Sam ICE.is.scary.enough🎃 Machkovech

I've dreamed my entire career of writing an article like this. New in today's @nytimes.com: My profile of Tetris creator (and Seattle-area resident) Alexey Pajitnov, on the games, attempts, and failures he's worked on in the 40-year shadow of his most famous game. (Upshot: He's still designing.)

so, kind of what Omar's father was accused of, but in this case, the paperwork snafu actually happened in the year 2025, not (allegedly) in another country in duress decades ago - we should expect an even *swifter* WH and DOJ response, riiiiight?

Moving, brisk, and inspiring. I highly recommend Ke Huy Quan's memoir.

#ws by which inning will Tampa Bay sub Jose Canseco as a pitcher

someone save this on-the-nose metaphor for an eventual sports-betting scandal: the green-screen ad for sports betting is higher visual priority than the athlete's arm

#seattle the utter comedy of having a dedicated "Find It, Fix It" app, only to learn it can't be used to report the issue I most consistently run into in this city. @mayor.seattle.gov got any ideas about if or when this might be addressed? or do we all get to park illegally now

I cannot even with Elmo doing a Lorne Michaels impression "with Paul... and Paul... and Snuffleupagus"

so incredible in Coyote V Acme and The Day the Earth Blew Up, gone way too soon. RIP

this is why I can't add alt text to mobile posts until further notice, someone pls correct the vibe in @bsky.app's vibe coding asap

pretty good inspo for a sci-fi novel, thx Telegram spammer

voting well ahead of election day is cool be cool

Don't Musk With Texas.

fyi to my South Seattle friends: a simulated plane wreck exercise is taking place right now near Boeing Field, as context for whatever smoke/wreckage/whatever may be going on near there

People’s lives and families are being wrecked to feed the propaganda beast that animates the Trump administration and the movement that supports it. Nowhere is there evidence of large numbers of non-citizen voters, so the Trump admin creates a spectacle to prop up the illusion.

Yes. This is disgusting. The Trump admin manufacturing the evidence to support their conspiracy theories of widespread non-citizen voting. They arrest a tiny number of people (arrests crafted to draw attention), at least some of whom having no idea of the crime they’ve been accused of.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

looking for: a support group for people who inexplicably remember post-Nirvana grunge-lite songs in the middle of the day for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, my brain scrolled to Silverchair and hit "SHUFFLE" 😔

I just watched an anti-Talarico ad on NBC in which a fictional Texas parent alleged that Talarico would charge parents with "child abuse" if they didn't let their young kids explore gender transition therapy? Is that the best Musk can pay for in a down fucking economy?

based on Tim and Epic Games' recent trajectory, the easy headline for this game's changes will be F_AI_L GUYS

This was likely mass reporting by inauthentic accounts - a common tactic of 4ch/gator scriptkiddies. It's a different kind of suck than assumed... but it COULD be regulated via pressure on platform holders to open their moderation tools to regulator scrutiny. Opacity is Meta's unearned edge.

My first act as President would be to push for a reaffirmation and redefiniton of Net Neutrality. The American highways and biways of a nationwide ISP infrastructure are ultimately the PEOPLE'S to be regulated and opened / closed as citizens see fit. This is currently 100x as important as *roads*.

When Musk took over Twitter, the Guardian asked me for a piece. I wrote about how Musk, Trump and Putin would form an anti-democratic alliance and it would take popular civil resistance to topple them. They didn’t publish the piece. Anyway:

Regulators also sought to give Didier three stern wags of their finger, but the SPD Union negotiated that down to a single wag. (I'm joking, but ECB is not, with yet another incredible, exclusive report on Seattle's police force.)

0.45 Scaramuccis!!

Review: a brilliant document of the three most difficult things in life: love, truth, and trust. You Can See Everything is an unspoilable feast. Even knowing major plot points, I still dropped my jaw and gasped at the footage a few times. A+. Also, [REDACTED] should get SOME kind of award.

Wait, WHO can see everything??

I'm struck by one detail: the tipping point is MS/Xbox's status as "BDS boycott targets," as opposed to listing particular requests. This language cleverly nudges MS *and* passersby to click through and learn more, instead of having a statement in its brief letter taken out of context. 🍉

It's like they mic'ed a cat's tail as part of this MLS Seattle FC broadcast: constant static, swooshing and other weird noises I'm sure the Apple TV team will fix this. any half now

Finally watched the 2026 film The Furious, and finally listened to the B-52's EP Mesopotamia from 1981. Very good! For very different reasons! Try both (maybe not simultaneously).

...I guess we're playing Nidhogg in 2026!

a rare moment of me being okay with the YT algo, get a load of this parallel pose

every youtuber who ran content on his cheap-looking fake Nintendo 64 gets to lie directly in this bed

Mabel fetched a puget sound tennis ball for you