A poignant reminder that any life can be unexpectedly cut short. Don't put off finding your joy to another day, because you might not have one. Life is too short to sacrifice your happiness to some tech oligarch asshole who wants to monitor your keystrokes. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

This is surprising! No, not that a Tesla driver killed another person. What's surprising is that the reporter (and headline!) included the driver in the story, rather than say "car kills woman" as they usually do. Kudos to Johnny Diaz (who only links to Xitter.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Something tells me pedestrian helmets aren't the solution. The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s, unlocked article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cities for people are beautiful.

Seriously fuck the people working at SDOT who amplify these fringe complaints as leverage to obstruct bike infrastructure. Wilson needs to fire all the NIMBY obstructionists at SDOT. We voted for a pro-bike and pro-pedestrian government. I want to see a major purge. I want a modern, democratic DOT.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Hello from Mamdanistan. Greatest city in the world!

The tax was approved without the cap, thanks to two Bellevue councilmembers joining the three Seattle councilmembers to defeat Fain's proposal. Bellevue turned out to not be Seattle's mortal enemy in this case.

This is the stupidest of asshole driver takes. "I hate bike lanes, but I also hate bikes on the roads." You should only exercise in a gym. Also implied, you should only commute or go places in a car. You don't have to be smart to be a doctor. Being an oblivious narcissist helps, though.

Bellevue Needs You to Testify on June 23rd! It's budget season. We need people who live, work, and play in Bellevue to show up to support safe streets. Check out this post to learn more & express your interest in testifying to Council. *You* can do this! completestreetsbellevue.org/2026/06/11/b...

The cap is proposed by Steffanie Fain, representing Kent and Renton. But they make Bellevue the villain here, and picture the most absurdly rich corner of the city. I don’t like the cap, but I also don’t like misrepresentation.

The worst of the worst: Somali World Cup referees: www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

Red bars are U.S. states and blue bars are OECD countries.

Probably the best thing you’ll read this year www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Preemptive post:

No, Danny is wrong. The "serious" people talk about fare evasion all the time. Nobody's afraid to touch it. The real third rail of Sound Transit is CAR TAB EVASION, which costs Sound Transit far more revenue than fare evasion, and yet that's a conversation nobody seems willing to touch.

To be fair, he really needs daytime rest after being up all night posting fantasy A-I images of himself on "Truth" Social, as all presidents do.

Listening to someone from the Bellevue transportation department explain to the city council that the most expensive component of a speed cushion is the public outreach conducted to ensure that it has "buy in" before it even gets installed.

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

Some good news: the number of crashes on MLK Way between Rainier Ave and the I-90 lid was cut in half between 2023 and 2025 (20 vs 10). What happened in 2024? SDOT built protected bike lanes along this segment.

The Protocols of the Elders of Lake Washington Boulevard

I am super proud of Bellevue for restricting right turns on red at 6th and 110th in front of the downtown light rail station. You're doing great, sweetie. It's just time to expand that to more intersections downtown.

Never great when the level-headed headline reads "West Braces for Critical Water Shortages After Unprecedented Snow Drought." www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

Pike Place Market wants your feedback on the future of the pedestrian pilot. After a successful 1st year w/higher foot traffic & sales, the Market is surveying visitors as it considers next steps for a safer, more people-focused Pike Place. Take Survey ⬇️ www.pikeplacemarket.org/pike-place-m...

Tax the rich. Let them bitch.

I wonder if a union regrets that endorsement too? I really tried warning everyone. Girmay is a fine guy but I was like guys, there’s a massive ST3 decision coming up and do you want Balducci or the guy posting tik toks?

It is remarkable to see the Seattle Times directly attacking another media outlet. In this case, @theurbanist.org, whose coverage of housing and land use issues is unparalleled.

I'm old enough to remember when Apple fanboys insisted that their platforms were secure by design, unlike Windows.

A pedestrianized Pike Place that extends at least through Labor Day, Bicycle Weekends every single weekend, and a Denny Way bus lane in August. It's going to be an epic summer in Seattle. www.theurbanist.org/pike-place-m...

“The Sorrow and the Pity,” a four-hour documentary from 1969 about Nazi-occupied France, chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed—and the film is more relevant than ever, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

Richard Nixon: I'm not a crook. Donald Trump: I'm not a pedophile. May this line be his legacy.

If you're not the one cheating on a Polymarket bet, you're getting screwed by the one who fixed it.

People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Or maybe we could work to reduce the need to drive everywhere all the time?

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

He isn’t talking about Iran, it is the America I know and love that has ceased to exist.

It's actually striking how quickly things have shifted. A year ago, it looked like the changes being considered today (phase 2) were going to be As Good As It Gets when it comes to breaking out of the 1990s urban village model. Now it's the new baseline. Elections matter.

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

There's no way the framers of the constitution could have forseen people flying to the US to have babies, so let's throw out the 14th. But the framers had no problem predicting semi-automatic weapons because they had muskets, so we need to protect the 2nd Amendment no matter how many children die.

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

NYTimes editorial gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

Boycott the World Cup 😡 World Cup risks becoming 'stage for repression and authoritarianism', Amnesty warns www.thenational.scot/news/2597799...

Two crows kindly asking a young eagle to get the f out of their neighborhood if he knows what’s good for him.

Everything he says is a lie.

Soulless sociopath says what? 🤮 🤬 🖕

In 2014, NYC lowered the citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed: - Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22% - Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25% Yes, adding physical traffic calming is imperative but just lowering the limit can have a halo effect.