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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What would your life be like if you couldn't drive? This week is #WeekWithoutDriving which is all about understanding what it's like to be a nondriver. @devinsilvernail.bsky.social & I launched @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social to share these stories. Search for 'nondriver' wherever you watch/listen

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30% of people in the US & Canada can't or don't drive. nondriver is a podcast about the lives and stories of those people, hosted by Anna Zivarts and Devin Silvernail. Every episode, we talk to peopl...

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 29/09/2026

But what about the orcas?! Show us the dead orcas.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A week's worth of groceries, including two boxes of formula by bike? No, you don't need a car for that, just some enabling infrastructure and a bike designed for the task. We don't expect everyone to live this way, but we do expect cities to enable the decision if people make it.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 28/09/2026

Minivans are cool and have not stopped being cool. Fight me.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 22/09/2026

#TIL that the mod of both /r/eastside and /r/BellevueWA will ban you for, e.g. posting about local ICE activity (b/c "national politics", "violating community rules") but will leave your post up if it is full of racism and fascist boot-licking.

Screenshot of a Reddit comment thread from the subreddit r/BellevueWA showing several comments, with higher-level replies indicated as deleted and removed by moderators.

The top visible post by user Typical-Picture8961 reads: "sadly voting blue has consequences".

Below a removed comment, user Beerchovies writes: "Actions have consequences. Should've self-deported."

Replying under another removed comment, user Beerchovies writes: "I'm from the tribe that Oregon trailed their way out here. You must like us if you followed us out here. Welcome".

Further down, under a third removed comment, user Medical_Wood writes: "Funny how you far-left terrorists are genuinely too stupid to understand the difference between immigrants and settlers. This country was endless wilderness when my ancestors came here and built it. Are you fine with someone moving into a house your grandpa built just because he wasn't the original land owner?"

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I made a decision to live farther away from work and now it takes longer to get to work! What happened!?" I love how it never occurs to people that the decision they made might have also been made by other people as well.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/09/2026

Drivers should be in favor of anything that gets more cars off the roads. You determine your own traffic delays through policy choices.

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Liveable Kirkland @liveablekirkland.org · 18/09/2026

Six local organizations serving our unsheltered neighbors have asked for 165 microwaveable bed warmers this season—over 100 more than last year! It's all hands on deck for Liveable Kirkland's work party on Mon, Sept 21 (6-8pm) at Chainline at Kirkland Urban to help assemble them. #Kirkland

Community volunteers gathering together around tables at Chainline at Kirkland Urban to assemble microwaveable bed warmers for unsheltered neighbors.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 18/09/2026

A plane photo bombed me but I got this photo of Andromeda (and its little siblings) from the park near my house last night.

A deep-space long-exposure photograph featuring the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) stretching diagonally across a dense, dark night sky filled with countless stars. The galaxy exhibits a bright, glowing core and soft, faint dust lanes extending outward. smaller, fuzzy companion galaxirs (M32 and M110) appear nearby. Three parallel, thin yellow light trails from an airplane cross diagonally through the lower half of the view.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New cat just dropped

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Liveable Kirkland @liveablekirkland.org · 14/09/2026

Huge shoutout to the 12 incredible volunteers who turned out yesterday for our Adopt-a-Road cleanup in North Juanita! Despite the soggy weather, four teams powered through both sides of 100th Ave NE. We even tackled a bonus section that needed some extra love. #Kirkland

A group of 12 smiling volunteers wearing neon safety vests and rain jackets, holding trash grabbers and full garbage bags outside after a community litter cleanup event.

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

Now that the bus lanes are helping bus riders and not substantially impacting drivers...it's not a news story at all.

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Kirkland Tool Library @kirkland.eastside.tools · 22/07/2026

📣 Help bring a Tool Library to Kirkland! Please email citycouncil@kirklandwa.gov to share your support for a KTL in the Old Fire Station. Want to do more? 📍 Stop by Conversations with Council on 7/30. 💻 Join the virtual City Council meeting on 8/5. Visit bit.ly/kirklandcitycouncil for details

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Here it is:

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 19/04/2026

If you play NYT Connections and are on Android, I've created an app to make playing the game more enjoyable. I am looking for folks interested in helping alpha test the app. If you're interested, please DM me.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 16/01/2026

We need to get rid of the pardon.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 15/01/2026

You may not believe that new-builds lower rents, but your landlord does.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 18/12/2025

This ✨handy✨ pocket is ONLY for literature. You can put Tolstoy in here, but Dan Brown has to go under the seat.

A close-up, angled shot shows the back of a white plastic airplane seat. A small upper pocket contains a "SAFETY INFORMATION CARD" for a "737 MAX" aircraft and a promotional brochure for "ATMOS REWARDS" mentioning a "65,000 BONUS."
Two small sticker labels are visible on the left side:
The top one reads: "Handy pocket for literature only"
The bottom one reads: "Stow device holder during taxi, takeoff, and landing"
The top of a gray leather headrest is visible on the left, and a white plastic latch for a tray table is positioned on the right. A blue banner on the literature encourages passengers to visit "ALASKAWIFI.COM."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is incredible.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 09/12/2025

Whereas I got ZSH (shingles without the rash) and it turns out that one can regularly kill you! It's also hard to diagnose! Get the shot.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 05/12/2025

It's not just Seattle. The two things I wish I could get cities to understand are: 1. We have to think of cycling as real transportation and not simply recreation and 2. Transportation planning is not about predicting, it is about choosing.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?" Bill Nye said "Evidence." Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this." I think about that a lot.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 04/12/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social thanks to you I now have a lot to say about this CAPTCHA.

A CAPTCHA image with the instruction, "Pick all animals related to the one shown." The reference image in the top right is a fish. The grid below has nine heavily stylized and distorted images: five images of elephants (some wearing hats), three images of cats wearing pirate hats, one image of a fish (which is currently selected with a checkmark), and one image of a cartoon shark.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/12/2025

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/11/2025

“Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually.”

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Bev Marcus @bevmar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Kudos to @liveablekirkland.org!

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Some people live in the 21st century.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 26/11/2025

Something something doth protest too much something something

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Going after the last 5% of electricity supply CO2 reduction without reducing transportation emissions is lunacy. I worry about mining for EV batteries, too. But we can have a better quality of life if we substitute private cars for bikes, transit, infill development

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 25/11/2025

This kind of shit is not only factually wrong, but incredibly counterproductive.

Social media conversation thread. Kevin asks if the other party has considered the perspective of a small-time landlord who must compete with amenity-rich buildings, suggesting YIMBYs support reducing regulations to fix the broken housing market. Climate and Transit replies, "That's where we're different! Because landlords of all sizes are scum sucking leeches. True dregs of society who take away from the working class." Kurt Dresner interjects, asking Climate and Transit to moderate their take before he unfollows. Climate and Transit responds to Kurt, "You sound like a medieval peasant defending their lord." Kurt replies, "Cool, thanks." Climate and Transit then posts a final comment directed at Kurt: "Rentcuck RAISE THIS GUYS RENT MORE!"

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 25/11/2025

And here I thought the hoops I had to jump through for Bixi when visiting Montreal were onerous. It was cheap, though!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 25/11/2025

Funded inclusionary zoning is good!

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 25/11/2025

I was one of these people, because NYC Penn Station to New Haven, CT for $8? Yes please. I wish we had this in more of our metropolitan areas. To quote my friend Justin, "Trains are great. America could do a better job, though."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/11/2025

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 24/11/2025

It is amazing to me that people try to argue for outlawing smaller homes by saying "One size does not fit all." Exactly. It's why we need to allow smaller homes.🤦

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 24/11/2025

Listening to this episode, I just kept thinking back to what I've said many times: The thing about unsustainable things is that they cannot be sustained. It's just a matter of how we're going to get there, and how painful we're going to make it for ourselves and future generations.

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I get why people are excited about Waymos. I really do. But, I think we can also look back at the effects of a century of enthusiasm for cars and say, “Going all in for cars hasn’t worked out well at all.” And from that, try to see what the next century holds, and try to do better *now*.

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Transportation Choices Coalition @transpochoices.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Love to see this in the wild! Thanks for supporting #BuildTheDamnTrains If you want a mug like Kurt's: www.bonfire.com/store/transp...

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BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.

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Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌π @kurt.social · 23/11/2025

The worst part is that most of the damage done to our cities was after we already understood this.

As traffic grew worse, people in Seattle began to grapple with the implications of the auto explosion. On December 23, 1953, the Seattle Times ran an editorial, quoting a Chicago Tribune piece about traffic congestion. "The problem exists because, among many other reasons, the ordinary automobile is a most inefficient vehicle for transporting large numbers of people in a limited area. The automobile wastes power and more particularly, it wastes space.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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