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I stand with Canada
Urbanist, cycling advocate, and failing musician.
Urbanist, cycling advocate, and failing musician.
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
Bernie Sanders
QUESTION: If you could have any living person as the democratically chosen leader of your country, who would you choose?
Doesn’t have to be a politician.
Explain why, with the characteristics they have.
If I were a US voter, I’d chose Stephen Colbert. Character, morality, intelligence, humour.
Doesn’t have to be a politician.
Explain why, with the characteristics they have.
If I were a US voter, I’d chose Stephen Colbert. Character, morality, intelligence, humour.
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Bernie Sanders
When I lived close enough to walk to school as a kid, it was against policy to walk there. They literally would not allow me to walk to school.
This isn't just on parents, this is a deliberate policy choice.
This isn't just on parents, this is a deliberate policy choice.
This is obviously a, ah, provocative take on the subject, but it indeed an enormous societal problem that children have stopped walking or biking to school. There are plenty of individually rational reasons parents might drive their kids to school, but, in a wider context, no good reasons.
December 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When I lived close enough to walk to school as a kid, it was against policy to walk there. They literally would not allow me to walk to school.
This isn't just on parents, this is a deliberate policy choice.
This isn't just on parents, this is a deliberate policy choice.
Who tf is out there buying a smegma-branded toaster that says "Porsche" on it?
December 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Who tf is out there buying a smegma-branded toaster that says "Porsche" on it?
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Allowing this is a choice.
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.
Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Allowing this is a choice.
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Local officials responded quickly and are working on repairs to the levee breach from this morning in King County.
No one was injured, the evacuation area has been refined to a smaller area, and we're expecting the repairs to take several hours. Check KCemergency.com for updates.
No one was injured, the evacuation area has been refined to a smaller area, and we're expecting the repairs to take several hours. Check KCemergency.com for updates.
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Local officials responded quickly and are working on repairs to the levee breach from this morning in King County.
No one was injured, the evacuation area has been refined to a smaller area, and we're expecting the repairs to take several hours. Check KCemergency.com for updates.
No one was injured, the evacuation area has been refined to a smaller area, and we're expecting the repairs to take several hours. Check KCemergency.com for updates.
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This is for residents and businesses east of the green river in the Orillia area in Tukwila, Renton and Kent.
Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area.
Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area.
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is for residents and businesses east of the green river in the Orillia area in Tukwila, Renton and Kent.
Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area.
Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area.
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Information from NWS Seattle:
In coordination with King County, we have issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for a levee breach in Tukwila WA near Todd, Blvd. Water is likely moving north towards I-405. In addition, an evacuation notice is now in effect from King County.
In coordination with King County, we have issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for a levee breach in Tukwila WA near Todd, Blvd. Water is likely moving north towards I-405. In addition, an evacuation notice is now in effect from King County.
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Information from NWS Seattle:
In coordination with King County, we have issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for a levee breach in Tukwila WA near Todd, Blvd. Water is likely moving north towards I-405. In addition, an evacuation notice is now in effect from King County.
In coordination with King County, we have issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for a levee breach in Tukwila WA near Todd, Blvd. Water is likely moving north towards I-405. In addition, an evacuation notice is now in effect from King County.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
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The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...
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Climate change fucking sucks.
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Climate change fucking sucks.
Poland knows what's at stake.
The rest of Europe needs to get on their level.
The rest of Europe needs to get on their level.
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Poland knows what's at stake.
The rest of Europe needs to get on their level.
The rest of Europe needs to get on their level.
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Yakima's Interurban is in DANGER.
A long battle has been going on between the city, its people, & the RR about how to keep this operation running.
Do your part to help save it for future generations.
If you're in the region, there's a council meeting on 1/20/26.
A long battle has been going on between the city, its people, & the RR about how to keep this operation running.
Do your part to help save it for future generations.
If you're in the region, there's a council meeting on 1/20/26.
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yakima's Interurban is in DANGER.
A long battle has been going on between the city, its people, & the RR about how to keep this operation running.
Do your part to help save it for future generations.
If you're in the region, there's a council meeting on 1/20/26.
A long battle has been going on between the city, its people, & the RR about how to keep this operation running.
Do your part to help save it for future generations.
If you're in the region, there's a council meeting on 1/20/26.
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My bro sent me some pics of downtown Sultan, WA this evening from a canoe! Flood waters slowly creeping up from the Skykomish river. Fortunately his house is about 30ft above the river, but I feel bad for the folks stacking sandbags this evening.
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
My bro sent me some pics of downtown Sultan, WA this evening from a canoe! Flood waters slowly creeping up from the Skykomish river. Fortunately his house is about 30ft above the river, but I feel bad for the folks stacking sandbags this evening.
The funniest thing is that I bought some pears for the first time at least a decade right before I saw the fake ad in The Onion. It's like they knew!
Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The funniest thing is that I bought some pears for the first time at least a decade right before I saw the fake ad in The Onion. It's like they knew!
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Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
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I'm glad Saka voted against the SPOG contract. Too bad he also voted for:
-his own resolution declaring "Defund is Dead"
-defunded bus service to pay for a transit cop czar
-voted for the 23% SPD pay bump last year
-relegalizing blast balls and other crowd control weapons
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-his own resolution declaring "Defund is Dead"
-defunded bus service to pay for a transit cop czar
-voted for the 23% SPD pay bump last year
-relegalizing blast balls and other crowd control weapons
1/2
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I'm glad Saka voted against the SPOG contract. Too bad he also voted for:
-his own resolution declaring "Defund is Dead"
-defunded bus service to pay for a transit cop czar
-voted for the 23% SPD pay bump last year
-relegalizing blast balls and other crowd control weapons
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-his own resolution declaring "Defund is Dead"
-defunded bus service to pay for a transit cop czar
-voted for the 23% SPD pay bump last year
-relegalizing blast balls and other crowd control weapons
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Reason 1001 why billionaires can't be trusted
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reason 1001 why billionaires can't be trusted
Buy physical media.
Twenty years ago, over 90% of revenue from recorded music came from physical album sales.
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Musicians push back on dwindling payments from streaming services
Nearly every song ever recorded is available for about $12 a month, or free if you don’t mind the ads. But while the streaming giant Spotify has conquered the music industry, many of the artists respo...
www.pbs.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Buy physical media.