PC question: anybody in Seattle wanna, I dunno, trade me a compatible motherboard and RAM so I can upgrade my primary PC? I hate that a nicely discounted CPU like this is moot when RAMaggeddon prices out the rest of the equation. (I'm still rocking a 5800X mobo w/ dated CPU slot, womp womp.)

I was about to pitch a story about Riot Games' broadening success with both this game and the new TCG Riftbound. Now? Welp, it sure doesn't inspire confidence in EITHER product category. Why should I believe your pricey new card game won't get the same out-of-nowhere yoink treatment?!

restrict my access all the way to the uninstall button at this point.

boy that is a lot of Seattle sports fans on our local tv broadcast screaming "BELT TO ASS!!" rn and it mostly makes me want to take to the streets and chant the same thing whenever Trump is eventually punted out of office

Super Bowl victory party at the CHOP, see you there, fellow Seattle Antifans

No Kings includes Draft Kings

trump accounts ad followed by a draft kings ad is fantastic comedy

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

she dreams of squirrels

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

free them all

overpass in Seattle rn. LED lighting ftw

I dropped everything else I was doing today after seeing this Seattle Mayoral survey go live. Renting in Seattle is a DRAG, and I wrote a lottttt in my response. Please join me in documenting the nonsense you've faced as a Seattle renter!

a nice touch about today's Super Bomberman Collection: the dev team edited the original ROMs to remove epilepsy-caliber flashing! (at least, I confirmed this in the SB5 intro.) 👍 to @konamina.bsky.social. now add Remote Play on Steam, pls! odd omission (Switch 2 GameShare is basically same thing).

I went back to this broadcast, and what I want to convey to you, late-night reader, is how much louder this chant was than *any* chant for this event's 3-hour runtime. This is a modest venue. Spartan crowd, lots of murmurs and limited noise through the show. But this chant? Booming in comparison.

looking fwd to the WWE follow-up where CM Punk leads a rousing chant of "FUND ICE"

🧵of post-Post thoughts. 1st, some history. 1990s: dot-com era boosts ad sales for print/TV 2000s: Google/FB transform free content but are cozy with traditional media; everyone gets paid 2010s: "pivot to video" is a lie, $ flows, but temporarily early 2020s: Google/FB get greedy, squeeze tradmed

The Analogue 3D got an interesting update last week, so I made a video to explore exactly why it's so cool. Turns out, the N64 was capable of 480p content all along, and A3D now exposes this for a select couple dozen games. My tests, with hearty zooms/slow-mo shots to really show it off:

HUGE. A victory for more than a quarter million Haitians with Temporary Protected Status. A significant majority of them entered the United States legally and have never been out of status since. Even the Trump admin isn't saying Haiti is a safe country for them to go back to.

This appears to be the only venue in Seattle screening Kristen Stewart's incredible directorial debut. Yet another date was just added, as they keep selling out. I was haunted, moved, & inspired by last night's showing, screened in glorious 16mm. Highly recommended. (CW: erm, a *lot*.)

it's impressive the Heritage Foundation could clearly make such statements while simultaneously gargling Rupert Murdoch's dangly bits, great throatwork there

"Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence." The essential tone of an angry high school civics teacher—nothing less at this point. If only Congress was 1/10th this rn.

Mabel..... Nights (I cannot figure out what this pose is)

Update, the answer is in the documents: part of a program where MS acts upon email addresses associated with "registered sex offenders," as forwarded by state attorneys. As seen here:

Stephen Toulouse, part of the Xbox Live moderation team, was almost certainly alive to help pass this judgment down on Jeffrey Epstein. (RIP.) To my Seattle-area 'Softies and Xboxen: if you know more about this, please contact me via Signal (@samred.81), I protect sources. h/t @xboxera.com

They should have called the movie "Love, Melania"

I guess an admin arrests journalists once they're poised to do a crucial grammar check "your function word is inaccurate, you're saying War On Terror when you're clearly conducting a War Of Terror"

Might I offer a slight edit to this otherwise sterling statement: "..don't come to my shows, and only watch Spawn - none of my other movies."

I just drove past Amazon Fresh @ 130th in Seattle. Massive line as a crowd tries to get in and clear their entire stock of groceries, all 50% off, before the store closes for good on Feb 1. Unsure how many in the long line are recently laid-off local Amazon employees.

maybe the US shouldn't engage in rhetoric like "anyone who can kick is worthy of public execution with zero due process" right before it hosts the World Cup

Democrats will not increase Mars' budget without the following reforms 1/ Tighten the rules on disintegration and require Martians to coordinate with local authorities 2/ Limits on shrink rays and attaching human heads to dog bodies 3/ No more spy girls, body cameras on, invaders carry ID

by 2024, each month's alt-right topic du jour emerges in Kazm.'s feed. and his recent banter about "reproducing" is an echo of what the hateful likes of Palmer Luckey et al are espousing, only Kazm. adds to it by saying the quiet part out loud. this is a mirror into hateful modern Telegram chats.

Can anyone in Seattle help me replace the PSU (and possibly capacitors) in my overpriced sound bar? I will pay you! Klipsch built these "Cinema" series bars with cheap parts destined to die. Good news, it's apparently only around $20 in parts to fix, but the work's above my pay grade.

FYI the Nintendo Switch's eShop is a wasteland of hentai/gooner slop (and parents should not let kids run wild browsing the eShop without guardrails). But the same content standard somehow doesn't apply when sexuality between consenting adult characters is portrayed in the fantastic Dispatch. Cool.

I guess this is her Tails pillow now

where's the Seattle Tenants Union but for lesser things like "still hasn't added promised security measures months after two thefts in parking garage" or "installed awful blinding hallway lights that nobody asked for and has ignored my complaints about them"

cw: reporting on vile descriptions of sex work thread from one of seattle's most dedicated reporters on the cross section of city/county legislation and sex work myth debunking. hey @mayorofseattle.bsky.social, this kind of torture-porn, zero-data slop has no place in Seattle chambers.

his first line of branded products after he leaves office should be called Trump Origami, made of golden paper, since his legacy will largely revolve around folding

Retire all of their murderous, lying asses--Bovino, Noem, Lewandowski, certainly Miller, and at least two more men I can think of--to prison. Nothing less.

cool insights from people who set "try that in a small town" as their ringtone

Kat managed to fit the entirety of what the Democratic party's messaging should be right now in a single, :15 ad

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

BlueSky with the "What's up?" text in its default prompt like it's not seeing all of this

honestly until my elected US reps are creating even a fifth of the noise and obstruction that fellow citizens are making in the streets today, I'm thinking perhaps I lean on this messaging for the foreseeable future

If anyone was curious how quickly TikTok would self destruct after the forced ownership transfer, about That quickly:

Whisper networks are better than easily hijacked online ones. This is why neighborhood-driven organization is crucial. Don't wait to talk to your neighbors and local businesses about offline means of tracking important developments.

TIL this officially licensed and VERY nicely made NES gamepad handbag exists. the woman who let me take a pic says they haven't been produced in years. the colors, the raised buttons, all of it - pristiiiiine. I would really like to own one of these.

watching Dem leadership, and I'm tired of its consistent decisions to wear brightly colored uniforms and march in formation into battlefields where they're flanked on all sides by guerrilla tacticians while crying about the whole thing not being fair

it's like someone from Comcast complaining about awful customer support experiences at the IRS

tag up in Seattle this week c/o Topsy, placed in front of a private Immigration and Citizenship Law practice on the Belltown/LQA border