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Jen
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Fat lady with glasses & curly hair near Seattle. Have inhaler will travel. She/her. Pushing 60.
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Federal Judge Permanently Bars #Shitler From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration, finding that #Shitler had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
www.nytimes.com
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I'm so irrationally frustrated by this. They live in West Seattle and decided to buy a condo in downtown Seattle as a second home? Because they don't like the suburbs for a second home even though they like the idea of somewhere warmer and dryer? What?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Portland or Seattle? A Senior Couple Wanted an Urban Getaway for About $725,000.
After years of driving to a California home for vacations, two 'committed Pacific Northwesterners' wanted to be in a downtown area with shops and restaurants.
www.nytimes.com
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Stay away from Seattle, they said. It never stops raining, they said
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Look at this baby! Just look at her!

I love my ferals and scaredy babies, but it's really nice to have friendly tiny kittens sometimes.
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God knows how many times this has happened: Zero.

Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist.

Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
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$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this
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me explaining daylight saving time to the cat
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Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
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Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).

Humans shouldn't need to work to live.

We are not work machines!
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.

morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
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Well, he isn’t helping 42 million Americans who need Snap benefits restored, he isn’t helping reopen the government by negotiating with Democrats, he isn’t working on Canadian trade deals or Ukraine peace deals so why not help a super racist, famous Maga guy?
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This is just reporting. This is what headlines in the New York Times and your local paper should look like every day. The New Yorker should be publishing stuff like this, only with an umlaut thrown in occasionally for some fucken reason.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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#OnThisDay in 1971, Seattle voters approved an initiative to preserve Pike Place Market. historylink.org/File/1426
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trying to milk the last few breezy fall days in Seattle before the long dark
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the most "I'd like to speak to the manager" anyone has ever I'd-like-to-speak-to-the-managered
Healthcare but only for my friends
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
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(The trope is Elephants never forget especially if you've harmed them)
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I remember ~3 years ago seeing a thing on the news about a farmer that was training an AI thing to identify weeds and zap them with a laser hauled behind a big tractor. That seems a much better use of AI than "replacing a job someone might want."
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This, and recall, one of the major reasons for the spike in opiates consumption starting in the 90s in the Rust Belt/Ohio River watershed was a 1-2 punch of factories closing & abandoning a workforce with decades of repetitive stress injuries AND no access to rehab/health care until Medicare.
“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.
Even if society provided the food/shelter level needs for everyone, humans also need to perform useful work just for basic fulfillment. The vast majority of people cannot sit around all day letting AI and robots do everything.

(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
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All the whites crying about Bad Bunny wearing a dress somehow didn't spontaneously start sucking dick during Mrs. Doubtfire I wonder what the difference might be.
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Fascist MAGA leadership intentionally making everything as much worse as possible now working to keep people as hungry as possible.

This rule was put into place to keep grocers from _over_-charging SNAP recipients. Now here we are: weaponising rules […]

[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
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"I mention I only have three kids on my campaign website even though I actually have four. Seattle needs a mayor who has enough financial influence to never bother acknowledging their own kid’s existence again if they don’t fit nicely enough into the narrative."
Harrell Argues Seattle Needs Mayor Who Can Afford Enough Childcare to Forget Own Child Even Exists: tinyurl.com/2sjh2ca5
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Yes. Of course. I thought we all understood this from Day One.
Is it possible Trump simply doesn't want the government open, period, and has no intention of trying to open it back up at all?
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SNAP benefits didn’t need to stop.
 
There are federal dollars to keep SNAP going, even in a shutdown. Trump is REFUSING to use it. 
 
The courts have ruled that Trump needs to get November SNAP benefits out the door for Americans in need.
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The Trump admin. has justified cuts on fiscal grounds: The federal budget deficit is massive; the Social Security retirement system could soon become insolvent.

But the disability program is paid for, via payroll taxes, by its own trust fund, separate from the one for the retirement program.
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
www.propublica.org