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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick

@paulrusof.bsky.social

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. Seattle, Capitol Hill, but I’m not cool. He/him.

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Fix the L8@fixthel8.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Yale slip lane is now permanently closed, with Boren handling all I-5 traffic! We had a great time meeting the SDOT crew and can't wait to see the improvements this will bring for the L8! We'll head back down later today to share some more photos after everything is fully installed.

Traffic camera at Denny / Yale / Stewart showing the right lane closedCrew finishing up work at Denny / Boren / Lenora to install concrete c-curbs as an 8 bus drives byFix the L8 volunteers with SDOT crew
Paulrus of West Bumblefrick@paulrusof.bsky.social · 5d ago

The obvious difference, which totally justifies Harrell’s actions, is that he is a man. Wilson, meanwhile, is a woman. Lending further credence still to Harrell’s behavior is that he’s a home-owning, car-driving, wealthy centrist. Wilson is a renter, a bus-rider, leftist - suspicious.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6d ago

When Bruce Harrell was mayor, SPD kept information around a potential serial killer in Capitol Hill and First Hill from the public for a number of weeks, something that did not get as much media attention as a press conference being delayed for three hours. www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/05/poli...

Police were able to trace the ax to a February purchase at the Lowe’s store on Rainier Ave. Kryger was identified as the purchaser after a department of corrections officer recognized him from images police obtained of the home improvement store transaction. Diaz said that SPD detectives were watching area streets and parks at night looking for a suspect but did not warn the public. “We don’t know if would be homeless or anybody walking in that area at night,” Diaz said of the suspect’s possible targets during a press conference announcing Kryger’s arrest. “He was potentially looking,” Diaz said. “I think that potentially stopped what was another homicide,” he said.
Seattle Department of Transportation@transportation.seattle.gov · 5d ago

Good point. You can get to Seafair without traffic stress and expensive parking. Here's how: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/07/24/s...

Travel Guide: Getting around Seattle for Torchlight Parade, Seafair Weekend Festival - SDOT Blog

Over the next two weekends, Seattle will fill with Seafair festivities. Big events mean big crowds. To skip traffic and parking stress, consider the easier option: Take transit and make your Seafair a...

sdotblog.seattle.gov

Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅@bvd100.bsky.social · 5d ago

@transportation.seattle.gov Please promote this information on your feeds! World Cup proved Seattle can do big events without gridlocking neighborhoods. Let’s do it for Seafair too!

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d ago

POSITED: the primary task of any Odyssey adaptation is not to get things right, but to kick ass flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

That, I'd argue, is the experience to replicate in any adaptation of Homer's Odyssey-not so much the particulars of Poseidon's grudge or Penelope's dream, but the mood. Any adaptation of The Odyssey lives or dies by its ability to kick ass. It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass. It can take liberties, and indeed it will have to. It can commit the sins of sentimentality or bad dialogue, sins at which a scholar of the poem might cringe hard enough to herniate a disc, as long as it kicks ass while doing so. Wilson watched Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and saw the missing wheels on the Trojan horse; I saw a dozen men packed into that big horse for days, pissing and shitting all over each other, puking at the stench, gasping in a panic for air. I was right there in that horse with them. I did not know how we'd survive. It kicked ass. The whole film did.
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d ago

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

ceej@ceej.online · 5d ago

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 2y ago

My tattoo artist just reposted this enthusiastically endorsing the messaging "what next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?"

I have no idea what platform this is from. But it's from a tattoo artist saying AI art sucks. I'm not typing all this out, someone else can alt4me or whatever.
Paulrus of West Bumblefrick@paulrusof.bsky.social · last wk.

😭 While hopefully they regain attitude control and the mission can still be successful, in the real world this how most Hail Mary Projects end up.

SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · last wk.

Swift reboost mission encounters attitude control problems A spacecraft launched nearly a month ago in a high-risk bid to boost the orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite is suffering attitude control problems that could jeopardize its mission....

Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 2w ago

I'm not trying to be "revolutionary" or "subversive" by being trans. I had gender dysphoria, and this is what fixed it. I wanted to be a girl as long as I remember. I'm way happier now that I can be. I'm not trying to make a political statement about gender by existing.

That "cringe" nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn't do the same.
g@g--0.bsky.social · 2w ago

someone should write a dystopian sci-fi novel about a group of super-rich people who all lie to each other about having read dystopian sci-fi novels, and set off a tragicomic chain of world-destroying events through their complete misunderstanding of every single core message in dystopian sci-fi

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sign this response letter so we can try to combat this incredibly stupid bikelash. actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

Lake Washington Boulevard - July 2026

The 2026 Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard schedule has been an obvious unqualified success. The consistency of every weekend and the Friday evening to Monday morning schedule have made it...

actionnetwork.org

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 2w ago

So the bikelash on Lake Washigton Boulevard has reached a middle.

Nancy Conyers facebook post: This summer (no thanks to the mayor, Seattle Streets Alliance, Cascade Bicycle club and others) the entire 3 miles of Lake Washington Boulevard has been closed every weekend to people enjoying a leisurely drive or commuting to church, friends' houses, etc) in their vehicles. This gross overreach decision was not vetted in our multi-zip code southeast community, and many people still don't know about it or our organization fighting this decision. If you would like to send a message of opposition to the mayor, use the QR code in the flyer below and voice your opinion and disagreement. Thank you....join us. Keep LWB OPEN TO PEOPLE WHO DRIVE MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD OW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
Paulrus of West Bumblefrick@paulrusof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another great example of motonormativity is how many (likely a majority) of small business owners think that cars are the only way customers get to their storefronts, and how major media organizations continue to parrot the incorrect assertion that bike lanes hurt business.

I read all the studies on the economic impact of bike lanes. Here's what I learned.

Research proves that bike lanes are good for business. So why do so many stores and restaurants still oppose them?

businessinsider.com

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is peak both sides bullshit, because bike lane opponents don't care about "creating safe streets for everyone." They care about parking and being able to speed. And they draw false equivalences between drivers and bikers that car-brained pundits like Joan Venocchi lap up eagerly. Such garbage.

Paulrus of West Bumblefrick@paulrusof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Loot that drops after defeating me: - 2 narcan nasal sprays - A book (presently Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time") - 2 New Yorkers, possible from the same year - The ability to recharge any device from the past decade - Contact lens rewetting drops - A podcast queue stretching back to May 2025

Anacortes Area Plant Dad@tarnado.bsky.social · 2w ago

Loot that drops after defeating me: - 3 cool rocks - a jar of quince jelly - seeds for 5 different Puget Teough native prairie plant species - a tube of children's sunscreen - 1 Fanny Pack of Holding