apardoe
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Biking to work in big tech companies in Bellevue, WA. Formerly very much C++, now very much making privacy work at scale.
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Extremely bad news for everyone who rides a Rad Power Bike 😢
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Extremely bad news for everyone who rides a Rad Power Bike 😢
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Wow this is bad.
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wow this is bad.
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Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Great to see that John Carlson, conservative radio talk show host, former Reagan administration member, and president of Kemper Freeman/Bellevue Square's development corporation has a spot on the Girmay Zahilay's transition team.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Great to see that John Carlson, conservative radio talk show host, former Reagan administration member, and president of Kemper Freeman/Bellevue Square's development corporation has a spot on the Girmay Zahilay's transition team.
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Executive-elect Girmay Zahilay has announced Doug Baldwin, Microsoft's Brad Smith, MLK Labor's Katie Garrow, and Seattle Indian Health Board's Esther Lucero as his transition team's co-chairs.
Deputy Exec Karan Gill will be serving as the transition's executive director.
Deputy Exec Karan Gill will be serving as the transition's executive director.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Executive-elect Girmay Zahilay has announced Doug Baldwin, Microsoft's Brad Smith, MLK Labor's Katie Garrow, and Seattle Indian Health Board's Esther Lucero as his transition team's co-chairs.
Deputy Exec Karan Gill will be serving as the transition's executive director.
Deputy Exec Karan Gill will be serving as the transition's executive director.
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Vancouver is what Star Trek thinks San Francisco would be like in the future.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Vancouver is what Star Trek thinks San Francisco would be like in the future.
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Great news: Julia Reed is reintroducing the presumed liability bill this session (it was HB 1518 last session). The new bill will be slightly narrower in scope. If passed, drivers will be presumed at fault if they collide with a pedestrian or cyclist in a bike lane, crosswalk, or intersection.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Great news: Julia Reed is reintroducing the presumed liability bill this session (it was HB 1518 last session). The new bill will be slightly narrower in scope. If passed, drivers will be presumed at fault if they collide with a pedestrian or cyclist in a bike lane, crosswalk, or intersection.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Indiana. What a place.
Police say cleaning woman shot dead in Indiana after arriving at wrong house reut.rs/47IPR2C
Police say cleaning woman shot dead in Indiana after arriving at wrong house
Detectives in Indiana have completed their initial investigation into the killing of a cleaning woman who mistakenly arrived at the wrong address and was shot through the door by a resident who feared an intruder was outside, police said on Friday.
reut.rs
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Indiana. What a place.
Seattle Times article on election results calls out "Cybertruck-driving" as a main description of this tech guy from Woodinville. Dude, you drive a Wankerpanzer. It's a character fault.
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Seattle Times article on election results calls out "Cybertruck-driving" as a main description of this tech guy from Woodinville. Dude, you drive a Wankerpanzer. It's a character fault.
My first thought hearing about Dick Cheney was how he helped raised a decent woman. I don't agree with Liz Cheney's politics but she showed integrity most Republicans could never dream of.
My second thought was about him shooting a Texas Republican lawyer in the face while quail hunting. Hilarious.
My second thought was about him shooting a Texas Republican lawyer in the face while quail hunting. Hilarious.
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My first thought hearing about Dick Cheney was how he helped raised a decent woman. I don't agree with Liz Cheney's politics but she showed integrity most Republicans could never dream of.
My second thought was about him shooting a Texas Republican lawyer in the face while quail hunting. Hilarious.
My second thought was about him shooting a Texas Republican lawyer in the face while quail hunting. Hilarious.
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“Residents across precincts are voicing frustration about reckless driving, drag racing, unsafe crossings and conflicts between cars, bikes, scooters and pedestrians.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Seattle’s ‘surprising’ top public-safety concern, according to an annual survey
Seattle University's annual survey on public safety, initiated in 2015, shows how local perceptions of crime, safety and policing have shifted.
www.seattletimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“Residents across precincts are voicing frustration about reckless driving, drag racing, unsafe crossings and conflicts between cars, bikes, scooters and pedestrians.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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proudly working for you 24 hours a day. except tomorrow when we will work 25.
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
proudly working for you 24 hours a day. except tomorrow when we will work 25.
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Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.
BREAKING: President Gerald Ford endorses Andrew Cuomo
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
BREAKING: President Gerald Ford endorses Andrew Cuomo
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The dementia-addled reality television host will kill us all.
October 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The dementia-addled reality television host will kill us all.
This is key: Trump is saying a private donor's $130 will pay the troops. It's literally $100 per active duty military. Why are people too stupid to do simple math?
$130 million for 1.3 million active duty military
"They're soldiers, Michael. What could their paychecks be, $100 each?"
"They're soldiers, Michael. What could their paychecks be, $100 each?"
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is key: Trump is saying a private donor's $130 will pay the troops. It's literally $100 per active duty military. Why are people too stupid to do simple math?
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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Damn. It. It was right there.
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Damn. It. It was right there.
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Bruce Harrell as a “pro-bike champion” has to be some kind of sick joke
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October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Bruce Harrell as a “pro-bike champion” has to be some kind of sick joke
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I think this record needs to be set straight clearly and often leading up the election. Even r/SeattleBike is still a bit unclear if he should get credit for it or not.
From the seattlebike community on Reddit: Why is WA Bike PAC/Cascade Bike Club endorsing Harrell?
Explore this post and more from the seattlebike community
www.reddit.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I think this record needs to be set straight clearly and often leading up the election. Even r/SeattleBike is still a bit unclear if he should get credit for it or not.
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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
WA Bikes, again with the weird endorsements. I stopped listening to them a couple election cycles ago.
Who transportation orgs are endorsing in the 2025 general election + WA Bikes snubs several bike champions?
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Who transportation orgs are endorsing in the 2025 general election + WA Bikes snubs several bike champions?
Skip ahead to the endorsements: State Legislature Counties Cities Ballots are hitting mailboxes across Washington State, and Seattle has the opportunity to elect a mayor who is a people-powered champion for biking, walking, transit and affordability in Katie Wilson. While incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell is embroiled in a campaign finance scandal over apparent collusion with his big money "independent" PAC that's spending huge amounts on attack ads, Wilson's campaign has volunteers knocking on doors all over Seattle.
www.seattlebikeblog.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
WA Bikes, again with the weird endorsements. I stopped listening to them a couple election cycles ago.