Iโm worried for youโand us. Have you considered the possibility that heโs telling you the truth? So say we all.
29.09.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@jeremycaney.bsky.social
Iโm worried for youโand us. Have you considered the possibility that heโs telling you the truth? So say we all.
29.09.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0You can actually be both simultaneously. They arenโt at odds with one another.
28.08.2025 11:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I love transit. I hate selfies. What to do? ๐ฑ (Fine, I guess Iโll find a car.)
28.08.2025 11:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Rory OโSullivan, candidate for Seattle City Attorney. He didnโt make the top two needed to continue to the general election.
Balloons at the election watch party
Katie Wilson for Mayor yard sign.
08.08.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Katie Wilson amongst the crowd.
Katie Wilson with a supporter.
Transit Riderโs Union merch. Katie Wilson in the background.
Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales, who represents District 2.
08.08.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Supporters cheering as Katie Wilson takes the stage.
Crowd, including children, watching Katie Wilson discuss the primary results and her campaign.
Katie Wilsonโs daughter, Josie, celebrating her birthday.
Katie Wilson immediately after receiving the first batch of primary results.
Some photos from the election night watch party when progressive candidate Katie Wilson (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) surpassed moderate incumbent Bruce Harrell in the top-two primary for Seattle mayor.
08.08.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Audio clip from The Opinions podcast episode to provide full quote and context. The entire topic is interesting, but this bit about the co-opting of the body positivity movement is one of my soapboxes, so I was happy to see some discussion about it.
02.08.2025 23:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThe body positivity movementโฆ got co-opted by the wellness movement, and so people stopped using language like, โOh, Iโm doing this to be thin.โ And instead changed their language to: โIโm doing this to be healthy.โ But healthy was always synonymous with thinnessโฆโ โ Jessica Grose via @nytimes.com
02.08.2025 23:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Some interesting context from the researcher who coined the term, via the @nytimes.com Instagram post about the article.
02.08.2025 22:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That seems valid to me, even if Israelโs response is wildly disproportionate and inhumane. October 7th was a clear provocation. Both can be true. Acknowledging thereโs also a historical context and foundation here thatโs not irrelevant.
30.07.2025 23:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0No shade on this episode, but: Nobody should accuse this Supreme Courtโand especially its conservative majority!โas consisting of โRadical Feministsโ, independent of how โTrans Exclusionaryโ they may be. We too often use the term โTERFโ when โtransphobicโ or just simply โbigotโ are more appropriate.
04.07.2025 05:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I was just hoping to double dip. And, perhaps, get some relevant dating advice.
15.05.2025 18:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I love the characterization of ChatGPT as Bullshit as a Service. Though a close second is Mansplaining as a Service.
15.05.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Spill it all out! Weโre here to live vicariously.
14.05.2025 22:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Obligatory!
02.02.2025 08:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Iโm happy someoneโoutside of domestic companies uninvolved in global tradeโis making money off of this news!
02.02.2025 04:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cartoon of Trump painting over words like fairness, integrity, compassion, leadership, etc.
Was inspired to do my first political cartoon today, based on a NY Times photo I saw yesterday.
31.01.2025 21:06 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3Though, I suspect, the association of such rhetoric with Trump has just made it less fashionable to talk about on the Left, while making it more palatable in what was not long ago still referred to as the โParty of Free Tradeโ.
02.02.2025 03:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If thereโs a silver lining: It seems the protectionist faction of the Left peaked during Bernie Sanderโs primary campaign, and perhaps Trumpโs blatant mercantilism has inoculated the Left from such zero sum thinking.
02.02.2025 03:54 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We wonโt be surprised by this weekโs news, as it was a top campaign promise.Itโs nevertheless dispiriting.
What I responded to eight years ago pales next to what weโre seeing todayโwhat I ever even imagined!โthough itโs the culmination of increasingly protectionist rhetoric over the last decades.