I went mountain biking with my son and it was awesome. I didn’t look at my phone. I just white knuckled my way through some fun trails. Put your phone down and go be with people. Then come back and push harder for the world we want and deserve.

Seattle light rail should never have a red light so that cars can have a green. A train with dozens of people should never wait for a handful cars turning left.

Grifters all the way down — great scoop @carolleonnig.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

This is a bribe machine and a political bludgeon for tech companies. Plain and simple. "Hey this costs everyone in the country X now unless I say it doesn't and then it doesn't." This is a cartoonishly corrupt setup.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Modern American CEOs are the ultimate manifestation of the failures of American Capitalism. They avoid accountability, play politics, avoid competition, seek monopoly/monopsony, and punish workers first and most. Sad, weak, and damaging. Our capitalism could be good, but it and our CEOs suck.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

Wow this goes hard.

This clown show is a symptom of bad leadership, bad strategy, and bad faith.

Anyone know how to suppress the bot accounts?

Over and over, throughout my life, Seattle has used process, delay, and the concerns of small groups of people to not fix things that are broken and not try new things that are popular and backed by evidence www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America? Why not acknowledge and confront it? Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files? Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer? These problems won't go away.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

“zero genuine insight on the subject but 100% perfect recall of the talking points,” is the perfect summation of debate-bro culture.

Too little, too late for so much cruel stupidity. We were set to have a brand new high tech factory. Now we’re f-ed.

This is how we treat people who are here to teach our workers how to run and manage a modern factory.

We are kept angry or afraid constantly. We are conditioned to keep ourselves safe, so we respond to fear - it hijacks our minds. You can be safe without being fearful. You can stay connected and aware without fear. Fear isn’t required. You don’t need to give events fear to take them seriously.

As a straight, white man I get grouped in with and represented by a lot of trash men. These people are the worst of us. They are arrogant, bad faith, brittle man-babies, afraid of the world, angry, weak, and stunted. When something happens to them, it doesn’t happen to “us.” That’s not my “us.”

As a frequent Rainier driver - can confirm. Missed a light yesterday afternoon because someone was brain rotting in font of me. It happens constantly.

🎶 There’s a crosswalk (Northgate) 🎵 Every six blocks (Northgate) 🎶 You’re gonna take your life in your hands…

Charlie Kirk is wrong; it's 100% not worth it.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

Fox News operates on fear and anger. The host saying “the outrage needs to be maintained so that [it] can have its… full effect on the country.” … is such a perfect encapsulation of their whole reason for existing. Ask yourself why they want to keep you angry and afraid.

Anyway, 72 percent of Americans support universal background checks and 76 percent support extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). Maybe Congress should take those things up

Charlie Kirk had a wife and young kids. This is awful, and especially for them. It’s awful every time a senseless gun death happens. It’s bad for our country. Taken in his own words he thought the risk was worth it. I disagree and this is another tragedy in a long, unbearable line of violence.

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

It’s only a hostile act if you have something to hide.

The packaging industrial complex must be stopped.

Cowardice in the face of fascism.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

“We have to tear down more of the city for the people who live in the city” is a stupid formulation that would have a city eat itself alive, block by block, to make room for more cars that are loud, lower property values, pollute the air and water, and make the city a crappier place to live.

We need to flip the entire burden of justification when it comes to zoning in our cities. We are making certain types of buildings ILLLEGAL. That's what we're doing. New buildings don't need to justify their existence. The city needs to justify making it illegal to build what people want and need.

ICE - Immigration and Caren Enforcement.

They drove out into the woods, down a dirt road, into a wildfire zone... to arrest firefighters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The driving like a dangerous jackass isn't new. The jersey barriers are new. They always drove like this. Someone is always and has always been driving like this.

This will not stop. It's beyond subsidies now. Solar and wind are the cheapest power to build. They will dominate. Not just in sunny or windy places. Everywhere. Coal is whale oil. Natural gas is leaded gasoline. It's over. We aren't going backwards because backwards is more expensive and dirtier.

Clearance rate (the rate at which crimes are actually solved by police) should be the single most important metric that we judge law enforcement by.

Seafair Stuff to keep - Milk Carton Derby, Neighborhood Fairs, Pirate Landing, Ship tours. Seafair Stuff that's stale - Air Show, Hydro races New Stuff we could add - Urban Mountain Bike Race, Skate Park Skateboarding Competition, Graffiti / Art Walls, Parks & Beach Cleanup Volunteering...

“_______ was a great place when I arrived, its everyone who came to ______ after me who ruined it.” The perfect distillation of the NIMBY world view. Never ask who you “ruined it” for. Just pretend time began when you arrived. These places grew & became more populated. That’s why you have a house.

This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates. Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Guns have a single purpose - dispensing violence. They are not protection. They aren’t safety. They are for killing and maiming. That’s why they were invented, it’s why they’re made the way the are. If we put more tools of violence in public, we should expect more violence.

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Moved her to a cushy prison. Gave her “queen for a day” status. That’s what Trump did for Maxwell. And he wished her well.

Seafair in its current form is lame. I grew up with it & have lived in SE Seattle for 18 years. It trashes the parks and the lake. The events are stale. Most people coming in aren’t from here. I want Seafair to exist. I think it should be a party. But it needs a massive overhaul and reimagining.

The ultra rich are soft, weak, avaricious, dumb, gullible, and virulently self centered. Tax billionaires out of existence. They’re Rich, They Travel and They Love to Complain www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/s...

Bring fascism to my city and I will take every opportunity to oppose it. bsky.app/profile/thet...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Thanks to u/mysummerstorm on Reddit for this

Roads are public spaces. We can use them however we see fit to maximize the quality of life in the city. Look what can be done just by making more space for people and places!