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urbanist and engineer. advocate for our cities, the people who live there, and our shared home on Earth. a better world is possible. 📍 seattle, cascadia 🔺 she/her

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 18h
another day in the layoff industry
My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders
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Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 23h
Its *second* new light rail station
Screen capture of Jackson Park Golf Course in Google Maps with the Shoreline South and Pinehurst stations at either corner of the golf course circled in red
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 24/09/2026
I just got into proxmox. is there a reason why I'd want to use one over the other as a user with minimal overhead?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The entire thing exists solely to paint marginalized people and those who mask as hysterical weirdos. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a national publication to be covering a teeny tiny local community scuffle.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
i think it is worth noting that one of the first actual elected democrats to prominently call for underbussing trans people, seth moulton, just got crushed in his primary 65-35
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 23/09/2026
wait until they hear about who's BUILDING these planes
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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eevee @eev.ee · 23/09/2026
We've freshened Firefox. We've modernized it, made it cleaner, breathier, sparklier, more contemporary, made specifically for you and the way you use the Web. [it looks exactly the same]
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23/09/2026
From the famous Tumblr thread:

roguetelemetry posts: 
LET THE BEES RIDE THE ROLLER COASTER
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No trans is more beloved by cis liberals than one who tells them it's okay to dislike the rest of us because we're so loud and mean.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this information
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Paul adore le Canada @paulfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fake species ID reading as follows: North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe
Backhoe fili-comedens
AKA "Big Yellow Fiber Finder", "That $%#@*&^"
Continent:
North America
Habitat:
Mostly urban, occasionally sighted in suburbs or rural areas
Diet:
Fiber optic cables primarily, although it will consume other cables such as power lines when hungry
Weight:
5800 - 11000 kg
(approx. 13000 - 25000 Ibs)
Known for its inexhaustible appetite for buried fiber optic cables, this invasive species has multiplied across North America in recent years. A relative, the European Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, has also emerged across the Atlantic, although it has evolved to be smaller than the North American variety due to smaller European roadways. Scientists are still seeking a means to reduce the multiplication of this species; since current regulatory methods are proving ineffective, limited hunting permits are being proposed.
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☀️ @stel.energy · 18/09/2026
guys what if a boy was actually a girl. lets commit civilizational suicide
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
American engineer box checking at its finest.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 16/09/2026
Just timed the walking time from the terminal at SEA to the Link and got a time of 6 minutes and 37 seconds. why doesn't SEA have moving walkways connecting the station and the terminal to reduce this time?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That’s good Bluesky
Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.s... • 5d
I'm not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now 1/2
Bob's BBQ
Emporium
Catering & Events 608-477-0782
ALT
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Katie Tiedrich
@katietiedrich.bsky.social
THUS SPAKE BOB 2/2
bobsbbq3.bsky.social@bobsbbq3.b... 3d
Bob here. I still have the original pencil drawing I did of the pig. Scanned it and sent it to my daughter who converted it to the logo with photoshop. My goal was to make it simple and recognizable. (Guess it worked out)
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 16/09/2026
but what about TRAFFIC, surely people won't use the other modes if we offer it to them! no get that 'evidence' out of here this is a vibes based municipality
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 16/09/2026
this is partly hyperbole to make a point but not entirely
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 16/09/2026
if people were really concerned about cost and engineering constraints then the solution of "turn MLK into a car-free greenway for bikes and reroute car traffic down Rainier" wouldn't turn so many heads a lot easier to reroute an i-5 entry route than an entire train route at this point
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Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 15/09/2026
Some of the new Amtrak Cascades Trains will begin on our corridor soon. We’d love for you to tune in to hear the details. Watch live Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EDT. www.youtube.com/live/iWE-7Lf... 💚🤎🤍
A woman with long brown hair in brown pants and a nice camel jacket sits on a new Amtrak Cascades train with her tray tables down watching her phone which is plugged into her seat outlet. Blurred scenery shows outside the big panoramic window as the train cruises along the tracks.
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Ahana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran in his statement invoked “children” at his shows as a reason he’s not political. by positioning children as prepolitical, he instates the patriarchal order that wrests agency from children and figures its prerogative over them as protecting them from the left’s “ideological trickery.”
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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alright, I realize this website is not going to be full of Stephen Harper fans. But for him to stand up before the global finance community and say this is seismic.
He said he believes Ottawa had no choice but to walk away from the bargaining table with Washington – and he says that as a long-time admirer of the U.S.

But he said that for Canada to maintain its sovereignty, it must pursue diminished reliance upon the United States.

“There will be significant costs to this effort,” Harper said, but he added he believes they are costs that Canadians are prepared and willing to accept. He didn’t elaborate on what those costs are.
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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every time we push back against attempts by the rich and powerful to shut us up, it encourages more of us to speak out. People power is a real thing. Use it!
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 15/09/2026
happy to let you know that 😊
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/09/2026
There is no such thing as 'not political' in 2026.
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 15/09/2026
Are your daughters studying linear algebra? Know the signs: B — Basis E — Eigenvalue A — Adjoint U — Unitary matrix T — Transformation I — Identity matrix F — Field U — Upper triangular matrix L — Linear independence
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I bike to work I often like to take the long, scenic way home via paths and trails that are only accessible via biking or walking. I don't do that when I drive.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington folks, don’t sleep on WSDOT’s e-bike rebate program. My husband recently had his e-bike stolen outside the UW gym. He applied to the rebate program and was selected. It’s a lottery but almost 20% of those who apply get it. Rebate amount varies by income, from $300 to $1,200.
wsdot.wa.gov
E-bike rebate program | WSDOT
Learn about the WE-bike program and upcoming ways to try e-bikes.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Ballard Ghost Dad" #doomloop #seattle
GUY: I'm a Seattle Gen Xer. We’ve always been about “fighting the power.”
-I got teargassed at the WTO protests! I jammed with Kurt and Krist! I'm as “down” as it gets!
-[picture of mom & dad and glass of whiskey on side table] But ever since i inherited my parents’ Ballard craftsman i’ve been seeing things differently
-[ghost dad standing behind him with hand on shoulder] It turns out I agree with Ol' Dad on a lot of stuff. But in my own contrarian, disaffected Gen X way, of course!
-[eyes going blank, ghost dad grasping both sides of his head with an eerie glow]  CHANGE IS BAD! CRIME IS EVERYWHERE! BIKE LANES ARE COMMUNIST! FORCED LABOR CAMPS FOR THE HOMELESS!
-[calm, with Dad's hand resting on his forehead] Sometimes it feels like he's still here with us!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
transgender women with computer autism are going to be the only ones who can stop the superintelligent AI you have to support trans rights or you'll cause the end of the world
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 15/09/2026
plugging back into politics after a 2 week vacation did I miss anything Earth-shattering
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Remember when we moved parking enforcement from the police to SDOT and then Harrell moved it back to the police? Can we move it back to SDOT now? Curb space management and curb space enforcement work better when they are together.
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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a pet peeve of mine: when a train arrives, the pedestrian path is quite busy. The shuttle should drive through the parking lot, on the other side of the fence.
Busy walkway where half of the space is now supposed to be used for the golf cart shuttle
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John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
L'Arc de Participationne
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*Plugs in e-cargo bike 🔋
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 02/09/2026
seeing the MA primary genuinely gives me hope that the Union has a future. a rather gray one with decades of work and rebuilding, yes...but perhaps one that doesn't involve a civil war?
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Turning a New England state into an independent Agrarian Socialist State Call that Maosachusetts
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rain 🏳️‍⚧️ @rain.technicality.cc · 02/09/2026
get fucked moulton
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