Franklin

It's strange and concerning to me how carceral a lot of YIMBY/transit-oriented progressives are. I also want to live in a world that's safe for pedestrians but if locking people up was the solution to DUI/dangerous driving, we would have solved it by now

Flyer from Sound Transit that shows a 1 Line train and a 2 Line train in love with text "Half the wait, twice the love!" and explanation that trains will be arriving every 4 minutes starting February 14, 2026

Tried to get bloodwork done only to learn my go to lab is not open on Saturdays as of two weeks ago 🧍 but at least I got to experience the light rail coming every 4-5 minutes and got this cute valentines card thing

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

The quickest fix I see right now would be to change it from >30 above the limit to a ratio, like over 1.75 times the limit or something. But I think a per se definition of a crime is just kind of lazy and overbroad no matter how you write it

In other words, if this passes, you can now be pulled over and arrested for going 90 mph on I-5 EVEN IF you weren't in wanton disregard for safety or negligent and likely to endanger anyone

So that language is one current definition of negligent driving, the current definition of reckless driving is driving with "willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property." The problem I see is that this adds a second definition to reckless driving connected by an "or"

I hope there is some nuance added. This seems hastily thought out. There's a huge difference between going 50 in an active school zone vs going 90 on I-5 in the middle of the night with nobody around

It looks like the engrossed bill that passed just makes >30mph over the limit per se reckless driving, doesn't do anything to the other definitions of reckless or negligent driving like the substitute bill would have

We talked in my tiny tenement apartment and then walked to get pizza by the slice. I think he thought that's all I could afford since I was a law student, so he didn't suggest any alternatives for dinner, but I just like pizza 🤷 we had a real first date later on but it was a perfect NYC first date

Omg congratulations!!! I'm sure it's the first of many appearances. I hope you don't mind me looking it up on TVW

Congrats!!! I know my cats will be jealous, I think they would love some stairs

This deserves to be spread as far and wide as what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

apnews.com/article/immi...

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Opinion | Local Prosecution Is the Answer to Federal Lawlessness

In today's @nytimes.com, @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and I argue that, with no *other* means of pursuing accountability for lawlessness by ICE, local/state prosecutions become not just legally viable, but necessary—both to punish past abuses and to deter future ones:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Love Ursula K. Le Guin, hate patriotism.

It also obscures what solutions are needed.

"Our park is full of unhoused people and we are in danger" leads to more money for policing & jail.

"Our park is full of unhoused people and we're uncomfortable" leaves room for responses that are actually effective and compassionate, like housing them.

I support this! I grew up in Seattle but my parents never took me to do anything outdoorsy, and I wasn't cool enough in high school to do much with the very cliquey outdoor club. It wasn't until meeting very hiking focused transplants as an adult that I came to love nature and hiking myself

Evergreen State College

The fact that the greatest political quote of our generation is from a random blog comment is really funny

I did not actually know that BUT I do know that my aunt and uncle had a pinball machine that we were obsessed with growing up and it featured this baddie called Black Rose, "Queen of the High Seas"

And water remains wet

I thought they had more interesting chemistry/more tension because they're not both closeted. But I wish the smoothie shop boy was not also so athletic/conventionally attractive

I started as a public defender recently and just had my first trial (and lost) and I still couldn't agree more

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

Oh I did enjoy looking at that, and the picture that started this thread 👀 respectfully

One of the few straight romances in media that makes me feel something. I'm loving you live reacting to this btw, I just finished a rewatch of the whole series + watched the movies for the first time

I'll have some

Looove this color on you

I thought the pacing was sooooooooo painfully slow like to a point that I've never noticed that obviously in any other show. And the content itself wasn't good enough to make up for it

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin