An ecological disaster you haven’t heard of yet. Up To 35% Of Wyoming's High Country Is Dead 'Ghost Forest’ — And It's Spreading cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/31/u...

Both Bremerton-Sea ferry services lack sufficient boats to provide full service. WA State has a serious ferry shortage problem. No relief in sight, this will still be a problem in 2030

Downtown Seattle, seen from the Illahee Neighborhood of Bremerton

It’s impossible to get off the Democratic Party text list. Here’s an ad for Kamala Harris 2028. Ugh.

Car crashes into coffee hut in unincorporated Gorst, outside Bremerton

Removing tree fall SW of Pendergast Park on one of my favorite trails.

The Economist cover from September 2025. The article is about dropping birth rate rates, but it’s also a nice parking motif.

Right beside the ferry terminal, Bremerton fountain Park is a gem, especially in the summer when it functions as a giant splash park, but very nice all four seasons

A car struck Trooper Tara-Marysa Guting, 29, around 7:30 p.m. while she was standing outside her patrol car investigating a two-vehicle collision on southbound Highway 509 near milepost 2, a State Patrol spokesperson said in a news release. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I’m all for investing in the Ferris. But this is doubling down on the unproven and very expensive hybrid boats. The most prudent path would be building a small number of inexpensive diesel boats while the technology matures

Bremerton HS Principal announces that a HS student walking was hit by a driver who fled the scene Friday morning. Student was taken to the hospital.

Endless, sprawling Dallas.

El Paso, TX has a cool old streetcar. "These vehicles are the same streetcars that ran on El Paso streets from the 1950s until 1974" sunmetro.net/assets/docum...

Flooding in Southcenter, Tukwila from the plane yesterday.

3 hrs without internet. I wouldn't have brought a book, now I will. This is good.

Will Google recoup it's estimated $91B in 2025 AI infrastructure spend? Pricing of Google Workspace will increase by $2/month, $24/year (to $144/yr) in 2026 for AI upgrades. At that rate, Google would need 3.8B paid users to cover additional AI costs. They have only 10M paying Workspace users.

Van slams into Bremerton house. Emergency responders remind all houses to wear bright Xmas lights, let's they temp wayward vans to enter unannounced.

Bremerton’s inly(?) Henry.

Spotted on a private school bus. Please be patient.

Car on ped 'serious injury collision' in Mason County, west of Shelton.

Reclassifying pot from Schedule I to III would be unambiguously good. Whatever the pros/cons of marijuana use, the laws that enforce the ban are stupid and harmful. Cops and courts have better things to do. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Economist says: pollution, traffic and bad governance I've been to a few Asian mega cities, and others in Latin America. They often have nice 'old towns' plus some lovely neighborhoods. But... nah man, wouldn't live there. www.economist.com/asia/2025/12...

I like gondolas for short distance, point-to-point mass transit. Proven tech (ski areas) light infrastructure (just big poles) and move lots of people (5k per hour). I don’t know LA or these neighborhoods, but… damn it’s hard to build stuff in America.

They're selling a whole town in Wyoming, including a bar, for $500k. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Brem Housing Authority is ready to go on a planned 140-bed homeless shelter with pallet houses and a congregate shelter, plus industrial kitchen, sanitation area etc. But the Mayor doesn't like the plan and is refusing funding. www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2...

Brutal medium and long term fiscal outlook for WSF. They need to replace 15-odd boats over the next two decades, and have chosen unproven and expensive hybrid retrofits. The state leg needs to mandate simple diesel ferries until hybrid tech matures. www.thecentersquare.com/washington/a...

Bremerton's mid-biennium budget update is bleak, and deep in the red. -Revenue will be 5.6% less than anticipated a year ago. -General Fund 'beginning balance' (aka rainy day fund) - General fund will be depleted by 47%, 22% for the Enterprise fund -Affordable Housing budget slashed by 93% Ugly

New @kitsaptransit.bsky.social park and ride and express bus service from W Brem to the ferries and Shipyard. It’s the latest in a strategy to reduce central city traffic by creating parking on the outskirts. Enlightened www.ktheadways.com/blog/new-rou...

Oregon Coast

This is the way

Still no fast ferry service in Southworth

Bremerton has a generational basketball talent. "We're just hungry," said Jalen Davis, ranked as the 17th-best prospect nationally in the Class of 2027 by 247Sports. "This is a new year, everybody else is coming for us. We just have to be prepared." www.kitsapsun.com/story/sports...

@kitsapcountywa.bsky.social unveiled it's 'Silverdale Center Plan' for the unincorporated urban growth area just north of Bremerton. There's some very good ideas in the document (Trails Oriented Development, yay) but some expensive stinkers (Rooftop Blvd expansion.) www.kitsap.gov/dcd/Document...

Upcoming City of Brem meeting will discuss the street closure of Quincy Square. Since opening in June 2025, Q Square has been closed to cars on weekends. A big success. It should be closed to private vehicles permanently. Make it Bremerton's Front Porch! www.bremertonwa.gov/Calendar.asp...

More of what you’d expect “community debate has grown since the City of Bainbridge unanimously approved the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI)’s proposal for an affordable housing complex with 92-units or 72-units on the site of the former police station” www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2...

My Japan hot take: Skip Tokyo: soulless, expensive and with an style/image/style/money thing that… meh. It’s too much to take in. A better mega city is Osaka/Nara/Kyoto- all the same shit, better vibe. And the countryside is better still.

Big wreck in central Bremrton. 3 ambulances, 3 fire engines plus a ladder truck. I thought. I heard a helicopter.

If you see someone steal food, no you didn’t.

Clicking around Black Friday sales, this tent has an unintentionally hilarious product name, from the French brand Decathalon. 'Fresh & Black Family Camping Tent'

Southworth Fast Gerry canceled, indefinitely. The vessel Enetai is down and there’s no backup.

I travel all over the world for the day job. Mostly, I t’s a grind, TBH. Shenzhen, Ciudad Juarez, Holly Springs, PA, Dusseldorf. Fun can be had, but nowhere you’d plan a vacation around. Conversely, Japan is a magical. Esp outside the megalopolises

I’m not a train nerd, but OMG this little train in the small city of Choshi, 2hr east of Tokyo is ridiculously cute.

Holgate is one of two critical East-West multimodal routes in SoDo (also Lander, plus Lucile in Gtown). Crossings at 1st and 4th and 6th are death traps. The railroad crossing sucks too

Pondering Tokyo’s bike paradox- lots of bikes, but virtually zero bike lanes. I think it’s pretty simple. Cars drive cautiously and bikes are respected and given space. Don’t need PBLs if cars don’t drive like maniacs.

Perhaps the most Seattle woman’s sports beverage of all time.

West Sound Transit agencies stopped charging fares for federal workers (mostly commuters to Bremerton’s massive federal shipyard), until year’s end. Farebox recovery for @kitsaptransit.bsky.social buses (not ferries) is puny. They should study free buses to boost ridership.

Death is overrated.

That’s a great headline. It closed a year before I got to Brem, never had a point there. Pour one out for a century old brothel/pub

These things are always hard to measure, but the Copenhagenize Index ranks Montreal as the 15th most bike-friendly city in the world. Top 5 in North America: 1. Montreal 2. Quebec City 3. Vancouver 4. Portland 5. Minneapolis I worry we’ll fall in the next few years though!

A woman walking was killed by a hit-and-run drover early this morning. Speeds regularly exceed 50 MPH on this street. komonews.com/news/local/w...