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F. Baum

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Clawing back a safe, green life on this planet.

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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
this reminded me of this excellent "How much does this affect you" follow-up question from a recent safety survey:
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Week Without Driving! Here’s one incredible benefit I experienced on the way to the bus:
A guy with a hat standing in front of a tree with fall leaves.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everett Transit currently covers ALL of Everett for Paratransit, so you can see a few small ADA gaps in Everett which would not be covered for CT signups in the future, (though current ET riders would be grandfathered in to continue receiving service).
Map of Community Transit's "ADA Service Areas And Corridors September 2026", centered on Everett, and showing north to Stanwood, south to Edmonds, and east to Arlington, Granite Falls, and Gold Bar.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am not ready for Rogue A.I. Hegseth.
☀️ MORNING BRIEFING
Rogue A.I. Pete Hegseth's Pentagon.
Judge Judy.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Space #Urbanism
…made the mistake of getting optimistic.
Then we got to a border and found the only option was to rent a ground vehicle and drive across two unaffiliated zones because both had zero mass transport.
Zero. Mass. Transport. This is supposed to be a civilized space station, in space, why the fuck am I driving a ground vehicle to get to a fucking port on a fucking—
(Emotion check: I am absolutely fine.)
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I was jealous of those biking, yet still quite enjoyed Victoria by foot!
A person rides a bike along a protected path with Victoria's waterfront seaplanes and boats behind them.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We did upgrade our anderson connectors to this nifty switch, fyi!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Are there other “Pro Gun Liberals” running?
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Speaking of drop👑
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good news, Seattle! publicola.com/2025/12/04/a...
“By the end of 2025, Public Sector Search and Consulting is supposed to produce a report on what each person on command staff does and how their work might be streamlined “to enhance efficiency”; a comparison of command-staff responsibilities between Seattle and similar-size cities, and “recommendations for leadership development that includes a succession planning framework to ensure long-term leadership stability and a recommendation to improve leadership training and mentorship programs.”
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
WOW! Arlington’s Jensen Park Pump Track is rad. These kids couldn’t wait for the Ribbon-Cutting so they could *cook*!
Ribbon-cutting“GRAND OPENING” signYoung kids riding with just-finished covered dirt, and a large line waiting to rideCrowd at Pump Track and Playground under a blue sky
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Top floor of the Lynnwood P&R Garage has great views of the trains from station level (plus they currently turn around here) and also the opportunity to talk about ...parking!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Lynnwood line runs right over the Interurban north trail!!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Easy. Full support!
Answers to Pike Place Market Vehicle Barriers Survey
7. Optional: What's working well with the vehicle access restrictions?
It's so much better to get around the market!!

8. Optional: What's not working or could be improved with the vehicle access restrictions?
Expand the area. Encourage people-scale delivery to the market.

9. Optional: Is there anything else you'd like to share about vehicle access restrictions at Pike Place
Market?
Thank you for making these improvements!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I saw the mom who chalked this making the most of parenting yesterday and really needed this today!💞
A shaggy dog posing with the chalk signs “BIG FAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS” and “NO ONE is Illegal”💙A shaggy dog posing with a chalk sign: “CARING about PEOPLE is Not Political”
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Oh, well done!👏
Email subject: Dems Demand Republicans Stop, Collaborate, and Listen 
…ICE could be back with some brand new restrictions.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Life comes at you fast.
Email summaries: 
The Economist Today: "...Also: AI won't wipe out white-collar jobs" 

LinkedIn News: "Amazon announces sweeping layoffs..."
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Turn your lights ON! #BrightsBad #AutoBad #OnGood!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#Lynnwood Election in 2 minutes:
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
#WeekWithoutDriving is going well!
A notification that “Your dash cam hasn’t connected in a while”
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Big road, TINY sidewalk, and cutting through the park home for a serendipitous surprise! #WeekWithoutDriving
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Fall leaves, stroads, hidden parks, connecting paths, express buses, creeks, and more housing on my #WeekWithoutDriving wander!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This gives you a good idea what it's like to walk a street that has a hidden crosswalk to a slip lane of an interstate highway entrance... at least then there's a ped overpass! #WeekWithoutDriving
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I've been working a bunch - so our car checkup was during #WeekWithoutDriving 🤦 But I made the best of it, and explored a bunch while walking home (2.6 miles & 1 hour) - I wandered a bit and rolled the camera!🎥
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Villain.
Agent Dobson from Firefly, with a cut over his eye.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This is a good reminder to pass only when safe… And indeed, seconds later, an IMPATIENT and DANGEROUS driver crossed the double yellow lines head-on into my lane!🤬 Passing someone biking isn’t worth endangering everyone on the road. WAIT UNTIL SAFE!
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I saw this amazing group biking on Olympic View Drive yesterday, right at 76th Ave W by Perrinville! People were driving carefully, even giving the stragglers space.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Fuck off, nazis!
A Seattle weather screen showing 88° and sunny.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
These folks look like they’re having so much fun! #ShorelineWA
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Bonus installment: pics of Bikes In Museums, Miniature edition!
A moving cargo tricycle with a balloon attached, titled: 
"Are We There Yet?” 
Artist: David Dumbrell 
www.daviddumbrell.comA scene of devastation in the Miniature Museum showing Canadian forces in WW2, taking the town of Caen in Normandy.A closeup from the the town of Caen scene, centered on a bicycle with barbed wire and injured soldiers.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Tofino features a great separated and protected bike lane that loads of people use to get around (families and people toting surfboards & dogs!)🐶🏄
Families riding a fully separated two-way protected bike lane.E-bikes for rent next to propane containers. One bike has attachments for carrying a surfboard.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We walked all over... True to form, I kicked myself for not bringing bikes - and documented the good stuff!🚲
Packed and colorful bike rack on the bow of the ferry. A person bikes past a Victoria protected bike lane with a counter showing over 2300 bikes so far today!TWO yellow pedicabs, each with trailers are taking tourists on a tour by bike. The tour guide is sitting sideways to narrate!A colorful fish-shaped bike rack at Mackenzie Beach in Tofino, BC.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Took the Coho ferry (the Black Ball Line) from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC! We went west on Vancouver Island to Tofino for a family trip and some beach time!
The MC Coho passenger and vehicle ferry arrives at the dock.A guy with glasses and a grey beard poses with a moose wearing a Victoria shirt.Sunset colors at the beach in Tofino, BC
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Lol, perfect! Rewatching that one is, uhh…😬
A Hunt for Red October meme: 
Borodir: And drive from state to state.
Do they let you do that?
No papers? 

Ramius: No papers.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Oh, Hackman in the news, neat! …wait, wtf NYT?!?
A NYTimes “The Morning” notification: 
A major organ transplant investigation. A search for minerals. Gene Hackman.”
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
#TrumpTariffs
A Swann-Trump Interview meme: 
Swann: TAX 
T: TAR 
S: ...ES 
T: IFFS 
S: 😒
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Some light fantasy reading!
A guy with a smirk holding a book with “The President is Missing” in sparkly gold lettering.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Day 1
A pair of photos showing Melania and Trump. 
Caption: "We’ll Always Have... 
Then Trump tries and fails to kiss due to her wide fedora... 
Caption: [record scratch] …Paris"
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
That’s quite clear: lynnwood.municipal.codes/LMC/2.04.060
LMC 2.04.060
Qualifications to hold city elective office.

No elective officer or councilmember of the city of Lynnwood shall hold any other office, federal, state, county or municipal, except in the National Guard or any branch of the United States military or as a notary public; provided, this chapter shall not prohibit any Lynnwood elective officer or councilmember from holding a position on any municipal or quasi-municipal agency as part of that office holder's duties and responsibilities to the Lynnwood office so held. (Ord. 1623 § 1, 1988)

2.04.070 Qualifications in addition to state law.*

Those qualifications to hold an elective office in the city set forth in LMC 2.04.060 are in addition to and not in contravention of those qualifications set forth in state law. (Ord. 1623 5 2, 1988)
* For statutory requirements, see RCW 35A.12.030.
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Helluva start☀️
☀️THE MORNING
Murder rates. New Year's Eve celebrations. 2025 food trends.
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