Flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, BOLLARD. #WorldBollardAssociation

The real burden of a December birthday is on the celebrant's family, who must navigate two holidays in a fridge that would be stressed for just having the family over to start.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

I was extolling the virtues of a book lamp to my family and wandered straight into a trap I did not know we were pretending existed.

"Do you want to go to church this morning?" Lol, not until you figure out how not to be in communion with the gestapo.

Ben knows what he's talking about, he paid Candace Owens a hefty salary to vomit up antisemitism and other bigotries for YEARS before she added Israel to her list of obsessions.

One brother moved in with our parents due to DOGE layoffs, etc., which means I get to see his full coffee setup. Which is prompting a lot of questions in the one place I cannot bluntly ask them.

I'm at the point in my life where the story of making it to the airport this morning will be family lore.

Suppressing the light urge to see someone in a Santa hat on Broadway and stop them like, "wow, oh my god, are you going to Christmas/Bar? You're just so brave being what you are in public."

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Gym people: do you wear shoes while you do planks? My current preferred gym shoes dig into the top of my toes and I don't know if that means I'm doing something stupid or if it's an equipment issue.

Learning linear algebra to understand the Adam Aleksic eigenslur discussion and have something witty to say like we need to add the eigenslur to specifically picket line crossers drinking Starbucks in the US Department of Labor.

Sara Nelson has officially adjourned her final meeting both as a Councilmember and as President of the Seattle City Council.

SPD Paid for Top Exec to Stay at Four-Star Hotel for a Month; Unclear Whether New Contract Would Have Let Police Handle Auderer Case Internally Today's Afternoon Fizz: publicola.com/2025/12/16/s...

Many such cases. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

The point of having an on-site post office is losing a significant portion of your paycheck every time you go to send something absurd to a friend because the cute Biden-era stamps sniped you perfectly.

No bike lane? Bike can go at the speed of traffic. It's incredible and feels so much safer to not be made to feel you're going unsafely slow around machines. I love when my commute feels more secure.

Not only not accepting: withdrawing offers already made in writing, according to the article. “Even if they’re not international students, they’re going to say, ‘Why would I ever accept an offer from Purdue if there’s no guarantee that it’s actually an offer?’” #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Grad

Switching to Qobuz but maintaining a YouTube Music subscription so that when I physically must listen to ******' *** ****** or I will perish, she receives no money. There is a value to shitty corporations.

The thing that I feel scenes involving doing serious relationship things at tourist traps (e.g. meeting a long lost love at the Empire State Building observation deck) lack that would drive verisimilitude is that I never manage to do that and not have, like, twenty people I know walk by.

My problem with gay people is that they're too competent at coming to parties, so instead of leaving the giant cookie party with a reasonable number of cookies because of guests that did not bake, everyone returns home with 80% because of market saturation. This is to say "Oh god, I overdid it."

Half of Seattle's annoying people just went 😮😧😓🥹😶‍🌫️🫥😮‍💨 as one.

The color of the sky in Seattle is dark gray #acafab

Okay, partially because I walk past their apparel lab all the time and I'm losing my mind about how boring the readymade clothes are in Seattle, I checked the prices for remedial sewing classes at Seattle Central College. Less than $300 a quarter, industrial machine access. My god.

Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.

The problem with Dune meaning that everyone knows its main stars is that Timothee Chalamet breaking containment into a name my Evangelical parents know still feels like they just discovered Call Me By Your Name and we're going to have to do some panicked literary analysis with them.

A Sound Transit board committee is about to look at additional analysis on building Ballard Link without a full second LRT tunnel under downtown. Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.

Anyways, the federal system must have a counterweight outside it that is not solely beholden to the United States government to force a solution to clear tyranny. Our sovereignty is being used to avoid essential safeguards against evil.

Something I'm thinking about today: if the US joined the ICC, then actions taken by China and Russia against the US would be, via the method that crimes against Palestine and Venezuela are in the court's jurisdiction, in the court's jurisdiction. The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.

I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War. They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children. Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…

Easiest way to kill in America is to use a car. No charges not even a night in jail.

The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.

At 18 or 19, a queer man was assaulted by his church to exorcise "homosexual demons". The church has enough membership to sway an election, and it appears the local DA is undermining the criminal case.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Everything the Houthis did, America is doing.

Today's random thought is that if there are approximately 83,622 (mostly) gay and bisexual men in King County, my community experience of dating and friends in gay Seattle is functionally a straight person of options in Vanderburgh Co., IN (½ pop is 90k).

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison

Let's not let the fact that the double strikes are unambiguously murder to overshadow the fact that *all* of the strikes on fishing boats are unambiguously murder.

If you call for money, the question is simple: what will you do to enforce the Leahy Laws about not selling weapons to human rights abusers and conduits to human rights abusers like the United Arab Emirates?

Restoring American democracy rests on the fantasy that there are enough "good Republicans" to pass the necessary Constitutional overhauls. There are not and never will be. Free states need to ignore the authority of this modern Slave Power. We need a soft secession now.

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

Per my colleagues at the International Campaign for the Rohingya, the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned a meeting they agreed to set regarding the threats to end TPS for a country in active and brutal civil war. What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?

Me, two hours ago: Surely we know the impact of a 20 year old constitutional amendment on our tax accounts. Me, an hour ago: Well, this is a glaring hole in the literature I'll fix in no more than a few weeks. Me, now: Oh god, I don't want to get a PhD. I hate this shit and I'm doing it for fun.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

for reasons that may become clear, I've been going down a news archive rabbit hole, and damned if they weren't declaring that the "downtown shopping district" needed to be protected at the cost of people's civil liberties in 1992, using all the same arguments as today