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Carl Ballard

@carlballard.bsky.social
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Swears on the Internet, sometimes. Mostly at horsesass.org these days (he/him).

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 1h
Yes, Kit Kat, one of the 2 scariest things I can imagine is European nobility.
A box of Halloween Kit Kat bars. The packaging features "count & witch"
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 3h
Someone on my floor made something delicious smelling.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 23h
I don't think there should be paid parking on the Junction. Or any parking. Or any cars on California.
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Cascade PBS @cascadepbs.org · 02/10/2026
Six artists are riding King County Metro bus lines to capture the people and places along the route — looking for special moments between riders that show buses are more than just a way to get from point A to point B.
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King County artists ride Metro buses to turn routes into comics | The Newsfeed
YouTube video by Cascade PBS
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Hannah Weinberger @trailanderror.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have you ridden the new @amtrak.com Airo trains on the @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov line with a bike yet? Tell me what you thought! seattletransitblog.com/2026/09/29/a... @seattletransitblog.com
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Amtrak Airo Sneak Peak
Amtrak Airo trains offer a modern interior and spacious seating. The newest trains in Amtrak’s fleet, Amtrak Airo, will welcome their first customers tomorrow on the Cascades route. To celebrate th…
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Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov · 02/10/2026
The federal administration is unlawfully weakening fuel economy standards for new passenger cars and light trucks, Washington and a coalition of other states and local governments argued in a new lawsuit.
Text says "WA sues to block new federal rule that will lead to more pollution and higher costs." Image shows traffic on I-5 in Seattle. Below that is the seal of the Attorney General's Office.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I take it as a matter of pride that our basic records requests are met with such incredible cowardice.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seattle's map of paid parking areas is actually wild. The blocks of the city outside downtown where the curb is actually priced are essentially microscopic.
Map showing paid parking areas with U District Green Lake/Ravenna Ballard Fremont and Columbia City the only places outside downtown with paid parking
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Regardless of the polls, you can still make calls or whatever the campaign of your favorite candidate needs.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is some real Munster Baptist erasure.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy #weekwithoutdriving day 2. Headed to Sumner bright and early to interview Pierce County Council candidate Kelsey Barrans. I was hoping to meet her and Bonney Lake but there was no way to get there on transit this early. 🚉 ➡️ 578
Me on platform
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Booooo
Cars at Pike Place.
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Valerie Osier @valerieosier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reading the doc with the texts and they just KEPT GETTING WORSE.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The way people talk about redemption you might think he had spent the last few years making amends and working on himself instead of football stuff.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This feels very pump and dump. Wouldn't be surprised if he sells a portion of his coins before the event.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/10/2026
folks, if you don’t have a cart or a chair or a dog or a mobility issue, you have to exit through the back entrance of the bus, there’s a whole system here, it works when used properly, you enter at front, exit at back, leave space for the people getting on or who need the ramp to exit
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you make a list of problems people have with the TSA, agents are sitting doesn't make the top 1000.
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Japanese grocer Hashi Market has signed a lease for its first Seattle location, planning to fill the former Amazon Fresh space on Aurora Avenue in north Seattle, according to a flyer from Merlone Geier Partners. No word on opening date.
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Seattle, Washington WA - Available Retail Space & Restaurant Space for Lease Aurora Shopping Center | Merlone Geier Partners
Find retail space for lease in Seattle, Washington at Aurora Shopping Center. Contact an Agent for current available retail listing opportunities, plus view other nearby listings.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you're so confident in your conspiracy theories that you don't realize it's all rakes to step on.
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 30/09/2026
We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year #SEAbikes #Seattle
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We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year
Data through September 29. Sometime Monday evening (September 28), somebody rolled across the Fremont Bridge and registered the one millionth bike or scooter trip so far this year. The old bike counter display had both a daily count and a thermometer-style counter that filled up over the course of the year. That thermometer maxed out at one million. When the city first installed the counter with sponsorship from Cascade Bicycle Club, one million was seen as an aspirational number. Seattle just hit that figure before October. Last year, the bridge didn't reach the 1 million mark until mid-December.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's was also really cool to hear how Via /Metro Flex drivers in Washington are organizing. The more I learn about microtransit, the more questions I have. Sounds like the drivers have a lot of questions about being classified as independent contractors instead of employees.
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pinehurst Station opened Wednesday in north Seattle, marking Sound Transit's first light rail infill station. A community celebration will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. this afternoon/evening to mark the occasion.
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Pinehurst | Sound Transit
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Valerie Osier @valerieosier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In which I attempt to balance the feelings and opinions of some of the most opinionated and smart people in Spokane
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 29/09/2026
If you felt this earthquake, submit a report: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3 Also, a reminder that we are practicing for earthquakes at 10:15am, Oct: 15 for the Great ShakeOut Earthquake and Tsunami Drill! Shakeout.org/washington
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What would your life be like if you couldn't drive? This week is #WeekWithoutDriving which is all about understanding what it's like to be a nondriver. @devinsilvernail.bsky.social & I launched @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social to share these stories. Search for 'nondriver' wherever you watch/listen
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nondriver
30% of people in the US & Canada can't or don't drive. nondriver is a podcast about the lives and stories of those people, hosted by Anna Zivarts and Devin Silvernail. Every episode, we talk to peopl...
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Get your shots.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Snohomish, Pierce, and Yakima counties all saw significant increases in ICE seizure, with 256 kidnappings in the week ending September 26. That's nearly double the rate from earlier in the summer, and a 133% rise from the previous week. And this is only reported sightings." Deeply concerning.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing is you don't need to do like a whole monologue about why harrassment is bad. You can just say "really?" in a disappointed voice or "come on, man."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump's nominee to lead the FDA refused to say whether she thinks mifepristone—which has been approved by the FDA for DECADES—is safe. Medication abortion is the most common way women access abortion in America. Every Senator must vote NO.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought that the work stealing machine would steal my work.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The community room at Capitol Hill Station is PACKED this afternoon with folks who want to talk about turning Capitol Hill into a low pollution neighborhood. Turns out there's a lot of momentum around creating more people oriented places.
Folks hanging around a map of the neighborhood that they're writing onLittle signs on a map talking about pedestrianization
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
gosh I dunno maybe naming an event explicitly designed to deliver women to men "Slutcon" is a tell that "rationalism" and AI "safety" (in scare quotes because I don't buy the industry's self-important claims about world-ending capabilities) isn't an environment or industry that's safe for women
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Must mean Elton John.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Professional music critics may overestimate the listening habits of the rest of us.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still talking about "warmongers" is really playing in the face of some of his most asinine supporters.
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My guy, you can just leave.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 26/09/2026
At least 21 people have been shot by Trump’s immigration force. We have to stop this brutality. Disband ICE.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 27/09/2026
We’ve been working on projects near the new Pinehurst Station to make the light rail easier to get to by walking, biking, and rolling. Sound Transit's newest station opens September 30. Here's how to get there: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/09/25/get…
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How to get to the new Pinehurst light rail station in north Seattle - SDOT Blog
Walking, biking, or taking transit to the new Pinehurst Station? Find tips on parking, bus routes, and sidewalk connections in north Seattle.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Loved seeing this Prop 1 ad on a Pierce Transit bus today in Tacoma.
More within reach. More Places. More Often. Prop 1 YOU DECIDE
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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Perv pendant.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is gonna make bike travel so much easier! Check out the racks on @amtrak.com's new Airo train cars. (We got the preview tour at the #seattle launch today)
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here at King Street Station welcoming in a “new airo era” for Amtrak Cascades!
Large crowd standing at train platform next to new airo train while Congressman Rick Larsen speaks.Holding up sign in front of crowd that says “Greet the new fleet”
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Writing tips, tips for writing, get your writing tips here, etc, etc ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/writing-tip-...
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Writing tip: characters need to talk to each other about things
I watch a lot of movies and among the many movies I watch there are many old movies. I like a classic, I don't know what to tell you. But when you watch a decent amount of classics you discover someth...
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