Rent?! Has this reporter or their editor ever visited a library? @spl.org @seattletimes.com

Let’s not worry about the revolt @noamscheiber.bsky.social

WA specialty license places. I’m going to venture this discrepancy is because WSU people are more likely to have car brain and see cars as an expression of their identity than UW people @thewaroncars.bsky.social @seattlebikeblog.com @seattletru.bsky.social @seattletransitblog.com @theurbanist.org

I challenge you to write a better story than this

Everyone on the west coast (and rest of the world) laughs

Which US cities, other than Philly and Cincy, are widely and regularly known by diminutive-sounding nicknames?

Glad to see this got done

The PNW life

Discovery park lighthouse is one of the places in Seattle where you truly feel like a VIP when you travel on a bike (there is no car access anywhere close except with ada permit)

New special interest just dropped

If war doesn’t do this region in, climate change will.

Yeah it’s a bit cold in Seattle right now. Anyone missing temps in the 30s? Come thisaways.

Latest episode of Code Switch podcast: A serious inquiry into why Gaza has commanded more attention than Sudan that doesn’t rest on whataboutism or conclude “it’s because people are antisemites.”

Mmhmm

NYT spelling bee hates bikes

Of the remainder, 22% were not sure

The best #carryshitolympics: using one bike to bring home a new, larger bike for the kid (now, with gears and a rack for starting his own #carryshitolympics)

FYI: “Taxpayers who live in or have a business in King, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Benton, Chelan, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Kittitas, Lewis, Mason, Thurston, Wahkiakum, Whatcom or Yakima counties have until May 1 to file federal and business tax returns and make payments.”

There are signs indicating that the bike route from Thackeray in Wallingford to the BGT goes down 2nd Ave. But follow that route, and you meet Pacific at a spot where there are no curb cuts to get onto the trail. What gives? What are we expected to do here? @qagggy.bsky.social @seattlebikeblog.com

I’d love if media outlets could stop referring to ceasefire talks as “peace talks.” Ceasefire ≠ peace.

Has there ever been talk of making this route a neighborhood greenway? It connects to three schools (Green Lake, McDonald, Meridian), the BGT, Gas works park, and the healthy st at 44th. There are already signals at the 50th, 45th , and 40th crossings. @qagggy.bsky.social @seattlebikeblog.com

Thankfully I spent many hours playing Minesweeper in the 1990s so we should be good.

More revenue and job creation? Win win.

Chosen to light torch on Israel Independence Day ceremony. Videos he posted while demolishing buildings in the Strip gave rise to the expression 'to Zarbiv Gaza' and 'to flatten it.'

Love Lime Bikes on the days I have to drop my bike off at the shop and need a way to get around. Wish bike shops could be given Lime / bike rental discount coupons to be handed out to folks who drop of their bikes there.

Eagle eyed folks who’ve been to UW know that most of the streets and lanes that run through campus are named for one of the 39 counties of WA. Funny how Stevens County, 5th largest in area and 22nd largest in pop, became the major thoroughfare through campus.

#30daysofbiking? Make that 365.

On a bike I can arrange my work from home days in ways that would make no sense via any other mode of transportation. Bopping all over the city, working in multiple locations, doubling back to places I’d already been earlier.

How do we get SDOT to reevaluate the signal timing at the Burke Gilman Trail at 15th and University by UW? It is absurdly off, leaving cyclists and pedestrians crossing against the light every cycle. Have submitted multiple find it-fix it requests to no avail. Petition? Is someone already on it?

He called this “super hero pose.” Hello Mercer Island. We’ll be visiting you more often now.

Unintentional pun for Hebrew speakers, in Bryan Washington’s novel Palaver (character is Japanese). “Mahir” in Hebrew means “fast.”

People in cities should see biking as a utility, not a hobby. If you don’t want running water or electricity in your home and wherever you go, feel free to be off grid and not partake, but everyone should by default have access to these things. Likewise, access to a bike and safe riding everywhere.

Would be open, were it not for that ill-placed sign 🤦‍♀️

North Seattle, with ebike, what’s a good plan with kid? Oh let’s just hop with bike on the 2 line, check out Luther Burbank park on Mercer Island then back on train, downtown Bellevue playground. (This was not possible 10 days ago).

“Israel wants to be feared, militarily dominant, and even “hegemonic” – not loved.” But let’s bet that if anyone’s “not loving” is expressed as hating, they will be called an antisemite.

Become a history major! Most of us UW history profs are on the skeptical to hostile spectrum with respect to AI

Proud homogamist here (also never heard of this term) glad that someone did this research

“I see this tax as essentially free money for all Washingtonians. Everybody in my state gains. And speaking from personal experience, I know that anyone who earns enough to be subject to this tax is beyond the point where consuming more adds to their security, well-being, or even their happiness.”

“Don’t say bruh in school”

The presentations will examine the site’s evolution, its geologic and Indigenous history, the waterway explosion of Russia-bound munitions in 1915, the Prohibition reign of Fisher family-connected bootleggers Roy and Elise Olmstead, and a segregated Black soldier base nearby during WWI.

Sign and share the petition in support of a car-free Ave (University Way NE, Seattle). There will be limited pilot this summer one block only on three Saturdays theaveforall.udistrict.org#kpg_212788

Still rehearsing the excitement of the 2 line connection in Seattle this past weekend @seattletransitblog.com @theurbanist.org @qagggy.bsky.social

Loved the special 2-line-opening cookies (all of that is edible)

Is the YouTube iPhone app possibly the worst designed major app in existence? I want to throw my phone at the wall every time I attempt to use it.

Explain to me the psychology behind the child who claims to be too tired to walk the full way to…the indoor playground where they will proceed to madly run around for two hours. Is this related to the “always have space left for dessert” phenomenon?

I told my kid (age 7) that we would be taking our first ride across the lake on the 2 line today. “You are an excellent mother!” he exclaimed.

How busy do we expect the Seattle 2 line to be tomorrow (Sunday, ie the day after the opening day)? Too busy (or not) to bring my midtail cargo bike on (which I do on weekends or mid weekdays but not during rush hour)? @theurbanist.org @seattlebikeblog.com @qagggy.bsky.social @seattletransitblog.com

No Kings, Seattle

Seattle’s biggest party: crosslake connection + no kings

“Fed up with being fat and forty? Let’s change it. Try flying over the city as an eagle tonight.” -Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin, Two Lamps (2025)