OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

Insane thread…

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

When Border Patrol came to my street, McLaughlin claimed that someone threw a bike at the officers, video shows the officers taking the bike and throwing it at neighbors.

This "public safety survey" is not an objective process whatsoever. The woman who operates the survey is paid by the Seattle PD to do it (Seattle Times omits this), is a media surrogate identified by SPD and is actively quoted as desiring to boost legitimacy and trust in police.

Hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?

Whoa. This is such a bad decision.

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Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Layers of seeing posts in 2025: Is this real (as in did it actually happen), is this real (made by humans, might be a joke or a bit or cursed, etc), is this real (gen-AI posted by real human), or, is this real (AI-generated complete nonsense, possibly no humans directly involved, ie bot farm) 🫠🫠

Finishing up October with this COMPLETE PERFECT ANGEL #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025

The Walton family is worth over $400 billion BECAUSE Walmart employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion BECAUSE Amazon employees are on SNAP.

“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“

TimeOut recently named Avondale the 5th coolest neighborhood in the world. That is ridiculous but anyway, now we are the 7th neighborhood to be tear gassed in Chicago.

Everything matters and yes this does too.

Bernie Sanders made some pretty ridiculous comments related to border security and how basically border security is necessary to have a nation. So was the U.S. not a nation prior to the manufactured border security panic? Because people were crossing that southern border fairly freely prior to then.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

When people freak out about how apartments might impact like. A single tree? This is what I always think of. Most trees in the city get cut because of Rich Person Caprice

🤣 Please be the one person who does this in 2026, we can be friends and together recruit the sacrifice for 2027

Not my favorite (I swear insects are the hardest inverts to draw) but HOW AMAZING are these guys' eyes? Look up male mayflies of the Baeditae family. #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

if more Americans had just taken up cool hobbies during COVID instead of storming school boards screaming about masks or demanding their local Chili’s reopen, imagine the utopia we’d live in

I’d been on the fence on the KC executive race for a while - I like Girmay, and what he’s done for unincorporated parts of King County. A lot of folks LOVE Balducci and she has an impeccable record on housing and transit. But like, this was such a deal breaker for me: publicola.com/2025/08/22/c...

People should absolutely be writing about how ICE's occupation of their cities is transforming life in these places, and they should be publishing it in print on paper - not just social media posts. There needs to be a record of this. Things are changing in measurable ways for the worse every day.

#Invertober day 4 Palmetto Weevil ref: iNat user josholive

formula costs over $400/mo btw

Near major metros, there’s often more than one chamber you can join. In that case, join a chamber that does not fund PACs that attack pro-worker/pro-union policies and candidates. In Seattle, the Greater Seattle Business Association is an alternative to the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce.

Oh my fucking god

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Chicago’s under siege, and I worried ICE would use the NKD protest downtown as a distraction to attack the neighborhoods. So I covered a rally in an immigrant neighborhood. It really encouraged me to see Chicagoans under attack celebrating their defiance to injustice.

This entire thread is stunning.

This cockeye squid wishes everyone on the streets a day of safety and ferocious community. #InsertanInvert2024 in 2025

NEW: Spoke w/Rev. Hannah Kardon, the UMC pastor arrested in this clip (she confirmed she was, in fact, arrested). At ~18 seconds in, you can see an State Police officer using a club like a battering ram on someone in the crowd. "That was my leg," Kardon told me, adding she already has a bruise.

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😱😱😱Today I saw some seniors selling fresh vegetables on the street in the CID (presumably without a permit). So glad cracking down on this is a top 2026 Harrell transportation priority 🙄

Finally Seattle's budget invests tackling our biggest transportation issue: too many agua fresca and mango vendors on our street corners

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait. bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you’re going to the Ms game and you see a Seattle cop in a hi-viz, know that they’re making CEO-level pay to do a semi-skilled position Traffic flaggers make 28/hr on average. This officer is making $101 w/ OT plus a $225 bonus thanks to Mayor Bruce’s giveaway to SPOG last year.

Honestly, I don’t need you to mask everywhere. I just would appreciate it in grocery stores, medical facilities, airports, and airplanes. That would make my life so much safer. Just orders of magnitude safer.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

I’ll be honest. If I were mayor, the first thing I’d do is turn an entire lane of lake wa blvd into a 2-way protected bike lane like the greenlake Aurora one. And I don’t even live anywhere near there. I don’t think we can even fathom how much this would improve ppl’s lives in the south end.

Darker evenings don't mean more danger on our roads. Just a little extra caution — a bright coat of paint on your car, headlights on, pay attention while driving — can make a huge difference! #PedestrianShaming

2/ Ghislaine Maxwell should never ever be pardoned: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

"You're not allowed to sit down anywhere or else people assume there is Something Wrong" is something I'll write about on the topic of The Imposition Of Seriousness By The Automobile if I ever get around to it.