Is there some kind of ad or viral thing going around about writing a book? Why do I know so many people asking me about publishing a book right now? Is this a new side hustle?

Lmao, the Supreme Court isn’t gonna do nothing, they’ll agree it’s unconstitutional or ignore it because they want the GOP to takeover and rule the country.

Some folks are saying that Biden/Harris didn’t get a pop from gas prices dropping back down, however, I would counter the media environment here will be a lot better if Trumps admin oversees a decrease and they will non stop take and be given credit for any dip even if result is a higher avg.

This guy just reminds me of this song (starts at 30 seconds) youtu.be/n_xQuXuAE6o?...

Do we want the Spine? I don’t know that a spine is a good thing. I don’t know how the heck we’re getting across tribal land at Fife and I’m not sure long distance, slowish rides are what people want. Also for the other lines, a line to Seattle Center??

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I like being told to PLEASE HOLD ON while going no where sound transit, it’s fucking brilliant after 30 minutes at Tukwila alternating between HOLD ON and We’re experiencing a Delay

I want to take a nap because I only slept 3hrs before flying home but I have another flight at 7am tomorrow so I need to be up early and sleep early so I feel like a nap would not be recommended

The only time I have ever heard the term used is to describe someone who's been kicked out of a bar for bad behavior of some kind.

Sorry, but self-driving cars are still cars. They won't "de-center" autocentric streets; they'll reinforce them. Silicon Valley made a similar urbanist pitch about ridehail 15 years ago. Turns out, cities with ridehail have *more* cars and miles driven, not less. The same will be true of AVs.

Was this not the point of the security checkpoint? Like if you find a bomb at the airport TSA is that not actually success? Like yes they got closeish to the airplane but also that is the point of the checkpoint???

This why you can’t give old people iPads come on now, we all know this by now why don’t his handlers?

One other note since I just reposted this: I still recall being hit by a car and being so mad that I wanted to punch the driver but a cop yelled at me that punching the driver was assault however they later charged the driver who hit me with _______ and _______

taking my personal Gravedigger to go buy some artisanal vetiver soap at the PCC

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Banking Advice: Do not ever open a joint account with someone if you love them, care about them, or their mom. Highly do not recommend, please stop it, you dont even understand what you’re opening yourself up to, please no.

1) It’s not actually free to stay home all day, it’s an opportunity cost and it can be very high. 2) This hurts women more, who are just expected do free labor all the time which is why they prob love it. 3) Both parties are not the same; dems largely ran on expansion of these payments.

Nextdoor: “Gunshots?????” “LOUD BOOMS, WHAT WAS IT” “The MAYOR….”

The Sound Transit voices are still AI, but the ones they are using now are much better! I will probably accept this.

How many train systems pause trains between stations to trade operators? I’m growing to dislike these pauses more when the train is full. 🥲

Love the endless yelling at Seattle that we need to accommodate everyone, meanwhile the suburban cities themselves couldn’t give a single fuck about accessibility to Seattle residents.

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Sound transit has played the same alert 7 times in 7 minutes and it’s very fucking annoying

Well this is new

I would like my new license please

For those who are mad Bluesky is sometimes coming unglued please remember the Fail Whale. Growth is hard.

This is like saying when they start invalidating electors we all just need to vote harder. You can’t win a rigged game most of the time. Yeah my ideal is that districts make sense too but that’s also not where we are at.

Mmm two days of train issues at peak.

I’ve been in airport 12 times this year with 10 flights in the next two weeks. I may not be curing cancer but I would rather be most anywhere else then sitting around an airport even if that means ‘cutting it close’

Just looks confused to me and the App they pushed at me rather than a ‘dual brand’

It’s just sugar

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We are using trams in the stupidest ways possible.

I think it’s funny busses drive down the SODO busway like 2x the speed Link uses

There you all go, it makes more sense to turn back some of each route rather than 100% of one line.

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You just know that if it were a blue state they’d frame it with taxes and governance and not high costs

Slow down asshole. I actually use a similar story as to why I went from being a person who bikes sometimes to someone who advocates for biking and other safe system approaches because I almost hit a kid who darted into the street chasing a ball in the most ‘lifetime movie’ esque moment of my life

I fly that distance in minutes when leaving SeaTac Not everyone lives in rural areas 💅

My favorite is when they save no or negative time but keep doing dangerous bullshit because they are mad that they’re driving experience isn’t going as expected.

In case you were curious about the median instead. Unsurprisingly a massive gulf between Average and Median.

Sound transit learning more and more what a voice actor is, which is nice

Very. Very. Annoying. And a risk that seems to be going largely ignored.

Closing the closure of the closure that we never had

I’m going to write my next annual review like this.

So this train is playing PLEASE HOLD ON every time it seems to start and stop which would be less annoying if we haven’t moved five feet then played that then moved five feet and stoped, rinse repeat.

Fun fact, most of the money for the no tax on Tips goes back to higher earners. While the average is something like a $1,400 benefit, 60% of people are getting like $40-45 with the remainder skewing. Also only 1.7% of workers can benefit

Almost all the “connect tos” are useless on Sound Transit because it’s basically only to regionalish services that aren’t running most of the time. Connect to Grayhound (which is near dead at this point), Connect to N/S that’s not running. Useless noise but that’s STs expertise.