"This isn't about me; it's about you. You need to know what the best candy is for Halloween. Even though you're 33. With no kids. And totally into Keto."

The Corners of Their Mouth Press will be tabling at Short Run 2025 at the Seattle Design Center in Georgetown on November 1! Details: shortrun.org

Want to understand why users have lost faith in Bluesky's leadership?

Or what the deal with waffles was about?

Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

i'm sorry to do a "here, smell this" with today's cartoon, but Kettle actually did say that
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Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Council-Induced Rage Seizure"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

"I want to talk about money in Seattle politics. But, you might be thinking, we got rid of it with the democracy voucher program, didn't we? Kind of."

I’m the mortician in Richard Scarry’s Busytown. I’m a dog who wears a baseball hat that says “who let ME out”. I drive a dried up footlong meatball sub that’s also a hearse every day.

you can have all the eXpErIeNcE in the world but if all your eXpeRiEnCe is directly in service of wealthy donors and the disastrous status quo, that eXpErIenCe doesn't do the rest of us any good now does it. it's much easier to learn a job than it is to not have shit priorities for the past 20 years

Reprinting past publications isn't fun but I have a soft spot for this one so I just printed 100 more copies of the Public Collectors single sheet publication CHEST WOUND TO THE CHEST. It draws on 75 days of listening to the police scanner in Chicago. halfletterpress.com/chest-wound-...

I’m all set up at Mississippi Pizza for the Spoopy Pop-Up shop! 12-6pm come by and enjoy the beautiful sunshine on this wonderful Portland Saturday!

today is a great day to watch or listen to the latest episode of cancel me daddy. some are saying it's a "banger," others are calling it one of our best episodes ever. either way, you should listen as we talk about the fallout from Charlie Kirk's death and how we move forward. youtu.be/qE3ERIoEQwE

I'm watching the Converge and Fox 13 debate right now. Alas, the actual TV station is glitching out, so I'm watching the feed which is a few seconds behind. Will post about anything noteworthy here!

God, I wish there were an actual protected bike lane on Rainier 🙃

Starbucks Cancels Pumpkin Spice Season After Cinnamon Unionizes: tinyurl.com/436ewmrb

It's here! My first post on @beehiiv.com. My URL should transfer over later today. Thank you to @tlpavlich.gay for their help with all the back-end logistics, which Substack's export data makes very difficult. Please consider a paid subscription to support my work, now more than ever:

Last Friday, we hosted a celebration ride in the new Beacon Hill bike lanes.

10 years of grassroots organizing = real urban transformation.

Big thanks to @seattledot.bsky.social and every neighbor who refused to give up.

Together, we can build safer, more accessible streets for everyone.

Going to add this here so more can see it: please see the quoted better table showing the same conclusion here:

Of course, their cited source is literally P.A.R.O.D.Y.

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“The Gothic Web Ring consists of over 640 sites.” [2005]

Doing the Hoboken intersection daylighting tour today. It's actually embarrassing that Seattle isn't doing this at the same scale.

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru

www.anxietyshark.ca/damn-it-john...

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.