American politics is like if you're trapped in a room slowly filling with blood but the person next to you is screaming about how the world would end if every bug was a banana

Do it, Canada. Do the funni. Export tax of 500%. I want to see gas at $12/gal

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs

Shhh….I’m listening to reason.

ALT version.

it really should be a bigger story that Karen Bass enthusiastically supports the cult of Scientology

ICYMI Seattle's interim police chief filed what could have been a career-ending complaint against a detective who spoke at a pro-LGBTQ rally against two right-wing initiatives. Investigators found this likely violated her free speech rights and could open SPD to a lawsuit. A PubliCola exclusive.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interim Police Chief Sayles Filed Complaint Against Hate Crimes Detective for Speaking At Pro-LGBTQ Rally “Any further investigation would violate [the detective’s] constitutional rights and open the city to a lawsuit,” an investigator concluded when dismissing Sayles’ complaint.

All I want is for Trump to be remembered like a pharaoh-- specifically, Akhenaten. They have a lot in common. Both were pseudo-religious nuts with unusually shaped bodies (not body shaming, but it's true!). Both defaced municipal buildings. Both engaged in resource wars in SW Asia. 👇

we have to info wars the Harry Potter franchise

ACAB and SPD is even a little extra broken, as a Treat. falling for a Kruse hit-job should be an automatic disqualification.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interim Police Chief Sayles Filed Complaint Against Hate Crimes Detective for Speaking At Pro-LGBTQ Rally “Any further investigation would violate [the detective’s] constitutional rights and open the city to a lawsuit,” an investigator concluded when dismissing Sayles’ complaint.

Wow, this is fantastic.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Katie Wilson is in Beacon Hill this afternoon announcing a brand new executive order targeting changes dealing with traffic safety across city government. The five-section order is beefy, and I think it represents the biggest reaffirmation of Vision Zero in Seattle since the initial 2015 commitment.

Thinking of doing something extremely dangerous today, like eating lunch.

I'm big on self-care, one example is not reading substack, the nazi platform

@kuow.org WIR is of course using the skewed/biased Chamber of Commerce poll to excoriate Mayor Wilson today. Every panelist is anti-Wilson. Also, how much better would the local media landscape be without Joni fucking Balter? Gods she’s so awful.

Another cis white male transphobe has been SILENCED, SILENCED I TELL YOU!

Seattle Times dipshit quits because his editors were smart enough to spike his stupid columns: defector.com/matt-calkins...

Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns | Defector

People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did…

defector.com

5) there are a bunch of reasonable objections to AI but most people who object to AI, at least the ones in my mentions, dislike AI first and then find objections later. The water thing has always been bullshit. The psychosis thing looked like it was going to be a huge problem and then it wasn’t.

This is pretty much where I’m at right now.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d ago

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

I know what’s the perfect thing to leaflet outside that new harry potter store on oxford street when it opens

Distributed Denial of Secrets@ddosecrets.org · 2d ago

Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

New horror movie idea: somebody gets one of those WiFi connected AI refrigerators with internal cameras so you can see what’s inside without opening the doors. They’re at the grocery store and turn on the app, and inside the fridge is a HUMAN HEAD!

I can’t believe we’re doing climate change just so some people can eat a single serving of almonds and a single serving of cheese, each encased in a conveniently divided plastic container in packs of ten, available in your store’s refrigerator aisle.

I need some new weird creative obsession. I’ve done painting, writing, Gnostic and Buddhist stuff, foraging, paranormal whatnot, Cynicism, Greek mythology, and blogging about it all…. Now what? This is fun to think about.

This story has been picked up by the New York Times.

Seattle Times Columnist Resigns After Paper Scrapped Trans Sports Column (Gift Article)

Matt Calkins, a longtime sports columnist, said editors had refused to publish a column about transgender athletes in women’s competitions.

nytimes.com

I somehow missed the spreadsheet discourse and I LIKE IT

"I don't take taxpayer dollar money" is quite the spin on "I constantly demand government funds and act aggrieved when I don't get them, but no public agency wants anything to do with me" mynorthwest.com/gee-and-ursu...

'As if I'm some kind of grifter': We Heart Seattle founder fires back at state probe as Gee and Ursula press her on accountability - MyNorthwest.com

We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez said she gave up a corporate career, invested $25,000, and spent three years picking up trash for free.

mynorthwest.com

And this is how Andrea / We Heart Seattle behaves (with her nonprofit account) around prominent fascists in the Trump admin

Alex@alexh666.bsky.social · 3d ago

We Hesrt Seattle brought in over $900k last year, had over $800k in assets, and andrea suarez personally made over $110k from We Heart Seattle last year. We Heart Seattle is a 502c3 org, operating in the public trust. They need to start taking safety and record keeping seriously.

What's the over/under on his impending team-up with Kruse and Choe?

Joe Veyera@joeveyera.bsky.social · 3d ago

Matt Calkins has resigned from the Seattle Times, claiming the paper declined to run a column on the Sophie Cunningham supporters at a Storm game last month.

More on this dangerous cult, which seems almost entirely AI generated but has fans in the Kremlin and the White House: www.opendemocracy.net/climate-chan...

Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders

In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis

opendemocracy.net

J. Puma@broccoliwizard.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you've never heard of the ALLATRA cult and want a nutso rabbit hole to fall into, I highly recommend this vid. I knew these guys are like a weirder, Russian version of Scientology with ties to MAGA, but I had no idea how truly strange and evil they were. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLC...

If you've never heard of the ALLATRA cult and want a nutso rabbit hole to fall into, I highly recommend this vid. I knew these guys are like a weirder, Russian version of Scientology with ties to MAGA, but I had no idea how truly strange and evil they were. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLC...

The Internet's Deepest Rabbit Hole

YouTube video by Nexpo

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Dang looks like Stephen Hoeller kicked it in May. It's possible that only Elaine Pagels did more damage to the study of "Gnosticism" in the past couple of decades. He was a nice enough guy, but one of the last of the Theosophical Society Old Guard and a defender of notorious pedophile CW Leadbeater.