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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love the views from the Coast Starlight... From the Elkhorn Slough to the salad bowl of America in the Salinas Valley in the span of about 20 min.

The crops of a farm in the Salinas Valley.

A car driving through a farm field in the Salinas Valley.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sometimes I just like to wander around the Bay Area. Today I ended up at the Painted Ladies, and it was pretty cool to see all the gawking tourists

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I get that Gillig parts are mix and match, but we can all agree this is deranged right???

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They kinda just jerryrigged the door panel back on, still mismatched, gets stuck, and with haphazardly modified attachments 😭

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Genuinely how does this even happen. BRAND NEW BUS BTW

Misaligned rear plug doors on a Gillig ebus.

Part of the door has gotten detached from the hinge mechanism.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Napa Trancas Street post office genuinely caught my eye because I thought it looked really architecturally beautiful, but my attempts to look into it keeps bringing up articles about Napa's 1930s earthquake-damaged downtown art deco former post office instead :(

Really pleasing architecture of Napa's Trancas Street post office.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There was one Talgo 6 set that was originally painted blue into almost Surfliner colors that was meant for an LA - Las Vegas service. zierke.com/shasta_route...

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Some artwork I've done over the past month or so #furryart

Wolfwires with a dagger and a golden apple.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You can reload TAP cards at partner retailers like Ralphs, Pavillion etc with cash. I had to reload my card at the Westwood Ralphs once because I used up my fare but there wasn't a Metro rail station nearby. I believe I used cash? (This was 3 years ago) www.taptogo.net/TAPLocator2?...

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The end of the parking lot at Belmont Caltrain is lowkey a great photography spot

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Giving Petaluma our old Van Hools might be the funniest thing AC Transit has ever done (this bus was sweltering in the 80° heat and an AC system that works with air flow forced into the intake as the bus moves... in stop and go traffic 😭)

Petaluma Transit using a donated Van Hool A300L from AC Transit.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dubai's RTA and Glydways visit to Tri Delta Transit today is an unfortunate reminder of the pod project that CCTA and Tri-Delta are pursuing. This is going to require 2 transfers just to get on regular BART from Brentwood.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sunday: get up early enough to make the Pride Parade at 10am, stay until 2pm, enjoy the festival at Civic Center, hike up Twin Peaks from the Castro, hike back down to the Castro, and go home with my legs ready to disintegrate

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

BART to SF, wander around Japantown, hike the Lands End trail from 33rd all the way to Ocean Beach, then bus to get dinner at El Farolito, and capture the lasers at Civic Center and Market Street some more

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Saturday: Brunch in Oakland Chinatown, walk half of Lake Merritt from OMCA up Grand Ave, past Lake Fest, to MacArthur Blvd, then bus up to Reinhart Redwood Regional Park and hike down Joaquin Miller Park through the Woodminster Amphitheatre and cascades before going back to downtown Oakland

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Friday (cont.): check out the immigration processing facility that have the island the "Ellis Island of the West" moniker, sail back to SF, get pho in the Richmond, walk through Golden Gate Park, Muni to the Castro, hand around, and chase the laser lights at Civic Center and on Market St

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Incredible just how much you can do over one (1) weekend. Friday: start with lunch in SF Chinatown, walk to the base of Coit Tower, F streetcar to Ferry Building, ferry to Angel Island, rent a mountain bike around the perimeter road to see old abandoned military camps and structures

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

GAYSER GAYSER GAYSER GAYSER GAYSER WOOOOOO

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wait Trader Joe's has ketchup chips my life might be about to change forever

Ketchup flavored lattice potato chips at Trader Joe's.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Scuffed af charging solution tho LMAO

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I was so unbelievably happy to get to ride on this teeny-tiny Turkish Karsan eJest on SMRT

A Karsan eJest minibus from Turkey running in Santa Maria, California on SMRT route 7.

The interior of a Karsan eJest minibus owned by Santa Maria Regional Transit.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

downloading this knowing im gonna have to uninstall it again very soon just to play anything else

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm so excited to see the gayser again this year

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

oh cool, Oakland is planning to turn stupidly wide 73rd Ave in the deep east into a complete street with a Caltrans grant- wait, what the fu- www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

America be crazy sometimes bc wtf is "root beer float milk"

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm excited for integrated transit service planning, projects, and fares throughout Chicagoland with NITA. Regional transit planning is the way to go.

CTA bus on route 157 at the Loop Link in downtown Chicago.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Like yikes (for more info, just look up Sonja Shaw in the Bluesky search)

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's even accessible by VTA light rail

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The way I'm about to crash out because WHY IS A FUCKASS PANINI FROM THE CAMPUS LIBRARY CAFE $10.95. AND A SHITTY ASS WRAP IS ALSO $9.99 😭

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Catching a 1998 New Flyer D35LF on Santa Cruz Metro's 35B Big Basin State Park service was genuinely a bucket list item for me that I'm glad to have done. There's a rumor going around that those old buses are being retired after tomorrow. If that's true, I guess it's been a good 28 year run.

A 1998 New Flyer D35LF bus laying over at Big Basin State Park near Boulder Creek, California. Photo taken in November, 2025.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

type of shit im digging through just to figure out why my laptop likes to freeze and enter bitlocker recovery all the damn time

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The more I visit LA the more my NorCal snobbiness goes away

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Local government can be so funny sometimes

Sign on the bus letting people know that Senior/ Disabled ID discount bus cards can be accepted and approved at the Public Works Counter only on Tuesdays between 1-3pm.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Very nerdy but as Metro is repainting the Breda A650s to their modern colors, set 536 in particular has the black extending all the way to the roof, which makes it look so much sleeker than the others which don't.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Second time standing room on Amtrak 😭 Northbound Surfliner leaving LA 😭😭😭

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Congratulations on the tap app for coming out as lesbian

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Lines X and Y (clockwise and counter clockwise) serve the medical center all day every 15 minutes, connecting to Caltrain :) The stop for Stanford MC is Quarry Rd Ext. & Roth Way (Grant Building)

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Y'know I can't say I've ever seen a single occupancy urinal stall room before

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Can we please install better pedestrian lighting on the 40th St underpass outside MacArthur BART

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm glad I took enough interior ambience photos of the BART legacy fleet when I could

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Dare I say this design was better than even the iPhone 5C (also remember when vibrant colors used to be a thing?)

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Holy shit ElDorado just landed a big SEPTA order. New hybrid ENC Axess buses to replace the old New Flyers in Philadelphia. Hoping this solidifies their position as the #3 transit bus manufacturer in the US after the departure of Novabus from the market.

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Floofy Middle @floofymiddle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New SLO Transit electric Gilligs dropped - 2 position bike racks instead of 3?! 🤬 - no more LED display inside, replaced by static Stop Requested light up panel - next stop announcements switched to something similar to the SLORTA system that sucks at pronouncing street names and spells out L-O-V-R