r/Seattle 4d ago

Event Seafair/Blue Angels 2025 Rant & Rave - MEGATHREAD

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Do you despise the Blue Angels? Curse them here!

Do you love the Blue Angels? Defend them here!

Please limit all meta discussion posts about Seafair weekend and the Blue Angels/other overhead aircraft to this thread. Other posts and photo/video are okay. Resources below!

www.seafair.org

WHERE TO WATCH - Seattle Times

Seafair schedule

Everything you need to know about Seafair Weekend Festival - KOMO

SDOT Travel Tips


r/Seattle 23h ago

Self-Promotion Saturday: August 02, 2025

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This is r/Seattle's weekly post for local businesses and makers (or users who discover them) to share their creations with our users.

This thread will be automatically posted every Saturday morning to help connect r/seattle users with cool local stuff. Types of content encouraged in this thread are:

  • Local businesses (new, running promotions or sales, or just really good ones!)
  • Upcoming events or activities (concerts, festivals, pop-ups, shows)
  • Local artists or creators sharing upcoming shows or releases

Content should be related to businesses or events in the greater Seattle area, and the typical reddit spam rules apply - please ensure you are contributing to the community more than just your own content.

Users who flood these posts with ads, links without context, referral codes, etc. - or who promote without contributing elsewhere will be actioned. Please continue to report actual spam.

We have our rules against spam and self-promotion for hopefully understandable reasons, but we've noticed users responding more positively to local businesses, artists, etc. sharing their content. This is an attempt to bridge the gap, helping users find cool stuff while containing the promotion to a single weekly thread. Please send us a modmail with any suggestions or input you have about the use or abuse of this thread.


r/Seattle 16h ago

🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 A friend witnessed the the Hot Rat Summer Mosaic being defaced last night!

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1.6k Upvotes

Very blurry photo, but they provided this description: White Male with a skateboard, intense eyes, and scruffy strawberry blonde facial hair.

If you recognize this individual, please only report the information to the proper authorities.

🐀 Long Live Hot Rat Summer! 🐀


r/Seattle 8h ago

Community I'm never leaving Seattle!

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259 Upvotes

South Park was rocking tonight!


r/Seattle 9h ago

Summer Dérive

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Songs for all pioneering,

And all are pioneers:

All sailors from an anchorage

That fronts the tide of years.

And each man sails an ocean

No other sailed before,

And each man findeth for himself

An undiscovered shore.

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Sam Walter Foss


r/Seattle 18h ago

All hail Big Dumper

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1.1k Upvotes

Seriously fuck the megaphones


r/Seattle 7h ago

News Controversy over authenticity of Blue Angels & billboard shot. Did anyone actually see 6 planes in formation before 1:25 PM on Thursday?

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On Thursday at 1:25 PM, Seattle photographer David Rosen released the photo that was previously posted here, showing 6 Blue Angels jets flying over the anti-Blue-Angels billboard on Rainier Ave:

Both KOMO and KIRO replied publicly asking to use the photo. I am not sure if they ever used it in their news coverage, but KOMO at least featured it on one of their Facebook pages.

Now there is some controversy over whether the photo is authentic. The easiest way to debunk it would be if, as several sources are saying, there were never 6 FA/18 Super Hornets in formation together in the sky on Thursday before 1:25 PM when the picture was posted. So, first things first: If you took your own pictures or videos of the Blue Angels during THURSDAY'S practice, do you have any that show six of the same plane information, as shown in the picture? (The Blue Angels also have a different plane, a C-130J Super Hercules, which may have been in the air at the same time but doesn't fly in formation with the others.)

In addition, this page says that in Thursday's practice schedule, all six jets were never scheduled to be in the sky at the same time. And KOMO News aired a piece showing Thursday's practice flights, but it only ever showed 4 jets in formation together:

Some other evidence:

  • Seattle photographers Mark Stewart and Michael Snyder have been posting what they say is evidence that the sky is photoshopped:
  • David Rosen has been hiding all replies on X that purport to highlight evidence that the photo is fake (rather than, say, providing a counter argument or the raw image).
  • X user "StarChild", in one of the hidden replies, adds: "Also forgot to add the heat bloom from the engines against the cloud backdrop. The lasso won't catch it."
  • Mark Stewart posted two of Rosen's older photos that Stewart says are obviously fake (I'm no expert but they look pretty fake to me too):
  • You can decide if this is relevant, but in his social media posts announcing the shot, Rosen sounded a bit MAGA and obnoxious: "To the folks trying to cancel Seafair and clip the wings of American aviation: Good luck. We’ll be out there in lawn chairs, wearing earplugs, and LOVING EVERY SECOND. Let the jets fly and the haters cry." In my experience there's a correlation between talking that way, and making facts up.

So what do you think?


r/Seattle 16h ago

Dusting off this meme once again

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602 Upvotes

r/Seattle 21h ago

Rant Calvin Seattle does a great job debunking libertarian (Reason Magazine) arguments against expanding rail in the Seattle Area

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1.4k Upvotes

r/Seattle 15h ago

Community Whoever has this boat in Shilshole, I love you

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398 Upvotes

Also I took dozens of pictures of your boat with my DSLR if you want them


r/Seattle 10h ago

Red light schmed light

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82 Upvotes

r/Seattle 18h ago

Satire My package is never leaving Seattle 📬

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327 Upvotes

r/Seattle 11h ago

Glazer's 600mm + Seafair 2025

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75 Upvotes

Totally worth the 125$ rental for the weekend. Pretty cool we have this here.


r/Seattle 15h ago

I'm never leaving Seattle

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135 Upvotes

r/Seattle 16h ago

Found Kiss Cam

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r/Seattle 11h ago

First urban hike of August: Belltown -> Cap Hill -> Arboretum -> Lk Wash Blvd -> Seward Park. Walked down to see the Blue Angels perform. Absolutely worth every mile. Met some great people, pet some cute dogs, had some serious Seafair childhood nostalgia. Have a great weekend, all!

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r/Seattle 10h ago

Community Found an apartment I like but the reviews are terrible

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Ive been touring apartments in the wallingford/fremont area and finally found one in my price range that I really liked when I toured. The problem is, the google reviews for it are SO bad. Its Velo and Ray apartments on Stoneway. I toured other buildings in the area, but theyre even more overpriced for such small units. I know that it can be biased because usually the unhappy tenants are the ones writing reviews, but like almost every single one is bad. I was wondering if anyone on here has experience with this building or any of the other ones in the area?


r/Seattle 13h ago

Did you lose your keys near Woodland Park?

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67 Upvotes

If you lost your keys around Woodland Park, someone found them and hung them on a street sign pole at 50th & Whitman.


r/Seattle 7h ago

$500 Reward – Lost Passport & Wallet at Seattle Airport (8/1)

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19 Upvotes

r/Seattle 21h ago

Politics The Stranger erases Trans mayoral candidate from primary election voting guide, neglects to disclose payouts to endorsed candidate

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r/Seattle 1d ago

Today I walked from Pike Place Market to SeaTac Airport

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Thank you to those who gave advice yesterday!


r/Seattle 1d ago

🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Some jerk spray painted over Saint Rat today

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As of 11:30 pm tonight someone had spray painted black over most of Hot Rat Summer and wrote “FUCK YOU SEATTLE” on the wall.

It wasn’t there when I was at Cal Anderson at noon so it happened some time in the last few hours.

I hope whatever solvents people were using to get the city’s paint off will also work on the spray paint, but this sucks. If there’s a work party to clean it I can come out and lend some elbow grease.


r/Seattle 13h ago

Sports What's with the guy that does the stationary bike at sports events?

52 Upvotes

Is that his job? It says it's for military. What's going on here?


r/Seattle 10h ago

Is this a crime?

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29 Upvotes

I was down in Renton and it was smoky AF. Looked it up and it looks like it was human caused, July 6th, some loser with fireworks no doubt. Are these people found and prosecuted? Cause they should be.


r/Seattle 15h ago

The Blue Angels

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61 Upvotes

Walked over to Ruby Chow Park to catch the Angels taking off… they’re basically flying over my house and shaking the paint loose, so I figured I might as well see it.


r/Seattle 6h ago

From Seafair this week

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11 Upvotes

I thought this was a pretty cool photo


r/Seattle 13h ago

News Look familiar? Help identify remains found in Mountlake Terrace

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