## Social source discovery: r/SeattleEvents

Scanned r/SeattleEvents RSS feed (25 posts). 2 new posts since last run
(2026-07-08). No new candidates found — new posts did not contain usable
external event source URLs (filtered out as social media links, text posts,
or content without extractable event-source URLs).

No new candidates this run.

## Source discovery: poetry/spoken word, science/tech talks, night markets, queer nightlife, food trucks, new venues, flea markets, board game cafés

Dead source check: `skills/source-discovery/scripts/dead-sources.py` —
1 zero-event calendar (`external-historic-seattle`), 0 external failures.
Not flagged as dead: `historic-seattle` is `status: added` (PR #758, ICS
via Tribe Events) and only recently started returning events again after a
prior CAPTCHA block; a single zero-event day doesn't meet the 30-day dead
threshold. No action taken.

Verticals searched: Seattle poetry/spoken-word open mic calendars, science
and tech lecture series, night/pop-up markets, queer/LGBTQ nightlife,
food truck festivals and pop-up dining, newly opened venues, vintage/flea
markets and craft fairs, board game café events, silent disco/immersive
experiences.

- ❌ Not Viable: **Western Washington Poets Network (WWPN)** — Google
  Sites, no structured feed, regional (not Seattle-specific) network —
  `docs/source-candidates/western-washington-poets-network.md`
- ❌ Already covered: Seattle Night Market (`sources/seattle_night_market/`),
  Columbia City Night Market (`sources/recurring/columbia-city-night-market.yaml`),
  Queer Social Club, Queer/Bar, Town Hall Seattle, Science in Seattle,
  Waterfront Park, Discover Magnolia / Magnolia Flea Market — all
  independently re-surfaced by this cycle's searches but already `added`
  or tracked candidates; no changes needed
- ❌ Not Viable: search hits for "Bard & Baker Board Game Café" (Troy, NY)
  and "Back Again Board Game Cafe" (Middletown, CT) — both are same-name
  venues in other states, not Seattle
- ❌ Not Viable: **Mox Boarding House Seattle** — events page
  (`moxboardinghouse.com/pages/seattle-events`) is backed by the Occasion
  table-reservation widget (`app.getoccasion.com`), not a structured public
  events calendar; `/products.json` only returns retail board-game
  inventory, no event data
- 🔄 Status fix (from 2026-07-08 Reddit sweep, now investigated):
  - **Pioneer Square Art Walk** → `blocked` — `pioneersquare.org/art-walks/`
    returns HTTP 403 direct from this environment
  - **Seattle All-Star Classic** → `notviable` — single annual game at
    Cheney Stadium (Tacoma, not Seattle), no calendar
  - **One Shot Seattle** → `notviable` — TicketSpice checkout page for one
    dated run, no browsable listing of future events
  - **Seattle AttendTickets (Free Shows)** → `notviable` — scrapable but a
    rolling weekly snapshot with no stable feed, and this week's events
    were mostly duplicates of already-covered sources (GreenStage, Seattle
    Center Festál)
  - **Georgetown Garden Walk** → `notviable` — single annual self-guided
    tour, site returns an empty body from this environment, no calendar
    either way

No new 💡 candidates cleared the quality gate this cycle. This continues
the pattern from recent runs: the easily-discoverable Seattle event sources
are almost entirely already tracked (added, candidate, blocked, or
notviable) in `docs/source-candidates/`. This cycle's main contribution
was closing out five stale `Unknown`-platform candidates from the
2026-07-08 Reddit sweep with concrete investigation results.

## Source discovery: implementing highest-confidence candidate

- ✅ Added: **Seattle Fun Events** — Eventbrite (built-in type, organizer
  `11424790611`) — `https://www.eventbrite.com/o/seattle-fun-events-11424790611`
  — themed costume bar crawls (SantaCon, HalloweenCon, etc.) consistently
  held at Merchant's Cafe and Saloon, Pioneer Square; 2 confirmed upcoming
  events at time of implementation — PR #899
