I just need everyone to know that it’s possible to bike UNDER a shark at the Seattle Aquarium. And that is straight up the coolest thing about this city Best bike infrastructure marine biology cross over yet

@vienna_official today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress. @pan_slav_posting wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok

@KaiserBillyBoy hey @VivaLaMexico1910 check ur dms @VivaLaMexico1910 you just posted it on main pendejo @AmericaFYeah lol @AmericaFYeah lmao

@british_editorial the boys will be home by christmas. @reply_guy which christmas

@recruitment_poster your friends are already heroes. what are you? @random_teen_1914 i am 17 @recruitment_poster perfect.

Evergreen skeet

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

I wonder if the belief that there is limited clout leads people to get very mad at people who agree with them mostly but not completely as they treat them as competitors not imperfect allies.

Power came back on on my block as I walked in. I round the corner - boom lights on.

Orange!

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

the year is 2045. you live in a maisonette condo in peterborough, ON and can drive your BYD electric car to a high speed rail station where a CR450AF high speed EMU train to toronto arrives every half hour. you wonder why you waited so long to leave the US

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

We all need a cute cat on our laps.

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Holy fucking shit. Posted on the Fed’s official YouTube channel, no less.

Wine Mom Gangs: 1 Page RPG For 4-5 players. Select one player at Game Bitch (GB)/designated driver. All other players need 2 6-sided dice and a bottle of wine (or non-alcoholic sparkling beverage). 1/6

I've been mostly offline today and I saw Erik Von Daniken died. He was a virulent racist and bigot and a convicted felon, and his alien archaeology "theories" did incalculable harm to the field of archaeology. Those are his legacies.

The only ICE I support:

WE WON BITCHES

Today at the @sound-transit.bsky.social System Expansion Committee, Board Vice Chair Claudia Balducci announced the Crosslake Connection — the 2 Line across Lake Washington and the I‑90 floating bridge — has entered pre‑revenue operations. Test trains are running daily. 1/6

New episode out today! Come for the meat raffle, stay for former SCOTUS practitioner Tom Goldstein doing Japanese rope bondage. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I am still mad, but our little 3D printing whistle club grew by 30% today, folks sent everyone enough filament to print another 100,000 whistles, and the government may all suck but the folks I see every day do not. Spite & joy, motherfuckers. Spite and fucking joy.

New episode out tomorrow! And other updates coming soon…. 👀👀👀👀👀

This got buried at the end of some questions, but I did a rundown of at least part of *why* the Romans, during the Middle Republic, were so eager to expand the citizen-soldier-farmer (assidui) class, rather than jealously hoarding their prerogatives. Naturally it has to do with taxes.

155mm, 155% tax rates, and 155 indictments for corruption

A whole thesis can be written on George Washington’s “Do you want kings again? Because this is how you get kings.” and Sam Vimes’ “Humans are predisposed to bend at the knee and we need fight against this instinct to our last breath.”

I hate these people in ways that words cannot express.

there is SO much going on in this case caselaw.findlaw.com/court/la-cou...

Maybe? But it doesn’t line up like you’d think if that were true. Canada’s highest-earning cities (Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa) have high transit ridership too. And America’s highest-earning cities (SF, Boston, DC, etc.) have among the highest ridership in the US.

It’s amazing what we can do now. I literally built a next train/bus arrival board for my home using parts that cost ~120 and a few hours of work. It uses these standardized apis and can work with most operators. So much better than consulting a printed timetable of dubious accuracy.

I built a modified version of @eastsideurbanism.org ‘s next train board for my place. Its amazing!

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Bru was lonely while I visited family and now demands all the cuddles.

If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings. (It’s pretty much that simple)

Cinnamon buns are a-rising. It’s truly Christmas morning.

Crackers!

Lemon ricotta cookies:

Tactical urbanism in WMATA:

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

I grew up the modal example of a middle class white millennial boy and by sheer virtue of my being a white boy of any class status, I have breezed into white manhood completely unencumbered. I face no material obstacles of any kind. None. This is pathetic garbage.

i love this new favorite phrase, "people who believe in the historical righteousness of the progressive project" as opposed to what? it's gonna turn out racism was good and cool all along?

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social @jdotj.bsky.social @gokp.bsky.social Just letting you know that the Boston grocery family from an old episode (fake job offer to a clerk to spy on a lady judge) is suing each again. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I saw the candy train! @wmata.com