Kit Merker @KitMerker

Software Executive and Investor, mostly focused on infra software enabling AI, cloud, data, security, and reliability. kitmerker.com Seattle, WA, USA Joined June 2011

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

3 hours ago

Covid was just prep for living on the moon

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3 hours ago

I’ve said for a while that all you need to conquer space is fedex and internet and spacex gives you both!

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10 hours ago

@thehoffather What a fool

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10 hours ago

No camera fridays are the new casual fridays

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10 hours ago

No camera fridays are the new casual fridays

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11 hours ago

@P_Remarks I think tone matters on this. I could see satya saying this with a real smirk and it’s kind of a flip sarcastic answer that could draw a laugh. But who knows.

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Look the Seattle times is FINALLY reporting what I posted last week. And I’m not a reporter lol not my job. This is how bad our Seattle newspaper is now. Docusign plans downtown Seattle move, likely leaving namesake tower | The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/business/real-…

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21 hours ago

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Thank god

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Elan @engele

3 days ago

Washington’s millionaire’s tax will reach the state Supreme Court. When it does, nine justices will decide whether it stands. Two of them were appointed by the governor who signed it. One of them gave money to the other’s campaign the day after he signed it. We’ve documented the contribution network. Now the question: what happens next? 🧵

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

6 days ago

@TheAliceSmith Seattle vs Bellevue

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a week ago

@aakashgupta Bezos right now

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a week ago

@VijayInWA @KYRRadio Such passive aggressive Washingtonese in this language

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Future 42 @future42org

a week ago

@BobFergusonGov "It looks like voters will get a say" Yea, even after you signed an emergency clause to make it as challenging as possible for them.

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Ari Hoffman @thehoffather

a week ago

Turd Ferguson is lying. Here is why: 1) He slapped an emergency clause on a law that doesn't go into effect until 2028 to make it harder for voters to challenge the new income tax 2) He could have tried the income tax via constitutional amendment and didn't because he knows voters have rejected it 11 times 3) The Democrats rejected any restrictions that would have limited the income tax to just millionaires 4) Ferguson is trying to get a super majority which can override his veto and then he can claim the Legislature did it, not him even though he is the one who signed the unconstitutional income tax into law and championed it 5) He supported efforts to destroy the initiative process in the Legislature How do you know Ferguson is lying? His lips are moving

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Jim Walsh @JimWalshLD19

a week ago

The current governor is panicking. He's trying to use some strategery to prop up his troubled state income tax scheme. He's raising expectations about its repeal, to position himself as the underdog in defending the crooked scheme. This isn't going to work. His state income tax scheme is designed to be a tax on everyone in WA. And everyone in WA knows this. Fail.

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

2 weeks ago

The Pike Place Projects

Guy Oron @GuyOron

2 weeks ago

BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.

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stevemur @stevemur

2 weeks ago

That Seattle has placed a moratorium on data-centers at the same time as: - core downtown vacancy hitting an all time record (and highest among major cities) of ~40% - 3 different vendors had specific proposals which would have brought millions in revenue to the city - a relatively new state tax on digital services which could have made this revenue climb even higher - a city budget deficit of more than $100 million, with little room for yet more taxation - hints that Anthropic might be one of the only companies to actually expand its downtown square footage, while many are departing or downsizing - Starbucks HQ packs up and lays off many leaders in its local IT team - Amazon and other employers have to be feeling the anti-business sentiment and this was a chance to push back tangibly against it … shows that we are not led by the sensible, but by the performative

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spor @sporadica

2 weeks ago

DoorDash is simultaneously a human right after being founded just 13 years ago AND its founders are unethical evil people bc their DoorDash stock is now worth over a billion dollars. yes this makes sense.

Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz

2 weeks ago

This is bc they do not have the time or capacity to create home cooked meals. It’s an issue countless ppl have tried to raise w leftists but big leftists online continue to shame/abuse poor ppl for being forced to rely on these services for meals, which act as a tax on the poor

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2 weeks ago

@mkobach 1995

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Elan @engele

2 weeks ago

🧵 In August 2025, Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen wrote an email explaining the real goal of the "millionaire's tax": "I would like to force the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its caselaw that considers income to be property." Not "fund schools." Force the court.