Harrell to Spend More Time with Most Of His Family: tinyurl.com/z5z3xvd4

So, OED Director Markham McIntyre, despite blatantly crossing ethical lines to recruit other department directors to Harrell’s re-election campaign, is probably still out of a job. I hope it was worth the reputational stain. I don’t think he’s a bad guy, but that was not a good move.

Good news on the home front: my SIL and her family are finally moving out next month! Bad news is that her custody trial keeps getting delayed indefinitely, but that forced her to realize that she needs to plan on being in WA for a while, which means getting her own place.

I’m having trouble accepting that the Mariners and Seahawks are BOTH good right now. I have conditioned myself to believe I don’t deserve this. With a little less than half the NFL regular season left, I am working on changing this mindset!

First winter baseball training session in the books. Shaping up to be better than last year - much better player to coach ratio, and one of the other coaches is very experienced with indoor training. Plus I got a couple of boys I was hoping to get a long look at before spring tryouts.

Not having a bought and paid for mayor would really be a breath of fresh air.

I will say, I have watched both of them turn the ball over in person, and while you never want to see your QB do that, whoever it is, I believe Geno’s turnovers were qualitatively cringier than Darnold’s.

One implication of that, regardless of who wins, is that the next mayor of Seattle is not coming into the term with an electoral mandate like Harrell did in 2021. You can look at the other results and see a general leftward course correction, but not so much in the mayoral race.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

What the fuck is wrong with this football game?

This is the most complete ass whuppin’ I’ve seen in a very long time.

At this rate, we’ll get an entire second half of Drew Lock.

The fundamentally wrong assumption in the Nelson/Harrell conception of SPD funding is that all of these cops will gladly give up their overtime if the department is staffed up. They will find ways to abuse OT until they've bled the city dry. You have to deal in reality here.

Another recent account

It's actually a credit to the strength of our civil society that we're not treating ICE officers the way they're asking to be treated on sight.

Demons from the pit of hell to do this to a baby.

Don't look away.

If a superhuman intelligence came into being and we said, “how do we end scarcity?” I promise you the people who had one hand on the plug to that superhuman intelligence would pull that plug if the AI gave the actual answer, because they don’t want to end scarcity.

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

Harrell:

I love how the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the guy in charge of our national well-being, runs away like a cartoon character the moment somebody needs medical help. The other Trump gargoyles at least attempt to look concerned. Kennedy sprints off camera.

*Fuck* yes. Instead of visiting more rural diners, political reporters should sit in on some book clubs or take a pilates class. Meet the people where they are!

Worth reading until the end. As expected, Mike Solan is signaling that Seattle cops WILL assist ICE if requested. Whoever we end up with at mayor is likely going to have to deal with some level of insubordination from SPD if they're directed to not assist ICE. Again, expected.

There will come a time when we have the opportunity to seek justice for these actions. We must not fail future generations. We must ensure this never happens again. If you're uncomfortable with long-term incarceration and capital punishment, you might need to work on that tbh.

People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site

Imagine being under this much stress and your son still won’t let you crank one out

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Pretty great result for our neighbors in Burien.

I know we’re mostly used to seeing rhetoric of this type from MAGA country, but this, delivered in the form of prayer, is both unethical and blasphemous. I grew up around “God, Your will be done” at election time but didn’t cross (what used to be) a solid line.

Right off the bat: Foster, Rinck, Lin, and Evans are in. That’s a great change at City Attorney and a new council voting block with a strong mandate. The mayoral race is going to be tight but a clear message is being sent.

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

WOULD JAMES CARVILLE AND GAVIN NEWSOM LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND EAT SHIT

IF YOU ARE IN SEATTLE OR WA STATE RN AND ARE FRESHLY EXCITED FOR SOME REASON AND HAVEN'T VOTED YET, YOU HAVE 90 MINUTES TO SCRIBBLE LIKE SEVEN EASY BUBBLES, SIGN YOUR NAME, AND HIT YOUR LOCAL BALLOT BOX

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Congrats to NYC, the capital of Real America

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Oh holy shit, Kenan Thompson's resemblance from that SNL debate skit really IS uncanny.

My family left me because I couldn't stop playing football so I'm cloning my dog so I'll never be alone level of divorced

[Werner Herzog voice] Actually, the McRib never goes away. It is we who are here for a limited time.

"we should run moderates in moderate areas" okay well what about in progressive areas "we should run moderates there too" I see, and who is "we" in this thought experiment

We bought Coca-Cola and Sprite by the case at Costco and there was practically zero restriction on when we could drink them. The most common activity of Summer '98 was walking to 7-11 for giant Slurpees.

Leaving aside the fact that you *don't have to run an identical campaign* in any other race in the country if you don't want to... ...reactionary centrism is truly cooked if they're afraid of winning the mayoral race in the country's largest city.