Stephen Perdue
@staybunn.bsky.social
Banal, but generally kind.
Kasane Teto avatar by @cubewatermelon.bsky.social
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A very welcome start to my day.
Katie Wilson Is Seattle’s Next Mayor
Somewhere, Bruce Harrell is slamming a table. Katie Wilson is up by 1,976 votes and 0.72 percent of the vote. It’s tight, but we’re outside of recount territory, and it’s mathematica...
www.thestranger.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A very welcome start to my day.
There’s never a good day to hear or see our current president, but on Veterans Day, he’s extra especially welcome to StFU.
Wonder if I can automate muting his name every November 10th and 11th…?
Wonder if I can automate muting his name every November 10th and 11th…?
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
There’s never a good day to hear or see our current president, but on Veterans Day, he’s extra especially welcome to StFU.
Wonder if I can automate muting his name every November 10th and 11th…?
Wonder if I can automate muting his name every November 10th and 11th…?
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I need an app that platforms every major news outlet and offers a subscription service of a preset number of articles read per month, or a pay per article option
I want to support journalism without having to get 12 different monthly subscriptions 🫠
I want to support journalism without having to get 12 different monthly subscriptions 🫠
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I need an app that platforms every major news outlet and offers a subscription service of a preset number of articles read per month, or a pay per article option
I want to support journalism without having to get 12 different monthly subscriptions 🫠
I want to support journalism without having to get 12 different monthly subscriptions 🫠
Coworker: I can’t believe you remembered that!
Me: Colanders hold *most* of their contents…
Me: Colanders hold *most* of their contents…
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Coworker: I can’t believe you remembered that!
Me: Colanders hold *most* of their contents…
Me: Colanders hold *most* of their contents…
On just the first real night* of standard time, I had already changed the clock on the bike’s dash by the time I got home from work. Good job, me.
*Sunday does not count.
*Sunday does not count.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
On just the first real night* of standard time, I had already changed the clock on the bike’s dash by the time I got home from work. Good job, me.
*Sunday does not count.
*Sunday does not count.
My brain used the extra hour of night to play a vivid dream of major ADHD fails at big-deal work and social obligations, so that I could wake up before sunrise all wound up and stressed out.
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My brain used the extra hour of night to play a vivid dream of major ADHD fails at big-deal work and social obligations, so that I could wake up before sunrise all wound up and stressed out.
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We are in a timeline in which People Magazine is publishing legit hard-hitting news headlines while CBS and CNN publicly humiliate themselves.
I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.
I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are in a timeline in which People Magazine is publishing legit hard-hitting news headlines while CBS and CNN publicly humiliate themselves.
I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.
I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.
Ballot voted and sealed. Now just need to get it to a drop box. Excited to vote for actually progressive city council members and @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor.
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ballot voted and sealed. Now just need to get it to a drop box. Excited to vote for actually progressive city council members and @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor.
I’m somehow on a Bluesky list purportedly of Charlie Kirk apologists. A reminder to be careful about choosing block lists. If you’re trusting someone to vet at scale for you, make sure you’ve vetted them.
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m somehow on a Bluesky list purportedly of Charlie Kirk apologists. A reminder to be careful about choosing block lists. If you’re trusting someone to vet at scale for you, make sure you’ve vetted them.
Excited I’m about to watch a @criticalrole.bsky.social episode live for the first time in *faaar* too long.
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Excited I’m about to watch a @criticalrole.bsky.social episode live for the first time in *faaar* too long.
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Just a quick PSA that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your public movements. This is why law enforcement can follow YOU or photograph YOU in public without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Law enforcement doesn’t get “extra” protection in that regard. Goose/gander etc.
Because he’s doing his job…reporting. Because we still live in a free country with a First Amendment and a free press.
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Just a quick PSA that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your public movements. This is why law enforcement can follow YOU or photograph YOU in public without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Law enforcement doesn’t get “extra” protection in that regard. Goose/gander etc.
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This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.
www.cbsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
Adam Driver’s performance as Kylo Ren was one of the biggest redeeming factors of the Abrams trilogy, and I’d have happily gone along with Disney retconning anything about Rise of Skywalker they liked to see a Soderbergh and Driver-led film.
whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.
apnews.com/article/adam...
apnews.com/article/adam...
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Adam Driver’s performance as Kylo Ren was one of the biggest redeeming factors of the Abrams trilogy, and I’d have happily gone along with Disney retconning anything about Rise of Skywalker they liked to see a Soderbergh and Driver-led film.
Not to discourage MW from fighting the good fight, but it seems like “butt naked” is now well established in its own right.
Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Not to discourage MW from fighting the good fight, but it seems like “butt naked” is now well established in its own right.
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Something I drew in 2024. Seems appropriate to repost today!
October 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Something I drew in 2024. Seems appropriate to repost today!
I once owned a ‘74 Datsun 240Z for a week. Just $1,300 (in 30-year-ago dollars). I didn’t realize until getting it home that besides being generally the kind of Z car you’d expect for $1,300, it had a bafflingly dumb intake mod that made it unregistrable in California.
For a history of potential bad ideas I have only just managed to scrape myself away from - all for sale nearby and I could have afforded (in the beginning anyway); a rat rod delorean, a 1976 Lincoln continental, a Sinclair C5 and half of a 1966 mustang coupe.
Regretting not snapping up the C5 tbh.
Regretting not snapping up the C5 tbh.
I think I’m going deeper into my petrolhead phase.
I fear this and might come out the other side with registered but slightly damaged Dodge Viper if I play my cards right.
Or very very wrong.
I fear this and might come out the other side with registered but slightly damaged Dodge Viper if I play my cards right.
Or very very wrong.
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I once owned a ‘74 Datsun 240Z for a week. Just $1,300 (in 30-year-ago dollars). I didn’t realize until getting it home that besides being generally the kind of Z car you’d expect for $1,300, it had a bafflingly dumb intake mod that made it unregistrable in California.
Got my flu and Covid vaccines this week in an easy pop-up event at work. I’m proud that Washington is one of the states making sure we can get vaccines, in spite of RFK Jr and his lethally stupid crew.
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Got my flu and Covid vaccines this week in an easy pop-up event at work. I’m proud that Washington is one of the states making sure we can get vaccines, in spite of RFK Jr and his lethally stupid crew.
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for active military or if you know someone in the military:
“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/
“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/
Orders Project
The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....
www.nimj.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
for active military or if you know someone in the military:
“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/
“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/
My article: Your erstwhile author…
My reviewer: You’re not erstwhile.
Me, slightly hurt: Aren’t l?
My reviewer: …
My reviewer: You should look up what “erstwhile” means.
My reviewer: You’re not erstwhile.
Me, slightly hurt: Aren’t l?
My reviewer: …
My reviewer: You should look up what “erstwhile” means.
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My article: Your erstwhile author…
My reviewer: You’re not erstwhile.
Me, slightly hurt: Aren’t l?
My reviewer: …
My reviewer: You should look up what “erstwhile” means.
My reviewer: You’re not erstwhile.
Me, slightly hurt: Aren’t l?
My reviewer: …
My reviewer: You should look up what “erstwhile” means.
The fourth bleet in this thread is heartbreaking.
Thinking about the early closeted days as a teenager and a memory I hadn't thought about for ages popped in my head.
As a teen I was DEEP in the Experimentation->Shame->Repression->Repeat cycle that lasted until I came out at 28 and one way I experimented was sneaking make up from my stepmother
As a teen I was DEEP in the Experimentation->Shame->Repression->Repeat cycle that lasted until I came out at 28 and one way I experimented was sneaking make up from my stepmother
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The fourth bleet in this thread is heartbreaking.
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We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
Taking umbrage at one’s integrity being questioned remains an excellent indicator of questionable integrity.
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Taking umbrage at one’s integrity being questioned remains an excellent indicator of questionable integrity.
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I had a front row seat to the integration of women into combat arms. IStandards were not changed. He’s just jealous bc 165 women have Ranger Tabs and he does not.
Hegseth: "Any place where tried & true physical standards were altered, especially since 15 when combat arms standards were changed to ensure females could qualify, must be returned to their original standard. Other standards have been manipulated to hit racial quotas, which is just as unacceptable"
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I had a front row seat to the integration of women into combat arms. IStandards were not changed. He’s just jealous bc 165 women have Ranger Tabs and he does not.
I’m no fan of Newsom, but this is the right response. We are increasingly in actively resist or be complicit territory.
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m no fan of Newsom, but this is the right response. We are increasingly in actively resist or be complicit territory.
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Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyone’s critiques of Newson:
This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.
This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
October 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyone’s critiques of Newson:
This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.
This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.