Time for the annual NYE viewing of When Harry Met Sally. I hope 2026 sucks less for everyone than 2025 did!

It's very Seattle-niche, but Brett is incredibly good at encapsulating the dysfunction of city officials.

Happy Caturday from the most spoiled former feral kitties on the planet!

Do not cross the picket line--no Starbucks (even from a store not currently striking) until there's a reasonable contract with the workers whose labor makes the money.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Starbucks workers are truly making some of the best picket art in the game

“I don’t treat fat people any differently” (Photos by the inimitable Haley Morris Cafiero: www.haleymorriscafiero.com)

We have a new side dish for Thanksgiving this year! Spicy Penelope-stuffed citrus.

really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

What a terrible choice for the health of Central Washingtonians, and a guaranteed future drag on the rest of the state when we need to take care of our folks with advanced tooth decay and associated higher risk of heart disease and systemic infections. The citizens of Pasco don't want this, either!

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Harrell is a tremendously wealthy 67-year-old man who has been rich for decades. His family was working-class when he was a kid. His dad retired as a top executive at City Light. Whenever he talks about his upbringing, though, he describes a life of abject poverty so bad you wouldn't even believe.

'In limiting spending on long-term housing to just 30 percent of the $3.5 billion in aid — from about 90 percent this year — the Trump plan would deal a crippling blow to a movement called Housing First."

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

No contract, no coffee! Store partners work their butts off for little pay and very inconsistent health benefits, while the CEO commutes via company jet, wears $250k wrist watches, and has his lackeys lie about everything. NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Usefull! And this also applies to Washington.

I wrote about The Broken Logic of "The Best Place to Retire" www.patreon.com/posts/142988...

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

Better late than never, I guess, but I do think the world would have been way better off if this serial killer had kicked it like 30 years ago.

Voting for Cuomo due to his experience handling the pandemic is like voting for George W Bush due to his handling of Hurricane Katrina

I bet Dane St Clair eats paste. How embarrassing for him.

Just got an email from the Harrell campaign about "tent encampments" (human beings the administration sees as an aesthetic problem) in parks, with quotes from "Seattle neighbors" that are, to a person, about how ugly and dirty and unpleasant those icky people and their tents are.

Hot take: the Blue Jays need a better organist.

Apparently being the house that gives out full-size candy bars AND a sweet selection of non-food treats last year did not give us a strong enough reputation for trick-or-treaters to brave the downpour tonight. I'm sad! But I have a lot of chocolate. Lose some/win some, I guess.

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

An absolute murder. The Needling does not miss! 💀🤣

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

True! And sometimes both! Here is our trash can baby turned beloved snuggle baby.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

Here are a few very worthy Seattle food banks that could always use help. whitecenterfoodbank.networkforgood.com givebutter.com/donate-rvfb www.pmsc-fb.org/food-bank

I am notoriously difficult to fit--narrow here, wide there, short-waisted but not quite petite--so when I found eshakti, I bought so many dresses that they gave me my own name as a promo code to share. What happened to them and the women who made dozens of custom garments for me broke my heart.

A senate candidate whose nipples you never have to see at all

Celebrating #NationalFeralCatDay today and all days! Hester Prynnecess is my beloved little baby now, and has come such a long way. To be loved is to be changed.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Jackboots #DOOMLOOP #seattle

Anyone else getting weirdo text threats? I mean, I get all the whiny, begging texts from dems, too, but they generally aren't all, "nice life you got there. Shame if something happened to it."

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

Seattle City Council needs to urgently pass an ordinance immediately suspending without pay any SPD officer of any rank who violates the chain of command. If they want to collect a paycheck the must obey Seattle’s elected leaders, not Trump or the Guild.

Ugh, 2025, please don't take Dolly from us. We are not ready.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I really wish media covering Trump's invasion of US cities would step away from this "Trump wants to fight crime, but how bad is it really?" framing. They obviously don't give a shit about local crime, but this manufactured narrative dominates all the coverage. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,

Republicans will bend over backwards to pass tax breaks for billionaires. But stopping your premiums from doubling? They would rather shut down government than do that. And that's exactly what they are doing.