James everything is analog
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“Crowbar the long arc of the moral universe toward justice"
medtech 🩻, neuroscience 🧠 , cities 🏙️, environment 🌲, transit 🚍, infosec 🔐
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and it’s all connected.
medtech 🩻, neuroscience 🧠 , cities 🏙️, environment 🌲, transit 🚍, infosec 🔐
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and it’s all connected.
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After a very long debate, this amendment was just APPROVED.
The vote was 3-2, with CMs Rinck, Foster and Lin in favor and Saka and Kettle against.
There are some outstanding concerns around the amendment's exact language, so I would expect additional tweaks when the bill comes to full council.
The vote was 3-2, with CMs Rinck, Foster and Lin in favor and Saka and Kettle against.
There are some outstanding concerns around the amendment's exact language, so I would expect additional tweaks when the bill comes to full council.
NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.
September 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
After a very long debate, this amendment was just APPROVED.
The vote was 3-2, with CMs Rinck, Foster and Lin in favor and Saka and Kettle against.
There are some outstanding concerns around the amendment's exact language, so I would expect additional tweaks when the bill comes to full council.
The vote was 3-2, with CMs Rinck, Foster and Lin in favor and Saka and Kettle against.
There are some outstanding concerns around the amendment's exact language, so I would expect additional tweaks when the bill comes to full council.
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Holy shit.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
September 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Holy shit.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
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The irony of people giving public comment against safety in the name of historical preservation at Pike Place Market while a car is currently stuck on the Harbor Steps.
September 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The irony of people giving public comment against safety in the name of historical preservation at Pike Place Market while a car is currently stuck on the Harbor Steps.
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Happy three year work anniversary to me! Three years working to strengthen and protect our democracy and voting rights. Seems like a good day to ask a friend in District 5 if they’ve contributed their democracy vouchers to a democracy champion! 😉
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
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September 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
ACTION ITEM: Takes like 45 seconds
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Have you assigned your Democracy Vouchers yet #Seattle? Join me in supporting @niluj.bsky.social for City Council!
Happy three year work anniversary to me! Three years working to strengthen and protect our democracy and voting rights. Seems like a good day to ask a friend in District 5 if they’ve contributed their democracy vouchers to a democracy champion! 😉
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
Assign Vouchers | Nilu Jenks For Seattle City Council
www.neighborsfornilu.org
September 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Have you assigned your Democracy Vouchers yet #Seattle? Join me in supporting @niluj.bsky.social for City Council!
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Happy three year work anniversary to me! Three years working to strengthen and protect our democracy and voting rights. Seems like a good day to ask a friend in District 5 if they’ve contributed their democracy vouchers to a democracy champion! 😉
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
Assign Vouchers | Nilu Jenks For Seattle City Council
www.neighborsfornilu.org
September 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Happy three year work anniversary to me! Three years working to strengthen and protect our democracy and voting rights. Seems like a good day to ask a friend in District 5 if they’ve contributed their democracy vouchers to a democracy champion! 😉
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
www.neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers
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YES THIS IS AMAZING DO IT NOW. Also, it should include landmarked streets not necessarily located in historic districts (such as Queen Anne Boulevard, where the Landmarks Board rejected a fully funded safe routes to school project). @alexis4seattle.bsky.social
NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.
September 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
YES THIS IS AMAZING DO IT NOW. Also, it should include landmarked streets not necessarily located in historic districts (such as Queen Anne Boulevard, where the Landmarks Board rejected a fully funded safe routes to school project). @alexis4seattle.bsky.social
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NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.
September 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.
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The year is 2027. The American dream no longer centers home ownership. Young couples are saving up to invest in RTX-5090 GPUs for $30,000 apiece. The US is at war with China and Iran. A tank of gas costs $500, groceries are $1000/week.
September 16, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The year is 2027. The American dream no longer centers home ownership. Young couples are saving up to invest in RTX-5090 GPUs for $30,000 apiece. The US is at war with China and Iran. A tank of gas costs $500, groceries are $1000/week.
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I am disappointed in @cmeddielin.seattle.gov for playing politics with public safety and voting in favor of this resolution. CM Rivera’s bizarre obsession with a single, expensive out-of-state organization is not a public safety plan.
Hours after Mayor Wilson announces her gun violence reduction plan, the Seattle City Council passed their own resolution. Some councilmembers also slammed the mayor’s proposal.
Some Seattle City Council members slam mayor’s gun violence reduction proposal, pass their own
Hours after Mayor Katie Wilson announced her gun violence reduction plan, the Seattle City Council passed its own resolution on the same topic.
www.kuow.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I am disappointed in @cmeddielin.seattle.gov for playing politics with public safety and voting in favor of this resolution. CM Rivera’s bizarre obsession with a single, expensive out-of-state organization is not a public safety plan.
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Being acutely aware of this, I’m that annoying person at work and in life who constantly goes “we/they literally made this up; plz remember that we/they literally just made this up.” U esp gotta do this when you’re around a bunch of rule followers
I’ve worked at a regulatory agency for a bit over 30 years and I’ll hear people talk about some dept policy like it was handed down on tablets from Mount Sinai. I was in the room when some of these calls were made & it was just like 4 of us in the room trying to work though a dozen agenda items.
September 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Being acutely aware of this, I’m that annoying person at work and in life who constantly goes “we/they literally made this up; plz remember that we/they literally just made this up.” U esp gotta do this when you’re around a bunch of rule followers
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The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
September 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour.
This is the statement they published on Instagram:
This is the statement they published on Instagram:
September 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Watching these musicians stand in solidarity and withdraw from the Ed Sheeran tour is so moving. Capitalism encourages them to act in their personal financial best interest, which upholds the status quo. They are showing strong character to stand up and say no in spite of the lost opportunities.
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Watching these musicians stand in solidarity and withdraw from the Ed Sheeran tour is so moving. Capitalism encourages them to act in their personal financial best interest, which upholds the status quo. They are showing strong character to stand up and say no in spite of the lost opportunities.
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You gain & *retain* power running against your opposition and governing for the people - not by adopting your opposition's arguments against you.
Hungary's prime minister is planning legislation to roll back Orban's restrictions on LGBT rights, including restrictions on adoption by same-sex couples.
www.reuters.com/world/hungar...
www.reuters.com/world/hungar...
September 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
You gain & *retain* power running against your opposition and governing for the people - not by adopting your opposition's arguments against you.
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I tried saying this at a then Lake City Greenways meeting & I became public enemy #1. Not only are greenways a distraction from fixing LCW, but the ppl who want that kind of thing just want to funnel all public resources into fixing up the little spot in front of their own single family house lol.
I have come to view greenways primarily as a way to avoid installing real infrastructure (e.g. MLK and Rainer in the Rainer Valley) while being able to deflect criticism from advocates.
One thing that always sort of bugged me about people here is that I don’t think a lot of Chicagoans (or at least advocates and people making infra decisions) travel to other cities much. Greenways aren’t really a thing anywhere else. Other cities are actually installing real, protected bike lanes
September 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I tried saying this at a then Lake City Greenways meeting & I became public enemy #1. Not only are greenways a distraction from fixing LCW, but the ppl who want that kind of thing just want to funnel all public resources into fixing up the little spot in front of their own single family house lol.
“People inside these companies should be asking themselves a hard question: does your theory of what is good for humanity keep arriving, with surprising regularity, at the conclusion that your own institution should become richer, more powerful and harder to do without?”
September 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
“People inside these companies should be asking themselves a hard question: does your theory of what is good for humanity keep arriving, with surprising regularity, at the conclusion that your own institution should become richer, more powerful and harder to do without?”
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"When confronted with these flagrantly unserious searches, police departments offered a mix of bureaucratic deflections and excuses."
From Rindala Alajaji and @maassive.bsky.social
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
From Rindala Alajaji and @maassive.bsky.social
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse...
www.eff.org
September 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"When confronted with these flagrantly unserious searches, police departments offered a mix of bureaucratic deflections and excuses."
From Rindala Alajaji and @maassive.bsky.social
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
From Rindala Alajaji and @maassive.bsky.social
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Like the dogs in up who go “squirrel squirrel squirrel,” tree action just goes “tree tree tree.” Orca assholes go “orca orca orca.” All this when we should be going “ecosystems, holistic eco city design, sponge city, blue green infra, safe green streets, public ownership of waterfronts/green space.”
September 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Like the dogs in up who go “squirrel squirrel squirrel,” tree action just goes “tree tree tree.” Orca assholes go “orca orca orca.” All this when we should be going “ecosystems, holistic eco city design, sponge city, blue green infra, safe green streets, public ownership of waterfronts/green space.”
Urban canopy has benefits, but also risks. It isn’t an unalloyed good. The right level of civic conversation should always be at the level of whole-ecosystem and urban systems.
If the conversation is over More Tree vs No Tree, that’s already a pathological conversation we shouldn’t be having.
If the conversation is over More Tree vs No Tree, that’s already a pathological conversation we shouldn’t be having.
Looks like the G Line is going to need to be rerouted after a massive tree just fell onto Madison Street between 5th and 6th.
September 13, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Urban canopy has benefits, but also risks. It isn’t an unalloyed good. The right level of civic conversation should always be at the level of whole-ecosystem and urban systems.
If the conversation is over More Tree vs No Tree, that’s already a pathological conversation we shouldn’t be having.
If the conversation is over More Tree vs No Tree, that’s already a pathological conversation we shouldn’t be having.
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climate change is coming for our trees
Looks like the G Line is going to need to be rerouted after a massive tree just fell onto Madison Street between 5th and 6th.
September 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
climate change is coming for our trees
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I swear every time something changes that’s supposed to be better, it’s actually for the worse in Lake City. It’s so unfair and literally no one cares. We beg for help and ppl who claim to want to champion equitable bus service just shrug their shoulders and stare blankly at you.
I have zero desire to live in a wealthy neighborhood. Also I am bound by where I live based on my transit access to work. In fact I'm probably going to have to move bc all the buses that go down LCW just got chopped up to service the light rail rather than provide access to the north side.
September 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I swear every time something changes that’s supposed to be better, it’s actually for the worse in Lake City. It’s so unfair and literally no one cares. We beg for help and ppl who claim to want to champion equitable bus service just shrug their shoulders and stare blankly at you.
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The 20th Avenue NE bridge over Ravenna Park opened in 1913, but in 1975 the City of Seattle decided to convert it to pedestrian and bike only rather than spend money on a costly retrofit that would allow it to keep carrying cars.
I think about that a lot.
I think about that a lot.
September 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The 20th Avenue NE bridge over Ravenna Park opened in 1913, but in 1975 the City of Seattle decided to convert it to pedestrian and bike only rather than spend money on a costly retrofit that would allow it to keep carrying cars.
I think about that a lot.
I think about that a lot.
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this is the last place to put affordable housing
from a public health standpoint
from a quality of life standpoint
from a safe streets standpoint
from a public health standpoint
from a quality of life standpoint
from a safe streets standpoint
Julie Kang: "public shovel turn ready lot" (where new housing should be built)
The lot:
The lot:
September 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
this is the last place to put affordable housing
from a public health standpoint
from a quality of life standpoint
from a safe streets standpoint
from a public health standpoint
from a quality of life standpoint
from a safe streets standpoint