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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The explosion of e-bikes, e-trikes and e-scooters is truly revolutionary...The joy and freedom of biking is intoxicating for everyone who has had the opportunity to try out life on two or three wheels with a little e-boost.
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Op-Ed | E-bikes mean freedom for low-vision cyclists like me: don’t take that away | amNewYork
So did a lot of other people who, like me, don’t have valid driver’s licenses. In July, the state’s new e-bike law went into effect. Among other regulations
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Amen
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This might be kind of niche but there are a ton of "neighborhood connector" streets across Seattle—usually 40-44' wide—with sharrows or door-zone lanes, that I would really like to fix.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Toad wrote on the ground with a stick: Go to Sleep. Then he crossed out: Go to Sleep. “There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all crossed out!” “I am glad,” said Frog. Then Frog and Toad went right to sleep.
Frog and Toad sit close together, asleep in the dark.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 21/08/2026
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order Friday to speed up transportation department processes, in hopes of meeting the city's goal of eliminating traffic deaths and major injuries by 2030.
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson wants to accelerate city’s efforts to improve pedestrian safety
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order Friday to speed up transportation department processes, in hopes of meeting the city's goal of eliminating traffic deaths and major injuries by 2030.
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Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The color of the sky in Seattle is little boy blue #7790e3
2026-08-08 15:55:00 #7790e3 little boy blue2026-08-08 15:55:00 #7790e3 little boy blue | [#7790e3 - 51%] [#91aefe - 30%] [#5a74c2 - 12%] [#475fa8 - 4%] [#adc8ff - 3%]
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
A worker holding up a cell phone in a carrot field they are weeding in Moses Lake WA. The cell phone weather app shows a AQI is 166
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was on the scene that day and watched people flag police down to talk to someone walking away from the fire. My law enforcement sources confirmed to me this evening my description of the person I saw was consistent with the suspect. Here’s the story so far: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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Sheriff: Man, 37, arrested on suspicion of setting Old Trails fire
A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly setting the Old Trails fire, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels announced Monday night.
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Developer Soup @developersoup.net · 31/07/2026
This region would be a fundamentally different (and better) place if you could catch regular, reliable trains from Olympia up to as far as Bellingham.
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 27/07/2026
expanding my favorite Dutch phrase with this new information
a translation from English “party animal is fucking in the kitchen” to Dutch “Feestbeest is aan het neuken in de keuken”
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Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The color of the sky in Seattle is cornflower blue #5894f5
2026-07-13 21:55:00 #5894f5 cornflower blue2026-07-13 21:55:00 #5894f5 cornflower blue | [#5894f5 - 93%] [#4582e8 - 7%]
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I am running (or walking/cycling tbf) chauvinist for this reason: i will in some sense know your neighborhood better than you with a year of doing this than you will after a decade of going everywhere by car.
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 13/11/2025
It's official: Katie Wilson is the next mayor of Seattle!
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Katie Wilson Is Seattle’s Next Mayor
Somewhere, Bruce Harrell is slamming a table. Katie Wilson is up by 1,976 votes and 0.72 percent of the vote. It’s tight, but we’re outside of recount territory, and it’s mathematica...
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 12/11/2025
Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is pretty unacceptable in a city that supposedly wants to encourage public transit use and promote sustainable transit in general -- and this isn't uncommon
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hyygestank
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Rhigu (comms open!) @rhigu.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
An Offering
A still life featuring a black cat, burning incense, a small heart, lillies and bleeding heart flowers.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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"The number of cars that I look at right now, even that are five-person occupancy vehicles and there's one person in them — like, part of me doesn't feel a whole lot of sympathy for it," said Seamus Overcash.
Overcash says he's lived in
Fremont since 2017 and is happy to hear BAT lanes are coming to N.
36th Street.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Not the obituary I wanted to read today. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...
nytimes.com
Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82
A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 25/05/2025
Important update!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 With new information, I have updated our Email/Phone templates linked below. It includes specific instructions for different Senators. We ESPECIALLY need people reaching out to these GOP Senators this week--Collins (ME), Tillis (NC), Murkowski (AK)
madycast.com
Phone/Email Templates for Asking Senators To Kill the Anti-Trans Provisions with the Byrd Rule
Instructions:
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Sean Keeley @seankeeley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wrote about The Seattle Freeze, which is real, but also isn't.
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The Seattle Freeze is real, but is it?
Just as some people think Seattle doesn't have good bagels, there's a perception that we're all a bunch of anti-social loners.
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MayFaireMoon @mayfairemoon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is exactly it.
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Vic @autonomyss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The tension between a vampire and a vampire hunter [ #art #dnd #dndcharacter ]
My DnD character, Aveil, and my partner's, Edie. Edie is a short dhampir with very long, dark hair. She is pulling Aveil, a much taller human woman down by a collar Aveil wears around her neck. Aveil looks clearly perturbed, while Edie is very smug.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A man says "sometimes, I have a fantast about being lightly grilled." A large set of tongs places the man on a hot grill. "My skin would burn, but it owuld be very pleasurable." He relaxes in the prone position on top of the grill. "And I would compare my grill marks with other grill guys." The man is at a job interview and completes the classic thought "but other than that, I would say my greatest weakness is that I'm a perfectionist."
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...
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Local news deserves high marks for coverage of the doge fallout
Reporters are telling gripping human stories, connecting the dots from DC to main street, going beyond acronyms to explain what government agencies do & giving voice to concerns of regular people
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New website! oliversgrin.carrd.co
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Oliver S. H. Grin Art
An art portfolio celebrating queer joy and beauty.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This model keeps falling over, rolling around, I mean… very clearly drunk. The levels of unprofessionalism I have to deal with are truly unbearable.
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Prints now available! 🥳 www.inprnt.com/gallery/oliv...
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Bloom, an art print by Oliver Grin
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Like my art? Buy prints here! www.inprnt.com/gallery/oliv...
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Art Prints by Oliver Grin
Shop gallery quality art prints by Oliver Grin.
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Bloom” — 2025 My spell for this year #transmascartist #queerart #transart
Art nouveau style digital painting featuring a naked trans masculine figure with brown skin, top surgery scars, and a blooming dandelion for a head. The text in the painting reads, “We will bloom”.
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
is there already a u.s. boycott divest and sanction list or app somewhere to help us avoid pro-fascist companies?
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And now @lokiladz.bsky.social & @hellocassie.bsky.social are here too 🤩🥲💕
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Oliver @oliversgrin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
W a i t i n g
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Quasimoto touching the Stone of True Power and becoming Omnimoto
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