The YIMBY morning prayer

Still cannot believe we have this

Commission for @ebreium.bsky.social . Pastoral griff!

It was fleeting, but nice to feel proud of my country for a few minutes this afternoon.

"If the train was open I wouldn't be sitting in stop and go traffic right now" (Pic from yesterday)

one day the train will have always crossed the lake, and it will be impossible to imagine it otherwise but today it's a marvel

Damn I heard gas prices went up... Gonna hop on my electric train now.

I love da train

America is already great here in Washington

MARCH 28

Sound Transit has confirmed we'll get the opening date for the full 2 Line tomorrow morning, at 10am.

I like that London names their transit lines. It gives them personality. Numbers, letters, and colors are kind of sterile. Anyway, next year, I'm looking forward to riding the Balducci Line all the way from Seattle.

Hmm. I see I can't access this part of Bellevue yet. I need to synchronize with the Link Station before I can unlock this area.

The Netherlands is like a real life AI image creator of stuff I want in the US

This bill I wrote is now law.

Follow-up: the bollards really wild stop a bicycle getting through. I checked.

Literal bike-shedding in action

We will have the first light rail to go across a floating bridge in the WORLD. What an amazing achievement. I can’t wait to ride it.

Dismantling the legal and regulatory frameworks that hollowed out cities, transferred wealth to the suburbs, and then made it financially prohibitive to return is one of the great projects of urbanism.

I'm not kidding. policytoolbox.iiep.unesco.org/policy-optio...

Buried in Seattle’s feasibility report for legalizing 4 and 6 units is a fascinating stat that 70,000 of the 100,000 formerly single family zoned lots have sold since 2005. Think about how much wealth was made over that time and not a peep about “greedy homeowners” or “gentrification”

The silicon valley model of consent

New Rainier Ave crossing signal fans wya

"A crucial share of people appear to be resentfully car-dependent — forced into car-dependence by their circumstances and thus behaving in a way that may superficially appear “car loving” — but actually longing for alternatives..."

Introducing Bobby, our new voice assistant for the Pebble! rebble.io/2025/03/24/i...

This project will improve travel across the north side of the Dallas metro. But after spending $2.1 billion, you’d think you’d get more frequent service. Instead of an easy to use option people don’t have to use a schedule to ride, they’ll be waiting up to an hour to board a train.

For the Inky Frame from Pimoroni: this is the library for talking to the PCF85063A RTC github.com/pimoroni/pim... the methods for using the RAM byte are get_byte() and set_byte(). i.e. inky_frame.rtc.set_byte(123)

Another part of Hoover’s anti revolution plan

Remove I5, thank you ❤️

I kinda want to talk about this sign, Kirkland.

Fascinating thread on the back-and-forth in a suburb with almost nothing in it (it's almost all single family houses) staring down the barrel of consequences from their own exclusionary choices.

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

I drew this fantasy line (censored as to not dox myself lol). I know this is similar to Seattle Subway's vision map, but their map ignores Magnolia entirely

Look at that massive upzoning proposed in Laurelhurst. Going to need a light rail spur to support that additional density.

Laurelhurst isn’t even barely getting any rezones and they still overly dominated this #Seattle #CompPlan meeting.

It's May 10.

I'm at Marymoor Village station in Redmond for the official announcement of the date of Downtown Redmond Link's opening.

38. The number 38 is cursed at KCM; any route that carries it is doomed to destruction. But one of the 38s had something we still need today—local east/west service over Beacon Hill. At some point, something needs to go up and down S College St—there's going to be a lot more people there soon.

Here at Techaro instead of an accountability team we have an accounting team

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #984,740!

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

Thank you, #BABSCon2024 ; it was a terrific one! April 18-20, 2025 will be our final year. Let's party harder than ever before. Tell your friends, grandparents, pets. Pre-reg is open at our BIGGEST discount for 2 weeks: registration.babscon.com/addbadge Let's celebrate #BABSCon2025

Tried one of the new Seattle city street EV chargers, but it only went up to 0.1 kW and then started a loop of connecting and disconnecting over and over. Tesla L2 charger working ok though. Man.

Either way, though, upping to a 4 ton should barely impact the price. These systems cost about $5k to buy wholesale. You can get them online shipped for free in many cases, and it's often the same equipment the pros will install but re-badged. The gouging is insane and criminal, frankly.

we're just going straight to the Shopping page UI for product name searches now, huh google????