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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Better bike paths in Seattle than NYC? Fiction or non-fiction?

A picture of a section of text from an N.K. Jemisin short story that reads “… Gas leaks. Floods. A building fell down in Har-lem. A fatal duck attack. Several of the apartments in their building are empty because a lot of people can't cope. Her neighbor- the other one, with the broken arm—is moving out at the end of the month. Seattle. Better bike paths.”

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It was a perfect day for a cat ride! Complete with some architectural history of some local buildings.

Cyclists standing around on a plaza that’s partially shaded from trees and a structure with a glass roof.

A small dog (chihuahua?) is in a cyclists backpack. He’s got a black head and some white in his nose/mouth/eyes. He’s got his little tongue hanging out to the left side of his mouth

A tuxedo cat named boots is sitting in a covered basket on the front of a bike. There’s a few other cyclists in the background.

Many people and their bikes at a park on the water listening to the the ride leader speak. There’s a small shelter near the water and a large bridge in the background leading to west Seattle.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So many people out enjoying the game. It was delightful and perfect weather.

A bunch of people walking on the waterfront. There’s power building on the left and some greenery on the right.

Tons of people standing and sitting on a shaded plaza in pioneer square. There’s two large wooden statues on each side odd the plaza.

Tons of people standing around in front of a large tv screen in a plaza. There’s buildings line the plaza.

A view from above of the Seattle waterfront. There’s tons on people on the waterfront below. They’re sandwiched between a mini highway, a bike path, some greenery, and some buildings. The skyline is visible on the left.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So many random watch parties. It was really cool to see. So many people out.

A group of people crowded around a van in a past parking lot. The van has a tv in the back, but it’s not visible in the pic. There’s even several people sitting on the cat walk of a low height billboard.

A group of people standing outside the fire department and watching there game on a tv put out by the fire dept.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yesterday, i joined the Cat Rides group for a walk and to celebrate Toby the cat’s 4th birthday. We started with a small exhibit of the cats of Ballard at push pull.

People standing around in front of a store. Two people have strollers with cats in them. Another person in a yellow jacket has a back pack like container strapped on their front that also contains a cat.

A grey and white cat sits on top his owner’s cat backpack. The cat has a blue ball cap that says partner in crime. In the distance is a fenced cage filled with some ducks.

A wall of various paintings of the cats of Ballard. There’s a lot of different shapes of paintings and different styles of containers. Below them are some art supplies in the store.

A man in a green sweatshirt and brown cat hat pushes a stroller with a black cat who is peering out of the stroller.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Biked 65ish miles today including the commute and then a Cat Ride to get some ice cream. I’m surprisingly not that tired, and had a good time.

A bunch of cyclists standing around with their bikes. A view of Seattle is in the background.

Cyclists hanging around at a view point that over looks South lake Union in Seattle.

Some cyclists checking out Toby the cat who is riding in a special cat basket on the front of a blue-green bike and a woman in green bike shorts and a purple tie-dyed shirt is checking on Toby.

Many cyclists at a view point overlooking the puget sound.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Another cat ride today with some extra cats! Our route actually was a silhouette of a cat’s head. It was mostly a good ride.

Three cyclists in front of a house ands a jeep with a sun nearly setting in the background. The two cyclists in the center have backpacks with cats in the. The one closest to the camera has the cat hiding, but the one slightly further away has their orange head sticking out of the bag.

The cyclists on the right has a folding bike ands a small basket on the front with a very small brown dog.

A picture of the sun close to setting with some clouds covering most I’d the sky except the area to the right where the sun is at. In the distance is some water ands a bunch of boats moored along some piers.

An orange cat, pumpkin, with a leash looking at the camera next to a backpack. To the right someone’s arm can be seen stamping ride books with orange pumpkin the cat stamps.

A picture of some cyclists standing around with a small building to the left abs a large building behind.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Every time I go back to this paper, I look at this table and laugh. I love when people surface depths of the internet in research papers.

A portion of a table that has a section labelled "Flame Newsgroups" for Usenet newsgroups and two are listed below: alt.flame and alt.alien-vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A rainy cat ride! I think toby slept most of the time but i snapped a quick picture at the end when he poked his head out. We had some nice trails along a creek today. I didn’t really have time to do this ride but i made some anyway. Who needs sleep?

Toby the cat peaking out of a cozy basket with a blanket and a plastic cover that is unzipped on one side. The basket is mounted on the front of a bicycle.

A few cyclists stopped at the intersection of a gravel trail and a road.

Cyclists biking towards the camera out of a trail that’s shaded by green trees and greenery on both sides.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Google updated voice a few weeks ago with this feature. It’s giving “graphic design is my passion”

A screenshot of a message in Google voice. The message is in a dark blue bubble and there is a link that’s even darker blue that’s unreadable.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Some more pics of the mayors speech, the ceremonial opening, and some folks riding on lake Washington boulevard. It was packed with so many people out enjoying the road. Walking, jogging, and cycling.

Mayor Katie Wilson wearing a bike helmet in from of life guard station on lake Washington giving a speech at the ceremonial opening of the first bicycle weekend. To the right of her is the organizer of the event jrock, advocate snd author Anna zivarts, and former council member Tammy morales. In the foreground are a group of people listening, many cyclists with helmets.

The mayor, Katie Wilson, is preparing to cut the ribbon next to some road closed signs. A bunch of cyclists wait on the sides.

A bunch of cyclists coming around a corner in the road. There trees on the left and in the background.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Lots of people have biked to hear the mayor talk at the opening of bicycle weekends.

Lots of cyclists standing around in a field waiting to start the ride to LWB

The crowd of lots of cyclists slowly moving onto the beach to hear the mayor give a speech for the opening of bicycle weekends.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Pics from the cat walk today. We walked the waterfront down to pioneer square and then back up to pike place market. Such a beautiful day for this.

A red angular sculpt in the distance past a pedestrian bridge in a sculpture park. There’s a gravel path in the foreground that hears off to the right of the picture before cutting over to the other side. There’s trees that are still blooming along the path.

A boardwalk with a few pale standing around. There’s a building and a tall white Ferris wheel in the background. The sky is mostly cloudless and bright blue with sine mountains across the water.

A great and white cat laying down in a grey backpack that someone is carrying. The other is in a stroller pushed by one of the nearby people.

A brown and white longer hair chihuahua in a sling carried by a guy with a purple tie-dyed shirt and cyan colored shoes.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I did the cat rides nw ride today and learned about the Liction Spring that fed into Green Lake and how that connected to lake Washington. 1 cat and one tiny dog.

Bicycle riders standing around with their bikes in a park. There’s some trees in the background and a port-a-potty on the left in the background.

A tiny little pond where a with a wire fence in the foreground and a pale yellow house in the background. There’s a run down greenish building to the right that is used for waterfowl like ducks. The pond has a few tiny islands with very short bridges between them.

There’s trees in the distance and a blue sky with some soft clouds.

Cyclists standing in the midst of some tall evergreen trees while a guy is telling them about the history of the nearby stream in the park. He’s wearing a tie-dyed purple shirt and a yellow vest asking with a helmet.

A picture of a small dark brown dog in a bag hanging from the handlebars of a small foldable orange bike.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I’m sore, but i biked another 15 miles for bike disco. We’re starting on Mercer island tonight.

A group of people hanging out with their bikes in an amphitheater.

The grass in the foreground is pretty green but the trees behind the amphitheater are still mostly bare with a few starting to bud.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today i did the first Cat Ride NW of the year, which had 3 cats, some babies, and a couple riding a tandem bike. We stopped to see the UW cherry trees, and ended with an Easter egg hunt. It was a blast!

Some cyclists hanging around, most with their backs turned to the camera ands some bikes in the periphery . Center in the photo is a backpack with a screen door, currently open, with a cat inside. There’s also a bike that has a soft cat carrier in the front with another cat in it to the left of the backpack.

A tandem bike from behind with a woman carrying a red and black cat carrier backpack on her back with a car inside. There’s some trees on the left.

A picture of some large cherry trees with fully bloomed light pink flowers in the University of Washington quad, with a ton of pale visiting them. They’re casting shade across the area and the branches are long and twisting proving a lot of soft shade.

Some plastic Easter eggs held against my shirt. There’s a variety of colors including blue, purple, yellow, and green, and orange. They were filled with candy.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Comcast has a chatbot for "support" and the UX presents itself as a chat window, but if you click in the text box to try and type a different question it initiates a dialog to exit. 🙃

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yeah UW stadium and Burke would be my general suggestion as it's flat, beautiful, and very low stress, but obviously much longer. 148th is doable, but the returning involves some steeper climbs. From LR to LFP consider: 155th->15th->150th->27th->155th->156th->37th->165th->Burke Gilman N.

Bike route from the 148th lightrail station venturing slowly down the hill to lake forest park. It's roughly 3.8 miles and mostly residential streets and bike lanes.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So many people showed up for this ride for Alex Pretti and it was pretty awesome. Totally worth the extra 30 some mile ride to get there and back.

A view from behind me of hundreds of cyclists between some parked cars and the trees on the edge of alki beach.

A view ahead of maybe a hundred cyclists when we stopped for a moment of silence at alki. There’s water off the puget sound to the right. The sky is cloudy. There are parked cars and some businesses on the left.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Biked over to west Seattle for the ride for Alex there. Nice crowd so far. There’s still quite a few people behind me and in front it extends to admiral.

A large group of cyclists of all kinds wearing a ton of different gear, much of which is high-visibility colors.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One of my favorite sections of 99 makes for a great walk. Don’t know how they got approval for parking spaces like this, which just encourage drivers to park on the sidewalk.

A car parking on the sidewalk with their hazard lights on next to an effective highway/stroad. There are some trees along the road with curb cuts to allow cars to do this easier

Another shot of the sidewalk along Aurora/99 with a car parked on the sidewalk closest to the road leaving a few feet of space to pedestrians. You can also see the 4 or so parking spots that run parallel to the road against the building.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

That one and the Kent-Des Moines hwy over the Green river are the ones I know for sure (the latter is a short, hanging wood crossing, but it has seats!). I thought I heard of one in eastern WA, but can't find it (if it exists). In Japan, they have a larger 2-story bridge on their 70km trail.

A short pedestrian bridge hangs under the large concrete Kent-Des Moines over the Green River just off of the green river trail crossing over to Frager Rd.

A pedestrian and cyclist track running underneath the main bridge deck of a bridge in Japan that is part of their Shimanami Expressway and the related trail that's about 70km. Image from here: https://www.jb-honshi.co.jp/english/miniiko/nishiseto/jihodou_innoshima/

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

They added lights to the tail along Myrtle Edwards Park at least up to the new pavilion. I didn’t notice them turned on last night. I did appreciate the darkness late at night, but this will be so much safer. Also these are nice warm lights!!!

A bicycle path disappears into the distance with a pedestrian overpass to the left and some temporary construction fencing on the right side of the path. There are new warmly colored lights dotted along the right side is the trail.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Some of the bikes and decorations from this months Bike Disco.

A black bike with a small Christmas tree on the back with lights.

A few bikes with basis lights Anna since Christmas decorations. There’s a bunch of building lights in the background across a lake.

A bunch of people with their bikes wearing many different colors of jackets and pants. There’s some clouds and a distant skyline in the distance.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The Burke-Gilman trail is closed at gas works Park 1 block between Burke Ave and Meridian Ave to fix the trail (yay no more bumps). I didn’t see any dates for closure. @seattlebikeblog.com #seabikes

Some orange and white closure and detour signs block a trail.

The old blacktop has been dig up leaving a several inch hole. There’s some sort of protective material placed down. There’s caution tape surround the hole where the trail has been dug out.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I should really do a real bike ride today, or at least run some errands, but the wind has me questioning that as every ride will involve a headwind for multiple miles.

a screenshot of a weather forecast highlighting wind speeds between 1pm and 10pm. The speeds range from 18mph to 20mph.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Look what i got for Thanksgiving — it’s a syphilis ornament.

A stuffed toy ornament of a little pink worm looking thing with two black eyes coming out of a Christmas stocking. The worm thing is a cartoon version of the syphilis bacteria.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yesterday i did my first car ride, which happened to be this guys 14th birthday. So we biked from the animal shelter to all the places he’s lived. Good times.

A black and white cat sitting in a covered basket on the front of a bicycle. The cat’s also wearing a little sweater and has one paw against the mesh side wall.

A curious, black-and-white cat on a leash walks up a slanted retaining wall with shrubs on the side. A woman in a black and white polka-dot sweater and a bicycle helmet holds the leash.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There is an art to the AI generated images that superficially look real but get weirder the longer you look. I'm not talking about extra fingers weird. The genius in is that if you ask an adult to make the picture weird, most wouldn't do these things ( a kid might though).

A weird AI generated image from an amazon product of four people eating some berry pie. On the right is an older gentlemen with a white beard and a tan sweater with his fork stuck into the side of a tiny slice of pie sitting on a plate. Left of him is a guy wearing a a blue denim shirt with a bite of pie on a fork, but no plate and a mug full of coffee looking drink. None of the pie slices on the table are missing any pie so it's unclear where his pie even came from. Then there's a woman in a reddish shirt with a piece of pie on a plate and no fork. And on the far left is a little girl holding a fork in the weirdest possible way stuck diagonally into a tiny piece of pie as if she's pushing the bite of pie away from her. She also may be missing her left arm after the elbow because there's bends in the shirt but no forearm visible anywhere. It's unclear if all of the people have their eyes closed or are staring down at the little girl who clearly doesn't know how to eat pie. They are all smiling pretty big though.

In the center is the pie, but there's only one slice missing from the pie but the entire crust is intact. The slice missing appears to be less than all of the pieces on the table, but is larger than any single slice. Also all of the cut pieces all have crust, so it's unclear where the fuck the pie came from.

Also on the table is a random salad and a bowl of some unknown food thing to the left of the older gentleman on the right side of the pic.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Went to watch the cx races today. It was my first time seeing something like this but it fun. The supportive nature of the spectators to the newbies and the kids was great to see, as well as the light taunts to the veteran racers.

A view of a muddy race track with leaves in the sides and sons tents in the back. Several cyclists are walking or rubbing toward the camera including two in costume with a tandem bike. One with a Santa costume and one with a reindeer costume.

Two cyclists in a muddy track going around a corner. The one to the right is in a pikachu costume and the one behind him is in a normal lycra kit. There’s trees, tents, and spectators in the distance.

A cyclist takes a corner wearing a cow costume.

Several cyclists are in mud turning a corner. The one in the back is a man in just underwear and he’s very close to the person in a red jersey just in front of him. Several spectators on the right of the photograph at the edge of the track are offering drinks to the cyclists. There are also tents along the right edge of the track.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I saw a placard for “winter banana” apples at the store a week ago but no apples. Today they had a few and they do in fact have a very slight banana flavor. In a few bites it almost tasted like a hint of melon.

Two apples sit on a white cutting board. The apples are somewhat oddly shaped with some sides looking like they’re bulging out a bit more, sort of like heirloom tomatoes. The apples are yellow greenish with one having a slight reddish blush in two sides.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Saw this research and test car in my ride today. Curious when that was last used and where it’s heading.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I checked out the new bike trail. It’s nice but after having ridden the closed lane for ages, the crossings are annoying.

A bike trail extends into the distance. There’s grass in both sides as well as some new trees. In the distance are some cranes for unloading containers in the port.

A bike trail extends towards downtown Seattle. There’s a chain link fence on the right and a concrete barrier on the left. Cranes in the distance on the left.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The terminal 91 trail in Interbay is open and ready for the commute tomorrow. It feels so much more spacious. I will not miss the pinch point at the bottom of the bridge ramp.

A newly paved trail at night that is flat and spacious. There are fences in both sides of the trail as this runs between some industrial buildings and a rail yard.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I’m so happy about the new Georgetown bike lanes so i can now safely get to my favorite cake place. I rode to the opening party, grabbed cake, rode to Georgetown, then down to Renton and back. Didn’t expect to do 57 miles but it was great weather for it.

A couple of people with their backs facing the camera listening to a speaker standing in the opening of a white building at the opening celebration in Georgetown’s mini mart park.

A view of the mini mart city park from across the street in the bike trail. The road to the left is the park is closed and there’s some tents and a band over there playing.

A slice of cake in a box from deep sea sugar and salt. The cake has four layers of cake with cooked apple filling and their cream cheese frosting between each layer. There’s a salted caramel that has been poured on the top of it that has started to run off in the box. It was delicious.

A green field with patches of dead grass and a small building in the distance. There are tall trees on the edges of the field. There’s a few picnic tables and garbage cans dotted throughout.

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John (ghost mode) 🌧️🍁🎃💨🚴🏻‍♂️ @soco.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Posting from everyone's premiere Taliban accommodation.

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