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A black and white picture of two women on bikes riding on a dirt bike path along the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle, circa 1910s.

YES! If anyone is bored on Tues @9:30am my appointment to the School Traffic Safety Committee will hopefully (finally) be approved. We have reps on the STSC from SDOT, SPS, KC Metro and SPD as well as the public. I hope that the @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social team will heed this advice!

Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US

SRTS is super popular and uncontroversial. Notably they completed a project at every elementary school in the city under the previous levy. So it’s a really great model for reaching every corner of the city quickly.

If you’ve noticed a random unannounced but very thoughtful traffic safety project in your neighborhood recently, I bet it was SRTS.

Ex.: SRTS got a crosswalk installed near our place that the Neighborhood Street Fund refused to paint due to lack of warrant. SRTS noted multiple school buses stopped at that corner plus a walking school bus route crossed here. It was not immediately next to a school but SRTS improved anyways.

Safe Routes to Transit is important, too, but next priority behind schools, parks, and libraries. This is really all the same thing in terms of implementation. These are pedestrian sinks and so need not only safe spaces to move nearby but also on routes from surrounding neighborhoods and sources.

SRTS already seem to have a cheat code to override normal pro-driver stop sign and crosswalk guidelines. With a bigger budget I bet they could get some more extensive crossing and diverter infrastructure built pretty quickly.

I think one of the most impactful things @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social’s SDOT could do is rapidly expand the scale and scope of the Safe Routes to Schools program. Give this program 4x the resources and expand to include parks and libraries. @sngreenways.bsky.social @gordonofseattle.bsky.social

Some fun holiday reading! Bringing counterfactual thinking to conservation practitioners :)

Bring it! The draft is coming together!

I found out that something doesn't work very well. In the interest of not burying it so that someone else goes down this rabbit hole again, maybe I will try to write a paper.

Displacement happens in both gentrifying and non-gentrifying neighborhoods, a point I've tried to point out that in most areas of Cincinnati more people are displaced by their buildings becoming uninhabitable than by developers building somethingnew

I’ve been saying this for a while now but one of the best climate adaptation policy governments can adopt is just getting out of the way of private insurance. Let the markets do their thing and prices will signal to people when it’s time to leave.

WA still has some of the most affordable home insurance in the country, but prices are rising. Sea-level rise and increased wildfire threat will continue to increase premiums. GMA helps insulate us from the latter though SMA could be improved to encourage active retreat, imo.

Average annual home insurance premiums

Average annual premiums

Home insurance premium shooting up within less than a decade

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Considering that horses are dangerous and riders are very regularly seriously injured, I wonder what the direct overall injury/death rate looked like when everyone in our society had to constantly ride/drive horses, versus the injury/death rate from cars today?

We should being back the Know-Nothing moniker for MAGA.

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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It’s amazing what you can learn from history. Probably why certain people are so adamant about controlling the curriculum starting in kindergarten.

The South End (Bruce's own district) continues to know what's up and bring home the big wins. You're welcome, Seattle

I’d be willing to wager the 37th is the only LD where Wilson outperforms Harrell with homeowners, too. Her best area with homeowners, at least.

Magnolia and Queen Anne are wayyyy bigger neighborhoods than Mt Baker and Seward Park.

yes this is what I've been saying. Pen and paper is clearly better for students but the school vendors hate it because they can make more money with ephemeral electronic media bsky.app/profile/tumm...

Killer whale lawsuit nets $1.6 million for environmental group | Capital Press A federal judge has awarded an environmental group more than $1.6 million for prevailing in a lawsuit against Endangered Species Act regulations for killer whales.

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I am playing through The Great Circle right now and am convinced this is the future of the franchise. It’s that good.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

Wait this is the first time I’m noticing Al Zaidi got pulled down backwards after launching the second shoe.

Pretty impressive head-movement defense by Bush.

Solid display of athleticism all around.

Yeah was gonna say! Good situational awareness by W and impressive speed by Al Zaidi, getting the second shoe off before getting bagged