Reposted by Eric SahrMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6hApartment amenities in Seattle are getting weird 64104546
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I wonder if the design of the west side of the Judkins Park station prevents people from realizing the connection is possible. Even looking at the connection on Google Maps I would be kind of suspicious whether this transfer was real! 010
Reposted by Eric SahrRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 11/10/2026But it shouldn’t matter. Progressive Seattle voters should stop defaulting to the Stranger when voting. Instead, use them as one of many sources. The leftycheatsheet.org is the way to go - aggregating grassroots endorsements, and the Stranger, to help voters make wise choices on their ballot.leftycheatsheet.orgLefty Cheat SheetA quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust! 0187
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Republican political instincts are so funny: "Nice argument - I have already depicted myself as the seething pedophile apologist and you as the handsome young baseball star" 030
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Me in 2024: "only 7 minutes until the next train!" Me now, screaming, crying, throwing up: "I missed my train and the next one isn't going to be here for THREE minutes" 160
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I liked the response about how if the cafe would only give "weekly freebies" to the whining neighbors then they'd have no reason to report code violations to the city 020
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I saw the whole thing - that happens to me here all the time" "Yeah thanks" "If it's not the cars it's the bikes" "???? Those are???? Very different?" "Not if the bikes are going fast enough" 000
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Almost got mowed down walking across the street in Pioneer Square by an Audi driver on TikTok, immediately afterwards a random bystander came up to me to chime in on how bicycles are endangering pedestrians everyday Really makes you wonder how carbrain works 150
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In my final year of car ownership, my budget spreadsheet says I spent $5115 on "car expenses". Subtracting the ~$1600/year I spend on transit/micromobility - I could take this 19 times and still just barely be ahead. And that's if I go alone! 010
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Even at your $190 rate you could do this 63 times/year and still spend less money than a car owner Assuming some nominal amount for transit/micromobility expenses, if you used to own a car and are now just saving those costs instead, you could easily do this every summer weekend and still be saving 111
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How else is an engineer supposed to learn the mistakes of their forebears to avoid repeating them? Events like the 2 Quebec bridge disasters, Space Shuttle Challenger, and the deHavilland Comet have relevant lessons that engineers are unlikely to encounter in an engineering curriculum or workplace. 040
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When I used to live in LA I'd always bake a visit through the waiting halls into my subway transfers - no other station has really compared! 020
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Quote from person driving on a road that has recently been closed to bikes: "I barely saw any bikes" 0131
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had heard that they were going to keep all of the existing equipment for awhile - combining all of the Amfleets into a normal-length consist and then running the Airos and Talgos as well. Is this not the case? 100
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yes, especially on Teams - folks will be in a conference room with a literal jackhammer coming through the ceiling and those on the call will hear nothing at all 010
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I was already mostly a Trader Joe's guy but it's earned my business even more because it's the only Capitol Hill grocery store where I don't feel like a criminal 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Made the mistake of volunteering to phone bank and every person who answered was like "shut up and listen. Please. You call dozens of times per day. How do I make it stop?" I had no ideas and the field office was too busy doing various chants on Zoom with other field offices to offer anything 040
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Incomprehensible to claim that the cars are what makes Pike Place what it is. If anything the cars detract from the experience in the exact *opposite* way - like a cell phone going off during a play 060
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026There's an artist I follow on IG who routinely does multi-million dollar sales in-between endless posts about their family, what their (very unique) car looks like, what neighborhood they live in, where they eat, where the kids go to school, the kids extracurriculars - seems like asking for trouble! 000
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I would think the Apollo Inertial Guidance Computer and jet engines should be in the running 010
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It seemed somehow like the entire American car sales industry hinged on ~two dozen printers from the 80s being untouched while simultaneously being a critical part of every sale 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026- Many instances of having to reflash ancient decrepit printers because random guys would learn what firmware was and decide to "do me a favor" by going in and updating it - which somehow broke the entire fragile workflow of the dealer. 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026- Got yelled at by a random employee because I deleted several 100GB of illegally-downloaded media from his work computer rather than wait like 8 hours for this data to migrate onto his new machine - this was in ~2007, when >100GB was a truly eye-watering amount of data 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026- I worked at some of these places for years, and every time I drove onto the lot I would get swarmed by the salespeople 'just in case I was there to buy a car this time' 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026- A dealership that inexplicably had several C-suite titles above the actual dealership management, they called everything they thought was important "core" 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is to say nothing of when @zavaro.bsky.social and I worked as IT contractors at car dealerships, we got: - Salespeople throwing each other through plate glass windows (nobody fired) - IT guys falling through a drop ceiling (ignored by dealer staff) - Endless requests to unblock adult websites 110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The one time I bought a car was when I moved to LA, I sent one email to every dealer cc'd and basically said "I want this model, this color, this financing - fight amongst yourselves" Surprisingly this worked but only 2-3 dealerships went for it, it was clear the others didn't know how to read. 1182
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's been pretty wild following along here - I think yours should be a pretty common use case! 130
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The answers we seek will be inside the Ballard Link station 030
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Literally live on Broadway and thought "the.... 9?"static.klipy.comDonald Trump: All EarsALT: Donald Trump: All Ears 020
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The usual suspects: "I can't believe the Mayor's office just allowed this lack of communication to continue" Also the usual suspects: "I can't believe the mayor fired the person responsible for the bad communication" 0111
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I'm currently "out of town" from Auckland, NZ (a place I have never been) 1110
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My favorite is you used to be able to Google "sunset in [city]" and it would tell you the precise sunset time, now you get a slop response of "well in the summer, sunset in [city] can range between [time] and [time]" I know that! What time today though????? 170
Reposted by Eric SahrRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Paging Sound Transit: coffee shops in transit stations are very popular, it turns out. 823014
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026While at the World Cup somebody randomly turned around to me and said, unprompted, "gambling while at the stadium is thrilling - they have WiFi!" 030
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Folks I know riding these cars in the Midwest and CA have told me the luggage towers are a huge pain, as you're basically in direct conflict with everyone else in the car begging them to move their luggage to ??? to make room for your bike 000
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'm hoping this is the social media manager saying "I don't know" as opposed to our face value reading as "we literally haven't thought about bicycles at all" 120
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Genuinely alarming development - so much of the utility of the Cascades will be lost if the already obnoxious bike situation somehow worsens 000
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It's incredible to witness how often a slight delay makes drivers think they have carte blanche to maneuver a vehicle however they please at the risk of everybody else. A "whoopsie!" grimace with a gesture towards the obstruction doesn't give you permission to dart through dozens of pedestrians! 000
Eric Sahr @esahr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Yesterday there was an obstruction on Broadway causing a jam, in a ~90min period I saw dozens of cars: -Run the red at Broadway/Denny with pedestrians moving through the scramble -Park in the bus lane outside the Capitol Hill station entrance -Drive the wrong way on the sidewalk down Barbara Bailey 120
