@kevin-means.bsky.social
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Mayor-elect Katie Wilson just announced her transition team, with 61 members overseeing different policy areas. Transition teams are largely an expression of values and policy focus, although I expect some of these folks will end up in the administration. publicola.com/wp-content/u...
publicola.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Mayor-elect Katie Wilson just announced her transition team, with 61 members overseeing different policy areas. Transition teams are largely an expression of values and policy focus, although I expect some of these folks will end up in the administration. publicola.com/wp-content/u...
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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the fact that amtrak cascades hit another ridership record in FY25 despite shutting down for two weeks and spending half the year running smaller trains with higher prices bc of the horizon recall is another sign that the demand for rail in the pnw is genuinely insatiable
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
the fact that amtrak cascades hit another ridership record in FY25 despite shutting down for two weeks and spending half the year running smaller trains with higher prices bc of the horizon recall is another sign that the demand for rail in the pnw is genuinely insatiable
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A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRe...
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRe...
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🚸 How we design roads dictates the speeds that drivers adopt, regardless of the posted speed limit.
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
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👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚸 How we design roads dictates the speeds that drivers adopt, regardless of the posted speed limit.
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
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Public policy has aggressively favoured suburbanization for 100 years. Still, today, central cities are expensive. What does that say?
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Public policy has aggressively favoured suburbanization for 100 years. Still, today, central cities are expensive. What does that say?
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WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
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BTW, this has to have come from Bezos himself. Who on the WaPo editorial board could possibly know about the comparative merits of past Seattle mayors to judge Harrell the best in some time?
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BTW, this has to have come from Bezos himself. Who on the WaPo editorial board could possibly know about the comparative merits of past Seattle mayors to judge Harrell the best in some time?
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My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
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Calling childcare “goodies” is filling me with a white hot rage.
Our monthly childcare costs are more than our mortgage, and that’s not uncommon.
Our monthly childcare costs are more than our mortgage, and that’s not uncommon.
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Calling childcare “goodies” is filling me with a white hot rage.
Our monthly childcare costs are more than our mortgage, and that’s not uncommon.
Our monthly childcare costs are more than our mortgage, and that’s not uncommon.
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using tax dollars for a six-year-old to go to kindergarten: baseball and apple pie
using tax dollars for a five-year-old to go to pre-k: red bloody marxism
using tax dollars for a five-year-old to go to pre-k: red bloody marxism
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
using tax dollars for a six-year-old to go to kindergarten: baseball and apple pie
using tax dollars for a five-year-old to go to pre-k: red bloody marxism
using tax dollars for a five-year-old to go to pre-k: red bloody marxism
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A new cross-border effort is testing a probiotic that may help Pacific Northwest bats survive white-nose syndrome — with Seattle-area community science programs tracking local colonies.
Learn how neighbors are helping protect an essential species here: soseaem.org/4r2GbJ7 #SeattleNews #Bats
Learn how neighbors are helping protect an essential species here: soseaem.org/4r2GbJ7 #SeattleNews #Bats
soseaem.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A new cross-border effort is testing a probiotic that may help Pacific Northwest bats survive white-nose syndrome — with Seattle-area community science programs tracking local colonies.
Learn how neighbors are helping protect an essential species here: soseaem.org/4r2GbJ7 #SeattleNews #Bats
Learn how neighbors are helping protect an essential species here: soseaem.org/4r2GbJ7 #SeattleNews #Bats
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Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
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People care less about labels than results. I was elected on the promise that all Seattle citizens should have access to a dignified life, regardless of their background or income. #thisisyourcity
youtu.be/TNvmWV78ZlM
youtu.be/TNvmWV78ZlM
Katie Wilson: “What SOCIALISM means to me”
YouTube video by Katie Wilson for Seattle
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
People care less about labels than results. I was elected on the promise that all Seattle citizens should have access to a dignified life, regardless of their background or income. #thisisyourcity
youtu.be/TNvmWV78ZlM
youtu.be/TNvmWV78ZlM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Part of the reason for this is that the truth is so awful it defies belief -- akin to literally stating GOP policy positions, people will literally not believe you because, paradoxically, it is so bad that they think, if it were true, everyone would already know and no one would stand for it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Part of the reason for this is that the truth is so awful it defies belief -- akin to literally stating GOP policy positions, people will literally not believe you because, paradoxically, it is so bad that they think, if it were true, everyone would already know and no one would stand for it.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Remember, someone paid off his mortgage, gambling debts and credit card balances
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Remember, someone paid off his mortgage, gambling debts and credit card balances
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Such beautiful news from the Emerald City, where @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social personifies the emerging young Democratic wave. Lucky Seattle!
JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Such beautiful news from the Emerald City, where @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social personifies the emerging young Democratic wave. Lucky Seattle!
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🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has taken a narrow lead in the Seattle mayor race.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has taken a narrow lead in the Seattle mayor race.