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okay everyone I'm gonna disappear from the internet for a few days to play deltarune without spoilers

HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN.

eventually voting against Tanya Woo will become an annual Seattle tradition, like SeaFair

there’s a valuable lesson here for democrats in that voters want politicians to be bold and clearly stand FOR SOMETHING but i have a feeling democrats will continue opening TACO trucks in front of the white house or begging for war with iran instead sadly

Bridge Types xkcd.com/3097/

I'm not otg so please correct me if I'm wrong but from vids it sure looks like ICE showed up in force in MPLS, but the community reaction was so swift they completely failed to arrest their targets, arrested a few protestors and fled, which is replicable countrywide and a huge fucking win

These people all have families and neighbors. Their faces are exposed. They should never feel comfortable in our neighborhoods.

A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?" It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face

Note: Now that the Pride flag is an official city government flag, many schools and cities across the US with Pride flag bans can now fly it. Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags. And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.

BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

Gentle reminder that you are not required to comment on every Pride Month post to say “I’m just here to watch the bigots freaking out!!” (with or without a Michael Jackson Eats Popcorn gif). You can just say “Happy Pride!” and not put the homophobes front and center.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump's executive order prohibiting transgender people incarcerated in federal custody from receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Deltarune............................................................ tomorrow!

A rural Austrian village of 8,000 people gets 31 trains per day, while Columbus, Ohio, with a population of 913,000, receives none. We don't need a perfect rail system, but we deserve better than this.

At press time, news of Moore’s resignation was quickly being upstaged by a raucous housewarming party for a new home Tanya Woo bought today in Northgate.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I was in Boston the other week, and the biggest thing i noticed was how many more kids were running around outside. Not going anywhere particular, just... being kids, outside. having fun. playing. contrast that with Seattle, where I keep seeing more and more stories about kids getting hit by cars.

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

And this is what I mean about backlash.

I think about this fandub clip constantly

Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

Mountain ermine

“I’m queer” “Queer how, specifically?” “Come back with a warrant”

happy pride month. nolite te bastardes carborundorum

pretty sure that barge is only there so that a boss fight can happen later

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

they call it "deception pass" because it's sunny and hot all darn day and then the moment you get there the sun goes behind clouds and the temperature drops to like 12 degrees

I spent over a decade writing about such "common sense" reforms. They engender so much push-back, so much hateful backlash against those trying to support such reforms, and so many lies. And then, they do not work. This is how I got to abolition.

"It'll just die a whimper," Lavingia told Reuters. "So much of the appeal and allure was Elon." He said he expected DOGE staffers to "just stop showing up to work. It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in four months." all of the Silicon Valley pathologies on display at DOGE

Seattle’s Moore Withdraws Ethics Bill after Public Outcry Over Conflicts The proposal won’t be voted on in June 3 council meeting but could be reconsidered later

Now that we know the TACO thing bugs the fuck out of Trump, a coherent left media machine would swing into action & make sure that every single left-of-center person on a TV shore or podcast used that term repeatedly for the next several weeks, making it inescapable.

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

finding out donald trump genuinely is enraged by this is amazing and i hope people keep pressing him about this so we can destroy the US by basically playing chicken with him

at some point I think smartphone companies will stop releasing their phones as numbered products (e.g. iPhone 7) and start numbering them like car models ("a 2023 iPhone") since they're already going for the nearly yearly release with only incremental upgrades, it seems like a natural progression

DELTARUNE in one week.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

When you're at a point where there's just no way your action game based on a world-famous billion-dollar box office super hero character can realistically be financially viable you have to ask what the games industry is doing, man.

Phew! City Always Has Enough Seattle Police Officers Around to Harass Queer Community: tinyurl.com/3wh56cxc

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

the craziest believe transphobes have is that children are unable to have introspective thoughts or ideas of self

i like bluesky because people click on links and read my work and fewer people tell me to kill myself here. and i learn new stuff about how people have sex every day

something that I think explains an enormous amount of the asymmetrical information environment online is that the hardcore right wing can achieve many of its goals through the current Republican Party and the left cannot do the same through the Democrats