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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 14h

I ride my bike everywhere because it's fast and convenient and saves me a lot of money. It's pro-social too, I'm not spewing exhaust in anyone's face and I use a very tiny fraction of the road infrastructure that cars do. It's a win win. How the F did cycling become such a cultural flashpoint?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

Said a day after a white supremacist sought to kill people at a Hindu temple. Not a word about the anti-Indian rhetoric within his own party that has put South Asians and his own family members in danger. Instead continues to play footsie with people who see non-white citizens as guests, at best.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/10/2026

The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

First and second truck have left. LFG🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 13/10/2026

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

got to talk about cities, social housing, urban planning, and policy with paul rothrock today. he's also stairpilled! incredible. 🤯

paul rothrock with my book, building for people

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Honestly curious what it would take to break the middlebrow addiction to politeness and civility, even when it is not offered in return or justified on the merits of

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Juan Rodriguez @juanjpg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

fixballardbridge.com

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ianhardy.bsky.social @ianhardy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jesus, I just assumed she had some sort of horrific illness

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 06/10/2026

Finally got to the bottom of the 27-year-old mystery that's been HAUNTING the videogame industry since its discovery

pcgamer.com

The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1: "A Slice of Death": Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee '99?

This murder's gone decades without being solved... until now.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

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ianhardy.bsky.social @ianhardy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Man, you have the patience of a saint to lay all that out for them

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Most of my customers drive and complain about how hard it is to find parking" Turns out, nope!

Slide showing that 66% of people walk bike or use transit to get to the Junction

Slide showing that 61% of people walk bike or use transit to get to Upper Queen Anne

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can you imagine the largest property owner in downtown Seattle (on an order of magnitude that doesn't actually exist) putting their holdings up for sale, and cancelling a major planned development at the same time, and having that not be seen as a reflection on city leadership?

Bellevue Collection expansion put on hold as properties hit the market
In 2023, Kemper Development Co. proposed a three-tower project that would include residential units and hotel suites, along with retail space.

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Sounders lost 8 straight. Then they drew 5 straight. Now they've won 3 straight. Very normal league.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SDOT is proposing to implement paid on-street parking in both West Seattle's Alaska Junction and across Upper Queen Anne. Steel yourselves for the fight (and the discourse) that is coming next.

Map showing where 2 hour paid parking would be implemented around California and Alaska

Map showing where paid parking would be implemented around Queen Anne Ave

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you tank a lethal injection you should be free to go

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[can't pronounce the letter g at the end of words finds out Michael McDonald is his dad] I KNEW IT

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Puget Sound transit priorities: 1. U-pick blueberry farms 2. Car dealerships 3. Suburban tech campuses 4. Golf courses … 42. Ballard

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026

Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The resistance:

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/09/2026

Hell Gate reporters are out in the streets talking to the people.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Debora Juarez, an unelected councilmember, claimed, completely falsely, "I watched this mayor sream defund, come here and here and scream defund the police, abolish the police. So [fully funding 1,250 officers] is political, and I think that's offensive, and it's not fair and ain't right."

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seattles socialist mayor just erased a $175M budget deficit, increased police spending by $70M, and did all of this without raising taxes Let’s see how the centrist council is taking the good news. Oh.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction markets operator of running an illegal gambling operation. @reuters.com

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Sounder at Heart @sounderatheart.com · 24/09/2026

‘No one believes Nouhou can score, except Nouhou.’

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan

newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 19/09/2026

tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌

Tilly Norwood, an inhuman gollum shaped like a perky brunette

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2025

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I built a statistical model to forecast ski conditions using seasonal climate models. Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington has the worst ski forecast in the western US this winter. Makes sense given the “El Niño on steroids” model signal. Go south for better skiing ⛷️ Try it out: where2.ski

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

SDOT is gearing up for public engagement on Crockett Plaza and the McClure School Street. Here is a graphic SDOT released today.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.

Effect: Currently, physical changes in designated historic, special review, and
landmark districts are reviewed by community volunteer boards facilitated through
the Department of Neighborhoods. The authority of the City Traffic Engineer to
construct traffic control devices, such as markers, signs and signal devices, used
to inform, guide and control traffic, including pedestrians, motor vehicle drivers,
and bicyclists, in these areas is unspecified. This amendment would clarify that
the City Traffic Engineer’s authority is over all City right-of-way, including
designated historic, special review, and landmark districts. It would also specify
that traffic control devices in such areas are not subject to landmark designation,
nor do construction of traffic control devices require a Certificate of Approval1. The
amendment allows the Traffic Engineer to coordinate with the Department of
Neighborhoods or the landmark preservation boards to minimize design conflicts
in alignment with the historic, cultural, architectural, or geographic significance of
the district.

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very possibly the most incoherent playlist in music history. Utterly berserk.

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ianhardy.bsky.social @ianhardy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Would love to see savvy city leaders across the country using this to kill road widening projects and lean into bike & transit expansion.

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ianhardy.bsky.social @ianhardy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ll never pass up a chance to see Death Rosenstock in action. Relentlessly good vibes every time

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Step 1. Mayor Katie Wilson says "I am announcing a public safety plan next week." Step 2. Business groups preemptively respond with a critical press release. Step 3 .Seattle Times stenography, baby! (They've been milking those unflattering photos from the same press conference for a month now).

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Business leaders demand action, plan from mayor on public safety

Seattle business leaders asked Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council to commit to a series of demands on public safety on Thursday, including increasing police patrols and clearing encampmen...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026

I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose

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