i disagree with “slippery slope” arguments as a logical rule but this one is especially silly. police unions generally and SPOG specifically are not a labor force, they act to protect the interests of capital. meanwhile this whole article makes it clear that SPD is a barrier to better outcomes!

left/right exits within the extant political system seattle does have reactionary conservatives - the boundaries they are reacting to are defined by the somewhat liberal overton window but in a more conservative context, i’m sure this council would advocate for even more conservative policies

categorically against the death penalty but people who park their cart in the middle of the aisle at costco really push me

finally looked up dec/acc, and can confirm it's just as stupid as every other pseudo-philosophy the tech world has ever come up with begging software engineers to make some friends or at least go outside from time to time

much to say about this seattle times article 🧵 1/ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

happy red sox elimination day to everyone who celebrates

give the peasants transit... but only for the world cup, and not a day longer

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

HARRELL: GREAT IDEAS NOT WANTED tomorrow’s headline, if the seattle times had any balls

bruce harrell’s proposed budget is exactly what i would propose if i really wanted to make seattle look good for one event in summer 2026 and then never run for office again however, the rest of us can’t just fuck off to bellevue after the world cup so i think this is kind of rude

@jayapal.house.gov you say things like this but then turn around and ignore abusive behavior from the mayor of seattle, what the fuck www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

1. excel's agent gets a failing grade for accuracy 2. this benchmark test was likely designed to maximize the model's accuracy, and it still failed 3. this is the BEST of the dumb calculators, apparently 4. it's still ~15% worse at excel than actual people please stop this shit

at approximately 13:50 into this episode, after a progressive literally just explained what she thinks would be a better budget proposal than harrell’s, we get this gem from sandeep: “isn’t that the progressive thing to do in seattle?” my god this man is stupid

i think a big part of institutional dem's political failing can be traced to the (incorrect) assumption that bill clinton is a democrat in any meaningful sense

what? no thank you canuck chocula

now come on, ryan, i think we all know the best way to tell city council candidates apart is whether or not they call bruce harrell "daddy" when they get sleepy

bob kettle's push for "public safety" has almost exclusively taken form in initiatives that will make seattle less safe the fact that he doesn't seem to understand that, and is vehemently immune to learning, should be enough to disqualify him from holding his current office

rich guy politics rivera owns a $1.3M house in ravenna and a 2bd townhome that she rents out among various other assets but sure, lecture seattle renters about our moral character, we love that apollo.pdc.wa.gov/public/finan...

what tobias fünke said officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

this is the corporate equivalent of kobe changing jersey numbers after the rape case just break up the tech firms already

shon barnes' academic history is, unfortunately, difficult to verify. his 2018 dissertation at nc a&t is the only one missing a summary on the departmental website: www.ncat.edu/tgc/current-... and seems to be absent from the ncat library, and the internet more broadly

the ballard market is like the reverse olympics where everyone competes to walk as slowly as anyone ever has before

rich guy politics

damn always with the projection from these whiners

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

she’s incurious, bad at organization, and crippled by confirmation bias so i actually believe that she hasn’t SEEN them

just looked up the lineup for the riyadh comedy festival and boy howdy it’s a real “who’s not anymore”

“In the wake of the Christchurch shooting I published my first Bellingcat article about 8chan….I warned [interviewers] that additional attacks would follow – every month or two – until something was done. This prediction has proven accurate.” article from 2019, things done so far few to none

this whole thread is invaluable and there’s a lot of substantive debate to have later but reading and watching harrell’s responses just makes me angry and it doesn’t have to be deeper than that sometimes, this guy just fucking sucks

thank goodness big brain bob kettle is here to make sure seattle's laws are different 🙄 @amysundberg.bsky.social @ericacbarnett.bsky.social

Disney is set to replace union nurses at its Burbank studio lot with subcontracted staff, a move IATSE Local 80 decries as a “principled attack.” deadline.com/2025/09/disn...

peter thiel slowly becoming no swag david koresh

"Amazon argues its Prime members are drawn by the program's benefits, not design tricks. It says its designs and disclosures are in line with — or even clearer than — the rest of the subscription industry." if that's true then the whole industry needs to be changed. it is too hard to cancel subs

You bet your ass every one of these had donation links

genitive dissonance

"pointless giveaway" is like, a half-step from "welfare queens" when it comes to campaign rhetoric bruce "fuck you i got mine" harrell strikes again!

still a harder rapture than i was expecting i guess

not that facts matter to any of these idiots but unless stephen miller's family tree includes a large amount of freedmen and enslaved persons then no, his ancestors did not build monticello

“…large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering…” what are we doing here folks

incorrect: “parents rights activist” correct: “child abuse advocate”

NEW: In an investigation for @realchangenews.bsky.social, I found that Seattle’s UCT storage program rarely returns belongings collected at sweeps to homeless people. Only 1 in 15 instances, or 7% of the time, led to property going back to its original owners. Most was disposed of after 70 days.

Nate Silver is a write off, an ignore and delete on sight. He’s a degenerate gambler, which is to say an addict, and there’s no point in wrangling with those sorts of people

brendan carr continuing three fascinating right wing traditions 1. loving movies made by people who despise them 2. identifying with the villain 3. apparently not watching the end of the movie

the american catholic leadership continues its rapid descent into bigotry and brain rot, i see as cardinal dolan seems to completely misplace matthew 25:40-45 while talking to a man who quite recently advocated for executions of the unhoused

i cannot emphasize how discouraging it is that one of the most influential people in the tech industry is currently being sued by his sister for YEARS of horrific abuse and just… no one seems to notice and/or care? www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520...

gosh if you just read the st article you’d have no idea that protec17 members were absolutely furious at harrell, or that the “progressive revenue” his spokesghoul touted only came about because wilson kicked his ass so badly he stole the proposal from amr www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

the confluence of car access, single-family homeowner influence, and environmental review bureaucracy is nearly identical to the tools robert moses used to justify racially discriminatory policy and development in NY reminder: he was a PARKS PLANNER tell me again how seattle is special, bob kettle

at my union meetings the key concerns have been about whether seattle will remain affordable to live in and whether the city is doing enough to prevent workers from being kidnapped and deported are those lefty concerns or just civil rights? and what does it say that we don’t trust harrell on them?

welcome to the party 🎉 halfway and extremely late but okay