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Seattle nerd dad. I like riding bikes. he/him
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I like the Tom Waits part in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Samuel L Jackson chain smoking, frantically typing random Unix commands into Wayne Knight’s computer, getting locked out and then eaten by a raptor pretty accurately captures the experience of being on-call for a large production internet service.
Would love to implement congestion pricing in Seattle. The entire downtown/south lake union/I-5 corridor is just completely busted most hours of the day.
Had to come pay my respects to the weird Interbay rusty cage path before it got ripped up. Pretty sure this is what Soundgarden was singing about.
Is there a crime here? How is this any different or even on the same level as Fox News, Newsmax, right wing influencers… ? I don’t understand what the supposed scandal is or why I should care.
My daughter has been singing "What It Sounds Like" from KPop Demon Hunters all week and honestly, that song is kind of a bop.
I want to give Sarah the benefit of the doubt since she does lots of focus group work, but yes, I do suspect this is the idea. “Incarcerated” and “unhoused” imply that society is culpable. “Criminal” puts the blame squarely on the individual.
What are your recommended substitutions for “incarcerated person” and “the unhoused”? Those both seem totally normal to me.
I have never been to a Cracker Barrel in my life, sitting this one out.
jfc I hate the hats
I have long had a distaste for trendy tech buzzwords but I don't think I've ever experienced the pure, visceral hatred that I have for "vibe coding".
Same. Wish others followed his lead.
Nice. I like to butcher Radiohead and Ben Folds songs.
Pleasant day for a bike ride. 520 east -> Sammamish River Trail -> BGT. Start and end at Husky Stadium.
Excellent plan. Being mediocre at piano is my favorite procrastination strategy.
Absolutely agree, good point.
If every single time I call you, you're experiencing "higher than normal call volumes", it's time to reassess what your normal call volumes actually are. Looking at you, Astound Broadband.
Idk man, these Gavin Newsom capslock posts aren't doing it for me. Getting a good zinger in at Trump's expense isn't enough, I'm not even getting that fleeting dopamine hit anymore. If it works somehow I'll gladly eat my words, but like most Newsom stunts, it feels shallow and self aggrandizing.
Hella disappointing but what I’ve been primed to expect with this party.
10 bikes outside a local storefront: "Oh no, our city is overrun with bikes, the horror!" 100 cars in a 5-acre Walmart parking lot: "Ah, convenience!"
I’ve watched this more times than I care to admit. We are all butter chicken guy.
Bruce Harrell Quietly Changes LinkedIn Profile to Open to Work: tinyurl.com/436jer4c
I say we bring back showing up at people's houses unannounced.
Each makes a slightly different notification sound on my phone, so I get fun "guess the person by the noise" challenges throughout the day.
At the other end of this rant is the intricate matrix of Signal friends, Discord friends, WhatsApp friends, Messenger friends, Slack friends, gchat friends and the absolute lunatics that insist on using the in-platform chat clients for fantasy football or video games.
When was the last time big tech's obsession with automation and AI actually innovated something useful and didn't just ruin something that already existed?
Once upon a time, we had a pretty nifty system for communicating with each other that has since been rendered functionally useless by bots and scammers. Just like phone calls. Just like mail. Just like most of the internet.
A solid 90% of the texts I now receive are job recruiter scams, campaign fundraising scams, "are you interested in selling your house" scams, "you have an unpaid bridge toll" scams and so on. The other 10% are mostly two-factor authentication codes I needed for logging into something else.
North shore of Seward Park looking across Lake Washington. Not all that quiet in the summer, but on an overcast chillier day, it’s got quite a vibe.
Really hate that thing cars do where they roll well past a stop sign, eventually see me on my bike, slam their brakes in the middle of the intersection and when I give them a dirty look, just act like that’s how stopping at stop signs works.
The ride from West Seattle to Pioneer Square at night is a vibe. Normally I’m on autopilot and not really perceiving it.
ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
Jeff Goldblum gets away, but his arc goes from “nerd who rides bikes and recycles” to “space hacker with a cigar”.
Awful. Hope they catch the truck driver.
This route rules so much* when the homestretch is a car-free Lake Washington Blvd. (*except the bits by The Landing and along Rainier/Seward Park Ave, moar bike lanes please)
I hope Ian Malcolm comes with a gyrocopter.
Full endorse. If my e-bike can’t go over 28 mph, then cars should be limited the same way.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker
The R/M Load 60 rules, just put the 2000th mile on mine.
It used to stand out from the skyline when there was a tall building gap between downtown and Seattle Center but the great Amazoning of South Lake Union filled in all the negative space.
Amazing
This guy sucks.
I was once told you can see Russia from there.
I cannot for the life of me tell what the difference is between those two 3rd and Washington pictures. Did they just power wash it?
lol wut
There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this afternoon…with nail polish.
Anecdotal, of course, but I was just laid off last month from a job that saw increasingly high overlap with Copilot in the past few years.
💯.
I want accountability for reckless drivers and I do not want police officers murdering people because a traffic stop was radically escalated. To my surprise, both of these beliefs lead to supporting traffic cameras so rack 'em up.
Big fan of District 5, stretching from Lake City to Walla Walla.
This is so upsetting. Trump is a monster.
23 and pretty confident I’ve mostly checked off the good half.
beyond the obvious MAGA dipshittery, i'm fascinated by whatever logic landed Cincinnati on this list
Putting this billboard above a gas station is some aggressive marketing by Sound Transit. I like it.
If anything, those new lanes make it more dangerous as cars will assume bikes are limited to that narrow shoulder that’s half gutter.
Long past that point, in fact
Alki trail is very picturesque, until someone walks directly into you while staring at their phone and completely oblivious to the existence of bike paths.
Jay Leno is a good example of someone whose opinions I think just do not need to be news. He has gone off to live with his money, and every now and then he says something uninteresting that sounds exactly like what you would say if nothing you saw happening in the world mattered to you.
And fix the lights on the WS bridge while they’re at it.
Was there earlier today with my daughter, very cool.
Ugh, the chairs in the new bike lane is infuriating.
Surely the PSA dudes wouldn't shill for snake oil, right? ...right?
Too many people here wearing Morgan Wallen gear for my taste
Took my daughter to Seattle’s new waterfront playground. Really nice climbing structures and that slide is legit. Also crowded as fuck (but that’s a good look for the waterfront).
Lotta classics in there.
TIL John Lennon, David Bowie, Neil Peart and Prince presumably did not make it to music heaven, but Ronnie James Dio did
Just encountered a kid’s lemonade stand that accepted Venmo.
Great work!
It's a good bridge.
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No, we are not in agreement. In your now-deleted post, you said "the safest place on a road is in a car". Not only does that ignore the 40k+ people that die each year in car wrecks, it's victim blaming. "Why were you biking around cars?" sounds like "why were you wearing that around rapists?"
No. The safest place on a city street is walking down it when there are no cars around. When a cyclist runs into a pedestrian, there might be scrapes and bruises and inconveniences. When a car runs into a pedestrian, people die.
I don’t like them either, but for whatever reason they rack up huge view counts so it would be a mistake to completely cede that territory over to the far right.
Is it the ski resort difficulty rating system? Are there black diamond trails?
I’ve done the exact same thing to my knee. Biking motion was the only thing unaffected.
Disgusting, I hate it.
Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon
Good boy.
I am calling on the Oklahoma City Thunder to go back to being called the SuperSonics. There is a big clamoring for this.
They really all have that shot, don't they
MY BLUE HEAVEN and NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, my favorite two forgotten '90s comedies.
Fascinating.
I’ve always wondered what the deal with this was. It’s like half a block.
Derp. Is that Hanford and Marginal? I keep hoping the new path will be nice down there, but it looks like there are gonna be some awkward street crossings.
We’re all so numb to how insane it is that the president posts like this. What a fucking ghoul.
Merrick Garland you dumb bitch
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
I will celebrate accordingly when It Happens and deal with the consequences the next day.
Probably worth re-examining in light of new revelations.
If both sides operated in good faith and in the spirit of a healthy democracy, I would agree with you. But that is clearly not the case, so the “it’s good if both sides are mad” mindset adds to an even greater media asymmetry.
I already thought dude’s signature was tacky and I want this new information Eternal Sunshined from my brain.
Mother would disapprove of him going to the island.
Apparently Pence has the courage
Return to Oz and Labyrinth in this genre as well
Very well put. Linking economic justice and environmental sustainability, along with the massive benefits to one's physical and mental health. Hard to overstate how lifechanging biking can potentially be.
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