So much more face-punching going to happen in the near future.

So apparently the actor who plays the Cyclops in Nolan's Odyssey has two eyes 😬

Hey let’s report this absolute POS. They’re spamming Islamophobic word salad on every post about the San Diego shooting today. We can do without this lowlife scum.

oh no. the new mayor. she's scaring away corporations. soon there won't be anything left of seattle

A lot can happen between now and November. Like, for instance, It. It could happen.

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

On this day, 11 years ago, I launched North of Reality, with issue #1, the Flintlock Brain. Over the years that followed, it would result in over 300 works (counting the secret letters) of fiction, evolving into the explorable fiction space it is today. www.northofreality.com/tales/2015/5...

There are so many choices to make even in just a 6-panel comic strip, not to mention a screenplay or novel. Yr conjuring something into existence from nothingness! You get to choose every word, clause, facial expression! If yr ceding even one of those choices to AI, yr a fraud. It's that simple!

Watched the OG “Blair Witch Project” for the first time in a long while and you know what? I think I could take her.

The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.

The right wing freakout about The Odyssey is kind of amazing. Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht.

New subscriptions since this incident have resulted in ~$5,000 in new annual revenue for @theurbanist.org. Thank you, readers — and, I guess, thank you Seattle Times!

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

A general reminder: you don't *have* to use Substack. While I get that it's easy and convenient, realize there are alternatives that (1) give you more control and (2) don't regularly fund and promote neo-Nazis. Continuing to use Substack for your newsletter is a choice. You can make a different one

It’s perfectly fine to post eliminationist rhetoric in the West Seattle subreddit if it’s about unhoused people. So many of my neighbors in “liberal” Seattle turn into brutish monsters when it comes to this community. www.reddit.com/r/WestSeattl...

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

NEW STORY// Editorial: Seattle Times Called Us 'Builders' Mouthpiece' for Trying to Build a Better City By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

People are definitely dying because they’re asking ChatGPT to identify edible mushrooms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I (as a cis straight white dude) want *MORE* LGBTQIA+ people here. I want Seattle to be a profoundly queer city so my kid can grow up in an environment that supports all kinds of diversity and all kinds of people. I want *so many queer folx* to move here that the bigots start leaving in droves.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Sorry for those of you in Seattle who don't go to Joketeller's Union. You missed the inaugural showing of Seattle's Pop-Up Parasite Museum, featuring the World's Longest Crocheted Tapeworm.

Yikes, a lot of y'all are choosing to Fedpost today (or I somehow ended up on fedsky). Look, ppl: don't trust anybody posting shit like this on main-- they're either a fed, or somebody dangerously thoughtless. Either way, blocking is your pal.

This is all part of Hondurasgate. This is a full on coup of our entire hemisphere launched by Trump, Thiel, and Milei. Not a single major US media outlet is reporting on it, and no major political social media account understands its significance. www.latintimes.com/sheinbaum-re...

Let's Go WA, which is trying to get anti-trans legislation on the ballot, has a complaint filed against it, alleging it failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in in-kind expenditures to Brandi Kruse for advertising purposes. www.seattletimes.com/education-la... 1/

personally i’m not inclined to listen to the ideas of, or elect, people whose entire personality is constantly saying the place they live is terrible and that everyone should move but that’s just me

Depressing how many people don’t care about Substack’s Nazi problem, even with so many decent alternatives.

If you live in Seattle. Please protest this. I know people won't see this post but please show you care about our rights and our dignity as human beings. I'm tired of living in fear.

My latest article, covering the new lawsuit WA has brought against GEO (for not letting health inspectors into the NW Detention Center) and the UW report on the new contract between the NW Detention Center and ICE (lowering both standards and accountability).

Spot-on piece by @mhgreen3000.bsky.social "We underinvest in the conditions that actually produce safety, and then we overinvest in the systems that respond to its absence." www.thestranger.com/news/how-fea...

We need to start thinking of billionaires as apex predators because that's how they think of themselves.

I'm happy when we can remove any billionaire from society, so I consider his move out of Seattle a win. Now if we could only eliminate them all for good (by taxing them and nationalizing most of their holdings, natch).

Sometimes I wonder what kind of Dante-esqe Ironic Tortures await members of the Trump Administration in the Inferno. Which level will RFK Jr end up on? How much “effluiva” will Miller have to ingest? That kind of thing.

What if we’ve mistaken being watched for being safe? In my latest piece, I explore how grief becomes policy, why surveillance gets sold to neglected communities, and what's lost when we confuse documentation with prevention.

"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe." www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/robo...

With help from @cardsagainsthumanity.com we teamed up with 4 awesome artists to make anti-ICE urinal stickers you can pee on. Art by: @theoatmeal.bsky.social @shing.bsky.social @boxbrown.bsky.social and one anonymous artist Get yours for free at PeeToMeltICE.com

This is pretty amazing and worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4y...

Odyssey this, Odyssey that. You know what I want? I want a modern-day stoner comedy retelling of Hermes stealing Apollon's cattle called "Dude, Where's My Cow?"

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate

This horror show apparently lives in my neighborhood and I think she needs the Laurelhurst Treatment.

Reconstruction and Nuremberg left very important work unfinished and it is crucial to our survival as a species that the third time be a charm

I am so privileged to have a cool job. We’re doing an Emily Wilson Odyssey Book Club in anticipation of the Nolan movie. Mind bogglingly cool to be reading The Odyssey with classicists, writers, and Homer newbies.

UFOs are about going out with your friends and experiencing weird shit and a lot of you fucking losers seem to think it’s about listening to the government.

The PBR pickle beer is pretty good if it’s really cold.

Growing up, I was always told that we are not ITALIAN, we are SICILIAN.

Today's release of UAP / UFO records had already been in the works years before Trump's request to release records. The 2024 NDAA mandated agencies review for UAP records and transfer to the NARA for public release. The work to release today's records had likely already happened. (1/4) #uap #ufo

I am so sick of institutional capture of national and local media. It really feels like the moment is here to support and build local Seattle media. Not exhaustive: www.theurbanist.org/membership/ www.patreon.com/TheNeedling membership.citycast.fm/seattle publicola.com/support/