it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

Pike’s Place’s

Washington State has its share of bummer place names (Mount Terror, Cape Disappointment, Useless Bay, etc etc), but none as cute and quaint as what the UK offers

cheeseburger-eating surrender-monkeys

Vancouver is what Star Trek thinks San Francisco would be like in the future.

passengers are often confused at my routing and then I realize oh, this is the bike way to get there

I thought they were planning to replace the 30 year mortgages with 20 year mortgages? Maybe I read that wrong and the 2 was upside down. I don’t think their homes are even built to last 50 years

the way this robot picks up the trash looks a bit like a human imitation of a robot, it’s kind of adorable

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

I love Seattle 🍁

apparently Bothell regularly exports (excretes?) weird NIMBY politicians

in the year 2000, the guy who invented the Segway did a lead-up media blitz before its unveiling where he referred to the Segway as “IT” and predicted that they would be so popular that cities would make lanes for IT. He was half right.

Oh my

oh cool, I LOVE cloud outages And how they are getting more frequent for some reason

this is the Pope his entire thing is going around waving to crowds and looking happy he is also such a White Sox fan that this is the maddest - and most human - I have ever a pope look

These artists built a light installation that activates at high tide, showing future sea levels and demonstrating the climate brittleness of the art center that commissioned it, currently sited in a building near the...

Being able to have your own place while doing your thing and moonlighting as a part time barista or something is big cultural power

East Bezos Ball Demolished to Make Way for More Ball Room: tinyurl.com/4hucab54

“what if Tank Man was a New Yorker”

New Men I Trust is very good. Like Fleetwood Mac's Dreams run through the gamut of all the dream pop created in the last 40 years And they're from Quebec City!?!?!

one thing that has bugged me about the response to the 2020 protests - prior to COVID, protests were just business as usual here (other than May Day), like a small parade or something. I was pretty surprised when SPD tear-gassed Cap Hill for a protest. This is like a return to normalcy.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

An ideal suburb doesn’t exi-

Sometimes I remember there are folks who don't like Seattle's central library. It is a little hard for me to wrap my head around.

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

Super duty Ford trucks start at the F250, but the F150 alone is ample enough to benefit from a “Yakety Sax” backup beep

Why does the German building industry get all this cool stuff? my guess is that in the US, one factor is an over-reliance on expensive networks of private testing labs for product and assembly certification and not enough academic / publicly funded / nonprofit testing institutes

It’ll probably be ads, like that episode of Futurama where the heads-in-a-jar of Washington and Lincoln provide a lead-in to a Presidents’ Day car sale TV ad. Kurt Cobain, 10 feet tall on a downtown wall - “Smells like teen spirits at Scotty’s Aged Scotchbar, 4th and Lenora! *strums guitar chord*”

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

nothing like going up twelve stories worth of escalators to make a slowly dramatic entrance to your city, like watching the most cinematic parts of 2001: A Space Odyssey in slow motion every time you need to go somewhere

Doing the top of this diagram but twenty stories tall just makes twenty times the number of car trips

U-District is really a nice place for street parties. The k-pop (demon hunter) dance party brought lot of families to the U District Station Park

Bicycle infrastructure is sooo much cheaper to build and maintain than car infrastructure. Also, why doesn't anybody ever mention how we're all subsidizing cars and the fossil fuel industry?

gonna guess at least some of these design and policy decisions were made by people who spoke Latin as a first language

geez, why even run a campaign when you can just take every single human soul in town out to a mid-range lunch and chat with them

Enough people want to downsize into “starter” homes at various points in life that it’s a strange concept. We should have “starter homes” like sourdough starter, where you can just add more to the home until it divides into multiple homes

I often think about how a nearby anti-growth suburb chose the “does not exist” option by voting down the tax increase they would have needed to avoid bankruptcy and de-incorporation. Choosing not to exist is an option apparently!

Proposal We re-boot the entire internet. The only form of communication now available is MUDs.

adults get those sad pull-up bar stations every so often along running trails, does this count?

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

One of the wildest things is if you spend any time in these cities, it’s like Portland ah look tattooed hippies reading books in independent bookshops, LA ah yes the Korean-Mexican fusion on rollerblades you always dreamed of, D.C. this place was gentrified so long ago what are they talking about.

It didn't burn, it was just these guys.

You know, when you really think about it, does all that driving and car dependency really make sense? @adamconover.net weighed in.

I love this city.

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

I went to the Greenwood Fred Meyer for the first time in forever. Cameras EVERYWHERE. Everything locked up. At the self-checkout the associate had to review a video of me scanning things before I could pay. And that's in addition to the security staff and receipt-checking that's been around awhile.