Reposted by the chesecake factorPeter Collinson @petercollinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Treating scientists and discovery the way rapacious investors demand quarterly 'growth' is definitely the wrong approach. Irrational. Absurd. Stupid. 0246 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorGuy Oron @guyoron.net · 15/09/2026NEW: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has released a new gun violence prevention plan after weeks of criticism from big business. Key components include empowering the City’s recently expanded CARE Department and keeping investments in youth services. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/news/mayor-k...thestranger.comMayor Katie Wilson Presents Gun Violence Prevention Plan - The StrangerSeattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out a plan to tackle gun violence by better integrating city departments and maintaining services for youth. The announcement comes after weeks of relentless crit... 626267 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism. 151244362 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorHaley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026All I know is what I see, and what I see is dozens upon dozens of executed publishing agreements w/ anti gen-ai clauses. It's not as accepted as the corps selling the ai tools want us to think. From my perspective, the indie industry is fully anti-ai. (thanks to @woodwould.bsky.social for the chat!) 312732 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 13/08/2026note that the investigation runs from 2009 to 2022. in other words this is not a 'trump bad' problem this is a 'surveillance state enables intimate partner violence' problem 04417 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026These two SPD command staff members leaving frees up half a million dollars ($550k actually). That is a similar amount to the amount of $$ that caused the entire universal school meals vs food vouchers for weekends brouhaha last month. 28520 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorpnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The socialist policies aren’t even radical. Social housing? Has been done all over Europe. Free healthcare? A standard in every other country. Free college? Only the places that want to succeed do it and apparently it’s not us! 1977 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist 29877325 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorDr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Everything is being run by people who have absolutely no curiosity about how the conditions of their reality have come to be whatsoever. 010418 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This isn’t an “I told you so”. It actually just breaks my heart. 532946 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorSeattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026After seeing the Federal Way “downtown” station for the first time, I think we could remove “downtown” from the name to save space on the information screens 11534 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid. 7044601023 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorAndrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I know you're facing a lot, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social but hear me out. Make Westlake pedestrian-only again. One block, that's it. 25512 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorKyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net 12556174 0
the chesecake factor @novelistparty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026last thing you see on your #scientology speedrun 000 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorSo Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The Ferguson activists whose faces became known were killed by the police 0454144 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026Most of the social programs that are routinely dismissed in American politics as "unrealistic" or "too expensive" could have been paid for multiple times over by the cost of this war so far, much less the costs to come. It's never the money. 9718181 0
the chesecake factor @novelistparty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026the entire waterfront redesign reflected the notions of people that don't really go there much at all (the one elevator by the aquarium, the tiny playground, the lack of bike connection). it didn't go big enough people in Seattle are hungry for nice public spaces 110 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”thetimes.comThe man who watches Trump all day, every dayAaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’ 654177914824 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"The population of North American birds has dropped nearly 30% since 1970," therefore humans who can't afford property should be banished to the dirtiest, busiest, most dangerous streets in order to "save" privately owned trees on people's lawns, one self-identified homeowner argued 47412 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I don't think most homeowners in massively unequal cities like Seattle realize how much "I am a fifth generation native Seattle resident and I know we need more housing, BUT it needs to be restricted to an area nowhere near me" is an incitement to class war 520027 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs. 178157002842 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are. 268126783349 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such. 10868731730 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorNick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 05/04/2026close.cityclose.cityClose - Travel Time MapClose travel time map - Find neighborhoods where you can walk, bike, or take public transit to the amenities that matter most to you. 051 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorDan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 04/04/2026"I DON'T BELIEVE IN HANDOUTS" That's not something you actually think, that's something rich people told you to make you think working yourself to death was your idea 151149378 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorScience Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: scim.ag/4boPkq8 scim.agU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 18489338 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorAnuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 24/03/2026Rule #1 of leadership. Also the #1 most ignored rule of leadership. 13612 0
Reposted by the chesecake factor聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026You’ll find that every American art industry is pivoting to not making anything, has been for 10-15 years, and there are charts about profit from this that you’re not allowed to argue with. The fake promise of AI has only made this worse. It’s awesome 51066325 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Reminds me how disgraced *Democratic* Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan as US Attorney arrested a bunch of activists for vandalism, searched their homes for zines & black t-shirts, then kept them in solitary for 5 months to coerce them to rat out their friends www.seattleweekly.com/news/what-je... 49336 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Absolutely astonishing. I don't think many people realize the extent to which the scientific enterprise in America has collapsed over the past 14 months. As someone who covered science funding for the first half of his career, it's almost unfathomable this could happen. 813468 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026i am told on here all the time that theres just nothing democrats can do in congress and that its pointless to do messaging bills and yet here is a member of the fucking majority - one of the worst cretins -- doing just that. 11552106 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster 302423753 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026How to win in November 49125223378 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026It's so nice to read a book written 25 years ago featuring a truly flawed and reprehensible protagonist knowing the author never had to come online and spoon feed the story to readers incapable of not treating fiction like a book of manners 171536385 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Regarding Mayor Wilson's announcement today re speeding up emergency housing: she has actually identified some funds ($4.8 million) to be utilized for this purpose. Over the last few years, that has become one of my shorthands in determining how serious an elected leader is about an issue. 0374 0
Reposted by the chesecake factormax k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026second time today filling my water bottles from bathroom sinks, cause in this region where it never gets sustained cold enough to freeze pipes, we turn off our public drinking fountains five months of the year cause… normal people don’t go outside? and god forbid a homeless person gets a drink! 022 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorShare the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 06/03/2026We had the money to do amazing things but instead we kill. 171 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less via sethackerman.substack.com 14448164 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 06/03/2026So you're telling me that everyone now has access to a magical system that can correctly synthesize and answer questions about any doc or code that has ever been written by any person at your company, and deeply critique your design docs and code, but somehow junior engineers are *less* valuable 12798 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10 30675445 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorÓlafur Waage @olafurw.com · 01/03/2026Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist. Scientists are famous oversharers. They can't wait to tell you all the nerdy details. 315130 0
Reposted by the chesecake factorBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 02/03/2026I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off. 10262161446 0
![In their search for the vandals, federal agents raided the homes of known radical activists who were not even in Seattle on May Day. From the Los Angeles Times: “Early on the morning of July 25 [, 2012], residents of a neighborhood in northeast Portland, Ore., were awakened by the sound of a battering ram plowing through the front door of a small house. Inside, the sleepy young occupants stumbled out of bed as FBI agents rushed in with assault rifles … The FBI search warrant listed ‘anarchist’ and ‘anti-government’ literature and material among items to be seized.”
The DoJ and Durkan’s office went to a grand jury to indict the vandals, some of whom are still unidentified, and to compel the activists to tell the jury what they knew about the crime. When they refused to testify—some say to this day that they do not know who committed the vandalism—Durkan’s office convinced a federal judge to imprison the activists, some for up to five months, in an effort to force them to testify against their peers in the Pacific Northwest’s radical left. The grand jury resisters, as the group became known, were granted immunity from prosecution so that they could not invoke their right to silence, which derives from the Fifth Amendment’s protection against forced self-incrimination. Emily Langlie, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Western Washington, defended the DoJ’s actions at the time, saying, “It’s not punitive, it’s coercive,” according to the Los Angeles Times.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreica2xzfpgraqyl4vzkxpjpnzx26ats2ygs4vjdh46nzqlxerz4mwu)
