Spokane Rising

My ideology: – Public sector excellence is paramount – Outcomes > process – Slopulism is dangerous – Economic growth is good – Build more housing and transit – Tax land

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

My interpretation is that this violates SB 5184, but @ronpdavis.bsky.social and @trufahey.bsky.social are the experts.

This city’s late-night al fresco cafe/bar culture puts literally every other city to shame.

Middle housing. Roma Norte, CDMX.

i can never tell if these people know they are creating a corrupt system of influence peddling or they really are unable to think a single step ahead to the obvious outcome of their ideas

Tú necesitas visitar CDMX durante los festividades de Día de Muertos. Es una experiencia increíble.

“But give us billions of dollars!”

I wonder if it’ll reference their frankly quite bizarre beliefs about model consciousness.

Tú necesitas visitar CDMX durante los festividades de Día de Muertos. Es una experiencia increíble.

I don’t want a Taquería Orinoco in the States, but I don’t NOT want one.

Many McDonald’s locations in Mexico City have walk-up McFlurry windows.

Wait, Vivek went to a Jesuit high school and this is how he turned out? Disgusting. Embarrassing. Kudos to these alums!

The WA GOP is pushing sprawl hard. Meanwhile tree people in Seattle enable that sprawl by blocking infill housing - even though sprawl is *far* more destructive to forests, rivers, and thus to the salmon and the orcas that depend on the salmon.

A beautiful morning in Condesa.

A landmarks board member opposing this because it “maximizes housing” should be grounds for immediate removal. @mayor.seattle.gov should step in. These seats are all mayoral selections. Remove this guy

Eat breakfast outside.

Say what you will, Claude has been immensely more helpful than Google for me on this CDMX trip.

A+ community note over on Vichy Twitter. @savestandard.bsky.social

Fare enforcement is praxis, actually.

Real cities kick out the cars

And that’s how it works in the rest of the world!

Tonight, CDMX opened El Paseo de la Reforma—one of its most important and storied streets—to bicyclists for Paseo Nocturno Muévete en Bici. It feels like a million people showed up.

Their plaza culture puts ours to SHAME.

Tim Walz tried to campaign on taking shots like this and they killed him for it.

Spokane’s approach to urban tree canopy is to… plant more trees! The SpoCanopy and CoolCanopy programs plant new, healthy trees both on public rights-of-way (easements) and on private property upon request. This $6 million program was funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Good lord.

NO! Claude Mythos did not “do” that! ANTHROPIC ENGINEERS wrote code that did that! ANTHROPIC should be held accountable for what their code does!!

This is a an important intersection at the heart of Seattle’s tourism corridor, and the building’s streetscape has been a chronic nuisance for a while. But OH NO! It’s “façadism”!

The California Insurance Commissioner’s choices affect every homeowner and driver in the state. Jane Kim is an incompetent political climber who would blow up California’s already-in-crisis insurance market if elected. It is VITALLY IMPORTANT that every Californian vote for Ben Allen.

They’re talking about e-motos, not e-bikes. Hope that helps.

Thanks to the Alaska Lounge for a great kickoff to a quick weekend trip to Mexico City! 🌆 ✈️

Carrying a surveillance device in one’s pocket at all times: I sleep A city-owned camera takes a picture of your license plate and sends you a ticket if you run a rear light: “This is a hecking jorjorwell 1984”

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In my opinion, progressives like Sanders should not be endorsing hardcore NIMBYs like Kim. And hardcore NIMBYs like Kim should not be allowed to call themselves progressives.