Semi private but there’s also the Seattle bike group on discord where I think this was also discussed.

Hollingsworth 36.9% to Hudson 36.5% so super tight coming out of the primary.

Joy Hollingsworth certainly is pumping out fliers but not sure I’ve met anyone who supports her. (Though I’m in pretty liberal circles). I generally cross reference Seattle times, stranger, and progressive voters guide. Get an idea of what policies they support and discuss with a couple friends but not so many of them are interested in local politics.

I’m in WA so unless they’re certain Rainier’s about to blow I don’t think it’s for location specific reasons. I’m seeing some rumblings about it on Reddit too.

I liked it, pretty different from the past ~10 years. Definitely smaller but felt maybe too dense. There wasn’t enough stuff to split the crowd up all the time so in certain time slots it got way to busy at a stage. Overall I like that it wasn’t trying to be a major festival but I don’t think the balance was exactly right. Have my hopes up that the festival was successful and they keep experimenting with the format.

I did the version with two filters and a box fan to make a little triangle and that worked great for me. Even just slapping a filter on a box fan is better than nothing. Last year the smoke wasn’t too bad and by the end of it my filters were pretty brown. Highly recommend it.

Filters are pretty cheap and come in 3 packs at Costco if you’re looking to pick some up.

A lot of the political discussion I’ve read on here has also been pretty well thought out. I feel like people are taking time to explain their perspective more and even if in general it’s been more left leaning there is definitely more nuance. I was surprised by the quality of some of the discussion around the end of affirmative action.