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Need some uplifting news? The collapsing fish populations around the US have rebounded and the lives of fishermen greatly improved recently, thanks to revised legislation achieved by working WITH environmental orgs. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

great meetup tonight! I think this was our biggest non-special-guest meetup with around 20 people, and 3-4 first-timers 🥰 thanks to everyone who came out!

Once you get above a certain net worth every stray thought is now an “insight”

chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams

in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed

a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭

TIL Clyde Hill has a 120 square foot limit on a treehouse but no tree preservation ordinance whatsoever.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

City of Seattle ballot results shown with Ballots Counted: 272,041 * Registered Voters: 505,393 53.83% Mayor Katie Wilson 133,469 49.83% Bruce Harrell 133,378 49.79% Write-in 1,028 0.38%

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Katie Wilson now leads incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in today's ballot drop by 91 votes.

She has closed a Harrell lead that was as large as 8 points in early results.

Alki Bike and Board is on Blue Sky! Looking forward to keeping West Seattle updated in regards to bicycle infrastructure, industry breakthroughs, special deals, vintage restorations and the urban transition away from fossil fuels.
#westseattlebikeblog
#westseattleurbanism

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Edmunds/California is a nightmare intersection for all modes and that doesn’t get enough attention

Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the great autumn movies

Making Seattle neighborhoods more accessible by design Four case studies on how new zoning incentives align with demographic shifts to meet housing demand.

If you've tried and failed to follow what Seattle's new zoning might allow, I've got you. Here are 4 case studies showing some of the exciting ways new incentives line up with current demand and emerging household demographic trends, with a focus on stacked flats.

medium.com/@matthutchin...

Extremism Watch: Sinclair's Jonathan Choe serves up lots of publicity for the Proud Boys - NPI's Cascadia Advocate Choe calls himself a journalist -- he even emphasizes that label as part of his Twitter handle -- but he rarely seems to practice what the Society of Professional Journalists defines in their code of ...

Seattle locals might remember Choe for being fired from KOMO for his extra-curricular friendly "reporting" on the Proud Boys in 2022

www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2022/...

YouTube video by NPR Music The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert

Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ

Functionally, there is no way to enter the US “the right way.” Undocumented people aren’t undocumented because they don’t want to fill out paperwork. It’s because we let in 50,000 people a year in a lottery that privileges countries with fewer migrants.

China Blows Past Record for Europe Car Sales on Hybrid, EV Gains Chinese carmakers posted their best month ever in Europe, roaring past previous highs in September on surging demand for battery-powered and hybrid-electric models.

The US media is full of "EV sales fall off cliff" stories.

Let's be clear: sh*tty, expensive EVs from legacy OEMs aren't selling, but well-built, moderately priced Chinese EVs are rocking non-NA markets like Europe and the Global South.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And I assume it will largely be spend on overtime for local PDs and maybe paid training where they learn what suspicious packages might look like

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

return your ballots! 🗳️✨

Dominos meme: “Computers are a bicycle for the mind” is the first domino, the last one is “Apple donates millions to demolish the White House”

Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling.

a tweet from bryan johnson (the smooth technology man who will live forever) that opens with the phrase "I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate."

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

D’Angelo was only 51. That’s why I don’t trip about being called old. Each year we get is a blessing. No telling how many we get.

Paul!

I miss the Car2go/ReachNow salad days. Those plus light rail was a killer combo to get almost anywhere fast

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

Christ our mayor sucks

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.