atomicMKR
@atomicmkr.bsky.social
Agender cat person, adoptee, autist, historian, novel reader. She/They/He/Etc.
This Seattle cat story is the best Christmas Eve present ever (I say this as an agnostic on the holidays in general, but a true believer in cats). www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12...
It Seems Like the Whole Central District Was at This Street Cat’s Holiday Party
Anyone who regularly finds themselves south of Madison Street and east of 17th Avenue probably knows Frito, a roving cat who does, in fact, have a home.
www.thestranger.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This Seattle cat story is the best Christmas Eve present ever (I say this as an agnostic on the holidays in general, but a true believer in cats). www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12...
It's a really good time of year to be on specialty doc waiting lists if your schedule is flexible. Got a waiting list spot instead of waiting until March.
December 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's a really good time of year to be on specialty doc waiting lists if your schedule is flexible. Got a waiting list spot instead of waiting until March.
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It's actually incredibly wild to be talking about the second tunnel outside of the context of other cost savings measures for Ballard Link, which Sound Transit's capital team is actively working on. The process around this discussion just plain stinks.
Greetings from the final Sound Transit board meeting of 2025. While major decisions don't usually get made during this lame duck period, at today's meeting the board is expected to make a decision whether to pursue additional study of building Ballard Link without the downtown tunnel portion.
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's actually incredibly wild to be talking about the second tunnel outside of the context of other cost savings measures for Ballard Link, which Sound Transit's capital team is actively working on. The process around this discussion just plain stinks.
How does this Ballard Link stub end concept affect West Seattle Link? Why is it so hard to get systems views in Sound Transit's work?
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
How does this Ballard Link stub end concept affect West Seattle Link? Why is it so hard to get systems views in Sound Transit's work?
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We need a little trans joy in our lives today so we're lifting the paywall on @katelynburns.com's iconic Trans on Trains story.
Why Are So Many Trans People Into Urban Planning?
Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We need a little trans joy in our lives today so we're lifting the paywall on @katelynburns.com's iconic Trans on Trains story.
Decades ago, my parents moved us from a walkable school neighborhood in the midwest to a sprawling suburb in the southeast. I'm still mad about never getting to bike to school -- we walked, but you had to be in 5th grade to bike, and we moved first. It was the sign of being a Big Kid that I missed.
In other words, most schools are still within what could be walking/biking distance to where many students live, but a lot of what this country has built over the last three or four decades is sprawl with road environments that make even a short walk or bike ride impossible for kids to do alone.
December 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Decades ago, my parents moved us from a walkable school neighborhood in the midwest to a sprawling suburb in the southeast. I'm still mad about never getting to bike to school -- we walked, but you had to be in 5th grade to bike, and we moved first. It was the sign of being a Big Kid that I missed.
My poor rescue cat came home from his dental with 16 less teeth. After 2 last year. His 5 years.of street life didn't come with dental.
December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My poor rescue cat came home from his dental with 16 less teeth. After 2 last year. His 5 years.of street life didn't come with dental.
Two of the bus stops at 12th and Jackson in Little Saigon, Seattle are closed again, through March according to KC Metro. We did this last year -- as a "last resort." 2 people on my bus yesterday said it was so cops could more easily harass the people who spend time there. They might be right?
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Two of the bus stops at 12th and Jackson in Little Saigon, Seattle are closed again, through March according to KC Metro. We did this last year -- as a "last resort." 2 people on my bus yesterday said it was so cops could more easily harass the people who spend time there. They might be right?
After so many years of trying to calculate hectares, just once a year each year for reporting to @altnps.bsky.social it finally came in useful.
I mean, just as a crossword clue, but still.
I mean, just as a crossword clue, but still.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
After so many years of trying to calculate hectares, just once a year each year for reporting to @altnps.bsky.social it finally came in useful.
I mean, just as a crossword clue, but still.
I mean, just as a crossword clue, but still.
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It's really fun to keep receiving reminders from my healthcare group to schedule my mammogram -- I've been trying for 6 weeks. The ONLY technician at the location I normally go to is out for at least 4 months. I do not live in a rural area; this is a city, my location is a mid-sized medical center.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's really fun to keep receiving reminders from my healthcare group to schedule my mammogram -- I've been trying for 6 weeks. The ONLY technician at the location I normally go to is out for at least 4 months. I do not live in a rural area; this is a city, my location is a mid-sized medical center.
"Seattle citizens live the act of planning, but they are reticent about submitting to the discipline of following a plan." Walt Crowley in 1993 writing about our failed 1970 Forward Thrust transit gambit. *Sigh*
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Seattle citizens live the act of planning, but they are reticent about submitting to the discipline of following a plan." Walt Crowley in 1993 writing about our failed 1970 Forward Thrust transit gambit. *Sigh*
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In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
September 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.
luma.com/0olo6szj
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HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
It's possible a wheelchair could go over this hole, but a walker or a cane or a foot could easily get caught. This warning seems less than ideal. #soundtransit #seattle #safetyfail.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's possible a wheelchair could go over this hole, but a walker or a cane or a foot could easily get caught. This warning seems less than ideal. #soundtransit #seattle #safetyfail.
#seattle #tree folks -- you have an opportunity Saturday morning to meaningfully support trees in #chinatownid at the Spring Clean -- Sign up for tree maintenance at signup.com/go/swwpoNZ
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
C-ID Spring Clean 2025
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June 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#seattle #tree folks -- you have an opportunity Saturday morning to meaningfully support trees in #chinatownid at the Spring Clean -- Sign up for tree maintenance at signup.com/go/swwpoNZ
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)
I stand with librarians -- the LOC cannot have "inappropriate" books -- if such things exist. It collects all our books.
Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
May 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I stand with librarians -- the LOC cannot have "inappropriate" books -- if such things exist. It collects all our books.
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I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
April 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I'm a legal orphan with two living parents worrying about cuts to VA and Medicare.
I'm from the domestic supply of infants.
I have a uterus, a few birth certificates that don't match each other or the current name on my ID, and diagnosed mental illness.
So where do I fit in this current madness?
I just did something that's been on my to-do list since October. I did the first half (identify the problem) in January. 4 months ago.
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
April 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I just did something that's been on my to-do list since October. I did the first half (identify the problem) in January. 4 months ago.
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
It took 7 minutes.
#procrastination #justdothething
Had the opportunity to visit the CDC Museum yesterday while friends were getting laid off. The number of programs is so far beyond what we see. We have undermined our own country, and so many others.
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Had the opportunity to visit the CDC Museum yesterday while friends were getting laid off. The number of programs is so far beyond what we see. We have undermined our own country, and so many others.
This weekend I get to visit a family member recovering from a month on a respirator from "just the flu" and a college friend currently facing down job loss due to the massive Federal HHS cuts. In case I wasn't able to make the argument that the personal is always political.
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This weekend I get to visit a family member recovering from a month on a respirator from "just the flu" and a college friend currently facing down job loss due to the massive Federal HHS cuts. In case I wasn't able to make the argument that the personal is always political.
In my house, a smidgen is less than a smidge which is less than a pinch. But also, my partner's fingers are bigger than mine, so their pinch is closer to my mom's pinch, as her fingers were also bigger than mine. My pinch is closer to my mom's smidge, but she mostly called it "a bit."
March 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In my house, a smidgen is less than a smidge which is less than a pinch. But also, my partner's fingers are bigger than mine, so their pinch is closer to my mom's pinch, as her fingers were also bigger than mine. My pinch is closer to my mom's smidge, but she mostly called it "a bit."
I agree. What more is there to say? Sound Transit is one of the biggest infrastructure project drivers in our region, and a secretive hiring process is a disservice to all of us.
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
Sound Transit’s CEO Search Should Be About Leadership, Not Political Deals - PubliCola
By Francois Kaeppelin and Trevor Reed Imagine applying for a high-powered job where you get to pick half of the…
publicola.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I agree. What more is there to say? Sound Transit is one of the biggest infrastructure project drivers in our region, and a secretive hiring process is a disservice to all of us.
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...
publicola.com/2025/03/06/s...