[on the latest Ezra Klein show]

Kimberly: I don't know if you've bought a car lately...
Ezra: I live in NYC. It is the best part of living in NYC that I did not have to buy a car lately.
Kimberly: Actually I live in Los Angeles and I don't have a car here, which is funny.
Ezra: God bless you.
🔥

I can't recommend @leedrutman.bsky.social's op ed from today highly enough. Seriously worth a read

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm so thankful for what @spottnik.bsky.social and SDOT have accomplished in the past few years. As someone who bikes and walks, the city feels like a completely different place. My mom bikes around with me when she visits, she did not used to.

Greg, I wish you the best with whatever comes next!!

My impression is that @spottnik.bsky.social is extremely good at getting things through planning and actually built, and tries hard to avoid the "seattle process"

I'm teaching a new intro programming class at UW this winter, and for a project I want my students to implement trees and use them for something genetics themed. Could anyone suggest a simple-ish application? Maybe building a covid lineage from (toy) RNA sequences?

If you’re frustrated this Council all but killed outdoor dining, failed to lift parking mandates citywide, and is considering ebike licensing, allow me to send you a Save the Date:

June 24, 2025
Democratic Primary Elections

I've seen the little sketch graphics about this, but to see it in a real-life picture is kind of wild

This is so good

Randall Munroe... welcome to the The War on Cars? @xkcd.com @thewaroncars.bsky.social

These are both so good... Does anyone know of others?

This is a model of desire-path formation I'm working on for my dissertation. Walkers (blue) move between points of interest (orange). They erode the landscape as they go to slowly form trails, and they choose their paths to prefer staying on the trails.

Play a board game (say, Settlers of Catan) with two players and you'll find that the cooperative aspects of it (trading) don't make sense to engage in. You'd just as soon hurt your opponent as help yourself. Add one more player and the missing dynamics come back to life.

Our politics is the same!

@leedrutman.bsky.social in Seattle someone just ran for state rep as a "prefers Democratic party" candidate, but now that she lost she's made it clear she's actually quite right-wing. open primaries where you declare your party affiliation and the party gets no say are weird!

eyes closed, tongue out

Fremont desperately needs a wider sidewalk here. People queue for bagels and pedestrians are forced into the tree planter because the sidewalk is *less than 3 feet wide*!!

Take out 2 parking spots, put outdoor seating in the road, the queue next to the building, and pedestrian walkway in the middle

It's wild that this paragraph from 1961 feels topical 60 years later (it's Jane Jacobs)

this particular corner on phinney ridge is my favorite spot to watch the sunset