turtlyburtly
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BA/MA political science, focus on policy failure and propaganda in media sports hate is for fun, lighten up dorks
realized i forgot the screenshot for this one!
turtlyburtly@turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 6h agothis is the only call with the time listed. why? i don’t know. but it’s also the one with the most important people on it. i go back and forth about whether it would be more embarrassing for BK (burger king?) here to have spoken too much, or not at all in this meeting. equally likely.
i just learned that seattle city councilman bob kettle released an official timeline of his experience of the seattle center shooting and folks it is really something council.seattle.gov/2026/08/11/c...
Councilmember Kettle Bite of Seattle Timeline - Seattle City Council Blog
(Approximately 6 p.m. – preliminary reports of gunfire to SPD) 6:10 p.m. – Multiple notifications from the community (6:29 p.m. – First X/Twitter post from SPD investigating shooting at Seattle Center...
council.seattle.gov
“normal men” putting a lot of strain on that name today it seems boys get so emotional about their toys
i dream of a day where ronald reagan is widely held in the same regard as chlamydia
driver of school bus currently in lake would like everyone to calm down as he throws it in reverse
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoBessent downplays the national debt: "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. We can grow our way out of that."
jorge is correct. even as someone with a relatively dim outlook on the so-called “average voter” (who in the us is basically politically illiterate) it’s incredibly foolish to assume that trump’s base voted against their interests. they voted for interests that you do not share. there’ a difference
Jorge A. Caballero, MD@datadrivenmd.social · yesterdayIncreasingly of the opinion that Trump voters weren't "fooled" by a con man who was on a shitty reality TV show, but instead willfully voted for the unapologetic racist that came down an escalator to blame Mexicans for the crimes that he himself committed and boasted about on tape
legitimately all i want to know about the LD-46 race is what the FUCK dreher is doing posting on the less wrong message boards
seriously, i know diagramming sentences is a dying art, but it's pretty fucking clear who the subject of this attack is and it ain't natalie
turtlyburtly@turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 2d agono actually this makes her the object of 1 of 2 adverbial prepositional phrases which itself is the object of an infinitive acting as 1/2 direct objects of the sentence ([to] travel) congratulations NYT you're still stupid
no actually this makes her the object of 1 of 2 adverbial prepositional phrases which itself is the object of an infinitive acting as 1/2 direct objects of the sentence ([to] travel) congratulations NYT you're still stupid
great work we just need 4,832 more of these to recoup the settlement losses incurred by our criminally negligent police department
Guy Oron@guyoron.net · 2d agoINBOX: The Seattle Office of Labor Standards has announced a settlement recovering $4.4 million in back pay and damage from Uber Eats to more than 14,000 gig workers. The department says the company repeatedly failed to follow the city’s minimum payment laws for app-based workers.
on information and belief, natalie harp is coo coo for coco puffs
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d agoAccording to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/p...
with all due respect, fuck the New York Times with a rake
Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 4d ago“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
amid an ongoing, years-long pedophilia scandal, the administration and its allies will stop at nothing to defend an 80-year-old adjudicated rapist’s relationship with a woman 45 years younger than him
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d agoThe pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.
phoebe bridgers’ new album slaps. amazing stuff. reminds me of elliott smith, i also love maya hawke and cameron winters on it. big fan. lost boys is probably my favorite track but there’s some competition.
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
can attest here. i *routinely* have to answer questions from the public by telling them the proper procedure is to inform SPD of public safety concerns, and i’d say 1/3 of the time the response is “they don’t care” or “it takes hours to respond and they want me to wait onsite”
I. Hernandez@hernando206.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is true that people have stopped calling and filing police reports for some stuff. SPD assumes that they're all thinking "oh, the poor police are too stretched thin to help" and they underestimate how many are thinking "what's the point because those cops are useless".
How this man is allowed to freely move about is beyond me, disgusting human: Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
Senior Israeli official calls for killing of "30 to 40" people in Gaza every night: "They're not even people"
Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people."
cbsnews.com
not to be dramatic but if you are a person who tries to board the plane before your boarding group is called you should rot in hell forever
hear me out: special taxation microdistricts to fund neighborhood utility development and maintenance projects
David Kroman@kromandavid.bsky.social · 5d agoMy final Seattle Times story ran today and is about how rich neighborhoods’ push for underground power cables in the 1960s/70s has become a $3 billion problem for all of us today. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if a majority of your constituents begin to support these positions it may not matter what you believe, you will find yourself as popular among your party as john fetterman is now and with similar electoral opportunities
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoWELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Dem Party? JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve ...
you might think that a bike path would be the most likely place for a ride share scooter to be allowed and yet reykjavik
