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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Is There a Pube Pervert On the Loose In My Office?

  19-03-2018 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I work in an office that shares a restroom with two other departments, so there is quite a bit of traffic past my desk which, sadly, is right next to the bathroom in question. I have noticed something over the year or so I've been at this job: Carefully Placed Pubes. On the toilet seat, on the toilet tank, on the edge of the sink. We all have loose pubes (at least those of us who let 'em grow) and on occasion we may leave one behind when using the toilet. However, over the year I'v
  
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• City Council Temporarily Bans Platforms Allowing Landlords to Auction Apartments

  19-03-2018 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  One year.by Steven HsiehDisrupt something else, please. Rentberry
  Two recent startups allow landlords to post rental units online and invite tenants to place bids based on how much they'd be willing to pay in rent. The websites also display credit scores and other information from renters. Together, the tools provide a powerful platform for property owners to get the most bang for their buck.
  While neither of these websites, Rentberry or Biddwell, has taken off in Seattle yet, advocates fear tha
  
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• This Is the Future Tech Execs Want?

  19-03-2018 23:04 via thestranger.com
  "Innovation."by Rich SmithLook at this shit:Taking my new dog for a walk at the #MARS2018 conference. #BostonDynamics pic.twitter.com/vE6CXrvV3o
  — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) March 19, 2018Allow me to remind you what these monsters are capable of:Boston Dynamics robot dog opens door for another robot. Terrifying! https://t.co/t8gATvgv01 pic.twitter.com/tusb4T3uZM
  — Oliver Burke (@olivergburke) March 9, 2018Luckily, we still have the tools to defeat them, for now:RT
  Boston Dynamics Robot
  
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• Child pornography shrine found at 'fairy' tree house in Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest

  19-03-2018 22:35
  A U.S. Department of Natural Resources employee heard rumors in the hiking community about a cabin illegally built on federal land in the Snoqualmie National Forest and had tried to find it himself about five times in 2016, according to an FBI report.
  
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• Journal offers details about Arkansas state dinosaur

  19-03-2018 22:29
  LOCKESBURG, Ark. (AP) — A scientific journal has given its imprimatur to Arkansas’ state dinosaur, noting that its kind flourished in Asia but are not well-represented in North America. Details about the Arkansaurus fridayi (ar-kan-SAW’-rus fry-day-YEYE’) were published Monday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Joe Friday discovered the bones near Lockesburg in 1972 while […]
  
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• Seattle Mayor Durkan orders independent review of projected streetcar costs

  19-03-2018 22:07
  Seattle is launching a review of its streetcar expansion project after a report showed internal disputes over how much it will cost to operate the system.
  
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• Mayor Durkan orders independent review of projected streetcar costs

  19-03-2018 22:07
  Seattle is launching a review of its streetcar expansion project after a report showed internal disputes over how much it will cost to operate the system.
  
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• Mayor Durkan orders independent review of disputed streetcar costs

  19-03-2018 22:07
  Seattle is launching a review of its streetcar expansion project, after a report showing internal disputes over how much it will cost to operate the system.
  
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• Lewis and Clark Bridge reopens after backpacks investigated

  19-03-2018 21:59
  The Washington State Patrol says one of the backpacks had been detonated as of Monday afternoon.
  
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• Seattle may put moratorium on rent-bidding websites

  19-03-2018 21:58
  The City Council plans to vote on a one-year moratorium on platforms that facilitate prospective tenants bidding against each other. The Associated Students of the University of Washington board approved a resolution late last year calling on the city to take action.
  
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• Seattle City Council votes to impose moratorium on rent-bidding websites

  19-03-2018 21:58
  The one-year ban targets platforms that facilitate prospective tenants bidding against each other. The Associated Students of the University of Washington board approved a resolution late last year calling on the city to take action.
  
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• Charges: Woman sets fire to home, points rifle at cop, smashes FedEx vehicles

  19-03-2018 21:38
  A 29-year-old woman undertook a crime spree earlier this month in which she allegedly set fire to her own apartment, rammed FedEx delivery vehicles and pointed a loaded rifle at a cop in Auburn, according to charging documents.
  
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• Botswana's Similarities with the Fictional African Nation Wakanda

  19-03-2018 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeBlack Panther and A United Kingdom
  The current issue of the Art + Performance Quarterly contains a piece about my year in a hotel room in the capital of Botswana, a country in Southern Africa. (A good part of that time was spent re-watching Rob Lowe's Oxford Blues.) Many in the US do not know this, but Botswana is actually not a poor country. It is categorized by the World Bank as a middle-income one. China, Brazil, and Portugal are also classified in this way. Indeed, at the ti
  
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• Poll: Congress, Trump blamed for inaction on gun violence

  19-03-2018 20:55
  Congress and President Trump faulted for not taking action to curb mass killings and gun violence, according to new national poll taken in the wake of the Parkland, Florida massacre.
  
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• If Trump Wants to Execute Drug Dealers, Big Pharma Execs Should Start Running for Their Lives

  19-03-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
  Among all of the crap ideas Donald Trump has come up with (running for president being at the top of the heap), his latest "plan" to defeat the opioid crisis might just take the cake.Trump, who declared the current opioid epidemic as a "public health emergency" last October (but failed to request any federal funding to fight it) is in New Hampshire today, where he announced his bright idea on how deal with opioids: Execute drug dealers."If we don't get t
  
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• Richland Police Chief Chris Skinner takes job in Eugene

  19-03-2018 20:42
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The city of Eugene has hired a new police chief nearly one year after the last one announced his retirement. Chris Skinner is expected to start April 30, City Manager Jon Ruiz said in a news release Monday. He’s been the chief in Richland, Washington, since 2011 but has strong ties […]
  
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• Our 1st interstellar visitor likely came from 2-star system

  19-03-2018 19:54
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Our first known interstellar visitor likely came from a two-star system. That’s the latest from astronomers who were amazed by the mysterious cigar-shaped object, detected as it passed through our inner solar system last fall. The University of Toronto’s Alan Jackson reported Monday that the asteroid — the first confirmed […]
  
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• What You Need to Know About the Facebook Data "Breach"

  19-03-2018 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersA Facebook data center. According to recent reports, another repository of Facebook data is Cambridge Analytica, a firm that worked for the Trump campaign and managed to buy personal data on 50 million Facebook users. Rainier Ehrhardt / Getty Images
  If you missed it over the weekend, The New York Times and The Guardian have published long, must-read stories about how Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign's data firm, was involved in a sneaky and perhaps illegal data collection sc
  
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• The 40 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: March 19-25, 2018

  19-03-2018 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffZeitgeisty multi-national octet Superorganism will take over Barboza this Friday for an evening of transient party electronica.
  Spring starts this week, and we think you should celebrate by heading out to one of the many live music shows our critics recommend. We've got everything from Seattle's "golden child" sharing new tracks (Porter Ray), to the global electronica of the future (Superorganism), to a perennial college radio darling exploring some abstract territo
  
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• Drunk Reports Illustrated: Guinness Is Irish Coors, and Other Things I Learned While Stuck in U.K. Bars

  19-03-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
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• Suspect arrested in shooting of 2 employees at Seattle motel

  19-03-2018 19:12
  The victims suffered superficial wounds in the March 11 shooting and were treated at the scene by Seattle Fire Department medics.
  
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• Uber Self-Driving Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona

  19-03-2018 18:33 via thestranger.com
  
  The company has suspended self-driving car operations.by Heidi Groover SPENCER PLATT / GETTY
  A self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona, overnight, according to local and national media reports. Police have not yet identified the woman. The New York Times reports that the fatality "appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads."Police in Tempe say the vehicle was in autonomous mode, tho
  
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• 3 killed, including young child, in Central Oregon crash

  19-03-2018 18:31
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say three people were killed when their car collided with a semi-truck in Central Oregon. Crook County Sheriff John Gautney says it appears the driver of the car failed to negotiate a curve on a wet road south of Prineville. The vehicle skidded sideways and struck the front of the […]
  
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• Tacoma police: Man with rifle threatening others at motel

  19-03-2018 18:16
  Nearby schools have been placed in lockdown though police they don't appear to be in any danger.
  
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• Tacoma Police: Man with rifle threatening others arrested

  19-03-2018 18:16
  Nearby schools have been placed in lockdown though police they don't appear to be in any danger.
  
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• Governor Inslee to Sign Some of the Nation's Strongest Voter Protections Today

  19-03-2018 18:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The pre-registration law requires social studies teachers to set up voter registration events in classes attended by seniors.by Sydney BrownstoneHigh school seniors and March for Our Lives organizers Emilia Allard (left) and Rhiannon Rasaretnam (right). SB
  A day before the student walkouts last week, high school senior and gun reform activist Emilia Allard addressed a crowd of Indivisible activists in front of downtown Seattle's Federal Building with a message for politicians.
  "Four million yout
  
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• Oregon’s new clean-air law provides more info than action

  19-03-2018 17:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s new clean air law will give Oregonians an unprecedented wealth of information about the health risks that factories create by releasing toxic air pollution. Yet many factories won’t have to reduce their emissions under the highly touted new law, an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive has found. The results make clear […]
  
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• Woman killed in Oregon mobile home fire; 2nd person escapes

  19-03-2018 16:50
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a woman died in a mobile home fire in Hillsboro, Oregon, west of Portland. Hillsboro police say firefighters responded to the engulfed home at about 5 a.m. Monday. The woman’s body was found inside. A second person escaped. The woman’s name has not been released. The cause of the […]
  
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• Woman, cat killed in Oregon mobile home fire

  19-03-2018 16:50
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died in a mobile home fire in Hillsboro, Oregon. Hillsboro police Lt. Henry Reimann says firefighters responded to the engulfed home at about 5 a.m. Monday and found the body of Cynthia Ann Stephens. Her husband, Larry Stephens, escaped without injury. Reimann says the Stephens’ cat […]
  
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• Don't Buy Mike Pence's Book About Mike Pence's Bunny. Buy John Oliver's Book About Mike Pence's Bunny.

  19-03-2018 16:40 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Last night John Oliver reminded his viewers that Mike Pence is an awful, smug, supercilious, bigoted piece of shit—an awful, smug, supercilious, bigoted piece of shit with a children's book coming out today. It's about Marlon Bundo, the Pence family pet rabbit, and it's titled Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President. Oliver wrote his own book about Pence's pet bunny—A Day in the Life Of Marlon Bundo—and released it last night during his show. De
  
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• Slog AM: Kayaktivists Return, Russian In Seattle?

  19-03-2018 15:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Things to be sad about: that video game tournament is leaving, Seattle old people are struggling, Donald Trump is still our presidentby Nathalie GrahamCome on in, the water's fine! (Until it's filled with oil tankers) Alex Garland
  The kayaktivists are back: Thirty kayakers flocked to Seattle’s port to protest the expansion of the Kinder-Morgan pipeline in Canada. It would add a barrage of barges and oil tankers to the Pacific Northwest. The company says it can do so in an environmentally f
  
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• Slog AM: Kayaktivists Return, Fourth Bombing in Austin, Russian Operatives In Seattle?

  19-03-2018 15:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Things to be sad about: that video game tournament is leaving, Seattle old people are struggling, Donald Trump is still our presidentby Nathalie GrahamCome on in, the water's fine! (Until it's filled with oil tankers) Alex Garland
  The kayaktivists are back: Thirty kayakers flocked to Seattle’s port to protest the expansion of the Kinder-Morgan pipeline in Canada. It would add a barrage of barges and oil tankers to the Pacific Northwest. The company says it can do so in an environmentally f
  
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• Watch: Time-lapse video of every Seattle sunset, created by engineer’s Twitter bot

  19-03-2018 14:57
  From the 19th floor Smith Tower, Alan Hussey's Twitter bot is capturing Seattle sunsets. Never miss another sunset again.
  
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• Watch: Engineer’s Twitter bot creates stunning time-lapse video of every Seattle sunset

  19-03-2018 14:57
  From the 19th floor Smith Tower, Alan Hussey's Twitter bot is capturing Seattle sunsets. Never miss another sunset again.
  
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• Traveling Utah woman goes missing in Ocean Shores

  19-03-2018 14:46
  A 31-year-old Utah woman has mysteriously gone missing in Ocean Shores following a family vacation to Disneyland, prompting her family and the police to search for her and for clues to why she disappeared.
  
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• Strong storm heading toward southwest California

  19-03-2018 14:32
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strong Pacific storm tapping into subtropical moisture is taking aim at California, raising the threat of flash flooding and debris flows. The National Weather Service says the system has the potential to bring the highest rainfall totals of the season to some parts of southwest California. The so-called atmospheric river […]
  
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• Evacuation order issued as strong storm heads for California

  19-03-2018 14:32
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California authorities are urging people living in an area devastated by mudslides to evacuate ahead of a strong Pacific storm that forecasters say is likely to bring an extended period of rain and the threat of flooding and debris flows. Santa Barbara County issued a mandatory evacuation order Monday affecting about […]
  
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• Why is Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan eyeing budget cuts in a boom?

  19-03-2018 14:00
  “The economy is doing well, but the revenue growth has plateaued,” Seattle’s budget director said. Politics are also a factor.
  
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• When and where are bicyclists allowed on sidewalks in Seattle?

  19-03-2018 14:00
  Bicyclists can ride on any sidewalk in Seattle as long as they do so in a "careful and prudent manner."
  
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• Run of retirements could mean lively election, new dynamic in Washington Legislature

  19-03-2018 14:00
  Nearly a dozen state House members are retiring. The departures could add intrigue to what’s expected to be a fierce November election over control of the Washington Legislature.
  
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• Retirements could alter dynamics in state House

  19-03-2018 14:00
  Nearly a dozen state House members are retiring. The departures could add intrigue to what’s expected to be a fierce November election over control of the Washington Legislature.
  
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• Internet access is quietly changing Seattle’s tent cities

  19-03-2018 14:00
  As debate over homelessness continues at City Hall, Seattle’s librarians have been visiting tent cities and handing out Wi-Fi hot spots.
  
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• Illegal ‘gingerbread house’ in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Forest stocked with food, bedding — and child porn

  19-03-2018 14:00
  It took a curious state employee six tries before he could find the long-rumored cabin deep in the woods. Once he did, the disturbing images he found inside touched off a monthslong FBI investigation that led to a Mill Creek man.
  
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• High school at sea: Everett marine-biology school shines, but other districts aren’t on board

  19-03-2018 14:00
  There’s no school in Washington quite like Everett’s Ocean Research College Academy, a Running Start high school organized around the study of marine biology that also gives college credit for every one of its classes.
  
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• Brushing up on history leads to cleaning up at Seattle’s Memorial Stadium

  19-03-2018 14:00
  A would-be Eagle Scout led an effort to spruce up a wall at Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium that honors local high-school-student alumni who died in World War II.
  
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• Damaging hail and tornadoes threatened for southeast U.S.

  19-03-2018 11:39
  ATLANTA (AP) — More than 29 million people face a threat of severe storms Monday that could bring hail the size of tennis balls, damaging winds and strong tornadoes to the southeastern United States, forecasters said. Large parts of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee and a small portion of northeast Mississippi will be under a tornado […]
  
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• Trump calls for death penalty to ‘get tough’ on drug pushers

  19-03-2018 08:12
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Unveiling a long-awaited plan to combat the national scourge of opioid drug addiction, President Donald Trump called Monday for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including embracing a tactic employed by some of the global strongmen he admires: the death penalty. “Toughness is the thing that they most fear,” Trump said. The […]
  
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• Persian New Year celebrated at Seattle City Hall

  19-03-2018 03:29
  Nowruz in Seattle, a celebration of Persian New Year and the contributions of Iranian Americans, was presented by the Seattle-Isfahan Sister City Advocacy at Seattle City Hall on Sunday.
  
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• Kayaks return to Seattle waters to protest pipeline project

  19-03-2018 01:49
  A group of about 30 kayakers in Seattle protested the potential impact of the Kinder Morgan pipeline project in Canada.
  
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