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David W Stoesz he/him

@davidstoesz.bsky.social

Scripter of "Pen & Eye," a cartoon about homelessness and Seattle's crimes against the poor. Interested in networking with other progressive communicators, activists, and journalists, esp. in the PNW. Hail Satan. https://penandeye.substack.com/archive

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If Harvard pulls a similar agreement, they will have to try and actually enforce it because I will not comply and I will seek appropriate remedies in state court. I'm not willingly giving up a right I've had for a decade because a pedophile rapist is extorting our university.

06.08.2025 04:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 242    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brown University is โ€˜functionally inaccessibleโ€™ to transgender students after Trump settlement โ€œEveryone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

06.08.2025 03:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1296    ๐Ÿ” 526    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! ๐Ÿ’€

06.08.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5593    ๐Ÿ” 1346    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 181    ๐Ÿ“Œ 312

Same

06.08.2025 04:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Spin Doctors singer

Spin Doctors singer

You couldn't turn on your radio any time night or day without hearing this little fucker singing Little Miss Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong

05.08.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seattle voted four times to extend the monorail, and voted against funding a stadium for the Mariners. Guess which one we got?

05.08.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because the problems, oh, they hate the problems, but nowhere near as much as they hate solutions they didn't think of themselves.

05.08.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For Klein Minds, solutions are never the obvious ones that people most affected by bad shit have been screaming about forever--no, they're something finer meshed, more nuanced and judicious, graspable only by rational, dispassionate Klein Minds such as theirs.

05.08.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Someone flipping off a Bruce Harrell TV ad

Someone flipping off a Bruce Harrell TV ad

05.08.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think there's something larger and darker going on with Egg-related businesses not opening. Egg Slut in Melrose Market has been "coming soon" all summer. Makes you think.

05.08.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A hydrogen powered airship staffed by therapists that travels to sad trans people's homes, treats their trauma, and leaves them a cute tote bag full of money

05.08.2025 12:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Yeah, it's not like their reasons for non-endorsement are bad-faith genocide-enabling talking points, or indicative of a gerontocratic hostility to young candidates and effective policies, and a complete failure to meet the fascist moment.

04.08.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Up all night to get lucky

04.08.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œYou donโ€™t do it arbitrarily,โ€ Harrell said. โ€œYou look at the traffic count, you look at the impacts on transit, you study other areas where itโ€™s done, and so itโ€™s time now.โ€

It's 2025. We wouldn't want to save lives arbitrarily.

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04.08.2025 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Residents along Rainier Avenue want changes on dangerous street Activists rallied Wednesday night along what they call Seattle's most dangerous street. Rainier Avenue South averages one car crash a day, about 1,200 in the last three years.

Why hasn't @mayorofseattle.bsky.social made Rainier Ave S safe?

May 20, 2015: www.kiro7.com/news/residen...

"When Seattle city councilmember Bruce Harrell came by the rally, he saw the problem for himself ... KIRO 7 asked Harrell why it is taking so long to make Rainier safer." 1/

04.08.2025 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I totally agree. No one can name a single masculine quality that isnโ€™t just โ€ฆa quality.

03.08.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Wow, this one really got the crowd riled up!

03.08.2025 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Venus if you will ....๐ŸŽถ

01.08.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you look closely youโ€™ll notice that the Venn diagram of straight men who think left spaces should help them get laid and straight men who think leftists talk too much about sexual assault and patriarchy is nearly a perfect circle.

01.08.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So I guess Brown banning all trans students is not a major news story

01.08.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess I just have not been convinced that there's any such thing as masculinity. It feels like an inherently reactionary category.

01.08.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am not piling on! I'm genuinely interested in masculinity. But what I don't get about your (or anyone's) listing of healthy masculine traits like competence and accomplishing good, etc., is how they are distinct from just basic human virtue. How are any of those things distinctly "masculine"?

01.08.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Women are genuinely in an emergency, and the obsessive focus on menโ€™s wounded sense of gendered entitlementโ€”theyโ€™re not getting laid enough!โ€”adds insult to these injuries, because it suggests that people like it that way.

01.08.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 707    ๐Ÿ” 124    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's 2017. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have a batch of killer songs for a potentially classic new Fleetwood Mac album. But Stevie's not into it. So instead it becomes this excellent but overlooked gem.

31.07.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds like a problem!! Good thing the NY Times always contextualizes his statements with his history as a liar.

31.07.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most of the names thrown out here don't really meet the "respected in metal, pop, country and rap" criterion. And then you threw in songwriting which is not exactly the same question. But of all the artists mentioned I think the strongest contenders are Elton John and Prince.

31.07.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Holy fucking shit this is SO violent. My god. Absolutely evil and vile.

30.07.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 563    ๐Ÿ” 150    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

And the following language: "Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action."

30.07.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 130    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

I disagree with many things he'a said but the one that impacts my life personally is one i really disagree with to the point where i would rather vote for someone else. That is not canceling, it's politics.

Grow up, stop whining. Win elections.

30.07.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 499    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So true, what's a little abandoning trans kids to bigotry and death between friends?

30.07.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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