A bar in an existing grandfathered corner store zone should create a cocktail called "recipe for disaster."

It turns out if you fail to learn history you’re doomed to repeat it, unless your goal is to repeat history

Focus, calm, breathwork, hugs, IRL time with ppl. And we must mobilize: attend a school board mtg, donate to your favorite substack, call your local/state/reps abt NPR defunded, abt Kimmel, abt Mahmoud Khalil being told to deport to Algeria/Syria, abt Mario Guevara in detention for filming ICE.

Don’t let trump get away with anti-American persecution of Jimmy Kimmel. Go find a candidate that will stand up against this authoritarianism and help them out. While there’s still time.

@ass.golf they stole your fuckin character man

Oh my god it’s already here

if you must be online may i point out that project gutenberg is still around and still has basically every book written before 1910 for free

Bike lanes are emergency preparedness

What he said

A confident strong administration wouldn’t flail this much. Trumps approval is in the toilet and there’s no sign of recovery. They’ve deeply overplayed their hand and made themselves vulnerable

Bluesky is wild man...

If you think putting your name on a protest list meaningfully risks you being lynched, then you have a totally broken ability to assess risk and also have been successfully crushed under boot. I would encourage others not to submit so easily.

One thing I do appreciate about the "we will destroy the lives of ppl that engage in speech we dont like" mask slip is its made every single pundits "they just want open debate! We gotta learn to live w one another!" columns from the past week look even more stupid & delusional than they already did

Seattle is best when it’s walkable

I’m gonna guess a good chunk of the “don’t sign up for a protest” crowd have also never been to a protest

Moderation lists are a bad idea and should either be abolished or only trusted sources should be able to make them honestly. They can be handy but they are so easy to abuse that a lot of people do abuse them

The key point I keep coming back to is that the Executive Branch is a spruce that needs to be pruned down to a bonsai, because Presidents never, ever give back power that their predecessors have seized. Congressionalism is the only way forward.

We desperately need a crackdown on this. Especially on cars with out of state registration it’s getting ridiculous

I'm in an extremely weird place right now because every time they escalate again I feel calmer about our long term chances but much more worried about our short term situation. This country would have been capable of being complacent straight through this if they'd slow-played it even a LITTLE BIT.

and, again: if they can prosecute you for going to No Kings, *they will prosecute you for something else*. you should put your name on the list because you have a right to do it and you can definitely stand in front of God and country and say you went to No Kings bc you believe it's your right

Reminder that removing Kimmel is a sign of weakness not strength

free speech libertarians have always meant it in one very specific way: I, personally, should be free to be an asshole without facing any social consequence for my behavior that's it, that's all they care about

As is typical, Trump has no loyalty to Jimmy Fallon, the guy who helped get him elected the first time.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

Getting people fired from companies that wanted to curry favor with him didn't require any competence on anyone's part The whole thing of fascism is projecting an illusion of power, both for the sake of fascists' own fragile egos and to frighten us into compliance. We refuse to fall for it, we win.

Internet Leftists need Liberals to be fascists in disguise, it’s a weird compulsion of theirs

I would quote post this with a kylo ren yelling “more” gif but I am NOT talking to that franchise right now *nose in air*.

The Kimmel thing has been very helpful for me in knowing who to block. Anyone dooming about it is someone who’s thoughts I just don’t need to be exposed to

Re: Trump

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Preserving a low-density, single-family area in the middle of the city's densest neighborhoods will not make houses affordable for Black home buyers. They won't make it possible for Black renters to return to the Central District. They won't "repair the harms" Hollingsworth wants to address.

Trans Inclusionary Radical Misogyny

"I'm going to lay low and try to survive these four years without risking anything" and "I'm going to fight fascism" are both reasonable goals, but they are at odds.

I think it’s bad that there are people out there who believe you’re gonna get black bagged for signing up for an Indivisible protest with three million other people. That feels like people are afraid of the regime in a way that both overestimates its power and grants it more power.

I am now starting to suspect that people doom posting themselves into saying it doesn't matter that Trump is wildly unpopular because he is going to do a dictatorship are themselves an op. Dictatorships aren't stable by magic, they need people to buy in and go along with them. This matters.

We’ve updated our starter packs! A list of elected officials in WA:

I always say this but 3D printers are way way better now. If you were into 3d printers ten years ago that was your hobby, tinkering with the thing enough to get it to print halfway decent some of the time. Modern 3d printers are way easier to worn with, way more reliable, and just all around better

JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The urge to build a titanium road bike is growing

so this guy like 100% had a stroke right

He looks tired

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

y’all are spending way too much mental energy. on things that do not matter today log off. hug your loved ones. make some art

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

This sucks so hard

Should Democrats shut down the government that's arresting every brown person they find at Home Depot, shipping people off to random countries, inventing pretexts to occupy Dem-run cities with the military, and doing their best to bring back measles? Gosh, that's a tough one.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹