Very sad news. RIP Antonio Lobo Antunes. A true magician of the word. One of the greats.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Hope you are feeling better.
We DO deserve libraries. Palaces for the people.
👨✈️ Former Seattle Sounders midfielder João Paulo has been hired as the assistant coach of the Tacoma Defiance for the 2026 season.
Introducing: Podcast It, Donut! (pr 2)
In a radical departure from our usual content, we’re bringing you 2 weeks of early access to our new podcast project, a first time reader experience of the Dungeon Crawler Carl book series! Spoilers: book 1 ch 6.
Listen now: www.spreaker.com/episode/intr...
FUCK
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
Abolish ICE
“My advice to the ICE agents parallels Tolstoy's to Russian army officers: Apologize to the public and resign.”
— William T. Vollmann, “Among the Discarded of the World: My Journey with William, Seven, Esker and Michael”
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
The recording of today's introductory discussion of the Reading Pilgrimage 2026 group is now available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4u...
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, and Spain have issued a joint statement about the US's military intervention in Venezuela.
elpais.com/america/2026...
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you have a wonderful 2026!
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
I assume that antifa is also antififa.
This footage from USGS shows the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska forming a natural ice dam. As meltwater builds up and suddenly releases, it triggers a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF).
The cryosphere is changing, and with it, the risks we face.
#Glaciers2025
That is a lot of yards for a "linebacker"!
funniest positive outcome of this disaster is wazzu hires jonathan smith for like $500k and lets the offset take care of the rest
If he wins us a conference championship I'd be won over.
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel #Proust (who died #onthisday in 1922) would time and again turn to the visual arts. Explore here the artworks he mentions including paintings by Giotto, Botticelli and Poussin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p... #OTD
This is one of the most important yet least told stories in Seattle over the last 5 years: the steady scaling back of transit service, even as we expand light rail. We need to bring transit back closer to more people.
I will never forgive the greedy freaks who destroyed the PAC-12.
Flipping through the channels looking for an interesting game, which previously would have been something like Colorado-Arizona or WSU-Cal or UW-USC and…there’s *nothing* compelling.
