I know. I know. @nerd4cities.bsky.social is a bit of a homer. But, how many of his videos does Seattle need to be at the top of before we start to view Seattle as our version of "one of those Scandinavian cities".....

I'm happy tonight was something that brought people a moment of hope or a break from the craziness...... It just made me think about what crazy insane thing he'll have to do tomorrow to get the zeitgeist back on him.

Humans have always struggled. We're not built to be content, dare I say "happy". Unfortunately, we have sort of reached the stage where our know-how, wealth and technology could in theory solve all Americans problems. We COULD be content. Almost all of the chaos we're seeing now is manufactured.

As America slides into a literal state of clinical depression and most likely a financial depression, it's terrifying to think of the zombie-like coping mechanisms we are about to see take hold. I've watched people around me becoming basically shells of themselves trying to "hold on to normalcy".

My personal belief. America has passed the point where over 50% of the population can be 'persuaded' into believing at least one thing completely untrue that previously they would have known to be definitely untrue if they'd learned it just a few years ago. If you wonder why this is all happening.

Combining my two interests. #urbanism #scrabble

I do not follow @volts.wtf but it's by far the most re-skeeted account across all the accounts I have on my favorites list(the one I actually see each day). Half the time it's people pointing out how wrong they are and half the time it's people who think it's a valid point......

I'm going to rent out Four Seasons Total Landscaping when it finally happens

As seen at the 2025 Velo-city Conference in Gdansk, the Big Bike Orchestra is a Polish pop-folk band formed in 2021 in Bydgoszcz. Their unique feature is the combination of playing musical instruments while simultaneously riding a specially constructed six-person bicycle. www.bigbikeorchestra.com

This is what most people envision when they think about American politics.

"Democrats have left these places behind" "Democrats don't care about these places" "Democrats(politicians) don't come here" So, in the absence of Democrats, who exactly has been running the 26 states at the bottom of the statistics? It's infuriating how republicans simply aren't held accountable

In 2024 19 states plus the District of Columbia voted for Kamala Harris 14 of those 19, as well as D.C. are ABOVE the United States overall HDI average of .938 EVERY state that voted for trump is BELOW this average 26 of the 28 lowest states overall voted for trump #hdi #humandevelopmentindex

Seeing as how a vast majority of Americans don't see the difference between the 8 years of Obama and the past 9 years of trump...... I'm going out on a limb and say people's minds won't be changed by this disastrous bill.

"America is divided" HDI tells the story of the divide. All 13 states above the United States average voted for Harris in 2024 19 of the bottom 20 and 25 of the bottom 27 voted trump [Delaware and New Mexico being the outliers] Divided by outcomes. #americadivided #hdi #humandevelopmentindex

HDI or Human Development Index is a formula that uses actual statistical data to assess a country's development. If you take how the states voted in 2024 and ranked them as a country..... Harris 16th [.939] United States 17th [.938] trump 34th [.908]

Americans are somewhere between 29th and 31st in the world in IQ. This is WITH us having the smartest people coming here to study at our universities and fill highly skilled positions Americans aren't qualified for......

Some classic Sesame Street pinball wizardry for you to count on…

Three Wins Today (March 14, 2025) + Three Bonus Wins because I think we all really need it today 1. The North Dakota Senate, which only has five Democrats voted 16 to 31 against the resolution to send Reversing gay marriage back to Scotus 1/

“Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an asshole. And I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole.” - Senator Mark Kelly (D- Arizona)

40 changes in Paris in 2 minutes, a video I did in 2023. Bluesky has just increased the video time limit, so now I can post it in full ! ;) Notice how many "after" images still have very little green, as the changes were recent at the time. A good reason to make a new version later !

honestly not surprised by this because I went to the University of Waterloo lol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I get that people are sick of Americans saying “well I didn’t vote for this” but I have genuine sympathy. Their government is torching goodwill and relations with pretty much all friends, allies, and neighbours. That has to put you as a regular citizen in a really strange position.

A brilliant Banksy.

There are good people out there.

A Cybertruck with Basel license plates was stopped by the police in Switzerland. The vehicle was taken off the road because it does not meet Swiss standards. The driver was arrested. I wish we (🇺🇸) had Swiss standards...

I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...

Intersection daylighting added in advance of putting down a new marked crosswalk at Bellevue Ave E and E Thomas Street. 👀

Both incredibly brilliant women

Apply to Join The Urbanist Election Committee www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/24/a...

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

Accurate headline would be: "Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman and Causes Turmoil at Pentagon; the decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is due to the fact that the general is Black and Trump is a white supremacist."

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

It was called Gulf of Mexico for a reason. Mexico En 1794. #HistoryMatters

Agree.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Since MSM won't report this, here's what Democrats did today.

I will follow anyone back who’s willing to stand up and fight this coup de taut. I need a pfp, bio, or some gd posts. Ty kindly.

Use Duck Duck Go as your search engine for the ability to turn AI off, if not for the privacy. Or use it for both! 🦆🦆🏃🏻

Federal assessments show reading and math performance drop in Florida, nation: Florida middle schoolers’ math and reading scores continue a decline that preceded the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Department of Education data released in January show. The data are not a fluke, as Education Commissioner…

Posting without comment. #EduSky #BlackEduSky

Musk is specifically, targeting those government agencies that are investigating him for safety violations and ties to Russia. Reminder: he said he would go to prison if Trump didn't win. The irony of his own information system (Grok) providing a list of those violations, is priceless. ⤵️

Since we're renaming things. Sorry Colorado and New Mexico.

Been enjoying this snowy February? We're not done yet! Photographed in Snoqualmie Pass. #landscape #photography #snow #winter

🤓Glad to see this paper out with Sonja Spitzer and Patrick Lazarevic. We analyse discrepancies between self-reported and tested health limitations across 25 countries from six world regions. comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

I had not read the 2023/24 Human development report, it makes for pretty depressing reading Since 2020 we can see that inequality *between* countries at the upper & lower ends of the Human development index increased This is a reversing of 2 decades of steady declines in between-country inequality