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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 6h

hello, president sheinbaum? before you hang up please just hear me out on this one

turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 7h

can someone please ask CMs strauss, juarez, and hollingsworth what branch of government the executive departments belong to i know that seems like a basic question but trust me it may not be for them

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 7h

when i say (somewhat intentionally) inflammatory things like, "bob kettle is making seattle less safe!" this is exactly what i mean! disinvestment in services, education, and other common goods in order to endlessly fund SPD *is* making the city worse, long-term!

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 7h

here's the author more or less explicitly arguing that unduly focusing on law enforcement at the expense of investment in public health, education, and other social efforts is not only unproductive but counterproductive - likely to lead to increases in crime long-term

Picking up on the second point, the decline in crime is unlikely to be sustainable, because our conceptions of safety mechanisms are too narrow to move to the next, lower level of crime prevention. Our dialogue is too constrained. We talk mainly about levels of police manpower and task forces as plausible means to improve public safety. We do not talk about broad prevention levers like education and behavioral health as ways to reduce crime. Doing that requires a philosophical shift.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 8h

you're not down with mr. coolguy mclaborhater either huh?

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 8h

trump admin officials reenacting the plague of 430 BC was not on my bingo card, i admit

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 10h

i've followed this debate as a fan of chicken but you've lost me by excluding hot chicken sandwiches

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 10h

just call them republicans! i don't care what they call themselves, they campaign with TPUSA activists, man!

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 10h

i appreciate one thing about the current budget meltdown these ding dongs are having: they are increasingly incapable of hiding the motivating conservatism underlying their actions seattle's "centrists" are (relatively) queer-friendly republicans and we should just be honest about that!

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 10h

the arguments against this are 1. budgetary (because saka's priorities are bad) 2. unhoused people will use them (because saka's morals are bad) 3. wilson proposed it (because saka's politics are bad) 4. aesthetic (because historic preservation in seattle is anti-human)

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 11h

poor fuck never got to see the rockies in the WS

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

zero chance - i mean, absolutely zero - that cap would support an AL team post-1973 my man grew up watching burleigh grimes and dazzy vance pitch for the brooklyn robins at ebbets field, you think he liked the designated hitter?

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

would make an exceptional bottle episode in some MCU show

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

in the comics he's unfrozen in 1964 so i think there's a reasonable chance he's terribly confused for a season and then (sighs) roots for the lovable losers, the new york mets

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

look juarez is indigenous so far be it for me to wade into her specific critiques of land acknowledgements as a practice, whatever but ENOUGH with the daily reminders that 2/3 of seattle's council treats their job like a game and leaves nearly all of the serous governing to AMR, lin, and foster

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

oh so they do understand bsky.app/profile/type...

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

PSA: petitioning your councilmember is, in fact, exactly an appropriate way to conduct city policy

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 12h

andy this is your pr manager, you're doing great sweetie keep going

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13h

mayor of normandy park* *not a serious place

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13h

i'd be down to just put an asterisk next to the city names (like, "we all know this place is a joke, right"), especially when their mayors keep doing things like this bsky.app/profile/type...

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13h

here is a partial list of traffic violations i witnessed during my 15 minute commute across north seattle this morning: 1/47

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it’s outstanding, i hope you enjoy! (also this was my first adam driver AND oscar isaac film, which rules)

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

lol harris’s closest race since 2010 was a +11.3 margin he won by 22% in 2024 he is not prepared for this

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/10/2026

Sen. Ossoff: "Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen, just like Mike Collins, who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war. How is this war a success, Mike?"

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

me, watching this council debate the budget:

CASSANDRA
[1085] Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! Ah, what way is this that you have brought me! To what a house!

CHORUS
[1088] To that of Atreus' sons. If you do not perceive this, I'll tell it to you. And you shall not say that it is untrue.

CASSANDRA
[1090] No, no, rather to a god-hating house, a house that knows many a horrible butchery of kin, a slaughter-house of men and a floor swimming with blood.

CHORUS
[1093] The stranger seems keen-scented as a hound; she is on the trail where she will discover blood.

CASSANDRA
[1095] Here is the evidence in which I put my trust! Behold those babies bewailing their own butchery and their roasted flesh eaten by their father!

CHORUS
[1098] Your fame to read the future had reached our ears; but we have no need of prophets here.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

like my distant ancestor cassandra, i will continue to shout the truth into the void and that truth is that investing in social services and non-rivalrous public goods yields measurable public safety returns

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

worth noting that 4 of the top 6 factors as identified by this survey of experts (and all 4 of the top 4) do not require increased police staffing and 2 of the top 4 involve better/more efficient provision of social services

Expanded community violence intervention (CVI), community-based efforts to engage directly with people at highest risk for violence, was rated major or limited by 91% of researchers and selected by 64% as one of the top contributors.
Easing pandemic-related social and economic disruption was rated a major or limited contributor by 83% of researchers and was selected as a leading contributor by 51%.
Increased use of focused deterrence, a law enforcement and social support initiative that targets high-risk individuals and groups, drew the same 83% combined rating from participants and was judged a top contributor by 43%.
Increased local government capacity to deliver various social services was rated major or limited by 75% and chosen as a leading contributor by 40%.
Increase in public safety and support resources relative to demand—a greater concentration of resources among a shrinking population of high-risk people—also garnered substantial interest, with 68% rating the factor major or limited and 28% placing it among the leading contributors.
Increase in proactive policing enforcement was similarly rated as a major or limited contributor by 68% of respondents and included as a leading contributor by 23%.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It’s not clear whether AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, or the AI industry in general have gotten too big or too important to fail, but Character’s bankruptcy shows that the runway for second-tier players is over. "

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

we about to find out kelly clarkson owns rhode island fc

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i feel like the thorny problem they should have focused on was "hey man, did you do it?"

No other accusers?
In late summer 2012, Murray, then a powerful state senator eyeing a run for Seattle mayor, organized a meeting at his home on Capitol Hill. Joining him were Reading and Sandeep Kaushik, another longtime political consultant and lobbyist.
They wrestled with a thorny problem: How would Murray deal with his former foster son’s abuse claims should they crop up publicly during a mayoral campaign?
For hours, they war-gamed potential questions from reporters. Murray offered forceful denials, noting Oregon authorities had declined to file criminal charges when Simpson first accused Murray of repeatedly raping him in the 1980s. He also referred to a stack of records he kept that impugned Simpson as a manipulative criminal.
Murray pointed out that news media had opted not to run the story in 2008, after Simpson and another accuser, Lloyd Anderson, threatened a lawsuit and spoke with some reporters.
The consultants left satisfied with Murray’s explanations, and assurances he knew of no other potential accusers.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

sure brandi no one here is controversial at all

Recovering America with Robert Kennedy Jr.
June 15, 2024
Featured Advocate
Full-length documentary exploring America's addiction crisis. Tom Wolf appears as a key recovery advocate alongside Robert Kennedy Jr.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

local democratic consultant apparently fails to realize that he is being a useful idiot for right-wing cranks, and a useless idiot in every other way

We Heart Seattle
@weheartseattle
Oct 10
Thank you for having a conversation with the room and sharing so much of your personal story. The We Heart Seattle Friendraiser events shall continue! Everyone did great. 👍🏼

@BrandiKruse
Brandi Kruse
@BrandiKruse
Oct 10
The people you mention here aren’t the least bit controversial. Don’t play into the notion that they are. That’s part of the problem! Glad you did it, too.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i agree with sandeep that he is a fool and sellout

Sandeep Kaushik
@skaushik100
Last night I did a very un-Seattle thing: I participated in a @weheartseattle panel discussion about some of Seattle’s most polarizing, hot button issues - homelessness and addiction - with people “on the other side” with whom I substantively disagree on some important and consequential things.

I feel like we dipped below the surface of what divides us as we talked about seemingly incompatible approaches like “Recovery First” vs. “Housing First,” which has some value, but even better I also think we just scratched the surface of where we actually (in some instances surprisingly) converged towards some important and potentially consequential opportunities to find common ground.

No doubt @lisadaugaard and I will take some flack for engaging in good faith dialogue with, rather than condemning, San Francisco-based recovery advocate @Twolfrecovery and Washington Policy Center’s Eric Zimmerman, at an event organized by @weheartfounder Andrea Suarez no less, and moderated by @KIROCharlie Harger, but I’m glad I did it.

Naive fool and unrepentant sellout that I am, it seems to me we would benefit from more of these sorts of nuanced and sometimes fraught conversations, rather than dining out yet again on the oh-so-satisfying empty calories of self-righteous condemnation and tribal self-congratulatory groupthink that still dominates much of the menu of Seattle’s civic discourse these days.

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

to be clear guilfoyle should absolutely resign and probably be investigated for this (she won't be because that implies accountability for administration officials) but in the context of this administration soliciting a 6 figure bribe is small potatoes

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

we knew the administration wouldn't stand for this shit because she's not a man

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

meet the paxtons gonna be 35 minutes long

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i want it known i’m rooting for the SEATTLE PILOTS

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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i think i have a clue to that particular error

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