Jimi Hendrix, Seattle Center Arena, February 12, 1968

#OnThisDay in 1968, Jimi Hendrix performed a homecoming concert at Seattle Center Arena. historylink.org/File/1365 #blackhistorymonth

I should say Trevor Paglen is the artist - not the man pictured

🤣 so stupid i'm laughing so hard thank you of course I was listening to her yesterday

he's an artist and has been doing this kind of work for decades - I wrote about him back in 2005 for the first time - trust that he knows the CIA and Interpol are well aware of him 😎

recession indicator???

Campaign Zero

Washington state remains one of the 16 states that DOES NOT grant parole.

There are thousands of Black men who have been incarcerated since the 1980s for drug possession because of it.

campaignzero.org

County Assessor Wilson Jailed on Allegations of Stalking, Violating Protection Order - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett UPDATE: On Thursday afternoon, King County District Court Judge Jill Klinge released King County Assessor…

reminder that the head of the King County Department of Assessments is still in office until this Fall and your tax dollars pay his salary :)

this is an elected position so he can only be removed by recall

he has refused to leave

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Book cover for Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination

The Spring 2026 catalog from @fordhampress.bsky.social just dropped!
#Audiofuturism
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Got screamed at by strangers two days in a row while doing my job for the county in my high viz logo emblazoned vest.

One woman accused me of casing her house and called me GIRL in a way I can only describe as racist.

So yeah that was me having a panic attack on Mary Ave yesterday.

There will be a rally and candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti at the Seattle VA Hospital tonight. See the full details below:

that was surprising and a big deal coming from Stamper

NOW'S YOUR TIME TO SHINE✨#ALLIES✨

not sure why it took this long for me to panic about the fact that these abuser recruits can use their cover to evade protection orders

I was there! AMA (off record)

I get it - that was a really fun party we threw 😎

(and the last of its kind)

trying to stave off a panic attack, honestly!

and so sorry for you and anyone with an SPS student - sending ❤️

Seattle Public Schools ordered elementary and middle school students to shelter in place today - meanwhile ICE agents showed up at the high schools

whatever happened to Beto O'Rourke

A$AP ROCKY - PUNK ROCKY (VISUALIZER) YouTube video by ASAPROCKYUPTOWN

2026 song of the summer

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California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027 Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.

I know we're going to war with everywhere but I just learned my grad school is shuttering and would like to know my options about student loan forgiveness @vanderbiltusac.bsky.social

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yep - the fact that I'm in my 50s now is never not strange to me

Clarence Moriwaki was just elected as the first Asian-American Mayor of Bainbridge Island.
As a Japanese-American who has served on the council since 2022, Moriwaki has regularly highlighted the island's centrality to the history of Japanese exclusion in the US & the lessons to learn from that era.

The way America relies on Black activists to protect them from their own decisions should be studied. Not by me though.

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women

2026 Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower (1993)

2026
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dems doubling down on using an outdated playbook for the past 10 years is why a poet was just shot in the face

meanwhile, the right has been organized and disciplined and are doing EXACTLY what they already told us they were going to do

deleted my LinkedIn feels amazing

bring back Maurice Sendak's Nutcracker AND the Sonics

no idea what I got myself into with this thread but am enjoying