I saw Viagra Boys, Soft Play, & Lambrini Girls over the last three weeks, and if you get a chance to see any of them, I highly recommend it! I was tired and grumpy last night and Lambrini Girls got me going bananas. Also, none of those bands are shy about loudly sharing their (really good) politics.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

what did he mean by this

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

The PAC supporting progressive Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson responded to Bruce Harrell's claim that his opponent "darkened" his photo saying not only was the sitting Mayor of Seattle incorrect, the head of Common Power (the group posted the pic of Harrell looking orangey) had this to say:

So much of what I read from the center left amounts to "what if the powerful did nice things for us without us having to make them" and folks, that's simply not how it works

Amazon has $95 billion in *cash on hand*. Not stock, not assets. Cash. This fine is 3% of that. Now look at your cash on hand, calculate 3%, and ask yourself how much of a disincentive it would be to be fined that much with no other consequences - and you get to keep all the profits from your crime.

It’s funny that nobody in the Trump sphere has the secret sauce like him. I hate the guy and he’s by no means wise but he understands people or at least he understands our lowest common denominator and it gives him an insight into society while the rest of them might as well be aliens in skin suits

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Well, this is bad. I love that everyone on Facebook is going to get indoctrinated into anti-queer conspiracy theories. These companies that pink-washed Pride campaigns now just openly trying to destroy us. Fuck capitalism.

These people just hate anyone that goofs on them because they have zero sense of humor and you will never win with them. They hate us and there is nothing you can say to placate them.

I made a cheatsheet to help you distinguish btwn Seattle ppl who love housing, ppl who love trees, ppl who love both, & ppl who love NEITHER. If you find yourself accidentally falling for propaganda or getting confused about who is who, just refer here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Coates is such a good writer. The case that Kirk was a terrible person and a force for violence in hate in politics is so obvious, it's absurd that it has to be argued, but this is the best distillation of it that I have read. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

as a member of the radical transgender terrorist movement, i will now close my september weekend by drinking trader joe’s fall harvest tea & eating a tiny pumpkin pie with my wife as we watch the great british bake off. you know, just like [checks gop talking points] al qaeda. worse than, really.

Every Dem official and centrist who has compared Kirk to MLK or his death to 9/11, or said his work should continue, or otherwise whitewashed his legacy of hate, dehumanization, and harassment has had a hand in enabling this administration's weaponization of Kirk's death against critics & opponents.

One silver lining of this news cycle (well, the silver lining you can mention without getting your account suspended) is that a whole lot of potential Gavin Newsome supporters got a crash course on Charlie Kirk's "work" that Gavin wants to continue. Let's be sure to remind him at every opportunity.

If it's always "honest debate" whether queer people should exist, Black people are inferior, women are property, then those groups of people are cursed to fight for eternity. These centrists are celebrating that our rights will be a question of debate literally forever.

And for anyone saying “but his poor kids,” he wanted Trump’s “enemies” to be executed in public with children forced to watch. meidasnews.com/news/charlie...

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

This explains it better than I can

THIS. The way to oppose propaganda is to avoid directly imbibing it whenever possible. It works on the UNCONSCIOUS. When necessary, for work or for my own safety or the safety of vulnerable people close to me, I read the transcripts, suspiciously, and seek commentary from an expert I trust

Feeling good about getting off FB.

A cool thing about this book is that it has some familiar tropes that make it easy to get absorbed in the world, but the Caribbean mythology elements make it feel unusual, as fantasy should, and adds some tension of uncertainty. It's like comfort food made with ingredients you haven't tried before.

People who like to tune out trans issues: Establishing that people can be criminalized by declaring them mentally ill is something that can be used against *you*, no matter what kind of person you are. Trans people have been the canary in the coal mine. Listen to them. Stand up for them!

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

The root of our problems in America come from spending decades responding to the dumbest shit possible with “let’s hear him out” instead of saying “shut the fuck up.”

[Shoots case of Bud Light full of holes with AR-15 because a trans person exists] "Wow, you're not coming to our house for Christmas. You're so closed minded. So much for the tolerant left!"

Colorado, please call your terrible governor and tell him to stop supporting a sociopath who's trying to kill thousands of us by denying us COVID shots and SSRIs. Constituent Services Help Line: (303) 866-2885 Governor's Office, Front Desk: (303) 866-2471

If you are using "weak, woke, and whiny" in the same week that Trump participated in the "Cracker Barrell is woke" meltdown on the right, I just can't take you seriously. If you validate the bigoted and stupid grievances of the MAGA right and complain the left is whiny, you're just a bad person.

When I was 17 Doggy Style was big with my friend group, and even though I enjoyed listening to it, I made a conscious decision not to buy the record myself because I wasn't comfortable with the misogyny and casual violence. Weird that 35 years later I'd have a more personal reason to cancel him.

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

RIP to James Dobson. Let's hope that his violent death by rectal rupture serves as a warning to others who may consider doing this to horses. apnews.com/article/jame...

“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...

I started Duolingo right before lockdown and managed keep going for over 5 years. But now it's been AI-ified, and also it really does teach you to be good at Duolingo rather than to be fluent in the language. I'm moving to Mango Languages (free through my library) and listening to news/podcasts.

@seattleaquarium.bsky.social Ocean Pavilion, panoglitch (single take, flattened "360° cellular photo" collage) Link to full 8000x4000 image photos.app.goo.gl/8EmFbbgoBruH...

Another great piece from Parker (subscribe to her newsletter). Something that I think goes across a lot of issues is that the right are, sorry, "snowflakes" that feel entitled to not accept that true things are true. I've given up on mainstream media, but Democratic politicians *have* to stand up...

Vigilante transvestigation will undoubtedly harm non-conforming cis women as much or more than it does trans women. If you are a spineless centrist Democrat currently running for president and you can't bring yourself to defend trans people, *at the very least* you can stand up against this.