current mental health status: 34 years old and listening to slayyyter's wor$t girl in america on repeat

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

josh naylor has “where my hug at” energy (laudatory, somehow)

if you live around Seattle and like beer, come to this event! you can learn how to brew beer while drinking the local-est beer you can find (and it's pretty good!). come see me at the master gardener table with other people who are smarter than me and we'll answer your plant questions for free!

Presale Hops Festival Tasting Tickets - Greater Kent Historical Society

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If every life has equal value, every loss deserves equal mourning. My latest column examines why Seattle rallies after some tragedies but too often looks away when violence strikes Rainier Beach, Hillman City, Brighton, and other South Seattle neighborhoods.

COLUMN | Gun Violence Didn't Move to Seattle Center. Our Attention Did.

Seattle rallied when gun violence struck its "civic living room." Marcus Harrison Green asks why South End deaths have so rarely received the same urgency.

southseattleemerald.org

Hearing on good authority that Police Chief Shon Barnes has just been fired. He just left the mayor's office this evening after being inside for quite a while. Barnes is currently calling around the police department to tell his captains. Still waiting on confirmation from mayor's office and SPD.

this is about seattle’s police chief (check out the thread) and as a taxpayer here, wow does this piss me the fuck off. defund the police. they don’t keep us safe, we do. this is unbelievable

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · last wk.

Barnes makes around $370,000 a year. He has repeatedly been out of town, at events in other cities or at his family home in Chicago, during emergencies like today’s mass shootimg.

you’re god damn right I kept enough receipts for four years after the fact to submit a report with exact dates and times and hoo boy did it feel good

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

rest in piss bozo

i talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today

went to our first mariners game last night and the experience did not disappoint

i've been so severely depressed i was at risk of suicide and under safety plans several separate times. i still had to run meetings and send emails and do spreadsheets every day or i'd have been homeless. must have been nice tom! glad you're back to take away our care. i fucking hate these people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Rep. Tom Kean finally speaks after months away from Congress for a previously unexplained absence: "I was given the diagnosis of depression ... the doctors recommended I remain in the hospital to address my illness"

mark zuckerberg i hate you so goddamn much

this helped me finally manage to articulate how i feel every time i watch my fellow whites do land acknowledgements and nothing else: “we are so committed to fairness that we have lost sight of the unfairness of doing nothing”

Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences@mateosfo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”

Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences@mateosfo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

be like me, have no air conditioning and plan to merely die in the el niño heat instead. follow me for more energy tips

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

Electricity bills are expected to jump an average of 10.5%, to $792, nationwide for June through September, according to the latest National Energy Assistance Directors Association projection. https://cnn.it/4eiWjAG

i mean i haven't watched the finals in years and i signed up for a free fubo trial because i wanted to see the booing live so

NBA@nba.com · 2mo ago

Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks was the most-watched NBA Finals Game 3 in 28 years (since Bulls/Jazz in 1998), averaging 23.8 million viewers on ABC and ESPN. The audience peaked with 26.3 million viewers at 11:15 p.m. ET.

there are Magrittes everywhere for those with the eyes to see

sending this to every rich person who has commented on how terrible it must feel to throw my rent money down the drain every month (not that i could afford a home even if i wanted to but still) www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

Is buying a home now in Seattle a good investment?

For those who can afford to buy a home in pricey Seattle, the decision is complex.

seattletimes.com

this is so embarrassing. new life goal is to never become this person as i age jesus christ

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Protesters at Mt Baker Beach on opening day for Bicycle Weekends. Their main demand is that it should only be twice a month, not every weekend

@colorado.gov this is so fucking embarrassing for you. what in the goddamn fuck are you doing bro

Seth Klamann@sethklamann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Gov. Polis is commuting Tina Peters’ sentence, making her eligible for parole on June 1 — ~30 months earlier than her original sentence. Polis gives a huge break to a election-conspiracist and ally of Donald Trump, before a judge has a chance to resentence her: www.denverpost.com/2026/05/15/t...

For months we shadowed families who were devastated when an aging and supposedly temporary levee system broke open and poured the White River into their homes. In five months, there's been effectively no aid. They feel trapped, abandoned. Please read and share: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A family’s baby was battling a rare heart condition. Then the levee broke

Washington families are reckoning with the lasting devastation of the floods. Help has come mostly from luck and charity, though some are suing to find answers.

seattletimes.com

infinite jest mentioned

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

what do you do when your husband is a pulitzer finalist? is it like when someone becomes a doctor and their name kind of changes? do i start saying "good morning, pulitzer finalist" and "i know it's my turn to clean the bathroom, pulitzer finalist, but can you please do it bc i don't want to" etc?

Conrad@conradswanson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In my most GOB voice: HEY! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

i can tell the recession is here because the house music releases are getting better with each passing week

contacted all my reps again today and @murray.senate.gov is so far the sole reply. her office sent me long bullshit that only succeeded in reinvigorating my belief in term limits. thanks for telling me you’ll do nothing while reminding me you’ve been in congress since I was ELEVEN????

If you, like me, are trying not to panic about the threat of nuclear war or lose your mind bc everyone’s just going about their day and no one in power is doing a single fucking thing to stop this, then I would like to share this picture of Frida with a spider plant flower with you