day one of South King Link and the elevators at Star Lake Station are ALREADY broken...I guess Sound Transit is setting expectations early?

A new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. www.wired.com/story/new-an...

Aurora borealis on a winter night ✨ #art #illustration

Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there. This is a big win to keep fishermen and the Newport community safe.

Link Missing After US Military Blows Up King of Red Lions hard-drive.net/link-missing...

Seattle is the first in the nation to test a new type of bike lane barrier made from recycled tires.

I listened to a biography of FDR recently and the throughline of his first 2 terms is that he was boldly against monied interests in word and deed and the American people fucking loved him to death for it* *kept reelecting him until he literally died in office

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

“Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case," Jeffries said at a press conference Monday. Okay but why not…….. try anyway?

⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075: "For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal." ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

High speed rail is a non-trivial effort with massive construction impacts and steep costs but it's never going to be cheaper, so governments should really start a semi-permanent program of building the most obvious corridors...or are we just going to keep flying from Seattle to Portland forever?

Average folks kettled ICE

The people who make the plagiarism machine are deliberately reinforcing this conflation. It helps them if these actual good use cases are tied to their vapid product, for exactly this sorry of reason

“I was just following otters.”

Have you ever seen a bike lane sweeper - pulled behind a bike? Volunteers in Kirkland have a new tool that attaches to the back of an e-bike. It's good for protected bike lanes, sidewalks, and narrow trails. My @kuow.org story: www.kuow.org/stories/clea...

#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM. Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems) And really fun to ride... 🧵

precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.

turns out best way to beautify your city is also best way to adapt to climate change: deprioritize cars & on-street parking prioritize sustainable mobility and sponge city principles (de-paving streets for trees) bonus points: cleaner air, reduced urban heat islands, better public health outcomes

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Mass transit drives $5 billion in economic activity every year in Pennsylvania. That’s billion, with a B. So hear me when I say: SEPTA is absolutely vital to our Commonwealth’s success and our economic growth.

I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)

Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Paul Rudd is in talks to create a world in which bunnies are giant and they are our friends and you can ride around on them like horsies (Source: tinyurl.com/4ac25cne)

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

We will do a 2,500 page environmental review on a new highway that we know will lead to more traffic, and then rule out a bus lane with analysis that is done on the back of a napkin.

BREAKING: I’ve authorized nearly $220 million to be made available to SEPTA – so they can make necessary safety repairs to over 200 Silverliner IV rail cars, upgrade trolley infrastructure, keep riders safe, and continue to deliver reliable, on-time service.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.

In the Netherlands, over 40% of rail passengers arrive by bike. Since 2012 the country has invested €400m+ to add 200,000 new bike parking spaces at stations. The result? More rail use, fewer car trips, lower congestion and emissions, better public health - and far more efficient use of urban space.

first 2 Line test trains passing through downtown Seattle today - wish I'd grabbed a picture!!

True high speed rail on dedicated tracks would be super popular here, as it is everywhere else it’s been tried. But even more Amtrak Cascades runs, enabled by the new Airo trains coming into service next year, will help a lot.

the fact that amtrak cascades hit another ridership record in FY25 despite shutting down for two weeks and spending half the year running smaller trains with higher prices bc of the horizon recall is another sign that the demand for rail in the pnw is genuinely insatiable

NOAA cuts back on seismic data used for West Coast tsunami alerts "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time."

So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng

hey guys, bolsonaro is currently in prison 🥰

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#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1969: A group of Native American activists calling themselves Indians of All Tribes begin a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz. An occupation force of 89 men, women and children sailed through San Francisco Bay and claimed the island for all North American tribes. /1