Michael Rockhold
@mrckhld.bsky.social
“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
— Rabbi Hillel
— Rabbi Hillel
Montréal est génial, mais il devrait visiter Seattle
VIDÉO | Montréal est «la plus belle ville du monde», déclare Mark Carney
VIDÉO | Montréal est «la plus belle ville du monde», déclare Mark Carney
Mark Carney a déclaré que Montréal était «la plus belle ville au monde», vendredi matin.
www.journaldemontreal.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Montréal est génial, mais il devrait visiter Seattle
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You know, a boss move for a new administration would be to stripe bike lanes on 35th Ave. NE, just like the original plan. #Safe35th
Mayor Durkan Cancels 35th Ave NE Bike Lanes, Caves To Anti-Safe Streets Advocates » The Urbanist
# Behind closed doors earlier today, recently appointed director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Samuel Zimbabwe, interim transportation advisor to Mayor Jenny Durkan, Elliot Helmb...
www.theurbanist.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You know, a boss move for a new administration would be to stripe bike lanes on 35th Ave. NE, just like the original plan. #Safe35th
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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No constitutional amendments needed. Adopting multi-member districts with proportional representation can be done by simple statute, easily the biggest structural reform we could adopt without having to amend the Constitution.
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
No constitutional amendments needed. Adopting multi-member districts with proportional representation can be done by simple statute, easily the biggest structural reform we could adopt without having to amend the Constitution.
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Proportional representation makes gerrymandering moot, it doesn't work. You can do all the cracking and packing you want, all you've accomplished is shifting a party's seats from one district to another, because the seats still follower the voters whether they're a majority in the district or not.
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Proportional representation makes gerrymandering moot, it doesn't work. You can do all the cracking and packing you want, all you've accomplished is shifting a party's seats from one district to another, because the seats still follower the voters whether they're a majority in the district or not.
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One of my niche ethical stances is that I think that people should use Wikipedia and donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and that ChatGPT and its siblings are trash and so are the people who use them.
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
One of my niche ethical stances is that I think that people should use Wikipedia and donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and that ChatGPT and its siblings are trash and so are the people who use them.
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The uncomfortable truth is that all of our democratic institutions needs to be remade and reimagined and many of the assumptions made about who needs to serve and for how long needs to be reimagined as well.
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The uncomfortable truth is that all of our democratic institutions needs to be remade and reimagined and many of the assumptions made about who needs to serve and for how long needs to be reimagined as well.
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Friends in BROOKLYN and QUEENS, sweet Penny is still missing. She was last seen on Bushwick Ave / Beaver Ave.
Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can
Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Friends in BROOKLYN and QUEENS, sweet Penny is still missing. She was last seen on Bushwick Ave / Beaver Ave.
Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can
Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can
I think about this a lot. The status quo ante was pretty poor, and whenever someone mentions the “norms” and “precedents” being ignored by the present gang, it’s a funny feeling.
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I think about this a lot. The status quo ante was pretty poor, and whenever someone mentions the “norms” and “precedents” being ignored by the present gang, it’s a funny feeling.
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It's much less harmful when your scapegoats are billionaires and landlords than when it is immigrants and homeless people, especially when the billionaires and landlords may do some terrible things! But ultimately social services require people to pay taxes and abudant housing requires developers
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's much less harmful when your scapegoats are billionaires and landlords than when it is immigrants and homeless people, especially when the billionaires and landlords may do some terrible things! But ultimately social services require people to pay taxes and abudant housing requires developers
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The best Mayor Seattle has had the last 25 years was Mike McGinn, a political outsider who was president of a community council and won his election with a budget of like $50,000 because he had bold ideas that helped people and he delivered
A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.
Katie Wilson's name might be new to Seattle voters. She says that's good
A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.
www.seattletimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The best Mayor Seattle has had the last 25 years was Mike McGinn, a political outsider who was president of a community council and won his election with a budget of like $50,000 because he had bold ideas that helped people and he delivered
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It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
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I get very frustrated when Christians complain that they don’t feel at home in our culture. You’re not supposed to feel at home, in any culture. If you’re doing it right and taking it seriously, you’re 100% supposed to feel like a fish out of water.
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I get very frustrated when Christians complain that they don’t feel at home in our culture. You’re not supposed to feel at home, in any culture. If you’re doing it right and taking it seriously, you’re 100% supposed to feel like a fish out of water.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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A lot of work in the last couple of years on the 1945 world order has convinced me that a lot of people think the flawed and half-broken system of 2025 is an easy status quo and not something we crawled over broken glass to get
September 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A lot of work in the last couple of years on the 1945 world order has convinced me that a lot of people think the flawed and half-broken system of 2025 is an easy status quo and not something we crawled over broken glass to get
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Exactly this. Upzoning everything between the ship canal and 85th in particular would go a really long way toward addressing this.
Allowing housing in EVERY neighborhood, rather than engaging in perennial piddly debates about tiny sections of Seattle, would greatly ease gentrification pressure in areas like the CD, CID, Southeast Seattle, and South Park because renters wouldn't be confined to tiny swaths of the city.
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Exactly this. Upzoning everything between the ship canal and 85th in particular would go a really long way toward addressing this.
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I am bad at predictions but I'm going to make one anyway. I think the Trump admin and Republicans are going to get worse, making even more dramatic authoritarian moves at a feverish pace and this will code to many as increasing strength. But in fact they will be losing popularity and control.
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I am bad at predictions but I'm going to make one anyway. I think the Trump admin and Republicans are going to get worse, making even more dramatic authoritarian moves at a feverish pace and this will code to many as increasing strength. But in fact they will be losing popularity and control.
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I do completely and totally agree with one point advocates against allowing apartments in the donut hole are making, of course: We absolutely should be putting density in Laurelhurst, Magnolia, and all the other areas that are currently "protected" from Seattle's renter majority.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I do completely and totally agree with one point advocates against allowing apartments in the donut hole are making, of course: We absolutely should be putting density in Laurelhurst, Magnolia, and all the other areas that are currently "protected" from Seattle's renter majority.
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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I don’t actually think it’s great communication when Sanders or Mamdani, better described as advocates of Nordic-style welfare state social democracy, self-identity as “socialist” (or “democratic socialist”) but then have to walk it back and explain that it’s not what it sounds like.
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
August 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don’t actually think it’s great communication when Sanders or Mamdani, better described as advocates of Nordic-style welfare state social democracy, self-identity as “socialist” (or “democratic socialist”) but then have to walk it back and explain that it’s not what it sounds like.
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every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
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So, if the grid is the bottleneck, why doesn't Seattle City Light invest more in locally generated rooftop solar? We know the ROI pencils out over 10 to 15 years, even in Seattle, and City Light can borrow money far cheaper than consumers. Seems like an opportunity.
Seattle hopes to build its future in Oregon’s desert — or blackouts may follow
Seattle’s appetite for electricity is voracious, the city is consuming more than ever before. But expanding the grid with renewable energy is proving a challenge.
www.seattletimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
So, if the grid is the bottleneck, why doesn't Seattle City Light invest more in locally generated rooftop solar? We know the ROI pencils out over 10 to 15 years, even in Seattle, and City Light can borrow money far cheaper than consumers. Seems like an opportunity.
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All
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Lady…
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Degree
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Economics
August 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
All
Folks
Had
To
Do
Was
Vote
For
The
Super
Qualified
Black
Lady…
With
A
Degree
In
Economics
Folks
Had
To
Do
Was
Vote
For
The
Super
Qualified
Black
Lady…
With
A
Degree
In
Economics