– The race for King County Executive is shaping up nicely. One note, the longer you struggle with Girmay Zahilay’s name, the greater the side eye.
– I had no idea about Spokane’s Community-Oriented Policing Services but it seems like they have done some questionable things.
– SAM security deserve a fair contract.
– These open threads are often a bullet list, but maybe that’s not the way to go for a city’s legislative agenda.
The Daily Show tackles Black Friday, America’s biggest shopping day
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ It’s Such A Good Feeling Deactivating Twitter & Moving to Bluesky ♬
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This year, avoid launching a genocide by sharing diseases with your hosts.
Pretty checked out right before Thanksgiving.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for more adventures in politics. You are invited to stop by.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
– Boo to the Seattle budget.
– Boo, I say. Boo.
– I’m not one to put much faith in issue polling, but it seems like not popular, so boo.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
John Oliver: TikTok ban
Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
– Happy Friday to all who celebrate. Maybe an introduction instead of an exit?
– The bike and walking path over 520 looks pretty cool.
– Anybody doing Autumn foraging?
– Seems like there could be trouble for Hanford.
– I hope glass recycling doesn’t go the way plastic bags did.
Good morning. I hope you survived the storm. Not too bad on the urban core of Seattle, but your mileage may vary. Anyway, here are some links.
– Still reading these essays in Assigned Media, but goddam. Any trans people reading this, I am glad you’re around.
– Seattle’s budget is yuck.
– Home Depot Unveils 12-Foot Turkey Carcass Skeleton
– Spokane looks to be doing good transportation planning.
– It’s good to have a police accountability agency, but it sure would be great if they did some police accountability.
– Still in need of a proper sign off, but it’s probably still a good idea to wash your hands.
Join us tonight as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for a pre-bomb cyclone drink, with festivities and discussions about all things politics. Please stop by if you can.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
– NDA’s for renters. What will asssholes think of next?
– HA was once a preeminent spot to learn about school closure. This round we can leave it to others to look for solutions.
– I don’t know what the right thing for a library asked to host bigoted organizations is. But I can say with 100% certainty fuck transphobes.
The Onion: Scientist explains how climate crisis would be averted if Greta Thunberg just tried a little harder
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
The Onion: Expert explains why, essentially, you’re fucked
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
– I suspect that it will be a theme of these open threads, but it’s tough to know how much Washington should do on its own and how much should be deducted to opposing awful things from the Federal government.
– Info Wars is good now. What a world.
– Algorithms have been pretty bad for the Internet.
– I have mentioned it before, but if you’re new to BlueSky and inexplicably looking for me, there you are. Darryl and Goldy are also there.
Between the election and Veterans Day, I haven’t posted one of these in a while and frankly, I have too many tabs open.
– The attacks on transgender people are not just a metaphor.
– Downtown Spokane is doing better than the naysayers suggest.
– I somehow got into my head that the new station on the 1 Line was already called 130th, but apparently there are 4 finalists.
– More and more people are taking the G Line.
– Welcome to the high minimum wage club, Everett.
– Seattle looking into using a King County facility in ways the county isn’t going to do?
– Also, Washington has shut down the vaccine locator. You should still get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible, but it’s no longer a struggle to figure out where to find a vaccine. So do I need a new closing?
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for both celebrating electoral success in Washington state and lamenting losses nationally. Please stop by if you can.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
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