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Philip LaRose

@philaros.bsky.social

Editor, music lover, KEXP volunteer, board/role-playing gamer, Go Play NW organizer. He/him. Often (re)posting about Seattle politics, urbanism, and transportation.

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Hannah Sabio-Howell@hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social · 2d ago

A message to Brian Heywood - gtfo of our district. A message to everyone else: progressive lawmakers should be able to make a CLEAR case for how government is materially delivering on lower costs & better lives for working people. 1/

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

It's funny how it's always "mayor's office missteps fray council relations" and never "councilmembers who want to be mayor acting like petulant children fray relationship with city's chief executive."

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

It doesn't give me any particular joy, but we need to pay attention when people, organizations, etc tell us who they are. And trying to prevent library funding is about as big of a screaming authoritarian flag as you could fly.

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm shocked anyone (cough, Seattle Times ed board) would advocate against library funding. Libraries are essential public goods and community spaces, they spread ideas and knowledge, and they serve as a guard against authoritarianism. Who would be served by crippling library cuts? Hmm.

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

What a no vote on Seattle's Prop 1 is a vote for, according to the Seattle Public Library Foundation. Imagine advocating for public libraries to be defunded at a time like this. Couldn't be me.

More than one-third of the Library's funding in 2027 (and beyond) would disappear. SPL would be forced into drastic budget reductions. Library staff jobs would likely be lost. A quarter of the 600-plus positions at SPL, including one-third of all children's and teen librarians, are Levy-funded. Branches might close or see significantly reduced hours due to staffing shortages. Free programs like Story Time, author events, and many others would likely be scaled down substantially. Half of the budget for books and materials would be lost, significantly increasing hold times and decreasing the range of reading options, including the likely elimination of Peak Picks. The City would be forced into a long and complex process to restore funding. Cuts are highly unlikely to be addressed in the regular budget process, given the City's revenue situation. While another ballot measure could be brought forward and approved eventually, the Library and its patrons could feel these adverse budget impacts for a year or more.
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're going to fight someone other than the fascists literally destroying the country as we speak, let it be a person in a position to fight the fascists literally destroying the country as we speak who is not using their position to fight the fascists literally destroying the country as we s...

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

My main wish for politics is that people would spend less time fighting people who aren't the fascists literally destroying the country as we speak and more time fighting the fascists who are literally destroying the country as we speak.

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

By a 9-0 vote, the Seattle City Council just sent a renewal of the 2020 Seattle Transit Measure to voters this November. The 0.3% sales tax measure will ramp up the city's supplemental Metro bus service by 100,000 hours per year, or around a third, on top of funding other city transit programs.

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

Who's ready to fund the bus and send the renewed Seattle Transit Measure to the November ballot this afternoon?

Philip LaRose@philaros.bsky.social · 3w ago

Such a good thing that Seattle voters elected Foster, not only replacing the terrible Nelson as an at-large member but also helping Rinck and Lin to offset the other crappy shortsighted reactionaries that we’re still stuck with for another 18 months.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

One thing I want to be sure to highlight about yesterday's Seattle Transit Measure meeting was the degree to which Dionne Foster really stood out as a transit champion.

Philip LaRose@philaros.bsky.social · 3w ago

It seems to me that when observing the birthday of Christine McVie, one would play one of the several hit songs she wrote and sang with Fleetwood Mac, rather than Nicks or Buckingham songs. Like, that’s just kind of rude. Yet two different DJs made that same choice.

Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was having a similar thought the other day about why AI gets the "it's the future and we all have to embrace it" line whereas renewable energy, which obviously IS the future and we're well on the way there already, is subject to "are we going too fast on Net Zero" nonsense.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Big business runs our media and so they're much more excited about AI and the concentrated profits to oligarchs it promises than solar, which has diffuse benefits to all people. In fact, solar will kill one of their favorite businesses (big oil)

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is true that this gets tiresome and boring. Part of the job, unfortunately. SOAP and SODA zones don't work. Surveillance doesn't prevent violence. Continually caving to your police guild/ promoting police as a solution for all problems, you have a lot less money for other city services. Etc.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

Even when the media *does* factcheck their claims, the right has realized that if it just says "yes it is" over & over again, long enough, the media will tire or bore of saying "no it isn't."

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

Seattle’s Land Use Committee has voted to send CM Eddie Lin's proposal to close a commonly used avenue to appeal growth plans to a full City Council vote next week. The proposal has sparked opposition from many of the same groups who appeal those plans. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-coun...

Seattle Council Committee Votes to Rein In Growth Plan Appeals

A 3-0 Land Use Committee vote sends Eddie Lin's proposal to close a commonly used avenue of growth plan appeals to a full Seattle City Council vote next week. The proposal has sparked opposition from ...

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Philip LaRose@philaros.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you’re around my age and interested in music since your teens, you probably at some point watched MTV’s 120 Minutes. Show creator and host Dave Kendall passed away yesterday. KEXP DJ John in the Morning is doing a tribute show today—listen live or in the 2-week streaming archive at kexp.org.

Clip from the KEXP real-time playlist showing the listing for today’s Morning Show with John Richards, titled 120 Minutes in 180 Minutes as John does a tribute to MTV 120 Minutes creator Dave Kendall, who passed away yesterday.
Philip LaRose@philaros.bsky.social · 4w ago

This point applies broadly across the arts and their relationship to business and government, and heck our current society in general. Because it’s *possible* to make a lot of short-term money on big flashy things, too much attention’s gone there to the detriment of smaller works.

javier grillo-marxuach@okbjgm.bsky.social · 4w ago

but not everything is bingeable tent-pole content, and the business needs to come to an understanding that art needs to be fed, creative people need to be groomed and trained, and some works of art are not the kind that open huge but the kind that grow powerful with time.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's common for survivors of intimate partner sexual assault to not report it, because the existing relationship is used to manufacture reasonable doubt. But "reasonable doubt" is the evidentiary standard for a criminal trial. The standard for "not being a senator" is allowed to be lower.