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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i mean i guess this is better than parking in the bike lane?

four cars parked on the sidewalk plaza outside pioneer square station. one of them is labeled as a sound transit work vehicles but three of them are not

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

literally just this but with graffiti artists and gray walls

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i literally just watched this bike lane barrier get bumped out of the way by a car that was so mad this prius wouldn’t illegally turn on red that it honked several times and then just drove into the bike lane to get around them. 🫩🫩🫩

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@kitsaptransit.bsky.social and tahoma glamour shot! who can guess where i went today?

two fast ferries docked with tahoma in the background

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i’m a little unnerved that there is literally zero snow on the olympics, but at least kulshan looks nice!

snow-naked olympic mountains above the kitsap peninsula and puget sound

snow-covered kulshan above the cascade foothills and puget sound

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

sure the failure of trade negotiations is bad but i think canada has another problem when the hotel complimentary breakfast does not have real maple syrup

waffle bar at a hotel, with “breakfast syrup”

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

and it used to go all the way to the county line! (and further south to laurelhurst, to be fair)

pre-2020 map of WA-46. boundaries are roughly kenmore, lake forest park, and seattle east of aurora minus the area south of green lake

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i think we’re gonna need to bring this energy back

seattle’s viral “bus lane lady” from 2019: a woman standing in the street telling cars to get out of the bus lane

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

this is amazing! heads up you can definitely take a bike on and off at klamath falls, it is a very popular starting destination for several bikepacking routes in oregon

my bike and a bag next to the amtrak station in smoky klamath falls oregon as a northbound coast starlight pulls into the station

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

can’t wait to splat into the back of a bus in the bike lane while descending at 30mph 👍

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

what is the point of a bus lane if it’s so full of cars that the buses aren’t even using it?

heavy traffic in downtown seattle with eight cars in the bus lane in one block, causing a bus to use the other lane

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

and she’s back to normal :(

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

broadway still bumping an hour after pridefest’s official closure. can we do this every weekend? or just permanently?

crowds of people walking in the street at sunset

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

took this picture at the SLU weekend market ready to bitch about shutting down the only street in the neighborhood with a protected bike lane, and then two blocks later discovered a much larger market on 6th ave which they are planning to fully move to after this year!

green bike lane paint crossing denny way into a full street closure of 9th Ave for a weekend market

a busy pedestrianized 6th avenue with a weekend market and the space needle framed by apartment towers

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

it’s very exciting to see a restaurant you’ve been going to years having good politics <3

the lake city way storefront of pho an with a nilu jenks election sign

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

seattle welcomes the world! (just don’t try to use our escalators)

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

the world cup comes to seattle, in two acts

fans in croatia and england jerseys at the pioneer square beer garden viewing party

a michelob ultra world cup charter bus stuck trying to go up cherry st outside seattle city hall

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

new york is 87% islands so uhhh i don’t think that bodies of water are a good excuse for bad urbanism. it’s also just as glacially formed with a good number of hills (the lenape called their home manahatta, the island of many hills)

New York & Seattle Scale Comparison showing the five boroughs in red overlaid on a map of the Seattle region

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

oh hey look it’s my FIFI report from a week and a half ago with this same issue and conclusion…

screenshot from Seattle’s Find It Fix It app showing a submission for Bicycle Facility Maintenance that was opened 10 days ago. My comments were: “flex post carnage! at some point you gotta start replacing these with concrete, but at minimum we need clean up and replacement urgently.” there is an attached picture showing a bunch of flex posts loose in the bike lane

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

fabulous carspotting on tonight’s bike ride

a heavily modified brat green geo prizm with only one rear wheel in the center, a hood scoop, and rear fins

a blue six-wheel sprinter van camper rig with a swiss license plate above the cab

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

bike lane so fresh it’s still closed! i love these bike parking areas that are *within* curb protection

a two-way bike lane on a one-way street with orange cones and a “bike lane closed” sign

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i keep forgetting to post this but the other day this utility truck was completely blocking the burke gilman with no warning signs, detour signs, or flaggers. the road it was partially blocking of course had warning signs.

a pickup truck parked on a bike trail in front of a large utility truck parked fully across the bike trail and half the adjacent road. warning signs and cones can be seen on the road but not the bike trail

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

meanwhile, in reality, this is my actual proposal for a lake washington boulevard for everyone. drivers can still access homes and parking lots, while bike/walk/roll folks have permanent safe access instead of on-again-off-again summer weekends

screenshot of google maps on lake washington boulevard with a hastily drawn jersey barrier on the center line, with a car lane on the hill side and a bike path on the lake side

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

you’re going to have to believe me that i also saw an amtrak cascades train here but i was climbing on my fixie and couldn’t take a picture

screenshot from google maps of two railroad tracks through the woods

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

mega foamer moment as this gravel barge and sounder train are passing the ballard locks at the exact same time

a yellow, white, and blue tugboat pushing a barge of gravel into the ballard locks, viewed from the top of a grassy artificial hill

a sounder commuter train peeks through the trees as it crosses onto the salmon bay bridge

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

never fails to amuse me how much smaller the bremerton fast ferries are than the boats on less-busy routes to kingston and southworth. the bremerton route carries more passengers than kingston and southworth combined

two kitsap fast ferries docked at pier 50. *lady swift* is approximately half the size of *commander*

ridership statistics by route for kitsap ferries. bremerton has the most passengers, followed by port orchard, southworth, kingston, and annapolis

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

i’ve forgotten what it was like for cairo hill station to have a functioning elevator

caution gates in front of the only direct surface-to-platform elevator at capitol hill station. it’s been broken for over a month

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

amtrak equipment shortage is fun cause you get northeast-corridor branded cafe cars on cascades trains

wall art inside a train, depicting the various skylines of the northeast corridor from norfolk to new haven. the washington monument and empire state building are particularly prominent

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

portland i am inside of you

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

anyways this had me cracking up

screenshot of my wifi settings showing me connected to FAT FREE WIFI

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

bruce harrell has escaped to california’s fifth largest city 😮

screen at FAT airport showing the “ONE FRESNO” mayoral priorities

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

truly what are we doing folks? this is a block from the station!

a dead end street with no sidewalks between tall trees. in the background is jackson park golf course

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

but it’s cool that you can basically be inside a sound transit construction zone

under construction station, with train and construction equipment visible

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

wow i love Land Use Planning

pinehurst station as viewed from ne 131st pl between single level, single family homes

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

absolutely insane that NE 125th has looked like this for months

a bike lane construction zone with a big 2inch deep hole of graded pavement on half of it, the lane line, and part of the car travel lane

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

sound transit: dark mode

a dimly blue-lit interior of a link light rail trail

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

beautiful snowy morning bike commute!

my bike (well, actually, my partners bike) in front of snowy plants

cherry blossom buds nearly ready to bloom, covered in slush and dripping wet

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

and now some ultra-niche foaming to close out the night! trolley poles and sparks upon contact with the wet trolley wire, viewed through the tiny gaps in the emergency exit hatch of the 6 davie

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