The Washington Supreme Ct will extend diploma privilege as an option for all first-time test takers at last week's fiasco of a NextGen Bar rollout. (They can also take the test to have a transferable score.) If an applicant previously failed anywhere, free retake. www.courts.wa.gov/content/publ...

Hey, did you vote? Good job.

Bluesky has two guiding, inviolate principles: 1) No, we *don't* have to interact with you or your followers if we choose not to. 2) Alf hog.

dopamine. oxytocin. adrenaline. cortisol. long ago, the four hormones lived together in harmony

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 5d ago

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

My mom got me a stack of comics to read on a flight. I read X-men 190 and had no clue what was going on. www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2013/03/x-am...

X-amining Uncanny X-Men #190

therealgentlemenofleisure.com

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d ago

If you’re a comics fan, what’s the earliest comic book you can remember reading? And what kind of impression did it make on you?

I have a Vision

FLY QUIETER, BLUE ANGELS.

"Despite everyone involved in this incident reaching for platitudes and euphemism, there's no getting around the facts: The WNBA suspended a team co-owner for not welcoming bigots into her workplace."

Defector@defector.com · last wk.

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

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.

Funny thing. I saw this post, looked at the 'gram, and saw an account I followed who made goofy videos had liked an account that was straight-up big-N Nazi art. Know what I did?

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.

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

I'm glad @tonyvarona.bsky.social sent a letter to the Washington Supreme Court asking them to consider diploma privilege for everyone who just hosed due to the NCBE and WSBA's inability to prepare for administering the bar exam. The bar exam is the worst, and it should be banned.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

I'd be fine with a) diploma privilege for this year's examinees and b) launching the NCBE into the stellar void. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/w...

Washington Bar Exam Using New Test Canceled Over WiFi Issues (2)

The July 2026 administration of the Washington State Bar Examination was canceled Tuesday after network bandwidth issues prevented test takers from accessing the new exam on the first day of testing.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Ross Douthat looks like a wet doughnut who wants to remind you it's spelled "doughnut."

Too much goddamn gun.

Grand opening announcement! Other Places Books will open on August 4! (Hopefully)

Other Places Books grand opening!

It's finally happening! (probably)

eocampaign1.com

I would not have thought to make this analogy but its so on point that its mildly frightening

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

Nothing like reading a SCOTUS decision only to come a Clarence Thomas concurrence where he cites eight of his opinions *and* says the Court is wrong because it's not doing something first done in Queen Mary's time (aka the mid-16th Century).

No king but Dim Sum King.

Just left a bus stop where someone was puffing on a cigarillo. Even standing upwind, I caught the stink. You want to poison yourself? Cool. Go away from the rest of us.

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

I have finally eaten jollof. I am now a fan.

With a little over two weeks until the Washington bar exam, the only advice I have is that you should get a breakfast burrito at Restaurant El Ranchero on W Nob Hill Blvd, but probably not on the first day of the exam.

Friends, check in on your recent law school graduates as they prepare for the bar exam. Make sure they're hydrated and have been removed from their chairs every few days so they don't grow taproots.

NO NAZIS. THAT ALSO MEANS NOT GOING ON NAZI PODCASTS. THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT.

no war but cholesterol war

Ha.