Seattle city council's District 5 has been held by pro-business backed candidates for a long time. Debora Juarez has held this seat on-and-off for nearly a decade. Cathy Moore won the seat in 2024, but resigned 18 months later. There is a special election *right now* to fill the seat until 2028.

James everything is analog@analogist.net · 2d ago

Not just on Aurora Ave, but at the site of Julie Kang’s former bank. You know, her bank she was likely forced to sell because of what the FDIC called “violations, reckless unsafe or unsound banking practices, and/or breaches of fiduciary duty.” Oh you didn’t know? 😄 I’ll have to do a thread soon

Me and the crew, gnawing our shield-rims, gashing our faces, roaring and bellowing OGRE PIKE, OGRE PIKE

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h ago

Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

Bad ergonomics Bad DNA Bad lead-delivery mechanism The firearm sucks, or so I deem.

I'd add $99 to my ticket price to be entered into the Pummel The In-Flight Bigot lottery

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 13h ago

Airlines are offending people charging for shit like bag check when they could be rolling in it by offering a service where the racists and homophobes all get duct taped live

New collections, organizations, and a few tweaks to the page are live. Check it out to support my work. Free memberships are welcome and keeps you up-to-date on what I am working on! #ttrpg #webcomics #battlemaps www.patreon.com/cw/d20monkey

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Get more from d20Monkey on Patreon. Creating webcomics and maps for TTRPG. Support d20Monkey and get exclusive access to their work.

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Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

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Note that it's not just 1Password that is supporting DHH. A good writeup here, with lots of receipts brennan.day/normalized-f...

"Consider the feelings of the racist," how about no. Cancelled my 1Password subscription today, the low-hanging fruit of Try Not To Give Money To Shitty People.

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password’s Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following: www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...

shit like this is why i refuse the narrative around MPD being understaffed, underfunded or under-resourced because like another significant chunk of the force is blocking off 7th street especially between chicago & park nobody will explain how they overspent $30 million either

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2d ago

like 20 minneapolis police department cops just arrived at loring towers carrying a box of snacks and eating them the city has already announced the shooter is dead

Outside Oak Lawn’s combo town hall/police HQ, community members are once again protesting a village they have repeatedly described as racist, especially against Arab-Americans.

Today in Hudson Valley adoptable cats is Pumpkin, a gorgeous middle-aged calico who wants to be your only cat. She is so loving but being around other cats in the shelter is stressing her out a bit. Anyone got a lap for our autumn queen? 🍂 🎃

Fuck you're welcome to buy MY game! #iHunt is such a huge piece of work for just two people. We put so many pages into that game. And pretty much everyone that follows me would have fun just reading it, not even necessarily playing. It's a game about poverty. But from the poor POV.

Radmad@radmad.bsky.social · 3d ago

I get that advertising rules all but it is very frustrating how many people in the replies are asking Olivia to bless so and so publisher when you could buy an independently developed game that would put like 75% of the money you spent directly in a trans woman's pocket.

The first episode of season two of Rascal Reading Club is out and we're off to a great start. We're talking about setting in Blades in the Dark and it's already got me thinking about games in new ways. 🧵⬇️ www.rascal.news/reading-club...

Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol

This ain't Swords in the Light.

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I stg, do white people believe in community, like at all? Yes, I'm going to make arguments about some other Black person's town being poisoned by data center because I care about Black people who are not me. I don't know how you watch videos of data center noise pollution and not care.

Aine Yore, MD 🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪@aineyoremd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Whoop there it is. Blocked.

me hitting the Back It Now button

Stimpy Presses the Red Button

Alt: Stimpy, doofus cartoon cat of the 90s and Queer Icon, Presses the Red Button from the Space Madness episode.

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Mad Jay@madjay.bsky.social · 3d ago

Mad-Dice 🤬 The Tiny VTT. Been building Mad-Dice for a few games. Now it's getting a real launch. Say it out loud: Very Tiny Table. Dice-forward. Minimalist. Sociable web app. This next iteration adds cards, safety & comm tools. Zero config. You know what to do👇🏾 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...

…coming soooooon… www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

Coming soon: THOMAS JEFFERSON'S SPEEDWAY HELL: Dangerous Playtest Edition

It's a tabletop RPG where sinners race through Hell to win brief moments of peace. It's handled with tremendous silliness.

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Anyway, my country isn't a nation and the nationalists that want to try to bleed a nation out of our republic are both fools and also traitors to our values and ideals. acoup.blog/2021/07/02/c...

Collections: My Country Isn’t a Nation

I hope everyone will forgive me taking this week to break from our normal diet of history-and-pop-culture (though we are discussing a key historical concept here – it is me after all), but it…

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And to think someone was a "Yep, see you then!" away from a good time

i’m just ken@shepardcdr.bsky.social · 4d ago

hey i’m gonna fucking crash out lmao????

I’m happy to see @mayor.seattle.gov finally start to chip away at some of this overt extortion from SPD, because a city as rich as Seattle shouldn’t be struggling to afford free meals for children in schools, transit, or road maintenance

Through the Static@throughthestatic.bsky.social · 4d ago

Financial hiring incentives for new and lateral Seattle Police officers are temporarily paused, beginning today. More info below

HELLO HABIBIS We are LIVE in front of the courthouse in PROVO, UTAH for the closing arguments in the pretrial hearings for Tyler Robinson, the man alleged to have killed Charlie Kirk. We’ll be here all ding dang dong day getting DEEP into the weirdness stay tuned!

nobody in history has ever gotten a bigger "affirmative action" boost than JD Vance. these Yale mfs brought him in, literally taught him how to use a knife and fork, handed him to Amy Chua to learn ruthless sociopathy, and then a tech billionaire bought him a Senate seat over the counter

The thing about Thiel being given any kind of private access to any kind of art is that he is a deranged Nazi He is absolutely unable to perceive that art in a normal way, an innocent way. I guarantee he stared at the tapestry, thinking about Greta Thunberg being the antichrist

Oliver Moore@oliver-moore.bsky.social · 4d ago

This institution just has an absolutely first-class ability to read the room www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I got to play in a one-shot of The Watch at Big Bad Con (in the Olden Days) and it was deeply compelling - unabashedly political, gripping, one holy-shit moment after another. Immediately backed, what a great followup to an already-formidable game.

Ash the Stampede@ashthestampede.bsky.social · 4d ago

Mars Watch is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Re-skinned 2nd edition of The Watch - an award-winning TTRPG about women and NB people literally destroying patriarchy. 📚 Revised rules, incl. new playbook 🚀 New setting & art ✨ Future genders 🔪 Destroy space capitalism Back now: www.kickstarter.com/...

The quotable Tarn Adams: "It just reminds me of like a fucking Dead Kennedys song or something."

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'

"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."

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whenever I imagine a Corvid society in a world after man, I imagine CM Koseman / Simon Roy’s Dinosauroid. It’s a spec evo if dinosaurs never went extinct. A classic in the genre. I’ve never seen it done with this much care and complexity. Art, culture, history. www.cmkosemen.com/dinosauroids...

Happy Letterer Appreciation Day!

Ok what the actual fuck, @wired.com!!!! Calling perimenopause a “buzzword” is wild, misogynist work that minimizes a decades long feminist movement to raise awareness about women’s health This article could have been good but instead is … very very bad

Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex

How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

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