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I have the highest ratio of bot-to-real-people followers on bsky. Skeeting into the void. 🚲🏙🌈🍹

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 9h
"e-bike crash"
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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did y’all do this yet???
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 8h
minneapolis city council president elliott payne DJs at the bassett creek metro transit stop during a dance break stop on the DJ bike ride
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It also sets the precedent for using this chilling tactic on any journalist or watchdog as it sees fit.“ Oregon cities are doing this over and over again, making it prohibitive for any independent journalist without a team of lawyers to get public records. It’s outrageous.
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DocDeezWhat @docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 20h
To Valhalla
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
It’s crazy, but after the passage of the 2021 federal infrastructure law—designed to be the biggest infusion of funds into transit in US history—spending on rail transit….dropped.
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Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026
Tearing up with joy at all the happy ppl celebrating the new Pinehurst light rail station 🥹 Also at all the inspirational ideas community gave us for what the City should have at “Jackson” Park instead of golf!🙏 Trails, picnic restrooms, housing were most popular it seemed!
Poster with many dot stickers indicating votes for different uses of Jackson Park other than golf. Dots were placed by people at Pinehurst station opening. The most popular choices were picnic area, playground, trails, affordable and social housing, pool, outdoor stage, and public restrooms.
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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 9th, 2017. My cousin D’maine Dugar was killed at 29 in a hit and run walking to work in Kent.
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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
today, I tried to make good on that promise and swung by two different shops to get a variety of pastries. I get there and this mechanic had the day off today. So I had to explain the story to one of their colleagues and hand him two large things of pastries.
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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a while back one of the mechanics at a local bike store really helped me out, when their normal flow would've had me wait bikeless for a bit. I thanked the person and promised to bring them pastries, but life happened and the opening time made making it there difficult with my job.
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
King County is home to thousands of salmon who migrate back to the county’s rivers and streams every fall. There are a few dozen locations where you can observe the great migration, and many are accessible without a car! seattletransitblog.com/2026/10/02/f...
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Friday Roundtable: Salmon SEEson
Map of salmon spotting locations in King County. (King County) Every year, thousands of salmon travel though creeks, rivers and lakes in King County on their return trip from the ocean. These adult…
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A good example of how some manageable problems in the e-mobility space end up as fuel for the “bike bedlam” fire that preceded them… While problems with cars have no such narrative, and that makes us all wildly unsafe (as opposed to “bumps and bruises” unsafe around bicycles)
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Student came to office hours today to tell me they'd been reading up on the Paramount-WB merger and that had led them down a rabbit hole about corporate power and they'd found the article I contributed to on corporate oligarchy and could we please talk about this because they were really freaked out
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Some good news.
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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Normal ppl: House our neighbors, feed our kids, make streets safer for everyone! Bob Kettle: We won’t be safe until everyone in Seattle has their own personal cop following them around 24/7. And we won’t need to house any poor ppl if they each have a cop to prevent them from interacting with me!
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It increases the city's Commercial Parking Tax rate from 14.5% to 17%, a move that brings in nearly $10 million per year" Helpful, but we still need to fix two massive loop holes at the state level: 1) Stadium loophole 2) U Village loophole
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's an overview of the U Village loophole from a little known transit advocate named Katie Wilson in 2016: "the [Commercial Parking Tax] neglects a huge amount of non-residential parking space, because it does not apply to lots at malls and big box stores that provide free parking for customers."
seattletransitblog.com
Shopping Mall Owners Should Pay for “Free” Parking
Our region’s need for transportation infrastructure and transit service is far from satisfied. Even in Seattle, Prop 1 and Move Seattle notwithstanding, riders continue to struggle with overc…
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Com-👻Boo!👻-ter Crimes 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
slapping an "I bought this before he went crazy" sticker on my elected official.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Snohomish, Pierce, and Yakima counties all saw significant increases in ICE seizure, with 256 kidnappings in the week ending September 26. That's nearly double the rate from earlier in the summer, and a 133% rise from the previous week. And this is only reported sightings." Deeply concerning.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you missed the amazing vibes of a temporarily pedestrianized King St this past weekend, come check out The Ave in the U District this Saturday for the Chow Down! $6 bites, music, and performances — it's bound to be a good time: udistrictseattle.com/chowdown
chow down banner
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maya @mayarama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the scariest part of my bike commute and it’s not close.
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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shoutout to the boomer on his e-bike taking a lane on the stroad instead of the sidewalk this morning.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 28/09/2026
Thank you to everyone who came out to our first listening session yesterday in south Seattle! When I ran for mayor last year, I said I would not stop being a community organizer once in office and I meant it.
People seated around tables in a gymnasium participating in a community meeting. Several individuals are talking, writing notes, or listening. Additional tables with attendees fill the background. Text overlay includes the Seattle Times logo and a headline reading: ‘Seattle police chief search: Residents say they want someone local,’ with a byline from a Seattle Times reporter.Graphic with a block of text describing a community member speaking at a listening session in a noisy gym at Van Asselt Community Center in South Seattle. The text recounts the person’s experience with gun violence and involvement in a nonprofit. The City of Seattle logo is at the bottom.Graphic containing text about the first of three listening sessions held by the mayor’s office for the police chief search. The text outlines when and where the upcoming sessions will take place. The City of Seattle logo appears at the bottom.
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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's some people using AI to create youtube thumbnails and so many look super generic they mostly blend in with all the other non-ai(?) slop on the site. Many of the ones I'm seeing seem to come from a very limited number of styles, thus the generic part.
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Take action now against two harmful initiatives that will be on the Washington ballot in November! You can help by sharing this video, donating to No Hate in Washington State, or telling someone the truth about these initiatives. nohateinwastate.org
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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I made an apple cake that was GF & vegan and it turned out pretty decent. I was worried i'd put too many apples in it to get any rise, but it did ok for GF. It was a little dryer than I would've liked, but i was worried it'd turn into a spiced blondie. I could've loaded in a lot more apple.
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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 27/09/2026
look I made this *incredibly* cursed image only to realize that I probably wasn't the first yet my work must not go unnoticed so look upon my works and despair
Elizabeth Holmes in the new Nathan Fielder doc where she's doing the wide-eyed "why would I deceive you?" bit but I've put the Cinnamon Toast Crunch face on her
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026
what in the fuck is going on
display of cinnamon toast crunch with a grotesque new Mascot close up of the monstrosity, a leering piece of cereal pulling a vile, bug eyed face
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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So many problems, in so many states, are downstream of our unwillingness to tax real estate at its market value, and more generally of our unwillingness to acknowledge that housing wealth is, in fact, wealth.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incredible Bluesky lifters + Bluesky socialists crossover event
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My wife just successfully helped a friend get out of ICE detainment after three terrible months in Tacoma, she is a true superhero
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@tsch.uy's "Bikes on Amtrak" map is by far the best way to look at Amtrak routes, whether you care about bikes or not. It's so good. Absolutely filled a need for me while planning bike-based transit trekking and a huge help to visualize the mainline routes and connections. 😍 bikesonamtrak.com
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Bikes on Amtrak
Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the end of an era. The Social Media Collective is shutting down. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this crazy endeavor, but especially @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social. I adore you all! socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...
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The Social Media Collective Comes to a Close
It is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi…
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Mayorally mandated protected bike lane" westseattleblog.com/2026/09/foll...
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FOLLOWUP: Work planned this weekend to prepare for mayorally mandated protected bike lane on SW Wildwood Place
One month ago, we reported on an executive order by Mayor Katie Wilson that - among other things - mandated a protected bicycle lane by year's end on SW Wildwood Place, the street near the Fauntleroy ...
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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 25/09/2026
We're glad that Archie McPhee, like E9 Brewing, have refunded donations to Brian Heywood's initiative group, and donated instead towards @nohateinwastate.bsky.social & LBGTQ+ youth centers. Businesses beware: getting in bed w/Heywood means backing ALL of his harmful attacks on Washington schools.
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Archie McPhee Owner Didn't Mean To Fund Anti-Trans Initiative — Just To Protect The Interests Of The Ultra Wealthy
Seattle internet enjoyers proclaimed over the weekend they would find a new quirky establishment from which to buy their rubber chickens when several viral posts exposed that the owner of novelty shop Archie McPhee, Mark Pahlow, gave $10,000 to Let’s Go Washington (LGW), a right-wing campaign promoting anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives and a social-services-starving repeal to Washington's Millionaires Tax. Pahlow publicly apologized, claiming he somehow missed all the anti-queer garbo LGW has been spewing
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 25/09/2026
Friday: Last chance to take SDOT's bike and scooter share survey #SEAbikes #Seattle
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Friday: Last chance to take SDOT’s bike and scooter share survey
At Lime's Georgetown operations center. Their collection is missing the 8-speed pedal bike. Yes, I pointed this out to them. No, I did not sound cool doing it. SDOT's bike and scooter share survey closes tomorrow (September 25), so if you have ridden Lime then definitely share your thoughts. Take the survey (afterwards you can enter for a chance to win a $100 gift card of some kind). It shouldn't take much longer than 10 minutes and mostly involves checking boxes about how you use bike/scooter share and what you like or dislike about it.
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spokane implemented its first emergency street on Tuesday, 48 hours after a fatal crash killed a person on a motorcycle. A southbound lane along a section of an arterial route will be closed for 14 days as a part of the first implementation of this pilot.
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City to Install 'Emergency Streets' Lane Closure After Fatal Crash
Rapid traffic-calming response follows fatal crashes
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 24/09/2026
Do you want to tax the rich to fund public schools? Then vote NO on I-645 in Washington State. It would repeal a new millionaires tax.
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League of Women Voters of Washington - Vote NO on I-645 Millionaires Tax
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 24/09/2026
Tell Renton to close Logan street to cars so we can open it to people!! A thriving, car-free plaza and downtown street scape - what could be better for people and salmon?? yourvoice.rentonwa.gov/logan-festiv...
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The Logan Festival Street Project
It’s been an exciting summer in downtown Renton with the creation of Legacy Square and redesign of Piazza Park. From World Cup watch parties and concerts, to movies, art, and community gatherings, we’...
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some good news to share on this: @transportation.seattle.gov is adding a new signal, crosswalks, curb ramps, and crossbikes (crosswalks for bike basically) to make it easier to walk, bike, and roll across Aurora Ave at 137th — providing direct access to the new Winco grocery store! #15MinuteCity
diagram new median island diverters, cross bikes, curb ramps, new signal
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 21/09/2026
Failed former councilmembers Sara Nelson + Tanya Woo + the lead for the Seattle chapter of neoliberals (“New Liberals”) + the government relations guy at PEMCO and Vulkan have joined forces to create an AI-generated spin site to aggregate pro-big-business, messaging against progressive city bills
Sara Nelson, Tanya Woo, Erik Nielsen, Dan McGradyAnti-union pro-capital messaging on this new site

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Seattle City Hall, explained plainly: tracking legislation so you can make a difference.
CB 121267
COMMITTEE VOTE
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Mayor's "Fair and
Transparent Pricing_ill likely to raise grocery store prices
UFCW-backed CB 121267 would preserve grocery store worker jobs but could result in higher grocery store prices and the elimination of online and in-store discounts.
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So who benefits? Primarily UFCW 3000. It takes a lot of time and labor to change traditional shelf prices by hand so this is really a job (and member dues) protection effort.
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Who loses? Grocery shoppers and residents.
Here's why: 1) Grocery stores will bear the additional cost of compliance requirements (including strict record-keeping and disclosures) and could get caught up in lengthy, expensive lawsuits - and those costs will be passed on to consumers in higher prices. 2) Stores could also discontinue loyalty-club discounts because the bill's exclusionary language is too vague to risk the legal exposure - so no more discounts at the register. 3) Seattleites could end up living in food deserts after their neighborhood grocery store shuts its doors because the higher operational costs and the risk of said lawsuits wasn't worth their 1-
3% margins.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 22/09/2026
We are building a Seattle where stability is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the ground beneath it. I am transmitting a budget to City Council with ambitious funding for shelter and community to create safety, stability, and affordability. Oh, and — no structural deficit through 2030.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/09/2026
In an interview for my “Machine Learning + Libraries Report” @lauraknelson.bsky.social described machine learning as a “radically inductive method” because its models are corpus & context dependent—& now with the advent of genAI we are all confronting that reality daily, in practice & in discourse
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the first sidewalk scooter corral I've seen in Seattle with a cane detectable tactile barrier.
Box on sidewalk with a scooter symbol surrounded by white tactile strips
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 22/09/2026
8 hours later and the best SDOT could do was add a few cones. If these were in the car lanes do you think they'd still be there?
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 21/09/2026
I continue to believe that a bike lane is only "protected" if it has steel beams anchored into concrete to keep drivers out.
"Protected" bike lane on Airport Way S at S Lucille Street fully blocked by the concrete barrier intended to protect it. Presumably knocked out of place by an errant driver.
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was already honored to be a voice in their game, but now I’m DOUBLY grateful to have @doublefine.com’s continued support as they unabashedly celebrate our collab! (And please don’t worry. While my success & public joy seem to be upsetting to some, I feel like I’m getting to live my dream life!)
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J. BOO!👻ma @broccoliwizard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So wait, this is the mouthpiece for "Seattle Forward," their new "Washington 501(c)(4) social welfare organization." Also SUPER AI heavy, but so, so gross: seafor.live
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SeaFor · Seattle, wake up. Time for a long-term fix.
Seattle, wake up. Time for a long-term fix. SeaFor is the civic infrastructure for the pragmatic center.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nine weeks of Seattle budget discussions kicks off TOMORROW. The final budget vote is scheduled for Friday, November 20th, the week before Thanksgiving. Budget Chair Strauss's balancing package is supposed to be published on Election Day.
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