Every citizen of Washington state should know the name Brian Heywood. We should have the same visceral reaction to his bills that we had to Tim Eyman's. He's linked to a piece of legislation? Vote against it, campaign against it, tell your friends to do the same.

Interesting stats. I'm sure racist shitheads will freak out about this. Anything that adds to their stress is a win in my book.

I'm just hoping this leads to more good Mexican food in North Seattle.

This is kinda cool, but not novel. Metalheads have been doing it in mosh pits for years.

You'd have to spend the whole day drinking craft brews and mainlining reefer to think that.

Oh. Wait. Portland.

Ha. You're reading more malice than exists there. Portland is famous for having excellent craft beer and plentiful weed. That's the joke.

Yeah, let's not take medical advice from the dude who doesn't wash his hands.

Exactly! Always seems like the 'you could never make it today!' crowd is saying that the woke mob would get mad or some shit.

Do they think that Blazing Saddles isn't woke? The whole fucking movie is making fun of dumb white racists!

Good thing climate change is a liberal hoax. Otherwise I'd be worried, right?

I was at a festival in Austria a few years ago when it was about this hot. Like, you stepped on the asphalt and left a footprint hot.

The only thing to drink was beer. If you needed something refreshing you had to drink radler (beer+lemonade, 3%).

I saw 3 people leave in an ambulance. Tons of sunstroke and dehydration. It was a fucking problem.

Well, the government hired Stanley Kubrik to fake the moon landing. Problem is, he was such a damn perfectionist that he demanded that they shoot on location.

I can't wait to see how the Raiders fuck this guy up.

Sigh. Vancouver finally fixes their plumbing, and we do it to ourselves.

Harambee was our anchor being. Everything's been fraying at the edges since that day.

One of our cats has successfully gotten through three different types of child-proof locks to get into the treat cabinet.

The other one just sat on a lit candle.

Seattle PD is and has always been terrible. For a city with as little violent crime as we are, you would think that we would have a semi-competant police force. We aren't Baltimore or Chicago or Memphis. We don't need a violent, antagonistic, adversarial police force. Yet decade after decade, Seattle PD shows themselves to be the worst of the worst of violent white nationalists.

SPD's training standards are embarrassingly low. SPD's staffing numbers are embarrassing low. Rookie cops make over $100k and the right-wing pundits say it's not enough, while first-year teachers make $55k and the right-wing pundits say it's too much. They blame the BLM riots and say that the city betrayed them, but the average person here had absolutely zero faith in them well before the riots. Most SPD officers don't actually live in Seattle.

Sorry if the second paragraph got a bit into unhinged-rant territory, but shit like this is infuriating. SPD is so clearly shit and needs to be purged.

Every republican administration in my lifetime has left office in a recession.

Interesting story. Dropkick Murphys (Boston-Irish punk band) got their first national hit by doing a punk version of "Shipping Out to Boston," which was a Woody Guthrie taperoom-floor forgotten song. They also just lost one of their lead singer/songwriters last year.

They were trying to figure out what direction to go in, when Woody Guthrie's granddaughter called them up to say she had found a bunch of other scraps and notes, wondering if they had any interest in putting together an album.

They said "fuck it, sure" and made an album called "This Machine Still Kills Fascists." It's not quite my cup of tea, but it resonated with a lot of people. If you're interested in Guthrie's music it's definitely worth a listen. Modernized medium-talent version of his b-sides, basically.

Hillary Clinton had classified emails in a private, password-protected server. Conservatives have spent over a decade frothing at the mouth, calling for her head. The DOJ announced that they would investigate her two weeks before the 2016 election, possibly dooming her campaign.

Donald Trump had classified documents in a box in the shitter at his private residence while a Russian envoy was there, and conservatives think that's all cool.

In Seattle during the BLM riots, the police launched tear gas canisters, calling them "less-than-lethal force."

The protesters who picked them up and threw them back got charged with Assault With a Deadly Weapon.

Fiancé was teaching during Covid lockdowns. The cats were /very/ regular appearances.