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Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I realized some of you might not be aware it is possible to preorder a plush King County Metro style bus Don't worry I am here to help merch.fixthel8.com/us/all-products/plush-bus

Photo from the website that has a cute plush "eight" bus with eyes and everything, KC Metro stile with green and yellow, lovingly placed on a sidewalk curb in front of an actual 8 bus. It is the most adorable thing you've ever seen and you definitely need to buy one

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today my spouse drove me into work and I took the bus home. I would like to offer an insufficient and belated thank you to everyone who has ever pushed for ADA as a minimum standard in (most) public spaces and wonder why the F we don't do a better job with accessibility everywhere. Transit rocks.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This stuff happens daily in my city too and it's a big reason I have a real hard time getting worked up about e-scooter legality and/or helmet use hand-wringing

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today was the third day in a row I came within a yard of a car hitting me while I was walking in a crosswalk, and today was way too close. I realize we have some drivers out there, but I think we need to ban cars until we can figure out what's going on.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love that my kiddo chose the original Wizard of Oz as the movie to watch at her sleepover 9th birthday party but I'm not sure my millennial heart is up for these kiddos' commentary 😅

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The Wizard of Oz Characters Get Scared

Alt: Tin man, scarecrow, Dorothy, and cowardly lion looking upward scared

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It looks like the new cars only have space for 2 bikes that can be parked up on end? Dangit, Amtrak, I want all kinds of bikes on trains

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A whole entire ST article about my favorite stopover spot on Vancouver Island and not one word about the world class oceanfront + extremely accessible Adventure World Playground?! www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/...

Two kids on top of a climbing structure at a huge and amazing playground with loads of bouncy ground and two zip lines and oh that's right the freaking beach in the background

Another view of the same playground from a few years prior showing the wide array of play equipment and how most of it is accessible for all

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Informative 🧵 SEATTLE area - Katterman's has all the vaccines for all ages, and they are a wonderful local pharmacy kattermans.com

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Katterman's Sand Point Pharmacy

Expert Care. Essential Vaccines. Neighborly Touch.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

but what if two teens on a e-scooter are riding on the sidewalk

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

4yo friend to my 3yo: I'm sorry, but we got you a happy birthday card that's space 🚀, but it's to a boy, so we're gonna cross it out 🤩 The best part is that her birthday is not until November, this kid is clearly planning ahead

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What a story ... yikes I'm thankful my work to improve traffic safety near my kid's school about a decade later hasn't been quite as impossible, but man, we have so far to go

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you have optimized your life to bike yourself and your kids everywhere, but you suddenly find yourself with a broken heel, you get to spend an inordinate amount of time asking everyone you have ever met for rides for yourself and family members in their cars AMA

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you're riding an e-scooter and almost injure someone, however, you will be shamed indefinitely, and scooters will be banned so we all have to drive instead

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Syltebo said they used two types of paint on the street — Sherwin-Williams Forte and Sherwin-Williams Pro-Park. Both are acrylic. Neither advertises itself as temporary." lololol Whoopsies it's a pedestrian street now 💃

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think I've ever subscribed to something so fast thedarkestskyfilm.com

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The Darkest Sky Film

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

School busing in Seattle also seems to be a big mess this year, and many families are turning to carpools to save their kids from an hour on a bus meandering in circles The school bus should be a top road priority, a community center on wheels, not a second-class afterthought to the car line

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wait. I'm sorry. How is $2500/mo *cheaper* than hiring personnel? That's $30K a year per student or faculty member. You could just hire people.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New telescope first light day is a lot like new bike day but if the bike was military surplus from decades ago and a group of your nerdiest friends got to spend their careers sorting out which components to upgrade so it would work on its own in space for years Also, Fourier transforms are magic 🔭

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🥳 First-light doughnuts from the very recently launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🔭 Fear not - it will all look a lot prettier when focused!

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Weͫrͣᶰwͤoͩlfram @werwolfram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Shit... I've been following this intermittently since the NRO gifted the telescope body back in 2012... this gives my jaded heart comfort... arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

$15K+ on average each year for each car in the United States. And Gas specifically is 55% higher than six years ago. That’s a shocking cost, especially when u consider how much of the U.S. has been planned and designed to be functionally car dependent, and that often means multiple cars are needed.

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Car ownership costs an average of $5,851 a year on top of auto loan payments, analysis finds

The cost of insurance, gas, and maintenance or repairs can add thousands of dollars a year to the price of owning a car.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seattle: Katterman's pharmacy has COVID shot walk-ins for 6mo+ Also Seattle: driving sucks, especially during sports, why do all you weirdos drive — and why do map apps never know about closures? (Confessions of someone with a broken heel who hates that my main mode of transport is presently car)

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The liminal space in MyChart where you can see the images and read the words but only partially know what it means… One thing it means is, I canceled the kids' weekly fall swim lessons. Broke my heart but we are well over capacity with one adult who can walk/bike/drive this fall (I broke my heel)

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Going car-free is great, but don't forget about families who could use a cargo bike (or minicar) as their second or third vehicle. The potential market is much, much bigger!

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This family of four put 1,000 km on a cargo e-bike instead of buying a second car

I’ve been working in the electric bike industry for nearly two decades, and publicly reviewing e-bikes for around half of...

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To be clear I am glad that we are taking the risk from this seriously, but here's the 2020 reporting from the times on 6PPD. See if you notice a difference in tenor? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Tire dust killing coho salmon returning to Puget Sound, new research shows

For decades now, scientists have known something was killing adult coho salmon as soon as they hit Seattle’s urban waters, ready to spawn. They had traveled thousands of miles, only to be killed as so...

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This story about sound transit quickly fixing a problem killing fish reminds me that we still haven't banned the use of 6PPD in car tires despite knowing it's killing salmon since 2022. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Federally protected Chinook salmon among dead fish under I-90 light rail

Investigations focus on how underwater anode cables, which carry a low-level electrical current, might have killed fish — and how many of which species died.

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Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Save for a couple sprinters, everybody lost the race to the bus. Transit advocates were excited about that

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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

3 people beat the bus by about 5 seconds. A second bus finished before almost everyone else.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

anyway i'm not sure i like how quickly "you just don't get it, it's handy" turns into some new evangelical worldview within a short number of weeks

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reached Inbox 100 for possibly the first time ever In case you were wondering how the work backlog after vacation + breaking my heel + turning 40 was going Anyway if you need something from me you might want to, uh, not send an email

It's me, making it around the block, on one of those knee scooter things, making a very 😬 + 😅 face

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm so glad I planned this amazing trip because it turns out I won't be able to ride a bike (or drive a car, womp womp) for probably months. I learned two new terms today for fractures in the ankle/foot area. (I injured myself walking down stairs! Not riding a bike! For the record)

I'm riding my Tern GSD with a sleepy young kid on the back, loaded with gear, pulling a trailer full of camping stuff with a bonus little kid bike hung off the way back

Two kids cycling through perfect forest scenery on a protected paved bike path

Bike ride snack break with my loaded rig viewed from the back. My big kid's bike and my husband and his bike are also visible.

Family selfie at Green Point, halfway between Tofino and Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, with perfect sunset light and forest in the foreground and beach down below in the background

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nothing like a road trip with a twisted ankle to remind you accessibility is not something we have solved. My husband and kids enjoyed a 0.3 mi stroll to a beachside playground and I'm sitting with my leg up in the hotel. Have crutches now, at least. Looking forward to home and a dang X-Ray.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Astrology is bunk but I absolutely twisted my ankle during the lunar eclipse (which I couldn't see due to clouds from my current location) and now I get to spend the rest of my vacation sitting on a sofa with a world class view while everyone else deals with the kids whoooopsies

Panoramic waterfront view of Johnstone Strait from a large living room on a cloudy day

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Milan, all the bike-share services, including Lime, have a subset of bikes with child seats. Something we should have everywhere!

A bunch of lime bikes with one with child seat

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bringing the kids next time 😍

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Words cannot express how thrilled I am that my mayor is prioritizing this 🥰

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On the one hand, ban cars On the other hand, what if they were all functional cute lil hatchbacks, kei cars, and reasonable-sized minivans instead of, like, crossover mcgrillface SUV mowdown elite? (In other words, the part of me that doesn't hate cars loves my 1996 Toyota Previa 🤙)

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Meanwhile, the one (1) satellite all the astronomers were actually rooting for 😞

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Easy to agree to if you think it's somebody else going 60 in a 30 for no reason. Not if it's you going 35 in a 25 and you're late for work. Incidentally, Lime has geofenced speed limiters and no parking zones for bikes and scooters. Only political will prohibits the same for newer cars in cities.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just when you think you have the end of summer chaos summer camp schlep orchestra rehearsal camping prep block party extravaganza work week all mapped out, preschool drops a last minute Bob Bilby sidequest that derails everything

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I needed something spectacular, and here it is: a view of the August 12 solar eclipse as seen from South Korea's Danuri satellite, in orbit around the Moon. You can see the lunar shadow sweeping across Greenland. 🔭🧪 www.mt.co.kr/amp/tech/202...

The Korean lunar orbiter Danuri succeeded in capturing the total eclipse observed on the European continent on the 12th (local time). The part of the shadow that touches the surface of the moon (top left) is a total solar eclipse. /Photo: Korea Aerospace Research Institute

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