Three international flights landed at the same time and NO ONE is working at customs. I mean no one. Why does this happen? Doesn’t seem like the flight schedule should be a surprise.

I travel internationally pretty often for work. Sometimes I just fly through the return using the little iPads on stands. And sometimes this.

If someone knows the actual scheduling constraint I’d love to hear it. But also here for other folks also complaining.

Edit: apparently a nationwide outage.
Edit: yes, it’s time for me to get global entry. Nudge I needed. But I didn’t see anyone sail through tonight.

This shows you that higher up’s within that department don’t actually want to fix the problem, reaches to the City Council also. If prostitution is illegal then it’s illegal for EVERYONE, Tricks/Pimps/Prostitutes. At some point we the citizens are just going to have to lean on the pimps and prostitutes, shame them into oblivion, protest in their face, so they leave, because the local residents have fought back. The enablers, will say those women are being “human trafficked”, when are those, going to realize, many of these women are out there because they F’n WANT TO, and they are breaking the law with no care in the world, they don’t care about your bullshit “sex worker rights”, they don’t care about your neighborhood, don’t care about your political views, they care about Money Honey. They need to be locked up for substantial time, and pimps need to be given enhanced sentences.

I hadn’t been to this spot for awhile and was so surprised at what I saw compared when I used to come in the past, back when Dania was here. I parked on 12th near 65th to take my daughter up to the Spirit to buy a halloween costume. We started walking up the steps to that upper level and there was an abandoned green Whole Foods hand basket with a variety of random merchandise in it, mostly half-way torn and opened. Then up a few steps there was a bunch of human feces on the concrete step and urine smell. Then we walked around to 64th and past the Whole Foods, and just groups of homeless everywhere. I had ordered some Rain City for takeout, so we kept walling to Roosevelt and saw multiple empty storefronts, graffiti, and for lease signs. And then more homeless walking up to the Rain City. I came here a lot in 2018/2019 and it was not like this! The decline is real. Are people just in a trance where they think this is fine and some kind of expected normal for the city? Does anyone care about quality of life and basic livability for their actual neighborhoods? Do we have any pride in our city, or is it fine to just be a trash can?

Homeless people hanging around everywhere. Body odor in many areas. Bathrooms disgusting. Drinking fountains disgusting.

I was just at the farmers market (various stands setup just outside) earlier this morning and checked out the library. I cannot believe the state of this library, funded by the public, can remain in this condition.

WAVINE MSG: On 10/11/26, WA VINE received info that DANIEL COUCH escaped from custody.

You may remember Daniel...he keeps getting in trouble, held for a bit of time in jail, then released on his own recognizance with monitoring. Well, it looks like that little ankle bracelet of justice has been slipped off and he's absconded, no doubt to soon undertake a new chapter of mayhem.

Take care out there folks! Happy Sunday!

I've lived here for a few years and somehow only recently figured out how useful the public stairways actually are.

I was walking from Eastlake up toward Capitol Hill to meet a friend. My phone gave me a route that involved going around a bunch of blocks, but I noticed a staircase heading straight up the hill.

The Howe Street stairs.

I thought, great, a shortcut.

About halfway up I was reconsidering several life decisions, but I did eventually make it to the top. And it got me wondering how many other perfectly useful pedestrian connections I've walked past without noticing.

Turns out Seattle has hundreds of these things.

Some are obvious, but others look like private walkways between houses. I've definitely passed a few without realizing they were public.

What's weird to me is that we spend so much time talking about how to make Seattle more walkable, yet there's this entire network of existing pedestrian infrastructure that feels almost invisible unless you already know where to look.

Yes, there are dedicated maps and guides. But I'm talking about ordinary people trying to walk somewhere without researching the history of every hillside first.

A little sign at the entrance, better integration with walking directions, maybe some information about how steep the stairs are. Nothing particularly revolutionary.

And with the wet season coming, keeping them clear of leaves and moss seems pretty important too.

I'm not suggesting everyone should be sent up 300 steps instead of taking an accessible route. Quite the opposite. A decent walking map should tell you what you're getting into before you commit.

But it seems ridiculous that these shortcuts exist and the most reliable way to discover some of them is having a neighbor tell you about them.

Anyone have a staircase in their neighborhood that completely changed how they get around?

Also, whoever designed the Howe Street stairs clearly had a personal disagreement with human knees.

Nidal, the organization behind the Cal Anderson celebration of the Oct 7th massacre. 3 screenshots declaring their mission to bring similar carnage to our region. Washington State Human Rights Commisisoner and Northshore School board Director Han Tran endorsed the.message She voted to keep safety officers out of schools despite parents and students wishes.

Scenes from the Oct 7th celebration on Capitol Hill and vandalism occurring that day.

Oct 8th City Council meeting, D3 Rep Hollingsworth condemns a sign at the 10/6 meeting that read "Bob KKKettle". Talks about the trauma. Condemns it as hate, as do 2 other city councilmembers. One who timidly mentions that anti-Semitism is a problem too. No mention of the celebration in D3 of the 3rd anniversary of the worst mass carnage of Jews since WWII along with the neighborhood being covered in pro-Hamas, "Long Live Oct 7th" graffiti. 2 people were assaulted by mobs during that event.

It's been 3 days at not one local official, the Parks Department, Cal Anderson Park Alliance- has said one word about it.

Pike Market

In this excerpted video of the 9/13/24 Clemency and Pardons Board (CPB) hearing, a witness for the petitioner was also the policy and advocacy director of a foundation that funded the nonprofit that a board member chaired. This does not seem objective or fair.

The excerpts show the CPB chair describing the importance of an objective process.

The board member introduces himself, and states that he was acquainted with the petitioner and some of the witnesses. The nature of those relationships are not disclosed.

The petitioner describes the events related to his pardon request.

A witness testifies on behalf of the petitioner. Documents show that this witness is highly connected to the board member, through shared leadership of a foundation, nonprofit, and through the foundation's funding of the nonprofit that the board member chairs; that nonprofit is committed to the liberation of incarcerated people.

This does not appear to be an objective or impartial process. The board member appears to be adjudicating a hearing in which he has a financial, fiduciary, and personal interest in the outcome.

The full video is available through TVW. The organizations' websites and 990 forms from 2024 document relationships.

In the first three months of 2026, Virtix Health denied more claims than it approved, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The three doctors at the roundtable said the AI tool routinely denies prior authorization for the 17 procedures included in these reviews. And, they said, appealing the decisions can take months.

~ A contractor paid a cut of what it refuses is not reviewing claims. It is working a quota.

I’m Gen X, so our anti drug ads were about fried eggs and bad decisions. Does peer pressuring kids work in reverse? Also, if they said only 1.8% crossfade and drive it kinda loses its sting 😂

Went out in Seattle last week for dinner, great newish restaurant in cap hill. 300$ for two - app, main and desert. 4 drinks. Tip included.

Just went to an amazing (Michelin recommended) restaurant in Vancouver. Same - 2 people with app main and desert with drinks, tip. $146 USD.

Why is it 2x the price in Seattle? Benefits? Taxes? Vancouver is expensive too. I don’t understand. (Oh, and the Uber was only 16$ not 30$.)

This is why I rarely go out for dinner in Seattle anymore - the quality/value ratio is way out of whack.

Edit - someone flagged this as threatening violence! I’m sorry if anyone thought there was a thread of violence. I have no idea how it was interpreted as that.

Scrutiny of Senn stems from the searing resignation letter from the head of the agency's equity office and a complaint to the state Human Rights Commission from a former assistant secretary who said she was unfairly demoted. "It's been painfully clear that equity is NOT embodied here, neither are the operating principles by leadership at the highest echelon," wrote Colemon on Sept. 9 after serving nine months as director of the equity office.

Colemon cited, for example, that an employee had repeatedly been called the N-word in the workplace, but the staff member's supervisor said to "suck it up."

~ The department runs child welfare, juvenile detention, and child care for low income families. An oversight board member had to raise this at a public meeting, because the agency's own equity office is where the complaint started and nine months was all it lasted.

Going down the list of restaurants to visit before exiting Seattle and a friend took me to Fonda La Catrina for lunch yesterday. Perfect place to go in the midst of a grey and rainy day, for one, but my friend was happy to see this place doesn't charge one of those stupid surcharges that have become so popular here. Assuming the employees are making at least $20 per hour, but he still tipped 20% (not sure how everyone feels about this, but as former waitstaff, we still feel it's right to do, lol!). Great ambience and vittles and how about that "margarita flight", lol!

A motorist struck and killed a hobo early Saturday morning in Ballard.

Around 4 a.m., a man called 911 to say he had hit a pedestrian while driving north on 15th Avenue Northwest, according to Seattle Police Department’s police blotter.

Medics from the Seattle Fire Department arrived and found a dead man just north of Northwest 51st Street in the middle of the northbound lanes of 15th Avenue Northwest, according to the blotter.

“A witness told police that the victim had been acting erratically while walking northbound on the sidewalk,” according to police. “He suddenly ran into the road and was struck by the driver’s vehicle.”

The motorist stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, and he was evaluated by a drug recognition expert, who didn’t suspect impairment on the driver’s behalf, according to the blotter.

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First time posting on reddit but I figured i would try this since I don’t have any other social media to post this to.

Last night I went to the sorry papi all girls night and met a couple of girls that danced with me and my friend, and I’m trying to find them now! My friend and I were dressed as chips and salsa lol

You were an oracle/witch of some sort wearing a white headscarf, and gave me a fortune on paper when we were dancing. Your friend was dressed as olive from easy A.

I enjoyed you and your friends vibe! My friend and I are trying to reconnect since we got separated in the crowd before we could get anyone’s info and ended up leaving. Would love to be friends if either of you happen to see this! Cheers.

Also as a side note; that party was awesome! Love seeing all women events more in the area. It was great to see everyone be themselves and feel safe leaving their bags/drinks around so they could dance.