Fans of the late great TV show Fringe will remember there was an alternate earth where huge swaths of territory were covered in an amber glasslike material that kept reality from tearing itself apart. Let's just say I'm glad that Walternate is not on the board of Historic Seattle
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
I can't believe the "here's a rewritten press release for some bullshit AI company" website would do this
The history of how transportation decisions get made in Seattle—more often than not, to the benefit of drivers over everybody else—suggests pretty strongly that "one more study" isn't the move. /1
www.theurbanist.org/seattle-stal...
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.
There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on
Room in bookstore covered in shelves in slightly distorted panoramic photo with woman singing at far left, holding a mic, and man playing guitar next to her. Audience sitting in chairs watch from left of center to far right.
Big bummer for Seattle: Ada’s Technical Books is shutting down in June. mailchi.mp/d1ef4cc6e7f2... Such a great store, such great owners. The kind of bookstore I suggested meeting any visitor to the city at or suggested they stop by in their travels.
Oswald successfully interrupted a separate CIA plan to kill Kennedy
Seconding Nardwuar
1. Bring back the touch ID home button
2. Create an actually good universal remote control
It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.
Before WSJ published that article you may have read, I thought about how Trump really spends his days, bc it shows he's not really acting as President.
The answer?
Construction, cons, and corruption.
& watching snuff films that make him believe DOD can do anything.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/t...
It's things like this that the expression "for fuck's sake" was created for
i don't think believing this makes someone an evil person BUT all evil people believe this
When I was younger, the alt press was obsessed with serial killers and shit like Faces of Death and I see that nothing has changed. It's like Feral House publishing runs the podcast industry
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
It's a three-hour movie but two hours of it are set in various hospitals
Everyone who was paying attention saw it coming. In some circles the drone cost asymmetry discussion has been raging for a decade.
Gill is Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law and every time he says stuff like this his replies are full of people saying his kids get the wall too, just an exceedingly grim race to the bottom
Dudes who actually buy into manosphere bullshit love to go on about biological/gender essentialism and The Natural Order, but when you tell 'em "So where's the problem, most males in the animal kingdom never get a chance to procreate, I guess your genes must be inferior" suddenly there's an issue :V
One of my thoughts on 4/20 is that the general cultural mode of a guy who likes drugs has moved from a kind of hippy let’s all get along sort of guy to a “I am better than you because I do drugs and have become the ubermensch” sort of guy and it’s been a pretty big catastrophe for the human race
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Lawsuits like this run on two tracks. Most obviously, it's simple bully behavior: I'll use my money to silence anyone who criticizes us. But on another, deeper level the right simply does not understand how journalism works. They genuinely believe reporters just make stuff up or print rumors
The point is, moderates love to nitpick over every dollar but meanwhile at the national level mad money is just being thrown around and vanishing into whoever’s pockets
We lefties need to start talking about local government spending with a new metric, the Trump Bribe Unit, which can be any amount from $500,000 to $5 million.
Arts spending? Why that’s just one Trump Bribe Unit. Library levy? Less than 10 TBUs. And so on
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Calm down, computer software isn't making decisions about who lives and who dies in war. It merely processes a ton of data and then makes a recommendation to a human who has no realistic way to verify it
Youtube comment: @ScotClose • 3 hours ago I'm disappointed that you blocked me on Bluesky for trying to bring some real skepticism to this topic after you strongly implied that Platner is a Nazi and ridiculed people for asking for evidence. If you're only a skeptic about topics you disagree with, are you really a skeptic? Reply 0 replies ^ Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar WE @RebeccaWatson • O seconds ago I'm not shocked that a man who openly defends an obvious liar with a Nazi tattoo is also apoplectic that the woman he was yelling at opted out of a conversation with him. This is psychotic behavior and you should see a therapist.
PSA: never in the history of humanity has a woman cut a man out of her life for being insane and then changed her opinion of him after he found other methods to contact her.
