WALL-E (2008) This and THE BOSS BABY (2017) were eerily prescient.

Lmao "these Corolla-sized vermin" are done for!

Seattle tech billionaires in a nutshell.

This thread reminded me we need a parents' advocacy PAC or something in Seattle. Our civic institutions like museums mostly leave kids as an afterthought besides pursuing the cash cows of gala/fundraiser events and CityPass-toting tourist mobs.

Our 3-3-3 supreme court! 3: WTF this is plainly illegal 3: All hail dictator Trump! 3: Okay come on seriously, do you really have to end the rule of law in such a sloppy, unseemly way that spooks markets? Let's wind down constitutional rule the RIGHT way.

More and more people are saying: the precedent of Charles I is really important for understanding the lawless tyranny attempted by presidents today.

Folks... Jamelle is running.

Republican speaker: "Everyone's for justice. Everyone's for workers. Everyone's for immigrants" I mean HONESTLY THOUGH WOULD WE SAY THAT IS TRUE BECAUSE IF SO I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING HERE #waleg

Lmao Sound Transit did the "help my family is starving" budget meme. Yeah I think we can live with a slightly trapezoidal station if it saves half a billion dollars.

I would love to see more in-depth comparisons of Trumpism to the personal rule of Charles I that helped trigger the English Civil War, or just generally to the ultimately intolerable exercise of arbitrary power that Charles and to some extent James had practiced.

Yes this is insane. Most insurance will require you to meet your deductible before covering diagnostic endoscopies (ordered because of a specific cause for concern to rule out cancer or polyps). But "screen everyone under the sun with no indications at 45" is fully covered, free to the patient.

It is such delicious irony that Katie Wilson knocked out our most sports-obsessed mayor just in time for Seattle to kick off a generational run of good sports news. CC @ericacbarnett.bsky.social who has highlighted this cosmic irony/karma.

It seems in hindsight that the Seahawks and Rams were the only two elite teams this year. Whoever won the NFC championship basically had this in the bag, and that came down to those two insane end zone pass breakups by the Hawks (both Witherspoon? Is that possible?)

Oohhh holy shit.

Redfin/rocket was bold and probably dumb to dwell so long on the bad aspects of moving. Your kids are sad and mad at you, they feel alienated and isolated in their new home, your new neighbor's kinda frosty. Even the deus ex machina - a hurricane that brings people together - is bad in itself!

A first down! Nice!

This is really fascinating and I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the countervailing biases exhibited by credit scores here. Here's the bias chart for that first finding: at every age, among individuals who NEVER have a delinquency, credit scores are lower for Black and Hispanic people.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

On the one hand yes, pretty unambitious, but on the other hand.. I still actually struggle to believe they'd really upzone this currently almost all-SFH neighborhood. Especially all the way up the hill to Charlestown.

Here is the same thing but with every downzone area I can see circled. I count 37 total areas. Some are the neighborhood center shrinkage that we knew about, but others are... just entire corridors getting chopped

Southern Resident Conservation Groups Against More Affordable Housing Just Assuming Orcas Also Racist: tinyurl.com/mt72h683

This was so good. Learned a lot, and had a lot of moments going "oohhh that stat totally explains the weird feelings I've had about the Seahawks this season!" Honestly my takeaway is now I fear the Rams should be the favorites. No Charbonnet -> riskier throws from Darnold -> another 2+ picks 😬.

Case in point:

E M E R G E N C Y P O W E L L I S S U B P O E N A E D O N D U M B A S S E X C U S E S

Now: Duwamish 20s: Potomac College: Connecticut Teens: Rivanna Childhood: Chickahominy & James Infancy: Charles

Jeeeesus fucking Christ.

See a bridge, post a bridge.

What's the pretext gonna be for Greenland? Maybe something about Denmark overcharging for Ozempic, or about the EU's punitively high fines levied against US tech platforms including Twitter?

Yeesh. The actual hazard illustrated here is not red light running, as far as I can tell from the video. It's making an unprotected turn across oncoming traffic during a generic green signal (right turn in the UK; what would be a left turn in the US). Always a huge risk for cyclists!

deadass?

God bless the grink

Incredible. Abigail has figured out what it takes to block the Grinch: an 8' radius brown cheese quarter. He's not getting through there to pull his emotionally manipulative switcheroo!

The Vorkosigan Saga!

That's not a Mr Beast video, that's a Minecraft "one-block" mod I think my son got bored of in 20 minutes.

This guy is great. Also I really hope the postmortem on this attack explains why the fat shambling cowardly killer this guy disarmed, several minutes into the rampage, was permitted by the cops to mosey back up to the footbridge, re-arm himself, and resume shooting.

This statement has now been rescinded. The latest word is the shooter is still at large. Really crazy how bad comms can be in an emergency. Seems like MOST active shooter situations involve either a false announcement that the guy is in custody, or false reports that there were multiple shooters.

First thought: start the rapture. Second thought: my "croc enthusiast" kid would actually crack up at this, and I have to get them as a stocking stuffer for him.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Ok that settles it. FIFA is gonna move the world cup games out of blue cities like Seattle without Trump even asking them.

Here's Frank on the Simpsons, which he voiced while I worked for him. I can not tell you how often I walked around the Gehry partners office saying "yo Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much" after this aired www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyT...

Niche Seattle transit content: just saw a new bus failure mode. The off ramp to Alaskan Way from NB 99 before the tunnel was so horrendously clogged by cars that Metro re-routed buses from West Seattle to skip it and use slow 1st Ave up to King Street. In spite of bus lanes on 99 and that ramp!

Fascinating map of this razor-thin mayoral election in Seattle.

It's kind of wild that General Douglas MacArthur's dad fought in the Civil War 85+ years before the Korean War. His dad was 18 at the battle of missionary ridge in 1863. It'd be like if the invasion of Iraq was led by the son of a distinguished WWI vet.

Counterpoint: These look nice as hell. I'd take one of these in a heartbeat over a Seattle townhouse w/50% more square footage. Windows on all sides. Patio space. A little outdoor space that get sunlight. Not having to go up/downstairs to get from front door to kitchen and living room.

This is the main lesson of MTG's retirement. Trump sicced his army of raving maga goons on her and she understandably buckled.

I remember reading the Bell Curve in high school and it seemed self evident that to whatever extent its theories held true (IQ is largely heritable and causes/predicts income variation in the modern world), that massively strengthens the case for a strongly redistributive welfare state.

I have never believed or understood this, and now that my Bloomberg subscription has expired, I never will.

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”