Please show this story to any fool or villain who pretended that anti-trans-kid activism had ANYTHING AT ALL to do with protecting girl’s sports. Because it didn’t. They’re coming for girl’s and women’s sports. Universally. That’s what it was always about. Start at the edges, move in. When they say who the hell is this and so what, remind them that the Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which…
Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.1.4 and MEGAMAP 2.1.4 – both 3 July 2026 – are now available on github . If you’re on a pre-2.1 map: Release 2.1.0 was massive, filling in large swaths in the south end. You absolutely want this update to catch up. Full list of changes with this release: EXTENDED: 228th Ave SW bike lanes in Esperance extended west to 80th Ave W. … [more]
The US Postal Service’s plan to refuse delivery of our ballots – LITERALLY THAT’S THE OFFICIAL PLAN – has a comment period that ends 2pm Cascadian/Pacific time tomorrow (Thursday). COMMENT RIGHT NOW. HERE’S A TOOL TO HELP , courtesy Seattle Indivisible. I was talking about this with a friend a week and a half ago, and they went “But… how will we vote?”… [more]
There is a story going around about Bezos at VivaTech in Paris, the first and last third of which are reasonable, the middle third of which has him saying that water for data centres is more important than “b/a/s/e/l/i/n/e h/u/m/a/n c/o/m/f/o/r/t.” 2 His appearance at VivaTech is online. There are multiple near-complete and complete videos, here’s one that includes him being introduced .… [more]
Yes, a new one already. The new Northshore infrastructure mentioned last time opened today! Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.1.3 and MEGAMAP 2.1.3 – both 12 June 2026 – are now available on github . If you’re on a pre-2.1 map, 2.1 was massive, filling in large swaths in the south end, and you absolutely want this update to catch up.… [more]
Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.1.2 and MEGAMAP 2.1.2 – both 5 June 2026 – are now available on github . If you’re on a pre-2.1 map, 2.1 was massive, filling in large swaths in the south end and you want this update to catch up. And this release – 2.1.2 – is pretty important for the north end, even if we’re still waiting for Shoreline to connect the pieces at 5th Ave NE and for Kenmore to…
I want to talk about something that’s about to happen, but first, let me say something very clearly up front, and read this, because it’s important: I AM NOT A FINANCIAL ADVISOR. THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. ANY ACTIONS YOU TAKE IN RESPONSE TO THIS POST ARE ENTIRELY TAKEN AT YOUR OWN RISK. … [more]
Y’ever found a post you wrote and meant to put up a while ago and thought you actually did but you’re doing some performance tuning on your blog, find it, and go oh no it’s still a draft? Well, guess what just happened to me. it’s still kind of relevant, so I’ll hit post, even if it’s no longer quite so current. … [more]
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last year plus, and with the EFF coming out a number of days ago and strongly encouraging other people to think about it too, I thought it would be a good time to share my findings with all of you. So here are three decent ways to have communications that keep working when both the internet AND cellphone networks go down.… [more]
Fundamentalists and christofascists – the same thing at this point, of course – controlling the FCC are moving a rule to require warning labels on TV shows with non-gender-binary themes or characters . For now, they’re talking about it as trans and nonbinary people, but as we all know or should know, they consider every woman not a tradwife to be “trans” to one degree or another, and I don’t think…