@garblisa
Retired ER doctor enjoying a regular bedtime and so very much more. I bike for transportation and community in Seattle. Got pretty good at making pizza last year; still learning spoon carving. Grandchild of immigrants.
This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like.
We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.
Right on cue, it's time to subsidize drivers at non-drivers expense again, as is tradition.
Jared is correct. Read Theory
"Whatever states are today, they are not what they once were—in part because, as Dasgupta chronicles, the state now faces serious competition for center stage in the organization of human society."
www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...
Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
The photos suggest that, but it actually worked well in practice.
Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
We know about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But there was a very similar killing of a young man named Ruben Martinez in which immigration agents claimed he attacked them with his car before they shot him. New video suggests that too may be a lie. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
This is vibes-only but...single-stair just feels safer. Instead of a single wall of windows and a long hallway, like you find in a double-loaded corridor building, a single-stair building has the stairs right outside your unit. And you've got windows on 2 or 3 sides, not just 1.
Your Data Will Be Used Against You (and not just by ICE/CPB). All these technologies will make their way to ordinary law enforcement.
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Burning fossil fuels for energy is a bad idea. Setting fossil fuels on fire for no economic benefit or marginal utility is total bullshit.
A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it
B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I feel like I’m yelling at a girlfriend who keeps taking her drug dealing boyfriend back. The private sector is just not that into you!
omg, nailed
“Hegseth had previously mocked the “stupid rules of engagement” that aim to limit civilian deaths and other actions that could constitute war crimes.”
A++ greenwashing for fossil fuels by @nytimes.com. WTAF. Especially infuriating to give American Petroleum Institute the last word after an interview with brilliant writer and climate activist @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social — whom I highly recommend you read and listen too!
NYT, get it together.
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
I just rode through on a cargo bike with another person on a bike and some pedestrians. It was perfectly fine.
#1 Ride a bike
I’ve had to tell so many parents that their sons & daughters were dead, had been murdered. Their screams, their silences, their faces, their collapses, cling to me like cobwebs I can’t ever shake.
Our leaders, so callous with death as games or memes or brags, know nothing of grief, only of greed.
It works! 🎉
I’m going to go up and ride this on the big bike to see how it flows.
That’s why Slow Horses works. The humor pulls you in, but the tradecraft feels believable. Intelligence work is often messy, bureaucratic, and human, and the show actually leans into that reality. #SlowHorses #SpyCraft #Espionage #MI5 #intelligence
theconversation.com/slow-horses-...
Bike lanes are antifascist actually
i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception
Velotric e-bike in the South Tacoma Station bike locker
Since my new commute is door to door transit, minus the mile from my house to get to the Sounder station, I've started using the Bike Lock lockers for my end to end connection.
Can't beat $.05 an hour.
The cover of Tanya Huff's SUMMON THE KEEPER featuring a grumpy black and white cat on top of a haunted B&B of sorts.
Come for the love triangle, stay for the talking cat, and watch out for the holes in the fabric of the universe: SUMMON THE KEEPER, the first book in @tanyahuff.bsky.social's Keeper's Chronicles trilogy, is $4.99 in the US and Canada! Offer ends 3/16. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
No-one actually expects gas prices to rapidly return to normal.
