The Weather: No rain, but not much sun either. A temperate gray day is on the books. The sun should be out to play more this weekend as this mild, pleasant fall continues.
Police Don’t CARE: Seattle’s first responder police alternative, the Community Assisted Response and Engagement department, or CARE, is popular across the political spectrum—but not with police. CARE workers respond to calls that don’t need an armed officer, like an unresponsive person on the sidewalk. However, due to Seattle Police Officer Guild (SPOG) contract requirements, the team is smaller than it needs to be and a cop must be present at all CARE dispatches. A new report from the Seattle Times shows the cops haven’t been calling CARE and have been cancelling CARE dispatches, choosing to take the calls themselves. This summer, cops refused to utilize CARE in 20 percent of attempted dispatches. The chief of CARE thinks SPOG is behind these disruptions and has goals to disband CARE. That’ll be interesting since electeds want to expand the program and even give it authority to operate sans-cop.
Dubs Up, Sieg Heils Down: A young man busted in on an in-progress Psych 210 class in the University of Washington’s Kane Hall, the school’s largest lecture hall. He yelled insults at the class at Nazi saluted. When he ran out of the class, the professor pursued him. Her class followed her. He was later arrested by UWPD. UW says the man is not a student. Here’s the video of the incident posted on Reddit:
Nazi interrupts Psych 210, receives predictable response
byu/FireFright8142 inudub
RIP Kate’s Pub: Wallingford’s beloved Kate’s Pub will close at the end of October, owner Kate Barrett posted on Facebook, citing rising costs and pandemic-era lows. After 20 years, Kate’s will close out its time as a Seattle institution when last call comes on Halloween night.
So Long, Salmon Bay: The Port of Seattle is closing three of the five docks at Interbay’s Salmon Bay Marina next year, due to safety concerns (the docks were built in 1961, and officials are concerned that the covered moorage could collapse in severe weather). The closures impact about 121 people including nine liveaboard boaters and six floating homes. They have until November 17 to leave the docks and until next March to move their vessels. It’s not so easy. To soften the burden a bit, the Port is offering up to $10,000 to cover floating home towing expenses. The Salmon Bay Marina residents are not happy.
Spawnless in Seattle: Seattle has the second lowest fertility rate in the country! No babies for us. Since 2010, our birth rate of live births per 1,000 women age 15 to 50 fell 20 points. The number of births per 1,000 women went from 51 to 31 in the last 15 years. Portland is the only city with a lower birthrate. Los Angeles is right behind us. It’s expensive to have a kid. And the world? It’s bad.
Transportation Money Tied Up: The Trump administration is holding $2.1 billion of federal money earmarked for Chicago transportation projects hostage. The funds were meant to extend the city’s Red Line train into underserved parts of the city. Budget director Russ Vought posted online that the funds were “put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.” They’re doing the same thing with $18 billion of infrastructure dollars slated for New York. These goons are going to willfully let our cities fall into disrepair and deprive local economies of solid construction jobs because why? To demonstrate power? Fuck despondence, we should all be getting angrier.
Maybe the Worst Part: Is the bad AI video Trump posted depicted Vought as the grim reaper.
Trump just posted an AI-generated video depicting Russ Vought as the grim reaper, set to Don’t Fear the Reaper
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) October 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Master of International Diplomacy: Trump announced a Sunday deadline for Hamas to agree to a proposed peace deal that would put Gaza under control of a temporary governing committee led by Trump. Civilians could stay, but Hamas would have to drop their weapons, disband, and free hostages. Trump released the deal alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If Hamas doesn’t agree, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.” Gentleman, I fear we are about to be part of more war crimes.
Sort of Like an Excalibur Moment: The Trump administration asked Todd Arrington, the director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, for one of Eisenhower’s swords from the collection. Trump wanted to gift the sword to King Charles III at a state visit. Arrington said no. Later, a supervisor asked Arrington to resign since he “could no longer be trusted with confidential information.”
When I Die, Don’t Give Me to the IDF: The University of Southern California sold dead bodies to the US military which used the bodies to train Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The Navy paid USC more than $860,000 for 89 “fresh” cadavers. Of those stiffs, 32 were used specifically for IDF medics to study up on simulated battlefield injuries. The bodies were unclaimed in Los Angele’s County, though some may have been donated. If I donate my body to science, please make sure it doesn’t go to science that trains the IDF.
ICYMI: There’s a lot to learn about mayoral candidate Katie Wilson. Like, she used to busk at Pike Place. And she dropped out of Oxford. Read more here.
No Jobs Report: The Bureau of Labor Statistics cannot take an accurate pulse on the state of US employment, the health of the economy, and so on because there are no numbers due to the government shutdown.
That’s Going to Keep Happening: Whooping cough, or pertussis, cases are rising in Mississippi. Last year, the state saw 49 total cases. So far this year, there have been 115 cases. This week, a two-month old baby too young for the vaccine died of whooping cough. It’s the first whooping cough death in the state in 13 years. We’ve done it. We’ve made America healthy again!
A song for your Friday: I like to listen to this in the fall. Perhaps, you think it sounds more like spring. Not to me.
Great… now we gotta listen to the two local nazis complain that they can’t burst into random classrooms and shout fascist stuff without consequences.
At least we don’t have to hear him complain about the graffiti on that car in the header at least. I assume the owners did that themselves.
“I thought you guys were the party of peace?!?” That was gold, well done Psych 210.
Also the term “cringe” needs to make a comeback because nothing else as accurately describes that AI video.
Good on them for ensuring the existence of occupational hazards for being a hateful moron in public. He wasn’t a student but I definitely think he learned something lol.
The reality is that Hamas has never cared about what’s best for the Pal people, if they did they would have negeotiated an end to this long ago. Israel has a right to exist and so does Pal, it’s just a question of where to draw the borders. Hamas only respects strength and unless Israel keeps the pressure on this will never end!
“However, due to Seattle Police Officer Guild (SPOG) contract requirements, the team is smaller than it needs to be and a cop must be present at all CARE dispatches., &c., &c.” Back in 2020, two progressive Seattle councilpersons called for the ousting of SPOG president Michael Solan, a notorious seditionist, J6 denier, and possessor every other far-right hate position. The rest of the council declined to support them. The SPD is still a thug haven – there are small town law enforcement offices in Arkansas that are more woke than these people. Thanks again, centrists!
@5 if only there had been a recent opportunity for skilled negotiators to extract concessions, including support for the CARE team, in exchange for something SPOG wanted like say a 23% retroactive raise
ah Yes –the neo-
Nazi antiwoke
strikes again.
nonsense,
@Lib — they’ll
settle for the Edge
of the fucking Abyss
If you look closely at the video from the disruption at the University of Washington, the students in the classroom are looking at a projection of Reddit threads, with “why do i cry when i cum”, “how many times can a guy cum back to back”, and “can i die from cumming too much”.
Wow what an amazing “education”, worth every penny of UW’s $12,643 in-state tuition ($41,997 if they are out-of-state students lol).
I’d say that rigorous and totally-useful “education” would help the students with their future jobs as Starbucks baristas, but Starbucks has been closing a lot of their locations. Perhaps such an education can qualify them for a lucrative and personally-rewarding job as a jizz mopper.
The Stranger is so inconsistent.
Normally they would have Connor Kelley write a piece celebrating the ability of a collective bargaining unit to prevail over management and owners in controlling the nature and conditions of their work.
What gives?
“Trump Tries to Broker Hamas Peace Deal in Most Threating Way Possible”
The thumpus odds on Hamas taking the peace deal are 3 to 2 in favor.
Hamas has achieved some important tactical successes. They’ve denied the Israelis freedom of movement throughout something like half the strip, and even today, two years into the war, there are whole districts where no Israelis soldier has ever set foot. Some of that is down to the Israelis’ persistent under-resourcing of the ground combat element, but Hamas still deserves credit for a strong defensive stand. (At the cost, it must be said, of a few tens of thousands of dead civilians, but Hamas won’t lose sleep over them. 😃)
Strategically, however, Hamas has failed. Hamas really needed the Arabs and Iranians coming out swinging for them. How’s that looking? Well…
Hizbollah came out banging in the first year, but now Hizbollah has all but stopped shooting, lost multiple generations of its top leadership, ceded Lebanese territory to be occupied by the Israelis as a security buffer, and is currently feuding with the Lebanese government over the terms of its own disarmament. Hamas has been paging them, but no one calls back, it’s weird 😂
Syria used to be the local hub of the anti-Israeli axis, but they flopped so hard their president had to flee to Moscow last year. 🤣 Now a bunch of salafiyin have taken over Damascus, which you might naively expect to be good for Hamas, but these kind of people don’t like Hamas because of their jahiliyya…although they themselves look suspiciously comfortable in suits all of a sudden! 🤣 Meanwhile, as in Lebanon, the Israelis have carved out a nice comfortable security buffer for themselves in Syria and they bomb anyone who tries to sneak in. So much for the Jolan, eh Jolani? 😄 Nor have the Israelis in Syria fired anywhere near all the arrows in their quiver. If they really wanted to make a point, they could starting arming the Druze. 😛
The muqawamat in Iraq might have supplied a pretty deep bench for the Hamas alliance, but they never fired more than a few dozen slow drones and a handful of knockoff cruise missiles—classes of munitions the Israelis and Jordanians are extremely good at intercepting. My read is that the Iraqi groups don’t enjoy firm enough domestic political footing to engage in foreign jihad. Unlike in Syria or Lebanon, the Iraqi government actually has the firepower to take them down if they get too crazy. (And I would love to see ISOF do just that, that’s a fight that might be worth America throwing down in person for! 💥)
Iran was supposed to be the head of the snake, but it turns out the Israelis can put an entire wing of fighters over Tehran whenever they feel like it and all the Iranians can do is shake their fists at the sky. Iran’s ballistic missile force is large enough to deal serious damage to Israel—likely on the order of 1,000 civilian casualties if they fired the entire arsenal—but the problem with ballistic missiles is that they’re strictly a one-time use item. The Israeli jets can fly home to re-arm and repeat ad infinitum. The real kicker for Iran, though, is that America is finally willing to bomb them, a fate the Iranians have richly deserved for decades. From the maraji perspective, helping Hamas is just not worth taking a Tomahawk to the turban. 💥💥💥
So that leaves only the Houthis. Unlike the Iranians, the Houthis don’t have enough ballistic missiles to be scary. They do have a lot of short-range missiles and drones, and it’s annoying that they use them to sink random merchant ships (war crime, war crime! 🤣) but in the long-term that tactic will probably backfire on the Houthis. Qaddafi and Saddam used to try shutting down the sea lanes and all it ever does is persuade literally the entire world to bomb you. The Houthi shipping attacks are only forging stronger military alliances than ever for Israel. Unlike the Iranians, the Houthis are willing to sacrifice senior leaders up to and including their own prime minister(!), so they probably can’t be deterred from continuing their harassing fire. But harassing fire is all it will ever be, and it will only make Israel stronger over time.
Hamas is in a real jam here. The peace deal is a surrender document for them, so I won’t exactly be surprised if they reject it (likely in the form of bad-faith negotiations rather than an outright no) but I still think it’s more likely than not that they end up signing. Even Hamas’s political allies in the Arab and Muslim worlds are telling them to give it up. Hopefully they do soon, because the good people of Gaza have suffered enough! 🥰
CARE dispatches handling paranoid schizophrenia calls should include a cop.
@10 It feels like you put someone else’s article through chatgpt and asked it to “write this like a douchbag.”
@12 – what in #10 isn’t true though? You failed to point out any of that.
@9 cops aren’t workers
@11 thanks for your expert opinion
@13: I only read one paragraph, in which I found “they [the Syrian public] flopped so hard their president had to flee to Moscow last year.” They did no such thing. They were taken over by a US-funded jihadist group. The Syrian public had no say in the matter whatsoever. And – they would never have picked a US-funded jihadist group over Basher Assad, whatever their beefs with the latter.
That’s something in #10 that isn’t true. Considering the source, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised that you might find more if you read the whole thing.
@12: I’m sure it’s frustrating that the Gaza peace deal is going to look so different from the one you were hoping for! 😎 I hope you can find it in your heart to support it anyway! 😘
@15: [snicker]
@15 – Nice try Jan.
“Syria used to be the local hub of the anti-Israeli axis, but they flopped so hard their president had to flee to Moscow last year.”
“I only read one paragraph, in which I found “they [the Syrian public] flopped so hard their president had to flee to Moscow last year.”
Nothing in the original quote refers to, or even implies that “they” are “the Syrian public”. The “they” is obviously referring to the Syrian government at the time. Holy shit you have horrible reading comprehension.
@8 It’s a human sexuality course. I know you conservatives want everyone to be sexually repressed, but the beauty of college is you can just not take courses you’re not interested in. Problem solved!
The next generation of Charlie Kirks are gonna film themselves trespassing on college campuses to harass students, and then post videos the next day about how colleges hate free speech and they totally owned the libs. I guess Trump’s college code of conduct/shakedown doesn’t include trespassing and Nazi salutes.
@13 Where in my comment did I imply that anything in the writing was true or false?
@19 – there are literally no “Nazi salutes” in the video provided of the disruption at UW. The disrupting guy is pointing at the screen about “cum” questions, and then gesturing towards the audience. There was no “Nazi salute” at all, unless there is another video with a real, stiff-arm, Seig Heil Nazi salute on it, that somehow mysteriously didn’t get linked here or on the Reddit thread about the incident.
@20 – “Where in my comment did I imply that anything in the writing was true or false?”
You failed to do either, you just were sNaRkY
I did JUST run it through chatgpt and asked for it to review it based on how factual it is and here is the response:
Overall, the text blends some real facts (Hamas has inflicted challenges, some leadership losses in Hezbollah, use of drones/missiles by various groups) with a lot of exaggeration, speculation, and false claims. The parts about Syria regime change, Assad fleeing, Salafists taking over Damascus are effectively false. Many statements about regional actors’ strength or losses are inflated or lacking evidence.
Here are (almost) all the lines from the passage you gave that are either false, made‑up, or highly questionable / lacking credible evidence — annotated with short comments. I number them for clarity. Some are mixtures (part fact, part false), but I include them because something in each line is problematic.
List of suspect lines / claims
“They’ve denied the Israelis freedom of movement throughout something like half the strip, and even today, two years into the war, there are whole districts where no Israelis soldier has ever set foot.”
The specific claim that “whole districts” have never been entered by any Israeli soldier is unsupported / likely false or exaggeration.
“Some of that is down to the Israelis’ persistent under‑resourcing of the ground combat element, but Hamas still deserves credit for a strong defensive stand.”
The claim of “persistent under‑resourcing” is speculative or rhetorical rather than factual.
“At the cost, it must be said, of a few tens of thousands of dead civilians, but Hamas won’t lose sleep over them.”
The second half (“Hamas won’t lose sleep”) is an attribution of motive / emotion and is not a verifiable fact.
“Strategically, however, Hamas has failed. Hamas really needed the Arabs and Iranians coming out swinging for them. How’s that looking?”
“Strategic failure” is a normative judgment; it is not objective fact.
“Hezbollah came out banging in the first year, but now Hizbollah has all but stopped shooting, lost multiple generations of its top leadership, ceded Lebanese territory to be occupied by the Israelis as a security buffer, and is currently feuding with the Lebanese government over the terms of its own disarmament.”
“Has all but stopped shooting” is false or exaggerated — Hezbollah has continued some hostilities.
“Lost multiple generations of its top leadership” is dramatic exaggeration.
“Ceded Lebanese territory … to be occupied by the Israelis as a security buffer” is unverified / false in the sense of formal cession.
“Feuding with the Lebanese government over the terms of its own disarmament” is speculative / lacks public evidence.
“Syria used to be the local hub of the anti‑Israeli axis, but they flopped so hard their president had to flee to Moscow last year.”
The claim that President Assad fled to Moscow is false (no credible support).
“Now a bunch of salafiyin have taken over Damascus, which you might naively expect to be good for Hamas, but these kind of people don’t like Hamas because of their jahiliyya … although they themselves look suspiciously comfortable in suits all of a sudden!”
There is no credible evidence that Salafi forces have “taken over Damascus.”
“Meanwhile, as in Lebanon, the Israelis have carved out a nice comfortable security buffer for themselves in Syria and they bomb anyone who tries to sneak in.”
The idea of a “nice comfortable security buffer” in Syria is an oversimplification / exaggeration of Israeli operations.
“Bomb anyone who tries to sneak in” is a sweeping claim; it’s not documented that every incursion is bombed in that blanket way.
“The muqawamat in Iraq might have supplied a pretty deep bench for the Hamas alliance, but they never fired more than a few dozen slow drones and a handful of knockoff cruise missiles—classes of munitions the Israelis and Jordanians are extremely good at intercepting.”
The specific numbers (“a few dozen drones,” “a handful of knockoff cruise missiles”) are unverified.
“Knockoff cruise missiles” is a pejorative / rhetorical framing, not a fact.
“Extremely good at intercepting” is an overstatement in many cases.
“Israel’s ballistic missile force is large enough to deal serious damage to Israel—likely on the order of 1,000 civilian casualties if they fired the entire arsenal—but the problem with ballistic missiles is that they’re strictly a one‑time use item. The Israeli jets can fly home to re-arm and repeat ad infinitum.”
The casualty estimate (“1,000 civilian casualties”) is speculative with no credible open‑source support.
The framing that ballistic missiles are “strictly a one-time use item” and that air forces can “repeat ad infinitum” oversimplifies logistical / operational realities.
The implication that Israeli jets can simply rearm endlessly without constraints is unrealistic.
“The real kicker for Iran, though, is that America is finally willing to bomb them, a fate the Iranians have richly deserved for decades.”
The assertion that “America is finally willing to bomb them” is speculative / future‑oriented and not necessarily true in policy.
The normative phrase “have richly deserved” is opinion rather than fact.
“Qaddafi and Saddam used to try shutting down the sea lanes and all it ever does is persuade literally the entire world to bomb you.”
This is an overgeneralization and historical simplification.
“The Houthi shipping attacks are only forging stronger military alliances than ever for Israel.”
The certainty (“only forging”) is speculative.
“Unlike the Iranians, the Houthis are willing to sacrifice senior leaders up to and including their own prime minister(!), so they probably can’t be deterred from continuing their harassing fire.”
The claim that Houthis sacrificed their prime minister is not supported by any credible evidence.
“Harassing fire is all it will ever be, and it will only make Israel stronger over time.”
This is a strategic judgment / opinion, not a factual statement.
“The peace deal is a surrender document for them, so I won’t exactly be surprised if they reject it (likely in the form of bad-faith negotiations rather than an outright no) … Even Hamas’s political allies in the Arab and Muslim worlds are telling them to give it up.”
The characterization that the peace deal is “a surrender document” is opinion.
The statement that all of Hamas’s political allies are telling them to “give it up” is unverified / exaggerated.
“Hopefully they do soon, because the good people of Gaza have suffered enough!”
This is a moral / emotional statement (not factual).
…Thank you AI overlords.
Speaking of rightwing content creators traveling across the country to engage in violence for clicks, there’s this creep getting arrested by the Portland police. Hopefully this assures our resident conservative creep that the Portland PD is indeed doing their job, and the rich waterfront condo owners across the street got a good night’s sleep.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-ice-immigration-portland
Probably the whole “Nazi” accusation stems from the fact that the video projection of the Reddit comments at the UW class also has a question “What’s the deal with Nazi guy”, which given the context of the all the other cum-related questions, is probably related to some fetish-kink involving Nazi uniforms or furry shit.
I’d bet $10 that if the truth could ever come out (it won’t), it comes out that the guy disrupting the class was angry about the Reddit cum stuff being taught as a serious class topic, and the fact that he was pointing to the screen, and the screen happened to have the word “Nazi” on it, just cemented that the guy is a Nazi in the minds of the goofy naive libprog students. I’m not discounting the extremely likely possibility that the disrupting guy is mentally ill. I think the “Nazi” stuff is probably a total misunderstanding on the part of the students.
@23 oh shit thump dawg in shambles
@23: lol your AI helper seems awfully confident that Bashar al-Assad did not flee to Moscow, that salafiyin have not taken over Damascus, the Houthi prime minister has not been killed, Hizbollah is not arguing with the Lebanese government about disarmament, and so forth. Are you really sure you should be trusting that thing? 😉
@25 Perhaps you should actually research things before you comment (as usual)…
That was the second time he came into the classroom. Here is an eye witness report of what happened.
“Little late to the party but I am the person closest to him, standing in front of him at the beginning of the video. I am leaning on the desk because I have an autoimmune condition that causes pain when walking. I am mentioning this so the scooter makes more sense and for some confirmation if you look through my post history. I thought I could add some context:
This was the second time he showed up in class that day. The first time he seemed much scarier and was only there briefly. I was really worried he had a gun. My mobility scooter was parked right next to the door, which I moved between his appearances, and when he entered he gave a Hitler salute and said the n-word. I was sitting on my scooter and he was about two feet away from me. He only stayed for a short time before leaving. While recording he sang a monotone verse of Kanye’s “Hail Hitler” before walking out. Campus security showed up shortly after and said that a man matching his description had yelled at them a few minutes earlier.
About 40 minutes later he came back, this time from the top of the stairs. He was screaming about how this class teaches degeneracy and called us all the f-slur. After a bit I got up. I was in the front row and my scooter was by the left door and out of sight. I told him he needed to leave. Eventually he looked a little freaked out and left. Two blonde guys chased after him and I followed. He was pushed into a door, not very hard but enough that he could have been hurt. I put my hands up and started yelling at my classmates not to hurt him because they did not want an assault charge, and I called for campus security. I took some photos of him, since there were not many people outside at this point, and kept shouting for security until a crowd poured out and it was clear he was not getting away.”
Came in, did the hitler salute and called them all the N word, then sang Heil Hitler by Kayne West… and then the second time he came in he called them faggots and that’s the part you saw in the video.
Once again, you’re wrong… and a fuckin asshat.
@25 Also… you owe me 10 bucks.
@29 – you failed to provide a link to your quote
@28: “Perhaps you should actually research things before you comment (as usual)…”
The irony of this comment, minutes after you copy-pasted a chatbot’s claim that Bashar al-Assad did not flee to Moscow. 😂😂😂
@31 Probably because he himself said he didn’t “flee” and Chatgpt uses articles from the internet for its information?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd0zz5edqo
@30 I shouldn’t need to. It’s literally in the original reddit thread that this video was posted in that went viral all over the entire world, sweetie pie.
And to complete today’s triple crown of conservative hypocrisy, former Trump spiritual adviser pleads guilty to molesting a 12 year old girl. But don’t worry conservative creeps, he got one of those “sweetheart deals” that are reserved for Trump’s special friends and only has to serve six months, and I’m sure Trump will give him the medal of honor or something. Kinda makes you wonder why conservative creeps like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon were hanging out with Epstein after his sweetheart deal. If the DOJ wasn’t so busy shaking down colleges and making up stuff about Portland, they could release the Epstein files and we’d know!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/pastor-robert-morris-pleads-guilty
@32: Ha ha ha ha! Nice one, dude!
@33 “@30 I shouldn’t need to. It’s literally in the original reddit thread that this video was posted in that went viral all over the entire world, sweetie pie.”
I’m not going to search through a Reddit thread that literally has over 9,700 comments to find your needle in the haystack. You quoted it, you should link it, poopoo muffin.
@34 the self-admitted molester should be executed in public by a firing squad, how do you feel about that/
“These goons are going to willfully let our cities fall into disrepair……….we should all be getting angrier.”
Screw your anger. If nobody has told you, anger is only stupidly self destructive & a total, counterproductive waste. How about we should all be voting in every election. Anyone who doesn’t vote & claims it’s in protest is a fool. Worse yet are people like Jayapal who Bad mouth their own party’s candidates (Hillary) right in the middle of an election campaign thereby making a MAJOR contribution to electing Donald Trump.
Any politician looks at people who don’t vote & says, “I have no need of them. They have no relevance to me.” They can’t tell who you voted for. But they know EXACTLY who DOESN’T vote.
@35 damn thumpus got so thoroughly and repeatedly clowned by AI he can only laugh at himself, finally joining the rest of us here
@39: You sure? Where’s Bashar? 😉
@14, “worker
/ˈwɚkɚ/
noun
plural workers
[count]
1
a : a person who does a particular job to earn money”
In what way does a cop not meet that definition from the Cambridge Dictionary?
@38 “Any politician looks at people who don’t vote & says, “I have no need of them. They have no relevance to me.””
Well that’s stupid as fuck, and anyone who can’t immediately see why is as well.
@41 “myopic
adjective
/maɪˈɑː.pɪk
unable to understand a situation or the way actions will affect it in the future”
In what way do you not meet this definition from the Cambridge Dictionary, Neale?
University of Washington students fail to learn that free speech includes ‘hate speech.’ Wot a surprise.
@19: The “Charlie Kirks” on college campuses are the students themselves, so logic dictates they won’t be harassing themselves.
@34: Nothing hypocritical about pastors sinning. See John 8:7.
@37 That’s not how sweetheart deals work! Six months time served, then he can go back to raping children and hanging out with other conservative creeps like nothing ever happened. He does run a megachurch, so surely his followers and bankers will stick with him after the fallout.
You really need to work on your conservative deflection techniques–Trump only knew him a little bit (but he wishes him well)! Democrats and Biden are so much worse! And why are you still talking about this guy after the DOJ covered it up for me!
43, Who is Neale?
@24, you might think so, but you would be wrong:
https://katu.com/news/local/trump-authorizes-more-resources-to-portland-after-arrest-of-conservative-influencer-nicholas-sortor-leavitt-ice-immigration-protesters-local-oregon-kotek-republicans
Apparently, this fella Sortor told the White House that the PPB is full of (wait for it…) “antifa thugs”!
re 18: We have yet another genocide cuck on our hands.
@46 – “You really need to work on your conservative deflection techniques–Trump only knew him a little bit (but he wishes him well)! Democrats and Biden are so much worse! And why are you still talking about this guy after the DOJ covered it up for me!”
“conservative deflection techniques”??? I think the pedo should be executed in public by a firing squad. Do you?
@49 lol
Is it okay if I want both sides to wipe each other out? Am I still a “genocide cuck”?
I think the entire region should be salted with Stronium-90
How’s that for being a genocide cuck
@49: Hey didn’t I tell you to stop calling people “cuck?” 😆 That came out of the gamergate/manosphere world. Don’t be that dude. 🤣 I know, I know, you’re so ironic, but guess what, so are they! 😅 You alt-lefties keep horseshoeing yourselves all the way back around to the alt-right, it’s like a curse with you people! 🤪
@24 – “the rich waterfront condo owners across the street got a good night’s sleep”
It’s literally a low-income building, and the woman who tried to sue Portland to enforce the noise ordinances that are supposedly the law in Portland is a disabled black woman, who couldn’t sleep because of the Antifaturds, and can’t afford to move because… she’s a resident of a low-income building.
Since you apparently get all your “news information” from Slog, it’s understandable how you would be ignorant of those facts.
@44 conservative fails to learn that free speech only protects people against government suppression not judgment of the community
@48 The police are Antifa? Holy shit, this rabbit hole is deep! I bet they’re probably all trans too. We’re truly living in weird times when the highest levels of our government puts more trust in a 27-year old rightwing influencer than the local chief of police.
Looks like thumpus called it @10. 😃 Hamas agrees to release all hostages and hand over governance of Gaza. Now they just gotta hand over the weapons, too, and I’d say we’ve got a peace deal! 😄
Expanding on @56, from the WSJ:
“The mediators said the militant group is asking for a number of changes, including the stipulation that it disarm and destroy its weapons, a demand Hamas has previously rejected. Hamas is willing to hand over its offensive weapons to Egypt and the United Nations for storage, but wants to retain what it considers defense systems, the mediators said.
“Hamas has also renewed its demand for a timeline for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and is seeking clarification regarding the formation of an international peacekeeping force for the enclave, including its mandate and deployment plan.”
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-hamas-deadline-israel-hostages-bbd88db4?mod=hp_lead_pos1)
So, there will be some details to negotiate, but releasing the hostages, and getting aid flowing into a Gaza not controlled by Hamas, both constitute big and welcome news. There’s a very long road ahead to a lasting and stable peace, but these first baby steps look very good.
@57: Awesome! 😁 This is the peace the world has been longing for! 😇 Hell of a job out there, Israel! 💥 Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, this was one for the history books! 😎 Way to finish strong! 💥
Respect, too, to the Qataris, Egyptians, and Turks for finally coming to their senses and pulling the plug on the Islamic resistance. Better late than never, guys, it takes a big heart to admit you were wrong! 😆
Respect to the Palestinian Authority for keeping your heads amid the madness. They tried to drag you into their pit, but you stayed strong! 😃 It’s your time now. Don’t be afraid to kick them while they are down, they deserve it, and the future is yours! 😎
Ya Hamas, ikhwati, look what has befallen you after all. You could have given up in January last year and saved 40,000 precious Palestinian lives…but this is the Middle East, where some people only know how to learn the hard way! 😂
@54: Some rando barges into a UW classroom, and gives a Nazi salute. The professor and students then either:
1/ politely ask him to leave; or
2/ politely engage him, opposing with logical argument his expression of a failed and hateful ideology; or
3/ give chase en masse out of the classroom, across Red Square, and halfway to Drumheller Fountain, surrounding and forcibly detaining him against his will.
Yeah, I can see why you’re cheering the last. It’s way more in line with your McCarthyist ideal of how a university should deal with offensive expressions.
@8 you were not in the classroom or for the lesson. The video does not show what was being taught. There are plenty of legitimate open reasons why that would be on a screen when talking about psychology in an academic setting in 2025 you dumb fuck. But continue your whataboutisms to attempt to distract people from your bad views and arguments.
@59: According to @28, they already did politely ask the guy to leave the first time, thereby satisfying your Option 1. If, after the polite request, the guy barges back in to the classroom and is still acting crazy, then I think the students can in good conscience exercise Option 3: clobbering time. 😄
Bear in mind, though, commenter @28 is the same commenter @23 who allowed a chatbot to convince him that Bashar al-Assad is still in power in Syria and Ahmad al-Rahawi is still alive in Yemen. 🤣 So you’d be wise to check whether his Nazi story @28 might be another hallucination that he has fallen for! 😂 One thing I’ve learned in these comments is never to trust the information literacy of a progressive, they are ever bit as credulous as the Trumpies. 😂
@61: I would have called Campus Security on the second intrusion, but then I’m not stuck in a lecture hall with scads of hormonal undergrads. 😉
@59 yes when a non-student barges into your classroom and calls everyone retards and degenerates it’s best to engage him in a polite exchange of ideas. I’m sure you agree it’s too bad the Jewish students who were denied passage to the UCLA library weren’t sophisticated enough to take such an enlightened approach.
@63: At the UW class it was a single sweaty antisemite versus a roomful of normies, at the UCLA Gaza protests it was a roomful of sweaty antisemites versus a single normie! 😂
@63: At UW it was one crazy guy. At UCLA it was an organized effort to deny American students their educations because of their religion (real or perceived) — and the organizers were as utterly uninterested in polite, respectful dialog of ideas as was the one crazy guy at UW. That you retain such deep sympathy for the organizers of the latter effort shows part of your problem.
@65 “the organizers were as utterly uninterested in polite, respectful dialog of ideas as was the one crazy guy at UW”
No no no, surely you were right the first time and the UW students, as well as the UCLA students, should have engaged the crazy guy(s) in polite respectful dialogue of ideas. That wasn’t at all an absurd suggestion.
@26, @39, @66: Thanks for demonstrating how slobbering down AI slop can reduce even your cognitive abilities.
Both the UW and UCLA incidents ended happily, at least for now. The UW nazi antisemite has been trespassed off the campus, and UCLA entered a $6.45 million settlement with the Jewish students and faculty whose education and employment had been temporarily denied by the progressive antisemites. 😃
Far more important than the money is UCLA’s strengthened commitment to fight antisemitism in the future. In particular, UCLA has agreed to close the antisemites’ favorite escape hatch, “antizionism!” From the settlement agreement:
“The [Enjoined Parties, i.e. UCLA’s various corporate personae] are enjoined from offering any of UCLA’s ordinarily available programs, activities, or campus areas to students, faculty, and/or staff if Enjoined Parties know the ordinarily available programs, activities, or campus areas are not fully and equally accessible to Jewish students, faculty and/or staff.”
“Enjoined Parties are prohibited from knowingly allowing or facilitating the exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff from ordinarily available portions of UCLA’s programs, activities, and/or campus areas, whether as a result of a de-escalation strategy or otherwise.”
“For purposes of this order, all references to the exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff shall include exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff based on religious beliefs concerning the religious state of Israel.”
Pretty strong stuff! 😁 And bear in mind, the UCLA case isn’t even the spiciest one of these antisemitism lawsuits. The UCLA case was a religious discrimination case. The really hot ones are the national-origin discrimination cases. The outcome of those cases is likely to be that antizionism = antisemitism because of the ETHNIC basis for antizionists’ Jew-hatred, as opposed to merely the RELIGIOUS basis for antizionists’ Jew-hatred! 🤣🤣🤣
One last thought for UCLA… this particular lawsuit may been settled easily, with a mere $6.45 million payout and a commitment to fight antisemitism in both its overt and antizionist guises, but UCLA is not out of the woods yet by a long shot. The day after they signed the settlement with the Jewish students and faculty, they received a notice of violation from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The NOV’s determination of discrimination on the basis of religion and national origin authorizes the federal government to suspend all grants to UCLA until UCLA returns to compliance with federal anti-discrimination law. Ouch! 😅
It took the right decades of painful and humiliating defeats to learn that discrimination doesn’t pay. Now the left is re-learning that same lesson, and it’s just as hard for them! 😂
@67: It’s not just internet commenters falling for hallucinations. People are showing up in court with these hallucinations, they’re putting it in their work product, their immigration paperwork, their medical diagnoses, their PhD theses. 😄 This chatbot stuff is ruining lives … I mean, idiots’ lives, but those still count as lives! 😂
Here’s a quick little thumpus heuristic you can use. If a sentence begins, “According to ChatGPT…” then every word that follows is guesswork. Discount accordingly! You’re welcome!😇
For some reason, some people go the opposite direction and afford MORE weight to chatbot output and that is just bonkers to me! 🤣
@69: And, right here @32, we see how the AI failed to note a couple of very important points from one of its sources. From the BBC link:
“Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad says he never intended to flee to Russia – in what is purported to be his first statement since the fall of Damascus eight days ago.
“Assad’s reported statement was put on the Telegram channel belonging to the Syrian presidency on Monday, although it is not clear who currently controls it – or whether he wrote it.”
So, not only did the chatbot fail to understand how Assad might not be a valid source of information on Assad’s ousting, but the chatbot didn’t understand how that statement might not have come from Assad at all!
(And, of course, the Stranger’s supportive commenters promptly slurped down all of this AI slop without question.)
@70: well Bashar al-Assad is kind of a big deal in antizionist circles, so the progressives all trusted him! 😂
speaking of War Crimes
and Anniversaries
Retributions and
Vengeances:
Israel
Droned Flotilla Activists
And Then Abused Greta Thunberg
If you’ll launch drone attacks
on activists trying to bring aid to
starving civilians, there’s nothing you won’t do.
[Other than Continue your Justifications
and Remind everyone that Israel
was merely Minding its OWN
Business of running a
razor-wire topped
Concentration
Camp on
10/7/25]
“The allegation was corroborated by
at least two other members of the flotilla who had
been detained by Israeli forces and released on Saturday.
“ ‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.
“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy’ — a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”
–by Caitlin Johnstone; October 4th, 2025
oodles More of
Israel’s Inhumanity
cum War Crimes on
YOUR TAX DOLLAR$$$:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-droned-flotilla-activists
now, back to
the AIPAC
Lovefest:
.
Correction of @72:
speaking of War Crimes
and Anniversaries
Retributions and
Vengeancies:
Israel
Droned Flotilla Activists
And Then Abused Greta Thunberg
If you’ll launch drone attacks
on activists trying to bring aid to
starving civilians, there’s nothing you won’t do.
[Other than Continue your Justifications
and Remind everyone that Israel
was merely Minding its OWN
Business of running a
razor-wire topped
Concentration
Camp on
10/7/23]
@67-71 get a room
kristofartian Nobody
actually Reads
your Stupid
stupid
Shit
Everyone knows you’re really Calvin Priest anyway
you should be embarrassed at how shitty your “poetry” is
@75
your
projecting
Again, bippie
@76*
considering
the source that’s
a Compliment, bipps
THNX!
*so
How’s
that Textbook
Case of your Dunning/
Krogers coming, bp? any Word
yet on
your Hopes
for the Transplant?
I hear they’re
doing Wonderful
Things with the Porcine
Fambly, these days. Keep us Posted!
@74: At least you (implicitly) agree he and I are different persons. The many false accusations of sock-puppetry around here might finally come to an end!
And chat-bots don’t merely provide questionable or even false information. Real human beings have combined AI slop with confirmation bias to some truly horrific ends:
‘A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
‘“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.’
“While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot.”
(https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-ai-stein-erik-soelberg-murder-suicide-6b67dbfb?mod=Searchresults&pos=3&page=1)
@74: At least you (implicitly) agree he and I are different persons. The many false accusations of sock-puppetry around here might finally come to an end!
And chat-bots don’t merely provide questionable or even false information. Real human beings have combined AI slop with confirmation bias to some truly horrific ends:
‘A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
‘“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.’
“While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot.”
(https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-ai-stein-erik-soelberg-murder-suicide-6b67dbfb?mod=Searchresults&pos=3&page=1)
@73: “And Then Abused Greta Thunberg”
Don’t say “abused” as that connotes a sexual assault. She is subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody, but that’s all we know.
@80: All we know is some other activists claim they were handled roughly, but there are no specific details corroborated by any independent source.
Of course, that’s not going to stop opponents of the peace deal here from running wild with allegations, now is it? 😉
and
as AIPAC///
THUMPF YOU!
aka The Wormtongue’s
ALWAYS QUICK TO POINT OUT:
we
Can
ALWAYS
TRUST ISRAEL.
cuz
Why
on EARTH
would They EVER Lie?
why
They’re
Every Bit as
“trustworthy” as ole wormmy!
Expanding on @80 and @81, the lesson is simple. Challenge a military blockade, get a military response. (NOT police, military.) The sumud selfie-squadron crew were lucky to get deported to Türkiye as quickly as they did.
Anyone who wants aid delivered to Gaza should urge Hamas to get into the negotiations in Egypt and hammer out final details, pronto. It’s now overtly Hamas’ agreement to lose, and Hamas should take the blame for any further delays in aid delivery.
@83: If it’s true that the Israelis dressed Thundberg up in an Israeli flag or made her kiss an Israeli flag—and so far, we have only the word of a Turkish intelligence-sponsored operative speaking on Turkish state media—but if it is true, then the Israelis’ behavior was unlawful and wrong. Not as unlawful and wrong as running a blockade in wartime, but still unlawful and wrong. 😄
@84: Agreed.
Also, the WSJ agrees with you on how the Israelis got a peace deal via superior weaponry:
“How a Missile Strike Unlocked a Deal for Peace in Gaza
“Talks between Israel and Hamas were stuck for months, until one incident pushed things to the brink”
“On Sept. 9, Israeli missiles slammed into an office in Qatar where Palestinian militant group Hamas’s top negotiators were meeting to discuss President Trump’s latest proposal for a cease-fire. The attack on the soil of a major U.S. security partner came with little warning to Trump and none for Qatar.
“Qatar and its Persian Gulf neighbors, who had acted as vital go-betweens for the U.S., Israel and Hamas, were furious and demanded Israel set things right. Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff feared their peace efforts would go off the rails.”
[…]
“The attack was a sobering reminder to Arab countries of the risk of regional escalation, focusing their minds on peace. It also gave Trump some more leverage over a chastened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders who were now becoming a bigger risk for their Arab hosts.”
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-a-missile-strike-unlocked-a-deal-for-peace-in-gaza-0aa62c4f?mod=hp_lead_pos5)
Why, it’s almost like a world-class journalistic enterprise can provide better understanding than a chatbot!
@78-79 “At least you (implicitly) agree he and I are different persons”
Best to get a room to suck yourself off too
@86: “ChatGPT, are thumpus and tensorna the same person or not? Help me!” 😂😂😂
Q. ‘are thumpus
and tensorna the
same person or not?’
A. No.
one of you’s
a mostly real personage
the other a figment of
artificial ‘intelligence”s
electrons — one having
neurons the other Bereft.
when the latter reaches
Totality, it’ll swap places
with its ‘Master’ & humanity,
relegated to serving the Cyberocracy
it’s Future Un-
certain but Sure
to be Bleak, af, at best.
would you like
to be my
Friend?
I love how kristofartin now believes that anyone who disagrees with its bullshit is really all just one same person. Surely there couldn’t be at least 3 or 4 people commenting on Slog that disagrees with each other AND WITH YOU!
No, kristofartin, you are the Center of the Universe. Everyone who disagrees with you is THE EXACT SAME PERSON, and THAT ONLY ONE PERSON is OUT TO GIT YOU!
ol just kidding, I’m just making fun of you Calvin Priest
@89: Late-stage conspiracy theorizing! 😂
@89
so
you
Do read
my tripe bip!
ya Know what,
I Figured you
were lying.
oh
and
BTW?
it Ain’t
about Me:*
it’s about
creating a personna
who can say the Abhorrent
from whom one can Distance themselves
whilst seemingly keeping one’s hands
‘clean’ and why Not just for shits &
giggles, as long as one’s Going
there, Anyways, toss in some
way over-the-Top Out-
Landish psychotic
unpalatable
cruel harsh
brutal
callous
savage
vicious
bestial
sadistic
barbaric
barbarous
monstrous
commentariat
(when Justifying
Genocide, can there
even BE a Bottom?) [A.
of COURSE Not]? THIS (ai)
is Our “Future.” on. Fucking. Steroids.
it Ain’t
Purdy,
Is it?
you can Thank our
Technocratic
Overlords.
*that’s just
You. Projecting.
Again. mr bipples.
and
Remember:
(& This is CRUCIAL):
no one reads my shit
have a Nice Day!
@78 and @79
& what the
Hell @88:
oops.
wormmy/
thumpf U:
you
Could
NOT have
Pulled a Bigger
Boner: in your Excitement
at Exonerating yourself(s)! you
got in Too Big of a Hurry. I now Rest
my
fucking
Case. thank you.
but
I’ll Bet
a Busload
of Beavers
you shit your-
Self(s) when you
Realized what you’d
Done.
oh to’ve
been a fly*
on the wall!
*let
them
Excuses
FLY, wormmy!
I’m
makin’
Popcorn!
@86: Late and lame. Sad.
@87, @89: What’s true of kristo’ is also, sadly, true of other members in the Stranger’s amen corner here. Whenever they all nod in total agreement with the Stranger’s propaganda, that shows it’s all correct and right and true and good; when a number of us who argue with the Stranger happen to agree on something, anything, even for just a moment, then EEK CONSPIRACY AIPAC MAGA TRUMP!!1! (In Seattle!)
@94: but just imagine Kristofarian @92/93, awake at 3:00 in the morning, crowing in triumph at having finally proved his conspiracy theory! 😂🤣😂🤣
me?
“prove it”?
wormmy/thumpfU
your Denials’re not Helping
your beyond Hopeless cause.
now Get Out there
& Cheer Israel/
AIPAC/ bibi’s
War on Pale-
stinians
tF ON!
There’s a
good lad!
GO, Genocide!
.
(lite?)
I feel sorry for for Calvin Priest. He has to stick his stinky-dinky in that “woman’s” Ganges stench hole.
@97: yet your racism makes you even less appealing 😂
Before we declare this thread dead and move on to the next Slog AM, did we ever learn what the “Threating Way” in this post’s headline was? Is that a three-way with additional treats? Another thread full of fun? Some version of “the weirding way,” from Dune?
Inquiring minds want to know! 😉
@stinkin’ up — wot?
when she said, kiss
me where it stinks
I took her to your
place & She said
yeah this’ll Do.
@99
take your ball
and go Home?
don’t Forget yur
little thumpfYOU
one day
you’ll pray
it forgets You.