if I HAD been in town today I probably would have asked outgoing Mayor Harrell why his budget for next year sets up a huge fiscal cliff for incoming ,ayor Wilson, using one-time funding for long-term needs and assuming nine-figure deficits starting in next year's budget cycle

Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.

I don't think "I grew up poor" (i.e. working-class) means you automatically understand what it's like to be a young or not-so-young renter in a city where houses cost a million dollars and rent never stops going up and up. This is why people liked Katie Wilson—she knows what it's like to live here.

The "anomaly" is that millions in super PAC money couldn't buy him this election. Sore loser. 👎

And the Cambrian was when life had no idea wtf it was doing and was just throwing shit at the sea floor to see what would stick. So you get BIZARRE body designs, like hyoliths, which is basically an ice cream cone with a mouth full of tentacles and a clamshell lid.

THIS. I didn’t realize how much having a name that didn’t quite fit mattered until I fully legally dropped it. It feels great.

Breaking the functionality of quotes in search is one of the most obvious destructions of a well-liked product, IMO.

They will try to censor porn. They will use those rules to then censor anything and everything else 1 inch at a time. You need to support porn and you need to do it vocally. The Internet (and all other media types) you save will be your own.

The Seattle mayoral race is over, but Katie Wilson has further extended her lead in the latest vote count. She leads with 2,018 votes or 0.73%, commanding 50.2% of the total vote. There’s only a small number of curable ballots left to potentially count.

Now that he's out I'm hoping the gag order on city staff responding to questions about what's happening with LWB is lifted. As someone who served on the official SDOt LWB work group, I can't get my emails responded to, questions about the status of SIDEWALK REPAIRS.

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

I know "go back to the jungle" is supposed to be racist rhetoric around how POC are just one step away from monkeys, but have you been to a jungle? They're incredible actually.

A Starbucks exec was asked why the baristas aren’t paid more and her response was that Starbucks has great benefits — “they get Spotify!” Ma’am, many are food insecure and living in their cars. Fuck Spotify.

It’s going to be tough to avoid, but for whoever needs to hear it: YOU don’t have to read the files personally. You don’t have to do that to yourself.

I started college as a minor. A lot of these creeps were university presidents. Barf.

This email dump is really a who’s who of names I NEVER FUCKING WANTED TO HEAR AGAIN

Yes, I talk about progressive revenue on the campaign trail. But I haven’t been shouting about taxing billionaires. Rather, I talk about how we can address the City’s massive structural budget deficit, which has widened as Harrell repeatedly kicks the can down the road and adds one-time spending.

A majority of the city of Seattle are renters and a huge fraction don't drive at all or very often. Finally both those constituencies will have a major that shares their lives. Has that even happened before (since automobiles became the default) in Seattle??

the majority of city are renters - and that share will only continue to grow. the median age in seattle is 36. i cannot express how great it is to have a mayor who not only reflects this - but knows how precarious housing here is, that cost of living & climate issues literally affect everything

Only 1,700 people follow the next Mayor of Seattle on Bluesky. @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social

@elections.kingcounty.gov We appreciate you! 💙

It only took a WEEK of stress, but we did it!! 💙💛

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,976 votes, which means that the race is no longer in automatic recount territory.

Violent rhetoric is not only strongly embedded in our cultural expression, it is an extremely well-known phenomenon that people consistently rate violent rhetoric used against them and people they like as significantly more severe than violent rhetoric used against people they dislike.

writing is cool, actually, and I think more people should do it

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

We need Hollywood to stop lying to us about the sounds that bald eagles make.

*young women & GIRLS While spouting rhetoric about "protecting the children" & "protecting women" by attacking trans people, banning books, telling kids they can't say gay, cutting SNAP benefits, rolling back child labor laws & marriage age, etc... We must name the pedophilic hypocrisies clearly.

Check online to see if your ballot has been counted, and if not, see if it's possible to cure. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

I really can't be over-emphasized how bad Harrell was. He's almost single handedly made nearly every important policy category worse. Name a category and it's almost trivial to name something he messed up badly. And on the flip side, he's done virtually nothing positive.

the Seattle mayoral race is gonna make my teeth collapse like overripe pears

For those wondering why the ballot counts didn't quite add up today (ballots counted were less than total votes and write-ins went down), King County Elections says they go through all the write-in ballots by hand and some of those were for one of the two candidates, so those got added to the totals

I’m looking for a medical artist. I was awarded a grant to write a new lab manual and will need anatomical images created. Open to someone starting out! #science #anatomy #medicalillustrations #medicalsky #academicsky #medicalart #jobalert

I genuinely don’t understand when people say Harrell was good on bikes because projects finally hit the build phase while he happened to be mayor. He’s very much a car guy.

Venture capitalism should be illegal

University Title IX offices are not prepared for the worst professors they have to have the Feynman Advice Machine in their pocket.

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

I see this article is going around again. It’s kind of long, but I’d argue it’s required reading to understand what’s happening. People think LLMs are fine because they were being taught to read like LLMs — just guess what word is next!

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Happy new @travisbaldree.bsky.social book day to the cozy readers out there! 📚👀

Seattle's Mayoral race between a progressive and a centrist may come down to a few dozen votes check to make sure your mail in ballot was counted

he’s so pleased ( i’m cold )

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I love this headline so much, and if you haven’t seen Wilson’s response video to the “scandal” of her parents helping pay for childcare during the campaign, the first ~30 seconds are worth the laugh (her mom is an endearingly terrible actor).

They'll have to try to pry my em dashes from my bisexual— and neurodivergent— hands.

The number of curable ballots from Seattle has edged downward a little since midday yesterday. There's now just over 1,700 curable ballots, which still skew younger.

I know “Instagram boyfriend” is a thing, but pretty sure I just saw a dad doing his best to follow instructions to get the angle.