Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dirt-bike middle school kid would probably have been at the top of the coolness hierarchy that day in my middle school. Parent pickup line, in addition to being dangerous, was also uncool. 070
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Where do babies come from, mommy?” Mommy, not wanting to explain sex: “you see all those houses that look the same? They spawn there, welling up from the bathtub drains wrapped in a visceral slime.” 001
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thinking back to how frequently I’d refer to NRC Canada test data and research when consulting. This kind of institutional research is invaluable in the construction industry, especially for basic information about sometimes niche topics. 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Its *second* new light rail station 3379
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Electric cars are the perfect thing for 差不多 manufacturing. Long-term reliable machining of precision containers for thousands of explosions per second requires decades of expertise to perfect. Meanwhile, Tesla can have inch wide gaps in their body panels and their cars still move well. 020
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The wine industry faces challenges beyond Canadian boycotts. Consumer demand is shrinking because boomers — the industry’s biggest fans — are aging out of the wine market. Younger generations drink less alcohol in general and are less likely to choose wine.“ but yes, also…same as it ever wasm.youtube.comBlame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HDYouTube video by Movieclips 110
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Blatantly ignoring building codes could cost you your architectural license. What about participating in blatantly criminal projects? 2123
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026subtle pitch for drastically upzoning the Edmonds Bowl 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the clear and correct answer is to remove all intersections by reworking the street grid into a single snake-y car route through the city against a free-flowing grid of walk/bike/trabait. No intersections, no LoS. 010
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn. 524450
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Regulating noise in cities is vastly about transportation, industrial, and HVAC sources. These are the loudest and most consistent dominators of the urban soundscape, and policy and technology can address them. Street life can be a *positive* sound source even. 000
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherKenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"They just don't build stuff like that any more." "That's right - they build far better now!" 081
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I usually carry mine around the store as a visual explanation of why I’m brazenly loading things into a tote or carrying around an opaque bag. I wear a hi-vis vest sometimes too, but get a lot of questions from other shoppers about where things are like I work there 001
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What if instead of having an economy some guys just took over society so they could paperclip-maximize for big computer buildings to build Clippy into an all powerful divinity 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Some little signs here and there that upgrades might work well: - If you can use the parking lane most of the way as a bike lane, it might be a good bike lane - If driving in the neighborhood is a pain because of all the pedestrians, it might be a good candidate for pedestrianization 120
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Possibly hot take - while this would be an improvement, the existing bike lanes on this road are also not great. Roads with multiple lanes in each direction should have hardened infrastructure by default, or you get ridiculous outcomes. Bike gutters on “speedways” is a band aid on a bullet hole. 100
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026sort of hoping for a Roosevelting at a minimum, but a Vancouver West Ending should be done around all our big parks - especially ones served by two train stations 010
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherJames everything is analog @analogist.net · 03/09/2026Instead of being situated at TWO golf courses, an interstate freeway, and 2.2 miles of barbed wire fencing, 130th Pinehurst station could be the site of thriving highrises and businesses, surrounding a flagship nature park. Imagine a Discovery Park the whole city can get to by light rail! 5879
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherShirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We’ve always called the stations golf course north and golf course south. I like to play a fun game of counting the golfers when u ride btwn the stations. Usually it’s like 10 I’m pissed that the new bus routes mean that I have to go to golf course north. Both are terrible stations, way too loud 1234
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherDoug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“The city was close to bankruptcy in 1993, but it still wanted to promote development, so it had to go with cheapest option available, which was cycling infrastructure.” 08433
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherRay Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 30/08/2026DTCF STL 1523
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 30/08/2026At long last, we have invented the Parabolic Space Mirror That Cools The Earth from the classic Futurama episode, “Don’t Invent The Parabolic Space Mirror That Cools The Earth”m.youtube.comFuturama - Oh, that's a little brightYouTube video by Dont You Worry About Quotes 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This vote by mail system is superior to any in-person voting I’ve done. You get your very own personalized ballot. You can research candidates from the comfort of your own home - even judges. No lines, vote at your convenience. They track the status of your vote for your confirmation. It’s accurate. 152
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Duke Nukem is gonna be a playable character somehow 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’ve lived almost all my life in fully electrified buildings thanks to living in places that either had cheap WPA-era dam electricity or very hot climates. It is crazy to me that people are still *putting in* gas lines. My new house came with gas and it is work to replace it with modern technology. 100
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’ve lived almost all my life in fully electrified buildings thanks to living in places that either had cheap WPA-era dam electricity or very hot climates. It is crazy to me that people are still *putting in* gas lines. My new house came with gas and it is work to replace it with modern technology. 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026one thing I think about from my acoustics days is the different single-number metrics and statistics that describe sound, which is a bit like describing a video by averaging the colors of its pixels. If you hear the thing but the number says you don’t, you may have the wrong kind of number 120
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I’ve definitely left stores with no bike parking before. Is that limiting e-bike adoption, or a store’s loss? Secure storage for cargo also makes trip chaining more possible. I visit 4-5 places to do The Big Shop and it’s limiting when I can’t leave stuff in the back of the bike while shopping. 010
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026*Jeff Foxworthy voice* You know you might be living the “urbanist“ life if you do the math and it’s cheaper to rent a car than to own one. You know you might be living the “urbanist“ life if you've ever had to drive your car for no other reason than the gas was going bad 010
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The people with the video cameras may have shown up for the opening of the 2 Line across the floating bridge earlier this year, but the unsticking of the 8 is secretly the coolest transit nerd afterparty this year I think 000
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherUrbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The player's face should get happier or sadder over the course of the game depending on how well they're doing 031
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Maybe now Zelda and I can get back together. I bet Nathaniel and Superfly have grown up fine. Time to book a first class one-way ticket… …to Aaaaaaaalbuquerque 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Highly recommend taking Amtrak Cascades to Vancouver or the Victoria Clipper to Victoria, both fantastic cities where you don’t need to drive much Both cities have standardized Canada-themed tourist bric-a-brac shops where you can buy maple syrup and toques with built in beer bottle openers 3267
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thinking about the articles on niche Seattle policies published in the Daily Mail, a newspaper on the other side of the planet read by people in a different country on another continent who may be vaguely aware that the US has two Washingtons 100
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 21/08/2026this is Big Box Kid Things District erasure 020
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the Cleveland Browns moving from the Factory of Sadness to the Cyberdump of Sadness 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This makes me wonder - who is Pike Place for? I’d shop there more but on weekdays a lot of their grocers only open during hours when non-retired people work. They want to double down on making the experience worse for people who don’t drive there (a lot of downtown residents and workers). 140
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026it’s pretty crazy that we still have people arguing to restore the third-worst* driving experience the city can offer * the other two are driving to the platform in Mt Baker light rail station and driving off the end of the pier as the ferry you want to take pulls away 4523
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026this is the same newspaper that breathlessly published an article explaining the hot new concept of boba tea like five years ago 010
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026ah yes, the sense of “surprise! Your GPS took you into a crowd of people suddenly, why did you ever think it would be cool to visit here from Topeka??” 160
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Commander Data Center, an institute for Silicon Valley magnates who want to learn to be more human 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026counterpoint, maybe taxing parking with arbitrary extra requirements (the way we do with buildings) will mean maybe they’ll build some buildings instead 000
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 09/08/2026When I was a teenager, all I wanted to eat was bean and cheese burritos. Now I’m in my 50s and have learned a ton about nutrition and how important getting enough fiber and protein is and have come to the conclusion that the most healthy quick meal I can make is bean and cheese burritos. 1876140394
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026gotta say, I definitely feel like we are past a peak in the quality of software and software reliability. It has been in decline for months if not years. 010
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 08/08/2026”Big Dreams, Small Spaces” is fun to watch because instead of yelling at you for your restaurant being bad or whatever, Monty Don of @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social shows up to consult and encourage and ultimately hopes you’re happy. 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 05/08/2026the real Illuminati invisible-hand guiding everything is just insurance and lawsuit avoidance 020
Reposted by Three Flats BettcherPierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You can do some fun things to achieve this goal. 413324
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“Planes Trains and Automobiles”, but a gritty police drama about a police chief who has to get to a burning post-earthquake Seattle from his home in Chicago instead of a family comedy 000
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 02/08/2026it’s wild how many things get Benghazied up about Seattle and various facets of it. I’ve been reading stories about how the city is dying from pleasant little cafes for nearly a decade now. They are desperate for failure for some reason 511015