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Confronted him and a bunch of neighbors joined in yelling “fuck off nazi” and he skedaddled. Keep your eyes out for these guys. Confront them as a community. Let them know they’re not welcome.

Regarding this article discussed in another thread https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/meet-the-seattle-woman-behind-a-national-effort-

Text:

"Interesting that the 'journalist' decided to add so many (unnecessary) identifying pieces of information and no direct links to any of my websites or speeches. It's as if the purpose was smearing, not reporting. 

My experience in these FB groups is not only personal targeting (which goes with a territory) but tracking down my friends, my children, and punishing my church. So forgive me if I don't hold out a lot of hope that the 'love and tolerance' crowd will offer a fair hearing. 

But for those of you who do want to hear the argument, I've done dozens of interviews, but also laid out the entire case with receipts in this speech.

The bottom line is, we should love our gay family and friends. But redefining marriage fundamentally overhauled the nature of the parent/child relationship and led to commodification of children. That's not only damaging to children who are made intentionally motherless or fatherless, but it actually weakens every parent's claim to their own biological child." [Link to one of her YouTube videos]

I tried to post this to the /r/Seattle sub but it was removed for being "repetitive" (IDK, I think the person's actual response is kind of a separate topic from the article).

Just a warning that door to door magazine scammers are at work in West Seattle again. This guy just came to my door in South Admiral (ignoring my no trespassing and no soliciting signs). Coincidentally, this same guy came to my best friend's house on Capitol Hill about a week ago and launched into his schpiel about how he was from Memphis and was working for Second Chance. For the record, this likely is fraud as Second Chance no longer has anything to do with door to door magazine sales. Door to door vendors in Seattle also are required to have a valid business license and prominently display an ID badge with their license and company. This guy had neither.

I really can't believe that they're still attempting this scam as how many people are buying magazine subscriptions from door to door vendors anymore? But it must work to some degree or they wouldn't waste time doing it. From what I understand these nomadic scammers are deployed in groups, moving city to city. There's also a good chance they're stealing financial information. I hate to think that there might be senior citizens or others who might get conned by the smooth talk.

For the 4th time since the installation of the permanent net at “Dukes” challenge court, it has been vandalized. The community feels this is not random acts of vandalism (steel cables that secure the net to the poles were cut).

The perpetrators seem adamant that the community should not have easy access to a net. SPR has been working to reduce the barrier to entry for community to play at Alki by supplying the equipment for a single court.

Prior to this, Dukes used to be a first come first serve where players would need to supply their own net/lines/balls. A typical volleyball set up runs upwards of a few hundred dollars.

If anyone has any information on who may be doing this please feel free to DM me.

On Sunday, volunteers from West Seattle Urbanism (including me) built a picnic bench in the dead space where there used to be diagonal parking at Duwamish Head along Alki Trail. A few minutes after we started building, a worried neighbor came by to ask what we were doing. I had a long conversation with her, and she ultimately told me that she wanted the area to remain "inhospitable to the wrong type of people," and that she would call the city to have it removed.

We left a QR code for feedback, and got lots of positive responses: "I loved sitting here and eating my dinner as the sun set" and "Very convenient" and "Looks great! Good job building it and I love the idea." But the neighbor got her way, and yesterday the city removed the bench. There's once again nothing but asphalt in that space.

We're not discouraged though, and have built and placed three more benches in West Seattle! If you find one, I hope you'll take a rest, meet some friends, and enjoy it. Each has a QR code which you can use to give feedback and suggestions for more locations. If you want to join us in doing things like this, we meet up at 6 PM every Wednesday at Great American Diner. Or, come hang out with us on Discord! All the info is here:

https://linktr.ee/westseattleurbanism

UPDATE: Dog returned to their owner, thank you reddit community!!🥰

Found this super sweet and playful girl on Alki this morning! She’s wearing a pink harness and looks to be ready for a walk. Please reach out if you know the owner, thank you!

Enjoy the soundtrack (latest episode of 5-4, if you're interested).

And yes, I know I didn't do a full stop. That's because this lady was riding my ass the whole way down Thistle from 35th.

Edit: This pissed off one poster so much they repeatedly claimed I was only going 19 (?) and then just now, hours after I posted and had no direct interaction with them, they blocked me. Maybe I found the Avalon driver right here on this sub 💅

Edit 2: Here's the first half of the video, for anyone who thinks I was somehow stoking this reaction https://imgur.com/a/RpevubM

I just decided to casually check in on it while walking this evening. Mind blown. The artists that signed on to re-beautify the CVS alley after it was painted over are mega talents! The travesty has been officially mended. Long live the street art alley!

Heyo, I just bought a house in West Seattle and was told about Garage Sale Day by multiple people. I've lived in Seattle for 12 years and somehow this is my first time hearing about it! I’m definitely going to check it out but browsing through 600+ listing descriptions is overwhelming.

The official map is helpful but I wanted a way to browse with some categories and easily keep track of places I wanted to check out. So I made a little web app that tries to categorize the listings based on their descriptions (it’s not perfect 😅), has more flexible and fuzzy search, and let’s you favorite places and create and share lists. Everything is open source and it’s just a static page with the data & lists stored in your browser.

I’m not associated with the organizers at all, just thought I would share in case anyone else might find it useful as they plan for this weekend.

https://ws-garage-sale-day.pages.dev/