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Jeff
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Seattle Sounders Games: story-based, cozy, solo, roguelike cg Pop-sci fanboy: physics, paleoanthropology Origins, histories, etymologies, connections neurosomething he/him https://letterboxd.com/ijreilly/
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · Jun 12
(Quoting to repost with alt text
and be able to pin to my profile)
GUIDELINES FOR BYSTANDERS & OBSERVERS In the U.S everyone has certain constitutional rights and protections regardless of their immigration status or who is president. You have the legal right to film the police and/or immigration officers if they are in a public place and if the filming does not impede the performance of their duties. DOCUMENTING ICE ACTIVITY STAY AT A SAFE DISTANCE If you are asked to step back, take a step back while repeating: "I am exercising my right to record and document." IF THE OFFICERS GET TOO CLOSE Say, "I am stepping back and have the right to record." Speak in a calm, audible voice. PROTECT VIDEO CONTENT ON YOUR PHONE Make sure your phone is passcode protected. Not thumbprint or face recognition protected. FOCUS YOUR RECORDING ON ICE OFFICERS Record all the way through the incident. Narrate what you're seeing. Say the date + time. DO NOT GO LIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA for the privacy and safety of people being detained. WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK Report ICE Activity 844-724-3737 Deportation Defense Hotline | Mon-Fri, 6am-6pm WHAT TO DOCUMENT ICE OFFICER IDENTIFICATION Name, badge, uniforms, vests MAR： 21 DATE, TIME, LOCATION Location with specific address LANGUAGE USED BY OFFICERS Hate speech and identity speech (racist, sexist, homophobic), incorrect or unproven statements ENFORCEMENT AGENCY VEHICLES If they are marked or license plate states Police, Sheriff, Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration Enforcement (ICE). Unmarked but possible government vehicles. VIOLENCE OR PHYSICAL FORCE Pushing, shoving, grabbing, violence during arrests, damaging of property. WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK Please send videos, notes, and/or pictures to: hotline@waisn.org
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2m
Happy Birthday 🎉 🎂
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3h
and pizza holes for the sickos
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 4h
This is some Nobel Prize shit
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They should make pizza in the shape of a donut so there's more crust and less undercooked center
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 4h
(Donald must have done some whack shit in the 40s)
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 4h
Kermit sipping tea but it’s Donald Duck sipping a milkshake
cwnewser.bsky.social Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 7h
SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for homophobic language and antigay slurs he admitted to writing on Reddit in an interview with me this afternoon, after I confronted him on comments I discovered from as recently as 2021.

www.advocate.com/politics/gra...
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts
"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”
www.advocate.com
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M.Sfinbar @sfinbar.bsky.social · 8h
To own Nazi napkins is human, to have a matching Hitler painting is er carelessness?
Crow also owns Nazi memorabilia, including paintings by Adolf Hitler, a signed copy of Mein Kampf, and a set of swastika-emblazoned napkins. I don’t think table linen is the first sign that you’re in the presence of a Nazi.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
snek snak
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 2d
treat yo self!!!
Ouroboros can have a little ouroboros as a treat It’s a picture of a snake eating its own tail a symbol know as the ouroboros! #flatcircle #time
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Dolan's Knicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2d
I guess this is when we get to introduce the nation to the tale of the Bonwit Teller building: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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GeekTyrant @geektyrant.com · 2d
Sigourney Weaver Reveals Benedict Cumberbatch Was Considered to Replace Alan Rickman in a GALAXY QUEST Sequel
Sigourney Weaver Reveals Benedict Cumberbatch Was Considered to Replace Alan Rickman in a GALAXY QUEST Sequel
Fans have been waiting years to see a sequel to Galaxy Quest , but according to Sigourney Weaver , one of the versions that almost happened would have featured Benedict Cumberbatch stepping into a role...
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Form the letterboxd cast list, a black and white headshot of Robert Stack, to the right in light gray his name, and below it in medium gray the name of his character “The Gooch”
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Spotted this at the bottom of my letterboxd search results for Totally Killer.

Was hoping it was a slasher flick in the Air Bud universe. Alas it was Robert Stack’s final film, apparently.
Poster for the movie Killer Bud, 4 people side by side with distorted balloon heads, the son from Married With Children is holding a lighter and smoke rises from it towards the title in green, Killer Bud. Above the title are the pictured cast members: Corin Nemec David Faustino Caroline Keenan Danielle Harris Below the title reads “and Robert Stack”
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d
OpenAI, which has announced intentions to invest a trillion dollars in new data centers over the next decade, currently has fewer paid users than the streaming service Peacock... if I'm mathing correctly.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat
Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Love it
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Feels like a smokescreen to quiet critics of the climate destroying “AI” bubble.

Like Musk pitching cities on his Boring company to sabotage transit funding. Or promising humanoid robots to juice Tesla stock, and crewed missions to Mars any day now.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Good luck, Helion. As I understand it no fusion reactor has come close to generating more energy than it uses to ignite the fusion (net negative.) Highly doubt they know something no one else does.

More hubristic than calling LLMs “AI” and predicting the imminent arrival of an AGI overlord.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, gotta flush it out of your system.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a box of colon blow cereal
Alt: Phil Hartman in a shirt, tie, and suspenders eating a nutritious breakfast including Colon Blow cereal, then being lifted as a pyramid of countless bowls rises underneath him.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
Ooh, was that the one down the street from Molly Macguire's/Tin Hat etc?
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
OK, final nostalgia tidbit I promise, just because it brings us full circle back to art on houses:

I could swear there were early Henrys popping up in Frelard a few years before his "public" debut as an artist in 2008 according to wiki.
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
Nice! Ballard/Frelard was my stomping ground in the 00s.

Weird big city/small town vibe. Isolated but 24-hr everything in walking distance: bowling, Denny's, fast food, Walgreens, Safeway? Hattie's was about the only thing on Ballard Ave with a liquor license before the LCB revamped menu reqs?
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
You and me both. Left N Seattle in 2011 after a couple decades bouncing around various dorms/apartments/rented rooms.

Tbf to our Seattle cred, iirc some obstruction was built between the Page House and I-5 that blocks some the view in spots?

No one fact check my cope unless I'm right 😅
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
According to the blog post it was added in 2016 after Bettie was vandalized (ostensibly by feminists decrying exploitation, though I am highly skeptical as to the motives of the vandals, I smell a nimby false flag.)
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
I can't mention Divine and Seattle in the same breath without sharing the Bettie Page House so here you go:
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Birthday, Divine.

Seattlephile cinephiles: check out this bizarro Sleazy Seattle future noir set in Chinatown/ID.

Divine is a popper-sniffing crime boss living in a mansion played by the Seattle Art Museum (now Seattle Asian Art Museum) in Volunteer Park. See some Chihuly shattered!
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Jeff @tacosandhaircut.bsky.social · 3d
Radicalized by a century of American propaganda lol.

Bought in so completely to ideals of truth, freedom and justice that it backfired when I was exposed to reality and wanted to see those ideals upheld, or at least given a sincere attempt.

Which is to say, I think I came from a similar place.