Mike Bollich-Ziegler
@mb-z.bsky.social
Writer and enforcer of collective bargaining agreements for a labor union. I’m into home diy renovations, cities that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists, and too many podcasts about tech & . Husband & dad. He/him.
📍Federal Way, WA. STL born and raised.
📍Federal Way, WA. STL born and raised.
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Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?
August 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?
Kudos to @sound-transit.bsky.social for such a fun and well planned Federal Way opening event.
It’s been one week since the 1 Line extension to Federal Way opened!
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
December 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kudos to @sound-transit.bsky.social for such a fun and well planned Federal Way opening event.
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It’s been one week since the 1 Line extension to Federal Way opened!
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It’s been one week since the 1 Line extension to Federal Way opened!
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
If you joined us for opening day — or even if you couldn’t make it — you’re invited to take our post-event survey. We’d love your feedback on how we did, and how we can make the next opening even better. https://ow.ly/zjre50XIFTU
Civil engineering. 👏
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Civil engineering. 👏
Something was “upgraded” at Valley Communication’s Dispatch Center, and ever since, all agencies dispatched through them have disappeared from @pulsepoint.bsky.social.
For a couple weeks, a message was up saying it was being worked on, but now there’s nothing. Big bummer if this access goes away. ☹️
For a couple weeks, a message was up saying it was being worked on, but now there’s nothing. Big bummer if this access goes away. ☹️
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Something was “upgraded” at Valley Communication’s Dispatch Center, and ever since, all agencies dispatched through them have disappeared from @pulsepoint.bsky.social.
For a couple weeks, a message was up saying it was being worked on, but now there’s nothing. Big bummer if this access goes away. ☹️
For a couple weeks, a message was up saying it was being worked on, but now there’s nothing. Big bummer if this access goes away. ☹️
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Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
I didn’t realize the king country sheriff’s office had autonomous vehicles.
King County sheriff’s office vehicle strikes, kills woman in Monroe
King County sheriff’s office vehicle strikes, kills woman in Monroe
An unmarked King County sheriff's office vehicle struck and killed a 26-year-old pedestrian Tuesday morning in Monroe, according to police.
www.seattletimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I didn’t realize the king country sheriff’s office had autonomous vehicles.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
I walked across this again and can’t imagine feeling safe taking my young kids across (let alone myself) having to wait in the middle of six lanes of speeding drivers with little to no protection other than the curb edge and beg button pole.
This new signal gets an F from me. It has a zig zag pattern, the time to walk is around 10 seconds, and you have to wait TWO LIGHT cycles with a pause in the median to fully cross.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I walked across this again and can’t imagine feeling safe taking my young kids across (let alone myself) having to wait in the middle of six lanes of speeding drivers with little to no protection other than the curb edge and beg button pole.
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
from a state party director
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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Federal Way Link is officially open.
December 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Federal Way Link is officially open.
This new signal gets an F from me. It has a zig zag pattern, the time to walk is around 10 seconds, and you have to wait TWO LIGHT cycles with a pause in the median to fully cross.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This new signal gets an F from me. It has a zig zag pattern, the time to walk is around 10 seconds, and you have to wait TWO LIGHT cycles with a pause in the median to fully cross.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
Can’t make the drivers wait.
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happy new train day to all who celebrate!! 🎉
NEW STORY // Everything You Need to Know About Federal Way Link
Story by Ryan Packer and Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/06/e...
Story by Ryan Packer and Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/06/e...
Everything You Need to Know About Federal Way Link » The Urbanist
# The three stations of the eight-mile Federal Way Link light rail extension open December 6. Here's your guide to the new line and the opening day festivities.
www.theurbanist.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
happy new train day to all who celebrate!! 🎉
“The bedroom communities of Federal Way and Lynnwood appear to be engaging in “field of dreams” wishcasting hoping ‘if you name it, they will come.’
Back in reality, giving a freeway-adjacent patch of strip malls the name “downtown” or “city center” has yet to summon a downtown in these cities.”
Back in reality, giving a freeway-adjacent patch of strip malls the name “downtown” or “city center” has yet to summon a downtown in these cities.”
NEW // Op-Ed: Sound Transit’s Station Naming Policy Has Run Amok Again
Op-ed by Stephen Fesler via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-ed by Stephen Fesler via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-Ed: Sound Transit’s Station Naming Policy Has Run Amok Again » The Urbanist
# With three “downtown” stations and counting, Sound Transit must overhaul its station naming policy and name its stations less confusingly so that riders can easily navigate a growing system.
www.theurbanist.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“The bedroom communities of Federal Way and Lynnwood appear to be engaging in “field of dreams” wishcasting hoping ‘if you name it, they will come.’
Back in reality, giving a freeway-adjacent patch of strip malls the name “downtown” or “city center” has yet to summon a downtown in these cities.”
Back in reality, giving a freeway-adjacent patch of strip malls the name “downtown” or “city center” has yet to summon a downtown in these cities.”
I’ll collect my bet winnings. Federal Way says they will have it operating by tomorrow AM.
Also, this is the first new signal city-wide since 2016! Almost 10 years without a new traffic signal.
Also, this is the first new signal city-wide since 2016! Almost 10 years without a new traffic signal.
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’ll collect my bet winnings. Federal Way says they will have it operating by tomorrow AM.
Also, this is the first new signal city-wide since 2016! Almost 10 years without a new traffic signal.
Also, this is the first new signal city-wide since 2016! Almost 10 years without a new traffic signal.
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NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They should do MyChart Wrapped
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a reminder that electric scooters have speed limiters and everyone is getting press crying about e-bikes
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
a reminder that electric scooters have speed limiters and everyone is getting press crying about e-bikes
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this should just immediately write you a ticket when you turn it on
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this should just immediately write you a ticket when you turn it on
I saw this morning that missing signal lights are on the pole, more striping on the pavement, and lanes blocked presumably to do more work today. Maybe they’ll wrap it up by Sat.
Less than a mile west, another new ped signal crossing 320th has been sitting for months installed but not turned on.
Less than a mile west, another new ped signal crossing 320th has been sitting for months installed but not turned on.
Less than a week until the Federal Way @sound-transit.bsky.social Station opens and a signaled pedestrian crossing at the corner of the transit center and dangerous 320th isn’t done. Progress on it has crawled for months.
Unsure if it’s a Federal Way or Sound Transit to-do, but my money is on FW.
Unsure if it’s a Federal Way or Sound Transit to-do, but my money is on FW.
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I saw this morning that missing signal lights are on the pole, more striping on the pavement, and lanes blocked presumably to do more work today. Maybe they’ll wrap it up by Sat.
Less than a mile west, another new ped signal crossing 320th has been sitting for months installed but not turned on.
Less than a mile west, another new ped signal crossing 320th has been sitting for months installed but not turned on.
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There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
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Listening to tonight's Federal Way city council land use committee meeting, where a councilmember was questioning the need to add a sidewalk to a street directly connecting Federal Way High School with the light rail station, "because it's a residential area" and would impact parking.
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Listening to tonight's Federal Way city council land use committee meeting, where a councilmember was questioning the need to add a sidewalk to a street directly connecting Federal Way High School with the light rail station, "because it's a residential area" and would impact parking.
CM Honda also had a line of questioning last Federal Way Land Use and Transportation meeting on temporarily closing a street for the farmers market asking “but where will people park?”
Send her an email, especially if you live in Federal Way. Here is what I sent her after hearing her comments.
Send her an email, especially if you live in Federal Way. Here is what I sent her after hearing her comments.
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
CM Honda also had a line of questioning last Federal Way Land Use and Transportation meeting on temporarily closing a street for the farmers market asking “but where will people park?”
Send her an email, especially if you live in Federal Way. Here is what I sent her after hearing her comments.
Send her an email, especially if you live in Federal Way. Here is what I sent her after hearing her comments.