Something interesting I’m noticing in my apartment is that we have a lot more Americans - from NY, Cali, Texas etc - who’ve moved out to #newwest. Some moved the last time Trump was elected while a few folks came through recently. Not the “new immigrants” most think of when they see NW pop increase.

Exactly! Walking is what we do and more people are getting back to cycling, which was massive before “urbanism” and “active transportation” was even a thing. I remember growing up & visiting Thika where it was clear that the primary modes were cycling and walking and the original uber was a bicycle.

This man is incredibly ignorant about global majority cities, mobility, climate and how people adapt. He’s also clearly never traveled to mild-climate global south cities:

Nairobi, Arusha, Durban, Capetown, San José, Marrakech, Bogotá etc.

Re: x.com/noahpinion/s...

A video of Nairobi pedestrians.

A sheep’s Batty: When Karen on RHOL discovers what haggis is.

This show is such a guilty pleasure at this time.

#NewWest! I put a hardcover of #AfterTheFeast in the Little Free Library on 4th St. between Regina and 5th.

This has me cackling.

Trump looking directly at Starmer with the confidence of a man who knows two things for certain:

1. Canada is somewhere in the room
2. He is looking at the President of Canada, Kier Starmer.

A stunning display of the entire collapsing house of cards inside this fools head!

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.

Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".

"While your proposal to increase the bed availability in your shelter from 80 to 140 by purchasing accessory dwelling units was a surprisingly resourceful plan, the budget and governance committees have identified pickleball as the issue that voters care about most."

Brother of journalist Saleh al-Jaafrawi is freed from Israeli detention one day after his murder. Scenes of him returning to Gaza 👇🏼

Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)

You’re likely AI but I’ll respond regardless, do you see the line that reads “without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators?” Israel used hunger and the colonial divide & conquer tactic to recruit an Israeli backed militia, that murdered Saleh.

Israel has lost its narrative war.

May Allah widen his grave, fill it with light & grant him Jannatul firdaus. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

The murder of Saleh Al Jafarawi is a gut wrenchingly sad reminder that Israel will never uphold a ceasefire when their mission is to fully genocide Palestinians.

Rest in peace, Saleh Al-Ja'frawi.

Your courage and voice will never be forgotten.

#gaza #palestine

Very good news from the east of Germany, where the far-right (AfD) has its strongest base - the AfD got soundly defeated in two mayoral elections, in places where they were trying to use the presence of people seeking asylum as a decisive issue. Many voters rejected that outlook. That's hopeful.

This Liberal government cannot be trusted to establish a “combatting hate act” as they’re currently complicit in arming the active genocide of Palestinians. It is a farce to think this act is not being established now as an authoritarian attack on ppls right to assemble and protest in public places.

It is great to see more safe cycling infrastructure going in around #NewWest. Here’s a little safety added to an intersection along a greenway and a safe route to an elementary school a block away!

The truth about Israel as a euro-colonial entity is that they chose genocide and urbicide because they couldn’t conceive of living equally with Indigenous Palestinians that welcomed them as refugees.

So they dropped 9x more fire power on civilians than the American nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Azza has had a campaign for a while and been able to raise no money on it- let’s help her rebuild ❤️

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

I often urge law students to be precise when and where they use passive language, and to notice the work it does when used by others (judges, politicians, reporters, and anyone describing actions being done without actors). This is a great, but awful, example.

“Hidalgo spearheaded legislation that constrains her eventual successor from reversing her policies & long-term goals, such as the creation of 55 acres of new green areas by 2040, and requiring at least 65% of any site bigger than 150sq.m remains soil or plants, with no building or paving allowed.”