Officially getting fit enough and strong enough that my door-to-door commute from Ravenna to Redmond beats transit by a few minutes 💪🏻 Also a cute coincidence - 6/18/24 was my first commute with a cadence monitor, 6/18/26 the first with a power meter, both noted as especially fast commutes

Unfortunately I keep being fed reaction videos to the original and it’s actually only proving their point further. Just hoards of presumed teenagers who think flowery language makes for good lyricism, it’s wild. Showing me this nonsense is not helping your case whatsoever.

One cool thing I like about Seattle that doesn’t exist in my hometown of Dublin, Ireland is that there are actually a lot of apartments and homes available to move into at any given time and we don’t have a crisis every academic year where students are physically unable to find accommodation.

Been thinking about both cyclists killed in Seattle were crushed by commercial trucks. Think it time to insist that every designed freight route in the city have a protected bike lane.

So many otherwise smart people’s brains are just utterly broken by the topic of cars, it’s truly fascinating

This is not the flex Huang thinks it is. Cars are still one of the leading causes of death for children.

I am heartbroken over this. It’s never easy to read about the death of a cyclist but the more I read about this scenario and about Maridee herself the more I have to come to terms with the fact that it truly could have been any one of us. What could she have done besides not be there to begin with?

And if I said to you the reason we’re getting so many videos of the European tourists (Scottish and Norwegian) doing funny stuff in Boston specifically was because Boston is a very walkable and small city where they’re all concentrated into one area walking around…would I be onto something…

There’s a Rae Dunn’d version of this on Upas Street in San Diego

I am not even close to the first person to say this, but man the decision to just let Phil Collins go crazy with the Tarzan soundtrack was one of the best creative decisions of the 90s. Disney literally doesn’t make movies like this anymore.

Maridee was a 76-year old Vashon Island resident who rides with Rainbow Riders and was in attendance at a trans-support rally at City Hall just last month, as highlighted in this article. We've truly lost a great member of the community.

I went by the scene on Wildwood and happened upon the friends and family of the cyclist just after they had installed a ghost bike this afternoon. She was Maridee Bonadea, a 76-year-old well-loved and wonderful lady from Vashon Island. This did not have to happen and was entirely preventable.

I don’t know how to explain the TikTok dance trend to the new Taylor Swift Toy Story song to anyone over the age of 30, and I myself am over 30

You don’t even have to go outside of tech for this. I’m a Product Manager in a technical field, so many SWEs think PMs are just failed software engineers and they could do my job if they wanted to, which is funny because the concept of a PM exists mainly because SWEs don’t, in fact, do this job well

An addendum to this: the big name chain American fast food also easily clears most fast food you can get in Ireland. It’s just not all that you can get here either.

The funniest part of this being that the Curaçao team qualified but Ireland hasn’t since 2002

I say this as an Irish person: I don’t think you have a single clue what America is, or how good the food here is

There’s gotta be at least one Turkish dude in San Antonio having a terrible Saturday night

Brazil vs Morocco and Scotland vs Haiti are obv great. But like, we got the fucking Gallipoli grudge match at midnight, can’t beat that.

Castle, they let that shit go on for way too long

To be honest they’d have a similar experience at any Mexican restaurant a local would rate as mid-to-good in any town in the U.S. too

Bike ride brought some great views of the local active volcano today

I am losing my mind. I just saw a white Canadian man state that the violence in Northern Ireland is due to “years of replacement migration” and people “watching as their neighborhoods rapidly change” due to people who “don’t share their culture or values and are violent” without a shred of irony!

Are people aware that the Turkish government is establishing a “Turkish Vibe Zone” for the duration of the World Cup

I seem to recall there being regular movie showings downtown near the Westlake Center when I first moved to Seattle c. 2018, why aren’t those a thing anymore

Hot take but I don’t think “all Loyalists want” is to be Irish.

Ah now it’s hard to top the worst takes I’ve ever seen about Northern Ireland, but I reckon he’s only just gone and done it

Scots in town for the World Cup discover the cop slide in Boston. I am so proud of everyone right now

It’s so crazy to bike around residential streets in the wealthiest parts of Seattle (e.g. millionaire’s row in Capitol Hill) and have to deal with canyon size potholes, while the median residential road in Shoreline is butter-smooth. I don’t know why that happens today but this won’t improve it.

James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.

This bar in Seattle just went crazy my god

He died on his son’s birthday ☹️

The Swifties are being extremely normal and demonstrating a good sense of humor about this one, as expected

If they’re really and truly concerned about the absolute number of affordable units on Bainbridge Island, there’s one obvious solution to that!

Stuff like this is why I hate sitting in a lane on my bike if I need to make a turn or something, and I’m stressed out until the first car stops safely behind me when I have to be there.

perhaps this Toy Story thing has been going on for long enough now

It’s remarkable how a motorist will kill someone and it will be reported in a grammatical form in which you could easily substitute “lightning” or “hail” for “a car”

Just saw a TikTok that was like “wow this song pairs so well with Catholic guilt” about When a Good Man Cries by CMAT um yeah I reckon that’s the point

And this is assuming you ride a regular bike, not an e-bike. At least in Seattle, where there are a decent amount of hills that slow a regular bike more than an e-bike, that means the bike estimate can be reduced by about 20%.

Just saw that the highest point in Florida, Britton Hill, is 345’ (105m) above sea level. There are probably a couple dozen hills in Seattle city limits alone that clear that easily.

most of the "if you're not born here you can't be from here" takes have genesis in the small-minded, nihilistic belief that there is no brotherhood of mankind, no kinship among the whole of our species. I find this position to be utterly detestable

Wrong. Hospitals absolutely should charge. You’re storing your private property and asking the hospital to cover the cost of that. That land isn’t free and it isn’t free to maintain. The real issue is you shouldn’t need a car to get to the hospital; not that you have to pay to store it there.

Just seen two different videos on tiktok involving someone who bought a household item from TJ Maxx/Ross that is made of wood and was making weird ticking sounds for years (5+ in one case) and they did nothing about it. Anyway after all that time a powderpost beetle emerged from a hole in said item

Booking our wedding date on 6/7 before realizing 1) Brat was going to be released on that date or 2) that 6-7 would become a meme the same summer we got married has to be the first collective W of our marriage. A community property W, if you will.

Today is our wedding anniversary, so it’s also one year to the day since @jinglish.bsky.social rode his Brompton to our wedding, resulting in this photo outside Ray’s

actually in disbelief anyone opposes using Lake Washington Boulevard for this

Never had so much FOMO in my life as I have had watching the Minneapolis pencil sharpening party videos on TikTok … someday I’ll be there too

Many people in the U.S. would probably do as much if not more for their budget by buying a smaller gas-powered car than an EV, if such smaller cars were sold here to begin with.

Environmental concerns about cars as vehicles are like, at least my 5th reason for not liking car dependency, but they always rank below environmental concerns about the infrastructure needed to support driving everywhere, and large sparsely built homes with 3 car garages.