Andrew

@cross-the-streams.bsky.social

Medlock Thought adjacent thought: seems to me that taxation can be viewed as a signal of a financial system’s sophistication? As capital grows and grows, you have an autoimmune response of sorts to keep things in check. We’re way way overdue for taxation on wealth.

In a less deranged version of our country, skies full of smoke would inspire us to bold climate action. There’s an American majority that loves blue skies & air we can breathe more than fossil fuel profits.

The forecast for wildfire smoke showing a high smoke concentration in the Northern U.S.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

If you go to Madrid and check out the old central part of the city, it’s incredible what they have accomplished with single lanes and proper bollard placement. You get an environment that is both, amazingly, pedestrian and car friendly.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w ago

A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people

The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain

A little concerned that the thing that’s exciting the activist left in Seattle is… public surveillance cameras. The speaker here, who gave a thoughtful speech (this is a smaller clip of only part) gives two examples where footage was withheld. Wasn’t it better for it to exist in the first place?

Through the Static@throughthestatic.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cyber security expert, AJ Randall, highlighted the misuse of CCTV surveillance cameras and SPD's behavior outside of Seattle City Hall on July 7. Our Seattle held a rally to demand that Mayor Katie Wilson remove CCTV cameras that were installed in the Stadium District ahead of the FIFA World Cup.