Baylor Blair

life in Seattle is pain

Muckleshoot tribal leaders opening the rally at Seattle Center

Pramila Jayapal speaking at the Seattle Center rally

Resist sign with a drawing of the Portland frog, PNW solidarity

Performers dressed as "king trump" and his clown jester. The jester referred to trump as "his travesty"

Protest sign reading "immigrants make America great, immigrants make the Mariners great"

A large blue flag reading "anti fascist, anti racist, always Seattle"

A large crowd gathered in Seattle Center listening to Pramila Jayapal speak. The Space Needle is in the background

Protesters in front of Pike Place Market in Seattle. A large American flag, trans flag, and Palestinian flag are prominent

🧵 Seattle #NoKings, 10.18.25

Protest crowd in front of the Public Market Center sign at Pike Place

Seattle #NoKings wrapping up down at Pike Place

fuck trump, fuck ice, go mariners

Protest crowd along 5th Ave in Seattle

Checking back in from #NoKings Seattle, we've been marching along 5th Ave under the monorail track and the drivers keep honking for us, whole city out here saying fuck trump

Pramila Jayapal getting the crowd fired up

Pramila Jayapal in the house! Crowd is going nuts, nothing but respect for MY congresswoman

Zenia Javalera on a balcony

Zenia Javalera (our local sieu president) getting the crowd fired up! Union power!

Girmay Zahilay above a no kings banner

Girmay Zahilay (running for king co. exec) up next:

"In King County, the only king we recognize is Dr. Martin Luther."

Absolutely packed here at #NoKings in Seattle, starting off with leaders and musicians from the Muckleshoot tribe

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

lego version of me that a student made. little lego man has wavy brown hair and a beard, a flannel shirt, and blue pants.

teaching is great because sometimes students make funny drawings of me and today one of them made a lego version of me!!

the rich he hath sent empty away

the government pays a bunch of people to learn how to repair the infrastructure and then repair it and upgrade it and those people spend that money in their communities and then everyone has a decent quality of life and a pretty country. easy as fucking pie. CCC. we already even did it once.

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

YouTube video by doofsmack It's an integrated computer network and I will not have it aboard this ship

Me trying to explain to my mother why I'm slowly going back to physical media and storage.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

A TRIBUNAL OF BLOOD AND CRIMES
A DISHONOR TO A FREE NATION

an art gallery called Studio 58 in pacific beach, washington. the studio's reader board says "fuck ice," a rainbow pride flag is flying outside the studio, and a trans pride flag is hung in the window. it's a cloudy day

taking in the beautiful scenery here in pacific beach, washington

Washington state Solicitor General Noah Purcell at the No Kings rally in Seattle

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal speaking at the No Kings rally in Seattle

Large crowd at a protest, many signs. One in the foreground says "no kings," another says "elect a clown, expect a circus." Based on the street signs this is at Pike and Harvard in Seattle

Crowd at a protest passing in front of the Paramount Theater in Seattle. The theater sign has an advertisement for Mamma Mia

Crowd at a protest, several people holding American flags and pride flags. One sign in the center reads "masked police are cowardly nazis"