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When you realize how much space is wasted on cars, the possibilities are endless. This transformation in Bratislava 🇸🇰 turned an oversized junction into a green square. It's not about taking space away from cars. It's about giving it back to people.

Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

for my friends in Western Washington, remember that the phone number for the Seattle chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild is 206-OK-TRY-ME

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

Add to cart: 1 This intersection paint job. 1 This traffic signal priority scheme. And oh what the hell, 1 That building.

the thing that puzzles me is that, even ignoring the rarity of it, detransition is not that hard. if you haven't had surgery, you just stop taking your meds. you don't need a clinic for that. which begs the question: is this a clinic to be sought out, or does it exist to be sent to unwillingly?

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

If you care about fighting climate change, salvaging the Amazon rainforest and maintaining its capacity to positively influence Earth's weather systems, it's difficult to overstate just how significant a bullet the planet just dodged.

Controlling urban design details don't have to be expensive to look good and do their job.

North America Schengen Zone is politically implausible at present but a basically guaranteed massive win on the merits of

a somewhat underrated long term impact of trump is that a sizeable portion of people have never been politically active in a non-trump world. I have never cast a ballot in a presidential election that didn't have his name on it and I'm almost 30. He's politics to a huge chunk of people.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Someone please explain why Copenhagen can build suburban metro stations that are leagues better than Seattle's urban stations

The only reason e-biking isn't the fastest way around South Seattle is that Rainier ave and MLK Jr Way S are unsafe to bike on, so you have to go super roundabout back ways that have absurd hills.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "transgender" over time, by party

north to lake union, east to I-5, south to Yesler, West to Seattle center. about 1.5 sq mi. this feels extremely possible.

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

I SAID STOP THE CAR THEY GOT SHONGLES

You may have heard about some undelivered ballots that were recently found in a dumpster. Here’s a thread of what you need to know.

Democratic candidates doing anti-trans signaling is so baffling because even your voters who aren't naturally pro-trans are going to notice that all the people who are vocally *anti*-trans are also anti-Everything Someone Normal Who Votes Democrat Could Possibly Care About

Walking on a Dream in My Pants

Okay but Stockholm is building a lot of bike infrastruttura. Check out this bike parking island used for traffic calming.

What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.

signing my very important root certs with private keys 1, 2, and 4, just to watch the whole world panic and try to find the one with key 3

can we do a ballot initiative to exile Brian Heywood from the state?

We've needed a homegrown English-language equivalent to the Dutch "Stop de Kindermoord" for a while now and I think "Get Home Safe" is it. Say it sincerely to friends or sarcastically to enemies, it's got powerful "Bless your heart" energy.

Musk just warned Democrats he'll "come for" anyone who investigates him. Look, that’s not a threat. It's a dare. If Dems win the House and don't hit him hard on Day One, subpoenas in hand, every vote we cast drifts away in fear. He called the bluff. Now they have to call his.

sighing, slightly aggravated, as I am once again confronted with the reality that beauty diffuses every aspect of our natural existence

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

*checking my phone and seeing a picture of a leaking pressurized line* It's True

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Opinion: Anyone Who Would Trust Their Life to a Tesla Flying Car Absolutely Should thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion...

being a southerner with a lot of queer/exvangelical friends means i’ve seen a lot of people cut their parents off. and in every single case, it was an incredibly painful and difficult decision to protect oneself from parents who abused or stopped loving their child.

The challenge is not to mimic Republicans' politics of information war through deliberately misleading and caustic memes and defamations, while still effectively using the available tools to fight back and win. As El-Sayed recognizes that is a challenge, but one that must be met.

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