Filings show Seattle Strong responded to Nestlé, saying the petition is “an ill-fated effort by a large multinational company to control the use of the name of the city ‘Seattle’ in coffee-related products in an attempt to bully a small, local coffee company from Seattle.”
The filing in question: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92087959-CAN-4.pdf
The restaurant was Mioposto in Ravenna.
Here’s the article from a website that isn’t owned by Sinclair media:
https://seattle.eater.com/restaurant-news/87265/mioposto-pizzeria-car-crash-injuries-july-4
A July 4 dinner service at the Ravenna location of Mioposto came to a bizarre and sudden end around 8:20 p.m. when an SUV ran a red light on 35th Avenue Northeast and crashed into the dining room.
“This car just was like maximum speed through the glass wall,” Vania Kurniawati told Nonstop Local News. “It kind of looked like it was a movie. And then next thing you know things came crashing down and I felt glass shards everywhere.” Kurniawati was one of three people taken to the hospital after the crash. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to the restaurant.
After the Chevy Tahoe smashed through the wall it began to leak gas, according to KING 5. The restaurant staff sprang into action. “Our team’s response that evening was nothing short of heroic,” says Robyn Nielsen, the director of marketing for Sound Restaurant Family, which owns Mioposto. “Jolyn took command of the space, organizing guests and guiding them out through the back door. Garret and Evan physically helped carry people out of the restaurant. Diana reentered the damaged building to retrieve guests’ belongings, and Victoria along with others consoled shaken guests and staff. You never know how you’ll react in a traumatic moment like that, but we’re not surprised our team met it with bravery and care.”
Police say the driver was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to the Seattle Times, and was not arrested at the scene. The driver “may face significant financial penalties in civil court,” a police spokesperson told the paper.
It’s unclear when Mioposto’s Ravenna location will reopen, as the full extent of the damage isn’t even known. (Mioposto has three other locations in the Seattle area, and a new restaurant in Eastlake opening later this summer.)
“Right now, our top priority is supporting our Ravenna team,” says Nielsen. “Their jobs are secure, and we’re committed to taking care of them throughout this closure.”
This is very valuable context.
For citations, the only references I see to “pronouns” in their github project is in a section called “Human language policy” in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here’s the relevant part:
In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: … Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.
That sounds pretty cash-money to me.
There’s one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use “we” when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in “we recommend” vs “it is recommended”). Minutia.
I’m not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)
I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.
So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.
UPDATE: Commenter lime!@feddit.nu wrote this terrific comment that provides confirmation of the above narrative, corrective action that the LadyBird engineering team has taken taken, plus some vitally important context of the entire kerfuffle. A+ work.
For those holding out for a hero: https://ladybird.org/
Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.
I honestly think the use of u-haul trucks is a fluke. Future deployments will have them showing up in vans and buses.
Missing: coniques.
Your mom is a social construct.
I think this might technically qualify as docking.
As wacky as this seems, this makes a ton of sense the more that I think about it, specifically for smaller regional airports that are less than a 2-hr drive from a larger airport.
If your origin or destination is anywhere aside from a major city, there’s a lot of value in starting your trip at a closer regional airport. You get the small-airport TSA treatment, which is always faster than major city airports. The terminal itself is going to be considerably better-appointed than virtually any bus terminal (commerce, staffing, accessibility, etc). No need to travel between a bus and airport terminal if it’s all in the same building. Ticketing works along-side existing systems, as well as baggage-handling. And a bus requires a hell of a lot less fuel than a jet, making it a more eco-friendly option as well.
People better at modeling than me could probably build a graph of time and feature benefits for air and bus travel, which I’d imagine would show bang-for-buck on buses being superior (despite their speed and moderate prestige) for trips or travel-legs less than 150 miles or so. Any destination or hop further than that would probably make more sense for a plane.
The first season is pretty bad, but necessary to set up the various arcs.
Season 4 crammed the final two major plot arcs into it because they thought they were getting cancelled. But then they didn’t. Season 5 is almost entirely filler.
In fact, once you finish Season 4, I’d recommend jumping right to the series finale (last episode of S5) and watching that. Then watch Season 5 from the beginning and think of it as a spin-off show that didn’t go anywhere.
This was how I went through my last rewatch of the series a few years ago and it was perfect.
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I wonder how much Scarjo got paid to sit there and pretend to not laugh.
FYI, Sesame Street went public-private in 2016 when they signed a deal with HBO to fund new episodes which then were permitted to air on PBS several months later.
In Dec 2024, HBO/Max called the deal off and effectively cancelled the show. Now they’re shopping for a new home and, with the threats of PBS funding cuts, the notion of returning to PBS is in question.
So basically the showrunners of Sesame Street are at least partially responsible for the corner they painted themselves into here.
Very important additional context can be found in the Spokane Spokesman-Review article about the arrest (original link, archive), notably…
On Nov. 1, 2007, Diaz was initially charged with third-degree rape when a girl alleged that the couple had sex without her consent. Diaz later pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and was sentenced to a couple months in jail.
That prompted what’s called an “order of removal” regarding his legal status. In an effort to continue his efforts to get legal status, Diaz and his attorney, Frick, sought to have the order of removal vacated, but have been unsuccessful.
The article is very much worth reading. He had some other convictions as well, but also a ton of attention by law enforcement trying all kinds of sneaky shit to get him. I wouldn’t feel comfortable calling this justice, but the guy is no angel either; there’s certainly nuance to be found here.
Remember: it’s important to dig deeper into stories before you amplify them.
Electric light orchestra?
From the article…
And the photo of the throttle (middle) and fuel cutoff switches (bottom):
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-951922648-20250711223914009.jpg?q=w_1160%2Cc_fill%2Ff_webp
There’s just one-level-deeper of questions I’d have here. How were the switches designed such that they prevented accidental activation? Because it looks like they just get simply flipped down. Could it be pull-out-and-down? Or maybe there’s a lot of resistance during the switch action?