I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Does Seattle have enough juice for the Mariners and the Seahawks to be good at the same time? Guess we’ll find out soon.

RFK at HHS is like if a baby crashed a car in to a crowd of people. Sure I'm mad at the baby, if not particularly surprised by the outcome - but my bigger concern is all the adults who handed the baby the car keys and insisted it'd be fine.

Truth Social has a hilarious way to glitch

Stop freakin', call Beacon and demand that they pull all their Seahawks ads from KOMO

Life goal accomplished: a 100 mile bike ride. I am le tired…

Just bought a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream with Stephen Colbert on it and it made me sad about all we're losing to this stupid fucking fascist regime. Ice cream is good though.

I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like: 1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies 2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators 3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

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A Steelers team piloted by Aaron Rodgers is just about the most obnoxious thing I can think of.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

blocklist here. Feel free to add screenshots if you think I should check anyone out to add them.

Block and move on. That’s what is making this site better than the other one.

Be very careful about what you post and share online right now. You don't actually need to weigh in.

Horrific to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. Political violence must be always and totally rejected. Praying for him and all who may have been injured or impacted.

Think I outdid myself this year with my fantasy football avatar.

I need more Sunday football content in my Bluesky feed. Give me some good accounts to follow, I need some oases in the doomscroll.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

This halftime show is very entertaining.

After just over 10 years, today was last day at Yahoo and I'm currently looking for my next gig. I know this isn’t LinkedIn, but if you happen to know about any DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure / Production Engineering / SRE gigs in the greater Seattle area (or remote), I'd love to know more.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

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Had to come pay my respects to the weird Interbay rusty cage path before it got ripped up. Pretty sure this is what Soundgarden was singing about.

My daughter has been singing "What It Sounds Like" from KPop Demon Hunters all week and honestly, that song is kind of a bop.

I have never been to a Cracker Barrel in my life, sitting this one out.

I have long had a distaste for trendy tech buzzwords but I don't think I've ever experienced the pure, visceral hatred that I have for "vibe coding".

Pleasant day for a bike ride. 520 east -> Sammamish River Trail -> BGT. Start and end at Husky Stadium.

If every single time I call you, you're experiencing "higher than normal call volumes", it's time to reassess what your normal call volumes actually are. Looking at you, Astound Broadband.

Idk man, these Gavin Newsom capslock posts aren't doing it for me. Getting a good zinger in at Trump's expense isn't enough, I'm not even getting that fleeting dopamine hit anymore. If it works somehow I'll gladly eat my words, but like most Newsom stunts, it feels shallow and self aggrandizing.

I’ve watched this more times than I care to admit. We are all butter chicken guy.

Bruce Harrell Quietly Changes LinkedIn Profile to Open to Work: tinyurl.com/436jer4c

A solid 90% of the texts I now receive are job recruiter scams, campaign fundraising scams, "are you interested in selling your house" scams, "you have an unpaid bridge toll" scams and so on. The other 10% are mostly two-factor authentication codes I needed for logging into something else.

Really hate that thing cars do where they roll well past a stop sign, eventually see me on my bike, slam their brakes in the middle of the intersection and when I give them a dirty look, just act like that’s how stopping at stop signs works.

The ride from West Seattle to Pioneer Square at night is a vibe. Normally I’m on autopilot and not really perceiving it.

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

This route rules so much* when the homestretch is a car-free Lake Washington Blvd. (*except the bits by The Landing and along Rainier/Seward Park Ave, moar bike lanes please)

Full endorse. If my e-bike can’t go over 28 mph, then cars should be limited the same way.

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Putting this billboard above a gas station is some aggressive marketing by Sound Transit. I like it.

Jay Leno is a good example of someone whose opinions I think just do not need to be news. He has gone off to live with his money, and every now and then he says something uninteresting that sounds exactly like what you would say if nothing you saw happening in the world mattered to you.

Took my daughter to Seattle’s new waterfront playground. Really nice climbing structures and that slide is legit. Also crowded as fuck (but that’s a good look for the waterfront).

Just encountered a kid’s lemonade stand that accepted Venmo.

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

I am calling on the Oklahoma City Thunder to go back to being called the SuperSonics. There is a big clamoring for this.