Last I checked, my guy Martin Fowler was just posting photos of trees to his blog.

We’re called bottoms, thank you.

I think you’ve got two types of people doing this:

• penis people who just plain can not be bothered to lift the seat. The types of folks who bumble through life haphazardly, don’t wear seat belts, let dishes pile up, put the sour cream back in the fridge without putting the lid back on, who never bother to wash their feet or legs in the shower because they think the soap that washes down their body will handle it, people who drink the last of the coffee without making another pot. Selfish, but also kinda physically grody.
• vagina people who hover. These people I do not understand.

Vindman is currently favored to beat Republican opponent Doug Ollivant in the November election, according to the Advocate. But one trans woman told the outlet that she’s frustrated that Vindman ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. She said the choice between the congressman and Ollivant feels like a choice between “callous dismissal and active hatred,” but that she felt she would “have to” vote for Vindman anyway.

That’s what you end up with when you let these fuckers slide in the primary.

Calling it: Hugh Jackman is the balloon.

They’re hoping to have an alpha release this year on limited platforms.

I’ve been following the dev progress. As it turns out, making a browser is not easy.

Help us, Ladybird devs. You’re our only hope.

I know the area being discussed in this article very well and spend time in it regularly.

As much as I appreciate KUOW’s reporting here, there are some core facets that I always want to see addressed:

• Speed limits vs actual measured traffic speed (which the article covers),
• Rich data on vehicle speed (ie: more than just single-value medians), in aggregate AND on vehicles involved in accidents, and
• Pedestrian behavior

This last one is key. And before I get yelled at for victim blaming, hear me out. I know these streets. Compared to the rest of the city, this corridor of Seattle has multiple residences designed to support substance abuse recovery (featuring in-house medical care and recovery resources). [ PS: DESC rules; all my homies love and donate to DESC. ]

As a result, compared to the rest of the city, there are just more people wandering around in the street in this area, many unemployed (giving them time to be out and about more), without cars, many living with adverse psychological conditions or in various phases of substance abuse suffering or recovery. So it’s not uncommon to see people wandering around, in intersections and in the streets (on foot, scooters and bikes) in wildly varying states of awareness.

What I don’t see in this article, and what I never see in any article about traffic safety in places like this and up north on Aurora Ave, is the inclusion of this population in the overall traffic safety picture. Yes, it’s an uncomfortable topic to navigate, but I think it’s worth the effort. My guess is that the hesitance to mention this is to avoid the public’s knee-jerk reaction to dump blame for traffic safety woes onto an already beleaguered and victimized minority. That sucks, and I don’t want to do that.

So how to do we make these streets less deadly, knowing that we’ve got an everyday higher-than-usual population of folks occasionally staggering around into streets and intersections (without the shitheel “just ship 'em away somewhere” answers)?

I don’t have a good solution for this, but we’re never going to come up with one if we continue to ignore this part of the picture. Slowing down traffic is definitely part of it, but I think coming up with a smart streetscape design that’s aware of this pedestrian challenge and makes some attempt to accommodate for it should be in there as well.

I generally try not to use vernacular not of my generation, but…

based.

The headline is a bit misleading here. I watched the video of this interaction (see below) and the only struggle the AG had was talking over the shouting protestor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JSMv6CiN0&t=1766s

But I get the protestor’s anger. Her defense amounts to platitudes that don’t impact trans folks ability to get care. It’s hunky dory if it’s legal for patients to receive that care locally, but what happens when every hospital and doctor stops providing that care? The patients who need the care are fucked. The commonwealth is expected to take those hospitals and doctors to court to compel them to provide care under MA’s shield law… but they’re not.

Also, “give me list of names of people who aren’t getting care” is a violation of HIPAA laws (considering AG coms from the public become matters of public record), not to mention the worst kind of message to send to a persecuted population.

“Make a list of yourselves and give it to me.”

It’s not like that sort of thing has ever gone wrong.

We got our own version of these (with actual measurements rather than playful names) for measuring out cat medication. They’re really great.

Go get 'em, girl!

tl;dr: You don’t get one.

Why? Several reasons:

1. The companies you purchased from aren’t legally required to,
2. The accounting would be difficult,
3. Companies can easily claim they never increased prices in the first place (eating the cost), and
4. Companies pinky-swear to “pass the savings on to you” in the future.

If you insist on being the person to play with the fire, please, for fuck’s sake, know what you’re doing.

Understand that the 2ft wide wet uncured stump you found in the woods will not burn no matter how hard you try. Smoke is not a sign of success.

Happiness (1998)
Fail Safe (1964)
Strawberry Mansion (2022)
Sirāt (2025)
The Last Circus (Balada triste de trompeta) (2010)
Mandy (2018)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Rubber (2010)
Reality (2015)
R100 (2013)
Violence Voyager (2018)
Perfect Blue (1998)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Upstream Color (2013)
Riddle of Fire (2024)
Weapons (2025)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Hardcore Henry (2016)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Substance (2024)
any/every Ari Aster film

That’s enough for now.

“When we hired those men to abduct you as a teenager from your bedroom as you slept to haul you away to a Christian indoctrination camp in another state in a grotesque attempt to destroy your personal and sexual identity, your belief that this qualifies us utterly psychopathic people unfit to be parents is a complete misunderstanding of our intent. We simply wanted you to be closer to God’s love.”

Progressives are terrifically creative at coming up with new language. We’re so good at it that we freely abandon old phrases the moment the right picks them up as pejoratives.

I say stop. Woke is great. Also start marching on defund the motherfucking police again.

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Correction: consumer grade machine-extruded text will be watermarked.

Machine-extruded text generation controlled by government entities, fascist regime propaganda outlets, capitalist interests and basically anyone else with a ton of money will be welcome to bulldoze venues of public debate with as much un-watermarked thought-slop as they care to generate that will be virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.

Imagine layers of public influence campaigns, all conjured by LLMs, with agents A/B testing rhetoric constantly for success and efficacy.

I’m certainly not a therapist or any kind of expert on domestic abuse, but I found some strategies on what to do about it:

• confront the abuser (if possible)
• write down exactly what was said to you and when, and also when you asked them to stop. Even if it’s been a while, start counting now.
• talk to a mental health provider or support group

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/verbal-abuse