Daniel Heppner
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Daniel Heppner
@danielhep.me
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It’s nerve wracking making a video of yourself and putting it out there, but I wanted to try making something out of all the random clips I took of the public bus system in Bangalore. Hope you enjoy! It was fun to make.
youtu.be/7pFAmlkdosA
Bangalore's Urban Bus Network 🚌 | Transit Report
YouTube video by spicytransitboi
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Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad.

The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The new mayor should not be inaugurated until the AG can find them in a citywide game of hike and seek.
That the mayor of NYC has to by law sworn in at Midnight NYE is hilarious, dumb and frankly awesome. It should be the job of the state AG to track down the new Mayor at some mysterious location in the 5 Boros as soon after midnight as possible.
January 1, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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I'll get into CTR law in a second but this is also one of those extremely shortsighted things employers pull on employees. If you have 100 employees in the most expensive Seattle zone, your cost to give them all full-ride ORCA cards is: $48,936.

Per year.

At most.
My employer took away our Orca, and said that our part-time remote work agreement satisfies CTR so thus no need for them to pay for Orca. Now my coworkers + I are afraid to push for transit passes because they might take away the remote work policy. So everyone drives to work three days a week now.
December 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I want @sound-transit.bsky.social to give us updates on ORCA card projects like they do with infrastructure construction projects. I don't understand why we have to rely on rumors from Reddit comments to learn that things like Apple Wallet integration is cancelled. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...
From the Seattle community on Reddit: Took long enough, but Orca tap to pay is nearly here
Explore this post and more from the Seattle community
www.reddit.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Hong Kong is still worth visiting, it’s an incredible city, but a lot of the culture and uniqueness is vanishing quickly. Every trip there is so bittersweet.
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It’s more trains day!!!
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I'm not saying that "the truth is always in the middle" or people should be forced to debate everything. But surely we can recognize that we are drawn to ideas that flatter our preexisting beliefs, and that this creates extraordinary dangers for understanding the world, no matter how smart you are.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Why is SPD intimidating taco vendors
Taco Stand on Northgate was back open tonight. As I went we watch SPD go around in circles and turns on their sirens a few times. What is this? This seems very strange if they’re doing something wrong then talk to them. This felt like intimidation
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Taco Stand on Northgate was back open tonight. As I went we watch SPD go around in circles and turns on their sirens a few times. What is this? This seems very strange if they’re doing something wrong then talk to them. This felt like intimidation
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The people doing this to other humans need to go to prison.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Maybe Yarrow Point shouldn't exist as an independent city
Signs your municipal tax structure is fundamentally broken: the Town of Yarrow Point is asking residents to get their new iPhone delivered to their house instead of buying it in Bellevue so they get the sales tax revenue.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
TransLink in Vancouver has a cool retail program to put more cafes and mini markets in their stations and transit exchanges. What a cool idea! Can we copy it in Seattle? buzzer.translink.ca/2025/02/tran...
TransLink's Retail Program brings coffee, eats, and convenience to transit hubs - The Buzzer blog
The newest member of TransLink's Retail Program is Trees, at the brand new Capstan Station in Richmond, on the Canada Line.
buzzer.translink.ca
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Someone at @sound-transit.bsky.social discovered a way to make an announcement play after the doors close. I’m sure this reminder will save countless people who don’t understand physics and inertia.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I'm going to say something potentially controversial, but it needs to be discussed here because it is already being discussed very intensely elsewhere:
If homelessness gets *visibly* worse under a new mayor, regardless of metrics stating otherwise, it will be *the* thing to crater their popularity.
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The government doesn't even have photos of everyone, how is this supposed to work?
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Big tech companies are laying off employees not because AI is actually replacing them, but because they want to make it look like AI can replace employees so they can sell more AI to other companies. Really great article on AI and layoffs.
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It's unacceptable for @sound-transit.bsky.social to tell people to pay their fare with the app when the ORCA readers are down.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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SCOOP: several days ago Zohran Mamdani was overheard saying he "needs" to eat dinner. An inside source confirmed he had eaten breakfast and lunch that day, giving him an estimated 2+ weeks without additional calories before he might have died from starvation
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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What gets me the most about Harrell trying to make a thing about Katie getting money from her parents is just a stunning lack of empathy on his part. There is a massive difference between "my parents pay for all of my stuff because investments" and "my parents kick me some money occasionally."
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Trump’s mass deportation agenda has spiraled out of control. More than 170 U.S. citizens — including children, veterans, and pregnant women — have been detained by immigration agents since he took office.

Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
King County Metro’s GTFS RT data seems to be now propagating trip updates for trips that haven’t begun yet, based on the data from the previous trip in the block. This is really good.
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Damning video on @joemallahan.bsky.social's instagram account. @bruceharrell.bsky.social's "experience" is what? Failing at his job? Creating a hostile workplace? Elevating a man into power who is now under investigation for rape?

No thanks.

www.instagram.com/reel/DQHrt8F...
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM