Kurt Dresner 🚲🚌
@kurt.social
Software engineer, computer scientist, runner, homebrewer, PEV enthusiast, urbanist, YIMBY, community activist, music lover, cat adopter, father, pizza-maker, vegetarian, ASL user, and other things as well.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Just ordered me one of those sweet shirts. Lookin' good @kirkhovenkotter.com!
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Just ordered me one of those sweet shirts. Lookin' good @kirkhovenkotter.com!
Me: Brain, it is time to sleep
Brain: No, it is time to thiiiiiink
Me: OK. Can we think about important things?
Brain: No, we will think about stupid things.
Sigh.
Brain: No, it is time to thiiiiiink
Me: OK. Can we think about important things?
Brain: No, we will think about stupid things.
Sigh.
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Me: Brain, it is time to sleep
Brain: No, it is time to thiiiiiink
Me: OK. Can we think about important things?
Brain: No, we will think about stupid things.
Sigh.
Brain: No, it is time to thiiiiiink
Me: OK. Can we think about important things?
Brain: No, we will think about stupid things.
Sigh.
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For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
Someone please explain this to me. (don't actually)
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Someone please explain this to me. (don't actually)
Still think about you every day, dad. But, particularly grateful for you on this Veterans' Day 🫡
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Still think about you every day, dad. But, particularly grateful for you on this Veterans' Day 🫡
Not everyone gets to score in every game :)
Kurt Dresner still trails incumbent Jon Pascal. But right now it looks like three of the four Cherish Kirkland-aligned "sanity slate" candidates are going to lose.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Not everyone gets to score in every game :)
Sign up for text alerts. Seriously. Just do it. You'll be notified if there's a problem with your ballot as soon as it is detected and you'll have the chance to fix it. Don't make work for some volunteer who has to track you down.
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sign up for text alerts. Seriously. Just do it. You'll be notified if there's a problem with your ballot as soon as it is detected and you'll have the chance to fix it. Don't make work for some volunteer who has to track you down.
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Leadership.
NEW STORY // Bothell Advances Citywide 20 MPH Residential Speed Limit
Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/b...
Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/b...
Bothell Advances Citywide 20 MPH Residential Speed Limit » The Urbanist
# Lowering speed limits on residential streets to 20 mph has already been implemented in cities like Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma, and has been associated with a significant drop in high-end speeding...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Leadership.
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Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.
Meanwhile in the car-dependent US, we're paying $1000/mo to wait in traffic and die in huge numbers. #thisisfine
In Paris, you can get a monthly public transport pass for the city and its surroundings (Île-de-France) for less than 100€/month, and your employer has to reimburse at least half of it.
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Meanwhile in the car-dependent US, we're paying $1000/mo to wait in traffic and die in huge numbers. #thisisfine
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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Get your ballot into a drop box by 8pm tonight!
Find a dropbox: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
You can still register/vote in-person today, even without a WA license! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
You can print a ballot if you lost yours! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Find a dropbox: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
You can still register/vote in-person today, even without a WA license! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
You can print a ballot if you lost yours! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Vote centers - King County, Washington
kingcounty.gov
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Get your ballot into a drop box by 8pm tonight!
Find a dropbox: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
You can still register/vote in-person today, even without a WA license! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
You can print a ballot if you lost yours! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Find a dropbox: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
You can still register/vote in-person today, even without a WA license! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
You can print a ballot if you lost yours! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
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As a PSA, if you haven't returned your ballot yet, make sure to use a blue drop box, DON'T mail it. Postmarks are very possibly NOT going to be able to be made in time to make your vote count.
Here's where to find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Here's where to find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Ballot drop boxes - King County, Washington
kingcounty.gov
November 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As a PSA, if you haven't returned your ballot yet, make sure to use a blue drop box, DON'T mail it. Postmarks are very possibly NOT going to be able to be made in time to make your vote count.
Here's where to find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Here's where to find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
There are good people doing good things. There always are. Look for them. Be one of them. ❤️
We Did It...
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There are good people doing good things. There always are. Look for them. Be one of them. ❤️
Having the right tool can mean the difference between a task being trivial or practically impossible. This morning I found myself trying to shorten a bolt with a hacksaw while holding it in my other hand. I stopped and thought for a moment and then grabbed the purpose-made bolt cutter.
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Having the right tool can mean the difference between a task being trivial or practically impossible. This morning I found myself trying to shorten a bolt with a hacksaw while holding it in my other hand. I stopped and thought for a moment and then grabbed the purpose-made bolt cutter.
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Here's Rinck just now addressing her proposal in the budget committee:
"Buses aren't just transportation, they're climate action and community connection."
"Buses aren't just transportation, they're climate action and community connection."
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Here's Rinck just now addressing her proposal in the budget committee:
"Buses aren't just transportation, they're climate action and community connection."
"Buses aren't just transportation, they're climate action and community connection."
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Local elections matter.
Kirkland Council Elections Could Tip City in Reactionary Direction » The Urbanist
# In four different races, Kirkland voters face a choice between pro-growth candidates interested in fostering additional types of housing throughout the city, and candidates looking for the city to b...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Local elections matter.
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I 💚 the freedom of choice I have living in a somewhat walkable neighborhood.
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I 💚 the freedom of choice I have living in a somewhat walkable neighborhood.
Finalists for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. You're welcome.
These images are for viewing only and must not be copied :: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition
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October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Finalists for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. You're welcome.
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31,933 steps this past week / 427,078 steps total
Newcastle! Here are your options for Position 6 this year —
Your incumbent (me) that has walked over 400k steps to meet you at your doors, answer your questions, and has helped our city access more resources in 4 years than
Newcastle! Here are your options for Position 6 this year —
Your incumbent (me) that has walked over 400k steps to meet you at your doors, answer your questions, and has helped our city access more resources in 4 years than
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
31,933 steps this past week / 427,078 steps total
Newcastle! Here are your options for Position 6 this year —
Your incumbent (me) that has walked over 400k steps to meet you at your doors, answer your questions, and has helped our city access more resources in 4 years than
Newcastle! Here are your options for Position 6 this year —
Your incumbent (me) that has walked over 400k steps to meet you at your doors, answer your questions, and has helped our city access more resources in 4 years than
Missing my dad this morning. We used to joke about alternate lyrics to the song playing in the cafe right now. 🥲
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Missing my dad this morning. We used to joke about alternate lyrics to the song playing in the cafe right now. 🥲
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I still think about this a couple times a week
It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I still think about this a couple times a week
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What you don't see in this photo:
Three parents who aren't stuck in a car.
Three parents who get their mornings back.
That's the invisible dividend of investing in infrastructure that provides safe, independent mobility for young people.
Three parents who aren't stuck in a car.
Three parents who get their mornings back.
That's the invisible dividend of investing in infrastructure that provides safe, independent mobility for young people.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What you don't see in this photo:
Three parents who aren't stuck in a car.
Three parents who get their mornings back.
That's the invisible dividend of investing in infrastructure that provides safe, independent mobility for young people.
Three parents who aren't stuck in a car.
Three parents who get their mornings back.
That's the invisible dividend of investing in infrastructure that provides safe, independent mobility for young people.