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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My first thought was "well maybe there's something to consider there" Then I looked up the boundary ...

Urban growth boundary limit. It already extends deep into the Cascade foothills and includes areas that are mostly hobby farms.

Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've seen a 60s era proposal the would have basically filled all of San Francisco Bay except channels large enough for creeks and rivers to drain. There was hubris in the post-War generation. They also tried to turn the space above cities into a web of urban multilateral highways.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hell yes!! ✊🐲

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Particularly because we got him elected and then he turned out to be quite a disappointment. Pound sand, guvnor. I don't support wildcat transit strikes in general but "Or what" indeed.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my commute route! I'm really looking forward to seeing how it looks. I'm worried it will all be 5 ft wide bidirectional bike paths. Even that is still probably safer than the Melrose trail end at Lakeview and Belmont. Cars drive right at me there almost every evening.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My assumption is that adding parking restrictions isn't free in a town where people quickly adapt to what's enforced and what isn't. Do meter readers make back their pay in tickets? I kind of don't want to know. I think the only way to reduce parking is to reduce parking.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you. A fearsome talent if ever there was one.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I, an unhip person, would like to know what a Boop is.

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Joseph Illidge @josephpillidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guilty, and not proud of it.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't see anything mitigating the traffic noise from I-5 so I'm guessing the shared path will end being for bikes and scooters only by default. So, yes! That works. And the design suggests a flow from south of 130th to north at 1st Ave and then to the station.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What seems to be getting built is basically a few improvements to the existing sidewalk there. That's great for walkers. Is there something else I'm missing that's for bikes and scooters?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As long as the 130th overpass remains inhospital for humans in bikes, Pinehurst is useless to me. I'll just continue using Northgate and Shoreline South.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So cool. (See your other account for the rest.)

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So you actually are [ahem] a rocket scientist.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huh. I think I know this guy's brother.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The announcement I read says there ended up being about a dozen layoffs. Has anyone found something saying where those are?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With Nelson I can't tell if she honestly thinks she's in some kind of not enough heard from majority or if she's just in on the grift. Ok. I think I answered my own question.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This makes perfect sense to me so I must be missing something. What is the source of your sense of it not being real?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I saw a wrap on a van for a home construction contractor and had the same reaction. It's off- putting. But I suspect I'm in the minority.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the first I've heard of it. Welp. I hate that that takes a lot of the shine off the news around him from earlier this week but it sure does. People, please don't do these stupid things! I barely care that this happened so long ago. It's so gross!!

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm guessing this already a lead item in the Seattle Times. I'm not going to look.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's been several years since the last time I saw a lost car try to get across the bridge. So that's cool.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is that something Bluesky moderation allows?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am going to reply with my own list and it will include a few of yours. Just so you're not injured by the shock.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@percyrover.bsky.social I just read that Curiosity hit 5000 days. How's it going?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Local control is nit always a good thing I guess.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Directing the City's lobbyists to push the State legislature to raise the self perform dollar limit is a bigger deal than I suspect many realize. This could allow dozens of smaller projects to move faster, cost less, and allow more flexibility in execution.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There's something I respect about this. I gotta get back to you about what that is but there's something.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh he'll do fine now that he's picked this lane. It's kind of what Substack was created for.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

True. Not so much in your game my friend. Stay hidden.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okami Which would be weird. Cute. But weird.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gross Pointe Blank. Live and Let Die.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

She was a big part of beating my team last night.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We saw the Storm - Fire game last night. Way outside the WNBA spotlight. Not the Mystic or the Valks or the Sparks or the Fever. And it was an awesome game. One of the best I've ever seen. I freakin' love the WNBA.

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's interesting you mention dismissing Barnes. The petition a handful of people filed for a recall campaign came on the heels of that. If there is a recall campaign, will you commit any time and energy to pushing against it?

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Weird Socks @intellectualmerc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is some kind of media lesson given that this is basically another part of the much louder headline about the opening date getting pushed back. That lesson might simply be that all the big media outlets are gunning for Mayor Wilson and the schedule slip is blood in the water.

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