The Old Lady Rainier Statue Is Now Seattle’s Queen of Public Transportation www.thestranger.com/city/the-lad...

As a lover of this beautiful statue, a drinker of Rainier, and an employee of Metro Link, I appreciate this message

"If you are on a Link train, you can see the statue before entering the tunnel, and you see her when exiting it. Either way, she is there just for you. Looking at you. Loving you. Raising a drink to you. The bad traffic behind her is a dinosaur that refuses to believe in its own extinction."

The Lady Rainier Statue Is Seattle’s Queen of Public  Transportation www.thestranger.com/city/the-lad... The old statue is oriented to the only future that’s possible—the one that transports people not as individuals but gregariously. A car can only be a sorry couch.

🍺 Brewing History 🤝 Transit Future 🚊

« This is our Lady Rainier today. She came to America to sell beer; now she promotes the only future that’s possible, one devoted to renewable sources of energy. And this … shows us that the concept of essence … is useless to us, the subjects of modernity and plasticity. »

The Lady Rainier Statue Is Seattle’s Queen of Public  Transportation www.thestranger.com/city/the-lad...

iai.tv/articles/qua... Solid post on quantum physics...

Thinking About Swallows in Perhaps the Last Decade of Their Returns to Seattle www.thestranger.com/animals/thin...

I recommend staying away from Link Line 1 tonight. It's down at Mount Baker Station. @sound-transit.bsky.social ain't ready for the big League.

@sound-transit.bsky.social has a very long way to go before it figures out how to handle flow when Mariners are close to rush hour. They are mere children when it comes to such obvious challenges.

We fear @mudede.bsky.social was on to something

@mudede.bsky.social says that if you want to experience the disorienting fear that is the central plot of Exit 8, all you have to do is go to the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station.

In his latest essay for @thestranger.com, Charles Mudede (@mudede.bsky.social) tackles the dread that only comes from the threat of nuclear apocalypse (a dread Gen X is all too familiar with), referencing and quoting my recent book POST-SELF 💙📚 #booksky #iran #war www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03...

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Operation Epic Fury Has Revived a Fear @mudede.bsky.social Generation Remembers: Total Nuclear War

Kahlil Joseph's new film BLKNWS: Terms and Conditionsis beautiful from start to finish. Read @mudede.bsky.social's review here and see it at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social this weekend.

Judging from the footage, ICE needs to perform drug tests on its thugs.

Is there a higher level of this master plan that I'm not seeing? Bringing normal whites, Asians, Latinos, and blacks closer together? How is this winning for MAGA?

We lost a VA nurse to a bunch hired thugs.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Charles is asking the hard hitting questions, like why are modern apartment buildings so ugly? This is Stranger Places with @mudede.bsky.social

Erudite and thoughtful as ever, @mudede.bsky.social

My good friend, @mudede.bsky.social, thank you for this lovely review of “What Is Intelligence?” in @thestranger.com. Always enjoy reading your reflections grounded in personal history—from your early years in the U.S. to your Sundays with Sagan in Zimbabwe.

Honored to receive this review from @mudede.bsky.social. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4qgYQjO Explore “What Is Intelligence?” (out via @mitpress.bsky.social & Antikythera): bit.ly/3H1p8F6

WTO/99 won the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award! Check out our coverage of the documentary @mudede.bsky.social says we all need to see right away.

Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Very thankful to have @mudede.bsky.social in this world so he can share the way he sees it. Lovely stuff! www.thestranger.com/transit/2025...

www.thestranger.com/transit/2025... To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.

In Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom, it's suggested that, once the government becomes minimal, the thing to do, if you want to create art or just survive, is befriend a billionaire. Though still unhelpful, this advice now sounds less nuts than it did when Friedman published his book, 1962.

"While the rest of the world’s ocean creatures ... evolved to rely on phosphorus as their energy currency, the species in this desert oasis [subsists] on the same primordial, sulfur-eating bacteria that nourished them hundreds of millions of years ago." @mudede.bsky.social @blaiseaguera.bsky.social

Old buildings imitated rather than reflected other buildings: mass-produced moldings of ancient pillars, brick-hard materials, formidable facades. The reinforced seriality of capital. Now money reflects other reflections of money like a universe that appears as endless because it's made of mirrors.

Took a brief break from the news to rip my horrible couch to shreds www.thestranger.com/arts/2025/11...

Only an ignorance of economics can see this as something to write home about. Those prices are now stuck up there. They will not go down unless demand collapses (depression=deflation). And so the only solution at this point is to raise wages, which, obviously, will not happen. This is a distraction.

- Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee - We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files - Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour Get this news and more at The Stranger.

Trisha Ready Wastes No Words - Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy

Incredible write up on this past week's election results by @mudede.bsky.social www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

We waited for a train at Symphony Station for 40 minutes, after going to a Town Hall event Wed. night.

@sound-transit.bsky.social seriously. Your new CEO is asleep on the wheel. Link is basically down. For an hour. No info. No alerts. Nothing. People at the top are fast asleep.

@kingcountymetro.bsky.social The 7 appears to be popping into existence rather than coming down Rainier Ave.

My god. He really is who he plays.

In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!! www.elliottbaybook.c...

More like: falsely claims, @npr.org In your own words: "Still, the Trump administration's claim that domestic terrorism largely comes from the left has flown in the face of data."

I visit Brooklyn more than I visit Ballard.

This is backup in our polling data as well. 65% of the respondents between 30 and 44 plan to vote for Wilson, and 59% of respondents 18-29. But it's all about turnout. When we narrow the sample just to likely voters, this race gets tight. www.thestranger.com/stranger-pol...