Oliver

Katie Wilson Is Seattle’s Next Mayor Somewhere, Bruce Harrell is slamming a table. Katie Wilson is up by 1,976 votes and 0.72 percent of the vote. It’s tight, but we’re outside of recount territory, and it’s mathematica...

It's official: Katie Wilson is the next mayor of Seattle!

Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!

This is pretty unacceptable in a city that supposedly wants to encourage public transit use and promote sustainable transit in general -- and this isn't uncommon

Hyygestank

A still life featuring a black cat, burning incense, a small heart, lillies and bleeding heart flowers.

An Offering

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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...

Important update!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

With new information, I have updated our Email/Phone templates linked below. It includes specific instructions for different Senators.

We ESPECIALLY need people reaching out to these GOP Senators this week--Collins (ME), Tillis (NC), Murkowski (AK)

The Seattle Freeze is real, but is it? Just as some people think Seattle doesn't have good bagels, there's a perception that we're all a bunch of anti-social loners.

Wrote about The Seattle Freeze, which is real, but also isn't.

This is exactly it.

My DnD character, Aveil, and my partner's, Edie. Edie is a short dhampir with very long, dark hair. She is pulling Aveil, a much taller human woman down by a collar Aveil wears around her neck. Aveil looks clearly perturbed, while Edie is very smug.

The tension between a vampire and a vampire hunter

[ #art #dnd #dndcharacter ]

A man says "sometimes, I have a fantast about being lightly grilled." A large set of tongs places the man on a hot grill. "My skin would burn, but it owuld be very pleasurable." He relaxes in the prone position on top of the grill. "And I would compare my grill marks with other grill guys." The man is at a job interview and completes the classic thought "but other than that, I would say my greatest weakness is that I'm a perfectionist."

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Local news deserves high marks for coverage of the doge fallout Reporters are telling gripping human stories, connecting the dots from DC to main street, going beyond acronyms to explain what government agencies do & giving voice to concerns of regular people

@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...

Oliver S. H. Grin Art An art portfolio celebrating queer joy and beauty.

New website!

oliversgrin.carrd.co

This model keeps falling over, rolling around, I mean… very clearly drunk. The levels of unprofessionalism I have to deal with are truly unbearable.

Prints now available! 🥳

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Bloom, an art print by Oliver Grin This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

Thank you!! 😊
Prints are now available! www.inprnt.com/gallery/oliv...

Art nouveau style digital painting featuring a naked trans masculine figure with brown skin, top surgery scars, and a blooming dandelion for a head. The text in the painting reads, “We will bloom”.

“Bloom” — 2025
My spell for this year

#transmascartist #queerart #transart

is there already a u.s. boycott divest and sanction list or app somewhere to help us avoid pro-fascist companies?