I fear I have become a Target Market

🚨 New guide alert! You: Planner who wants to make streets safer/more comfortable for everyone *now* Your quest: Getting thru design/planning/engineering/$$/construction/chatting w ppl about all of the above, which can take years Your new BFF: Quick-builds to trial-run projects ppl end up loving

The amazing folks at the WSDOT Active Transportation Division have released their 'quick build guide' - which includes at least a dozen quick-build projects as case studies across Washington State. This is great reading for sickos and local governments alike! wsdot.wa.gov/sites/defaul...

@bikabout.com Megan Ramey cites @tomflood.bsky.social's Revelo in the Quick Builds Guide training from WSDOT: "Quick Builds build community trust and give our leaders political courage to champion safe streets and make larger investments."

Always awesome to see work out in the world and being used by such fantastic people!

Labu-BOO! Remember that the scariest thing on the road tonight should be a child dressed as a pop culture reference you’re too old to understand. Be extra cautious driving today, and keep an eye out for trick-or-treaters. Happy Halloween!

This Halloween, let costumed trick or treaters be the only scary travelers. Look out for kids when you walk, bike, roll or connect with transit. Drive responsibly or don’t drive at all.

This Halloween, let costumed trick or treaters be the only scary travelers. Look out for kids when you walk, bike, roll or connect with transit. Drive responsibly or don’t drive at all.

let’s go on a tour of my home! this is where the dog puked in the living room. this is where the dog puked in the kitchen. this is

“If Amazon achieves its automation goal, ‘one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator.’” @zombiewretch.bsky.social www.theverge.com/news/803257/...

you: oh my gosh how about that AWS server madness that shut half the world down *guy who blissfully just got back from a bike ride*: there was a what

Don’t put a GPS tracker on your dog unless you want to get a notification that “[dog name]” has been left behind!” every time you drop them at daycare 😭

“If you love to see pictures of dogs now is a great time to surf Amazon dot com” — pending email from AWS PR

AWS said “best I can do is also not working in the middle of the day”

Me AWS 🤝 Not working in The middle of The night

Local reporters: I am your biggest champion which is why I hope you’ll trust I have your best interests in mind when I ask you to read Warren’s thread here before you cover new bike infrastructure.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

When the drivers won’t stop for you even tho you’re so cute and small and there is no mid(very long)block crosswalk or speed bumps???? #WeekWithoutDriving

There's no such thing as bad weather, or bad clothing, for this #TransitDog. 💜

💯Travelers are responsible for each other's safety. But we often saddle ppl walk/bike/rolling - those not driving 1,000s-pound cars - w disproportionate responsibility for their own safety. If we can't rely on drivers to be responsible & the culture devalues non-drivers, what are our options? 1/4

#WeekWithoutDriving off to a wet but fun start with a trip to/from the vet for vaccines! (If we do enough rainy rides maybe she’ll even let me put her rain hat and goggles on.) Finding bike parking was a bit tough but sticking 95% of the time to quiet local streets w lots of speed bumps was great!

First day of #WeekWithoutDriving 2025, are you ready? disabilityrightswa.org/how-would-yo...

The fun starts tomorrow! #WeekWithoutDriving

It’s difficult to find the words to express how our unit is feeling right now, but we’ll take a stab at it: shocked, disappointed, angry, gutted. @cascadepbs.bsky.social’s choice to eliminate long-form written reporting is a massive loss for our community in a critical moment. tinyurl.com/LayoffFund

@cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social is letting go of roughly 12% of staff. Please support these journalists. 1/2

I dressed in my cutest wicking clothes and skipped showering after working out and the GALL of the Sweater Weather convention not to let me participate

My dog says it’s Sweater Weather* *Time to boycott going outside to pee unless our people put us in the thickest right-out-of-the-dryer hoody

Who here is planning to do in #WeekWithoutDriving? Have you done it in the past? How did it go? Solid opportunity to better understand how easy traveling actually is where you live. The same route that works for someone driving might be a headache (or worse) for people who walk, bike or roll.

"Seattle's PBS station will cease production of its local long-form journalism, leadership announced on Monday. The move, attributed to the loss of federal funding for public media, marks the layoffs of 17 staffers..."

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

Messages to long-distance friends: 95%: “u ok? Lemme know if you need anything” 5: “jerk you’re going to ruin our Wordle streak just pick some letters”

So many beautiful opportunities to translate “Sorry, I didn’t catch that” 💕

! “For yrs [USFS] barred workers from wearing masks, arguing that they were too cumbersome for the job. But current +former officials have said the agency did not want to deal w the potentially costly consequences of admitting the long-term dangers of smoke exposure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

If you forgot to go cheer on the maiden voyage of the world’s first light rail system to run on a floating bridge, in the middle of the night, don’t worry, THREE DOZEN PEOPLE posted up with pizza and Thomas the Tank Engine references 🚊 #Transit #Lightrail www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I hear too much screen time kills, which explains all the dead bugs on my window sill in the summer. #DadJokes

“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.” “And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”

As soon as the smoke rolls in you gotta set a work email autoreply to “I’m Here but Brain OOO Please Return If Found” #Seattle

Called it an Idaho Stop when we coulda called it a Slow-tato 🚲

demonstrating my patriotism by steadfastly refusing to cede puns to the Nazis (also this whole piece is, of course, very good)

I just did something to my bike with help from my LBS that, when I consulted the bike company about it, they were like “yeah you can do that but… if you do, send us photos.”

Okay whoever disinvited the Radavist team from their commuter bike train plz reinvite them

💯 What if bikes can be meaningful in many ways & celebrated for that, & this doesn’t diminish the way *we* like to ride?

What if not just one but many people could use a parking space, and not leave it empty but rather full of life? In some cities, anyone can make space for more people and plants in the road. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought. Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Just met another person who got and used one of the @wsdot.wa.gov e-bike rebates this spring 💕 I love hearing about how the rebates have completely changed people’s lives!

1. “Can’t wait to see the @insta360official.bsky.social footage from our bike ride!” 2. *deletes 2 hours of footage of people figuring out what to do with snot*

Washington residents: I want literal on-the-ground reviews! Which street/bridge/trail project in or near where you live has made the biggest positive difference in your ability to commute, run errands or recreate while walking/biking/rolling? Could be as small as a speed bump.

We can break stuff in an instant, but we can't just switch it back on later. We have signed up for a complete rebuild.

I’ve been on staff at an NPR station and a PBS station & interviewed regularly w staff at multiple other NPR stations. Thinking of all the effort it takes to build up staff, sources, audiences & practices to sustain trusted critical *free* news & *education* infrastructure responding to local needs.