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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick

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Chasing the shiny bits in the dark. Punishing my legs for not being rocket packs. Passionate about density, transit, walkability, and cycling infrastructure. Recovered “avid cyclist”. Big YIMBY. Capitol Hill but I’m not cool and only have one tattoo.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · Jan 21

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 5h

Two years ago I got to spend a couple of weeks in Coastal Maine at this time of year and holy moly I have never wanted to wear a cozy sweater and sip hot apple cider walking around more in my life.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 7h

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 8h

While this is bad and authoritarian, it is nowhere nearly “about as authoritarian as it gets”.

Do Democrats fundamentally lack imagination? It can get so much worse than this. And it will likely continue to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does.

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Kate Macfarlane @katemacfarlane.bsky.social · 14h

Bruce Harrell likes to bluster about standing up to Trump

But behind the scenes, SPD is collaborating with ICE, and Harrell’s trying to hide it until after the election

ICE wants data? No prob, that will take 4 days

Journalist question about data sent to ICE? Sorry, best we can do is 4 months

Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’
www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

HardPressed

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! I had the same thought when I lived in WS.

I was stunned and amazed at the time there was zero infrastructure for getting onto Admiral from the trail (stairs aren’t bike infrastructure).

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10h

Seattle so utterly fails the test of being “bikeable by non-cyclists”. You kind of have to an adrenaline junkie, to some degree, to get around by bike here.

That said generally I was biking to Admiral Junction from further up the hill, so I did this maneuver maybe ten times?

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10h

When I lived in West Seattle I did this exactly once.

Also terrible, but I preferred it to taking the stairs or the above option, was riding up SW Manning to 30th Ave SW and then turning left onto Admiral.

A terrifying intersection on a bike, not recommended, and the best option we have.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 11h

“We’re going to build world class protected bicycle infrastructure and then force you to not use it unless you’re passing through! We don’t want people on bikes to patronize businesses! Ever!”

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 11h

Why does SDOT refuse to build bicycle infrastructure with the ability to turn?

This is a such a trope at this point. It’s like they continue to not believe that people cycle for daily transportation, and only cycle for exercise with no specific destination.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 12h

I do not own an e-bike and regularly have to exceed 28 mph just getting around Seattle.

Drivers routinely go 30-35 mph in 25 mph zones, and if a bike lane is blocked or just flat out dangerous and badly designed (cough, Pine, cough) then I’m riding vehicularly and keeping pace with traffic.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly living in West Seattle this felt like the mainstream perspective of most of my neighbors 😅

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants are a huge part of what makes living in a city great. I wish Seattle did a better job at mixing the populations.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 1d

All Linux is worthy of Linux cred.

In my foray into Linux it took me 6 months to get my Ubuntu install stable.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 1d

HOLD ON, drop this in every VFX discussion you see. No one is allowed to discuss VFX/CGI without having seen this.
Phenomenal, @tvaziri.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERKE...

ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

www.youtube.com

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 1d

We’re coming for your boulevard, Bruce.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 1d

Ban hood heights taller than my knees.

Your masculine insecurity shouldn’t cost me my safety, or countless children their lives.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 2d

This is a wild thing to say when defending a mayor that has exclusively taken money and resources away from programs that help people experiencing homelessness and put it into cops and sweeps that displace those people and destroy what little personal property they have.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s not important what happens to vulnerable people, only that I and people close to me feel safe”

- Every Enlightened Centrist

It is important that everyone who lives in and visits a city feel safe, within reason, but it is more important how that is accomplished.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 4d

My little act of rebellion is that when a grocery store doesn’t have hand carts and I’m buying a hand-cart amount of groceries, while shopping I just put my groceries in my reusable bag.

I’m not pushing a cart around for a jar of salsa and two apples.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 4d

At the end of time is hot sauce.

At the beginning of time is shredded fried potatoes.

Everything in between serves one of those two. The alpha and the omega.

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Shani 🫧 @blerdmommy.blacksky.app · 4d

It’s historically America.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so annoying when the staff forgets to swap out the skylight glass for sugar glass.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 4d

We’re slowing moving into the “eventually” in “Eventually Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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