Ope 😬

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Man in shower happily spraying self in face with bottle of Rain-X

Seattle Resident Applies Rain-X Directly to Skin to Avoid Needing Umbrella: tinyurl.com/mw32bfmz

the bulbs inside of a Wendy's restaurant sign burned out, scorching the plastic cover, leaving Wendy's portrait scorched and looking demonically possessed

"Sir, this is a goth Wendy's..."

Slap a Subaru logo on this and it looks like a page from The Advocate in 1997

reading the first page of any sci-fi novel TikTok video by Phil Jamesson

Just started reading Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight and I like it but it's a biiiiit www.tiktok.com/@philjamesso...

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Katie Wilson Scales Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard Back Up Seattle's only annual open streets festival along the South Seattle waterfront will run every single weekend this summer outside of Seafair. Wilson's changes are a bold reversal of her predecessor's s...

Seattle's only annual open streets festival along the South Seattle waterfront will run every single weekend this summer outside of Seafair. Wilson's changes are a bold reversal of her predecessor's scaling back of Bicycle Weekends.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/katie-wilson...

smaug sitting atop his gold and looking down on poor bilbo from the hobbit smaug won’t apologize for his happiness

On my way to TD Garden to cover the sold out Boston Fleet-Montreal Victoire game. LET’S GO!

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

The Flytrap Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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Paid all my tolls in cash or pre-paid tickets back in my JET days!

Everyone at UJ who lives in Japan has an ETC credit or prepaid card for paying highway tolls. Tourists have to rent one from their rental car company. There's no Free Foreigner Lane, I assure you 😅

Close-up of a strike sign that reads: "ProPublica workers: Not shutting up."

@propublica.org management: This is your sign to give us a fair contract now. We’re not shutting up.

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong. The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.”

(Published May 2025 with KYUK)

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2026 Tea Advent preorders just opened, and we’ve added a NEW pure/single origin calendar option!

www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...

Love sneaky little upcharges like this (which is exactly why every corp is on the subscription model now).

A photo of the Pike Place starbucks in Seattle Washington

We, the partners at Pike Place #301, are excited to announce our intent to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. As partners of the first Starbucks, we’ve decided to form a union to uphold the core values of our company and the Pike Place Market: fair and equal treatment, respect, and dignity for every single partner who makes this store so special. Thousands of partners around the country are working together to fight for a better workplace, and we look forward to joining them. Starbucks as a company was built on the core pillars of belonging, courage, and joy. Sadly, under your leadership – in our store and so many others – Starbucks has lost its way and veered from the core values that defined us. Store partners are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. We open the stores every morning and close them every night. We greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember our regulars’ names and favorite orders. But beneath the veneer of the excellent experience we craft for visitors every day, partners do not feel a sense of belonging and joy – unequal treatment is the norm, not the exception. When we speak up, that courage is punished, not rewarded. That has been most evident with Starbucks dispatching two national labor relations personnel to our store to surveil partners after the company heard we were discussing unionization, raising tension in the store that can be felt by both workers and customers. The market's founding gave us clear directions: "It is for you to defend, to protect and to uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly; that no extortion be permitted and that the purpose for which it was created be religiously adhered to." The path to our union may be challenging, but we know this: We are better working together as a team, we have each others’ backs, and we respect everyone’s right to make their own choice. We call on Starbucks to live up to the core values of courage, joy, and be…

Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊

Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks:

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship.

For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

A black-and-white cat’s face edited onto a sea urchin underwater

Uni? No. My true form is a sea urchin

#AprilFools

A screenshot of google with the search terms "orange juice homophobe" and the top result: the wikipedia page for Anita Bryant

In other news, I couldn't remember Anita Bryant's name so I googled "orange juice homophobe" and you know what

Physical zine: Anita Bryant, Pieing and Dilemma Action. The cover is a collage with a photo of Anita Bryant, with drawn-on devil horns and angry eyebrows, sucking an orange with vampire teeth. The background is pies.

Coming soon to patrons and later to Seattle Art Book Fair: a zine about Anita Bryant (the orange juice homophobe), her public pieing, and a history of dilemma actions like pieing. Originally based on a blog post I wrote in 2024, this subject has only become more relevant as time has gone on 👀

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

The Corners of Their Mouth Press will be at Seattle Art Book Fair May 9-10 at Washington Hall in Central District! I’m debuting a new zine as well 🥧 www.seattleartbookfair.org

There’s no way around this: people who “just want to share HP with their kids” are teaching them that standing up for others isn’t important. Nostalgia for childhood isn’t more important than actual children.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist."

Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

what is alternative? forcing folks to enjoy the art of those who hurt them? THEY DONT LIKE IT. someone saying 'your choices harm me so i dont like your creations and i dont like you' is not offensive, it is the most basic use of human autonomy and it is SO bizarre when folks argue otherwise

Doing a reverse DOGE where we go to every manager and go explain in one page what the fuck you do and you get evaluated by your workers

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed