Ben Steele
@bensteele.bsky.social
Seattleite, mentally ill, just wanting to make the world a little better.
Suppressing the light urge to see someone in a Santa hat on Broadway and stop them like, "wow, oh my god, are you going to Christmas/Bar? You're just so brave being what you are in public."
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Suppressing the light urge to see someone in a Santa hat on Broadway and stop them like, "wow, oh my god, are you going to Christmas/Bar? You're just so brave being what you are in public."
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They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
Gym people: do you wear shoes while you do planks? My current preferred gym shoes dig into the top of my toes and I don't know if that means I'm doing something stupid or if it's an equipment issue.
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Gym people: do you wear shoes while you do planks? My current preferred gym shoes dig into the top of my toes and I don't know if that means I'm doing something stupid or if it's an equipment issue.
Learning linear algebra to understand the Adam Aleksic eigenslur discussion and have something witty to say like we need to add the eigenslur to specifically picket line crossers drinking Starbucks in the US Department of Labor.
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Learning linear algebra to understand the Adam Aleksic eigenslur discussion and have something witty to say like we need to add the eigenslur to specifically picket line crossers drinking Starbucks in the US Department of Labor.
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Sara Nelson has officially adjourned her final meeting both as a Councilmember and as President of the Seattle City Council.
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sara Nelson has officially adjourned her final meeting both as a Councilmember and as President of the Seattle City Council.
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SPD Paid for Top Exec to Stay at Four-Star Hotel for a Month; Unclear Whether New Contract Would Have Let Police Handle Auderer Case Internally
Today's Afternoon Fizz:
publicola.com/2025/12/16/s...
Today's Afternoon Fizz:
publicola.com/2025/12/16/s...
SPD Paid for New Executive to Stay at Four-Star Hotel for a Month; Unclear Whether New Contract Would Have Let Police Handle Auderer Case Internall - PubliCola
1. The Seattle Police Department spent more than $6,300 on a month-long stay at the four-star Arctic Club Hotel in…
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December 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
SPD Paid for Top Exec to Stay at Four-Star Hotel for a Month; Unclear Whether New Contract Would Have Let Police Handle Auderer Case Internally
Today's Afternoon Fizz:
publicola.com/2025/12/16/s...
Today's Afternoon Fizz:
publicola.com/2025/12/16/s...
Many such cases. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Anti-Trans Alaskan State Medical Board Doctor Charged With CSAM, Home Goes Up In Flames
Last week Dr. Ryan McDonough was arrested on ten counts of possession of child sexual abuse material. Over the weekend, his family home went up in flames.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Many such cases. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
The point of having an on-site post office is losing a significant portion of your paycheck every time you go to send something absurd to a friend because the cute Biden-era stamps sniped you perfectly.
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The point of having an on-site post office is losing a significant portion of your paycheck every time you go to send something absurd to a friend because the cute Biden-era stamps sniped you perfectly.
No bike lane? Bike can go at the speed of traffic. It's incredible and feels so much safer to not be made to feel you're going unsafely slow around machines. I love when my commute feels more secure.
Out of curiosity why would we want e-bikes to go over 20mph??
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
No bike lane? Bike can go at the speed of traffic. It's incredible and feels so much safer to not be made to feel you're going unsafely slow around machines. I love when my commute feels more secure.
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Not only not accepting: withdrawing offers already made in writing, according to the article.
“Even if they’re not international students, they’re going to say, ‘Why would I ever accept an offer from Purdue if there’s no guarantee that it’s actually an offer?’”
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Grad
“Even if they’re not international students, they’re going to say, ‘Why would I ever accept an offer from Purdue if there’s no guarantee that it’s actually an offer?’”
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Grad
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not only not accepting: withdrawing offers already made in writing, according to the article.
“Even if they’re not international students, they’re going to say, ‘Why would I ever accept an offer from Purdue if there’s no guarantee that it’s actually an offer?’”
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Grad
“Even if they’re not international students, they’re going to say, ‘Why would I ever accept an offer from Purdue if there’s no guarantee that it’s actually an offer?’”
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Grad
Switching to Qobuz but maintaining a YouTube Music subscription so that when I physically must listen to ******' *** ****** or I will perish, she receives no money.
There is a value to shitty corporations.
There is a value to shitty corporations.
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Switching to Qobuz but maintaining a YouTube Music subscription so that when I physically must listen to ******' *** ****** or I will perish, she receives no money.
There is a value to shitty corporations.
There is a value to shitty corporations.
The thing that I feel scenes involving doing serious relationship things at tourist traps (e.g. meeting a long lost love at the Empire State Building observation deck) lack that would drive verisimilitude is that I never manage to do that and not have, like, twenty people I know walk by.
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The thing that I feel scenes involving doing serious relationship things at tourist traps (e.g. meeting a long lost love at the Empire State Building observation deck) lack that would drive verisimilitude is that I never manage to do that and not have, like, twenty people I know walk by.
My problem with gay people is that they're too competent at coming to parties, so instead of leaving the giant cookie party with a reasonable number of cookies because of guests that did not bake, everyone returns home with 80% because of market saturation.
This is to say "Oh god, I overdid it."
This is to say "Oh god, I overdid it."
December 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My problem with gay people is that they're too competent at coming to parties, so instead of leaving the giant cookie party with a reasonable number of cookies because of guests that did not bake, everyone returns home with 80% because of market saturation.
This is to say "Oh god, I overdid it."
This is to say "Oh god, I overdid it."
Half of Seattle's annoying people just went 😮😧😓🥹😶🌫️🫥😮💨 as one.
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Half of Seattle's annoying people just went 😮😧😓🥹😶🌫️🫥😮💨 as one.
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The color of the sky in Seattle is dark gray #acafab
![2025-12-12 11:55:00 #acafab dark gray | [#acafab - 30%] [#b4b7b1 - 26%] [#c6c9c7 - 24%] [#c3c5c0 - 10%] [#bfc2bb - 7%] [#bec1be - 2%]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohjjzadgzeub2ffc5agg7k4z/bafkreih6qycoeyiesostehz4mpc3kcxejklahbssukpw5h7dqgx2gf2cvy@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The color of the sky in Seattle is dark gray #acafab
Okay, partially because I walk past their apparel lab all the time and I'm losing my mind about how boring the readymade clothes are in Seattle, I checked the prices for remedial sewing classes at Seattle Central College. Less than $300 a quarter, industrial machine access. My god.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Okay, partially because I walk past their apparel lab all the time and I'm losing my mind about how boring the readymade clothes are in Seattle, I checked the prices for remedial sewing classes at Seattle Central College. Less than $300 a quarter, industrial machine access. My god.
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Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The problem with Dune meaning that everyone knows its main stars is that Timothee Chalamet breaking containment into a name my Evangelical parents know still feels like they just discovered Call Me By Your Name and we're going to have to do some panicked literary analysis with them.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The problem with Dune meaning that everyone knows its main stars is that Timothee Chalamet breaking containment into a name my Evangelical parents know still feels like they just discovered Call Me By Your Name and we're going to have to do some panicked literary analysis with them.
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A Sound Transit board committee is about to look at additional analysis on building Ballard Link without a full second LRT tunnel under downtown.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A Sound Transit board committee is about to look at additional analysis on building Ballard Link without a full second LRT tunnel under downtown.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Anyways, the federal system must have a counterweight outside it that is not solely beholden to the United States government to force a solution to clear tyranny. Our sovereignty is being used to avoid essential safeguards against evil.
Full opinion here. Judge Xinis is clearly hopping mad with the government's repeated refusals to comply with her requests to be forthright about the situation, and suggests she will take it into account in pending sanctions motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)
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December 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Anyways, the federal system must have a counterweight outside it that is not solely beholden to the United States government to force a solution to clear tyranny. Our sovereignty is being used to avoid essential safeguards against evil.
Something I'm thinking about today: if the US joined the ICC, then actions taken by China and Russia against the US would be, via the method that crimes against Palestine and Venezuela are in the court's jurisdiction, in the court's jurisdiction.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
December 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Something I'm thinking about today: if the US joined the ICC, then actions taken by China and Russia against the US would be, via the method that crimes against Palestine and Venezuela are in the court's jurisdiction, in the court's jurisdiction.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
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I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War.
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War.
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
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Easiest way to kill in America is to use a car. No charges not even a night in jail.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Easiest way to kill in America is to use a car. No charges not even a night in jail.
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.