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• I Saw U: Standing in the Oso Oso Merch Line, Kissing My Hand at CS, and Sitting at the Next Table Over at Comedy/Bar

  19-04-2024 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you see someone? Say something!by AnonymousComedy/Bar Chat Up
  We sat at neighboring tables while both our parties were late. I clocked you as ADHD and you had the same name as my friend. I’d love to chat more! ☺️Riding the Gravy Train
  We chatted at the Yung Gravy/bbno$ show in Seattle back in 2022. I asked you about your koi fish button down shirt bc I thought it was floral.
  keeper of a sweet little beast @ corvus
  you were there briefly with a scruffy little dog and both d
  
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• Seattle Space-Rockers somesurprises' New Album Poised for Meteoric Impact

  19-04-2024 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  somesurprises' album Perseids is out on Doom Trip Records Friday, April 19.by Dave SegalOf the thousands of bands I've talked to as a music journalist, somesurprises are the most soft-spoken. Their absolutely chill voices barely register on the playback of our interview, which took place in their Fremont rehearsal space, ExEx Audio. And this chillness seeps into the Seattle quartet's extraordinary music, which alchemizes a few of the finest rock strains—space, kraut, and shoegaze—int
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Apr 19–21, 2024

  19-04-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration, Record Store Day, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffCelebrate Seattle's favorite holiday, 4/20, by blazing up and heading to one or more of the ultra chill events we've rounded up here, from Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration & Car Show with Sol and Chong the Nomad to Record Store Day and from 4/20 Feature: Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm to The Stranger's Pizza Week!
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• Why Amazon's Just Walk Out Technology Failed

  19-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Amazon recently admitted that it does use humans in this technology.by Charles MudedeEarlier this month, Business Insider reported that Amazon's Just Walk Out technology was not run by robots, but by the eyes of "1,000 workers in India who review what you pick up, set down, and walk out of its stores with." And so what looked like a new trick was in fact old hat. The work of American cashiers and attendants (a high-income society) had simply been, like service-related jobs, offshored to India (a
  
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• Seattle’s Pay Up Problems May Have Little to Do with the New Minimum Wage

  19-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If the Pay Up policy widened the gap between the “winners and losers,” then the council could shape policy to uplift bike couriers instead of effectively or entirely tossing out the law.by Hannah KriegAfter a relentless campaign from big corporations, the Seattle City Council appears poised to repeal or dramatically cut a minimum wage ordinance for gig workers known as “Pay Up,” which took effect this year. But interviews with the gig workers themselves reveal that the co
  
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• Slog AM: Israel Strikes Iran, Everett Bikini Baristas Can Wear Bikinis Again, Louisiana Cuts Lunch Breaks for Child Workers

  19-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamIsrael retaliates, strikes Iran: In a response to Iran's strike on Israel last weekend, which was in itself a response to an Israel attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria earlier this month, Israel launched a drone attack against a military base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan. Israel's allies urged against this retaliation. Now, more world leaders are calling for both Iran and Israel to chill out, take some deep bre
  
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• Ticket Alert: Future, Jon Batiste, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  19-04-2024 00:16 via everout.com
  
  Plus, More Event News and Updates for April 18by EverOut StaffRap’s auto-tune auteur Future is coming to Seattle with Metro Boomin to support their second collaborative album, We Still Don't Trust You. Fresh off the Coachella mainstage with Lana Del Rey, Jon Batiste has announced a local stop on his Uneasy tour. Plus, corny dad joker Kevin Hart will attempt maturity on his Acting My Age tour. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
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