Liora Halperin

Haaretz: Likud spending millions of shekels to place observers/activists outside polling stations in Arab areas to “document” what is happening and look out for election fraud (which they have determined in advance that they will find).

I off the cuff in (history of Israel/Palestine) class today described Theodor Herzl as having the “beardiest beard around.”

10/25 Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition by The Legal Ctr for Arab Minority Rights in Israel & the Joint List which asked Court to bar polling station officials & observers who are representatives of political parties from carrying firearms inside polling stations during the 10/27 elections.

TIL: YARD as in “enclosed area” (cognate to gird and garden) is from a different proto indo European root as YARD the unit of measurement (from word meaning “staff” or “rod”).

Point Roberts is the reductio ad absurdum of current US-Canada “relations”

Well this was a confusing headline!

Doing the usual Saturday kid activities with car rather than cargo bike because visiting family coming along. Definitely easier to carry a lot of shit but none of the pride and pleasure of #carryshitolympics

Crucifiction *really* should be a literary genre. But as far as I can discern it is so far only a death metal band (and a misspelling).

Achievement unlocked. Reading a book so heavy that it triggers the “fasten passenger seatbelt” alarm when I put it on the seat. #booksky

Kids likes to play “guess the animal.” His clue today: “This animal has grey fur and likes to play soccer.” (Answer: Husky dog) @gohuskies.bsky.social

Just attended my first local Safe Streets meeting and man what a joy to be engaged with pushing for real, palpable change at the most micro level. A crosswalk here, a better curb cut there, a new stop sign there, a bike lane.

Our brave new world (from a colleague): “Apologies for responding so late. I tried a new ai-enhanced email app system to manage emails, and it turned out to be a disaster. I am back to using the regular app for emails, and I am trying to catch up with so many messages I missed in this period.”

@riverheadbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social publishing Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner, messes up the Hebrew by printing it backwards.

“Joshua Wealth” here to unlock the secret to wealth for me

Hey @seattletimes.com, I know you are just reprinting articles from @apnews.com but you gotta change headlines that say “Washington” in reference to that other faraway place

Having “Joe Biden” reach out to people to get them to support the DNC is not a smart move. Dems hate the guy. Keep him hidden away, please.

At our own Link (subway) series

It’s a horse with its rider proudly on top proclaiming: we want a tax structure more like Idaho!

If I didn’t have a cargo bike I guess I’d have to get a horse. How else would I lug around all my stuff?

Oh just toting around a 900+ page book #booksky #bikesky

If you love exercising your brain and love words, semantle.com (and its more colorful clone pimantle) are super fun. Get closer and closer to target word by guessing words and learning their degree of semantic similarity to target.

Got air in my bike tires and wow I feel like a million bucks

#1 fan! Kid has attended 5 out of the 10 UW women’s soccer home games so far (and they won all 5!). That might be it for us (last home game is 8pm, a bit late for him). @gohuskies.bsky.social

Having never watched a full soccer game in my life (in person or on television) I have now gone to five college soccer games since late Aug (4 UW and 1 Seattle U) thanks to my unexpectedly sportsball obsessed child. And it’s delightful!

A game of bananagrams made me realize: A BICYCLE anagrams to CELIBACY

““K.M.K.s attorneys wrote that her opponent in the wrestling match, who was “stronger &more powerful,” touched her inappropriately.” One prob. shouldn’t be wresting if one can’t deal w/strong, powerful opponents&close touch. (Ofc If there was misconduct, investigation should follow in specific case)

I had a dream that I was at a lecture and I kept finding myself laying down with my head stuck through the back of my chair onto the one behind and my legs on the one in front of me and being embarrassed, laboriously sitting up, and then finding myself like that again. Maybe because…I was in bed.

“Ethan was the passenger on his friend’s Class 3 e-bike when it was rear-ended by a car, killing both boys.” Sure, some common sense rules about class 3 e-bikes and kids make sense. But for gods sake, anecdotes like this are about problems with cars first and foremost.

You’ve figured me out, Amazon

Love it

I like print books and I cannot lie #booksky @thestorygraph.com

I’m reading Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. One “book” (section) in. I don’t think I’ve ever read such a long novel before. Settling in for the ride. #booksky @spl.org

#weekwithoutdriving There are so many terrible crosswalks. In the wrong place. Not enough. With buttons you have to push but which are hard to reach. Curb cuts missing or awkward or in wrong place. And highways cutting through cities that make any kind of crossing impossible except at limited points

#weekwithoutdriving Transit is essential, but it only really works with micromobility: bikes, trikes, cargo bikes, e-bikes, scooters. People often need to be able to autonomously get to/from places transit doesn’t go (and where transit shouldn’t be expected to go).

The bathketball hoop is starting to host serious intercollegiate games

Shout out to the ASUW Bike shop on the Seattle campus (just for folks with UW ID card, but that’s ~100,000 people). Good work, and WAY cheaper than commercial bike shops.

What is an “extreme bedroom community”? Wrong answers only.

Why is it that these scam/junk journal “calls for papers” emails are always justified (ie to left and right margins)? That alone is usually the first clue that it’s junk.

🚲🚊⛴️🏐☀️ Bike to Link to Water Taxi to Alki Fall Classic beach volleyball tournament to cheer on UW on a perfect day