🙁 $$$: The Seattle Metropolis Council voted 6-1 to make the Seattle Police Division’s hiring bonus program everlasting and to lift one-time incentives for skilled officers up from $30,000 to $50,000. Council Member Tammy Morales, the only real no vote, questioned why we’re doing this when the mayor’s finances cuts $400,000 for police accountability and we’ve acquired a $250 million deficit. Council President Sara Nelson stated we want the hiring bonuses to remain aggressive and rent “one of the best of one of the best.” We began providing bonuses in 2019, and in her most up-to-date Dangerous Apples column, Ashley wrote concerning the “better of one of the best” we’ve attracted to this point.
To not point out the Mayor sacrificed $200 million in what would have been reasonably priced housing funding in a housing disaster. Good governance! https://t.co/nkyk19y4dH
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) October 8, 2024
Surveil me, plz: The council additionally handed laws to put in reside police cameras in neighborhoods it says have essentially the most violent crime. Council Member Cathy Moore thanked the ACLU for elevating privateness considerations however evoked the “larger aim” of public security.
CM Bob Kettle, forward of a vote on surveillance enlargement, says that Seattle protects free speech and expression. He has but to touch upon the protester who alleges his neighbor threw a speaker at his head whereas excising his proper to free speech. https://t.co/rM4OdPyeyH
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) October 8, 2024
The crosswalks are homosexual once more: A couple of weeks after some asshole, or assholes, spilled paint throughout a rainbow crosswalk on Broadway, the Seattle Division of Transportation restored its vibrant lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender glory. I doubt the homo-hating vandal(s) learn Slog, however should you do, then I hope you understand what a limp-brained loser you might be and the way little you harm us homosexual folks by attacking a fucking crosswalk. The results of a Metropolis pro-LGBTQ security plan, numerous us like them as a result of they let newly out folks, starry-eyed small-towners, and closeted people know they’re protected right here, however we’re not so self-serious about rainbow iconography, both. All of your pathetic assault reveals is that you simply suck and don’t even actually find out about what you hate or tips on how to hate it. Within the occasion you’re the clumsiest individual on this planet and carry round open paint cans at night time–please come clear, we’d be obsessive about you.
The vandalized Broadway Satisfaction crosswalk is rainbow vibrant once more https://t.co/2QVenJdP6K pic.twitter.com/e90JZmu0Cy
— CHSfeed (@CHSfeed) October 9, 2024
ICYMI: Coming Out Like a Pornstar was most likely the largest-ever assortment of essays from porn performers when it first printed in 2015. Now it’s been up to date for the age of OnlyFans, deep fakes, facial recognition software program, and FOSTA/SESTA. We wrote about it right here.
Some excellent news: Police discovered Charlotte “Bowie” Drozd, teenage daughter of Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd, yesterday, a couple of days after she’d been reported lacking close to the Area Needle. Whew.
Some extra excellent news: College of Washington’s David Baker gained the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work decoding and designing proteins, alongside Google Deepmind’s John Jumper and Briton Demis, who used synthetic intelligence to foretell the construction of all identified proteins. Journalists requested Baker if he had a favourite protein, however he wouldn’t choose favorites.
As soon as-in-a-many-many-lifetime comet alert: Like your buddy who by no means texts again, the comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will say hello for the primary time in 80,000 years this Saturday. Scientists say the comet will seem on the horizon about 45 minutes after sundown. It’ll stick round this month, rising dimmer and creeping larger within the sky till it disappears fully from view round Halloween. The clouds are anticipated to cooperate this weekend, so simply discover an unobstructed view of the horizon. Should you can see the Olympics, that’s most likely adequate.
We have a once-in-a-century storm brewing, too: Tens of millions of individuals are fleeing Milton, an almost Class 5 hurricane off the Gulf Coast. Milton is predicted to make landfall within the Tampa metro space Thursday with 160 mph winds and deadly storm surges of as much as 15 ft. Sufficient to swallow a home, stated Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. “So, should you’re in it, that’s principally a coffin that you simply’re in,” she stated. Tampa hasn’t been straight hit by a hurricane since 1921, and for some perspective on how dangerous this might be, Andrew, Harvey, and Katrina didn’t straight hit metropolitan areas.
Know their names: Israel has worn out 902 households since October 7. Al Jazeera printed this interactive story about who they had been. Over the previous yr, Israel has killed almost 42,000 folks.
Who you gonna name (about ghost weapons?): The Supreme Courtroom, for as soon as. Justices appear prone to uphold Biden administration rules that require background checks, serial numbers, and gross sales data for almost untraceable ghost weapons, DIY firearms usually assembled from kits or 3D-printed elements. Producers argue they shouldn’t must adjust to our gun management legal guidelines as a result of they don’t assume ghost weapons legally rely as weapons, and their merchandise are marketed like a type of easy-to-assemble mannequin equipment for “hobbyists.” C’mon. They’re nonetheless completely weapons able to killing folks, and, by the best way, it isn’t a lot of a pastime until you get pleasure from drilling and screwing issues collectively along with your ft, solely. Even the tremendous conservative fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals and our gun-crazed Supreme Courtroom appear to know that. Thank God, as a result of these pesky ghost weapons are all over the place.
Republicans spent $65 million on anti-trans TV advertisements: With the election weeks away, conservatives are attempting to strike concern into the hearts of suburban girls with advertisements about trans girls and ladies in girls’s loos, altering in girls’s locker rooms, enjoying youth sports activities with girls, and residing in girls’s prisons. Even Donald Trump has an advert the place he says, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.” Phobic as that’s, it made me chuckle. It’s so dumb, and I critically doubt it’ll work. Trump will get large applause when he talks about “transgender madness” at his rallies, however wedge-y messaging hasn’t been very profitable in latest campaigns.
Firefighters union snubs Harris/Walz: In August, after a roomful of Boston firefighters cheered Tim Walz in the future and booed JD Vance the following (he’s the worst, however I’d cry), an Worldwide Firefighters Affiliation endorsement appeared seemingly. However the union has declined to endorse both candidate. In response to Politico, this completely blindsided the Democrats struggling to win over working-class union members that MAGA Republicans had been sensible to court docket this election. A few of which will must do with dropping Biden, whose pro-worker stance is likely one of the few genuinely cool issues about him. I feel Trump’s dismal report of packing courts with anti-union judges, stacking the Nationwide Labor Relations Board with anti-union appointees, and previous guarantees to move anti-union legal guidelines, coupled along with his latest remark that placing employees must be fired, in addition to a basic dislike for paying folks, ought to … kinda communicate for itself. But it surely’s Trump, so it slides proper off that slimy exterior.
The Fats Bear of Monte Katmai: In a vengeful, feminist twist, Grazer gained her second Fats Bear contest over Chunk, the bear who killed her cub this summer time. Good for her, I assume, although she has no consciousness of our foolish video games. Additionally, I don’t get why the Fats Bear contest, which sounds so enjoyable, is so unhappy and tragic. Final week, the Nationwide Park Service needed to maintain again on telling the general public which fats bears had been competing as a result of a bear killed one of many contestants on a reside feed.
Irvine Police Division unveils “first” police Cybertruck: What higher automobile for this establishment than a $153,000 Tesla for its DARE program, and what higher walk-on tune than the theme from Terminator, a movie about an indiscriminately killing robotic? It additionally appears bizarre to make use of the Terminator theme when Robocop exists, and the connotations of “terminating” individuals are that a lot worse.
#IRVINEPDPIO – We’re excited to unveil what we consider is the primary police Tesla Cybertruck within the nation. The truck will help our Drug Abuse Resistance Training (DARE) program and neighborhood outreach efforts. Particulars within the feedback. #irvine @Tesla #Cybertruck #irvinepd pic.twitter.com/H9F20FbsMR
— Irvine Police Division (@IrvinePolice) October 8, 2024