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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · Aug 30

But imagine what we could do with the Trailhead Direct buses outside of the summer season?

Lake City / Northgate / Greenwood / Carkeek Park
Beacon Hill / Columbia City / Othello / Seward Park
Gasworks / Fremont / Ballard Locks / Golden Gardens
Westlake / Queen Anne / Discovery Park

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 11h

Everywhere! Target and QFC are my favorites. I like Target's store brand, both of them sell Birds Eye, and QFC has Green Giant.

Safeway has a couple of varieties I like but I don't shop at Safeway any more.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 11h

Pretty sure that humanity's greatest invention is steam-in-a-bag vegetables.

I love these things.

So many varieties and so easy for nutrition tracking while I've been working on weight and eating better through the power of modern medicine.

Plus laziness: takes like 6 minutes to make a hot meal.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

This is @poweredbylemonx.bsky.social bait

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

AntiFootballAssociation

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

If the Mariners win today after @finchfrii.bsky.social has made the fan sacrifice of not watching on TV or listening on the radio, I think we all need to take up a collection to test whether or not her *attending in person* results in a win.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 1d

I think I saw Disgust at Cities play in the late 90s

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

Summit service is nicely done right now by Metro having simply extended the 3 so the bus actually goes somewhere. They could still do a version of this map (which they didn’t because “fear of loss”) AND extend the Summit span of service to be whenever the 3 is running.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

I don't mean to sound petty (or maybe I do?), it's just kind of frustrating to not be able to walk outside for more than 30 seconds without encountering someone's very smelly cig or pot smoke.

I guess if this is today's minor rant, not too bad of a day.

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Be:Seattle @beseattleorg.bsky.social · 2d

Tell Rob Saka and the other councilmembers to ACTUALLY show up for renters!

Today's your chance to get your photo taken with the famous puppets of @theseattlechannel.bsky.social! Seattle Solidarity Budget will be hosting a photo booth at City Hall at about 4pm ahead of the 5pm budget hearing!

A handmade puppet display shows six sock puppets styled as Seattle City Councilmembers, seated behind a wooden bench-like structure. Each puppet has a nameplate in front of it. From left to right: “Kettle, District 7” with a white sock puppet wearing a blue tie and pink knitted hat; “Rivera, District 4” with a puppet that has long dark yarn hair and a red mouth; “Nelson, Position 9” with a green puppet with long blond yarn hair and patterned dress; “Saka, District 1” is has a label but is notably missing; “Strauss, District 6” is a pink worm puppet with big blue eyes and curly brown yarn hair; and “Juarez, District 5” is a gray puppet with glasses, pearl earrings, gray hair, and a black-and-white patterned dress, frowning. The display is set outdoors against a textured wall.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

(Yes I have a gazillion audio files of various types, a Plex server, and a fast connection to the Internet but...I want a cloud service too!)

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

This (the ability to upload my own tracks and have them act the same as tracks delivered from the cloud streaming service) is a big reason why I have stuck with Apple Music. AM acts like a jukebox in the sky, just like Spotify used to, and more or less gets out of my way otherwise.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 2d

Our state, our region, our city, and our teeny tiny bus lanes are all better for it.

Thank you, Ryan!

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

Ten years ago today I published my first story at @theurbanist.org. 886 stories later, here we are. What a wild ride.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

Mind-bendingly-pedantic take inbound:

"...a group of commuters stranded at a Capitol Hill bus stop..."

They seem to have teleported to Queen Anne by mistake, according to the picture (that's 1st Ave N / Republican stop 2360).

The Needling @theneedling.com · 3d

Capitol Hill Commuters Hold Séance to Summon Next Bus: tinyurl.com/2s39kexw

Three people holding hands over table with candles and orca cards next to pentagram on ground beneath bus stop sign

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I'm not trying to be a downer about it. I spend a decent amount of time thinking about how we could do it and I am a relative n00b at advocacy. If I ever won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs (fully-funded Tax Reform PAC).

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

...heck, has *been* a multi-year effort, dating all the way back to pushing Seattle to pass a graduated income tax to lead the path to challenging the WA Supreme Court ruling on that...and losing.

Plus 501c4 fundraising is always a challenge and we'd need *deep* pockets for this.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I, gently, agree. What is being asked is a very, very big lift. Every advocate I know wants comprehensive reform but we *also* want the day-to-day things we are pushing for and there's not a lot of volunteer capacity left for the big asks, especially now.

This would be a multi-year effort...

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I just heard about George Cafe today so couldn't have been me as I've yet to try it. I hope you like the Republik :D

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I came here during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and it was just the owner in here slinging tea for takeaway. I (over)bought several ounces of the loose leaf tea that makes a Lavender Creme Earl Grey and am *still* working through drinking it.

Anyway, there's still some good in the world.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

It's always quiet, even when full of UW students studying (and talking) in the winter with the door closed. The music is peaceful, even with solid bare floors. The bathroom works. The food is just enough to be worth it for a snack.

The tea? Excellent.

It reminds me of chilly winter days.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I'm not very nostalgic, I don't need places to stay the same (I'd rather they thrive, even if that means change) and that said: I think Tea Republik on the Ave is my favorite place in Seattle. I've been coming here off-and-on ever since we moved here 14 years ago and it's not one iota different.

Picture of a small blue/teal teapot sitting on a table, spout pointing left and handle to the right. In the out of focus background, we see tables, some bar stools, and colorful lights hanging from the ceiling. A brightly lit outside is just beyond the open door in the distance. Warm brown and tan colors are accented by bamboo shoots along the wall.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

I am listening to 101.1 WRR Classical 101 in Dallas

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

It is, yes, but a big part of managing a big organization is hiring people who will work to implement the policies you want. I trust Wilson's judgement in choosing to align with and I *very* much want her policies over the incumbent's.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

using bus stops as personal smoking stands

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

I absolutely do not mean that people who are getting paid are not motivated to do good work and good WORKS. We are. I get paid at my job and I want to do well.

But keeping volunteers "on task" and organized purely because that's what they want to do is a special skill that few people have.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 4d

Exactly. I will keep beating this drum until she is sworn into office: It is a *lot* harder to effect change by motivating and leading volunteers than it is to do the same with a large, paid organization. Volunteers do it because we want to; employees because our paychecks depend on it.

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