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”.
Capitol Hill but I’m not cool and only have one tattoo.
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Weren’t US military forces sent into Vietnam initially in a “support role”?
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It will never surpass mine.
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Trump takes kink
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Best one of these I've seen in a bit...
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I’ll also say that the idiotic notion of the highly mobile urban professional who whips out their laptop, gets on the public wifi to send that crucial email or fix that high priority bug is a fantasy without places to sit. Benches! Public squares that aren’t just expanses of desolate concrete!
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This. Absolutely this.
If the DSA wants to make money selling ads and try and sugarcoat it with wifi and wayfinding, then let them take space away from drivers, who already get the vast majority of our public right of way in Downtown.
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From the perspective of neighborhoods other than Fremont, Wallingford, and whatever is immediately to the north, when traveling by transit Ballard is on another planet.
Godspeed lovestruck astronaut. Godspeed.
(It wasn’t express, but I miss the 29 😭)
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Is Trump Elon’s reply guy, or is Elon Trump’s reply guy?
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DS9 is anime
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God I love this so much.
Their wide midsection, toothpick legs, incredibly unfashionable shorts and socks, and the fact that they fucking OWN every millimeter of who they are.
Hell yes.
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I’ve seen nothing in Abundance about being pro-crypto, anti-labor, NIMBY, anti-LGTBQ+, etc., but it seems to frequently be associated with the rightward turn that some people are advocating for the Democratic Party.
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Really all the intersections between Cherry and Jackson on 1st should be All Walk intersections.
But if they refuse to do more than one, 1st and Yesler is such the obvious choice.
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The fact that SDOT put the All Walk intersection at 1st and Cherry and not here is so dumb and shortsighted.
And every time I walk or bike through Pioneer Square I think, “Congestion Pricing, when?!?”
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You’re probably right, and that is disappointing in that I want politicians to fight for the maximum good, not vie for reputation.
But also I’m speaking with basically no experience in politics, so there may be considerations and complexities I’m not aware of.
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I totally agree with her on that, and, it’s the system we currently have.
Avoiding making the hard choice or harm avoidance by endorsing the lesser of two evils just feels childish and delusional to me.
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…an huge mistake.
I empathize with people who directly their rage against the Biden Admin’s complicity (at best) with the Gaza Genocide into a Never Biden/Harris position in 2024, but have a lot more trouble with those who can’t reconsider that in 2025 now that Trump is obviously so much worse.
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Has she said it was a mistake?
I’m not trying to be a jerk about this, and certainly building coalitions with people who have views you disagree with is an essential part of politics and progressive policies, but endorsing a fraud during a Presidential Election with so much on the line is such…
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I generally agree, and, I am incredibly frustrated by leftists who push for obvious frauds like Jill Stein during a Presidential Election.
How do you reconcile Sawant’s obvious desire to do real good in the world with such a negative, arguably childish, reactionary endorsement?
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and cats normally have such immense gratitude
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If her phone gets to anything under 5%, you know she has fork marks in the ice cream in her freezer.
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Every fucking time
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Definitely! And they’ve helped cyclists too.
Last year on the Cowichan 8 Loop, having gps location on the RideWithGPS downloaded map when I had zero cell data all day was a big advantage.
There’s definitely a fair bit of cross pollination in terms of navigation technology.
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…for cyclists is simply not possible. People have different preferences for what they’re willing to trade when “good” bicycle infrastructure still requires cyclists to mix it up with cars every block or two.
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You have to study the route, look at street view, research online, ask other cyclists, and then sometimes, more frequently for city riding, just try it and see how much you feel like you’re going to be killed by drivers, and adjust.
I firmly believe that in a car-centric world, an “ideal route”…
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In our car-centric world, most roads are acceptable if not better when you’re in basically any car. With Google/Apple Maps you don’t need to know anything to get from point a to b.
On a bicycle you absolutely cannot ever rely on any algorithmic navigation.
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The desert version of this (from Maine):
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Once upon a time I bought bicycle tires, condoms, and barf bags from Amazon.
The next time I logged in my top recommended product was the below.
The algorithms do not know us, they merely play at knowing us enough to satisfy their owners, who are playing at business.
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YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS
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Omg I got reskeeted by Elizabeth Joh.
Going medium-small viral is fun!
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I’m sure if I spent more time there (looking at you Light Rail now that I live in Capitol Hill) I’d lose my Beacon Hill Confusion.