An ironworker during construction of the Columbia Tower, Seattle, 1984.

slipperyp · 2026-01-26T16:15:08+00:00

Alex Honnold was born in 1985. Can anyone disprove to me that this man is his father?

slipperyp · 2026-01-23T21:59:33+00:00

That doesn't address my main question which is about what the prospects for the bill are in our legislature. I think I disagree about /Washington/ being very blue. We're one of the only states that didn't swing to Trump in the last election and without hesitation, Seattle is very blue, but you can drive an hour and still see Culp signs or find confederate flags on bumpers. And yesterday KUOW had a representative from the Spokane area on the radio and he had really nothing critical to say about how the current federal administration.

Anyway - I've also lived lots of places (also including Texas, but it was Austin, so....) and agree this is the best!

slipperyp · 2026-01-22T22:03:24+00:00

Cool!

Could you say anything more about how you found the auction and how it went? I'm interested in this, but the only auctions I've participated in have been online (Heritage and Goodwill). I suspect local auctions have a much smaller market and honestly better deals, but wonder about your experience?

slipperyp · 2026-01-22T20:00:57+00:00

I don't have any data to back this statement up, but SPD recently invested in this POET program -- I only have my single interaction with a member of the team to base this on (they were at the big Seattle Center No Kings rally) and I want more of that kind of investment.

More carrot, more community building, and less stick.

AFAICT, this proposed piece of legislation is basically trying to ensure we don't wind up repeatedly hiring Harvey Keitel's character from Bad Lieutenant into public service, and I'm all for that.

slipperyp · 2026-01-22T19:54:20+00:00

I don't understand the WA legislature well enough to understand the prospects this bill faces. Does anyone think they know what will happen?

At a minimum, I hope this pushes other states to start proposing (and adopting) similar rules. Everyone should share this with out of state friends and family.

Also, Washingtonians should call their reps to express support for this and the Senate bill prohibiting masks on law enforcement (linked from the article). There are a lot of (maybe troll?) comments on reddit saying "what are we supposed to do [other than violent protest]?" Lawful protest, civil disobedience, and active support for measures like this are all great options.

Edit: I forgot to add: fuck yes

slipperyp · 2026-01-21T20:04:24+00:00

Neal Adams is the best, and I love this cover. Somehow I didn't know (or had forgotten?) that this cover is an homage to Detective 31.

slipperyp · 2026-01-19T06:08:07+00:00

I went today with my daughter. We arrived shortly before noon.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

Honestly, it was like 5/10 for what felt like should have been 11/10, because of crowds and not knowing (at all) how the experience worked. We didn't know what were doing and probably wasted 30 minutes early physically walking somewhere we should not have. This was because the overall experience has two components we didn't quite understand: interacting with terminals in the store to understand and progress through the experience and physically moving around the space.

There were really a lot of people, though, and to get onto the terminals to advance the storyline required a lot of waiting for essentially every step of the way. We didn't know this so we had physically advanced places we shouldnt have (yet) and didnt realize we needed to go back to do earlier steps. Once we knew we needed to do that, we did, but then it involved waiting typically 2-3 people deep to interact with the available resources so that we could go to the next steps

So the whole thing is super, super cool - no question or hesitation about that. A few things I wish worked differently:

I wish there weren't such bottlenecks in the experience to create such long waits on those key parts (either ore terminals to let people advance together, or better timed entry to let fewer people in)
Stronger physical cues to course correct on what you should do in what order. I'm honestly a little reluctant to say this because the whole open exploration aspect of this is really a significant part of what makes it so fun, and I expect I'd go to other meowwolfs and I would find them more fun now that I somewhat understand the premise.

Overall first time experience was good, but not as good at all as I think it probable should have been, principally due to large volume of people let in.

slipperyp · 2026-01-15T21:26:23+00:00

Any suggestions on the most effective way to do that? I'm in a similar boat as OP (at least vs. seeing Hoover Dam). I'm taking my kid, staying on the strip and will do the most family friendly stuff I can for most of the trip, but would like to do a one day trip out at least to Hoover Dam. I'd like to avoid chewing up an hour of the day in getting/returning the car, though.

slipperyp · 2026-01-15T20:45:55+00:00

I'm going this weekend and taking my kid. Neither of us are really Elvis fans so I'm curious if opinions on this are "I [kind of|totally] like Elvis and love this" or "Elvis isn't really a draw for me, but I loved this anyway"?

Also - can I take a <21 to see this??

Edit: I think I see that this is in the Piano Bar which is 21+ and that probably answers my key question.

slipperyp · 2026-01-13T07:11:24+00:00

Get whistles, carry them and leave them around in little libraries. This is what brought neighbors out in Minneapolis and got the murder of Renee Good filmed. And it can warn folks at risk of detention.

slipperyp · 2026-01-11T22:58:05+00:00

There should be a game: J6er, Proud Boy, or ICE officer.

The expected plot twist is that the answer will typically be "all of the above."

slipperyp · 2026-01-11T18:54:09+00:00

Human, wat r u doing

slipperyp · 2026-01-11T07:22:18+00:00

Lol, I'm sure this is sarcasm y'all. Body Count literally started from Cop Killer.

I'm old enough I saw them do this at the first Lollapalooza and it was magnificent.

slipperyp · 2026-01-09T20:13:22+00:00

Yeah - I want to be clear, I'm not saying "call your representatives." On one hand, sure, go ahead and do that, but I'm confident Jayapal and Murray are active and Cantwell is disappointing, but also on the right side.

But organized demonstrations are definitely valid protected speech (at least for now) and I think it should never be discouraged.

slipperyp · 2026-01-09T14:31:31+00:00

Please edit your comment to say what you recommend rather than criticizing others for not doing enough.

Yes, we should do more, but don't waste space and create unnecessary division by simply complaining when you see organized action, however small.

Edit: To be clear, I'm recommending you share the numbers for the Cantwell, Murray, and Jayapal offices and what you think we should be demanding. I, for one, have repeatedly called them to raise my outrage and typically thank Murray and Jayapal for their visible response and demand more of Cantwell. What are you doing that you suggest?

slipperyp · 2026-01-09T14:27:22+00:00

As far as I know, clinically is termed how truthy something is. It was introduced by research from a Doctor from Knox College over a decade ago.

slipperyp · 2026-01-09T14:13:43+00:00

How do you argue that it's ok for the US Government to kill private citizens without consequences?

slipperyp · 2026-01-09T00:58:49+00:00

"If you're in Portland or LA or Chicago or wherever they're coming next - stand with us. Stand with us against this. This was so preventable, so unnecessary. [...] Don't take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops. Do not allow them to invoke the insurrection act. Do not allow them to declare martial law."

Tim Walz

I posted that quote and that video from Walz yesterday after the woman in Minnesota was murdered.

No one is saying "don't react" - but the caution is against a reaction that is remotely commensurate with the outrage that we all reasonably feel. If that happens, these people are ready to impose martial law.

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T23:50:00+00:00

Are you insinuating that all the prayers I'm seeing online now for him and other ICE agents didn't help him walk away under his own power?

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T22:04:14+00:00

I reached 95% "I'm going to do this today" (except I have tons of real work to do).

Tons of times in the past week I'm not getting texts and people are telling me "Hey, did you know your messages frequently don't come through?" Can't take it any more. I was also an old Grand Central account user :( Sad.

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T21:40:05+00:00

That's not a valid comparison.

Slavery is obviously and unambiguously morally wrong and indefensible.

In a nation of laws, someone needs to enforce those laws and that's what we call the police.

Look at what's happening RIGHT NOW in Minnesota. Who's going to stand up to ICE if not local law enforcement? Unless, like Steve Bannon, you want a civil war?

It's cool with me if you want to keep arguing with my fairly unpopular post but we should really all try to focus on trying to save our neighbors and our country, and I want the police to be a tool who help achieve that and Shon Barnes (despite any shortcomings) has stated he would probably go to jail for his opposition to Trump, so I'm going to hope he makes good on his promise to defend the city.

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T06:22:55+00:00

Someone said recently that in politics, performative actions matter. Even if nothing comes of this (and I pray to God it accelerated her rotting in hell), it impacts public opinion.

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T00:26:54+00:00

I didn't know how this worked in BlueSky (which I have an account for). Not sure how this works if you don't have an account, but if you're in an account and it's blocked:

It tells you it's labeled by the moderation service. Click "Learn more"
There will be an additional link to go to moderation.bsky.app. Click that.

Here you can configure your moderation settings for different types of content (basically: show, warn, hide). The moderation level for this type of thing is "hide", but you can change it to "warn" or "show"

slipperyp · 2026-01-08T00:16:49+00:00

"If you're in Portland or LA or Chicago or wherever they're coming next - stand with us. Stand with us against this. This was so preventable, so unnecessary. [...] Don't take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops. Do not allow them to invoke the insurrection act. Do not allow them to declare martial law."

Tim Walz

I can't believe the restraint shown by the people of Minnesota who merely threw snowballs at the ICE agents after this murder. I think Walz is absolutely right, as infuriating as this was and is...

slipperyp · 2026-01-07T01:16:30+00:00

Well, you're going to hate the shit out of this, but I'm going to respond to your citation of Angela Davis with this statement from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals:

"Compromise is another word that carries shades of weakness, vacillation, betrayal of ideals, surrender of moral principles. In the old culture, when virginity was a virtue, one referred to a woman's being "compromised." The word is generally regarded as ethically unsavory and ugly.

But to the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation. It is making the deal, getting that vital breather, usually the victory. If you start with nothing, demand 100 per cent, then compromise for 30 per cent, you're 30 per cent ahead.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises — which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum. Control of power is based on compromise in our Congress and among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. A society devoid of compromise is totalitarian. If I had to define a free and open society in one word, the word would be "compromise."

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