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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I'm reading this correctly, Seattle residents won't be able to access our accounts (and therefore any new or existing ebook/audiobook loans through Libby) for at least two weeks while the @spl.org system sets up their services after upgrades

The Library’s major system upgrade was successful and most of our services are now available or will be available soon. We will continue to update the chart below to show the current status of our services until this project is complete and normal operations resume in early October.

ACCOUNT SERVICES

Account access: Limited availability.

BiblioCommons account access is unavailable, but Library staff can help you access your account.

Starts Sept. 16, ends on or after Oct. 1

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sweet, looking forward to a smoother ride home today

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mariners' struggling lefty rehab program doing some strong work tonight

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you to SDOT and to whoever did this

A picture of a particularly bumpy section of the ship canal trail which some person helpfully highlighted and painted "SDOT PLS FIX THX"

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Why is PCA throwing a temper tantrum in the 4th after a leadoff home run?

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Drivers never apply this logic to mass transit. They go crazy cutting off and swerving into traffic to pass and hold up buses with 50+ people.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trey Smack is an all time kicker name

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

YMMV obviously, but a few months ago, I was facing the same situation. When I showed up, the walk-in wait time was only 10 min. (This was at the LQA DOL office)

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Some Seattle neighborhood birds: the Steller's Jay and Bushtit #seattle #pnw #photography #birdphotography

$A Steller's Jay perched on a fence staring back at the viewer. Its normally black head feathers and crest look brownish in the direct sunlight and its body refracts a brilliant blue color$ $A Steller's Jay perched on a fence yelling. Its normally black head feathers and crest look brownish in the direct sunlight and its body, wings, and tail refract a brilliant blue color$ A pair of bushtits sitting in a bay laurel tree. The bottom bushtit has its feathers poofed out and its yellow eye stares back at the viewer. The top bushtit looks on overtop with its eye shrouded in shadow.

A pair of bushtits sitting in a bay laurel tree. The bottom bushtit has its feathers poofed out and its yellow eye stares back at the viewer. The top bushtit looks on overtop with its eye shrouded in shadow.

A bushtit standing on a feeder with its head tilted in apparent curiosity

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The ALR proposal authors forecast that it would actually increase overall operator hours due to how the 1 and 2 line segments would be realigned

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Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To my fellow Seattleites - Ballard Link is alive and well. I can assure you I’ve been a good patient. At my age, doctor’s orders are not just a recommendation. We’ve done every test and multiple studies and trust, I am healthy. As much as this frustrates me, process takes time. - XOXO, BLE

Mitch McConnell dying meme with Dow Constantine and the Ballard Link

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You cannot drive straight from Ballard or Lake City to Capitol Hill on a single road either, but our car infrastructure is way too overbuilt as it is. More arterials will not fix it

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some of my closest calls getting hit by drivers are at these intersections. People just blow through them without looking for bicycles and often cut the corner to turn left. We need more diverters to prevent cars cutting through residential streets.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Metro publishes reports with this info available... Plus if that's her concern, she just voted against the solution

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Many of these suburbs were created as tax shelters. Siphoning money from places that actually need it (in the name of equity!) to further subsidize them is ridiculous.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Because they identify with the victims of gun violence and the perpetrators of traffic violence

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A couple more shots of the greater yellowlegs #photography #pnw #birding

A greater yellowlegs looking for food in the receding tide

A greater yellowlegs flying low over the surf

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Made an excursion to Jetty Island today. Luckily the thunderstorms passed us by #photography #pnw #birding

A house finch clinging to a small branch

A greater yellowlegs wading through the surf looking for food

A seal strikes a pose on a dock next to another loafing

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We shouldn't feel compelled to divert over the fremont bridge on bikes (which also needs a better connection to the ship canal trail)

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Perpetuating that old catch 22

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Nor should we continue to fall for bad faith uses of environmental reviews that are clearly intended just to preserve (formerly redlined) enclaves for NIMBYs

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And the KCC measure disproportionately cuts out Seattle from the funds. Of the 15% that it would be eligible to get, Seattle receives 3x less than a per capita allocation would give

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The decision last week from the Sound Transit board to leave Ballard Light Rail extension unfunded is downright outrageous. So make your voices heard! Sound Transit board needs to feel that pressure every single day until Ballard is funded.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I swore never to question Dan Wilson's pinch hitting decisions ever again, but...

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Also, opening the floodgates for local funding for ST projects seems bad long-term. Gives more leverage to the rest of the tri-county area to pull funds from Seattle projects

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If it gets Graham St into the "fully funded" column, that's great, but does this actually cover the cost of the project? The parking garage amendment has 5 cosponsors (including the KCE) and it says they can fund it by simply declaring that the Kirkland to Issaquah line costs $100M less

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Why do that when you can simply borrow money from the north king subarea?

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If there is an RFI, how can we trust ST to give new ideas a fair shot given their strong bias towards their preferred alternatives?

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The LWB bike days whining should get us Melrose or Ballard Ave at least

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 10/05/2026

MurderBot, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (from Martha Wells' newest book in the Murderbot Diaries, "Platform Decay"

Screenshot of text from the electronic form of a book. The text reads:

"We were moving relatively quickly then and I made the mistake of getting optimistic. Then we got to a border and found the only option was to rent a ground vehicle and drive across two unaffiliated zones because both had zero mass transport. Zero. Mass. Transport. This is supposed to be a civilized space station, in space, why the fuck am I driving a ground vehicle to get to a fucking port on a fucking-

(Emotion check: I am absolutely fine.)"

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

More to your point about ridership numbers, that 147k projection for Ballard was from before the upzones. AFAIK, ST hasn't updated the projection numbers, so an updated projection would probably increase proportionally more than other extensions.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Ah, see that now. Just trying to square that with the 8% of people who didn't have a valid fare when checked. (Can't find this report on the ST site)

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Where is the 40% stat coming from exactly?

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Calling for "advancing" these projects aren't enough especially when you're using much more concrete terms for completing the spine, which we should do! But please channel that same energy for your own constituents and make sure we get to Ballard and our much needed infill stations in ST3.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The proposal from the chair falls well short of your stated commitments. Graham and Boeing Access Road were part of ST1! And there is still no date attached to them! No date means cancelled.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There's such a frustrating amount of institutional inertia in the WA legislature

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Or rather advocacy based on desired outcomes. Most of our problems that require advocacy are political first and technical second

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We are not asking Sound Transit to do something impossible. We are asking them to do what they said they would do. Build the connection. Build the future. Build the damn trains.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Anything short of Market St is a failure for ST and the city

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

4. It's all connected (housing, transit, social justice) and getting people out of cars is essential

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is such a weird strawman. 1. Bike lanes are for everyone 2. Bike lanes don't come at the expense of other mass transit 3. Forcing car dependency causes so many harms especially to people from historically marginalized groups

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My initial thought was near Seward Park and looks like I was somewhat close

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 15/04/2026

Dave Somers is the Snohomish County Executive and chair of the Sound Transit board. He is arguing for abandoning promises made to voters and not trying to build all of ST3. We will not allow him to succeed. There is no universe in which we abandon any piece of rail to Ballard.

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Thomas Powers @thepowers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Can't have expected him to assess the city's needs in his *12 years* on city council

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