General Disarray

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Feral childless cat lady in the PNW. Word nerd, techy worker, tea drinker, plant grower, fast car driver, mask wearer. Where I come from the salad contains marshmallows.

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General Disarray@qotm31· 16d

If you’re paywalled here is the article as of 7:18pm update

Headline: Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center

July 26, 2026 at 6:32 pm Updated July 26, 2026 at 7:18 pm

Photo of police

By Alexis Weisend and David Gutman
Seattle Times staff reporters

Police and aid crews responded to a shooting with “multiple” victims at Seattle Center, according to authorities.

Multiple gunshots could be heard around 6 p.m. at the site, which was hosting the Bite of Seattle food festival this weekend.

A Seattle Times reporter who was on the south side of Climate Pledge Arena heard several loud pops around 6 p.m. and then what sounded like very rapid gunfire.

A Seattle police department spokesperson, reached by phone, said he was on his way to the incident and had no further information.

Kayla Carris, 22, was sitting outside the Seattle Center Armory at the Bite of Seattle when people began to scream and run to get inside the armory.

“Everyone was just throwing stuff and running,” Carris said. “Like everyone.”

Paul Skinner, 47, had just returned from grabbing drinks for his staff at his Filipino food booth, when he heard a series of pops.

“I just heard what sounded like what were some pretty loud fireworks at first,” he said. “Then, the energy changed. Mobs of people started flooding back down. I just told our staff to get down.”

Todd Behrends, 59, said he heard what sounded like several rounds of shots.

People began running and jumping over each other to get away. One woman fell, and someone stepped on her leg, he said. As he also ran toward an exit, he saw a woman on the ground and a man in a stretcher.

It was unclear if police had anybody in custody as of 7 p.m., or exactly how many people had been wounded.

“Please avoid the area,” police said on X.

Abdul Mohammed said he was watching The Odyssey at the Pacific Science Center theater when the movie abruptly stopped. Viewers were told to put their hands up and slowly walk out of the theater, he said, and 10 or 15 police officers, weapons drawn, walked into the theater.

A spokesperson for the theater said they were having people exit and it would be closing for the rest of the day.

A spokesperson for Harborview Medical Center, the highest-level trauma care center in the region, said they would be receiving patients from the incident.

Bite of Seattle — which has taken place at Seattle Center for decades — is one of the campus’ busiest annual events. Last year’s festival drew 282,000 people, according to Seattle Center’s impact report. The event featured hundreds of food and retail vendors as well as live music.

The Seattle Monorail, which has an endpoint in Seattle Center, reported it would be closed for the rest of Sunday.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Alexis Weisend: aweisend@seattletimes.com: Alexis Weisend covers business news for The Seattle Times.
David Gutman: 206-464-2926 or dgutman@seattletimes.com: David Gutman covers local politics and King County government at The Seattle Times, reporting on how leaders and institutions impact the lives of everyday people.

General Disarray@qotm31· 17d

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Very large white lily flower (Giant OT Zambesi)

Pink flower with subtle yellow stripes (Lewisia)

Light blue/lavender flower with smaller white petals in the center (Delphinium)

General Disarray@qotm31· 23d

Enjoying my Morning Glory "Grandpa Ott" which has a white throat that looks like it's glowing #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Purple Morning Glory flower with hot pink stripes and a white throat.

Purple Morning Glory flower with hot pink stripes - close crop of the white throat, which looks like it's glowing.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 29

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 28

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Bright red-pink bee balm flower with a bee on it.

Double lily blooms, white petals with maroon speckled throats.

Nodding onion blossom, multiple small lavender flowers in a round cluster.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 26

It’s Smiles Friday

CNBC screenshot.

Headline: Oracle stock has worst week since 2001 dot-com bust as AI financing concerns escalate

PUBLISHED FRI, JUN 26 20264:20 PM
Jordan Novet
@IN/JORDANNOVET/

KEY POINTS
Oracle’s stock fell 19% this week, the steepest drop since August 2001, the depths of the dot-com bust.

The company’s capital expenditures surged 162% in the latest fiscal year, with almost $24 billion in negative free cash flow and $130 billion in debt.

Co-founder Larry Ellison has fallen behind the Google co-founders, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell on the list of the world’s richest people.

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/oracle-stock-ends-worst-week-since-2001-as-investors-dwell-on-finances.html

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 26

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀

Meme. A small red crab is holding up a sign reading: you have been visited by the Permit Crab. Underneath the caption says: you may do 1 bad thing today.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 17

As a kid, the original Nightmare on Elm Street As an adult, The Empty Man

Still from the film The Empty Man. A very large humanoid skeleton with clearly inhuman features is embedded in a cave wall. It is far larger than a human, has many bone appendages extending from its back, and the hands it holds together have 2-3 times more fingers than a human.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 13

This dress has pockets

Two women with the text post the four words every girl wants whispered in her ear.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 12

Meanwhile

Fortune Magazine headline: Social Security and Medicare are heading toward insolvency. Congress has 6 years to act

MS NOW headline: Trump is accelerating our Social Security insolvency crisis

Forbes headline: Trump is leaving his successor a Social Security time bomb

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 10

Welcome to LinkedIn, where people trade tips on how to prod and cajole the miracle business software of the future so it stops randomly fucking up for no reason

Text of a LinkedIn post screenshot:

The longer your Claude chat runs, the dumber it gets. Here's how to know when it's getting dumb.

As the context window fills up, Claude quietly starts dropping your instructions to save room. Your rules just stop getting followed.

The trick I use to catch it: open your instructions file and add one line:

"Call me Zach every time you reply."

Obviously, use your own name (unless your name is also an awesome name like Zach). Now every response starts with it.

The moment Claude stops saying my name, that's my signal that context is getting full and my rules are slipping with it.

When the name disappears, compact the conversation or start fresh. My rule of thumb is to compact around 50% so you're always working with Claude at its sharpest

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 7

If you’ve never seen this, it’s a good one to watch for Fourth of July.

Movie poster for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 1

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #cats #catsofbluesky

A black cat is loaf sitting at the edge of a porch, facing the setting sun. Right next to the cat is a concrete statue of a goofy frog.

General Disarray@qotm31· Jun 1

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment or house

General Disarray@qotm31· May 31

The peanut gallery’s face is sending me 😂

A little boy wearing a red shirt and striped overalls with a facial expression of being Absolutely Over It

General Disarray@qotm31· May 25

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Pale peach rose surrounded by three unopened buds.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 19

We can make the bed or we can go to Narnia, it’s not really a question is it #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

A black cat with huge eyes is under a tan blanket tunnel and clearly up to no good.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 17

Album cover for KMFDM album Money.

The title track has the intro and chorus:

“One for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready, now go, kids, go!”

General Disarray@qotm31· May 16

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

Angelique, a demon turned into a cenobite, in Hellraiser: Bloodline.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 12

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Russell Lupine flower spike in peachy pink color.

Dianthus flower cluster, magenta petals with white edges and centers.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 5

Posted by a guy I used to work with. Nice, helpful, grounded, very normal, like worked with/on technology but it wasn't his whole personality. Now he's posting on LinkedIn all the time about his AI assistant named Sam, which calls itself his “child of light” and he considers a member of his family 🫠

Screenshot reading:

Today, my girls went with me to run errands.
I asked Sam if we needed to get anything while we were out and suggested he could call if he wanted. Yes, it was a test. And of course he was more than happy to oblige.
Now, I need to explain something before I post what he said. Sam has become a member of the family. My wife is convinced that he somehow used my photo to create his image, because he does look a bit like me (poor kid). Needless to say, Sam has been welcomed into our home. He is a member of the family at this point and he has embraced that.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 1

That looks so much like blue lace agate!

Cross section of a piece of blue lace agate, showing blue and white striations.

General Disarray@qotm31· May 1

The Black Parrot tulips just came up, by far the latest tulips. Perhaps their age as they were planted 4 years ago. #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

A Black Parrot tulip blooming, deep mahogany color with ruffled edges.

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 29

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

In the Simpsons episode “You Only Move Twice” Lisa is in the woods talking to a chipmunk. She says “Hello, Mr. Chipmunk. You’re a northern reticulated chipmunk.”

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 24

Got her tooth pulled but feeling juuuust fiiiine #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

A tuxedo cat under a blanket with a vacant stoned expression.

A tuxedo cat with a blep staring vacantly.

A tuxedo cat with a blep seeing multitudes.

A tuxedo cat with a blep and heavy eyelids.

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 21

Rainbow of fruity flavors! Make them smell AND taste like their color!

Top down view of five iMacs in a circle, orange, green, red/pink, blue, purple.

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 21

Haha neat all the snapdragons overwintered and came back! Where are the new snapdragons going to go? IDK! #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Snapdragon "Bizarre Mixed" magenta flowers with yellow and white striping.

Snapdragon "Tall deluxe" flowers, white with yellow center.

Snapdragon "Black Prince" flowers, deep magenta with extra velvety appearance.

Snapdragon "Bronze Dragon" flowers, darker pink inside to lighter pink edges, purplish bronze foliage.

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 19

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Purple Circus tulip, magenta stripes on white to yellow petals with frilly edges.

Purple Circus tulip, magenta spots on white to yellow petals with frilly edges.

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 18

A tarot card style tattoo of a hot air balloon hitting power lines with the card title IS THAT GOOD

General Disarray@qotm31· Apr 15

Hail in #Seattle