spokane. Crank stated Ferguson’s camp “agreed to save lots of the date through the main,” after which after the first stated they had been “attempting to work out the scheduling,” after which, after studying that Reichert’s marketing campaign had declined, stated they had been “able to commit” however to allow them to know if Reichert modified his thoughts in writing. When Reichert did change his thoughts in writing, Crank claims, “Ferguson’s marketing campaign stated thanks however no thanks.” We’re ready on emails to substantiate, however that is the he stated/she stated of it.
We’re so again: Again within the workplace, I imply. Downtown Seattle noticed extra employee foot site visitors this previous July than it had for the reason that starting of the pandemic. That peak continues to be solely 63% of what the typical was in July 2019. However, pay attention, we won’t all return to the workplace—a few of us have work to do.
What fucking month is it? Seattle will keep cool, partly cloudy, and type of moist on Friday with a couple of showers within the morning and night. Saturday will probably be largely cloudy and largely moist. Sunday ought to clear up and get temperatures again up into the 70s. Get pleasure from your fake fall earlier than the warmth returns subsequent week.
Cool and moist the subsequent couple of days. Heaviest rain occurring tonight with places within the northern half of the state having the potential to get their total regular August rainfall in 12 to 18 hours. Highs at the moment solely a few levels hotter than the report chilly highs. #wawx pic.twitter.com/da0Ausw7K6
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 23, 2024
I hate when this occurs: An Atlanta hospital allegedly misplaced a part of a affected person’s cranium throughout mind surgical procedure. A person named Fernando Cluster obtained therapy for an intracerebral hemorrhage, which concerned eradicating a 12 by 15-centimeter bone flap that may be reinstalled in a follow-up process. On the follow-up, the docs could not find Cluster’s bone flap. They need to actually label these items! As an alternative, the docs put in an artificial bone flap, a process that price round $146,800. Cluster and his spouse are suing the hospital.
“No matter is smart:” Robotic JD Vance visited a donut store for the primary time in his life:
JD Vance had a really awkward go to to a donut store in Georgia earlier. Belief us, it’s worse than you even suppose. pic.twitter.com/Fnohh0bKUf
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 22, 2024
Seattle chef arrested for home violence: Eric Rivera, a chef who reached approval for his experimental Seattle restaurant Addo and who now appears to spend so much of his time being annoying on Twitter, was arrested over the weekend in his new residence in North Carolina. Rivera was booked on misdemeanor home violence costs, assault on a feminine, and assault by strangulation. He was launched this week on $7,000 bail.
Harris accepts the nomination: Kamala Harris is formally the Democratic nominee for president. She accepted the nomination in what Politico dubbed a “fluent, forceful, tightly argued deal with.” In her stump speech, she contrasted her profession with Trump’s, saying she’s “solely had one consumer: the individuals.” Persevering with on with the prosecutorial language, she added, “Simply think about Donald Trump with no guardrails, and the way he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the US. To not enhance your life, to not strengthen our nationwide safety, however to serve the one consumer he has ever had: himself.”
Harris talked about defending the center class, increasing Medicare, defending voting rights, and preventing towards anti-choice abortion insurance policies—all the foremost Democratic platform planks that ballot properly. However she additionally did her darndest to oppose the image Donald Trump has painted of her as a left-wing liberal. (Which, like, lol.) As if she had been deeply offended by the suggestion that she held progressive values, Harris strapped on her cop hat and promised to make sure that America “all the time has the strongest, most deadly preventing power on this planet.” She vowed to deliver again the conservative border deal that Trump spiked. Out of 1 facet of her mouth, she stated she’d rise up for Israel’s proper to defend itself. Out of the opposite, she stated she’d assist see that the struggling “in Gaza ends and the Palestinian individuals can understand their proper to dignity, safety, freedom and self-determination.” She solely makes use of this rhetoric to attraction to the swing voters—horrible, haunted individuals—you could remind your self. She should attraction to everybody. However, then, what’s… true? I suppose we’ll discover out if she wins?
FULL SPEECH: VP Kamala Harris delivers a historic and provoking speech on the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference.
Extremely highly effective and value watching until the tip. pic.twitter.com/4xMEkGCXqQ
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 23, 2024
TMZ eats crow: An unsubstantiated rumor circulated across the web yesterday: an enormous, shock visitor would seem on the Democratic Nationwide Conference. Who might it’s? TMZ confirmed Beyoncé would carry out. And, but, no Beyoncé. No… anybody.
To cite the good Beyonce: We gotta lay our playing cards down, down, down … we received this one incorrect.
— TMZ (@TMZ) August 23, 2024
A brand new joke is born:
They’re saying Beyoncé would possibly come to the Lunch and Study seminar at work at the moment
— Informal Thursday (@CasualThursday) August 23, 2024
RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona poll: Will he shirk his unbiased standing and endorse Trump? That is what they’re saying.
The Taliban’s new vice and advantage legal guidelines: New legal guidelines in Taliban-run Afghanistan make it unlawful for ladies to sing, recite, or learn aloud in public since a girl’s voice is deemed “intimate.” Ladies should even be veiled utterly in public they usually should not have a look at males they don’t seem to be associated to.
Assist! Misplaced birds! Birders! Scientists and conservationists want your assist! There are 144 species of birds that have not been seen in a decade. They may be extinct, or they may merely be misplaced. Are you able to assist discover them? In North America, three species are misplaced: the ivory-billed woodpecker, the Eskimo curlew, and the Bachman’s warbler. Up to now, for the reason that publication of the record and this analysis, a dozen of the 144 misplaced hen species have been discovered.
How a few tune? What about two? Listed below are two vastly completely different new releases from throughout the spectrum that’s style.
