DJ Jazzy Sweater Vest

DJ Jazzy Sweater Vest

@craig.agitate-discourse.org

Creator/founder of agitate-discourse.org but also just a Seattleite dad slightly older than 38 interested in politics, sports, YIMBY shit and transportation. I do my best work in the alt-text. Big meaty thumbs prone to typos. Replies with Frinkiac memes.

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It’s more than a little maddening we fall right back into dissecting something Obama said that is of zero consequence but conservatives found a bad faith attack angle on. Meanwhile Trump openly directs the DOJ to attack enemies and invalidate elections unfavorable to him flies under the radar.

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That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

One thing I find consistently maddening with conservative arguments is how much they rely on a slippery slope. “Sure, democrats might not seem dangerous NOW but look where it will inevitably lead?!” They chastise from the cesspool gutter at the bottom of their own slope they slipped down ages ago.

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Is it possible to stretch your way to loose calves? Every other muscle can be stretched and rested to a sufficiently loose state but calves are always ALWAYS tight. You can only ever seem to get them to a slightly less shitty place but not remotely close to good.

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More explicitly a relative of Rep. Pollet, Eileen, who owns a consulting firm that a lot of Dems have used, bought leftycheatsheet dot com and is redirecting it to the FUSE guide as an attempt to confuse people trying to find leftycheatsheet.org

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Share the Cities Collective@sharethecities.bsky.social

Is it a compliment if someone takes your volunteer project url and buys the dot com version and has it redirect to another website or is it tacky? 🤔

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(Ralph Wiggum voice) I’m a class traitor!

No on I-645@no645.bsky.social

It doesn’t take a quiz whiz like @kenjennings.bsky.social to know 645 is wrong for Washington. Vote NO on 645. 🗳️ no645.com

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Getting sick while training happens almost inevitably. Started feeling like crap on my intended rest day but I missed two days of actual training and now I’m forcing myself to run 5 miles when my body would still rather not. I’ll forever be undecided whether this helps more or hurts more.

It’s fine if people enjoy pineapple on pizza, what I won’t stand for is making them a favored class. I’m sick of the standard inoffensive-pizza-order-for-a-group to include Hawaiian. Vegetarians deserve to be accommodated, what exactly are we accommodating by taking special care to cover these guys?

I’m fascinated by sagging your jeans. Started in the early 90’s and never really stopped. Has any fashion trend which so clearly reduces the quality of life of the wearer ever had such staying power? High heels is the only thing I can think of that comes close.

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One thing I’m grateful for, they changed the route. I did the seattle marathon before, previously the last 6 miles were straight up from the lake. End of Nov is a stupid time to hold a marathon in Seattle, add the terrible route and I wondered if the Seattle was the worst marathon in the world.

The training plan I have had me do just 3 miles today. In the past I’d be tempted to add more because even out of shape, 3 miles just doesn’t feel like I’m challenging myself or pushing the envelope which I feel normally compelled to do with any training regime.

I wouldn’t be quite so bothered by fundraising texts if my unsubscribes or spam reports applied to all communications from that particular candidate. I have doubts a single vendor honors those requests let alone expect they communicate preferences but that is the compromise I could stomach.

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5 minutes into the preseason and Nikola Jokic is throwing behind the back cross-court passes... I needed the replays too

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Replying to @quinnae.com

I do believe AI psychosis remains a real problem--though more research is needed to assess its prevalence and exact etiology. You won't avoid it by training yourself to be cruel to an entity that is specifically *designed* to emulate a human, though. That's just doing asshole aerobics.

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Anyway, I’ll consider this not an embarrassment if I can break the Oprah line. This is all stupid but my brother in law who randomly took up running two years ago and instantly became elite at it suggested I do it with him so my pride and the fact I could really use a win pushed me to say “fuck it”.

This will be my 5th marathon - 6th if you count the fact my Iron Man comprised one - but it has been over a decade since I last did any of this sort of nonsense. I’m about 250lbs which is at least 25 pounds heavier than I have ever run one.

I mostly do peloton rides for exercise these days and sometimes mix in a 5 mile hilly run every other week so I don’t lose my jogging ability completely. so this might is a big ramp up to attempt without injuring myself.

An underappreciated reason people act fully insane is because it is effective. I have had so many venders in my life - personally and professionally - that ignored me and backlogged me because I was the only one of their clients not losing their fucking mind at them.

This is essentially the impetus behind my work on @agitate-discourse.org Eternally, we have never had a tool that allows effective group-dileberation and consensus building. Novelly, we need one more than ever to sort through all the crap we are awash in.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.

I hate to even incidentally build Denver’s teams’ elevation mystique. I’m a big proponent of a major sport expansion team in mexico city if for no other reason then it makes all the 5280 branding embarrassing.

I play footsie with the WNBA but I really want to dive deep this playoffs. It feels like every team that made the playoffs this season has a plausible path. It will be 1000% matchups. I’m digging in.

WNBA@wnba.com

The spots are locked and the teams are ready to go 🚨 Check out the official bracket for the 2026 WNBA Playoffs presented by Google Pixel. See you Sunday for the First Round!

Real WNBA heads, I welcome any correction but NY/Minn is a heavyweight bout out of the gates. Valkyries/Wings is plucky upstart vs pluckier more upstart. Atlanta/Mistics is the let’s see who is further ahead of schedule bowl. and fever/aces is pure fireworks.

It is a bit funny that the captains of industry who perpetually can’t see anything beyond the next quarter are the ones adopting effective altruism. We beg them to adopt a slightly longer-term view and they say “okay, how about 500 years?!”

My very cynical guess why AOC would do this are quietly influential mom group chats. This is where MAHA BS spreads with scant resistance. And these women can still be sexist, finding ways to hate women like AOC. She needs a proactive plan to inure herself to these groups. youtu.be/3u6pZB0UtzM?...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.