tired: rewrite ghostty in rust wired: rewrite ripgrep in zig

The first Airo train arrives in Seattle on Saturday, Amtrak just announced.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Many people clearly do not think scarcity is real

The city’s wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/9LbpUVQ

Had a fun Mother’s Day weekend with parents, we saw the Wood Brothers, Mark Morris Dance & Carmen, now ready to go to SIFF!

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every day I am forced to watch markets think we've solved world peace by 9am only to think World War Three is about to start at 12:30

Got tickets for the newly added screening of Again Again at SIFF! Excited to see how it compares to On The Calculation of Volume

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

Guy Reading a Book about the Early Dutch Republic: [looking around] not getting a lot of Early Dutch Republic vibes around here. Honestly the situation is very different.

Why are we having this conversation again. No, the yimby movement or "abundance" or whatever shouldn't tie itself to datacenters, a thing that does not matter for general affordability (and in fact often makes it worse), because it is extremely unpopular

Ich mache das ehrenamtlich.

Completed the Seattle independent bookstore passport only using transit this afternoon!

I’ve visited 18/33 of the Seattle independent bookstore day/week stores now & saw David Szalay’s interview at Elliot Bay Books, Flesh sounds super interesting

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Bluesky ate my earlier posts but having a great Seattle independent bookstore day so far!

The Bad Plus was great in Seattle! I saw them with sax & guitar in 2023 and thought it didn't sound good, but whatever their issues they're fixed now! Maybe the acoustics at the location in 2023 were just bad. All the tunes they played were from their last two albums with the current instrumentation

I do think this is notable if only because the EU should absolutely think about a common stack instead of paying companies a multibillion dollar contract for sharepoint

Katie Wilson’s talk with Dujie Tahat at common objects on poetry & her first 100 days was great, very excited for the route 8 improvement announcement tomorrow!

"self-id neoliberal whose whole big thing is expanding state capacity" should not be a real thing

It's insane how every self identified neoliberal under 40 hates neoliberalism with a burning passion but doesn't realize it

Here's the exhaustive list of everywhere with non-rural density (at least PW density 1000/km²) and low rent burden. San Francisco has done something entirely unique

Saw Man of La Mancha in Seattle, I think I just don't like the musical (I watched the movie last month). The frame story is too serious for the comedy in Don Quixote to come through. The Impossible Dream is a good song though.

Just finished "My Emily Dickinson" by Susan Howe, that was great!! Sometimes people compare works by having them "talk to each other", and this book excels at it, comparing this www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/... & www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159701... plus many many other sources

Pioneer Square Art Walk #Seattle Tons of stuff at the Foster/White gallery for their 60th anniversary! We also went to Antipode & the J. Reinhart Gallery, which had wood fired animal ceramics

Wait, no! He's alive!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/kupp...

your baseball team has lost a regular season baseball game. you must be held accountable

The Line 2 cross lake connection Looks great!

I bought an Emily Dickinson poetry collection, but it's the 1890s editions with "corrections". The person at the desk told me to make sure there's a bunch of —s, but I underestimated what "tons" meant. Should I go back & buy an uncorrected version? #poetry #books

First train across Lake Washington!

Got scammed today, if anyone on the street asks for a donation with a credit card don’t give to them! They tried to charge $350 which I disputed with Chase, I don’t think I actually lost any money but I’m an idiot & am getting my card replaced #seattle

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

You are alive. You are well. You have a roof over your head. You have running water & electricity. Your loved ones are by your side. MANY innocent non-Americans don't share your blessings because of what your regime & its closest ally have been doing to them. We face the risk of annihilation daily.

Getting negatively polarized on protein. Doing a tough workout at the gym and then pounding graham crackers and soda water.

41 people have died in ICE detention since January 2025. Twelve since January 1 alone, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I built a beta of an interactive map of detained deaths using ICE's own press releases. 🧵

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

Hoping to finish reading Shaanxi Opera (秦腔, Jia Pingwa) but it’s so bleak I have to keep putting it down. It’s set in ~2003 in rural China, it makes me wonder what the unspoken sanitation/abortion/women’s rights conditions in medieval works like Njal’s Saga were really like to a modern observer

I hope you like the welfare state we have, because we're never going to be taxing people higher than we are now.

I do actually think it's a bad thing to cause a bunch of death and destruction for no clear reason and in the process bring about a global economic shock. I realise the Israeli and American governments feel differently, but this is my opinion.

Saw Dead Mountineer’s Hotel at The Beacon, it was definitely the most experimental-with-the-form detective movie I’ve ever seen. Hopefully I can catch Stalker when they show it in May

This is a position often asserted, without any particular reason. Perhaps it made sense when this was the only way ideas could propagate. But why would you want to signal boost bad ideas?

Was at the Jazz in Pioneer Square event today & happened to be in a bookstore (watching Beserat Tafesse) with ~6 first edition signed Johnathan Spence books! I bought The Question of Hu.

Interested in this--the important piece seems to be that the range impacts of cold weather on BEBs seem to be decreasing as time goes on. But! Mandatory 15-min dwell time to recharge at the end of a route, or midday return to garage, are *major* operational inefficiencies. grist.org/transportati...

Was at SIFF for Noir City! It was great @noirfoundation.bsky.social