i think it’s a price worth paying but if our politicians keep cussing like this it’s not going to be cool anymore. we can largely offset the impact of this by green-lighting and fast-tracking development of new cuss words

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

Petition to bring back everyone's favorite @mta.info video now that bus lane enforcement cameras are rolling out on more routes

“Like pizzagate but real” is this anything

🚨ALERT🚨 The Pike Place Market Historical Commission is meeting next Wednesday, February 11th at 4:30pm to discuss the pedestrianization pilot. Sign up to speak and tell them you like fewer cars. (The motoring enthusiasts are expected to turn out.) www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

Laser loon acquired

What I learned this week is we can stop being a poor country if everyone drops out of college and starts working at a younger age, and we all stop enjoying extravagances like spicy food

Bezos spent $75m on the melania documentary (which is unlikely to make 25% of that back in ticket sales) at the same time he is destroying the Washington post. It is remarkable just how pathetic our billionaire class is

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Can’t recommend this episode enough — two voices that are in my regular pod rotation, coring right into all the ways political discourse in the U.S. has gone so thoroughly off the rails. Informative? Probably. Cathartic? As all get-out

I get prickly if I go too long without making a countdown video. So, Tuesday enjoyment for the Nebulized: nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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I got scared when I saw the byline that Kadie Bell Sata had left SDOT but, whew, she's still on the org chart. Kadie's great. And it's cool that SDOT people can post in the Urbanist as private citizens under their own byline.

Hill of Hysteria mentioned

i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script

In 1987 there was just one photo. That’s all it took.

I visited the far off lands of “The Seattle Center” today to see these fabled “retractable bollards.” 🛫🌎🌍🛬 A worker named Ralph who has been there for 25 years said they work great 👍. You can get through with a keycard or call box. Perhaps someday we’ll import this exotic solution to Pike Place 💡

QAnon being right about there being an elite cabal of pedophiles while electing the pedophiles may genuinely be one of the greatest own goals in human history

This is what everyone was talking about 15 months ago, and it’s probably seventh or eighth on the list now. Funny what happens when the worst possible people win elections (Still a Pete fan tho)

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

With the 2024 passage of Sammy’s Law, the City was granted the authority to lower speed limits to 20 mph. But the Adams administration implemented it on just 1.5% of eligible streets. In 2025, 82% of New Yorkers killed in traffic were killed on streets eligible for Sammy’s Law.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

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Really thorough and interesting piece. As the story mentioned, Tillman was in the FBI for 8 years before resigning.

Me: Looking at YouTube comments is a huge aggravating waste of time, why bother Counterpoint:

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Germans wonder too, now I feel less alone in my ignorance

Really tough to focus on work right now but here’s the latest nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

They really did think when they started abducting people we’d all go along with it because we’re all secretly malicious xenophobes like them. Related, they’ve never believed virtue is real, only “virtue signaling”

Amazing that the guy whose career was resuscitated by saying “you’re fired” every week hasn’t fired anyone at the very moment when they all should be

The number of people who get their political information/views from TikTok is about to become hugely problematic (if it wasn’t already)

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

It’s possible we live in a country where 25-35% of the population thinks it’s good and just that masked armies are sent into blue cities to execute people who vote the wrong way

we are going to win

Lexington in March! Big venue for this one, it’s gonna be a ton of fun. (Hope to see some Cincy and Louisville folks come out too!) fayettealliance.com/growsmartaca...

This is great by @nerd4cities.bsky.social nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

they're trying to get him to midterms like an old Civic dropping parts and smoking two miles from the nearest exit

Just in case anyone is in suspense, no new YouTube video until next Wednesday. January is my chill month 🏝️

The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙

a few nights ago i rode a bus for about 15 minutes or so. once it got close to the stop near my home i hit the button to request a stop. soon after, the bus driver stopped the bus and let me off

Coming back to NYC in late April. I’ve got a few ideas, but what do you all think I should film and make a video about while I’m there?

Still about 37 points too high, this country needs a comprehensive deprogramming/intervention

I don’t know if urbanism needs to be this big of a tent

Completely normal stuff

Red card on the opening kickoff come on man

Can "The Late 8" become "The Great 8" ???? 🙌 🚌 🙌 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/15/k...