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Alycia Ramirez @alyciaramirez3.bsky.social · 1d

Both We 💚 Seattle's board member, Tom Wolf, & WHS are publicly calling for #Trump to send the national guard in to invade San Francisco.

It's not funny, and it's not a game, yet here we are.

It took only 10 months for We 💚 Seattle to be all in for authoritarianism.

The image shows a tweet by T Wolf with a video of a person outdoors against a backdrop of tall buildings. The tweet comments on crime in San Francisco, suggesting the removal of organized drug dealers to resolve issues. The video caption humorously critiques local politicians. The tone is assertive and critical.

A reposted tweet from Elon Musk emphasizes the need for a specific solution, referencing T Wolf's tweet highlighting San Francisco's fentanyl crisis.

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 1d

Reign FC also introduces the Lu Barnes Award, presented by Paula’s Choice Skincare, to annually honor a Reign FC player who exemplifies integrity, leadership and excellence - with captain and club original Lauren Barnes recognized as the first-ever recipient

A very hasty photoshop of Lu Barnes giving Lauren Barnes an award.

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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Seattle School Board voted down a pilot program to bring a cop to Garfield High School, but they also foiled an internal plan to use education dollars to pay for 15 cops at Seattle schools, according to public records. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Seattle School Board Foiled City’s Covert Plan To Pay Cops With Education Dollars

Last week, the Seattle School Board voted 5-2 against reviving the School Resource Officer program at Garfield High School, which would have overturned one of the few, lasting policies won during the ...

www.theburnerseattle.com

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 23h

The second part of Louise Weard's epic comes to The Forum THIS SUNDAY with @seattletransfilmfest.org ! CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY ii: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS trades slice-of-life sensibilities for a world of chaos that can be described as "trans AFTER HOURS on speed."

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to Harrell who has finally built more shelter than he lost.

13 units in four years.

He promised 2000 & says he built 3000. The Seattle Times shows he is lying, taking credit for others’ work, & for moving tiny homes (counts each move as an opening!)

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

www.seattletimes.com

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 1d

13 seasons. Countless memories. One legend. 💙

Join us this Friday as we celebrate the legendary career of Lu Barnes!

🎟️ rgnfc.com/3L8ez4F | #ThankYouLu

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 1d

Hal Hartley’s first film in a decade, WHERE TO LAND, plays one more time at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center on Wed.

"A shaggy & spellbinding ode to shifting gears despite everyday life’s crippling opposition to change.” Glenn Heath Jr., The Film Stage

grandillusioncinema.org/film/where-t...

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 2d

I think that if Seattle is going to have a digital wall with an interactive ten foot tall AI representation of anyone, it should be Rob Saka. Any AI "hallucinations" would be indistinguishable from his pronouncements at city council meetings, so it'd be both appropriate and immediately deliverable.

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 2d

Spray paint on a fence a metal chained fence that reads Bitchopher Columbitch instead of Christopher Columbus

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 2d

A cornerstone of our club. A champion. A leader. A Club OG. 💙

Seattle Reign FC captain Lauren Barnes will retire at the end of the 2025 @nwslsoccer.com season, concluding her legendary 13-year career as a league and club original. #ThankYouLu

Read ➡️ rgnfc.com/3KSdrC9

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Blur
🎵
Cyril Shaps
Played mostly doctors
Cyril Shaps
And dotty professors
Cyril Shaps
And the Archimandrite
Cyril Shaps
In a teacosy

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Cyril Shaps, born this day in 1923.

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 2d

There are a lot of folks who should feel some sense of accountability. Most of them won't.

Screenshow of a YouTube video of the Downtown Seattle Association's "State of 2022" panel discussion featuring Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, then KCHRA CEO Marc Dones, and Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson, hosted by Brandi Kruse.

Screenshot from YouTube of Brandi Kruse's "undivided" podcast from late 2024, featuring Kruse and Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth (D3).

Videocall style photo from KUOW of their Week in Review from 2021 featuring Brandi Kruse, KUOW host Bill Radke, Crosscut editor Knute Berger, and then Crosscut reporter now Seattle Times reporter David Kroman.

Photo from Cascade PBS from this year's Cascade PBS Ideas Festival with Brandi Kruse, senior FIRE fellow Nadine Strossen, and Reason editor Nick Gillespie.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 3d

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social:
"Jackboots"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

Diane Keaton could have directed Annie Hall but Woody Allen could NEVER have directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Belinda Carlisle

youtu.be

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 3d

This cartoon is from Oct 2022. These two clowns are now begging the president to invade the city they've based their careers on slandering (neither of them actually live here). What a world.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 5d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 5d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 4d

Mariners win

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 4d

History maker ✨

With tonight's appearance, Lauren Barnes is the first-ever player in NWSL history to reach 250 regular season appearances. Congratulations, legend! 👏

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 4d

🏳️‍⚧️ STUFF IS HAPPENING AND YOU'RE INVITED 🏳️‍⚧️

Starting October 16th, the first annual Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival kicks off at Northwest Film Forum and continues through the weekend!

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 5d

They should give him the Jobel Piece* Prize, for being a narcissistic sex pest with *unconvincing hair.

Jobel, bewigged creep from Dr Who Revelation of the Daleks.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6d

imagine wearing a 7th doctor jumper to a tory conference in a world where this story, and many other stories, exist

"Helen A was intended to be a caricature of then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[4][5][2] Hancock stated that she "hate[d] Mrs Thatcher with a deep and venomous passion".[3] In 2010, Sylvester McCoy said that the production team was "a group of politically motivated people and it seemed the right thing to do. [...] Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered." Andrew Cartmel, the story's script editor, said that he "was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher" and was "delighted that came into the show."[4][5] The Doctor calling on the drones to down tools and revolt was intended as an allusion to the 1984–85 miners' strike and other industrial disputes in then-recent memory.[5] Most of this element was eventually toned down"

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 6d

How does Designers & Dragons Origins have an inspiration in Doctor Who?

This is a thread from earlier today, about how the I, WHO series of books about the Doctor Who Novels was an inspiration when I started collecting my Dungeons & Dragons product histories into books. (Click through for more.)

Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 6d

(The interviews will have the whole story.)

But when I set about putting those product histories into book volumes starting in 2020, I had a new inspiration: a series of books called I, WHO.

www.madnorwegian.com/185/books/do...

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