@bondwoofman.bsky.social
Reposted
How do you move 1000 people into a city centre? 1 train, 20 buses or 650 personal vehicles (with a LOT of parking required!) HT @davidloisuned.bsky.social for the Spanish translation of one of my favourite graphics originally from Sydney. #CityMakingMath
September 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
How do you move 1000 people into a city centre? 1 train, 20 buses or 650 personal vehicles (with a LOT of parking required!) HT @davidloisuned.bsky.social for the Spanish translation of one of my favourite graphics originally from Sydney. #CityMakingMath
Reposted
Spending money to expand buses—even diesel powered ones—is a net good thing because it gets people out of cars
September 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Spending money to expand buses—even diesel powered ones—is a net good thing because it gets people out of cars
Sadness and grief seem so integral to taking action. How can one change the world around them without emotionally addressing how it failed to meet their expectation.
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sadness and grief seem so integral to taking action. How can one change the world around them without emotionally addressing how it failed to meet their expectation.
Reposted
Most people are already eating twice the protein they need, yet America is obsessed with the idea that we aren't getting enough. The meat industry, which is pushing this misinformation, is reaping rewards as American meat consumption goes up and up.
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/09/27862/
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/09/27862/
The push for more protein (a euphemism for meat): good, bad, indifferent? - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Protein is very much on the food agenda these days despite evidence that hardly anyone needs more of it than they are already getting. This has led to at least two trends one of them nutritionally hi...
www.foodpolitics.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Most people are already eating twice the protein they need, yet America is obsessed with the idea that we aren't getting enough. The meat industry, which is pushing this misinformation, is reaping rewards as American meat consumption goes up and up.
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/09/27862/
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/09/27862/
So easy to talk about sadness of wildfires. Yet, people find it so hard to talk about the solutions.
September 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So easy to talk about sadness of wildfires. Yet, people find it so hard to talk about the solutions.
Reposted
In Seattle, we like to block dense, low-carbon housing in the name of trees while our temperate rainforest bursts into flame.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In Seattle, we like to block dense, low-carbon housing in the name of trees while our temperate rainforest bursts into flame.
Seems to me everything shows cash assistance is best way to prop up struggling communities. Yet it directly contradicts the narrative and distrust we put on poor communities. We will continue to study and things will hardly move. Maybe because these ecosystems put the wealthy in the driver seat.
September 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Seems to me everything shows cash assistance is best way to prop up struggling communities. Yet it directly contradicts the narrative and distrust we put on poor communities. We will continue to study and things will hardly move. Maybe because these ecosystems put the wealthy in the driver seat.
This Charlie Kirk stuff really showing me the accuracy of Zizeks culturization of politics.
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This Charlie Kirk stuff really showing me the accuracy of Zizeks culturization of politics.
Reposted
Seattle isn't perfect, but it is one of the best places to live car-free and car-light in the U.S. We need to build on this momentum.
“In 2023, there were a record 74,100 carless households, representing 20% of all Seattle households. That’s up from 53,200, or 16% of households, in 2017.”
Seattle’s population boom came with little vroom, vroom
Census data shows even as the number of households in Seattle has grown, the number of cars has remained effectively unchanged for years, writes FYI Guy.
www.seattletimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seattle isn't perfect, but it is one of the best places to live car-free and car-light in the U.S. We need to build on this momentum.
Reposted
fucked up world where doctors tell you to drink 2 liters of water a day but no public toilets
August 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
fucked up world where doctors tell you to drink 2 liters of water a day but no public toilets
Reposted
INBOX: CAIR-WA Calls on Federal Authorities to Release Muslim Veteran taken into ICE Custody at Citizenship Interview.
Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was taken into ICE detention today, August 21, at the USCIS office in Tukwila, CAIR-WA says.
Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was taken into ICE detention today, August 21, at the USCIS office in Tukwila, CAIR-WA says.
August 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
INBOX: CAIR-WA Calls on Federal Authorities to Release Muslim Veteran taken into ICE Custody at Citizenship Interview.
Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was taken into ICE detention today, August 21, at the USCIS office in Tukwila, CAIR-WA says.
Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was taken into ICE detention today, August 21, at the USCIS office in Tukwila, CAIR-WA says.
Reposted
For too long, backroom deals and transactional politics have failed working class Seattleites. I believe in working people organizing together to win a better life for all of us. This is YOUR city.
August 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For too long, backroom deals and transactional politics have failed working class Seattleites. I believe in working people organizing together to win a better life for all of us. This is YOUR city.
Reposted
This will be a great team. Let’s make it happen.
August 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This will be a great team. Let’s make it happen.
Reposted
New York is cool, other places probably are too but I can’t fuckin drive so don’t ask me
August 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New York is cool, other places probably are too but I can’t fuckin drive so don’t ask me
Reposted
Tonight, we got results that were even better than we hoped, and it’s likely to only get better.
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
August 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Tonight, we got results that were even better than we hoped, and it’s likely to only get better.
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
Reposted
Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is proposing restoration of growth centers dropped from the One Seattle Plan as well as broadly legalizing corner stores and removing parking mandates citywide.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/01/r...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/01/r...
August 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is proposing restoration of growth centers dropped from the One Seattle Plan as well as broadly legalizing corner stores and removing parking mandates citywide.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/01/r...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/01/r...