Damon Townsend

@UPS I guess you don't care about customer service anymore!!!! I still have not gotten my package, it says you will attempt a delivery, yet no package shows up. When I call they say it will be picked up today - but they said that the day before too. Even better - I can PAY for the CONVENIENCE of you holding it at a center, and I can pick it up!!! What happened to you????????????

@UPS if you leave a note with instructions on what to do - maybe you should follow through!! If you will not deliver when I sign the back of the form - why even offer it???

@UPS hey, can your drivers be bothered to even try? This has happened to me multiple times and I am sick of it. They leave a note - needs signature, with instructions to sign the back and they will leave it. So I do, and even write “see back!” on the front. Do they look? No! Just leave another note. Please do your job. So then I call the number, get someone who said they will call the distribution center and they will call me. Dude says he is sorry, will send driver back - guess what! No package!! Please do your job!!!

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@SGTWipper1Each DIdn't seem to be a problem in WWII

Let's discuss. Should the military move more towards inclusion or should service-members be forced to conform?

@Hoopss Why does this burger look like @IAmSteveHarvey

I’d destroy this burger

I just learned that dogs literally evolved special eyebrow muscles because humans are suckers. Seriously. Researchers compared dogs and wolves and found dogs developed stronger little eyebrow muscles that wolves barely have. That whole “sad puppy eyes” thing? Evolutionary hacking. Thousands of years ago, some proto-dog figured out: “Hey… if I make my eyes big and look emotionally devastated, this hairless ape gives me food and lets me sleep by the fire.” And humanity collectively responded: “You poor thing. Here’s some meat. Also you now live indoors.” So over thousands of years we accidentally bred wolves into furry emotional manipulators with built-in guilt projection software. Honestly, dogs may have domesticated us. Meanwhile wolves are out in the forest surviving winter storms and dogs are over here pretending they haven’t eaten in six months because they can see the bottom of the food bowl. Nature is incredible. And so are people!

Let’s se me it this will work, made a monitor on my home setup to monitor my @damon4auditor account. Let’s see if he picks it up!

Some evenings just feel absolutely surreal. I’m sitting here scrolling through Facebook on my personal phone while simultaneously checking my work phone for any NOC alerts or outages from my day job. At the same time, I’m working across four different screens on my PC. On one monitor, I’ve got Claude Code helping build a website, preview deploying it to Netlify so other people can test it and give feedback in real time. On another, I’ve got Codex open alongside a couple of PuTTY sessions connected to my home server and the new Mac Studio that’s hosting several local AI models. At the same time, I’m trying to build a Hermes agent that can run primarily off that local AI “brain” instead of constantly relying on cloud services. So there are terminals flying by, configs being edited, logs scrolling, models loading, tunnels connecting, and random moments of “why did THAT just break?” Meanwhile, in another window, I’m drafting public records requests and trying to keep all of that organized and coherent. There are definitely some interesting things buried in government records if you know where to look, how systems interact, and how to ask the right questions. Government transparency is important, but sometimes accountability requires people willing to actually dig. And every few minutes, I have to stop and look out the window because the chickens are out in the backyard. Somebody has to make sure they don’t wander off, squeeze through the fence, or become dinner for a hawk or raccoon. It’s honestly kind of funny when you stop and think about it. One minute I’m troubleshooting AI models, reverse proxy tunnels, SSH sessions, website deployments, and public records research trying to better understand how systems really operate, and the next I’m outside trying to convince a chicken not to wander into the neighbor’s bushes. But what’s really amazing is that all of these new tools are letting ordinary people actually build the things they imagine in their heads. A few years ago, a lot of this would have required entire teams, huge budgets, or specialized organizations. Now the crazy part is that regular people can actually experiment with this stuff instead of just giant companies. You can build websites, automate workflows, analyze public information, run AI systems locally, and connect ideas together in ways that just weren’t practical before. Honestly, half the battle now is just being stubborn enough to keep learning and keep trying things until they work. Feels like we’re entering an era where curiosity and persistence matter more than having access to some massive organization or budget.

@jakeskorheim @SoundTransit Well they need to fill that 30 billion hole somehow, and still not extend anything to Tacoma. I am so glad I live outside of the RTA.

So…@SoundTransit is now charging for something that used to be free? I guess they looked at the toll lanes and thought…hey, why can’t we do that?

This lawsuit ignores how retail actually works. Sometimes a product just sits. Stores don’t want you buying one, they want you taking two so they can clear the shelf. So they raise the price and run a BOGO to make that happen. Example: $5 item → $7.50 BOGO. Buy one, yeah it’s more. Take two, it’s $3.75 each, cheaper than before. That’s the point, incentivize two instead of one to move inventory. That’s not deception, it’s basic math and shelf management.

Our office is once again standing up for the rights of consumers and enforcing our laws against deceptive marketing. We’re suing Albertsons Companies, which owns Albertsons, Safeway, and Haggen, for years of overcharging Washingtonians with misleading “buy one get one free” promotions. Learn more: atg.wa.gov/news/news-rele…

@PattyMurray The President doesn't spend money that isn't already approved by Congress. Those bombs were already bought and paid for years ago. Last time I looked protecting the country was a duty of government.

The President spent more on bombs in ONE WEEK of his war with Iran than we spend in an entire YEAR to help parents afford child care. Trump & RFK Jr. are asking to spend $500B more for war—but they won't increase funding for child care by a cent.

@jakeskorheim Washington state is like the family that's house is a total mess, stuff everywhere, garbage, deferred maintenance, but rushes to clean up in a half assed manner when the in-laws are coming over...........

WTH, WSF?! This drives me nuts, if they can get things running for futbol fans, they can do it for taxpayers footing the bill. mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/j…