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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 29/09/2026

Data sniff check: do we think the average 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 is walking nearly two miles a day in Orlando and over a mile per day in Anaheim? Here's a hint 🐁🏰 I think this chart reveals more about the quality of Streetlight's pedestrian data than it does about American walking habits...

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 21/09/2026

Sara Nelson's new websites are a grim example of what happens when an organization replaces human artistic/design judgment with AI. Let an LLM set the visual defaults for your website, and the results will look like ClaudeSlop™️ guaranteed!

Screenshot from https://civictide.org/. It looks like every other LLM-generated website, right down to the pseudo-artistic sepia header image.

Screenshot from https://seafor.live/. If you've ever seen an LLM-generated dashboard before, you know what this site looks like.

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Sound Transit @sound-transit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚈 Next stop: Pinehurst Station! September 30, we’re opening the doors to our newest Link station — and our very first infill station. We’re celebrating with the community on opening day! 🎉 Check our website for details as we get closer: www.soundtransit.org/pinehurst

A light rail train travels on an elevated track next to a highway. There's a new station under construction, and a sign above reads, "hello! Opening Sept 30. New station. New connections. New possibilities." Trees and clear skies are visible in the background.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 30/08/2026

This is a wonderful viz of fragmentation!

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 30/07/2026

Really grim to hear that some Bite of Seattle booths got looted in the aftermath of the mass shooting. Go support PaPa Kitchen in Roosevelt: papakitchen25.com

Long quote from a Seattle Times article today:

Last year, Nguyen and another family pooled their money to open Papa Kitchen near the Roosevelt light rail station. He said they make enough to pay the rent.

In a city flooded with banh mi counters and pho shops seemingly around every corner, Nguyen figured he had to branch out beyond the neighborhood to generate more revenue.

The couple paid the $3,000 Bite of Seattle registration fees to set up a booth across from the beer garden. Festival sales for the banh mis and vermicelli noodle bowls were going well, Nguyen said, until the gunfight started.

How well, he may never know.

The day after the shooting, Nguyen returned to pack up his kitchen supplies and noticed missing were the cash register and a new air fryer that was still in the box that he brought as backup. At least $1,000 worth of meat and seafood were left unattended and spoiled, he said.

Restaurants are a risky venture, so Nguyen braced for the reality that he could lose money at this festival. But not like this, he said.

The family has not tallied all the missing items and stolen money yet. He’s still holding out hope that festival organizer FoodieLand will offer reimbursement; if not part of the registration fee, then perhaps a stipend to cover some loss. He, like many food vendors, said he has not heard from event organizers.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 29/07/2026

If America's public transit cities are NYC-DC-Chicago-Boston-SF and nowhere else, then so be it.. but if that list has room for even one or two more cities, I think Seattle has earned a spot!

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 29/07/2026

I'm all for better bus service, but ours is pretty good all things considered: 7 in 10 Seattleites are less than a 10 minute walk from an all-week frequent bus route, roughly the same as Boston and way ahead of most US cities

Walk time to a frequent bus line in Seattle, from https://close.city/. Just over 70% of Seattleites can walk to a frequent bus line within 10 minutes

Walk time to a frequent bus line in Boston, from https://close.city/. Just over 70% of Bostonians can walk to a frequent bus line within 10 minutes

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Seattle Social Housing Developer @seasocialhousing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As with all our housing, these buildings will be forever publicly owned, permanently affordable and climate forward. We look forward to telling you more soon !

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 24/07/2026

Want to coordinate a highway lidding study around U District? Now's your chance! udistrictpartnership.org/about/career...

JOB POSTING:

Project Coordinator, Lid I-5 Feasibility Study
Reports to: Urban Vitality Manager
Position Type: 3-year Temporary Term-Limited (TLT), full-time, hourly
Location: In-person: at UDP’s office in the U District or on-site in the neighborhood at events
Timing Typically 40 hours per week, with occasional evenings and weekends
Duration: Sep 2026 – Sep 2029
Compensation: $32.50 – $41.50 Hourly

The U District Partnership is seeking an organized, proactive and collaborative Project Coordinator to support the Lid I-5 North Feasibility Study—a federally funded planning initiative exploring opportunities to reconnect neighborhoods divided by Interstate 5 between NE 45th Street and NE 50th Street.

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of one of Seattle’s most significant long-term planning efforts, working alongside community leaders, public agencies, and technical experts to explore how Interstate 5 could be transformed from a barrier into a connector between neighborhoods.

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Churches of New York @brooklynwandering.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

America Buddhist Chants Research Center, 1543 71st St, Brooklyn, NY 11228

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 24/07/2026

Meanwhile, on LinkedIn...

A LinkedIn AI slop ad from SCANTRON of all companies

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 24/07/2026

@annehelen.bsky.social saying "no one would call Seattle a public transportation city" in this week's Culture Study... 🤔🙋‍♂️

Seattle Times headline from June 6, 2026: "Seattle's daily light rail rideship jumps to No. 1 in US", by Mike Lindblom. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattles-daily-light-rail-ridership-jumps-to-no-1-in-u-s/

Graph: "Major US City Commute Patterns 2023" based on ACS data. Seattle roughly ties with Philadelphia for "Percent of Commuters Commuting by Public Transit," ranking below NYC, DC, Boston, SF, and Chicago, and above all other major US cities.

Post from former SDOT director Greg Spotts (@spottnik.bsky.social) on LinkedIn from mid-June. Begins with:
"⚽️ Seattle is setting new records for active transportation during the World Cup!
Friday June 19 Match Day Ridership:
🚌 286K boardings KCM buses
🚆 280K boardings Sound Transit
🛴 83K Lime scooter/bike rides
⛴️ 9K Water Taxi
🚃 7K Streetcar
Plus thousands of fans walking along the Waterfront and thru pedestrianized Pioneer Square (photo shows the “March to the Match”)"

World Cup game days later in the month repeatedly broke this record

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 21/07/2026

Thanks Brad!! I'm so pleased it helped you find a place 😁

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 21/07/2026

Close now features a subscription for power users! One new feature solves the 2-body problem: "what neighborhoods are walkable AND commutable for both of us?" This is about two years in the making and I'm pretty proud of it. Check it out: close.city

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 15/07/2026

Every job in America, mapped: jobs.close.city

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 14/07/2026

Not enough room to describe all the new features that just released on Close today—go check them out! close.city Three more major updates coming this week 👀

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 10/07/2026

Took an unexpected lime scooter from Roosevelt Station to Pike Place Market 🥲 some days the Link tests you

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 02/07/2026

Everyone is rightfully mad about the Kavanaugh letter, but I'm equally amazed by the gall to call yourself a "former public school teacher" based on what looks like one year of TFA

Will Dreher's campaign About page, describing him as a "former [...] public school teacher"

Will's early career trajectory: bachelor's in Foreign Service at Georgetown, what *looks like* one year of Teach for America in a majority-black Maryland school district, then straight to Harvard Law

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 28/06/2026

Love the Roosevelt and 12th bike lanes @seattledot.bsky.social , but they need hardening. This Tesla driver in the black sweatshirt had them confused for a delivery lane!

White Tesla parked in bike lane, delivery driver in black sweatshirt clearly confused by meaning of flex posts

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 26/06/2026

Delighted to learn about @kingcountymetro.bsky.social's World Cup shuttles by running into them in pixel form ⚽

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 24/06/2026

Between pedestrians on the street, the architecture, and the streetcar station, it took me a second to realize this wasn't a European city center!

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 16/06/2026

At our meeting tomorrow, Northeast Safe Streets will be hosting Alex Hudson to present on the upcoming Seattle Transit Measure! Everyone is welcome: the meeting is at 6:30 in the U District Partnership building.

A picture of Alex Hudson, taken in winter near the Stimson-Green Mansion.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Kathy Hochul rooting for the refs 🧐

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 11/06/2026

My Chicago-Madison connecting flight got cancelled because of wind, and American tried to rebook me on a redeye through Dallas (😱) but real ones know it's only a 2h bus ride. See you soon #SOTMUS!

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 08/06/2026

I'm headed to @osmus.bsky.social State of the Map in Madison this week—who else is going? Let's hang out!

Names of my two talks at OSM US State of the Map this week:

Friday - "OpenPOIs: a superset of open place data"
Saturday - "What is real? Estimating the fidelity of OSM data using changesets"

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 08/06/2026

Dang, you should have kept reading! It's a call to rebalance how the existing property tax works, not an argument against income taxes.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 08/06/2026

Shout-out to fellow cugos.org member Aaron Schechter (transitmapping.net) for his great op-ed in the Urbanist today! It comes with a brilliant interactive map, of course

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Holkham beach, Norfolk - I was commissioned by someone to replicate this beautiful beach and all its shades and textures as an aerial embroidery! Lots of grasses, reeds and mud mixed in with the sand. Not sure if the tide in coming on or going out though... More close-ups are in the thread: 1/2

An embroidered aerial view landscape of a beach, with fields framing the bottom edges and water to the top. the beach has different shades of gold, brown and dull greens for different textures and elements.

An angled view of an embroidered aerial view landscape. It depicts a beach scene with different shades of gold and brown.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 01/06/2026

We're gonna make it 🙏 Pic from Reddit

Light rail direction signs now have a "via Seattle" subheader

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/05/2026

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

A screenshot of the Summer in NYC website.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 22/05/2026

I redid my website with a new splash page - come hang out and enjoy some transit for a bit. nathenry.com

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 15/05/2026

Good stuff. I just subscribed 👍

Excerpt from the article:

There is a phrase that does a lot of work in arguments like this one, even when it is not said out loud. "Our way of life." "Neighborhood character." "What makes Seattle Seattle."

Those phrases are not nothing. People love their neighborhoods. They love the maple on the corner that turns orange in October. The view of the Olympics from the porch. The coffee shop they walk to on Saturday mornings. The school their kids can get to on foot. The forests up Highway 2, the farms in the Skagit, the orca whales in the Salish Sea. These are real things, and they are worth preserving.

We are trying to preserve them.

A walkable neighborhood with a corner store and a bus that comes every 10 minutes is not a threat to a way of life. It is one. The kid who can bike to school instead of being driven, the grandmother who can age in her home because the pharmacy is three blocks away, the family that can afford to stay in the city where their parents grew up: those are ways of life too, and the current rules in our region have made them harder, not easier, to live.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Okay Version 1 (AKA The One Line) is complete! CHOO-CHOO!

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 12/05/2026

Wait, this is extremely cool

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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Seattle Children’s just announced they’re going to ask the city for approval to end the Medical Review Committee for helicopter landings, and that the Laurelhurst Community Council has agreed to support them in that www.seattlechildrens.org/media/press-...

seattlechildrens.org

Prioritizing Lifesaving Care for Kids

Following a meeting to discuss a path forward, the Laurelhurst Community Council (LCC) has agreed to fully support Seattle Children’s as it seeks city approval to end the Medical Review Committee for ...

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Percent of Residents Living in Their Birth State, by County.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Anybody live, work, or otherwise familiar with these light rail stations and interested in helping students by drawing your mental map of the area: Judkins Park, Mercer Island, Wilburton, Spring District? You’d be a huge help to udents in the UW Communities, Environment, and Planning major.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 27/04/2026

Go ahead and edit it in OSM! One of the things I'm excited for about this project is that recent OSM edits will make it into the combined data. I'm not filtering amenities, but I'll pull `access=private` through into the conflated dataset for the next release, and maybe add it as a viz option.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 27/04/2026

Today I'm releasing 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗣𝗢𝗜𝘀, a project to unify points of interest from @openstreetmap.bsky.social and @overturemaps.bsky.social across the U.S! Check it out: openpois.org Full data on @source.coop: source.coop/henryspatial... Replication code: github.com/henryspatial...

OpenPOIs web explorer showing confidence-scored points of interest (POIs) across downtown Chicago. The confidence scores show an interesting spatial pattern: POIs near the lakefront and Chicago River tend to have higher scores than inland POIs.

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 25/04/2026

I was getting strong "stop doing math" energy from this article, and wouldn't you know it.. 🤪

STOP DOING MATH meme

NUMBERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES

YEARS OF COUNTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than your FINGERS

(Etc etc)

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

Guest star: gamma function on the complex plane

Gamma function on the complex plane, straight from the Wikipedia article. Starting to feel like they played us for absolute fools

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Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 24/04/2026

Flashing beacons but no crosswalk striping? 🤔

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