Incredible. Progressive challenger Katie Wilson now has a 91-vote lead in Seattle’s race for mayor. She had been steadily gaining on incumbent Bruce Harrell.
There are about 8,000 ballots left to count.
no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
To be fair, according to actuarial tables, these senators don’t have a lot of holiday seasons left and they REALLY don’t want to give one up for something silly like making life better for millions of people.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Noted racist and Nobel Laureate James Watson, who stole Rosalind Franklin's data to try to deduce the structure of DNA first, has died at 97 as an unrepentant eugenicist and misogynist.
I look forward to pomegranate season every year. Thank you for brightening this dark season with your hard work.
That's before my time. I only know I Ching from pulp SF novels and supernumerary digit scuttlebutt
Not me. "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" plays in my brain when I think of it. Not terribly helpful
I'm so fucking old that motherfucking bullshit like 'hamburger menus' pisses me off like none other.
A white cabled cardigan sweater with brown leather buttons and raglan sleeves
#showmeyourknits One of my favorite cabled sweaters.
Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.
Bezos company is the top employer of people receiving SNAP benefits.
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
Tbh, the KUOW story did give me an inaccurate impression of the facts. That Wilson's parents started helping with daycare costs this year, specifically due to Wilson's mayoral campaign, seems relevant to me and was left out of the original version that I read.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, is another techno-fascist billionaire.
He’s invested in AI that specializes in war, surveillance and violence, so it’s no surprise he’s fine with running ICE ads on Spotify.
If you haven’t already, cancel your Spotify subscriptions. Let’s make them feel like Disney+.
More good news!
uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Those people will always exist. What's important is finding clinicians who believe the patient and the emerging science
Greta:
"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”
Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X
A white and brown tabby lies on his side with slightly curled paws and his tongue poking out of his mouth
This loving FeLV+ cutie is adoptable in Seattle. He's cuddly, affectionate, playful, curious, and very soft. Marshmallow will be a perfect playmate for your FeLV cat.
www.petfinder.com/cat/marshmal...
They probably interact with a significant number of face blind people
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
I just canceled my HBO-Hulu-Disney and Appletv subscriptions.
Use some of that "They Cancelled Jimmy Kimmel" energy for Jessica Chastain!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/23...
#TheSavant #AppleTV #Censorship #JimmyKimmel #Television
