I’m in my early twenties, and I’m looking to start exploring kink further, especially since my hometown is in a metropolitan area with a large kink community. I have no shame or fear about entering kink spaces beyond the typical nerves any beginner might have. I was lucky to be raised by some really awesome sex-positive parents, who explained that kinks are normal and okay. Kink is not the issue. The issue is this: I’m worried I’m going to run into my dad in a kink space. I’ve never had what I would consider an inappropriate conversation with my dad about his sexual interests or activities, but I’m pretty

Lelo Self-Deports: The Washington farmworker and union activist Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino arrested and detained by ICE this March while driving his partner to work in Mount Vernon has decided to leave the country “voluntarily.” Not that anyone who chooses self-deportation has much agency in the context of Trump’s mass deportation plan, but his attorney told The Seattle Times it could make a future return to the US easier. Back in March, activists told me Lelo has been organizing since he was a 14-year-old kid. It’s an enormous loss for farmworkers in Washington, particularly those in his Mexican Mixteco community.

Immigrant Rights Melt Like ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement says

At 7:30 a.m. this morning, the bespectacled, 73-year-old Peter Lippman was in a crowd of activists with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). 

As he walked around the corner from Cascade Playground to Fairview Market, 400 Fairview Ave. N., Lippman explained he was there for the same reason as everyone else marching with him: To ruin Palantir’s day.

Palantir—a data-mining and analysis firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and ironically named for the telephonic Elven scrying crystals Sauron and Sauruman (evil Gandalf, for non-nerds) used for evil ends in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings—is in the surveillance space. 

Shuffling past a Caffe Ladro, Lippman turned down a narrow

Saturday 7/19

DJ Pee .Wee
While the name DJ Pee .Wee might not ring any bells, I’m sure you are familiar with the man behind the pseudonym, Anderson .Paak, of both solo fame and duos like Silk Sonic (with Bruno Mars) and NxWorries (with Knxwledge). Now, one thing about me is that I absolutely cannot stand Bruno Mars, so naturally, I steered clear of Silk Sonic’s Grammy-winning An Evening with Silk Sonic. However, I recently discovered that the duo covers one of the best songs of all time on the album, Con Funk Shun’s “Love’s Train.” This is all to say that despite sometimes making embarrassing music, Anderson .Paak clearly

MONDAY 7/14  

Find a Good Patio

(SUMMER) Monday’s weather is shaping up to be a perfect summer day—low 70s, cool breeze, slight cloud cover so the sun doesn’t bake you alive. So today, forget all your responsibilities and treat yourself to an afternoon on a really great patio. A few favorites of mine include Marination Ma Kai in West Seattle, which is far enough from Alki Beach to avoid the maddening crowds and terrible traffic; Bongos in Green Lake, which actually has a sandpit so you can run your toes through soft beach sand while eating alllll the tostones (get the chocoflan, too!); and the

How do we deal with all of this? The president is threatening to take over New York City because voters want to elect a candidate who simply promises to make a very expensive city affordable. Federal agents storm a city park near downtown Los Angeles as if they are in a warzone (they also brought along horses, as if they were hunting down runaway slaves). In Seattle, masked men claiming to work for ICE abducted a woman, known as “the food lady,” from a parking lot in White Center. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

We can no longer end a day in the US without Trump’s

Good Morning! We’re getting a break from the heat today. Highs in the mid-70s, partly cloudy. The kind of perfect Seattle summer weather that convinces innocent bystanders to move here on a whim. Today’s the day to do all of the things you couldn’t bear to do in yesterday’s 90-degree heat, because it might be coming back later this week.

But to start, let’s do the news.

Seattle’s Proudest Bank Robber: Since June of last year, Seattle has had its very own serial bank robber, and we might finally know who it is. Leena Chang, a 24-year-old in the U-District, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree robbery

Wrong-way driving on Roosevelt

Exiting the bar at close, I flag your car down. You swing back and tell me you need people like me in your life. Is it too late to buy you a drink?

Solstice boy @ Add-A-Ball

You’re tall + told me your name was Skyler (?) but I was on a mission. You told me to find you later but I forgot. Glitter shorts, red boots. Find me.

Unlocking Bikes at Green Lake Village PCC

I was unlocking my ebike as you were unlocking your bike, I complimented your helmet/sun hat combo. Also loved your earring(s)! Let’s ride sometime?

Nice Smile

There is an old and probably apocryphal story from the French revolution that goes like this: A bourgeois leader of the revolution is seated comfortably at a café by the side of the road in the 12th arrondissement, sipping  wine and enjoying the company of a friend. Suddenly, a mob rushes by, carrying torches and pitchforks and shouting revolutionary slogans. “There go my people,” remarks the revolutionary. “I must find out where they’re going so I can lead them there.”

I’ve been thinking about this story a lot over the last few months as I’ve watched the Harrell administration struggle to respond to the growing challenge posed by Katie