Paris metro goes to the moon? In the winter?!?
Chasing the shiny bits in the dark. Punishing my legs for not being rocket packs. Passionate about density, transit, walkability, and cycling infrastructure. Recovered “avid cyclist”. Big YIMBY. Capitol Hill but I’m not cool and only have one tattoo.
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Paris metro goes to the moon? In the winter?!?
But what about when I need to escape from criminals while speeding to the hospital outrunning a tidal wave during a winter road trip to the moon while I have pneumonia? You expect me to ride the BUS?!?
Peak love
When your “bike infrastructure” allows a driver to kill people in the bike lane without risking their own life in return, that is not “bike infrastructure”, that’s window dressing. Also, were these things not bolted down?
The ONLY reason biking works for transportation for me in Seattle is I’m okay being a bit of an adrenaline junkie, and riding vehicularly and assertively. I would not ride that with a child, let alone with a child on my bike, and it would be a different calculation whether I’d ride at all.
My experience biking on rural roads (mostly on the Peninsula) is they are worse. Most routes there is no option but a high speed rural road/hwy with no shoulder. Now small cities like Bellingham are different! I’ve not biked in Bellingham, but walking around, yeah, I can imagine it’s far better.
All your points about how bad cycling in Seattle is are dead on. A good test of how “bike friendly” a city is whether if a non-cyclist child or elderly person told you they were going to bike to the park or the grocery store, would you be worried? In Seattle the answer is almost universally yes.
Yeah except on rural roads people drive even faster and more recklessly 😔 Less overall vehicles, but each one is more likely to kill you.
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American Individualism is one of the most harmful lies that’s a part of the American Zeitgeist. People really believe that everyone should “pay their own way”, which just serves to empower the most profit motivated people and organizations. America: The Eternal Adolescence
A pray that LLMs die soon so new generations of students can discover what they are capable of in state of panic at 2 am
Very illuminating clip here: Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla criticizes SB 79 because it limits local elected officials’ power to block new housing, then @jonlovett.bsky.social reminds her that we have a massive housing shortage that is strangling our state’s growth.
Too bad I don’t still have my cuck lamp
Right, I get that, but how? I bike through that intersection almost everyday. While I’m not an emergency responder, I don’t see how it impedes their vehicles. Also, did you feed feedback from just the SPD or many emergency responders?
How exactly are the current islands impeding emergency vehicle access?
OK, just one more before I'm officially on vacation! Enjoy. An Interview With the Creator of the Seattle City Council Sock Puppets publicola.com/2025/08/27/a...
Here's the clip! youtu.be/ZGVKZQQSJkg
Former smoker (1 pack every 2-3 months) who suffered from chronic depression and suicidality for like 20 years? Who’s getting all the 6G microchips? This shoulder!
People’s Republik of Kupcakes kumming next
Multiple friends of mine were killed by suicide, and I am positive that at least one of them would have had a great life had they made it through their 20s. I wonder how many more friends I would have lost if they had had a demon masquerading as a therapist whispering in their ear to do it.
This is so fucking dangerous. Yes, any sentient being has the right to end their existence. AND Suicide rips a giant psychic hole in the social fabric, not to mention that most people who survive a period of suicidal ideation and/or attempts are glad they survived.
Berm Peak made an entire chain out of master/quick links and as I recall the hit to performance was in the low single digits percentage wise. youtu.be/m1y95ztSY5U?...
Doomed to fail! Nah, I’ll like having an IKEA I can Light Rail over to and then have them ship stuff to me. I’ll miss the meatballs, but surely the Eastside has some decent restaurants on the 2 Line (???).
Queue people romanticizing driving to southern Renton for meatballs
Become who you were born to be: a socialist 11
Yep, that’s a huge part of it. Even being in your 20s is, in a lot of ways, simpler than your 30s and 40s. Being a child you are shielded, at least partially, from most of what makes the world confusing and anxiety provoking in any era.
Toad gets it
To be sympathetic to those who take comfort in the past: yes, a lot of things are worse now. Cost of living being the most obvious and direct, climate change being the most existential, and the shift away from democracy and into authoritarianism being the most worrying. But all of that is fixable.
Nostalgia can be a sickness. When a culture becomes mired in admiring and coveting its past, rather than looking forward, it may be in its final stages. I’ve watched nostalgia bloom on social media for years, well before AI slop, so it’s not surprising that the sloppers are taking advantage of it.
And a critically lacking capability in my bike quiver!
Thsnk you ☺️ It will become my bikepacking/adventure/pie fetching city bike. I had never even heard of the brand when I saw the classified ad on Facebook, but their Sogn is apparently highly regarded and exactly what I was looking for in my third (and final!) bike.
I simply will never understand people who stan for ANY chain fast food, ever. It’s not that good. It’s not that interesting. Not Dick’s. Not In-n-Out. I say that as someone who loves a McDonald’s breakfast, a Taco Bell Crunchwrap, etc. But if I never got to have one of those again… 🤷
Sadly, not once, but twice 😔 In 2021, which, okay, bad choice, but for a politically centrist organization, whatever. But to endorse him again in 2025 is just an utter betrayal of everything they purport to stand for. @wabikes.bsky.social is @cascade.org’s political arm. bsky.app/profile/wabi...
Holy shit what nightmare 😔
Likely the leadership is old, wealthy, White, homeowners, who were terrified by the defund talk in 2020 and don’t actually care what happens to the people experiencing underhousing, addiction, and mental health issues, as long as they don’t have to see it.
I do sometimes wonder what happened to @cascade.org that they’re willing to prioritize property values and giving the SPD more funding over much needed bicycle infrastructure. By endorsing Harrell, Cascade is endorsing continued inaction on LWB. Cancel your membership.
Time for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to release the full Retail Crime Panic @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode into the general feed. Peter may not like it, but the greater good would be served.
If your NIMBY erection last more than 10 years, please consult your local democracy about voting the fuckers who allow NIMBYs to have power out of office. If after 5 years symptoms persist, consult your local revolutionary about overthrowing the local government.
Jesus Fucking Christ, stop adding more distractions for drivers. Cars have been multi-ton living rooms capable of hitting 60 mph+ with very little sense of speed, let alone danger, for the driver for half a century now. The fact that bs like this is legal is why drivers kill more and more people.
Some of the old internet humors are still going strong. Homestar Runner? Still making great content. The recent (and hopefully fading) “AI” agent BS reminds me of the once and still great Zombo com (saved from Flash purgatory and ported to HTML5). www.zombo.com
Once the AI bubble pops, I will pioneer previously unexplored frontiers of being a smug little shit. My joy will be boundless and I'll be impossible to live with.
Ugh, that sucks so bad. I’m sorry. I live in Capitol Hill and will keep my eyes out.
My bicycle was just stolen in Capitol Hill Seattle. Please keep an eye out for a small sized Salsa Vaya, green bicycle with a rear rack, steel fenders, dynamo hubs, 26” wheels. Parked at a bike rack at 15th and Pike. Saw my lock cut and thrown on the ground.
Desperate “AI” scammers are getting more desperate, continue to hype the nothingness they’ve been hyping for years with even more unrealistic and grandiose claims, even as the AI Hypebubble is finally starting to deflate.
The finest Russian accent in cinema history
As someone who got into cycling as a way alleviating my skiing withdrawals in the summer, this unfortunately doesn’t really work (at least for downhill alpine skiing). Beginning of the ski season your quads still burn like a mofo.
Shoving people experiencing mental health and addiction issues into institutions, at best, allows those in power to ignore the problem and pretend they’re magnanimous. Vastly better is to provide housing with no strings attached and access to services.
*taps the sign* bsky.app/profile/stan...
The curse of watching a video like this is right now I have no idea who any of these people are, and after I watch it I will see and hear their names fucking everywhere.
The kid needs a slug of bourbon to go with that smoke
Yes, let’s let drivers continue to kill and maim for the sake of their selfish need to propel their 2-4 mobile living room at speeds that are unsafe for anyone not also in a 2-4 ton mobile living room.
Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
Yonder is good (last time I went there maybe two years ago). Bottleworks on 45th has a good cider selection. Schilling is technically North Seattle…
Imagine being evil enough to think wanting streets like this is a conspiracy
Nobody knows but we can’t get by without it
Of course the only decent bollard gif in Bluesky doesn’t show the impact 🙄 This app desperately needs support for third-party gifs.
While flex-posts do offer better protection than paint alone… Those aren’t bollards mate, this is a bollard.
As did Global Cycling Network (GCN). youtu.be/CVq7XOXkg1U?...
@nerd4cities.bsky.social did a great video about this. youtu.be/qp75-46PnMY?...
That car-centric infrastructure is insanely expensive and drivers are hugely subsidized by non-drivers.
I forgot Brandi even existed until now 😔
True on the retractable bollards, which will never happen with a substantial cultural shift at SDOT. It wouldn’t stop it entirely, but yeah, islands in the middle of 2nd-4th with signs, curb bumps, and bollards would cut down on illegal turns. The current system is the usual asking nicely.
The good news is that it would be easy to mitigate the bad design by adding traffic lights at every intersection, with bike lights indicating they can go both ways, more signage, and some curbs and bollards to prevent drivers from doing their usual illegal whatever they want.
I continue to insist @seattledot.bsky.social utterly dropped the ball when they redid Bell. It was so much better as just a 2-way city street with lights at every intersection. It has constant wrong-way and illegally turning drivers, and the non-existent signage that the bikeway is 2-way.
Will this tech bubble’s implosion release any good swag into the world?
They need a rich duke to bail them out
Yep, we’ll definitely become a Type II Civilization so incels can continue to have their Mommy Who Has Sex With Them (Also a Dyson Swarm would be far more realistic…)
Definitely nice to see that while the US and the UK have diverged in many ways in the past two and a half centuries, the “we don’t like brown people getting things for free” racism and bigotry are equally strong in both countries. And politicians are happy to exploit that bigotry.
Yep. The powers that be in Seattle want its public parks sterile and free of the scourge of the working class. bsky.app/profile/paul...
Not the saddest, but deserving of an honorable mention and I don’t see it yet. Voyager’s Course: Oblivion
There are more things between r/ and 4chan than are dreamt of in my philosophy
Our entire Federal Government is now…
While it was a shameful sellout for @wabikes.bsky.social (really @cascade.org) to ever endorse Harrell, they could undo some of the damage they’ve done by changing their endorsement.
This driver’s view of the average cyclist
Modern Seinfeld: George decides he’s not manly enough and takes up rock climbing. On his first outing (with Kramer) George falls, landing on RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz, who cushion his fall, saving George and killing both Kennedy and Oz. Jerry fucks a 16 year-old.
The only thing special about people born in Seattle is they bear more of the blame for how inequitable the city is, and how much inequality has increased over the past 20 years. This is especially true of white collar homeowners.
It’s also worth pointing out that a lot of the men who buy stuff like this are in on the joke. Truck Nutz are similar. While clickbaity liberals see them as appealing to insecure men, most of the men who buy them find them silly and fun because they’re so dumb and over the top.
We’re coming for your Boulevard, Bruce
This is likely just a dumb idea from MS, but from the perspective of how I use my work computer, it’s inconceivable idiotic. But I am a software dev, so I spend a lot of time looking and scrolling and debugging and typing. Does anyone use their computer in a way that this would be useful?
Are you a plonk or zslap user? Your choice will determine the rest of your life.
Your larger point was fine and largely correct. One could certainly say that if someone is too poor to afford a car and lives somewhere without usable transit, a bike might be the only viable option. But your statement on access to e-bikes (which it looks like you deleted) was not.
I’m sorry, but this is just flat out wrong. If you live in a hilly city like Seattle and are in an apartment without an elevator, e-bikes are pretty much a no-go. Not many people want to haul a 50 lb bike up and down stairs. The “everybody has access to e-bikes” thing is incredibly classist.
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New (to me) bike day. Rawland Sogn. Going to be my adventure/bikepacking/pie fetching bike.
Here in Seattle, we use the language of equity and inclusion to couch our right-wing policies.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
My work moved from the CBD to Pioneer Square in October and it is SO much better. There’s a few things I miss being close to, but the options in PQ are so much better, and only getting better. Seattle built the CBD for suburban commuters to drive into and out of, not to be enjoyed.
