The missing link might finally be found: The Burke-Gilman Trail is great except for that harrowing bit in Ballard where it just⌠stops and then you have to wade into oncoming traffic and hug the parked cars as you pick your way back to wherever the fuck the trail resumes. Thatâs the missing link. The city voted to construct the part of the trail to fill in that gap 16 years ago. If all goes to planâaka the appeal against this construction in courts now failsâthen we could have a full, complete Burke-Gilman Trail in 2020.
There will be a time and a place to praise the tunnel gods: The SR 99 tunnel will (finally) be opening in 2019. Thereâs going to be a grand opening event February 2-3. There will be a fun run and a bike ride through the new tunnel and the soon-to-be-dead Alaskan Way Viaduct. The tunnel will open the following week.
A Googler walk-out: The tech industry knows how to protest, too. Employees at Google campuses around the world walked out today to protest Googleâs cover-ups of sexual misconduct. A New York Times story this week exposed that Andy Rubin, creator of Androidâs software, left Google in 2014 and received a $90 million package. What Google didnât tell anyone was that Rubin had multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Hereâs a scene from Seattle:
"My friend won't report because she believes HR protects Google, not women." This is a Google employee who participated in today's #GoogleWalkout in Seattle. @geekwire pic.twitter.com/QCqLWlIeoq
â Starla Sampaco (@StarlaSampaco) November 1, 2018
And some from San Francisco:
Guy rides up on that thing and someone goes âthatâs how you know this is a Google protest.â pic.twitter.com/ywkjIOsQXV
â Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) November 1, 2018
Itâs November so now itâs officially time for the War on Christmas: Gosh, we really just steamroll right through fall into winter after Halloween, donât we? Starbucks will be unveiling their holiday cups tomorrow, Christmas-defenders beware. The secularly festive cups will likely draw the ire of Jesusâs biggest fans since his blood wasnât used in the red dye. Even though Starbucks didnât employ the eucharist in their cup creation, they will be handing out free reusable red cups tomorrow only.
Matt Shea is a fucking plague and itâs going viral now: Katie Herzog reported on this yesterday. Rachel Maddow and the rest of the world are picking up on it only now:
GOP state legislator up for re-election in Washington State circulates manifesto calling for genocidal war against non-Christians: âIf they do not yield â kill all males.âhttps://t.co/ydt2ma1RSa
â Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 1, 2018
Bill and Melinda Gates pull funding from Saudi Arabia charity: The youth charity founded by Saudi Arabiaâs crown prince was backed by $5 million of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationâs money. The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi influenced this retraction.
It is winter after all!
Breezy winds across the area tonight as a cold front sweeps through Western Washington with more rain! #wawx pic.twitter.com/LgsBEFsn75
â NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) November 1, 2018
EPA allows use of harmful weedkiller: Some farmers love using this weedkiller but its controversial. It has this habit of getting caught by any passing breeze and killing off crops and other vegetation. Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the EPAâs initial approval, according to NPR. The EPA declared it was good-to-go yesterday evening.
Baggage handler gets drunk, takes nap in cargo hold, you can guess the rest: This guy works in Kansas City. He took a little nap after drinkinâ on the job. The nap locale? The belly of an airplane. He woke up in Chicagoâ500 miles away from home. He got suspended.
Divers in Indonesia recover flight recorder: Earlier this week, a brand new Lion Air jet seemingly fell out of the sky on a flight out of Jakarta. The flight plunged into the Java Sea. There were no survivors. Officials have no idea what happened, itâs like something out of Michael Crichtonâs Airframe. Except, divers scouring the Java Sea have recovered a flight recorder. They arenât sure if itâs the flight recorder but thereâs a shot.