Month: February 2023

• Local Seattle Action: I-135 Passes!

  

  The Seattle social housing initiative that House Our Neighbors worked to get on the February 2023 ballot has officially passed. The city of Seattle is now required to set up a social housing authority with the mandate to create and maintain social housing in the city. As described in an earlier post, social housing is…

• Review: Disco Elysium

  

  This post contains spoilers for the 2019 video game Disco Elysium. And we drink / ever notice how drinking’s like war / cup o’ troops o’er the gums / to the end of our health, a campaign ‘gainst myself / armed with bourbons and scotches and rums — Moxy Früvous, The Drinking Song It was the…

• Ethical consumption and Hogwarts Legacy

  Preface: don’t buy the wizard game; don’t play the wizard game; don’t stream the wizard game. JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot and as long as she owns the Harry Potter IP, consuming it is a tacit endorsement of her worldview. Source. Choosing not to consume the game is a basic statement of solidarity with…