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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's scary dry on the PNW mountain bike trails already. In early May! This is really not good. A downhill corner that I can usually carve through was dry marbles today on my lunch ride and I paid the price.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

$100 Uber to the airport from Ballard, midday in no traffic. the most expensive rideshares in the country are in Seattle. I understand the need to pay drivers better, but it's a huge cost for those of us that mostly cycle, and the transit option is an extra hour or more.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Annoyed but also pleased with myself. After our cheap electric car (BMW i3) bricked over the weekend I was able to diagnose it to the 12v battery, order one delivered today and an OBD2 reader, install it and reset code. $200 total and an hour of work. Oh, we live on an island with one car.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 16/12/2025

I was so sad to hear about the death of a cyclist due to a hit-and-run on Beacon Ave. Allie was a beloved community member, avid biker, & advocate for safer transit & streets. My condolences to their family and friends. But condolences are hollow if we don’t take action to prevent the next tragedy.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/10/2025

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The last mosquito free place outside Antarctica has fallen thanks to climate change. Iceland. bbc.com/news/article...

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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat

Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I'm not sure what others saw out there today, but where I was GenZ was less than 1% of the crowds. In the rest of the world that generation is at the forefront of change, but I have not seen that in America. What's holding them back?

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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NPR @npr.org · 13/10/2025

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

So.... food prices keep going up for Americans and the Chinese won't buy US soybeans because of the unnecessary trade war, and now our tax dollars (raised by tariffs) are going to bail out farmers who are growing food we don't eat? Also Argentina?!?!

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

300 school streets in 5 years. It is possible to make rapid change.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

You've heard of defensive driving — driving practices to help you stay safe on the road, like reducing your speed in bad weather or signaling before switching lanes. But what about defensive walking and cycling?

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Sunrise inside the museum. @nordicmuseum.org in Seattle.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

How AI will be used is 1000 times more scary than what we are seeing with drones.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Danish police are now labeling the drone incident at Copenhagen Airport as “an attack.” The UAVs were guided by a “capable operator” showcasing specific capabilities, approached from multiple directions, lights intermittently switching on and off before ultimately vanishing after several hours.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

When does Ai make things better?

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I don't think it is understood widely enough what is happening to objective truth under the oligarchical control of our media.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The 3-justice dissent was right:“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, [we] dissent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

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Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Very troubling as my father was a golfer as a teenager in the 1960s and now has Parkinson's. "The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

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Opinion | The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I've built robots. Robots are hard. But.... this is pathetic. Elon is the biggest scammer of all time. "Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince" share.google/63abscR8F9c1...

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

Tesla has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs, according to a new video.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

So, just checking the news and.... so now Trump is using our troops to kill people from countries we are not at war with... as in mass murder? "Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

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Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Any guesses where I am?

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Norwegian coast. Sunset.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Morning in Trondheim Norway

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sunrise off the Norwegian coast.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 22/08/2025

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is absolute genius.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

So this was new. Landing in JFK this morning on a domestic flight and asked to stay seated while "customs boards the plane". Then an Arab sounding name is announced and asked to come to the front of the plane. He does and only then are we allowed to get up. This is America now.

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Lath @lathc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I'm starting to think none of these people have actually been to the museums they criticize...

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🧵 on the federal erasure of history, truth. In 2023, Yosemite National Park invited me to give a Zoom lecture as part of the Yosemite Forum, "a free interactive lecture series designed to bring evolving knowledge of the Sierra Nevada to the public and the park."

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.

Black and white photograph showing an Aerial perspective of crowd boarding buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, California, 1942.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

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