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• LISTEN: A Politics-Free Election Day Edition of Savage Lovecast

  05-11-2024 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Happy Soft Cock Week to all who celebrate!by Dan SavageWe’re giving you a break from whatever stressful stuff is going on this week to bring you some of the more…interesting calls we’ve collected. A man’s girlfriend wants to try saline injections on her breasts for a “24 hour boob job.” The question is, can he safely do the injecting? A woman’s cat is grieving the loss of her longtime companion, a small dog. Now the kinky feline is demanding unspeakable
  
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• Local Musicians Remember Quincy Jones

  05-11-2024 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Jones’s musical legacy—and devotion to his Seattle roots—carries on.by Alexa PetersIn 2017, during a performance from local garage-jazz quartet Industrial Revelation at Upstream Music Festival, I noticed a commotion near the stage as people huddled around the VIP seats. I stood on my toes and looked—Is that Quincy Jones?!
  While Jones, the legendary musician, producer, and alumnus of Seattle’s Garfield High School, had given a keynote address earlier in the festival,
  
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• Vote No on Initiative Measure No. 2124

  05-11-2024 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Destroying the Nation's First Long-Term Health Care Benefit Would Suck by Stranger Election Control BoardThough our present gerontocracy suggests otherwise, we’re currently wading through the largest wave of people hitting the retirement age in American history. This “silver tsunami” wildly increases the demand for long-term health care, which is a nice way of describing the kind of care that involves paying someone to come wipe asses, pull up pants, and generally help our
  
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• Stop Doom-Scrolling and Look at These Photos from Seattle’s Largest Cat Convention

  05-11-2024 19:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Mute Steve Kornacki, unclench your jaw, and scroll through these sweet scenes from Sea-Meow.by Megan SelingPhotos by Madison Kirkman
  Sea-Meow, which bills itself as Washington’s largest cat convention, invaded Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall over the weekend and brought with it appearances from the Two Crazy Cat Ladies, Moshow the Cat Rapper, and Christopher Watson aka the Catluminati, as well as a cat costume contest, a cat-calling contest, cat bingo, and dozens of vendors slinging
  
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• Vote No on Initiative Measure No. 2117

  05-11-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  It Is Actually Good to Make Polluters Pay to Pollute by Stranger Election Control BoardThis initiative would repeal the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) and prohibit the state from ever implementing a similar law, cutting billions of dollars in funding for transit programs, ferries, clean energy projects, air quality improvement, and a bunch of other stuff that’s good for the environment and for the organisms who live in it, including the filthy rich psychopaths who got this initiative on
  
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• Slog AM: Election Day Pretties, Boeing Machinists's Strike Ends, Cloned Blackfooted Ferret Gives Birth

  05-11-2024 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's only news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigOk weather to vote in! Should be a pretty nice day to stroll down to your nearest ballot box, with a high of 52 degrees and partly sunny, and a slight chance of rain after 2 p.m. 
  So go vote! Don't let anything stop you. As Hannah said yesterday, you can still vote! I voted last year on the last possible day, and I hadn't registered yet at that point. I just jogged down to Lumen Field though and it was super easy to register, vote, and leav
  
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