Even though you cannot pay in nearly anyway but our kinda trashy app that’s not integrated with anything else (and almost certainly not your monthly pass) YOU MUST HAVE VALID FARE

Endless inability to function. It’s like they don’t think and just are just aimlessly and thoughtlessly following some policy made the same way.

Councilmember Lin requests community’s help after hit-and-run on Beacon Hill council.seattle.gov/2025/12/16/c...

💔 If anyone knows the family we would like to get in touch and offer a memorial and to fundraiser. Please get in touch at [email protected]. We have put up a few flowers. 💐

Adding to Sound Transits ‘We don’t know what we’re doing’ policies is apparently shouting stand clear of the closing doors while they open? I think it may operator by operator but I’ve heard it more and more the past two weeks.

“One line train to federal way downtown station is…” Jesus, what broken policy are we using to create any of this naming convention?

Of course they’re giving themselves participation trophies now 😒

The delays are frustrating for sure but ST’s poor rider communications makes them even worse. Yes fix the reliability issues but also do better communicating about unplanned service interruptions to your riders! I’m not sure why this part of the equation doesn’t get more attention.

What

If you live in Othello you are fairly screwed transit wise tonight. Also no one seems to be delivering alerts but there’s no bus service at Othello tonight. At all.

The government negotiated a 71% discount on Ozempic, which brings it to $320 a month. You can already get Ozempic at 349$ cash, uninsured so it’s basically just bringing the cash pay option to Medicare users (not a bad thing but still not a ‘deal’)

As a lender, this does not strike me as a good idea and sounds more like science rooted in eugenics (and consequently unlikely to be accurate or real). There are some interesting books on this topic but the general gists make me thing this is nothing more than pseudoscience.

Great, and now metro is changing the ‘ding’ for stop requested to a slow playing loud “Stop Requested” announcements. Literally fine for decades but let’s make the bus a less pleasant environment eh @kingcounty.gov?

Why are we just yelling “10 Minutes” periodically at Symphony station

Shit like this is redic. If the Orca reader is broken that’s on you my friends, fucking fix your machine and take your lumps.

The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge!

Just waiting 20 minutes for a train midday on a weekday when it comes "every 8 minutes". Maybe someday I guess I will go to the airport.

I've mostly been biking lately but sometimes taking the train is nice for relaxing.

Shepherding this project turned into close to a full time job for @stumptoemerald.bsky.social for a few years there but it is finally almost at the finish line.

Brazil got Waka Waka and the US getS "Desire" which is terrible. But fitting in a way.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

Crime 101: Do not take selfies with the crime you are actively committing

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

If they found the "Joe Rogan of the left" they'll just hate them for being too far left.

Just spent 15 hours automating a task that takes me like 5 minutes a week. In just 3.5 years I will be saving time (assuming I made it perfect and nothing ever changes requiring me to fix it) 😅

I love my bicycle. Sure I live in the US so it seems like everyone driving wants to shank me but it's so much fun, I get around so quickly, and I have pleasant interactions all the time too in minor ways. Head nods, yelling good morning, waiving, fake racing random kids, talking at lights, etc

I need a robot that goes and finds my Roomba and brings it back to the charger everyday instead of me playing "find the vacuum" every day.

The procedure for Bribes and Corruption does indeed say the briber must notify the bribee in writing that "this is a bribe" or to "do the corruption now" or it doesn't count. Doesn't anyone check the procedures anymore? 🙄

I am waffling between feeling sad and mad. Up to 3/4s thrown out, killed and tossed back? Ick. Just a big loss of life for no reason.

Somehow not The Needling

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

there's about six full minutes of audio from Rep. Menendez (D-NJ) giving a crystal clear, ultra-precise accounting of what happened, and it sure doesn't even sound like Mayor Baraka was "protesting." he was just there. what the Congressman describes is much darker than "arrested while protesting."

"We need to hear from all voices. Specifically, my voice. More specifically, my own voice when it could financially benefit me."

I believe in more of Jesus' teachings than the modern GOP members. The GOPs new religion seems to just be hate.

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

Oh I guess corruption and fraud is good actually.

Seattle City Council Begins Ethics Code Meeting with Brand Acknowledgement: tinyurl.com/3j392wxx

Reminder that now is the time to chat up Pike Place business owners while you're making a purchase. 👍"I love that it's car-free." 👍"I'm only here because they opened the street to people." 👍"I'm a local and I'll shop here now that the street isn't jammed with cars." 👍[make up your own]

If this means people can locally watch the Sounders again, this is a great thing. Paywalling it was a terrible way to find new fans (and keep existing passive ones)

Why do all of these manosphere dudes look so fucking puffy?

What I really want for my birthday is to be surrounded by adults who can handle basic responsibilities like putting dishes away and picking up after themselves without constant intervention, reminding, or just doing it for them. Probably my biggest waste of a wish in years.

Put down the scotch man

i’m getting van hollen pilled

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

I need all of you to start reading about police and prison abolition if you haven’t started already.

They already said anyone agitating against Tesla is a domestic terrorist, and they can come find me at the Tesla store any Saturday and do something about it. This country was founded on the belief that due process and free speech are rights worth dying for. Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia now!

Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging... bsky.app/profile/josh...

Seems bad. Also, I seem to remember a certain DOGE linked figure, the son of an industrialist who goes by the moniker of Bigballs, who had done some shady online business with people in Russia when he was a youth...i.e., 3 or 4 years ago.