Have you seen the IKEA monkey? The very cute Japanese macaque? The one that’s been the subject of a lot of internet attention? No not the stylish but illegal one, the other one, the one that was rejected by his mother and now carries a DJUNGELSKOG orangutan around a Japanese zoo.

I think about this often because it happened quite literally immediately after I got into a back-and-forth with some folks on Twitter about how I’m a lot more worried about cars/drivers than like, being randomly stabbed by a homeless person as a Seattle dweller.

Grateful for hyper-local journalism following up on this story and so many others where bigger papers don’t.

learned about the baby monkey named punch in japan thats having a hard time integrating with the monkey troop after being rejected by its mother and raised by humans, carrying the plush toy its caretaker gave him around...... im inconsolable rn oh my god

These are the kind of headways previously only achieved by 46A buses bound for Dún Laoghaire at rush hour

I think it's very depressing that there is simply no social stigma against distracted driving. When people join a Zoom meeting from their cars everyone should be deriding that sort of behavior, and yet it's just accepted.

Maybe my expectations for how dogged journalists can be were set too high by college reporters but I find it wild that there are people on Reddit essentially claiming to have knowledge of the (alleged) circumstances of the collision in Capitol Hill and no outlet is apparently digging into it at all

How often does the start of Ramadan coincide exactly with the start of Lent do you reckon? Like is this the first time it’s ever happened? Not even considering that today is also Chinese New Year.

Sad to know we will not officially be having a combination Thanksgiving-Kimchi-Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination Day in Washington state anytime soon

Overheard an older woman asking someone for help re: the 1 vs. 2 Line distinction while we were taking the 2 Line on the Seattle side for the first time yesterday. She wanted to go somewhere south of the ID, didn't feel safe waiting at the ID, so got off to transfer to the 1 Line at U District.

It pays dividends at scale! Jersey City and Hoboken (NJ) credit hardened daylighting with much of their success in reaching Vision Zero in recent years:

Katie Wilson interrupts her State of the City address to note the fact that a 27-year-old was killed last night by a driver in Capitol Hill. "We have to do better. We're not on track for our Vision Zero goals, and we have to make it safe for our vulnerable road users to get around the city."

This is horrific 😔 I walk and drive by this intersection all the time. One small thing I hate about this specific crosswalk is that the walk sign is completely obscured by a leaning utility pole, so you have to wait for cars to start turning into you to know that the walk sign is on.

Sitting with the fact that if you run over someone and they become trapped under your car until first responders can lift it off, and then the person who you hit dies, you get to walk away if you come up clean on a drug and alcohol test.

Bizarre that a 27 year old woman was killed in the heart of the city last night and it isn't even above the fold on the Seattle Times website the following morning. The only story about it is a brief couple of paragraphs from last night. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Heart breaking and horrifying. Someone killed in a crosswalk in the densest neighborhood in the state by a driver taking a right turn not paying attention

The person hit by a driver at Bellevue and Pine earlier tonight has died, according to the Seattle Police Department.

Before apps many, many restaurants offered “free” delivery by having dedicated delivery staff or similar set up and pricing it in. Maybe extractive tech is the problem.

Not grim at all, actually. If the only way to make “human delivers my food from a restaurant to my doorstep on demand” economically viable is to under-pay the workers and/or get extensive VC subsidies then it shouldn’t really exist as a service.

Between Lynnwood & Ash Way Park and Rides, there are 2600 or so parking spaces provided by Sound Transit. 55 cars getting towed because their owners didn't plan appropriately shouldn't be news.

🚨 One of the people who dressed up as grass for the halftime show logged it on Strava 🚨 strava.app.link/Xfnvl0StD0b

The thing that might push me over the edge to deleting tiktok is if I have to hear another ad that starts “as your big sister…”. I am over 30 years old and you look like you were born during the second Bush administration, I need you to stop.

It’s very funny how Strava treats virtual rides like real life rides. Why are you saying I rode with these random strangers who happened to be on the same Zwift course as me. Why are you hiding the start and end locations of my Zwift ride. Why are you doing that.

Great news for me, I even have this exact cup

no eres mis casa bonita no eres mis esposa bonita

Something I’ve found about adult life is it’s much easier to ignore things you don’t like than when you’re a kid or in any form of educational institution, and as such the “Sportsball” people are just increasingly insufferable.

At least I can say that singing along to that song was the first time I was scammed by crypto

The collective reaction at the bar to realizing that was Guy Fieri was exactly what you’d expect

Was Woody the Cowboy canonically wearing Levi’s this whole time?

Might be in the wrong bar, politically…no one else cheered for Bayes’ Theorem when it showed up on screen :/

Arguably many people who like Bad Bunny have never actually heard a song by Morgan Wallen or Jelly Roll though, I’m not sure how one-way this is anymore.

I can affirm as someone born after 1990 that we were taught enough in Junior Cert Science to understand why this is…horrifically wrong

Our restaurant spending basically collapsed in the last 6 months, in part because we moved from a block off Broadway to a more residential part of North Seattle, but also because spending $60-100 on a regular basis to feed two people just feels irresponsible no matter how much income you have.

If we’re true to the “correct” pronunciation this isn’t too bad (though it’d be more like doon laira), but if you’re talking in English, it’s “Dun Leary”

There was a period of my life when I used DoorDash/Uber Eats more than I should have, when I lived alone during COVID and the year or so subsequently. It’s not a time in my life I look back on like, fondly, not because of the DoorDashing. If anything it’s the other way around.

Given its proximity to a university I am surprised there is no scientific study of what the hell is going on at the corner of NE Roosevelt Way and 65th St NE, specifically why there is zero cell service in the Whole Foods and LA Fitness, even at the roof.

This is the kind of thought you have after the first time making two different, unrelated Asian dishes and then never attempting to again, and never realizing that much like every other cuisine on earth a lot of ingredients are repeated from dish to dish

girl what.

What a wildly stupid idea. Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes. That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.

And yet cars can drive around in matte black paint jobs and Irish government sees no issue with it

Are people in Wallingford not aware they live in the middle of a city?

if this means they support increasing the frequency of the 62, by all means I would love to see that happen!

My Irish brain: Unforgettable Town

DTMF is a fantastic album but I can't look at the album without remembering the week on TikTok when people fought over gatekeeping these chairs as meaningful only to Puerto Ricans/Hispanic people

we need to stop all artists releasing new albums until we figure out what's going on with their Caps Lock keys

this is who runs this account

I get just, incredibly well-targeted content on TikTok, it’s bizarre

Of the four lads playing the Beatles in the upcoming Fab Four movie, 3 are Irish citizens (and two are exclusively Irish citizens, one is dual with Britain). Just putting this out there for when the media inevitably calls them all British.

I hate the DoorDash vs. home cooking discourse so much. Leave aside that decent frozen meals are cheap to buy these days, it doesn’t take that much time to meal prep and it’s so much cheaper than delivery. It’s not even close, and it drives me insane.

$300 a week on feeding a single person is obscene even if you make $500,000 a year instead of $50,000 btw