My children have been (rightfully) complaining that their dictionary was published in 1991 and was missing a bunch of presidents and other information, so I've been able to achieve the dream: Having a real reason to Buy More Dictionaries

Going to other cities where this is the matter-of-fact reality is so weirdly deflating. Everyone I met (including families with kids) in Buenos Aires live in apartments. There are schools built into apartment blocks the way we'd build in retail. This is extremely doable. Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Just a fucking spectacular piece defector.com/diabolical-m...

Two people have been killed by drivers outside Bailey Gatzert elementary in June.

Congratulations to the executive director of Visit Seattle, your mom is INCREDIBLY proud of how hard you worked to help bring the World Cup to Seattle, and everyone who was in line with her at the bathrooms in Pacific Place now knows about your efforts ❤️⚽

The equivalent of a full one-third of Seattle's population used light rail on Friday.

NYT investigation: Thousands of U.S. pedestrians are dead due to SUV/truck hood and pillar designs #SEAbikes

Every day I bike alongside trucks and SUVs whose headlights are at my shoulder level and above.

I'm very happy for Messi and his 17th World Cup goal, but the Fox commentators have not once mentioned that he's actually now just tied Marta for "most World Cup goals." 🙃

You can't fool me. That's a supporting character name's from a five-comic arc in Swan Boy from like three years ago.

I'm sorry, they're in Claudia Dickey's OWN HOUSE and they don't have sideline or box seats??

An Australian named Jacob Italiano means there’s an Italian named Giacomo Australiano

This really is the reality. Do we actually care that a woman was killed completely needlessly or do we care about parking

Seems to me this is a problem we can fix

THANK YOU, SDOT! I bike here every day, and I'm so thrilled about this! Now how about doing the same for the rest of the Fremont hill? And while we're at it, continue the work up Phinney and Greenwood until 87th??

There was a Porsche parked—literally unattended, not just temporarily stopped—in the crosswalk in front of the bridge to the beach at Carkeek Park yesterday.

It’s worth noting how, when celebrations break out and emotions are overwhelming, people often turn to the arts—in these cases, to live music—because nothing else is as satisfying or feels big enough.

Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb

This is the future urbanists want

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the general public that cyclists are the reckless ones

Another day, another email to a nonprofit whose newsletter I get, asking them to please stop using AI-generated art. This one is a botanic garden! Places that are famously beautiful and very easy to photograph!

EAT THE GRUMPEY RICH - dashare.zone ADMIN

If we shadows have offended, suck my ass and go get bended

i can really imagine coach mcgirk saying "It's a tool, Brendan." then having full blown ai psychosis later in the episode

Everyone's going to remember Anthony Head for Buffy, but shout out to his one time appearance in Doctor Who as an evil alien school headmaster who a) spent 45 minutes chewing scenery, b) still went toe-to-toe with the return of Lis Sladen, and c) delivered this incredible line with a straight face

Every PTA committee in the history of time

O Antony!

"If it's guilt you're looking for, Buffy, I'm not your man. All you will get from me is my support... and my respect."

TONY HEAD NOOOOOOOO 💔

Nicky Childers wrote the hell out of this article.

There should be a Bruce Springsteen anime and before you say no I want you to consider how many members of the E Street Band would look amazing in an anime

Jesus. This is so awful. (There's another elementary school, Bailey Gatzert, at that intersection. 💔)

@paulconstant.com made this same point in his most recent newsletter and it rang a gong in my brain. One of those times where something obvious is labeled and then you can finally look at it head on and be like, "Oh, yeah. Of course." (Subscribe to Paul's newsletter! buttondown.com/paulconstant)

I recently watched a mom with a toddler in a stroller cross in Fremont (43rd-ish) during rush hour. Pulled the stroller over the Jersey barrier and everything. Terrifying all around. But I will say: Hoisting a stroller once is easier than managing all the stairs on the ped bridge or the underpass.

Go read those reviews; they are extremely heartwarming! It's like if a simple piece of tech does one thing well, people...like it???

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant

'Together, roads and parking represent approximately 17,000 acres (out of 53,620!) of impervious car infrastructure already in place, already shedding tire particles, brake dust, oil, and heavy metals into the drainage system w/ every rainfall.' the problem is, and has always been, cars not homes

When you travel through the world like this all the time, it must be functionally impossible to not view normal-sized things (and the other people who use them) as just toys.

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

Happy Mother's Day. Protect trans kids 💜 #Booksky

me, scrapping everything I've done for the last three days: this is how Flaubert did it

if I used AI to write, how would I learn what it's like to spend a whole fucking day writing a sentence and then deciding it's terrible and throwing it away, as God intended?????

Here's what I do think is true: Anybody who tells you that they can speak for all writers, with regard to AI or anything else, should be presumed full of it unless proven otherwise. All writers don't even *use computers*. This kind of statement is designed to create a reality, not describe one.

Professional news: I'm pivoting to web comics

I really want this show to be Grown-Up Scooby Doo, which I could easily handle (a greedy developer is behind it all!), but I think it's more Funny Stephen King, which is unfortunately still too scary for me. But Kate O'Flynn and Stephen Root are gods among men, so maybe I'll try again one day.

ME 'N THE MAYOR BOTH RIDE WOMBI TERN BIKES; surely this gives me some kind of executive powers by association (I will be using them to install automatic bollards on every Healthy Street)

this is the ideal car body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Good news, everyone! Vern presents a solution to literally all of society's problems in the final paragraph of this article.