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John
@juanvaldes.bsky.social
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Nerd, iOS dev, Gamer, Giants, Sounders
Lots of bitching about politics & soccer.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Civilization
Civilization 6 box art. Giant stone statue rising high above the earth, holding a globe over its head.
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We voted 💪
Have you?
Two WA ballots being put into a ballot drop box.
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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That’s a choice.
Sports car parked diagonally in a handicap spot.
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Shadowrun
Box art for Sega Genesis game Shadowrun.
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I guessed.

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October 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Last ones. Great day, great crowd and FUCK TRUMP!
Man in Walter Sobchak costume holding sign that reads “Shut the fuck up Donny”
October 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Few more photos of signs.
Sign of a Venn diagram of Hitler & Alfred E Newman, overlapping is Trump. Sign that reads MILF - Man, I Loathe Fascism. Sign that reads Seattle stands with Portland! Above a frog with a “Resist” sign backed up by Sammy the Sounder. Sign that reads “Girls just wanna have Fundamental rights”
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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@golikehellmachine.com
Sign reading “They do not break us. They break upon us” at No Kings protest. Seattle WA.
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Took three trains but the wife & I finally got on.
Packed platform waiting to get on Link logtt hr rail. Seattle WA Packed platform waiting to get on Link logtt hr rail. Seattle WA
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Excellent turnout in Seattle for the #NoKings protest.
Crying Statue of Liberty. Cat knocking a crown off a table above the word No Kings Is Hegseth hooked on meth? [✅] Yes [ ] No Sign that reads “Los Pedos Hermanos” above picture of Trump & Epstein.
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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No ICE
No Nazis
NO KINGS
👊
“No more kings” school house rock. Defund the pigs If you aren’t anti-fascist then what are you? Anti-fascist anti-racist always Seattle flag
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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👋 @timothywood.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist Anti-Racist Always Seattle flag in the No Kings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Standing room only on the D line heading to the Seattle center for the #NoKings protest.
Standing room only on D line bus, Seattle WA
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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@adamchristiansmith.bsky.social spotted you & the fam tonight post game.
October 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Would get along with Blaze.
Blaze the calico cat sleeping on a Sounders FC blanket.
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I still think this is partly due to multiple generations being raised with empty "both parties are the same" rhetoric from entertainment and especially comedians. Much easier to shutdown the conversation by being cynical. Acting as if that puts them above the fray.
Kang vs Kodos from The Simpsons. Jack Johnson vs John Jackson from Futurama.
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Yesterday my father passed.
Rest in peace, David Rider Leonard Worthington.
I love you.
David R. L. Worthington with his granddaughter. Yesterday my father passed. David Rider Leonard Worthington, March 30th 1945 to October 4th 2025. He is survived by his four siblings, wife, three children and four grandchildren. A pioneer in Silicon Valley he worked at many historic companies such as Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI), Sun Microsystems among many others. As a young man he traveled the world. He got to see the sun rise and moon set simultaneously while riding a train in the plains of India, consumed opium to deal with travelers sickness while in South East Asia and collected many African souvenirs while he traveled across the continent. With my mom he spent a few years living in Guam. He valued truth and democracy and was a vigorous consumer of the news. He taught me how to read and think critically regardless of source. It did not matter if he was reading the newspaper, watching tv or listening to AM radio in the car, he would always talk back and explain what the report had gotten wrong, left out or purposefully distorted. He was a loving husband, great father and loved his grandchildren. I will miss him dearly.
October 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Can confirm.
MLS Supporters Shield cover in 11 shots. MLS Supporters Shield cover in 11 shots.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Mariners. Fuck them up!

- signed Giants fan next door
Go Sounders!
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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If you see this post a concert picture you took
"Prophets of Rage", September 2016, Washington
September 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Playing around with the camera on my new iPhone at the plant store while my wife shops.
Monstera adansonii. Adanson’s Swiss Cheese Plant. Carracennia Begonia Cactus
September 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Spark says LETZGOOOOO!
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Klein and the rest of the beltway press have no clue what they are up against.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
There are many problems with this statement, but Klein’s fundamental error reveals something much more dangerous: he’s mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.” Klein is eulogizing not a practitioner of good-faith political discourse, but one of the most successful architects of “debate me bro” culture—a particularly toxic form of intellectual harassment that has become endemic to our political discourse. And by praising Kirk as practicing “politics the right way,” Klein is inadvertently endorsing a grift that actively undermines the kind of thoughtful engagement our democracy desperately needs. The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the truth.” If they accept, turn the interaction into a performance designed to generate viral clips and false legitimacy. It’s a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposition that has nothing to do with genuine intellectual discourse.
September 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Flags are flying in the Brougham end.
Emerald City Supporters logo on a trans pride flag. Other flags flying at Seattle Sounders vs LA Galaxy match.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM