Like put one in front of the central library. Or the courthouse. This isnβt hard, people.
04.08.2025 16:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@lioracle.bsky.social
History Prof. (Israel/Palestine, Jewish history, Middle East), urbanist, map-lover, punster, ebike and public library enthusiast. Seattle, WA
Like put one in front of the central library. Or the courthouse. This isnβt hard, people.
04.08.2025 16:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Map of Seattle showing blue pins around but not in downtown
Why are there no ballot drop boxes anywhere in downtown Seattle?? (Closest is King Street) @kingcounty.gov @seattletru.bsky.social @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
04.08.2025 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So why did they decided to put the one-way bus-only lane on the G in Madison Valley (which is also open to bikes) on the *downhill* direction? Way to make bikes go uphill with traffic when it could have been actually helpful bike infrastructure. @qagggy.bsky.social @seattlebikeblog.com
04.08.2025 04:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe authorities believe an osprey flying overhead dropped its catch midflight. The fish struck power lines, producing sparks that landed on dry grass and ignited the blaze, which took up less than an acre.β
04.08.2025 04:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it just me or when you see βperiod dramaβ and βsec scenesβ in the same story, Victorian/Edwarian/whatever isnβt where your mind goes
02.08.2025 21:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Everyone I know keeps a grammarian on retainer (or should)
02.08.2025 21:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seattle times headline βvisit the real Seattle. Itβs not all riots, bad drivers, overrated burgers and the freezeβ
Way to promote your own city, Seattle Times
02.08.2025 14:54 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tomorrow (Sat) seems like a good day to do everything by bike in Seattle, esp crossing lake Washington
02.08.2025 04:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I discovered that putting hummus and fig jam on a sandwich tastes great. Reinvention of the classic legumes and jam sandwich.
01.08.2025 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gotta get more people drinking bleach stat
31.07.2025 20:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you, Seafair, for reminding us, viscerally, that having military jets flying overhead is terrifying even if you arenβt afraid they are going to kill you, and how much the more so if they might.
31.07.2025 19:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Am a broken record on this but do we think βyour university is losing money and jobs because of The Jews for whom there are special exceptions to the rulesβ encourages or discourages antisemitism newrepublic.com/article/1925...
30.07.2025 23:01 β π 163 π 52 π¬ 5 π 1Fully appropriate to have a mechanism for students to confidentially (not anonymously) report discrimination or abuse from profs and have those claims investigated, but fully anonymous end-of-course student evals ainβt it.
30.07.2025 23:19 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt know anything about AI so I canβt say. Maybe someone else can weigh in.
30.07.2025 21:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Letβs just say that this experiment did not build my faith in using this technology for bibliographic purposes.
30.07.2025 21:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0When I asked about another, nope, βno recordβ¦Therefore, it is very likely that the previously suggested title was a misattribution or unfounded claim.β
30.07.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Then I asked about another fake title it supplied from a real author. Is this real, I asked. It replied βI can confirm that [book] does not appear to exist as a published memoirβ¦Conclusion: there is no credible evidence that such a book with that title exists.β
30.07.2025 21:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It βapologized,β then recommended a real book with a similar title by a different author that was written entirely outside the period I had asked about.
30.07.2025 21:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I just asked GPT for a list of Hebrew memoirs from a particular period. It gave me a list of real authors but some totally fake though plausible titles. I said of one, this book doesnβt exist. It said βYouβre absolutely rightβ¦it does not seem to exist in the form I described.β
30.07.2025 21:07 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0βSays Cohen blithely, biting into a scone.β
30.07.2025 19:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Puff: All about Air. Cloud puff with smile
My kid seems to love beautifully illustrated, simply narrated books in which natural phenomena are anthropomorphised. This has now become a major favorite: Puff, by Emily Kate Moon, all about air, wind, and oxygen
30.07.2025 18:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is there any effort afoot to get some kind of crossing improvement on 26th at Boyer (Seattle)? Part of signed Lake Washington loop, but not even a x-walk. Visibility is terrible given weird shape of intersection and curving rds. Needs a flashing beacon IMO. @seattlebikeblog.com @qagggy.bsky.social
30.07.2025 03:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Three book covers: when cloud became a cloud, when moon became the moon, when tree became a tree. All with whimsical illustrations of cloud, moon and tree each with eyes
My new favorite childrenβs book author/illustrator is Rob Hodgson. Phenomenally done books about science and nature for kids that get into concepts in a wonderful way without too many words
29.07.2025 22:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why do the worst people always have the worst taste?
29.07.2025 20:30 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you are going to include purple as one of the team colors for camp color war day, it helps to live in a city, which we do, where purple is the color of the major local university.
29.07.2025 20:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Box of peanuts with warning βdue to possible allergic reactions please do not remove peanuts from storeβ
People with peanut allergies magically do not have allergic reactions inside Five Guys stores?
29.07.2025 18:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Close up of children climbing inside of jellyfish shaped playground climber just opened on Seattle waterfront
βThese are the jellyfishβs vocal cords,β explains my newly anatomy-interested child to fellow rope climbers. βThey help the jellyfish speak.β
29.07.2025 05:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Big day for the PNW in the Tuesday NYT crossword. Wonβt say more as not to spoil anything :)
29.07.2025 05:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pacific Science Center Seattle: closed Sept 2-Oct 10; opening up its courtyard to the public and changing entrances; bringing a new traveling exhibit about spiders; and getting rid of the old and beloved but apparently unmaintainable animatronic dinosaur exhibit. pacificsciencecenter.org/closure/
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