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Alex

@alexh666.bsky.social
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decolonial dreamz focused on art, labor, gardening, housing, tenants rights, land use, transportation, environment, and abolition posting from the southern Seattle suburbs in Coast Salish territory opinions my own

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 7h
Biking gets me everywhere faster than the bus does, and I don’t have to wait 15mins for a transfer. It’s been very liberating! People have asked me what I did to become comfortable biking since I was nervous before so here it is ⬇️
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Car share worked well to get out of the city but people don’t talk about how difficult cars are with babies. Say it’s just you, the driver. The baby is back seat facing away. You can barely see or interact with them, can’t offer food or toys or fix any issues. Sleeping? Crying?
Back seat of car with car seat facing away
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 8h
Happy 50th anniversary to Community Transit! The agency began with just seven routes and 500 daily passengers on October 4, 1976. Since then, it has expanded to serve 30,000 passengers every weekday across 34 routes.
CT Route 909 bus in Edmonds
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balloons before dawn
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Amy LaZerte @amylazerte.bsky.social · 10h
It’s also an active archeological site with a whole bunch of very cool prehistoric footprints! It’s on my bucket list to visit White Sands, it’s such a neat park. www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/n...
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Fossilized Footprints - White Sands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Fossilized Footprints of white sands
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 12h
got covered in white sand sledding in the desert
Standing on a sand mound on a dune of white sand with a few scattered plants with a background of the blue sky, bisected by a line of dark mountains crowned by white cloudsSmooth white dune gently sloping under the bluest sky with a few low cloudsWhite sand dune punctuated by Yucca plants and other scattered desert foliage, with a line of low mountains, clouds and a full blue sky
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23h
Mushrooms in fine form today.
Glossy caramel-colored mushrooms on a log.Cream-colored mushrooms growing on the mossy side of a tree stump with ferns above.Yellow mushrooms with orange spots growing on the side of a mossy log.
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 23h
Hopefully the paid parking @transportation.seattle.gov is planning for Queen Anne Ave can pay for real bike lanes, because I was almost seriously injured 10 min ago when someone pulled into the painted bike lane (blocking the car lane and bike lane both) without any signaling. We deserve safer.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026
Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets
The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.
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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Salmon are so so so cool and the folks at @ecocityaction.org lead amazing educational events to help you learn things. ecocityaction.org
Salmon days Oct 4; Cedar River October 11
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Executive Girmay Zahilay @girmayzahilay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Could you go a week without driving? This Week Without Driving, we’re challenging you to leave the car at home and explore the many ways to get around our community.
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
when i am governor i will do the following: - direct ODOT to abandon freeway expansion - establish a statewide social housing public developer - create belt and road initiative for oregon cities to lower water bills and modernize infrastructure - ban waymo, flock and amazon drone deliveries
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
pour one out for the drivers delayed 5 minutes while i spend my weekend prepping for a meeting with a state dot assistant region administrator for transportation operations to identify the regulatory and administrative dynamics that prioritize vehicular throughput over environmental goals
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Smart Growth Plan" ft. D5 candidate Julie Kang #doomloop #bretthamil
JULIE KANG: You can’t put more housing in neighborhoods where people already live!They might not like it!
[in front of easel that reads "D5 Smart Growth Plan"] That’s why I’ve identified several sites in District 5 that everyone would be ok with
[gesturing at map] Here’s a nice lot between the tow yard and the hazardous waste transfer station [*actual example]
[pointing at picture of a culvert with brackish water running out of it] Here’s a lovely tract just downhill from the raw sewage sluice! 
[picture of a tar pit surrounded by trees with a washing machine, a bike, and various garbage sinking into it] and there’s also the Weeping Tar Bog of Northgate
-All of these places would be *perfect* for renters!
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Wings of Silver @silverwingprime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026
Seattle uses the 160-acre Jackson Park as a golf course. What does this mean for salmon? 2 creeks flow thru into Lake Washington & would be exceptional salmon habitat BUT >66% of the water in the North Fork is drained to irrigate the course, at a rate of >30k gallons/hr. jp4all.org/learn-more/e...
Golf course with two swiggly blue lines pictured. The longer one, Thornton Creek North Fork, starts at 145th and I-5 and crosses the lower 1/3 left corner of the golf course, then travels east and goes a little bit north and exits the map. The other, Little's Creek, clips the right top 1/4 corner of the course.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 9th, 2017. My cousin D’maine Dugar was killed at 29 in a hit and run walking to work in Kent.
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
on vacation thinking about land use and public policy hbu
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m very curious how this set of investments will be utilized in South Park — and how that will coordinate with the 14th Ave Reimagined and the Reconnect South Park projects, and the King County Parks Green River Trail North project. South Park is on track to look very different in a few years!
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Super helpful explainer about camera enforcement in Seattle from @streetsalliance.bsky.social We are lucky to have such great advocates in our region!
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 02/10/2026
NEW STORY// Scores Turn Out To Celebrate Sound Transit's First Infill Station By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org
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Scores Turn Out To Celebrate Sound Transit's First Infill Station
Throngs of transit fans packed onto the station plaza near I-5 and NE 130th Street Wednesday to check out the new station, which had initially been scheduled to open in 2031. Criticized for a high price tag and bad adjacent land use, Pinehurst is a catalyst for future improvements.
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've clowned on this station for it's poor land use but I'm happy it was built and this quote by Ryan is an important reminder about why we need to keep pushing forward.
Highlighted quote in the screenshot reads: "When so often the argument around adding density comes up, a lack of infrastructure is cited as a reason to back away, and yet when the infrastructure comes first, it becomes a waste of money."
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
King County is home to thousands of salmon who migrate back to the county’s rivers and streams every fall. There are a few dozen locations where you can observe the great migration, and many are accessible without a car! seattletransitblog.com/2026/10/02/f...
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Friday Roundtable: Salmon SEEson
Map of salmon spotting locations in King County. (King County) Every year, thousands of salmon travel though creeks, rivers and lakes in King County on their return trip from the ocean. These adult…
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Margaret Shield @margaretshield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hoping D5 voters are noticing Kang's pattern here. Although I can bet most don't have time to read the previous PDC complaints. Kang is loose on ethics and steps over election rules, then she says oh, gee, I didn't know. It's tiresome. D5 deserves a city councilmember who knows! Vote Nilu!
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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Walking or biking somewhere like this makes me furious. The lack of dignity and respect baked into our infrastructure and driver behavior is fucked up.
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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deal with it. 🕶️
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 02/10/2026
What if I need to pass a dangerous driver on my ebike to get out of danger? Or get to the hospital? If these sound ridiculous, it’s because people have normalized those excuses for cars. Speed limits for both.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
" El Niño could put Washington’s coastal towns in hot water" by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social for @kuow.org Public Radio: www.kuow.org/environment/...
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El Niño could put Washington’s coastal towns in hot water
Some communities in Washington are stepping up their efforts to prepare for higher seas.
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A good example of how some manageable problems in the e-mobility space end up as fuel for the “bike bedlam” fire that preceded them… While problems with cars have no such narrative, and that makes us all wildly unsafe (as opposed to “bumps and bruises” unsafe around bicycles)
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nurtured in Seattle by the same ppl who now employ Jonathan Choe & fund We Heart Seattle. They NEVER stop at homelessness
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Andrew @bikesnacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seattle afternoons
rocky beach with a bike in the foreground and a sailboat lined up in the water in the background.bright green tree canopy over a narrow trail in magnoliaa seal at the ballard locksthe horizon, wide angle, puget sound and water.  the sky is cloudy, about 90 minutes from sunset.
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Transit Trekker @transittrekker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nondrivers need and deserve mobility that lets us fully participate in our lives and communities. That includes access to recreation. #WeekWithoutDriving
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026
No, we're installing a full traffic signal, marked crosswalks, median islands, and other details to make it more comfortable to cross Aurora Ave here. Details are in this blog post: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/04/16/a...
A map of the intersection showing new curb ramps, median islands, bike crossing markers, traffic signals, crosswalks, and new street markings.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was a timely run-in, with research coming out the other week showing coyote density in Seattle is 9x greater than in WA's rural areas. And they aren't going anywhere. Personally, I love seeing them around town and appreciate their help controlling all the non-native rats and rabbits.
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Coyote density is 9 times higher in Seattle than in Washington’s wild lands | UW News
A new UW study shows a nine-fold increase in coyote density in Seattle compared to natural areas of Washington state. Coyotes in urban environments have fewer p
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Washington State Budget and Policy Center @budget-policy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Q: What will the #MillionairesTax fund exactly? 👀 A: So many good things👏 Mia (B&PC) + Annie @eoionline.bsky.social spotlights the expansion of the #WorkingFamiliesTaxCredit, free school meals for k-12 students, & more! Learn more about the Millionaires Tax: budgetandpolicy.org/a-look-at-th...
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Hop On Board Seattle @hoponboardseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For #weekwithoutdriving, we're spotlighting Seattleites who get around without a car and asking what more frequent bus service would mean to them. You may know the Transit Fairy from cleaning up bus stops across the city and keeping our transit beautiful. 🧚
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 01/10/2026
The West Coast oil pipeline has been designated a project of national interest, side-stepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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Carney Fast Tracks Oil Pipeline, Promises Environmental Protection | The Tyee
Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC rep says.
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Cascadia Journal @cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Washington, pay attention, this deeply affects you too.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.
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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
King County Metro eliminated a critical bus stop next to the Seattle Municipal Building hampers ppl w/ disabilities access. The stop eliminations were done without consulting the disability community. @seattletru.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social @seattlebikeblog.com @theurbanist.org
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 01/10/2026
Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by our table to tell us what you want to see at Seattle-owned Jackson Golf Course!! You all had such brilliant and beautiful ideas! Send this action letter to council and the mayor to make our shared dreams a reality: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...
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Rename "Jackson" Park and turn it into a free public green space for more neighbors
Two new light rail stations will be opening next to "Jackson" Park Golf Course in the next couple of years. The 148th St. station is set to open in 2024, and the 130th St. station in 2026. Right no...
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/10/2026
Video games are RUINING gaming. RT if you think gaming was better before games
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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
movies are SO BACK
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The demand is here! People are using the bike lanes to get to Pinehurst Station even though they aren’t open or connected yet
People bikingPerson skating
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right next to the new playground 😃
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YES
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
local billionaires responding to our fair share tax proposal
elizabeth holmes why should i deceive you meme
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