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Daniel Heppner
@danielhep.me
· Sep 12
Bangalore's Urban Bus Network 🚌 | Transit Report
YouTube video by spicytransitboi
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It’s nerve wracking making a video of yourself and putting it out there, but I wanted to try making something out of all the random clips I took of the public bus system in Bangalore. Hope you enjoy! It was fun to make.
youtu.be/7pFAmlkdosA
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I'm not saying that "the truth is always in the middle" or people should be forced to debate everything. But surely we can recognize that we are drawn to ideas that flatter our preexisting beliefs, and that this creates extraordinary dangers for understanding the world, no matter how smart you are.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I'm not saying that "the truth is always in the middle" or people should be forced to debate everything. But surely we can recognize that we are drawn to ideas that flatter our preexisting beliefs, and that this creates extraordinary dangers for understanding the world, no matter how smart you are.
Why is SPD intimidating taco vendors
Taco Stand on Northgate was back open tonight. As I went we watch SPD go around in circles and turns on their sirens a few times. What is this? This seems very strange if they’re doing something wrong then talk to them. This felt like intimidation
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Why is SPD intimidating taco vendors
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Taco Stand on Northgate was back open tonight. As I went we watch SPD go around in circles and turns on their sirens a few times. What is this? This seems very strange if they’re doing something wrong then talk to them. This felt like intimidation
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Taco Stand on Northgate was back open tonight. As I went we watch SPD go around in circles and turns on their sirens a few times. What is this? This seems very strange if they’re doing something wrong then talk to them. This felt like intimidation
The people doing this to other humans need to go to prison.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The people doing this to other humans need to go to prison.
Maybe Yarrow Point shouldn't exist as an independent city
Signs your municipal tax structure is fundamentally broken: the Town of Yarrow Point is asking residents to get their new iPhone delivered to their house instead of buying it in Bellevue so they get the sales tax revenue.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Maybe Yarrow Point shouldn't exist as an independent city
TransLink in Vancouver has a cool retail program to put more cafes and mini markets in their stations and transit exchanges. What a cool idea! Can we copy it in Seattle? buzzer.translink.ca/2025/02/tran...
TransLink's Retail Program brings coffee, eats, and convenience to transit hubs - The Buzzer blog
The newest member of TransLink's Retail Program is Trees, at the brand new Capstan Station in Richmond, on the Canada Line.
buzzer.translink.ca
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
TransLink in Vancouver has a cool retail program to put more cafes and mini markets in their stations and transit exchanges. What a cool idea! Can we copy it in Seattle? buzzer.translink.ca/2025/02/tran...
Someone at @sound-transit.bsky.social discovered a way to make an announcement play after the doors close. I’m sure this reminder will save countless people who don’t understand physics and inertia.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Someone at @sound-transit.bsky.social discovered a way to make an announcement play after the doors close. I’m sure this reminder will save countless people who don’t understand physics and inertia.
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I'm going to say something potentially controversial, but it needs to be discussed here because it is already being discussed very intensely elsewhere:
If homelessness gets *visibly* worse under a new mayor, regardless of metrics stating otherwise, it will be *the* thing to crater their popularity.
If homelessness gets *visibly* worse under a new mayor, regardless of metrics stating otherwise, it will be *the* thing to crater their popularity.
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm going to say something potentially controversial, but it needs to be discussed here because it is already being discussed very intensely elsewhere:
If homelessness gets *visibly* worse under a new mayor, regardless of metrics stating otherwise, it will be *the* thing to crater their popularity.
If homelessness gets *visibly* worse under a new mayor, regardless of metrics stating otherwise, it will be *the* thing to crater their popularity.
The government doesn't even have photos of everyone, how is this supposed to work?
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The government doesn't even have photos of everyone, how is this supposed to work?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Big tech companies are laying off employees not because AI is actually replacing them, but because they want to make it look like AI can replace employees so they can sell more AI to other companies. Really great article on AI and layoffs.
Big tech companies are laying off employees not because AI is actually replacing them, but because they want to make it look like AI can replace employees so they can sell more AI to other companies. Really great article on AI and layoffs.
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Big tech companies are laying off employees not because AI is actually replacing them, but because they want to make it look like AI can replace employees so they can sell more AI to other companies. Really great article on AI and layoffs.
Big tech companies are laying off employees not because AI is actually replacing them, but because they want to make it look like AI can replace employees so they can sell more AI to other companies. Really great article on AI and layoffs.
It's unacceptable for @sound-transit.bsky.social to tell people to pay their fare with the app when the ORCA readers are down.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It's unacceptable for @sound-transit.bsky.social to tell people to pay their fare with the app when the ORCA readers are down.
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SCOOP: several days ago Zohran Mamdani was overheard saying he "needs" to eat dinner. An inside source confirmed he had eaten breakfast and lunch that day, giving him an estimated 2+ weeks without additional calories before he might have died from starvation
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
SCOOP: several days ago Zohran Mamdani was overheard saying he "needs" to eat dinner. An inside source confirmed he had eaten breakfast and lunch that day, giving him an estimated 2+ weeks without additional calories before he might have died from starvation
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What gets me the most about Harrell trying to make a thing about Katie getting money from her parents is just a stunning lack of empathy on his part. There is a massive difference between "my parents pay for all of my stuff because investments" and "my parents kick me some money occasionally."
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
What gets me the most about Harrell trying to make a thing about Katie getting money from her parents is just a stunning lack of empathy on his part. There is a massive difference between "my parents pay for all of my stuff because investments" and "my parents kick me some money occasionally."
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Trump’s mass deportation agenda has spiraled out of control. More than 170 U.S. citizens — including children, veterans, and pregnant women — have been detained by immigration agents since he took office.
Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇
Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump’s mass deportation agenda has spiraled out of control. More than 170 U.S. citizens — including children, veterans, and pregnant women — have been detained by immigration agents since he took office.
Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇
Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇
King County Metro’s GTFS RT data seems to be now propagating trip updates for trips that haven’t begun yet, based on the data from the previous trip in the block. This is really good.
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
King County Metro’s GTFS RT data seems to be now propagating trip updates for trips that haven’t begun yet, based on the data from the previous trip in the block. This is really good.
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Damning video on @joemallahan.bsky.social's instagram account. @bruceharrell.bsky.social's "experience" is what? Failing at his job? Creating a hostile workplace? Elevating a man into power who is now under investigation for rape?
No thanks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQHrt8F...
No thanks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQHrt8F...
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Damning video on @joemallahan.bsky.social's instagram account. @bruceharrell.bsky.social's "experience" is what? Failing at his job? Creating a hostile workplace? Elevating a man into power who is now under investigation for rape?
No thanks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQHrt8F...
No thanks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQHrt8F...
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It's really wild to be heading from work these days and say something like "oh damn they're literally tearing down the White House... welp better hurry up and get home for dinner"
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It's really wild to be heading from work these days and say something like "oh damn they're literally tearing down the White House... welp better hurry up and get home for dinner"
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Oh shit Seattle's cursed former bus tunnel 1-Line stations are on here!
Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh shit Seattle's cursed former bus tunnel 1-Line stations are on here!
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
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To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:
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Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
October 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
we should charge these people property tax for the length of time that they’ve treated this public land as their private backyard.
coming to you live from the east mercer street end on lake washington, which despite showing as a park on my map layer, and as an un-owned right of way on king county parcel viewer, is very very private
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
we should charge these people property tax for the length of time that they’ve treated this public land as their private backyard.
Currently sitting on a train that’s been stopped at UW station for 5 minutes. The driver keeps playing the “we are experiencing an extended delay” announcement with no other info. Why can’t the train operators use the PA to give us an estimate of how long we will be here? @sound-transit.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Currently sitting on a train that’s been stopped at UW station for 5 minutes. The driver keeps playing the “we are experiencing an extended delay” announcement with no other info. Why can’t the train operators use the PA to give us an estimate of how long we will be here? @sound-transit.bsky.social
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Op ed is up in The Urbanist for our mega canvass with the slate of progressive candidates! I hope to see you all there October 19th!
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/14/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/14/o...
Op-Ed: Why Seattle’s Housing Future Depends on You » The Urbanist
# The Urbanist and Tech4Housing are hosting a rally and mega-canvass Sunday in Columbia City for Seattle City Council candidates Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Dionne Foster, and Eddie Lin, City Attorney cand...
www.theurbanist.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Op ed is up in The Urbanist for our mega canvass with the slate of progressive candidates! I hope to see you all there October 19th!
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/14/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/14/o...
Amazon return options in DC
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Amazon return options in DC