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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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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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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
Toad leans forward in his chair, sipping tea, transfixed by Frog's ghost story.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 25/09/2026
Car-Free Pike Place Market Pilot Deemed Too Successful to Continue: tinyurl.com/uund6kej
People and flowers take up space on street of Pike Place in front of the Public Market Center sign
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those interested in how dictionaries are made, as well as the secret lives of the apparently ordinary words we use, may I recommend this podcast? It’s made by two colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary who really know their stuff. rss.com/podcasts/lex...
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The OED’s September update enters the twerpy mountweazel timeline | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Why do we love the mountweazel (and what is it)? Who was the original twerp? How did timeline constitute a two-for-one bargain? Join editors Fiona McPherson and Craig Leyland as they dive into some of...
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wilson's budget has me thinking about how Mayor Harrell wasted ~500k that CM Morales earmarked to do safety projects on LWB doing outreach, and then got a million+ $ grant from the state for the LWB safety project that had to be returned when he only let SDOT do a quarter of the project.
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 23/09/2026
70% of Seattle's water comes from the protected Cedar River Municipal Watershed. Rain falls onto this protected forested land and gets filtered before going into the Cedar River and being diverted to Seattle taps - resulting in some of the cleanest, most delicious water tap water in the country!
Map of Cedar River Municipal Watershed, which is east of Renton and Kent, in the Issaquah Alps
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 22/09/2026
“Is it going to suck losing so much money when this AI bubble pops that I have to actually move to Idaho or Texas like I’ve been threatening to for years without really meaning it? Yes, but it’s a small price to pay for being able to play victim of Washington’s future Millionaires Tax.”
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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once again with feeling
Very shitty pencil sketch of a three panel comic in which stonks for AI shit plummet into hell and explode while a vengeful little guy watches it happen and flips it off with both of their poorly-drawn hands.

This is what I'm using my BFA for after a full decade supporting myself making art professionally for corporations; hire human artists and fuck LLM-generated garbage.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Frog and Toad were sad for a while.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature
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Mostly True News @mostlytruenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Obama started a state run TV channel with his name on it Republicans would have sucked their own balls off so they could squeal about it at a higher pitch.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote a little essay on substack about how actually, quite a lot of people outside the academy are interested in books and other real things. The main reason to read this piece is that I discuss Frances, she of the bread-and-jam. emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...
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Let Us Eat Cream-Cheese-Cucumber-Tomato-Sandwiches, On Rye-Bread
I love my students and my colleagues, and I love the discussions that are possible in the classroom and among scholars, in academic contexts.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
The Old Dark Frog, wrapped in white shroud, threatens tiny Frog, who looks terrified.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ACTION ITEM: Takes like 45 seconds
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?” “Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 11/09/2026
New Amtrak Cascades trains featuring ergonomic seats, upgraded WiFi, and a sleek new cafe car go into service on September 30th. More trains are set to arrive by the end of the year, dramatically increasing Amtrak Cascades capacity. Story: www.theurbanist.org/new-airo-tra...
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New Airo Trains Start Rolling on Amtrak Cascades September 30
The new trains feature ergonomic seats, upgraded WiFi, and a sleek new cafe car. They'll go into service on both the Seattle to Eugene and Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. routes. More trains are set to arr...
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Our mayor has been kicking ass.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Listen to kids.
In the video below, kids are asked at one point if they want an AI toy to read them a bedtime story.

“No. It just sounds awful,” one child replied.

“I think it’s gonna destroy my dreams as a tiny kid,” another said.
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 04/05/2026
If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more
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Arrogantly @arrogantly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TWIN PEAKS. 2x10, "Dispute Between Brothers" (1990)
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 30/08/2026
Sound Transit is going to install fare gates at over a dozen stations. Fine, whatever. But the agency also loses a lot of money due to people not paying their car tabs every year. Does anyone know how much ST is estimated to lose each year to car tab nonrenewal?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NO MARMOT CHARGES SHOULD BE FILED STOP TAKING YOUR SHOES OFF IN THE WILD CASE CLOSE
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Bob Kettle: "Our city has reached an inflection point on public safety" Katie Wilson: Okay [releases executive order on traffic safety, literally the number one public safety concern of Seattleites]
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We were not. It's a big win that Seattle is making intersection day lighting (aka improving visibility) the default!
daylighting graphic
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'll take a mayor who'll directly intervene to make the L8 run on time over a mayor with a supermajority who never even had to spend his political capital even once & added hundreds of millions to the budget while pilfering a quarter billion in affordable housing money to give the cops a 23% raise
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Alex Hudson @blacksandpaper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our purpose in life is to do what we can to make life easier and better for each other. Today, thanks to the leadership of @mayor.seattle.gov, we’ve done exactly that for the traveling public in Seattle. What an honor to be a part of it.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Broken equipment and broken promises. New Yorkers deserve better from their government. 

Meet Renew Crew: NYC’s first-ever team dedicated to fixing playgrounds, sports courts, and rec centers in every borough.  See something broken at your park? Report it to 311. Renew Crew will be on the way.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 23/08/2026
DSA and the Left generally are a much greater threat to the political careers of the aspiring Democratic majority leaders in both the Senate and the House than the fascists are, and we should probably factor this into our analysis of how things are going and will go.
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also available as video on PeerTube: peertube.dair-institute.org/w/bWuMF4sfF4...
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 83 - Rumors of a Singularity Have Been Grossly Exaggerated
In the wake of OpenAI's announcement that its products caused a "cyber incident," Sam Altman is now claiming that we're already in the Singularity. And some media outlets are only too happy to help...
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Arrogantly @arrogantly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Get a load of this smart, kind person!
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Kevin Stevens @neohibolites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Always a good reason for Stephen Jay Gould’s quote: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
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Arrogantly @arrogantly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In the near future, all academics and public intellectuals will pray to the YouTube algorithm.
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Arrogantly @arrogantly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is the only counterfactual content I have time for nowadays.
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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 20/08/2026
we went from no public restrooms to urinals on every exterior wall and several ceilings
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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cmitown @cmitown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I trained for a marathon by driving my car for 26 miles everyday, but somehow I ended up being terrible at actually running.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Pike Place is more than a parking lot — it’s both the loading dock and the front porch of the heart of Seattle. It’s a destination for the public to visit, shop, gather, and build community. It’s no wonder 98% of Seattleites want to keep it prioritized for people”
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 19/08/2026
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: How Pike Place Market Can Thrive in the Winter Without Car Traffic By Gordon Padelford, Seattle Streets Alliance via @theurbanist.org
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Op-Ed: How Pike Place Market Can Thrive in the Winter Without Car Traffic
SDOT is weighing a plan that would fully reopen Pike Place to cars Monday through Thursday from October to March. Here why that approach is wrong and how the Market will thrive with year-round pedestrianization.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
kids are the worst
kids biking on street 

Annoying kids force drivers to lightly tap a pedal directly below their foot to engage mysterious and unused brake function.
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