J Black

@trashstratum

Noise artist. Quintessence of wickedness, corruption incarnate. Any/all.🔥🚗⚔️

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J Black@trashstratum· 18d

Guy who cheered on Trump ending USAID last year is reporting on the Seattle City Council rejecting universal school lunches in The Stranger. Wild times.

Screenshot from ClearSky of a BlueSky post from Guy Oron which reads:

guyoron.net 2/3/2025

I hope my fellow US folks will think about this: USAID shutting down is a net good for the world. Yes, lifesaving programs will be downscaled or temporarily halted until they find new funding. But USAID is the reason why millions of middle class people support neocolonialism. It's a tool of empire.

J Black@trashstratum· Jul 6

Vinegar Syndrome have a massive sale (ten bucks plus change) on Radu Jude's "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians", a black humored take on art, genocide, and remembrance. The disc includes an intro by Jude that I found useful to watch beforehand. Highly recommended.

A young woman with short hair and a ring with large googly eyes leans over a table draped with a military map with oversized WWII figurines with others outside surrounding her, some in casual early 21st century casual dress (t-shirts, shorts), some in military officer costumes, some standing at the table, some sitting on top of a tank in the background.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 26

Stickers, Capitol Hill, Seattle, June 2026.

Stickers on a grey electrical pole, with a prominent leg with cleated foot kicking a soccer ball with the caption ANTI FIFA. There’s also a “GO HOME TECH BRO” above.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 17

Like endorse you? Wild to say this while touting LD endorsements on your website.

Screenshot from Issaquah Councilmember Kevin Nichols’s website where they tout election endorsements from the 41st LD Democrats and 5th LD Democrats.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 14

You wouldn't have an episode in a car...

Screencap from the Doctor Who episode “Midnight” showing several people relaxing (and one working), including The Doctor (David Tennant) in a dimly lit cabin on a futuristic tour bus. The story was written by Russell T Davies and is almost entirely set on the bus.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 13

You wouldn't have an episode in a car...

Screencap from the Doctor Who episode "Gridlock" showing a humanoid cat and a woman seated in a car with The Doctor (David Tennant) standing behind them, holding a kitten, so #caturday.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 13

Three characters from Deadwood (Cy Tolliver [Powers Boothe], E.B. Farnum [William Sanderson], and Al Swearengen [Ian McShane]) in 19th c. Western USA garb stand outside on a promenade looking at a newspaper that Al is holding.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 8

Lowres YouTube screencap from Downtown Seattle Association’s “State of 2022” panel discussion showing a right-wing extremist interviewing then-Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, then-KCRHA CEO Marc Dones, and then-Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson, smiles all around.

J Black@trashstratum· Jun 1

I’ve been slack-jawed at how miserable Bluesky’s trending topics have been since an update a few months ago (yesterday’s Meat Puppets was wild), but it still occasionally gets one right.

J Black@trashstratum· May 26

We're back.

Cropped screenshot from FM26 showing the USWNT Best XI as of March '25. There's a diagram on the left showing field positions and a roster on the right with star ratings, e.g. Naomi Girma is D(C) with four stars (obviously).

J Black@trashstratum· Apr 28

On the plus side, the new episode of Witch Hat Atelier was

J Black@trashstratum· Apr 11

Share a preacher, nun or priest.

Robert John Burke in THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, staring up towards the sky while standing in front of a courthouse, dressed in snappy dark clothes, looking like a priest or somethin’.

Director, writer, and star of SUDDEN MANHATTAN, Adrienne Shelley, on an NYC sidewalk with the street blurred behind her while she is looking just to the left, eyes slightly squinting. She has called 911 and SLIGHT SPOILERS BUT IN THE TRAILER she has given her false identity to the police as “Agnes Ofgah.”

Shelley co-starred in THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH.

J Black@trashstratum· Mar 20

... and some hours later I decided to catch up on my folk horror with Anchoress, which surprise! not only starred Christopher Eccleston but Annette Badland, aka Margaret Blaine aka the last Slitheen. However, the star of the show was Toyah Willcox! whose fierce af performance elevated everything.

B&W screencap/promo photo from Anchoress (1993) showing Toyah Willcox, dressing in a light cloth hood and 13th century dress staring slightly to our right with a dark, concerned look on her face in an almost scowl. She is standing on a path of trampled grass. A generously-called hovel of a shack is some distance behind her.

J Black@trashstratum· Mar 16

Screenshot from the final moments of Millennium S2E23 "The Time is Now". In a dark room, a young girl with brown hair and light blue fleece jacket strokes her father's (Lance Henriksen) short white hair as he stares absently to the side.

J Black@trashstratum· Mar 8

The book Astrology for Cats: Your Cat's Moon Sign and How to Live With it by William Fairchild with illustrations by Lalla Ward. The book's dustjacket is black and purple with a b&w Siamese cat staring at a crescent moon set against a starfield. This is cropped from a photo I found online, not my copy of the book, which I do have and is adorable.

J Black@trashstratum· Mar 3

J Black@trashstratum· Feb 24

One of the Angelas (Ilinca Manolache) driving a vehicle in Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (d. Radu Jude 2023). The photo is in black and white. She has long blond hair and is wearing a sparkly dress-shirt. The yellow subtitled text reads "Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

J Black@trashstratum· Feb 11

The Giant from Twin Peaks onstage, dressed in a blue buttoned shirt, dark dress slacks, and red bowtie against red curtains while a bunch of young partygoers with red solo cups stare at the viewer as if some impolite, uncomfortable truth has been disclosed. In this scene from the show, The Giant is saying "It is happening again."

J Black@trashstratum· Feb 10

You've already compromised on ICE.

Two paras from a Center Square (right-wing Western WA website) post reading:

[Federal Way Mayor Jim] Ferrell said Moore ushered students to appear before the council at Tuesday evening’s council meeting.

“What I do not want is to bring the level of divisiveness that we've seen around this country to our doorstep, and it's just not necessary," Ferrell said. "So, the stated fear of the high school students… I don't think that's justified. I don't think high school students have anything to fear from ICE. If you're abiding by the law, you have nothing to fear. ICE has not come to Federal Way at all. But if ICE does come to Federal Way, my firmest voice on this is do not impede their lawful operations.”

Picture from Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell's campaign website showing then King County Councilmember (now executive) Girmay Zahilay endorsing Ferrell for mayor. Nice job!

J Black@trashstratum· Feb 6

Cropped photo of a documentary on the 2026 US Biathlon teams competing in this year’s Olympics, converted to black and white. Several people are skiing on a track in front of a grandstand. Corporate branding at the top along the track reads “BAUHAUS BAUHAUS” while the closed captioning at the bottom reads “(dramatic upbeat music)”.

J Black@trashstratum· Jan 31

A map of Seattle's new mayor's zoning proposal, presented by Seattle OPCD director Rico Quirindongo, contrasted with Washington DOH's map of environmental risk neighborhoods, via The Urbanist. They are, largely, the same map.

$Seattle OPCD director Rico Quirindongo showing a map of Seattle mayor Katie Wilson's plan to selectively upzone fractional parts of Seattle through 2028 in four stages.$

A segmented map of Seattle showing the environmental risk neighborhoods of Seattle on a scale of 1 to 10. This map correlates with the map from the first image, with neighborhood with higher environmental risks largely being the ones upzoned, and the ones with lower environmental risks largely remaining the same, and even if upzoned, scheduled for upzones years from now.

J Black@trashstratum· Jan 2

If anyone wants to parse out what this tells you about me, I’m all ears.

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 29

It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way.

Shipment notification from Umbrella Entertainment telling me that a 4K Collector's Edition of Lake Mungo is on its way to me (along with Pulse (Kairo)).

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 21

It's been a great, copacetic year between y'all and me (esp. Internet Horror, 2000s Horror, Time Loops, and Mockumentaries), so I know I can count on you for this one.

Laura Linney (dressed proper) and Mark Ruffalo (not) sitting on a painted wooden bench outdoors, Ruffalo with an arm around Linney who is looking away in near tears.

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 14

What I post from.

A redheaded woman (Jane Asher) in a green blouse sit in front of a large computer with keyboard and old-school 70's printer surrounded by monitors, cables, other audiovisual equipment, and men in an old room with stone walls. Screenshot from The Stone Tape.

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 10

This is giving the same vibes as the absurdly photoshopped pic of Dori Monson that circulated when the hate finally ate him up.

Hate radio host Dori Monson, in reflected light, short graying hair, tight dark tee, and massive arms that he never had in his life, standing in front of the stairs to and brickwork of Seattle City Hall, suspiciously threateningly darkened. (It's really light IRL.)

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 8

Fuck AI (and this weird Reader's Digest thing that's hot nowadays [e.g. The War Games; The Sea Devils]), but I guess it's worth something that I now have an ideal new Doctor, and, per 1, 2, and 4, it's David Yow.

Cropped screencap from a live Jesus Lizard set from Dec. 2024 show a blue-lit David Yow, lightly frazzled gray hair, balding, short gray beard, and a surprisingly dapper if too big dress shirt, holding a microphone attached to a stand.

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 5

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 2

Screencap from BAD TASTE, courtesy moviemistakes.com. A pair of legs in camo pants upside down behind a large rock. To the right, a pair of arms holding an orange bucket throws stage blood upwards.

J Black@trashstratum· Dec 1

A one: Yi Yi ... and a two: You Can Count on Me (I have not been able to finish listening to the Scorsese Produced Draft for related reasons. Also, The Gleaners & I looks like a 2001 release, so save this skeet for next year.)