I stopped by the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival at the Seattle Conventiin Center yesterday. This show happens every year. It's huge. The highlight are these "show gardens" which are sponsored by various landscape industry vendors, retailers, and organizations. This one happened by be done by the Putallup Indian Tribe and it features all native plants of the Pacific Northwest. A short thread
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#PNW #gardening #Seattle

I stopped by the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival at the Seattle Conventiin Center yesterday. This show happens every year. It's huge. The highlight are these "show gardens" which are sponsored by various landscape industry vendors, retailers, and organizations. This one happened by be done by the Putallup Indian Tribe and it features all native plants of the Pacific Northwest. A short thread
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#PNW #gardening #Seattle

The waitlist application is open for Seattle's Fresh Bucks program. If you make less than $84,850 (or higher depending on household size), you qualify for $60 a month to buy fruits and vegetables at farmers markets, independent grocers, and some supermarkets. #Seattle https://greenspace.seattle.gov/2026/01/seattles-fresh-bucks-welcomes-4500-households-off-waitlist-increases-monthly-benefit-and-more-in-2026/

The waitlist application is open for Seattle's Fresh Bucks program. If you make less than $84,850 (or higher depending on household size), you qualify for $60 a month to buy fruits and vegetables at farmers markets, independent grocers, and some supermarkets. #Seattle https://greenspace.seattle.gov/2026/01/seattles-fresh-bucks-welcomes-4500-households-off-waitlist-increases-monthly-benefit-and-more-in-2026/

#seattle

#seattle

Hot take: International, Chinatown and Seattle King Street should all be merged and called collectively Seattle International Union.

#Seattle #Transportation

And for those of you who want all the numbers, here they are! Katie breaks the 50% threshold, and continues to advance further into the lead 🎉

#Seattle #SeattleElex #SeattleElections #KatieWilson #KatieWilsonForMayor

And with today's update Katie Wilson takes the lead! #ThisIsOurCity

#Seattle #SeattleElex #SeattleElections #KatieWilson #KatieWilsonForMayor

We'll get more results tomorrow (🤞🏻), but if you haven't already, today's a great day to track your ballot and make sure it's been counted! It'll only take a minute 😁

https://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/vote/myvoterinfo.aspx

#Seattle #SeattleElex #SeattleElections #KCElex #KingCountyElections

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud going on now related to this morning's first keynote, The Seattle Community Network Stack

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

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These, the penultimate SeaGL talks this year, start in 45 minutes

SeaGL talks in 2 hours ( after TeaGL ):

* How I used open-source tools to prove my marriage to the US Government (No Streaming) from Dawn Cooper

* FediPact: Why? from Vanta Rainbow Black

The final round of talks is after these talks

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk

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Now 15 minutes away

TeaGL for Saturday is in an hour, make some tea and enjoy a break

Online hop in the Hallway ( https://attend.seagl.org/#/room/#2025-Hallway:seagl.org )

Onsite head for the Expo room

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Mahlzeit, next up @ SeaGL is lunch

the current sessions have 30 more minutes

Sessions will start again in 2 hours

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems”

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle