A Seattle anti-displacement campaign in the Paschal season about those moving to Tacoma to afford rents: they were Pierced for our transgressions.
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A Seattle anti-displacement campaign in the Paschal season about those moving to Tacoma to afford rents: they were Pierced for our transgressions.
An Amazon software engineer spent 4 weeks in jail this summer due to Seattle Police faulty interpretation of surveillance video and credit card transaction data.
When you get a coupon for a free thing you just bought for someone else, does that turn you into a pass-through account?
The entire federal government from staff to Congressional Democrats is running on a retirement cliff. It's completely fine to have a few people stay on long term, but 1) what does everyone having stayed on give us right now? and 2) does doing this systemically not result in this no matter what?
There's no self-defense justification for genocide, or any other affirmative defense. It's frustrating how little Israel supporters engage with what international law actually says (because they have no argument and they know it)
I think it's so beautiful the way he's spread his love between so many wives. It's almost poly inclusive.
And please don't remind me it was during the time neo-Hitler was last in charge. I blacked out and ascribed everything to afterwards.
I love to write an agrammatic sentence, hit send, and then meditate on the "I tried to apply 'the rules' [lying Latin] to a Germanic language again, didn't I?" *Could you shoot over the template? Could you shoot the template over? Just shove every preposition to the end of present tense.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
North of John?
We got into a nice full on shouting match at an intersection two weeks ago with a driver who blew through the scramble on First and University.
On my "the culture is changing" nongripes for Seattle: Every intersection in this city legally is a crosswalk. Make the drivers follow the law and stop fearing walking. We have too many transplants in this city to justify the heterosexual inability to find community on local culture. Fix yourselves.
And I'm not going to say every one of the parents is going to be the most lovely Washingtonian/Californian/New Yorker, but that's fine and I do not give a shit when their human dignity is under attack.
The number of tech CEOs is low in this country and is happy to bankroll your campaigns. The number of, say, trans people and their families that can no longer get their medication is surging, and is in fact much larger as you're complaining about them all in one basket.
I see the "the culture is changing argument." Simultaneously, rights have collapsed in two of our most populous states and people are fleeing. Low-vacancy cities must build to comply with our responsibility to our fellow Americans under Trump's gun.
A lot of the opera questions are just "Why are they singing in a way where I have difficulty processing words?" and I feel like that has answers.
But like understanding a soap opera is objective something you have to learn to do. "Why is it always like this—that is stupid" goes away a little bit when you're like "Oh this is a requirement of the form in order to accomplish XYZ"
To be topically stupid and open to not being so is a gift (except on Skibidi toilet. I did not need to know what I was missing.).
I think of topical illiteracy a lot as a thing people are afraid to admit, and I think that's very funny. Like the two modes of it are "I don't know what hermeneutics mean and I am too afraid to ask" and "Skibidi rizz Ohio gyatt was said in the hallway [two years ago] and I am afraid."
Loudly saying I still do not get this segment of art alongside opera so that someone tells me where to go to establish literacy.
I love to pick up an old classmate's book of poetry and go "This is inscrutable. It is too bad I will never know what the author was getting at" before remembering that 1) they will make fun of me if I ask but 2) I can ask because we do have each other's numbers.
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
There's a bike type for nearly everyone. All they need is the infrastructure to enable them.
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
All I'm saying is that the conspiratorial whispers better come true for the Lego thief.
Prosecute every single ICE agent.
Congress appropriated enough money for 41,500 ICE beds in the FY2024 spending bill, up from 34,000 in FY2020-2023. Immigration detention itself has long been bipartisan.
Not that the rule of law or international legal standards matter or ever mattered but the US announcement that it will block PLO officials from attending the UNGA in September violates the American commitment to the UN charter and its responsibilities as host country
Pastors, if your congregation is joining the ethnic cleansing force for God, your church will be spat out and crushed and thrown into Gehenna, never to be spoken of again.
Love to hop out of work a couple hours early using the extra weekend leave and go catch the free concert a couple blocks away. I mean oh, no, Seattle is horrible and a shitshow worth being afraid of and never bettering.
This is a failure, lol.
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Ooooof. And I wouldn't say it was one of mine but now I'm very big on Bronze Age stuff.
Also it's objectively a Goodreads clone just without enough people to mean I feel like I'll run into someone.
Why wouldn't she just... Go in on Hatshepsut? Like she was reigning during the height of the first era of globalization? She's objectively under covered?
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Have you seen that a Democratic (primary in a blue district) candidate's husband (in his own right, an outspoken member of Veterans for Peace) is now in deportation proceedings outside of Seattle?
I've been really enjoying using bookwyrm.social as just a not-social journal for my reading, and then when I *need~ to see if other people hated something (I read a truly shit book a month ago [Cold People (I'm still mad)]), I actually click through to other opinions.
Talking with East Coast agency staffers and everyone is like SEATTLE DOES HWAT?, meanwhile I'm just describing who organized our vacation plans.
The national environment: Don't mention polyamory or we're pulling the chat log and putting it on national TV. The West Coast: Bitch, why were you being cagey about saying you were going to Folsom on Teams? Everyone goes to Folsom. Your straight boss's boss goes to Folsom.
So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime
A thing that shows up in here: I last saw Johnnie Moore, now head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in February. He was a featured speaker at the National Religious Broadcasters gathering. But his talk wasn't on Gaza. It was on crisis communications for U.S. churches that encounter scandals.
the National Guard deployment is the same thing as the military parade is the same thing as the glowering paintings of Donald Trump staring down at you is the same thing as torturing a small number of South American immigrants: he loves the appearance of tyranny.
Unreadable. I have never finished it. And she is... Central to my job's story, to say the least, and an inspiring force at the office.
It's one thing to deliver information when requested (even though they kind of put safeguards on [kind of is generous] when asked about suicide methods). It's another for the "search engine replacement" to actively tell you not to talk to your family because they don't know you like the "SER".
I'll be honest. I thought it was kind of spurious when I first heard about the case. Listening to counsel discuss what actually happened, Altman should be imprisoned.
people have been prosecuted for coercing someone into suicide. creating a machine to do that at scale doesn’t reduce the culpability
I have a moderately basic question on Palestine. Does recognizing a Palestinian state push against a one state solution or is it an essential requirement for one day having an integrated binational state with rights for all?
This is not the creation of a totalitarian state. It is the selling of a state for scrap. Absolutely trashing the career value of a federal position as we near the retirement cliff while also making it clear to your only enforcement force that you don't respect them? A fascinating choice.
Join the National Guard. Project your community through its darkest days during a hurricane or tornado, stay in shape, and hold down your normal job. Except now you're picking up trash in DC.
there is a direct connection between NIMBYism and the anti-migrant turn in US politics (and you see it happening in Canadian politics too)
The... Pigeon Creek Valley? As a person who has lived a decade of his childhood near Pigeon Creek, who is describing anything as the Pigeon Creek Valley? (Also, very fun to do chemical and biological sampling there *before~ you learn the term combined sewer outflow event while writing the paper.)
Gaslighting my boss into not noticing I couldn't get Excel to properly expand a table by casually changing the "right" color used everywhere else in this Word document to the close enough color I used when I was too lazy to get a hex value for a document that will likely be converted to grayscale.
Good to know! I assume they'll have another method in place soon at Lego, but I definitely am concerned about not being able to get non-bestseller parts for the time being.
NEW: Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Monday it has divested from U.S. construction equipment group Caterpillar (CAT.N), as well as five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds due to repeat violations of intl law in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank & Gaza.
The starfish on the shore, it made a difference to that one parable, but the starfish is a crown of thorns being placed back into a vulnerable coral community.
The US cooperated with its neighbors and pushed this parasite to the Panama-Colombia border in part because it was way cheaper to keep the solution we'd found (flooding the area with sterile males) super narrow. Anyways now they're doing this in Texas. Because "efficiency".
Internal sources reporting feds still have to use vacation time for the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve, much less the three hours they used to get the day before federal holidays to make up for having fewer days off than private sector.
No, I've been using the Lego pick a brick site. Bricklink has a marketplace?
[The Lego Store in Bellevue does not have what I need at all. The minimum plate size they have is 2x6. I am going to perish.]
This is very bad news for me (a guy who forgot to add the colorful 1x2 Lego plates to the parts list for a few custom builds I was making for friends and where the last shipment came from Germany).
My brother's customized birthday song for me included multiple James Dobson jokes.
The blacklist is fucking stupid. Sure, birthing person is something I wouldn't say. Cisgender? How am I supposed to say "the opposite of transgender" quickly? The desire to avoid people remembering there is a word for the opposite of the group (of millions of people) they are attacking is absurd.
At least hack anti-trans comedy is "free" there since it's state policy.
Please join me for this and other thoughts like "Oh god, why did I opt outdoors the *sole~ disgustingly hot weekend of the year so far?"
Please, they haven't even taken over my block yet.
Low-key the funniest thing to me this week was booking a campsite and immediately realizing it is walking distance from my brother's apartment were it not for the giant river in the way.
I don't think he shouldn't do rallies. But his first role in the position of member of Congress is to immediately get to working things in DC to confirm what is happening and what the plan is so that the family and counsel have the ability to react, and that takes a few hours.
Okay, having worked on a couple of deportation prevention outside strategies, the role of members of Congress is first to gather information and intercede between higher ups and the impacted. That's the role of the member's case load and part of the value of them being in DC. Rallies happen after.
Per the Stranger, he is. share.google/Yrl861zbh87n...
the density of this block is about 35 DU/acre the 4/5 story perimeter block below is ~50 DU/acre.
It's a nice early birthday gift for sure.
The world he tried to create was never big enough for me. One person who tried to keep queer youth from realizing their futures withers into nothing while we live on.
Not Gentrification: selling your single family home for $1,500,000 to a professional class couple who will pay $8,000/month mortgage payments. Gentrification and Displacement: selling your SFH to a developer for $2,400,000 who will knock it down for 25 $3,500/month apartments.
"We need to know who to use for expertise. Also, we should have no professionals to develop expertise."
I was doing a real life Padme and Anakin meme on this one. The systems they are relieving us from are the... Anti-fume ones?
I mean there's also the bad news that "newly awoken ethnic feelings" meant genocide and the division of the empire meant population transfers, which are just the old timey way of saying ethnic cleansing and homogenization, which is what scares me about calling for breakup.
Thanks!
Where do we find Lenski's scale?
The most I can give him is that he saw a cool bug or flower. But cool bug and flower season is spring on that trail for me.
People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-
I know it says trail but this is not a hike. It's the path around a neighborhood built on the site of the old airport (i.e. it's a perfectly flat multiuse path). Love that trail and used to use it near daily during bluebonnet season when I lived in the neighborhood, but this is not an accurate read
Moreover, the Mueller Trail is flat as hell. It's basically along the retaining wall of the old airport and *incredibly~ simple. You have to work to get lost on this one.
You're missing out on Babylon Berlin, but otherwise, yes.
This administration better get its unprofessional, nonmedical, incompetent hands off of my doctor-prescribed medicine that keeps my emotions in check enough to only consider and not actually jump in front of my morning train.
You know, I knew it killed the sense of smell but I didn't know COVID impacted the smell quite that bad.
Indeed.
I mean I can point you to plenty of woo woo directions my community has taken, though ultimately I think they're a little bit less harmful than feeding children biohazards for Jesus and fit more in the "Oh that's fascinating, thank you, single man living solo, for your metaphysics insights" space.
I agree, but, and I say this without saying ban them, it's not just right wing spaces where this happens. "This is a water pipe for tobacco" and "It's VCR cleaner" signs are a part of my milieu with an understanding that largely overreaching legal requirements are still there.
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
UChicago's endowment's failures due to investments in crypto will have an opportunity cost in the billions, resulting in the catastrophic loss of departments where they've led for a century. Anyways, that's what's coming to your retirement accounts under new Trump admin guidance.
Remember that Marco Rubio was unanimously confirmed in the Senate. Every single Democrat voted for him
This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
That basic deal has been broken since at least the 70s and no longer holds a coalition together that supports it, so, uh... what's it -for- exactly
This is evil. The State Department blocked temporary visitor visas for severely injured Palestinians from Gaza coming to the US for medical treatment, half of whom were children, because Laura Loomer said the injured Palestinians are Hamas & would murder Americans.
“Violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” President Trump said of D.C. Post reporters retraced some of the president’s routes with the goal of seeing his view of Washington firsthand. wapo.st/4fPz3dV
It just gives me the ick to even remember it exists. When I go to Howell I avoid looking out into the distance.
🤮 Bellevue 🤮
No, the bad place whose existence I like to ignore owned by the shitstain who has personally bankrolled like half of the light rail expansion pushback. But I forgot some Lego pieces for a specific gift, so my options are limited if I don't want to wait another month for shipping from Germany.