I. Hernandez

This post is an FYI for city electeds

Writing in a jokey tone to your wife is in fact one of the main benefits of having a wife. Once again, why are you outsourcing the fun part of existence to the machine.

Look at 2005 Wanda Maximoff over here! (jk jk 😘)

Technically she was a Morrison creation!

Yeah, I'm already far more invested in the Outliers kids than most of the Academy X kids that have like, less than one Zaladane worth of appearances.

An Eevee that evolved into a Jolteon.

It also allows space for those occasional times where a writer picks up an underused character and gives them a plot beat or story arc that ends up being a cool part of the canon.

For years, I made up stories for my son about my mysterious past as a real-life Pokémon trainer. Eventually he got older and let me know that he knew I made it all up, but it was fun and special to him. It was fun and special to me too, I'd never let some AI slop generator replace that.

Guys, use your fucking imagination. It is one of the coolest things about being human!

This should be a generational sociopolitical scandal.

This is correct. The moderate/conservative faction has been given every opportunity to prove the superiority of their "return to sanity". The results have been mid-to-bad! If Rob Saka is a return to sanity, then throw on my straightjacket and take me back to the asylum!

The Kentucky whiskey and bourbon industry is on life support due to reciprocal tariffs and general boycott of American goods in places like Canada.

Eight months of that asshole’s stupidity and arrogance was all it took to destroy an entire industry.

Despite all that, we do try to give our kids as much freedom as we can. We always welcome friends over to play. We don't overschedule organized activities. We've started letting my oldest and his friends make short trips to the store for candy and stuff. It can be done! /end

It's not as simple as "just let your kid go to the park and play baseball with friends" when that means crossing arterials where cars regularly speed and risking some old bitty siccing CPS on you because they think you're neglecting your child by giving them a bit of freedom. 4/

The second is busybodies who don't believe it's "safe" for other people's kids to act independently and make a stink about it. Stories of parents being investigated by CPS and having their custody challenged for the "crime" of like, letting their kids walk to a nearby store abound. 3/

The first, and most obvious, is CARS. Bigger, heavier cars with blindspots so severe that drivers cannot see children AT ALL around their vehicles. Lack of traffic enforcement and bad driver behavior. Badly designed streets. Your kid getting run over IS a real risk. 2/

I'm glad they're actually talking to children (if you have kids in this age range like I do, you know how much they prize time for unstructured play with their friends). It's just unfortunate that they ignore two major contributing factors toward limiting unstructured play. 1/

The campaign mailers I received were strongly anti-Harrell more than anything else.

I’m excited about the prospect that Judge Pooja Vaddadi will soon be able to do the job voters elected her for. Davison’s disenfranchisement of Seattle’s voters has its end on the horizon.

Thread from my colleague. ICE is grabbing thousands of persons off the street who look or sound Hispanic but for whom there's no reason to suspect lack of lawful immigration status or any other grounds for detention. Courts have ruled that's illegal under the Constitution.

I will gladly gerrymander the Del Taco franchise boundaries to my personal geographic advantage.

Younger-than-me Seattleites, I beg you, get your fucking ballots in!

Being in this country legally hasn't stopped anyone from getting arrested and detained by ICE goons. As crushing as it would be, I wouldn't send my kid. Missing the Big Tournament isn't as bad as being disappeared to god knows where by armed, masked thugs.

*via public transit

When I was in college 20-ish years ago, I could fairly easily and directly get to my best friend's house on the edge of "downtown" Snohomish from the U-District, even on a Sunday night. It was less built up back then, but all the agrotourism stuff was there. I thought it was remarkable for the time.

Just when you thought that the other site couldn't get any less redeemable.

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

My BIL is your typical low-info Trump voter who gets all of his "news" from Facebook memes. It's passive enough that we can get along with each other. My SIL always partners up with conservative men and then complains about them being condescending and disrespectful to her 🤷‍♂️

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

Do you follow baseball? Do you not follow baseball? It does not matter. Please listen to Phillies announcer John Kruk, with the team up by ten runs and not much happening, talking about what he learned at the Franklin Institute. You will not be sorry.