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...

Seattle! In anticipation of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, please join me and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social, two veterans of alt weeklies to talk about the Village Voice and the importance of alt weeklies in journalism at Elliott Bay bookstore on Nov. 22.

And so we see the real here. Soon there will be no American capitalist not tied to Trump's funny money. This is the afterlife of neoliberalism.

Bruce Harrell's latest campaign email says "Katie Wilson Is Not Who She Says She Is." His evidence: An interview with KUOW in which Wilson—ahem—SAID she and her husband help with child care from her parents.

And nor are all men, @nbcnews.com

Katie Wilson proposed zoning changes to encourage grocery stores and exploring publicly owned groceries. Today, her opponent, Mayor Bruce Harrell, issued an executive order supporting a potential City purchase of the Lake City QFC and other properties and zoning changes to encourage grocery stores.

Can someone tell @npr.org they're not getting their funding back? This is not about a clash over the "drug trade." It's about the real possibility the US military murdered a civilian in Colombian waters.

Check out @mudede.bsky.social big three recommendations from the Orcas Island Film Festival

It's a good time to grab a ticket to Burl Dirkman's new talk show at @townhallseattle.bsky.social THIS FRIDAY at 7:30 pm! With mayoral frontrunner @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and philosopher-scribe @mudede.bsky.social! Tickets: townhallseattle.org/event/power-...

The city is obsessed with shutting down unlicensed taco trucks and people selling fruit from tables, saying they've gotten complaints from vendors who paid their fees and got to be vendors the right way. I'm 100% with Charles on this one: Unauthorized vendors are a feature of real cities.

In our Food Issue, @mudede.bsky.social writes about Seattle's street-food scene, and talks to local vendors about some of the hurdles they face as authorities shut down more unpermitted food vendors every year.⁠

10/17 at 7:30 PM | From the mind of @bretthamil.bsky.social comes Power Thru It!, a unique comedic talk show starring Burl Dirkman, his handyman alter ego. 🔨 Featuring special guests @mudede.bsky.social & Katie Wilson. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/tMQvMxP

Thanks @mudede.bsky.social for keeping it real and surreal this morning

BIG NEWS: Wistful handyman BURL DIRKMAN is gonna have a talk show at @townhallseattle.bsky.social starting next month (OCT 17)!!! His first guests will be @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social plus some surprises. Tickets are now on sale! townhallseattle.org/event/power-...

Something in me wishes Trump put Kirk's open coffin in the Oval Office for like a week. I won't lie, that would have impressed me.

Wow. By all accounts, it seems a war has erupted in the far right. And I think those in the know know this but will do nothing about it. My hope is someone somehow puts the brakes on this situation before it devolves into more violence.

WaPo "America enters a new age of political violence" Wow. It's as if the mass shootings in our schools have not been political.

I ask you this. Would ICE ever raid an oil production facility?

Impressed to see an entire indoor mall with few if any vacant store fronts. Culture shock. Utrecht (left by me today) vs. Seattle (right by @mudede.bsky.social from The Stranger, April 2024)

Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for

We once had Melissa missiles. Now we have Epstein missiles.

If that sandwich had not been from Subway, he would not be in so much trouble.

there’s been some “whither criticism” discourse going around and this is a golden example of the way a critical point of view has very little to do, in some ways, with ‘see it or not’, it’s for the ages

It was a pleasure to be on air with Scott Greenberg and Lynn Ware Peek on @npr.org KPCW’s Cool Science Radio. We discussed my upcoming book, “What Is Intelligence?” (from @mitpress.bsky.social & Antikythera) and its central theme of how life and intelligence are inherently social.