Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

they chewed up all the books put em in a word museum and they charged the people eighty bucks a month just to see some don't it always seem to go VCs fuck up everything you know hey coder coder put away that Soylent mug now I like my books human made & my artists n writers livin free PLEASE!

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. With: 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5K mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

A reminder that wage theft results in more dollars of theft than all other forms of theft and robbery combined. You steal $2,000 from your employer, it's a felony and you go to prison. They steal $2,000 from you and it's a small fine.

once again reminding folks that police commit violence against women at a higher rate than the general population.

I understand the urge to say “nothing’s going to happen” but please understand that giving in to that urge participates in the exact spirit that leads to nothing happening. Imagining better leads to expecting better leads to demanding better leads to enforcing the demand leads to getting better.

shoutout to bagpipe players for only knowing that one song

I think one of the most patriotic things you can do is hate this government and still love America

I ❤️ Seattle

"The research also found that the US has more new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution annually than any other country. In 2024, US children accounted for one in 10 new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution globally."

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

In a fascist society, centrists are fascists.

Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism

Autos verstärken den Hitzeeffekt, Bäume lindern ihn. Deswegen: weniger parkendes Blech, mehr grüne Schattenspender.🌳🌳🌳 #Hitzewelle #Klimaanpassung

Far right: -Install Trump as king -Deport millions of Black and brown people -Enact white Christian nationalism Far left: -Healthcare, education, food, water, & shelter are human rights -Tax billionaires -Demand separation of religion & state Centrists: Both are bad but the far left is far worse!

Your reminder that: a) representative democracy cannot function without adequate education. b) Republicans have been dedicated to reducing education funds for the last 50 years.

It was... interesting to hear Saka say that when he last got involved in road design things didn't go great, so he won't get directly involved here but will instead pass along requests to SDOT. Yet when it came to cars (Curby) he earmarked $2 million, pressured SDOT, and persevered for two years...

Good luck to companies trying to do this in 5 to 10 years when the junior to "gray beard" pipeline is truly broken.

It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

"But at ​​Musk’s urging, Donald Trump’s administration sabotaged the effort, changing the rules to funnel money toward Starlink.... forcing slower, ​​​less reliable​, and likely costlier broadband on rural Americans." washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/22/t...

Dear motor vehicle drivers of bluesky: I need y'all to stop trying to yield your right-of-way to bicyclists. It's not nice. It's dangerous and puts our lives at risk. Most of us are also drivers. Just take your turn when it's your turn, and stop freaking out.

AHOY THERE! IT'S THREE BOATS FRIDAY! westseattleblog.com/2026/06/ferr...

AHOY THERE! THE BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS (BTS) REPORT IS OUT! LINK: www.bts.gov/newsroom... LET'S DIVE IN: The 2024 NCFO contains operational data for the 2024 calendar year from 165 of the 260 (63%) known U.S. ferry operators.

the reason dsa candidates are winning is because theyre saying theyll do actual things to make peoples lives better and identifying billionaires as an obstacle to those things, its not super complicated or anything

AHOY THERE! HEARD THIS SAME STORY SOMEWHERE ELSE?

The Golden Gardens shuttle launches NEXT WEEK

how it feels to be passionate about tailoring, cats, and water from the lincoln memorial reflecting pool

Here's my actual true opinion. The only way to fix all of this nonsense is rent affordability and health care . If people can afford the rent and get healthcare, then they can start and go to work for normal businesses, and write and make art and music. And there can be third places, etc etc.

Trump has dismantled the Ocean Observatories Initiative, decommissioning a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect data on marine ecosystems, ocean currents and climate. In their place is the increasingly unregulated expansion of resource extraction driven by the fossil fuel industry.

As a former medical biller & credentialling specialist, this is one billionty percent true. A LARGE portion of practices like pediatrics, ObGyn, family medicine, and senior specialties depend on Medicaid patients. Not to mention hospitals, especially small hospitals in rural areas.

Seriously @github.com the new "review comments" panel is impossible to use. I can't read it, it's too tiny and doesn't line up with the code. I want my comments inline. It's horrible UX. Please let me opt out.

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Thanks to an expansion to Bellevue that opened in late March, the Seattle region's light rail system is now the most-used in the US. @mclindblom.bsky.social confirms: Sound Transit is reporting about 155,000 daily trips on its Link light rail services www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NEW STORY// Crosslake Light Rail Pushes Sound Transit to Most-Used Light Rail System in US By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

Americans: •Cancel student debt! •Cancel medical debt! •Make insulin free! Most of Developed World: •What is student debt? •What is medical debt? •Insulin is already free! What GOP & Corporate Democrats calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call “human rights.”

Famous quote, hasn't aged.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Killing public good for private gain is a long-established capitalist tradition.

Which is why mutual aid is not a social safety net and cannot replace the government programs that are actually supposed to be helping people.

Good news! My e-bike isn't made of cardboard, so I can just have e-bike year, every year.

This isn’t the first time i’ve heard this and it may explain why, despite the unpopularity of AI in polling, the pro-AI voices seem much louder. Seems possible that by convincing the bosses of AI’s inevitability, it’s had a chilling effect on workers who oppose it but fear for their livelihoods.

Talking shit about AI at my old job set me on a path to getting fired, because I had a "bad attitude" so other people (read: my boss) were "uncomfortable collaborating" with me. My coworkers told me personally that they hated AI but were afraid to speak up. Turns out they were right to be afraid.

I posted this while I worked at Disney+ and was trying to recruit my new manager I was suspended for 2 weeks while Disney legal investigated my social media and personal activities outside of work My director called me racist I quit as soon as I had a new job

You ever notice how “political pragmatism” is always “we’ll just give away some of YOUR rights” and never “we’ll just give away some of MY rights?”

Explain to me why airplane wifi is slower despite being closer to the cloud

As a San Diegan I need people to know that earlier this year, our city renewed the Flock camera contract over our many objections SDPD had *2 hours* between the mother calling to say her Nazi son took her BMW and guns and this shooting, and the cops, with all those cameras couldn’t locate shit?

Poor ppl don't need higher electric bills www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.