Me a year ago: home automation? Overrated Me now: I keep a pack of NFC tags in the bathroom in case inspiration strikes

I did not just learn that Moby is the great grand nephew of Herman Melville from a TikTok about a guy getting really into the book Moby Dick, talking about it a ton, and his then-girlfriend having to tell him to stop talking about “Moby Dick” because Moby is in fact her ex boyfriend. Can’t be me.

If ~10,000 short term rentals that charge high rents in high demand neighborhoods are raising everyone’s rents by $67 a month by constricting housing supply, imagine how much lower rents would be if Los Angeles let apartment developers build 100,000 new high end units in those neighborhoods.

Even in the absolute worst case which is that you somehow have to commute on the full 3 mile stretch from Seward Park to Mt Baker Beach, it's 10 minutes vs 2 minutes.

It's not a shutdown! It's an OPENING.

It’s a park. We’ve been doing this since 1968. Now we’re just doing it more.

I biked along LWB today, a sunny weekend day, and something striking about it is that not that many cars actually passed my group but almost all of them made somewhat dangerous passes, because there was both bike and car traffic going both directions at all times.

It’s very convenient context to omit that this is the bus route that connects one of the densest residential neighborhoods of Seattle to, among other things, the Space Needle. This isn’t like, a Magnolia resident advocating for the Route 24.

Nothing like a Strava segment for a climb with a 5% grade that you do once a year to remind you how much progress is indeed possible

Yes, we do live in a society, and I'm tired of people pretending we don't.

The fact that this even needs to be written is bleak. I’m kind of tired of having to defend the concept of “being a decent person”.

This is such a small thing to find annoying but “tax return” and “tax refund” do not mean the same thing and it drives me slightly insane that people think they do

Cars, even buses, really can mess with your sense of distance. I just now for the first time in three decades thought to look up the actual distance between my childhood home in Dun Laoghaire and the center of Dublin…it’s 10 kilometres. You could walk it in 2.5 hours?

Weird situation is about to happen on the island of Ireland in the next few years where depending on whether you were born in 2007, 2008, or 2009 you’ll be either not able to buy cigarettes at all, you’ll only be able to buy them in Northern Ireland, or you’ll only be able to buy them in Ireland.

People really, really don't like it when you say things that challenge their worldview and respond quite badly to it. The democratization of information is bad because everyone's now a shooter for their preferred version of reality and the people that provide it.

it’s also incredibly difficult to talk about how uncomfortable this stuff is without sounding like a “won’t somebody think of the men” pearl-clutcher but like, fundamentally most men are good people who don’t deserve to be spoken about the way some women have normalized in online spaces

Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times. Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.

The situation where parking is allowed on southbound 15th Ave NE near the U District at all times but 7-9am is so dumb, because there’s always cars parked there between 7-9. Every single morning someone must be getting towed there - today I saw 3 different vehicles getting towed around 8:00-8:15.

Met a couple who’d just flown into Seattle after 30+ hours of travel who pointed to the map on the Link right after we reached Tukwila and said unprompted “Ok, so Federal Way Downtown is NOT the right way to Seattle, we got on the right train phew” and you have no idea how vindicated Mert and I felt

Las Vegas has to have the most insane ratio of actual walkability of the city to number of steps people walk there while visiting.

Requiring pedestrians in particular to have to wear hi-viz at *all times* would be a major capitulation and resignation to car culture. Aside from also like, being completely infeasible - would the Irish government make it illegal to walk outside your house in a non-fluorescent jacket?

Rory McIlroy being only 5 years older than me is throwing me for a loop, I could have sworn he was over 40

I feel like not enough people are appreciating that the name Péter Magyar is like the Hungarian equivalent of like, Bob American

Another thought I have about why this is confusing: (2S)LGBTQIA+ is understood to mean “the set of all people who fit at least one of these letters”, whereas MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is being used here to mean, I think, “Missing or murdered indigenous people who are: women, girls or any of 2SLGBTQQIA+”

I’m not sure that obscuring the “Missing and Murdered” part is effective messaging

Someone needs to tell Canada to rein this one in, they’re allowed to have separate acronyms for different purposes

He has like 4 million views rn

Sorry but this was absolutely the funniest thing I’ve seen on TikTok in a while (@natandcaleb / TikTok)

I’m gonna cry at Bumbershoot witnessing this 15 year old song being played live, I know it youtu.be/DhD6FTq0e9s

Seems common sense to acknowledge that folks who have disregard for a norm like paying your fare are more likely (not guaranteed) to also not care about other norms around respecting other riders. Kind of like how people who speed causing accidents often also have a bunch of unpaid parking tickets

solution here is pretty straightforward imo: 1) vastly increase mental health funding and make it easier to put people like this in long term conservatorship programs *before* they attack others 2) invest in full length fare gates that effectively stop people like this from getting in the subway

It should not even be close to controversial to suggest that when you use a public amenity you should be held to common, public standards of behavior and decency. If you want to trash a vehicle, do it to your own vehicle. If you want to smoke, do it where others are not forced to share your air.

It’s such a shame that Sound Transit isn’t increasing the frequency of the 542, per the latest Service Plan. It’s almost 30 mins faster for me to take the Link 2 stops and transfer to the 542 than to ride the 2 Line all the way to Redmond, the only drawback on the 542 is it comes every ~25 mins.

Another example of using the federal minimum wage as a benchmark in a context that doesn’t make sense: if you’re going to take the average price nationwide you should also take the average minimum wage, which is >$10 (at least with population weighting) www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Ok I actually have example to tell about a website doing an odd thing with “special characters”. For context, I’m Irish and my husband is Turkish. Anyone wanna guess what bad assumption this website is making about names?

Anyone running a website that doesn’t support fadas and similar characters in the year 2026 should be ashamed of themselves. The technology is available, it’s pure laziness.

Another wrinkle in this is that most of the homes that retirees could downsize into while staying near their communities are townhouses with too many stairs, which families with young kids also don’t really want but have to settle for. Stacked flats could solve for both.

Somehow have ended up on Persian Passover Seder TikTok. Are those…scallions they’re all hitting each other with?

Related: RPZ passes are criminally cheap and strongly incentivize residents to street park their cars. In Capitol Hill you can pay $95 for two years of street parking when it’s hundreds a *month* to have off street parking.

they gotta play the original Sleepyhead, we gotta get Óró Mo Bháidín to the Moon

My least favorite trope in commentary on how much costs have gone up is when people compare the % price increase for the thing to the federal minimum wage’s increase in the same period. 1% of workers in the U.S. actually make the federal minimum wage, it’s a near meaningless comparison.

“We don’t have Guinness here at Costco, but can we offer you a trip to Ireland instead?”

brother do not make me agree with Michael O’Leary please do not

gang it is simply not sustainable for a 2 Line train coming through Roosevelt at 7:45am to be fully standing room only

Blood Orange and Molchat Doma are two incredible pulls for Bumbershoot

gang we’re gonna need four-car 2 line trains

Day 2 of commuting on the 2 Line and the trains are SRO by Downtown Bellevue! Along with all the commuters, there’s a lot of folks in Mariners jerseys boarding at Redmond Tech onwards, several kids on board, and a few people with suitcases presumably connecting to the airport.

A very cute thing about riding the 2 Line to work this week is how many people shuffle around to get a good window seat as the crowd thins out a little leaving downtown for Judkins Park, how many people are taking their phones out to film the crossing.

Remember when the 1 Line was the Red Line and it took them until after all the signage went up for them to realize what the optics of that were