Bus lanes on Denny are getting painted THIS WEEKEND! Join us and Mayor Wilson to celebrate with another Race the L8 on Tuesday, September 8th at 5 PM at Denny Park! Lets prove that she Fixed the L8 and that it's finally faster than walking!

Trying something new: Seattle's Pittsburgh Steelers Meetup Group now has a home on @openmeet.net. I'll be plugging it to my existing members on #Meetup, which has been annoyingly increasing fees and pressuring attendees to pay their own way. platform.openmeet.net/groups/seatt...

A reminder to opt out of Twitch (Amazon) AI learning

Mid-election data are now available for the August 2026 primary election in King County, WA. This includes all votes counted through Friday, August 7. In the King County Assessor race, Rob Foxcurran remains in first place, and Dominique M Scarimbolo has passed Christopher Roberts for second.

@elections.kingcounty.gov Any estimate for when the mid-election precinct data drop will be available? Thanks!

This is the second collision in two days involving drivers and two-wheeled vehicle operators. The last was at 24th/85th, just five blocks to the north.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Seattle Fire is currently responding a driver hitting someone on a bike at 24th Avenue NW and NW 80th Street.

Now that #Meetup is going all in on dark patterns, with #BendingSpoons having rewritten its mobile app to cram people into extra groups and pitch them unnecessary paid subscriptions, I’m looking to move a 500+ person group off. What do others use for free social group event organizing?

It's election data viz time for the August 2026 primary election, now with a new interactive visualizer! I'd love your feedback on these new maps. In the King County Assessor race, Rob Foxcurran did particularly well in Seattle, while the two nearest runners-up polled well in more rural areas.

The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail ridership in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting The Link moved a record 5.4M passengers last month, up 57% from last year, and it's now America's biggest light rail network!

#Jimothymania has come to @flysea.bsky.social ; Lucky Louie's, at SEA Airport's central terminal, now sells a "#Jimothy Swirl" striped dessert.

Seattle's BikeLink lockers offer secure bicycle parking for five CENTS per hour, including at Climate Pledge Arena and several transit stations. Get a free $5 credit, good for 100 hours at standard rates, courtesy of @kingcountymetro.bsky.social . No catch. www.cognitoforms.com/KingCountyMe...

Even the @mariners.com are jumping on the #Jimothy bandwagon, with a special “Jimothy night” with a T-shirt and a donation to the @ballardfoodbank.bsky.social . I’m OK with that. www.mlb.com/mariners/tic...

Jimothy Night presented by Farmers Insurance | Seattle Mariners

Jimothy is taking over T-Mobile Park on Wednesday, August 5!

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Edzo did so much to make sarcasm funny and entertaining on Kraken broadcasts. I’ll miss him next season.

Seattle Sports@seattlesports710.bsky.social · 3w ago

Color analyst Eddie Olczyk is stepping away from his role on the Kraken Hockey Network for “personal and family reasons.” sports.mynorthwest.com/nhl/seattle-...

As with all our housing, these buildings will be forever publicly owned, permanently affordable and climate forward. We look forward to telling you more soon !

Need an “I bought this before I knew Mary Barra was …” sticker for my Chevy Bolt EV

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

If anyone asks you whether you read that thing that DHH wrote, the correct answers are “No” and “Who?”

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3w ago

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Congratulations to Jimothy, Washingtonian of the Day.

Pretty cool that my state’s governor is also a national master in chess. @chess.com analysis confirms that he was utterly destroying his IM opponent as described.

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · 4w ago

I was just a teenager playing against an international master in West Berlin. I sacrificed my queen early in a combination that left my opponent essentially defenseless. Showing this highlight of my time playing chess for #InternationalChessDay!

The #MissingLink of Seattle’s Burke–Gilman Trail has been unbuilt for decades. A recent proposal would improve access to the 17th Avenue Greenway, while also introducing too many conflict zones along busy corridors. Send your feedback to @seattledot.bsky.social ! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell SDOT: Do Better in Ballard!

TLDR The Seattle Department of Transportation recently released the 60% design update for the “Missing Link” Bike Route Study on NW Market St - Leary Ave NW - 17th Ave NW. Ballard Fremont Green Stree...

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Cockles warmed today, as I learned that Danny Westneat of the @seattletimes.com reads @theurbanist.org. (I'm subscribed to both.)

In terms of light rail ridership in May 2026 by urban area, the top performers were: 1—Seattle: 4.9 m 2—LA: 4.5 m 3—SF: 3.7 m 4—San Diego: 3.7 m 5—Boston: 3.5 m 6—Portland: 2.1 m 7—NYC (Jersey City): 2 m 8—Dallas: 1.8 m 9—Philly: 1.4 m 10—Salt Lake: 1.1 m

Warm urbanist take: downtown Edmonds is super walkable and nice, and they have a train station and a ferry dock. Let’s Edmondsize Ballard.

I’m at City Hall to advocate for fast-tracked development of affordable housing. Looks like public comment will be biased against housing … and I can pass for a “tree person” 😏

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a big day in Seattle! Sure, Belgium and Senegal are playing in the round of 32...but it's also the public hearing on Council Bill 121215 reforming the city's SEPA appeals process. The meeting starts at 9:30am! seattle.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...

Finished the #Duolingo #chess course. If you're curious about learning the game, use @chess.com; they'll really tech it to you. Duolingo's course feels entirely AI-generated. It's incomplete. Its main AI opponent taunts you, can't win from winning positions, and its game review option is worthless.

If you’re free on 7/1 at 9:30 am, speak up in favor of SEPA reform, to stop the sorts of bad-faith housing obstructionism that #TreeActionSeattle is notorious for.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ahead of Wednesday's public hearing, Tree Action Seattle frames a bill from CM Eddie Lin to align Seattle's SEPA appeals process with cities like Bellevue and Tacoma as "a proposal to eliminate citizen environmental appeals", asserting it puts "Seattle’s trees, ecosystem and our future in danger."

Eighteen months into my #careerBreak, the future of #work, for me, looks more like #volunteering. Finding constructive work with a group of like-minded people, even for no money, feels good. weill.org/2026/06/28/f...

The Tully’s Coffee sign in Pioneer Square, Seattle, that outlasted its cafe by at least a decade, is finally gone. Long live the Kingdome Deli, which has outlived its namesake stadium by a quarter century.

If the Mariners ever make it to a #WorldSeries, I’d expect the team to build an artificial island to commemorate it.

Joe Veyera@joeveyera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More than 2,000 baseball medallions, and 116 commemorative bats to mark each regular-season win by the 2001 Mariners will be installed as part of "Legacy Plaza" inside the center-field gates at T-Mobile Park. Fans can purchase 30-character messages Thursday morning. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

Just in: we have a new Sound Transit light rail ridership record. The system carried 280,000 riders on Friday June 19, the day of the U.S. vs Australia match and an evening Mariners game.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sound Transit says the first FIFA Men's World Cup game in Seattle on Monday led to 210,000 light rail boardings, a number that gets close to the ridership records set during the Super Bowl parade on February 11 and marks the third busiest day in the agency's history.

Amused to see that the Smithsonian's collection includes several AOL disks/discs. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

America Online (AOL) Disc

In the early 1990s most Americans had little awareness of the internet, and no experience using it.

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