Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6hHaving never watched a full soccer game in my life (in person or on television) I have now gone to five college soccer games since late Aug (4 UW and 1 Seattle U) thanks to my unexpectedly sportsball obsessed child. And it’s delightful! 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 8hA game of bananagrams made me realize: A BICYCLE anagrams to CELIBACY 050
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 15h““K.M.K.s attorneys wrote that her opponent in the wrestling match, who was “stronger &more powerful,” touched her inappropriately.” One prob. shouldn’t be wresting if one can’t deal w/strong, powerful opponents&close touch. (Ofc If there was misconduct, investigation should follow in specific case)seattletimes.comGirl asks Supreme Court to block WA state rules allowing trans athletesThe high court has upheld bans on transgender athletes on girls’ and women’s sports teams. It has not said whether states can allow them to participate. 020
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 17hI had a dream that I was at a lecture and I kept finding myself laying down with my head stuck through the back of my chair onto the one behind and my legs on the one in front of me and being embarrassed, laboriously sitting up, and then finding myself like that again. Maybe because…I was in bed. 020
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 18h“Ethan was the passenger on his friend’s Class 3 e-bike when it was rear-ended by a car, killing both boys.” Sure, some common sense rules about class 3 e-bikes and kids make sense. But for gods sake, anecdotes like this are about problems with cars first and foremost.seattletimes.comHordes of teens on e-bikes force suburbs to rewrite road rulesPolice were called when dozens of e-bikes and e-motos swarmed the streets of Bend, Oregon, on a recent afternoon. 060
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I like print books and I cannot lie #booksky @thestorygraph.com 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m reading Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. One “book” (section) in. I don’t think I’ve ever read such a long novel before. Settling in for the ride. #booksky @spl.org 040
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#weekwithoutdriving There are so many terrible crosswalks. In the wrong place. Not enough. With buttons you have to push but which are hard to reach. Curb cuts missing or awkward or in wrong place. And highways cutting through cities that make any kind of crossing impossible except at limited points 040
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#weekwithoutdriving Transit is essential, but it only really works with micromobility: bikes, trikes, cargo bikes, e-bikes, scooters. People often need to be able to autonomously get to/from places transit doesn’t go (and where transit shouldn’t be expected to go). 041
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The bathketball hoop is starting to host serious intercollegiate games 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Point to point. Easy parking. Predictable length of journey. All the things people tend to value in cars (but more so—easier parking, avoiding traffic). Possible only because my city has good enough bike infrastructure to feel safe and mostly frictionless. 040
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#weekwithoutdriving I am so fortunate to really not have to drive in my regular daily life. With a kid, the cargo bike is what makes it possible. Transit in Seattle is really not up to the task. 150
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not listed: Zionism = things/policies/processes/systems actually done, historically and now, in the name of Zionism. 020
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shout out to the ASUW Bike shop on the Seattle campus (just for folks with UW ID card, but that’s ~100,000 people). Good work, and WAY cheaper than commercial bike shops. 020
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I would have assumed that both of those areas already had paid on street parking (as someone who doesn’t frequent those areas and, when I am there, am not in a car). 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What is an “extreme bedroom community”? Wrong answers only.seattletimes.comThe Seattle area’s most extreme bedroom communitiesHere's where Puget Sound-area housing vastly outstrips commercial zoning, and virtually the entire local workforce draws a paycheck from somewhere else. 120
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Why is it that these scam/junk journal “calls for papers” emails are always justified (ie to left and right margins)? That alone is usually the first clue that it’s junk. 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What are the views of the program among the 27% who have used them? 040
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Historians wandering into the archival stacks and opening documents right there… 1221
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a fairly classic arrangement where I grew up. Streets and Avenues as major arterials, roads and lanes as side or smaller. So I just intuitiveLu think of roads as smaller than streets. 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My comment is really about my understanding of the meaning of words. I don’t understand the word “road” to mean “meant to move cars efficiently and at higher speeds.” I think of road as something smaller and more intimate than a street. But trying to adjust myself to the urbanist usage. 100
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In Seattle we have streets and avenues (neither of which is inherently more major) and the occasional boulevard and nothing called a road. 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is always totally confusing to me because, at least growing up in Boston, both roads and streets could be major traffic arterials or human scale community building ones, and if I had to guess which was the bigger faster one I would say street not road. 200
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026None at all. Ubrelvy is an as needed med (abortive, take when migraine starts). It has been an absolute game changer. tripans were giving me various side effects and also rebound headaches. 110
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Advice: Ubrelvy or other CGRP inhibitors (if you’ve only ever tried triptans) 110
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🚲🚊⛴️🏐☀️ Bike to Link to Water Taxi to Alki Fall Classic beach volleyball tournament to cheer on UW on a perfect day 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Those “rare” buses are carrying way more people than your packed lane of cars, sir. 040
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If a library will automatically renew an item when it is due (a great policy), why does it send a reminder that “your book will be due soon”? Why not send these reminders only for books that are not eligible for additional renewals? #booksky @spl.org 060
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fan art by the kid, drawn at the sign-coloring table at the UW women’s soccer game today. @gohuskies.bsky.social 030
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Seems like it would be weird for half of Maple Leaf park to not be in Maple Leaf. 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cute lede: “Dinosaurs defined the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods millions of years ago….Then, they defined four decades of growing up in Seattle….But the museum confirmed Friday that even these dinosaurs have gone extinct.”seattletimes.comWhat happened to the dinosaurs at the Pacific Science Center?A triceratops and stegosaurus, which have waded in PacSci’s now-empty reflecting pool for 35 years, were removed this month. 030
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“…and that the end of the world is always a local event it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore.” (Lynch, Prophet Song, 304) #booksky 060
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Paul Lynch, Prophet Song: “the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another…” 110
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This six-note musical scale took names from syllables sung to those notes in a Latin sapphic hymn for St. John the Baptist's Day: Ut queant laxis re sonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve pollutis labiis reatum, Sancte Iohannes. (Etymonline). 100
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It would be helpful for spreadsheets if the words Winter, spring, and Fall/Autumn went alphabetically by their order in the year rather than in reverse. 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dead cyclist as plot device 🤦♀️ “A struggling NY writer is on her way to a meeting when suddenly she’s drenched in blood, due to the inconvenient traffic-related demise of a nearby anonymous cyclist. A handsome stranger takes her to a nearby coffee-shop restroom and gallantly gives her his shirt.”seattletimes.com‘Verity’ is an erotic thriller that’s neither erotic nor thrillingAnne Hathaway does her best to liven up this inert movie based on a Colleen Hoover bestseller. 110
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you haven’t checked it out yet: Marmalade gelato in Fremont is amazing. Generous with samples and super tasty.marmaladefremont.comMarmalade Desserts - Premium Gelato & Ice Cream in Fremont, SeattleFamily-friendly artisanal gelato shop serving handcrafted desserts. Perfect for parties and events in Fremont, Seattle. 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sounds crude. It is, in fact, crude.nytimes.comOpinion | The ‘Crack Spread’ Is Going to Make Your Life UnpleasantGas prices are going to remain high. Don’t blame the price of crude oil. 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Northacres playground and Spray Park www.seattle.gov/parks/parks/... Sprouts Grocery www.sprouts.com/store/wa/sea... Broadview Branch library: www.spl.org/hours-and-lo... Lake City branch library: www.spl.org/hours-and-lo... Bitter Lake community ctr + playground: www.seattle.gov/parks/commun... 030
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Things I or my kid does that are easily bikeable from new Pinehurst station: Little Fish Swim school west: www.littlefishswimschool.net Creative Dance Center: www.creativedance.org Galileo Camp @st. Matthew Sch galileo-camps.com/our-camps/lo... Madison Pool: www.seattle.gov/parks/pools/...seattle.govHelene Madison Pool (Haller Lake) - Parks | seattle.govA 25-yard indoor pool in the Haller Lake/Bitter Lake neighborhood of NE Seattle, with a shallow section and two diving boards. 172
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I also don’t understand golf enough to know. Maybe I made a joke inadvertently. :) 000
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wouldn’t it be great if so many more people lived right near north acres park and could take advantage of it!? 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Golf course aside, all of this non-golf course area should be massively upzoned/become an urban village. There is a huge amount of potential in this area which is almost all single family now. 2101