Tim Keck

Opinion | E-bikes are an e-menace America’s streets are being swarmed by teens on fast, silent electric bikes, and injuries are rising.

Tens of thousands of people are killed every year in the US by cars. Maybe 3 pedestrians a year are killed by bikes (E or otherwise)? If you drive a car and have ANY complaints about "the bike menace", you're just incredibly stupid.

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A lone ranger patrols 900 miles of trails in WA’s ‘Disneyland.’ It’s getting disgusting The lack of a ranger presence has prompted a call for an emergency restriction that limits access to the Enchantments — before problems cause irreparable harm.

Close the gate to The Enchantments! Without sufficient rangers, every weekend more and more of this incredible place is being destroyed. Great article by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social Gregory Scruggs.
www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor...

Whoops, the photo was in the PI (RIP) not the Times.

Hall of Famer, Ichiro, visiting my kids' school in 2012. My daughter, Mira, is sitting in front of Gemma and next to Bella. (Photo Seattle Times, TRUJILLO)

I was recently in Brazil visiting friends with my son. Mostly in the state of Mato Grosso near the Paraguayan boarder and in São Paulo—both in the city and on the coast. Haven't been been to Brazil for way, way too long.

You can frame it however you'd like...but tomorrow will still be
‪@seantroversy.bsky.social's‬ birthday.

My first graffiti trigger warning. NYT

Trump vanishing Musk

4 ways women are physically stronger than men Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female bodies excel in other areas.

Spend anytime on the mountains where endurance athletes train and this statement will become immediately obvious: “Female bodies have superior fatigue resistance,”
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Wait... that's just Steven Miller with another bad wig.

Steven Miller with another bad wig?

The sheer # of photos I have of Abby and the kids in a pile: eating, sleeping, reading, laughing is astounding. Happy Mother's Day!

This was super fun. Thanks Tim and Elliot Bay!

Genetics of Korea’s extreme divers could unlock chronic disease treatments The Haenyeo divers of Korea may hold the key to understanding and treating chronic diseases.

Good story. Cool science. Awesome culture!
"The practice is dying out, most of those diving in the 50-degree waters today are in their 60s, 70s and 80s."
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YouTube video by The Onion Today Now!:Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son

...and the greatest Onion News Network segments of all time!
youtu.be/1taC3JjIOkM

Particularly good after reading "Funny Because It's True."

Christine Wenc w/ Tim Keck Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

I will be interviewing Christine Wenc Elliot Bay Books on Tuesday night at 7. We'll talk about her critically acclaimed, new book, FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire. The book is great and Christine is amazing to talk with. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/45880

I'm appreciably older than I was a few months ago.

Who knows? It's early. Everything is spinning. As for Beto? I think he needs to win more.

Brown/orange promotional graphic for event titled "Blaise Aguera y Arcas with Charles Mudede: What Is Life? Evolution as Computation" on May 16 at 7:30 PM. Headshots of the speakers are included with the book cover for "What Is Life? Evolution as Computation" on the right. The Town Hall Seattle logo is in the bottom right corner.

5/16 at 7:30 PM | In this illustrated introductory volume, AI researcher @blaiseaguera.bsky.social uses the framework of computation to explore the complex origins, forces, and symbiotic relationships of our physical world.

In conversation with @mudede.bsky.social

🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/UscoohP

Hurry up and laugh before reality catches up with the satire.

This week I visited two great rocks—one in LA and the other in DC.

Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

That's about how long it would take if you're were trail running (at a decent clip) down a fairly steep mountain of that size on earth.

I was on a flight today & missed the protests. I'm not a giant protest person but I would've gone. Anyway, the turbulence & drops were so intense that people were screaming, a woman sitting near me was praying. After thinking about my kids I thought: "Should've stayed home and gone to the protest."

Sackets Harbor, NY school principal Jaime Cook speaks to a reporter about protesting today for her three students who were abducted by ICE:

www.wwnytv.com/2025/04/04/7...

Seeing that you're reading "Funny Because It's True" made me tear up. Your music was such a big part of Christine's life in early Onion days. You're def part of the Onion DNA.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.