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a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

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Drawing of Mark E Smith

Drawing of Mark E Smith

Mark E Smith. Born on this day in 1957.

This argument hits a lot harder if you've never watched public comment at a city council meeting.

It's lights out for WA Legislature's effort to regulate data centers • Washington State Standard Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 2515 would have required data centers to ...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Goodnight from The Bloody Babe pub, where the ferret fashion parade has sharply divided regulars on the wisdom of ever putting animals in costume. Goodnight from Dr. Fiona Low, continuing her experiments on containing spirits in the magnetic fields of C90 cassettes. Goodnight from Hookland.

We’re thrilled to launch Muscle’s home video line this month with the blu-ray release of @weard.moe's CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY I. TRAPS, which is now up for preorder and will be released at the end of the month.

Preorder:
vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Negative Creep"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Seattle you have literally outdone yourselves 👏

Tonight's final attendance sets a new record for the largest attendance for a women's hockey game in a U.S. arena AND the highest attended home venue game in PWHL history (a record previously set at our home opener!)

Former Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson smiling and welcoming someone into underground lair next to large thick steel door

Sara Nelson Shows Hunts Point Mayor Hiding from ICE Protests How to Run Public Meeting from Secret Bunker: tinyurl.com/mf2xn9f8

Dan Simmons ended his life being a bit of a piece of shit. I read Song of Kali and I think his xenophobia goes back a lot longer than popularly recognized.

But man the first season of The Terror (based on his novel of the same name) is something that I absolutely treasure. Recommend if you haven't.

Cover design of You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who.

We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new history of Doctor Who, examining the programme from a queer perspective for the first time. You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who is written by @patrickmulkern.bsky.social and will be released on 25 May. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/

Volume 79 Issue 3 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press

FQ’s Spring issue is free to read!

Oscars: One Battle After Another & Interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho

Horrors: The She-Butterfly & The Rat-Savior at 50, The New Witch Triad, Analog Horror & Spoorloos

Reports: Athens, New/Next + MoMA

online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/3

@ucpress.bsky.social

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No cops hired so far with WA’s new $100M grant program • Washington State Standard Local officials have been frustrated with the rollout of the grants championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson to address Washington’s status as dead last in the nation in police staffing per capita. They compla...

"So far, just six police departments have applied."

This is the grant program Ferguson was threatening a veto over if it wasn't included in last year's budget.

washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/24/n...?

Private Prison Falsified Records in Detainee’s Death in ICE Custody GEO Group prison staff falsified records on the morning a detainee died in ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley detention center in Pennsylvania.

Investigators found GEO Group staff falsely logged visits and failed to meet ICE standards on the morning of a detainee’s death in custody.

I love digging into satirical jokes I don't understand at first. TDLR: This guy led a failed coup to prevent a democratic government from forming after Spanish dictator Franco died. On this same day he died, their government is finally declassifying and releasing documents about the failed coup.

Ah fuck RIP Éliane Radigue. Absolutely peerless, truly one of the greatest to ever do it.

THIS WEEKEND! Returning to theaters for its 30th anniversary, and newly restored in 4K, Todd Hayne’s seminal psychological drama remains one of the most prescient films of the 1990s.

🚨WOSO Fam 🚨

If you are a fan from the following teams and are willing to talk to me about Your team not having a Juneteenth/ black excellence night please send me a DM.

The Following teams are:

Racing Louisville
Portland Thorns
Orlando Pride
San Diego Wave
Seattle Reign
Gotham FC
NC Courage

One of the Angelas (Ilinca Manolache) driving a vehicle in Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (d. Radu Jude 2023). The photo is in black and white. She has long blond hair and is wearing a sparkly dress-shirt. The yellow subtitled text reads "Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

ICYMI it yesterday, I wrote about the head of the Seattle civil rights department, whose staff have accused him of a litany of civil rights violations. Their union, PROTEC17, sent a detailed memo asking Mayor Katie Wilson to remove him in December.

Our friends Rian Watt @eoionline.bsky.social & Nikki Gomez @wfse.org stopped by the WA GOP's "anti-Millionaires Tax rally" they billed as a huge event this morning to find... 5 people 😂

Turns out you can't use AI bots to get real people to support your attacks on working families #WALeg

The angels will return, and when you see the one that's meant to help you, you will weep with joy ✋️🫴

Bruce Harrell also brought:

His wife Joanne Harrell
Aisha Foster
Jamie Housen
Natalie Walton-Anderson

to this CAM event in the last hours of Harrell's mayorship. More to come....