Raptor

@ohthatraptor.bsky.social

Fake gamer; real girl • Social worker • Rogue data archivist • Amateur video game scholar • [E]vent Stuffs She/her Ⓐ 🏳️‍⚧️ Duwamish Lands 💜Eggbug https://tech.lgbt/@Raptor Archive funding: https://ko-fi.com/ohthatraptor

Contrary to everything you are being told, these trends are strong, robust, and devastating among crime survivors, including crime survivors from both main political parties and across demographic groups--rural/urban, gender, race, age, etc:

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THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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I feel like we need a reminder sometimes, so there is no amount of extra hours you could've worked to keep from getting laid off. Seniority, company loyalty, importance to the project - none of it matters when you're a number on a spreadsheet. Anyone telling you different is selling something.

Just wanna emphasize that at a Seattle council meeting today, multiple council members accused the mayor's office of lying about why a police press conference about a recent shooting was delayed, implying that it was the mayor's fault and they're trying to cover it up.

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

"I think you could answer today why there was a five-hour delay. I think you just don't want to share that with us," Juarez tells the mayor's public safety advisor Allison Holcomb. She also insists, bizarrely, that Wilson should have ordered an SPD media officer to be at this council meeting.

When I started exploring the soundtrack to Beatdown City Survivors, I put on some albums. He Left Nothing for the Swim Back was 1st. I had seen SKECH185 a few times by the time I finally heard the album & the post industrial dystopian boom bap aesthetic BLEW ME AWAY. It was perfect. Next up...