1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

Japanese noise musician #Merzbow has teamed up with Brazilian drummer Iggor Cavalera and Italian guitarist Eraldo Bernocchi for a new collaborative album. The album marks all three artists’ debuts on PAN buff.ly/7JiwtVT

Post a photo from a concert you took.

Hang the banner.

There's no shame in being wrong about something. There is shame in choosing to be wrong.

NEW ARRIVALS: HEROCLIX packed in TENNIS BALL TUBES HELLA CHEAP!!! only at TINKERTOPIA it can only good happen!

RARE bundles of vintage 50's-60's mechanic training posters from deep under bates technical college. ON SALE NOW! while supplies last (one of my personal favorite art paper materials). Only at TINKERTOPIA!

The new Neko Case making me weepy over here. Beautiful stuff. We all deserve better than some love song.

Twelve Coffee Pots  -   William Kentridge , 2012

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#kickstarter The XXXenophile Kickstarter is over, and did very well! After a campaign we always get people going "Oh man, how'd I miss that? I'd've totally backed it!" Well the jokes on you, pal. Even though it's "officially" closed, YOU CAN STILL BUY IN! (www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...) Do so!

there are many, many versions of The Nineties out there. for example, have you ever considered the possibility that My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult's whole dirtbag Deee-lite phase might be every bit as definitive of a dominant subcultural aesthetic as grunge was?

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Seeing these stickers on the back of a cybertruck did make me say “oh fuck off” in front of my children so I did get yelled at but come onnnnnnnn

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Basically the opposite of the truth. There are like *four* major-label Albini projects: Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Bush, Page & Plant. (He worked with Pixies when they were still on 4AD.) 95% of what he worked on was underground and indie (as in DIY, not indie-the-genre).

One of the two firefighters taken into custody by ICE in Washington state under shady circumstances has been released. www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:

Chicago area: if you believe you may recognize this federal agent who choked a protester last week, please text us 📱

Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss...

i'm 800 free subscribers away from a huge milestone for the handbasket. think we can do it? www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

because she needs another guy on a horse to finish her off

Last words: What Washington is losing with the demise of Crosscut. As a nearly two-decade venture in nonprofit news comes undone, it underscores the precariousness of public service journalism. My latest column for the Washington State Standard: washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/24/l...

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

Yes, this was a choice. A capitulation. Extremely disappointing.

This one's for the real book nerds: Two Seattle bookstores are teaming up to celebrate the new Pynchon novel's launch date and the reissue of two books by Norwegian novelist Tarjei Vesaas with an "after-hours bookstore crawl" on October 6th. I love this idea.

Noise Unit. Active 1989-2022. Noise Unit started out as a collab between Bill Leeb of FLA & Marc Verhaeghen of Klinik. Rhys Fulber took over from Marc for the 3rd album. "Decoder" was made from the leftovers of the aborted FLA album "Toxic." "Drill" was a collab w/ Haujobb & Klinik. #industrialmusic

Very happy with how this commission turned out. Can’t believe people sometimes pay me for stuff I enjoy doing. Thank you, boxing lesbians.

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

Lol to all the people in the replies like "Hillary was right!" About what dude? That Donald Trump would be a bad president? Wow. Wish she was right about how to beat him but I mean that's pretty good too

Telling people who to vote against instead of giving them something to vote for try number 3

stty wizardzines.com/comics/stty/ (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

"What if... hear me out.. we COULD split the baby?" - dems on various civil rights issues for 30 years

Right-wing bosses at Sinclair Broadcasting have barred KOMO TV from showing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in Washington because they want to act as MAGA censors for Trump. Sign our petition to tell them to stop trying to silence us, and air the show: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

WHAT the FUCK are we DOING HERE

I’m begging America’s leaders to read this important treatise on negotiations and when to say “no.”

The Elliot Bay Trail bike/ped detour was closed tonight (around 8:20 PM 9/23). Construction person was not helpful in providing a detour (the closest detour is a mile away!). If you're biking that route tomorrow and you notice the detour is still closed please let me know!

Hey, if you haven't followed @cascadiajournal.bsky.social or signed up for my daily newsletter of news, environmental reporting, and arts from across #Cascadia, please take a moment. It's free! cascadia-journal.ghost.io

@lukeburbank.bsky.social Both KOMO and KATU are under the boots of Sinclair.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

nicholas sammond, who wrote the book on vestigial minstrelsy (literally, BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY), has an excellent essay in DESEGREGATING COMICS about herriman's secret identity and his use of blackface as détournement

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

For folks in the NW concerned about continued availability of federal climate tools and resources, come join our webinar: Taking stock of available resources for understanding and responding to climate risks in Washington and the Northwest. *New date & time: Oct 16, 1pm PT. Register here👇

Puyallup elder and leader Ramona Bennett Bill, a veteran of the Fish Wars and other battles for treaty rights, launched her memoir "Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe" at a talk and signing last week at the Washington State History Museum. The book is now available for purchase.

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...