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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 42m

Ooohh, that shop looks faaaaancy. I'll shoot em an email.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 46m

Three of those are convenient by bus and walkable once you get there. Southcenter doesn't deserve a ranking

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 49m

After 7300 miles the kickstand on my Radwagon 3 cracked apart. Think I'll have to find a welder

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 3h

With all of the Starbucks locations closing, the only places you can get espresso in Uptown these days are Caffe Ladro, Orange Goose Coffee, Nielsen's, Sugar Bakery, Caffe Zingaro, Caffe Vita, the Grounds Keeper, Ceres Roasting, Konvene Coffee, Cafe Hagen, Citizen Collective, Turtle Coffee...

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 57m

I understand this does not take into account accessibility needs so it can't work in practice, people in power chairs don't wanna go mudding in order to catch the train, but I feel there's gotta be a way to incorporate the concept

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7h

Every month we do this and every month it's very fun.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 14h

Ever since I learned about desire paths I've felt that walks should be poured a year after the buildings open, to see where people want to walk and then make it nice

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Opposing Trump's tariffs alone makes almost all Dems more market-friendly than his GOP. But there's also housing, regulatory reform, deficits, various market interventions, etc. If you really care about free market economics by conventional libertarian standards, Dems win and it's not even close.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 07/10/2026

This is one of the most important truths about American politics today and few really seem to understand this.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."

politico.com

Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding

The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's only like, 1 every 10 minutes!

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not enough for normal churn to happen without inducing rent increases. Everyone always forgets that people move and they need an ample supply of places to choose from.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This argument has never been true anywhere it's been tried

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres
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© Translated from Spanish by Grok
Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How to design a Barcelona-style superblock. 🧵

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the pleasures of Canadian life: Quebec Night Yacht on the radio on a Saturday morning

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

I'm calling for an immediate shutdown on the word gentrification.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 03/10/2026

Cars Return to Spawn at Pike Place: tinyurl.com/bdz9umpf

Bumper-to-bumper line of cars entering Pike Place Market by the the Public Market Center sign as pedestrians walk around them.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

35mph, which is a normal (if high) speed limit for cars in cities across the US.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's this dichotomy that pisses me off the most in the discourse on ebikes

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 01/10/2026

People love trains, part 87. As always, electeds should remember that building trains is about the most popular thing they can do.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See, that's the problem, I believe you're concerned about what many call e-motos, that can go quite fast and are, for all intents and purposes, motorcycles. Very few people argue they shouldn't have stricter safety standards and registration and insurance and age limits.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But, frankly, why does it matter if someone is being "lazy"? The laziest people are the ones in the cars or on the couch.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That was in Seattle, where there are a lot of long steep hills. I was riding my ebike across Lake Washington and to far reaches of the city. After moving out of Seattle to a more rural area in the foothills of the mountains I still use it to get to work in neighboring towns. Here's my summer commute

The image shows a GPS route map from the Bike Citizens app with a distance of 17.9 miles, a duration of 1 hour, 15 minutes, and 28 seconds, and an average speed of 14 mph near Sultan and Snohomish, Washington.
Below that is a cross section view to illustrate the elevation with 935 ft of total ascent and 922 ft of total descent.
Below that is a graph of speed during the commute.

Parked on the side of a country road (blacktop) - A white 2019 Radwagon with large black rear basket and 2 orange paniers. In the basket are 2 large soda bottles refilled with water, large empty coffee cup and straw, and several bungies. There's a yellow KEXP sticker on the side of the battery.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a long tail cargo ebike. I purchased it so I could bike farther, with my then young child, and carry groceries and other things. I rode for transportation before that on a push bike but the cargo bike was easier, faster, more capable, while still giving all the benefits of regular biking

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am not a teen, certainly not one of the teens you are thinking of, so I can't answer for them. I have a teen of my own, who does not (yet) have his own ebike. Mainly because I don't want to spend that much for him to have one yet. I can tell you why I choose an ebike over a push bike if you want

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't see a reason to have to justify it. Let people enjoy things, even new things.

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

This is an actual meeting happening right now in Columbia City.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Geekwire will never ever question or criticize any Seattle 'tech' business. They would rather be hit by a train.

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You literally asked a question

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And as an adult you can help calmly educate them

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

20 is too slow. Class 3 goes up to 28 and that seems fine. I can top out at 25ish on mine but if I could do 35 on exurban roads to match car speeds it would actually be safer and lead to fewer angry interactions. The country is large, city regs should be different from suburban and rural

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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the term of art in transportation planning. Usually used to mean personal and shared bikes/scooters/gizmos for 'last mile' transportation. And since at least the first bike/scooter share programs launched

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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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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Nathan M @nathanmesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah that tree sucks. Get something native in there, and someone who knows how to care for it

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