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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This emphasizes the need that everyone involved in planning transit routes and changes should be a regular rider of transit. It’s great that Claudia knows her route(s), but we need that on the planning side for every major route (minimum).

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Technically you’re right. I don’t think Godzilla had been reborn 300 times, but he has such pretty eyes.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When I lived close to Freelard I used this place and they always did a great job. Looks like they do pickup and deliver now! 5 mile radius. www.knifesharpeningseattle.com

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The highest quality knife and tool sharpening, fine cutlery, and sharpening supplies.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I Googled “Godzilla vs Jesus” with trepidation, thinking I might only find GenAI slop. But sometimes the internet still delivers. Reddit thread with more info: www.reddit.com/r/InternetMy...

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be fair, none of the millions of people he sentenced to death had giant anime titties.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Back around 2000, I was driving on 101 somewhere south of San Lucas and north of San Luis Obispo. Two lanes each direction. I was in the left lane, keeping pace with traffic, and we were going 95 in a 60 mph zone. Speeding as culture is horrible everywhere, but especially psychotic in California.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would die from a never ending orgasm if there was $1.50 pizza slices in Seattle. (Costco doesn’t count.)

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The reason to kidnap God is to show him the magic of turning His piss into gold.

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why does every microwave have a “popcorn” button but every popcorn bag says “DONT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON?” We went deeper than I thought possible getting the DEFINITIVE answer. Talked to the popcorn industry, the microwave industry. Even the inventor of popcorn sensing microwave technology.

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Hyperfixed | A Button is a Promise

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Eddie Current @cheatlines.co · 07/10/2026

Wikipedia snippet: A fish ladder, also known as a pescalator,

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I may be biased because a dear friend of mine who was killed by suicide nearly two decades ago loved Ed, and Ed continues to remind me of her, but you are absolutely correct.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Amazon algorithm does not understand the power of N+1 bicycles. You cannot own “a” bicycle. They metastasize and become many.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hopefully. It’s beyond the scope of that project, but SDOT’s entire approach to turn boxes on the 2-way bikeways needs to be revised. I have not found any of them to be safe.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bikes. And yeah, James is slightly better, and it has some infrastructure, but that infrastructure is not good. I’ve been nearly hit by other cyclists too many times stopping (while signaling) in those painted turn boxes on 2nd.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Based on my mother when I was growing up, the answer is, and will always be, Will Clark when he played for the Giants. Hearing the stuff my mother said about Clark was a very healthy introduction to women’s lust.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A great spot and one of the things I miss about working in Pioneer Square. But also, why is there zero infrastructure for turning right off of southbound 2nd onto westbound Yesler? You have to stop in and block the bikeway or the crosswalk. Or take the lane on 2nd.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OMFG I am completely destroyed by this LinkedIn post by Michael White, the father of Magnus White (a very promising junior racer who was killed at the age of 17 in 2023 by a young woman who was eventually convicted of vehicular homicide).

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Burn the pizza box as you consume the pizza. Then die in darkness, beratna.

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

X is for venturing onto once a year when I remember a banger tweet I want to screenshot.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These people think they shouldn’t have to live close to either. They think they should get the quiet of rural living combined with easy access to city amenities.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

F1 limits engine power to avoid creating a black hole during a collision and destroying the Earth.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The BC thing will be an interesting experiment. My gut feeling is the opposite of yours, but if people like it this time, hell yeah, let’s do it here too. We shall see!

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know what you meant, but I love that the “no subs” could also be read as WSDOT having a small fleet of subs to provide backup for the ferries.

The Soviet passenger submarine “Neptune”.

https://www.irishsun.com/news/273077020/the-only-soviet-tourist-submarine

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My question was badly phrased. Regardless of whether it’s instituted nationally or state-by-state, the reason year-round DST has been unpopular in practice is dark winter mornings, which is worse in northern states. Do you think there’s something different this time around?

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What do you think about that we’ve tried this before and while it is popular in theory, in practice it very quickly becomes unpopular? (From Wikipedia)

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

…reasons, but if you ignore the externalities, they are so so much better than any coil electric stove I’ve ever used.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m too poor to have ever lived anywhere with a flat electric stove, let alone an induction stove. I’ve only ever lived with gas stoves or coil electric stoves, and a gas stove is a billion times better to cook on than coil electric. Gas stoves should absolutely be phased out for all the obvious…

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Rebecca Brinbury @brinbury.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wasn't this mom, but I am a mom who rides a cargo bike on Greenwood daily. So I say with confidence: With some work (and loss of some parking, quelle horreur), a two-way protected bike lane from 87th and Greenwood to the Fremont bridge would fundamentally change how we move around in NW Seattle.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most people who think they saw Sputnik actually saw the core stage of the R-7 that had boosted it into orbit, which itself ended up in orbit. A 1st magnitude object is relatively easy to see, but 6th magnitude requires a dark sky and knowing exactly what you’re looking for.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1?wprov=sfti1#Launch_and_mission):

“The R-7 core stage, with a mass of 7.5 tonnes and a length of 26 metres, also reached Earth orbit. It was a first magnitude object following behind the satellite and visible at night. Deployable reflective panels were placed on the booster in order to increase its visibility for tracking. A small highly polished sphere, the satellite was barely visible at sixth magnitude, and thus harder to follow optically.”

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think it’s more like 70% of voters are anti-authoritarian, but half of those voters define “authoritarianism” as some combination of “queer people exist”, “women have bodily autonomy”, and “beef and gas aren’t being kept artificially cheap enough”.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 05/10/2026

Good afternoon! Your friendly cyber mechanic here! I'd like to share some knowledge on a poorly understood topic that boosters and critics chronically misrepresent. Let's talk about what computer scientists mean by "AI" and "LLM"s. They aren't what you think they are; this is important.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A bunch of the podcasts I listen to have announced they’re adding a video version, and I have not, and likely will not, ever watch any of them. I can look up their faces if I’m curious, but beyond that…uh, no. I did listen to BtB for a few months in 2019. The episodes were just too long!

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Accepting that no one can contain the pulsing ocean that is language, these aren’t podcasts. We already have a word for shows like this: Talk shows. Two to a few people sitting and talking is a talk show.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve only been to one Village People concert but a large portion of it was one of them yelling at the crowd about how nobody does the YMCA dance right.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Podcasts are for ending up sobbing uncontrollably while folding laundry, doing the dishes, or sitting on a train/plane/bus. There is zero reason I want to watch a B-list celebrity ask a C-list celebrity about their vinyl collection while they both talk into Radio City sized microphones.

Post from @marawilson.bsky.social:

“I don't think I'm ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I've been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I'm on a walk or doing the dishes, I don't need video.”

(Screenshotted because they turned off quotes.)

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, it’s intellectually lazy to say (paraphrasing) “that’s just the reality of 2026”. We can make the world we want. There is no “that’s just how it is”. If you want more justice, equity, and diversity in the world, we need to work to make that happen. A lot of that work is on ourselves.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m neurodivergent, autism spectrum (diagnosed when I was 16), and I urge you to learn from this experience. I too put my foot in my mouth many times in my 20s and early 30s. I learned from those experiences: refining my social interactions for different contexts, developing empathy.

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine being a heretic AND getting zero bitches? like pick a struggle

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