Scott Forbes

@scottforbes.net

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This is my personal account and these are my personal opinions, which are mostly about politics, but may randomly be about other things.

Image of a tweet from @behindyourback (Maura Quint). Text: I'm not a "leftist" or "socialist" so much as I'm just a "society is a construct and we've constructed ours into a pyramid scheme meant to exponentially help the small few at the top while crushing everyone else and it's dumb as hell and we don't have to keep doing it"
A Venn diagram with three circles. Reagan is in the red circle, which labeled “senile.” Bush (presumably Dubya) is in the blue circle, which is labeled “incompetent.” Nixon is in the green circle, which is labeled “criminal.” Trump is in the center region where the three circles overlap.
XKCD comic #3230, depicting a tombstone engraved with the name Joseph Paul Overton and the years 1960 – 2003. The years are crossed out, and 1965 – 2011 is written underneath. This second pair of years is also crossed out, and 1973 – 2018 is written underneath. This third pair of years is also crossed out, and 1982 – [blank] is written underneath. Alt text joke on the original comic: “I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn’t in my face in the morning, but now it is.”
Rep. Julia Reed’s account has been tagged “No break greater than 4 hrs yesterday” after she posted around the clock during the legislature’s marathon 25-hour session
Final Jeopardy category: theater
A meme showing a panel from the graphic novel “Watchmen” in which superhero Dr. Manhattan is sitting on Mars
A sign that says “E-Bikes for Everyone” in the style of a Mamdani campaign poster
Image from the ballot tracker page on the King County Elections website, showing that my ballot is at step 4, “ballot received.”
Cartoon of a woman on her front porch holding a bowl of candy and greeting three children trick-or-treaters. The children are dressed as a witch, a vampire, and a ghost. The ghost’s costume has a pointed hood. The woman is saying “How cute! A witch, a vampire, and a Trump supporter!”
Image from the ballot tracker page on the King County Elections website, showing that my ballot is at step 2, “ballot delivered.” It should be at step 6 (“ballot counted”) by now, given that I put it in the mail over a week ago.
Picture of Detective Lester Freamon from _The Wire_. “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it’s going to take you.”
A picture captioned “May I present you with a Venn diagram.” The first circle is labeled “people who don’t want to release the files,” and the second circle is labeled “people who are in the files.” There is 100% overlap between the two circles, so this “Venn diagram” is just a single circle with two labels.
Ad on the window of a light rail train about on-demand bike lockers at Sound Transit stations, with the tagline “it’s like daycare for your bike”
Close-up picture of the odometer on my e-bike showing that I’ve pedaled 1,000 miles
A dialog box that says “clicking ’Agree’ means you have read and agreed to [vendor’s] User Agreement and Privacy Policy,” but there is no ‘Agree’ button: the buttons are labeled ’Cancel’ and ‘OK’
Video of several squirrels chasing each other and fighting in the tree in my backyard
Two-panel image of Buzz Lightyear and Woody from “Toy Story,” from the scene where Buzz and Woody are flying. In the first panel, the caption of Woody saying “Uuh, Buzz? We missed the truck” has been altered to instead say “Uuh, American Catholics? We lost the presidency.” In the second panel, the caption of Buzz saying “We’re not aiming for the truck” has been altered to instead say “We’re not aiming for the Presidency.”
A four-panel cartoon. In the first panel, a man is giving an address to a large legislative body, and is saying “government should be smaller!” In the second panel, the man is speaking before a smaller legislative body, saying “smaller!” In the third panel, the man is at a podium at the head of a conference table, saying “smaller!” In the fourth panel, the man is sitting on a throne, and the only other people present are palace guards. The man says “perfect.”
A ten-day Seattle weather forecast that predicts ten straight days of rain.
Screenshot of @joncstone tweet saying “One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work”
Image of a post on MetaFilter by sotonohito, which reads as follows: I'm not going to celebrate, but I can see why people would. I don't endorse political killing, it doesn't lead anywhere good. But? You know that button people talk about in hypothetical situations? The one where you push it and you get a million dollars but a random stranger dies? Thompson was pushing that button all day long. I won't cheer his death, but its hard to condemn the killer because to me it looks a lot like self defense. Thompson was a mass murderer, a man who in a just world would be charged with crimes against humanity. I can't see the killing of any health industry executive as anything but self defense. People engage in vigilantism when the machinery of justice has failed them. The proper solution is to improve the system of justice. If anyone had any hope that a man like Thompson would ever be brought to justice I doubt anyone would have been so hurt by him they resorted to this.
Meme of a girl in school uniform standing against a wall, with another student holding a tuba such that the end of the tuba completely covers the girl’s face. The tuba is labeled “unwanted AI,” the tuba player is labeled “every company,” and the girl is labeled “me.”
Tweet by @MNateShyamalan that says “jury duty is a wild concept. whenever the government wants, they can just be like ‘call off work bestie, we need you to solve a murder 🥰 here’s fifteen dollars.’”
Swordfighting scene from The Princess Bride
Campaign poster of Donald Trump and Kristi Noem. Noem is holding an assault rifle and a puppy, and the poster is captioned “VOTE FOR US OR WE’LL SHOOT THIS PUPPY”
Sign advertising “100L CLEAR INCAN MINI LIGHTS,” with boxes of lights in background