Tonight, in Seattle, the book tour continues ... I'll be at Town Hall Seattle with the luminous and brilliant Lindy West, talking about how to recognize psyops and maybe even defuse them -- using stories! Tickets available here: https://townhallseattle.org/event/annalee-newitz-with-lindy-west/
The bike part of the bike and sidewalk improvements on 73rd Ave NE in Kenmore are complete! There's still a little work to be done on the sidewalks, but it's good enough for me for now.
Also some updates to bike shop locations (deleting some in Seattle; adding some in Greater Northshore) and a word correction in the MEGAMAP box.
Kinda makes me wonder at what point travelling by helicopter becomes the more eco-friendly choice. That's a LOT of motorized vehiciles to move very few people.
Not to talk about all those commoners stuck idling in traffic, waiting for the road to open up to the public again.
@airwhale Thx! And, yeah, it definitely gums things up. We were diverted an hour before from using the W. Sea. bridge and had to go around the long way. If I were president I’d at least mandate electric rides for the motorcade but that wouldn’t solve for everyone else impacted.
Yo fellow #Seattle#library nerds: given that SPL is down due to ransomware, remember: you also live in King County which has an excellent library system and online services: https://kcls.org
The #seattle monorail is such a bizarre thing. Basically just a tiny little connector between two parts of the city. But super useful if you’re going between them!
Here's one of the statements Wing Luke staff walked out over. 👀
"Explanatory panels highlight a rising tide of #antisemitism and hate crimes in #Seattle. The exhibit says that graffiti sprayed in November on the Herzl-Ner Tamid #Synagogue on Mercer Island that said “stop killing” was antisemitism “disguised as "antiZionism ... as if the #Jews of Mercer Island could control the actions of the #Israeli government.”
Got caught in the rain today, and waited out the shower under a rhododendron. Not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes. Entertained myself watching a crow across the street, looking picturesque in a blooming dogwood.
How much does it cost Sound Transit to opearate the fair compliance program, including staffing? How much money have they recovered from the "fare evaders" since they reinstated the program back in November? In Japan, I think nothing when a train conductor comes to my car and starts inspecting the tickets. Here, as soon as I see a fare enforcement person onboard, I feel like vomiting.
@glennf@Sablebadger Drifting a bit off topic here, but I'd love to see the "free for 18-and-younger people" scheme extended to art and cultural events, too, such as art museums and Benaroya Hall.
CM Rivera is turning out as expected. She just introduced, in dead quiet, an amendment to kill a key program in #Seattle that funds affordable #housing and other equitable development.
The link below is to a web form CM Morales' office created to send email to the Council and Mayor. It took me about three minutes and most of that was me picking the right email address to use.