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emi koyama
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activist, writer, rogue intellectual
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seattle / portland
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commemorating international day to end violence against sex workers in portland today www.instagram.com/p/DQSrTIZEvjW/
Oregon Safer Workers Coalition on Instagram: "Mark your calendars for December 14th and join us for a community event in observance of International Day to End Violence Against SW ❤️ #event #portland ...
166 likes, 1 comments - oswcoalition on October 26, 2025: "Mark your calendars for December 14th and join us for a community event in observance of International Day to End Violence Against SW ❤️ #eve...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Why am I hounded every single morning right around 9am by calls from some company contracted by MY health insurance provider to sell more stuff?
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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They shouldn't have approved the use of the word "downtown" where there is none.
typewriteralley.bsky.social Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7d
On the press tour last week, when I brought up the fact that people might confuse Federal Way Downtown with, uh, Downtown Seattle, the reaction from the ST folks was mostly, "Well, we approved those station names a long time ago."
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
From the Seattle community on Reddit: Light Rail Airport Signage is Now HORRENDOUS!
Explore this post and more from the Seattle community
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December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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i’m on the very first train out of federal way “downtown” station on this opening day.
photo looking out of the window of a train at a station. sign says federal way downtown
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I'm reading a prefiled bill and came across the phrase "In a county with a population of $250,000"—apparently there are counties in Washington State where residents are dollars not human persons.
Bill text https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2094.pdf?q=20251204105740 page 2 lines 12-20
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Guilty plea is almost always coerced. The worst part of the plea is that defendants are forced to lie under oath to state that nobody threatened or coerced them into waiving their constitutional rights, under the watchful gaze of lawyers on all sides complicit in maintaining the façade.
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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$2.6 million for an AI surveillance system that can't tell the difference between a gun and Doritos, and the Inspector General response is: staff need more training on how to use AI.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Not everyone has a lawyer, but even those who don't can be like Audre Lorde on this one (this from her FBI file)
-However, as it turned out, LORDE's mai objection to assisting the FBI was that she would not report on her friends. No further interview with LORDE is contemplated, as it is felt that she would give no information regarding HEIT or anyone else she knew.
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#WWAD shirt for 12/17
image of t-shirt with the iconic photo of Aileen Wuornos holding up her handcuffed wrists in front of her neck, with acronym “WWAD” and the sentence “What would Aileen do?”
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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WA Legislature to consider requiring union talks over government use of AI

A bill focused on public employee unions stalled this year, but its prime sponsor plans to try again in 2026. #waleg
WA Legislature to consider requiring union talks over government use of AI • Washington State Standard
Washington lawmakers are set to discuss whether public sector unions can bargain over their employers’ adoption of AI.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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From @realchangenews.org
Don’t say “sex work:” The inefficient current approach to ending sex trafficking in Seattle
Don’t say “sex work:” The inefficient current approach to ending sex trafficking in Seattle
www.realchangenews.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Love that everyone is already treating Katie as the Mayor-elect.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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hey look, even a fortune cookie has sense of irony
fortune from a fortune cookie: Your life will be happy and peaceful.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I didn’t know about this either. Risograph is something I fancy but never actually get to try, but the app’s layout and PDF features look super useful too.
zinelib.bsky.social my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · Nov 8
New-to-me resource from the Zine Librarians unConference chat: spectrolite.app "Spectrolite is a free Mac desktop app by ANEMONE to make colorful 🌈 risograph prints and zines more easily."
Spectrolite
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November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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cfpdx.bsky.social
A NYT's reporter embedding with LA Vice cops says everything you need to know about the NYT’s ethics.

This is a garbage piece from beginning to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
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November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Dear journalists: please always identify National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation as a Christian fundamentalist religious right group formerly known as Morality In Media. Or better yet, don't legitimize them by mentioning them in any other context.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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“Federal Way Downtown” consists of the park & ride. City Hall and other official functions are far away and barely accessible by public transit.
typewriteralley.bsky.social Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · Nov 5
Even more than the fact that the trains don't go to these places yet, the new signage is confusing to visitors in that it might lead them to believe Federal Way has a downtown.
Signage showing federal way downtown and downtown redmond
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Attending Seattle book launch of “How to End Family Policing” with my baby Kitti at Seattle Central Library this evening.
Chihuahua in red sweater spring in front of a copy of the colorfully illustrated book cover of How to End Family Policing
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America"
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
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SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America" - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes celebrated earlier this week after an anti-drug trafficking operation recovered fentanyl,…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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did any sex worker watch the new doc about aileen wuornos on netflix? tell me if i should watch or avoid.
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Please help @aileens.org respond to the FOOD CRISIS on Pac Hwy. We will be there supporting our women and children like we rose up to the challenge in 2020 when COVID lockdown led other groups to suspend their services. Also: winter clothes, boots, socks, tents, blankets, etc. needed too.
[Aileen's Logo with tagline "supporting & building community for women on pac hwy"] Donate to Support Our EMERGENCY RESPONSE to the Food CRISIS on Pac Hwy https://gofundme.com/aileens detail on the following pages ➡ Aileen's is a peer-led community organizing and hospitality space by and for women working along the Pacific Highway in south King County, Washington. [Screen shot of the film WE ARE AILEENS] [QR code for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRcjZHO9q4 ] watch our film on youtube! Like millions of Americans, our women and their children are worried and scared about the coming food crisis as SNAP benefits are suspended amid government shutdown. When COVID lockdown resulted in massive loss of access to food and services in 2020, peer leaders of Aileen's came forward to distribute food and other necessities out of a parking lot for folks in need. [photo of food distribution site in parking lot] [photo of food stuck full on table and inside fridge] And we are once again scrambling to address this crisis now, until SNAP benefits are fully restored. We will begin handing out gift cards to grocery stores starting Nov. Ist, but will switch to running our own pantry and/or preparing food ourselves as well if the situation persists beyond a couple of weeks. [QR code for https://gofundme.com/aileens ] We know that lots of people are suffering right now, but please, if you can, consider supporting our peer-led mutual aid efforts by donating via QR code above. To donate via other methods, or if you have cute winter clothes, boots, socks, tents, blankets, and other items to donate, please contact admin@aileens.org.
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Finished Rhacel Salazar Parreñas' new book, "The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers." It's brief, but is packed with examples and explanations of how culture, gender, laws, and savior complex combine to enable trafficking of domestic workers by regular folks. …
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Mayor Harrell dismisses Katie’s long history of making changes through community organizing and policy advocacy by suggesting she didn’t change laws, legislators did. But it is people rising up to demand changes that have made the City better. Definitely one of the highlights of the rally.
theurbanist.org The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · Oct 26
Katie Wilson said she and Mayor Harrell see power differently. He has dismissed her accomplishments as an organizer, but she argued real power for change is bottom up, not top down.
October 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Transexual Menace is actually spelled with one "s" by the way.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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October 26th is #IntersexAwarenessDay 💜💛 Did you know our movement started with a newsletter connecting intersex people for the first time in the 90s, a protest outside a Boston medical conference & later an internationally recognized day? @19thnews.org

19thnews.org/2025/10/inte...
Intersex Awareness Day highlights a fight for rights that’s far from over
From a Boston protest to global recognition, the history of Intersex Awareness Day shines a light on decades of work to preserve bodily autonomy.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM