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Pluto posting means you get Planet X’d:
17·18 days agoAges and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
3·1 month agoThe Egyptian is a neat space, but it always seemed like it was held together with spit and duct tape. The seats were uncomfortable and the sound was terrible. It needed a pretty massive cash infusion to bring the place up to being just on-par with other venues in town.
Capitol Hill can certainly support a first-run theater, but if one were to be designed today, I really don’t think it would look like a single-screen 550+ seat auditorium.
Some things that I mentioned in the chat (that are now probably lost to the ages):
- What I really want to hear is each candidate’s plan for when the federal government decides to deploy their storm troopers on our streets, yanking people off the streets and ransacking apartment buildings without warrants (like they did yesterday in Chicago). It’s going to happen, and it’ll be on the next mayor’s watch. Which candidate will approach that problem with the most vulnerable residents in mind, and which candidate will fall over themselves to sell out anyone they can to protect their richest constituents?
- Our “homelessness” problem is really a drug abuse and mental health problem. Nobody would care if there were homeless people living in tents that cleaned up their trash, didn’t shit on the ground and weren’t wandering around high as fuck. It’s those specific behaviors that people hate to see. You don’t address those behaviors by just housing people. The DESC’s model is a good one: zero barrier supportive housing with on-site medical and psychiatric care to help these folks get their shit together. It’s great and it works! Unfortunately, everywhere the DESC sets up shop sees a spike in social problems: crime, drug use, shady characters loitering (ie: selling drugs to people in recovery), traffic accidents and fatalities from people wandering in the streets, etc. And that sucks because it makes residents not want DESC facilities around. I’d like to see that issue talked about in detail rather than platitudes about homelessness and drug use making people sad.
- Office vacancies are high because property owners refuse to lower rents. They’d rather leave buildings empty. The city decays as it’s starved of people and tax revenue. The answer isn’t to squeeze remaining employers with taxes, but to disincentivize stingy property owners from hanging onto vacant properties. Rent it, sell it or get fined. What’s wrong with that strategy?
- Harrell claims to know how to run a police department and that Wilson doesn’t. If he’s running it so well, why is there a staffing shortage? Why did Find It Fix decide to stop accepting parking reports? (spoiler: it was too much police work that they didn’t feel like doing.) Let Wilson give it a spin. I wonder if she’s got the fight in her to call out SPOG for being the whiny babies that they are.
👋 bye bitch 👋
Most of it was available through the Cascade PBS website (cascadepbs.org).
As for their stories, check out this one where they partnered with KNKX to investigate how WA state officials were using Chat GPT to do their jobs by getting their prompts and results through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests:
It’s a fascinating bit of journalism that network news wasn’t going to do. This is the kind of reporting that’s going away.
In retrospect, I probably could have given folks some guidance on the proper messaging for these kinds of businesses. No one is going to give a shit about some random internet person’s partisan screed about where you choose to advertise. Be polite.
For anyone thinking that this idea is ridiculous, I’d invite them to look at the breakdown of revenue sources for Sound Transit:
Financially it wouldn’t be that hard of a sell at all. The knock-on effects would certainly be more challenging to address.
I personally believe that the prospect of getting hassled and ticketed by fare enforcement staff is a legitimate reason we don’t see more people on the trains who are visibly suffering from addiction and homelessness. Because the state and the nation isn’t interested in helping these folks, they’re naturally going to flow into any public space that permits them to exist. And a free, climate-controlled train car with a place to sit down is going to inevitably be one. And that’s going to upset the kind of people who want to not look at, think about or much less share space with folks with those problems.
The answer isn’t to guard the trains to keep the poors out. The answer is to take care of people in need so they don’t need to loiter in a light rail car.
Sadly Sound Transit isn’t budgeted for that.
Make mine shoot country gravy please.
“inevitable”
One of those votes coming from unelected District 2 council-member Mark Solomon.
The city council really enjoys undemocratically appointing people to represent constituents who repeatedly rejected them during elections.
Because everything’s fixed now, right?
RIGHT???
17·3 months agoStack traces are kinda like mimic treasure chests…
Cops got a name match on a credit card that was used by the suspect at Dicks… after they swapped the first and last name, despite the guy reporting that his identity was stolen.
Also after giving the cops authentication credentials to all his personal equipment (!!!) that they could have used to confirm that he was at home during the crimes, but they didn’t.
I hope he sues the ever-living fuck out the city.
Saul Spady—Dick’s Burgers scion, anti-tax election activist (twice over), and KIRO radio fill-in host—has filed an initiative that would criminalize “unauthorized camping and storage of personal property” in unincorporated King County.
Something to keep in mind when deciding where to grab a bite to eat.
Real talk: there is room for some legal enforcement around street camping. I’ve got some RVs in my neighborhood owned and occupied by people who are doing it because it’s cheaper than renting and they can get away with it. They’re not mentally ill or drug users, and they appear to be fixing cars for cash, so they have means. I think there’s room to make laws against that sort of thing without criminalizing people suffering from mental illness and addiction (who need medical care, not jail).
But dopey laws like this aren’t how to get it done.
I really would like to see a fully tally of the write-in results, though I can understand why those would remain hidden unless they reached some minimum threshold.