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Scott Forbes
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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.
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As an aside, I’ve decided that “we should be giving away e-bikes” is my new hobby-horse issue, now that Trump has screwed up my previous hobby-horse issue (“we should stop minting pennies”)
A sign that says “E-Bikes for Everyone” in the style of a Mamdani campaign poster
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Finally. Trump’s ongoing attack on the U.S. Postal Service meant that it took *two weeks* to deliver my ballot, but King County Elections now says they’ve received it. If you still haven’t voted yet, use a drop box.
Image from the ballot tracker page on the King County Elections website, showing that my ballot is at step 4, “ballot received.”
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Now with alt text:
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!”
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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After 17 years of voting in every King County election, this is the first time this has happened to me: My ballot, which I mailed on October 20, appears to have gotten lost.
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.
October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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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.”
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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.
August 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Not sure whether this is a positive statement about Sound Transit’s bike parking or an extremely damning statement about daycare
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”
July 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Personal achievement unlocked: in just under two years, I’ve pedaled 1,000 miles on my e-bike.
Close-up picture of the odometer on my e-bike showing that I’ve pedaled 1,000 miles
July 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This is the sort of thing that makes lawyers salivate
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’
July 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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.”
May 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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.”
April 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Winter in Seattle
A ten-day Seattle weather forecast that predicts ten straight days of rain.
December 21, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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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”
December 15, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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"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."
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.
December 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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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.”
October 24, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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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.’”
October 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Recite 80% of a movie and you get $500k. What movie are you picking?
Swordfighting scene from The Princess Bride
August 14, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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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”
April 28, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Disappointed to realize that “Incan” is meant here as an abbreviation for “incandescent”
Sign advertising “100L CLEAR INCAN MINI LIGHTS,” with boxes of lights in background
November 4, 2023 at 8:50 PM