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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 30m

Wooooooooo, let's gooooooooooooooo

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 53m

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 15h

Just heard from the building super that they know what's wrong with the elevator. Hopefully by next week then I'll have access to my bicycle again! 😅

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16h

I guarantee this is a big part because my brain works this way and none of my friends understand it either, lol. I designed and fabricated a custom insert for a 115-year-old built-in in my apartment so I could mount my 20-year-old flat panel without drilling into anything.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16h

I think both of those buildings also only have a bit of pull-under parking too. No major structured parking and the bit that isn't pull-under is open air surface, able to be developed on further in the future.

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16h

That one and the one across O St from it are pretty handsome too, especially compared to the one opposite on 16th. 1420 16th St has a neat bit of brick (veneer probably) at the cornice line of its cupola too

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16h

Even cartoon villains have greater grasps of reality...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 20h

He's a goddamn fucking toddler

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

My grandfather received two Purple Hearts for injuries received while fighting for "antifa" in the early 1940s. What the fuck are these lunatics snorting (or, more importantly, what do they think WE'RE snorting that we'd let this go?

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

I'm honestly more concerned, with regard to AI, with what is going to happen when the bubble inevitably bursts. The kind of AI tech that the technofash broskis are salivating over right now isn't really all that useful or productivity-enhancing which is why they're hyping it so hard.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

Why the fuck does he look like a kid who's just run through the kitchen door screaming to his mom about how "Billy told me I look stupid" and expecting some kind of Inquisition to rain fire down upon Billy and his ilk? 😆

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

Wasn't "revival" the word that the KKK used to refer to their large gatherings?

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

As someone who used to be in charge of one of these programs, I tentatively agree but (like most things) it's an interestingly complex problem (with available solutions). Mainly, Complete Streets policies treat the features as "bolt-on accessories" to "real" streets instead of a holistic rethink.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1d

This is my biggest objection to dockless bike/scootshare. The lack of dedicated "place where thing go" racks specifically for these devices not only means they end up dumped in dangerous, disrespectful, or inconvenient places but also that racks provided for general use get completely taken up too.

Streetcrafting @streetcrafting.bsky.social · 2d

@seattledot.bsky.social please install official micromobilty parking at E Pike & Melrose Ave. This area has long needed it, and without it we constantly see bike lanes and sidewalks obstructed with bike & scooter share vehicles.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

Every time I see some fresh horror visited upon us by this right-wing terrorist government, the silence from those members of my family who voted for it is all the more deafening and enraging. These were people who, in spite of their flaws, I always thought good but now I just see them as cowards.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

Oh it's absolutely needed but there are so many loopholes in the existing ones, like the vestigial pedals that allow what are effectively electric mopeds to "technically" be e-bikes

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

Throttles shouldn't be allowed on anything less than light mopeds with an exception for "momentary booster" buttons, i.e. if you're starting on an incline it'll help you at full power for 5 seconds or so. And we need a carveout to prevent the "off-road use only" loophole from being used.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

The 3-tier classification system is just dumb. For one thing, there ought to be a tier that matches the euro pedelec category (14.5mph limit, no throttle). Class 3 should be "light moped" and require full lighting, registration, and DOT helmet. Anything above is an e-moped/moto i.e. a motorcycle

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

It's a white Dodge Caravan if you don't have that info already

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

Wear headphones if in public 😆

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

I have a Light Phone 3 and it's been a great experience, even considering i had the Light Phone 2 (pictured) before, which is cheaper and still made. This new category of devices increasingly have all the tools modern life necessitates without the bloat or distraction of being terminally online.

The Light Phone

Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.

www.thelightphone.com

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

Honestly I suspect the most effective way to address this issue would be to also include a SMARTPHONE ban for under-15s. The market for specialized "dumbphones" that aren't just cheap feature phones is maturing with companies like Light and Punkt having polished products on sale now.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

For some hilarious background on the company that built that equipment, do watch @wtyppod.bsky.social's episode on the Marlboro Unlimited if you haven't already. You WILL die laughing.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

I literally made a post the other day i think about how some people drive around squinting into the sun. No sunglasses. No sun visor use. Just staring forward, burning a dot into the backs of their eyeballs. The responsibility to drive safely includes equipping yourself with necessary tools to do so

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2d

White dodge caravan