seattle local

[marmaladethemagus]

Hot rat summer has come early this year

Cooking Fist on Steam

Cooking Fist is a cooking-fighting game with NO health bars. You’ll have to cook up the best dishes to claim victory. Fight with a diverse r

Thank GOD

[demonius-darkblade]

hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed 

[clayboy2000-deactivated20210427]

To be perfectly fair, bugs bunny would also love taking money for starring in anti-weed propaganda and then using said money to buy weed

[violencevoyager-deactivated2022]

bugs bunny is not real 

[zvaigzdelasas]

[xylophonicsynapse]

[spock-shock]

OK so Andy Weir doesn't understand Star Trek on any level at all huh [link]

[marmaladethemagus]

Yeah i mean this checks out. Still amazing hard science fiction but it all reads like "hey wouldn't it be cool to solve a problem"

[marmaladethemagus]

Also adding what an excellent example of the fact that what is seen as divisive or political is not an inherent aspect of the issues, but rather a product of the time. It is really rich that he is mentioning star trek because star trek was incredibly progressive for its time period.

The first generation star trek featured the first interracial kiss on television (technically debatable depending on your definition of interracial but at the very least it was the first on the lips kiss between a white person and a black person). This episode was heavily restricted in the american south and on BBC (although they cited that the depictions of violence were why) and aired only a year and a half after the ban on interracial marriage was overturned.

Also I cannot reiterate enough how groundbreaking the first generation of star trek was. It was a major TV show that depicted a diverse cast with positions of power (yes, with a white man at the helm). Like this is the year MLK was assassinated, and star trek had a black woman and an Asian man in leadership positions on the bridge (acc. to Wikipedia this was one of the most prominent roles a black woman had had on a major US tv show up to that point)

[spock-shock]

OK so Andy Weir doesn't understand Star Trek on any level at all huh [link]

[marmaladethemagus]

Yeah i mean this checks out. Still amazing hard science fiction but it all reads like "hey wouldn't it be cool to solve a problem"

[marmaladethemagus]

Emails Reveal Last-Minute Lobbying Efforts to Keep Social Housing off the November Ballot - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett House Our Neighbors, the social housing campaign, posted an email on Instagram Monday that Seattle Metro…

Truly reading through research on homelessness just pisses me off. If you are at the level where you genuinely think I-137 didn't have politicians pushing back on it you don't know what you are talking about.

The fucking mayor sent out fliers with his face on it campaigning for a rival proposition and the primarily center right city council pushed for it to be on the much lower turn out special election instead of the progressive leaning general election.

Here is my source for my claims fyi

Alternative seeks to better align with city housing efforts and build in accountability measures Seattle City Councilmember Maritza Rivera (

https://publicola.com/2025/02/11/emails-reveal-last-minute-lobbying-efforts-to-keep-social-housing-off-the-november-ballot/

Also crazy work that Tanya woo calls herself a "low income housing provider". She is a known slum lord

[marmaladethemagus]

In the middle of researching homelessness and the solutions to homelessness in order to post on one of my many side blogs because I am a data slut and love those numbers and primary sources but holy shit its all a minefield.

I will see sources I generally respect decently, but they lose their absolute shit when it comes to homelessness and addiction where they will claim unilaterally housing first doesn't work and then the source is just say "look Seattle's homelessness problem is still really bad".

Like I am open to being proven wrong that is why I am reading their stuff but using one city as an example is not really useful. Like there are just so many other factors to apply and cities are complex and have a lot of different forces shaping the landscape (also the qualifications will say dr. So and so health care policy analyst and then just be an MD without proven track record of working with homeless people or education on the issues of homelessness)

I also saw another journalist I usually like say that there are 4 camps when shaping homelessness policy in seattle and then they named socialists who push for everyone to have social housing (idk sure there are definitely people who do), drug addicts who want to decriminalize drugs (i dont think active addicts have that big of a hold on city hall), white liberals who pity the poor, and anarkiddies who don't want rules and want people to pee in the street. Notice that appearently there is no one who advocates for landlords or business owners according to this guy despite the fact that there are a bunch of landlords on the council. But this is the same guy who said that I-137 didn't have any pushback from city hall despite a competing initiative being pushed and the whole election being pushed to a special election to lower voter turnout (and like 5 of the sitting council members and the mayor endorsing the rival bill)

Anyways get your shit together journalists

[selftmademan]

Pissing my girlfriend off by calling Tumblr posts "tumbles" which is probably not new but is very funny to me

[marmaladethemagus]

I mentioned to my girlfriend that I posted a new tumble and she exclaimed "STOP CALLING THEM TUMBLES" then saw that I was in fact showing her this tumble in particular

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[marmaladethemagus]

My very gentle pushback on this is that I think that college level coursework should be pushed for young people to engage with not because its good for your job prospects or whatever, but because it is good for you as a person. Granted, I am saying this from the POV of college being free because my parents always wanted me to attend university, but I always remember what my dad told me one time when I talked to him about being anxious that the classes I was taking were not specific enough to whatever I wanted to do with my life. My dad told me that the purpose of a liberal arts degree or a college education isn't just about preparing you for whatever job you might get, it is about pushing you to develop more intellectually. It is about forcing you to think deeply, to consider your place in history and to understand all of the complex forces that have led to the world we live in today. It is about making you into an adult who is well informed on the world so you can decide what place you want in it.

I think in an ideal world this would all be part of the education you get in middle and high school and definitely isn't needed to do whatever job, but I think this level of education is really valuable for people's development

[revivivivify]

[liberalsarecool]

Men made decisions to rape with fellow rapists. They decided sexual abuse and torture were bonding experiences.

Language matters. Stop removing men from their active role in raping children.

[dogpuppy]

[littleguysdaily]

[marmaladethemagus]

Reminder: Democrats are complicit

I just spent some time on my "white guy finds out democrats suck too arc" looking into the local WA representatives. I need to go more in depth but holy shit they are bought and paid for. Basically the only good representative we have to congress is Jayapal (of course) and the meh rep we have is emily randall (still takes corporate money but wtv).

silver lining to this all is I have found some pretty cool progressives running in the primaries. For instance, Adam Arafat of district 10 is opposing Marylyn Strickland from the left (Strickland's #1 donor is AIPAC) and Hunter Gordon is opposing Suzan Delbene (WA district 1)

[marmaladethemagus]

My new years resolution: Tech pluralism

idk if there is a better way to describe this, but I am honestly exhausted with the level of control like a couple of companies have over most people. I think this year, I am really going to dedicate myself to investing time and energy into smaller scale things and alternative things.

This especially applies to technology as of late because tech is all pretty heavily monopolized (facebook, insta, shitter, etc). I want to live and work on an internet that doesn't just like a couple companies control everything (and also minimize the use of my user data being sold to the highest bidder).

so yeah please give me suggestions for this

[marmaladethemagus]

Keep the state out of the internet - Washington bill to require ID to access "adult content"

I don't know if I even have to defend why we need to not have this surveillance bullshit in washington state. contact your local representatives HB2112. I will provide the sponsors and link a portal to look up your reps. Please let the sponsors know they should withdraw support and let your reps know to not sponsor this bullshit.

Look up your reps: https://leg.wa.gov/legislators

Rob Chase -District 4 - Position 2

Suzanne Schmidt -District 4 - Position 1

Representative Lisa Parshley District 22 - Position 2

Representative Adison Richards District 26 - Position 1

Representative Lisa Callan District 5 - Position 2

Representative Cindy Ryu District 32 - Position 1

Representative Mari Leavitt District 28 - Position 1

Representative Chris Corry District 15 - Position 1

Representative Carolyn Eslick District 39 - Position 2

[marmaladethemagus]

Hot take: we need to diversify our internet

It makes me pretty upset that there are only a few options on the internet and that we have no say in how those options are run. I get that most websites are for-profit, but I feel like I need to diversity what I see and how I consume information. Anyways looking for alternate social media sites/forums/information pages. Thanks!

[marmaladethemagus]

Sincerely requesting hope posting under this comment about how AI isn't going to destroy everything

basically the title. I am growing increasingly concerned as I start to struggle more and more with identifying AI-generated images, AI-generated articles, and AI-generated images and voices. It makes me feel so isolated because I want to exist on an internet where I can communicate with people. I want to be able to connect with people. I want people to hear me and to hear them too. I don't want to exist as the lone human in a room of AI generated shit and not be able to communicate with a real human person. I guess you could make the same argument about bots but it just makes me feel so alone. I guess it makes me feel better that these algorithms have to be trained on vast data sets so there is theoretically a way you can track it down from the source but holy shit its freaking me out

[marmaladethemagus]

I have finally, once again, reached the understanding that art is very good

Obvious title but every once in a while I find a piece of art (it doesn't even have to be very good) that shows me why I love art. Usually its television or movies, but it can be anything. Anyways watch the episode of Doctor who called heaven sent its very good