rain 🏳️‍⚧️

have an intermission and be careful about the drink sizes, and yeah

Seattle will finally be able to tow drivers who park on streetcar tracks. HB 2495 is heading to the Governor's desk.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

In this house, we believe:
❤️ Love is love
🤝🏻 No human is illegal
🪖Those jackbooted thugs from SDOT better not be coming around here upgrading our streetlamps without a 2/3 vote of support from my NextDoor group
✨ Kindness is everything

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

noem's dog looking down from heaven

Broke: I-5
Woke: Lid I-5
Woke 2: Depave I-5 and fill with a linear park and tens of thousands of housing units

if the top 1% of humans have 95% of the wealth, then they should be paying 95% of the taxes

if everyone is making comparable amounts of money, then everyone pays about the same in taxes

this way there's an incentive to not hoard resources like a dragon

new impossible to implement idea: taxation system based on societal wealth distribution levels

"WSDOT was able to affirm that Rainier Avenue functioned well with just one general purpose lane continuing through the interchange in each direction, along with a dedicated bus lane." 👀‼️

@mayorofseattle.bsky.social should transform Rainier Ave S to be safe and accessible for all

ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

hard to believe just a decade ago the US had to couch all its imperialist wars in layers of metaphor & faux-human rights concerns, and now got literal cartoon villains just being like “We are bombing Iran to initiate the Human Instrumentality Project”

perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Where to Scream: Protests, Rallies, and Other Ways to Get Involved in March Protests, rallies, and other ways to get involved in March.

Want to scream? Me too. We're putting a monthly protest calendar in @thestranger.com, including marches, rallies, and other ways to get involved. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Doesn't that feel better?

Its not important in the scheme of things but being ruled by 250 pedophile Poasters is made extra annoying by the fact that none of them can post good

normal caveats about wealth measures vs GSP aside, we should not be surprised that the elite impunity political environment has been good economically for the people on top, and that all of this is not solely about getting to say slurs during business hours

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

The most useful writing I’ve read on the subject remains this blog post from William Scheuerman about the dual state: Fraenkel’s argument—that capital requires a normative state—falls apart when economic power becomes highly consolidated verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...

art of the deal, baby

A useful analogy I’ve heard is between cognitive bias and optical illusions. Squares A & B in the famous Adelson Checkerboard Illusion are exactly the same shade of grey. You can confirm this by cutting them away from or covering the surrounding imagery. BUT YOU STILL SEE THE ILLUSION.

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people. It is true that in the time
between now and Woke 2, they are going to hurt a lot of people, some very badly. There’s no way around that. But then, again, Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people.

now *this* is deliverism

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

this year's state of the union is plasma, congratulations to plasma