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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not only are US escalators slower, but they are way more expensive - and fail or are out of order at much higher rates than other countries

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exclusive: Seattle Cop Used Chinese AI Smart Glasses to Film Inside SPD Facilities, Create Video for Social Media Ad After the company posted the video, SPD sent out a new directive on smart glasses and put the officer on administrative leave. The Office of Police Accountability is investigating.

publicola.com

Seattle Cop Used Chinese AI Smart Glasses to Film Inside SPD Facilities, Creating Video for Social Media Ad - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett A Seattle Police Department officer, Adam Sun, is on administrative leave after using a pair of…

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Angry neighbors may have accomplished something that years of advocacy could not: Reducing the minimum fire lane from 20 feet to 12 feet. This has been approved by the fire department and SDOT's Transportation Operations Division. My source at SDOT says this is a precedent.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Seattle transit advocates successfully fought against the cap on the city's share of a pass-through on the new countywide 0.1% sales tax this summer...that resulted in a $4.7 million annual contribution to SDOT's budget that is now preventing cuts to urban forestry & bridge maintenance.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's weird because Bob has said on the campaign trail, and in office, and even back when we were on the Queen Anne Community Council together that traffic safety is an important element of public safety.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So @jahorne.bsky.social is coming to town for the Airo launch and has asked me to organize an urbanist happy hour tomorrow on short notice. Who's in?

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is tomorrow in the Seattle area and it’s free:

AUTHOR VOICES
Nnedi Okorafor
Tuesday, September 29, 6:30pm
Renton Library and Online

Details
Date:
September 29
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Categories:
Literary, Renton
Venue
Renton Library
WA

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Juarez was also a major proponent of a $160M new North Precinct for the SPD, "the most expensive precinct building in United States history." A militarized, fortified luxury bunker. (We blocked it). Remember the Bunker when she tries to pull some shady shit on this year's budget

The Seattle police are in the news again. This time for a lavish new $160 million North Precinct building that The Seattle Times’ Brier Dudley claims is the most expensive precinct building in United States history. The epic structure contains a 106,082-square-foot precinct house straddling a 241,019-square-foot parking garage. In other words, the complex is 70% parking.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello! The Onion is hosting Free Handouts parties in five cities over the next month! Free drinks, free snacks, and other free stuff for people who never seem to get that sort of thing. Onion members from New York, Seattle, Chicago, LA, or SF: Check your email for a signup link! It'll be fun.

A Party for the 99% with The Onion and Wealth Inequality in America.
9/29: New York
10/6: Seattle
10/14: Chicago
10/20: LA
10/22: SF

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Make America uninsured again.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23/09/2026

A fatal crash killed a motorcyclist over the weekend on N Ash. So today, Spokane’s traffic crews deployed its first “Emergency Streets” installation—rapid traffic calming to slow drivers, close a lane, and evaluate whether street design played a role. More info: my.spokanecity.org/news/release...

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The final vote on Seattle's groceries surveillance pricing ordinance will be tomorrow afternoon at 2pm. I'm hearing there have been several amendments introduced (from CMs Kettle and Hollingsworth) that would weaken the legislation.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love living on the border of First Hill and Pioneer Square and taking a ferry from SeaTac Airport to West Seattle. It's too bad about what happened to Lake Union though.

AI generated image of "Seattle, Washington neighborhood by neighborhood with a lot of problems

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Northwest Urbanist @thenorthwesturbanist.com · 22/09/2026

Not paying car tabs is just as much theft as riding transit without paying, if not more. 3 years is out of date is the worst I've seen in a while.

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Hop On Board Seattle @hoponboardseattle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Seattle Transit Measure is on your November ballot, and nearly 70% goes straight to bus service. More buses, more often, more reliable. Vote YES!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 19/09/2026

Out canvassing for the Seattle Transit Measure renewal and once again got asked if I’m being paid to support this. I really need a “nope, I am this obnoxious about buses for free” shirt.

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Elizabeth @lizard714.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Karma caught up with these two. If it caught up to Trump, what would be an ironic way for him to go? Let the jokes begin.

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watching these musicians stand in solidarity and withdraw from the Ed Sheeran tour is so moving. Capitalism encourages them to act in their personal financial best interest, which upholds the status quo. They are showing strong character to stand up and say no in spite of the lost opportunities.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

omg look what I found in the yard

An adorable pink and cream caterpillar crawling up a stalk of indigo salvia - creeping toward a snack.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 12/09/2026

A huge win to close out the week. Our fair pricing legislation passes out of committee 4-0.

Councilmembers sit with supporters, celebrating the victory

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every email I get concerning this whole Anthropic Copyright Settlement is rage bait for me. To continually be reminded of their theft and the fact that all they can offer are pennies (imho) is INFURIATING. I don't WANT or NEED their money, I want them to remove my books from their AI's software!

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine if the @seattletimes.com and other news outlets were intellectually honest and published, i don't know, charts like this? Seattle is safer than almost all our peer cities, except the other one governed by a Democratic Socialist. Thanks @mayor.seattle.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov!

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 11/09/2026

Mayor Wilson Accused of Being Witch After Making Both Route 8 Bus and Denny Car Traffic Faster: tinyurl.com/36wtxy7u

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson dressed in a black witch hat and dress looking down at a spell book with her hand over a chalice holding red liquid as green smoke arises around it. Behind her is the Route 8 bus and its bus-only lane as well as urbanist supporters of the project.

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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).

seattletimes.com

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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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Political will is so seldom seen that when a leader wields it for good, as Mayor Wilson did here, it can seem like magic.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a great interview that gives @mayor.seattle.gov the space to do what she does best. I hope Soundside brings her back for a discussion on transportation policy.

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

Crime is down in Seattle. Violent crime is down in Seattle. Homicide is down in Seattle. That's compared to how things were under Bruce Harrell, who (by the logic of the business community, lazily laundered by outlets like this) oversaw higher crime. mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion...

mynorthwest.com

Jake: Business leaders wrote the plan — now read it, Madam Mayor - MyNorthwest.com

Seattle business leaders already handed Mayor Katie Wilson the public safety plan her new year-long task force was created to write.

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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Important 🧵:

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Eastside Urbanism @eastsideurbanism.org · 11/09/2026

hey @wsdot.wa.gov @sr520.wsdot.wa.gov - what are you going to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again?

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Props to this hero.

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Firelight @firelight616.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you're committed to working together to create good jobs, instruct OFM to negotiate with your own workers in good faith, and deliver a fair collective bargaining agreement. Or are you just making noises with your mouth?

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Times' editorial board, using a cozy self-interested convo with Barnes as their main source, concludes that Wilson is to blame for the lack of information after the shooting. The actual messages, posted on PubliCola, show the opposite.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 05/09/2026

This is unacceptable. Biking this “speedway” up from the ferry is terrifying.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rob Saka is trying to get other levels of government to do things via City of Seattle ordinance again.

Section 5. SDOT is required to obtain written feedback from the Washington
State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) on its designs for on-ramps and offramps to roads that WSDOT maintains. The City requests that WSDOT return on-ramp
and off-ramp design feedback to SDOT within a reasonable amount of time, but in no
case more than 180 days.

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kelabe.bsky.social @kelabe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SPS has walked away from the bargaining table tonight. SEA will need all our support with a strike looming

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

next-level bet-hedging there, Google.

Lake Ontario in Google Maps labeled as both Lake Ontario and Lake America

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can we stop this, please.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Basic Bike Network was a highly successful advocacy effort by @streetsalliance.bsky.social and @cascade.org. So, what's Phase 2? Where are the gaps? What is the next layer outward? Where is the greatest need? How would you brand it? What is the organizing principle?

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 30/08/2026

Wow. SEA says Seattle Public Schools walked away from the bargaining table tonight rather than discuss the district’s controversial proposal to make sweeping changes to special education. This could force a strike on Wednesday. The school board needs to intervene and force SPS back to the table.

Text block that reads “SPS walked away from the table tonight. Talks broke down and there are no talks scheduled. The district continues to insist on Special Education cuts that would hurt kids, damage learning outcomes, and add to the pressure on educators. It wants to pay us less than inflation, despite the union’s willingness to move multiple times. And the employer’s proposals do not provide any meaningful relief for many educators.

SEA has made it clear that we’re here to bargain. We have spent hours trying to find a way forward for Special Education; we couldn’t find a way to meet their interests without causing harm. We are ready to come back to the table at any time and are concerned that with 4 days before the students expect to return, this is not the time to walk away.”

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Conrad Steinbrueck, the grandson of Victor Steinbrueck, apparently recently rebooted the Pike Place Market Merchants Association and its Board is not fully formed yet.

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Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“scientists questioned the fact that some of its recommendations on nutrients and women's nutritional needs at this stage are based on studies carried out exclusively on men”

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚨NEW from me: Whatever the exact trigger of the deadly Nepal flash flood, human-caused climate change is violently reshaping the Himalayas. With testimony from @drgilbz.bsky.social, and others.

forbes.com

Nepal Flash Flood: Experts Say Climate Change Primed Disaster

A glacier collapse, not rain, triggered Nepal's deadly flash flood. Scientists explain what happened, and climate change's role behind it.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨AFL-CIO has endorsed the Starbucks Boycott!

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Jessi @librarianbikes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So much glass in the NE 65th St bike lanes lately, along with the deep potholes growing near the turn onto Ravenna. 😣 I already had one flat last week. #seabikes

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