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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · Aug 30

But imagine what we could do with the Trailhead Direct buses outside of the summer season?

Lake City / Northgate / Greenwood / Carkeek Park
Beacon Hill / Columbia City / Othello / Seward Park
Gasworks / Fremont / Ballard Locks / Golden Gardens
Westlake / Queen Anne / Discovery Park

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5h

Also the "might force me" as a way of removing agency from himself for the decision. It's the same weasel words I dislike of "we are unable to..." on signs about anything annoying (like no restrooms).

No, you *can* stay put in Washington; you *choose* not to.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5h

(SDOT didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, either. They did it because Metro asked and chipped in funding, so Metro at one point remembered we have trolleybuses but then the lure of batteries got too strong for a, uh...decade.)

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5h

I'm usually here for dunking on the Seattle process but the lion's share of this isn't Seattle's fault. On the route 48, for instance, SDOT even proactively installed trolleybus poles during the rebuild of 23rd Ave.

Metro, at Dow's urging, has ignored the trolleys for a long, long time.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 14h

Plot twist (having had to go down to the taxi stand because my inbound plane arrived after Link went to bed on Sundays): the wait for the app taxis wound up being a *lot* longer than that.

(The night I had to do this, I waited 3 minutes for a cab; the "rideshare" line stretched the whole garage.)

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 19h

(and if you reply to me from your work email on your day off I will text you on your personal number to tell you to quit that! lol not really but also maybe)

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 19h

One of the fun things about being friends with people you organize and volunteer with is figuring out which email address to use for them :D

I am meticulous about which I email when. If we know each other but I have a your-day-job question, you'd better believe that's going to your work address.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

Exactly. And why does the sustainable option have to be the one that "loses?" By every conceivable metric, my household consumes very few resources. We've done everything we've been asked, from recycling to walking and busing everywhere. So our compromise is to have crappy living? Not cool.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

I rarely say this, mainly because it's hardly ever true, but as an apartment renter who doesn't drive so has almost always lived along a loud arterial, that feels like a personal swing at me.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

I can't figure out this person's objection to our objection, either. We're supposed to be *happy* that this "plan" effectively codifies higher density uses must only be along the uncomfortable arterial streets that detached housing owners use to drive to and from their unsustainable uses?

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

Jeeves, why hast thou forsaken me

I yearn for AltaVista with its multiple complex Boolean operators

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

It seems like a good chunk of this is Amtrak, or station owners, are scared shitless of the public. Everett Station should be awesome as well but it’s incredibly passenger hostile. None of our stations feel comfortable.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

this is in reference to something Harrell wants to do to “activate” downtown with “AI” and if I was unconvinced about voting for Wilson before (I was not, but let’s pretend), this is horrifying enough to sway me no matter what.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

One of these days I'm going to start (well...start *again* because I have some video) that little project of "this is how long a detour on foot would be if you insisted drivers do it."

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

But it's entirely acceptable for transit stops to be (temporarily...sometimes) closed or relocated or entrances nearest the sidewalk to be blocked in order to provide more comfort for people who are driving.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

I started Tron: Ares two hours after this game began and the movie ended but the season hadn’t!

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

Everywhere! Target and QFC are my favorites. I like Target's store brand, both of them sell Birds Eye, and QFC has Green Giant.

Safeway has a couple of varieties I like but I don't shop at Safeway any more.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

Pretty sure that humanity's greatest invention is steam-in-a-bag vegetables.

I love these things.

So many varieties and so easy for nutrition tracking while I've been working on weight and eating better through the power of modern medicine.

Plus laziness: takes like 6 minutes to make a hot meal.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

This is @poweredbylemonx.bsky.social bait

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

AntiFootballAssociation

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5d

If the Mariners win today after @finchfrii.bsky.social has made the fan sacrifice of not watching on TV or listening on the radio, I think we all need to take up a collection to test whether or not her *attending in person* results in a win.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5d

I think I saw Disgust at Cities play in the late 90s

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 5d

Summit service is nicely done right now by Metro having simply extended the 3 so the bus actually goes somewhere. They could still do a version of this map (which they didn’t because “fear of loss”) AND extend the Summit span of service to be whenever the 3 is running.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 6d

I don't mean to sound petty (or maybe I do?), it's just kind of frustrating to not be able to walk outside for more than 30 seconds without encountering someone's very smelly cig or pot smoke.

I guess if this is today's minor rant, not too bad of a day.

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Be:Seattle @beseattleorg.bsky.social · 6d

Tell Rob Saka and the other councilmembers to ACTUALLY show up for renters!

Today's your chance to get your photo taken with the famous puppets of @theseattlechannel.bsky.social! Seattle Solidarity Budget will be hosting a photo booth at City Hall at about 4pm ahead of the 5pm budget hearing!

A handmade puppet display shows six sock puppets styled as Seattle City Councilmembers, seated behind a wooden bench-like structure. Each puppet has a nameplate in front of it. From left to right: “Kettle, District 7” with a white sock puppet wearing a blue tie and pink knitted hat; “Rivera, District 4” with a puppet that has long dark yarn hair and a red mouth; “Nelson, Position 9” with a green puppet with long blond yarn hair and patterned dress; “Saka, District 1” is has a label but is notably missing; “Strauss, District 6” is a pink worm puppet with big blue eyes and curly brown yarn hair; and “Juarez, District 5” is a gray puppet with glasses, pearl earrings, gray hair, and a black-and-white patterned dress, frowning. The display is set outdoors against a textured wall.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 6d

(Yes I have a gazillion audio files of various types, a Plex server, and a fast connection to the Internet but...I want a cloud service too!)