NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

spaaaaaace

I can't wait until a new life awaits me in the off-world colonies

@sound-transit.bsky.social the bus bridge is leaving a lot to be desired - I'm having to step in to help a lot of confused and frustrated passengers as many of the shuttle drivers silently open the doors at each stop. Nobody knows where we are and the drivers should be announcing each station!

Starting to think I should urgently expedite purchasing the bike I've been eyeing for a few years

Extremely Cool that subarea equity is used as a cudgel to justify transit-oriented blueberry farms and golf courses with two stations outside the city but when it's time for Seattle to get it's lines "oops we're out of money"

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Joseph Binder, 1950

Another visit to Pike Place, another near-miss with a frantic and confused tourist making an unprotected left turn into a plaza filled with hundreds of pedestrians Very cool that the historic board is fighting to the death to keep this for some reason

Quick somebody at WSF see if those used Greek ferries are still available..

American Traffic Engineers inventing the "mixing zone":

I am a specific kind of white person whose natural habitat ranges from Santa Cruz to Vancouver. Vibram five fingers. IPAs. Flannel. Annie’s white cheddar Mac and cheese. Things of that nature.

Completely immune to gift shop offerings until they slap the Canadian Pacific beaver on a shirt

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

On the Cascades again and once again the gays outnumber the straights 5:1 we aren't beating the allegations of loving the trains

Good morning and welcome to the month where Seattle opens the only light rail line across a floating bridge anywhere in the world.

I'm putting this food in the Contraption. I'm putting it in the Device.

Visiting the old country (Arizona) and it's remarkable how garbage rideshare feels after you're used to good transit - random delays for pickup and constant reckless/dangerous driving. I'm trying to remember whether it was always like this or if somehow all the responsible drivers got filtered out.

We don't just want a Bellingham to Friday Habor fast ferry...we need and deserve a Bellingham to Friday Harbor fast ferry. www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/16/m...

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

I earnestly want an actual cost estimation case study on how this happened (both the initial bloated cost design and the discovery of the cheaper slightly trapezoidal design)

The vibe of the Halftime Show

February ferries

🚨ALERT🚨 The Pike Place Market Historical Commission is meeting next Wednesday, February 11th at 4:30pm to discuss the pedestrianization pilot. Sign up to speak and tell them you like fewer cars. (The motoring enthusiasts are expected to turn out.) www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

While not a real-time image feed from the telescopes (the images are from existing surveys), you can see what Hubble or Webb are observing right now. Pretty neat! 🔭🧪

I can think of some extremely common scenarios that make this policy ridiculous Don't own a smartphone Phone is dead Have a monthly pass Have a discount pass Transferring from another mode I pay fare every time but if the ORCA reader isn't working I'm not futzing with an app

Just got back from my first day as a bus driver. I think it went well, despite the passengers telling me (wrongly) I was going to wrong destination. Now to crack open a beer and check BlueSky...

It's so cool when your data is Telling You Something This guy didn't drive much during COVID

I've been waiting for this for 6 years

Happy new year! Exciting news: There's new transit coming in 2026—including metro, light rail, commuter rail, aerial tram, & BRT lines across North America. Overall, the US, Canada, & Mexico will add 150 miles of fixed-guideway transit. It's all on The Transport Politic in my annual roundup ⏬

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

damn that baby looks cool as hell

#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Tethys Time: 2005-10-13 Body Center Distance (km): 644184.003 Distance to Ring Intercept (km): 714451.634 Camera Narrow Angle Filter: Ir1 Grn Uv3 Finest Observed Resolution (km/pixel): 3.85615 opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/COISS... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

What if this was HSR

me seeing an article about the 25 Hottest and Most Popular Celebrities: haha who are any of these people? me seeing a screenshot of a horrible post by CeleriusAvignon8888, Based Viscount of the New Bayesian Duchy of Pure Reason: oh it's this fuckin guy again

Orca Card with these designs when

Just give us access to the internal employee merch Sound Transit

Who is the correct person in Seattle to start yelling at until they agree to cube every car that attempts to drive into Pike Place

saved you an investigation - yes it is

⚠️ Warning: serious time waste! ⚠️ 🚨 There are plenty of errors in the data! 🚨 But it is *still* loads of fun 🙂 Race from Carnarc Point in Inverness to the Rock of Gibraltar, using 🚌 🚆 🚕 🦶, limited budget (and you need to change cash) I am 15 mins off the best time 😀 geo-racers.com

Why do I need to eat dishwasher pods to get MAX protein

Absolutely devastating for the 3-bed, 7-bath home architecture industry.

So exciting to see the 2 Line test trains! Sound Transit is gonna need to shorten those 2 minute warnings in the stations, the announcements felt like they were going off constantly

the fact that amtrak cascades hit another ridership record in FY25 despite shutting down for two weeks and spending half the year running smaller trains with higher prices bc of the horizon recall is another sign that the demand for rail in the pnw is genuinely insatiable

I kinda think Vance is also maybe going to get chopped if Trump does

Mayor's race Sound Transit 🤝 🗣️ Please Hold On!

oh god yes