Ah sorry about my confusion!

@council.seattle.gov so I'm not sure it's your job, but I'm also not sure it's not.

The protected bike lane through Westlake square needs to be really fixed. It is continually broken with the barrier making the lane super narrow and pushing bikes back! Give us a bike box and secured barrier!

Oh! Great! If you need a place @geekgirlstuff.bsky.social is great, they do uv resin printing and laser cutting for such things.

There are a few ways to make them, do you want many or just a few? Most folks have uv resin printed them and laser cut them out.

Holy rickety Bluesky.

The Atmospheric Stillness of Hasui Kawase’s Summer Rain This 1932 woodblock print by Hasui Kawase, titled Summer Rain, captures a tranquil river scene in Japan during a gentle downpour. The composition is dominated by a vast, greenish-blue body of water reflecting a distant shoreline and a sailboat, while a small cluster of houseboats is moored in the foreground. A solitary figure with a blue umbrella walks along the grassy bank, adding a sense of quietude and human presence to the misty landscape.

Summer Rain - by Hasui Kawase. 1932, Japan

photo of people biking into downtown Seattle

The three most common doubts I hear about whether biking can scale in Seattle are:
1) Is it too hilly?
2) Is it too rainy?
3) Are things too far away?

Let's assume those are good faith questions and look at each one in turn. 🧵

This is great! A thing I think helps with all 3 that folks tend to disregard is that it's easy to put the bike on a bus/train/streetcar and get much further or flatten that hill out. While the bus has weight limits (ebikes would need the battery off) the others are level entry. It helps a bunch.

In Seattle:

- People bike all the time.
- We have a temperate climate.
- Half the hills are downhill.

The bills attempting to lower the speed limits for ebikes are infuriating.

If we can't ride the speed limit on residential streets, you are putting us in danger.

If you're going to lower the e bike speed limit to 16 mph, than the speed limit for cars on residential streets should also be 16 mph.

Image Credit: NASA Image Description: All four Astronauts exit the Orion Capsule

#Artemis II - Mission Complete! 🚀🌕🌍

Welcome Home Orion Crew!

All four astronauts have now been extracted from the Orion Spacecraft

Ohh sounds fun tho

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED

EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Also I still have to go to work and do stuff like that. So. Disassociating is the way.

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted

it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted

have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

scene from lord of the rings "this is it, if I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been"

Artemis II today.

The reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis

View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

Understandable just wanted to double check!

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

a book with 'great titties' written on the cover turns out to be full of teeth and mauls a man. In some ways, though, you want a little danger in your literature.

www.oglaf.com/papercuts/

btw the best way to stick it to my publisher IS to buy my book, haha. it proves that a) what I write (queer horror, severe mental illness, teenagers of color, etc) is in demand b) c( pays me d) gives me negotiating power for my next thing whether it's with hachette or somebody else

Is there a way to order it from you (I'm assuming that's a way you make the most off it, I could be wrong tho)? I know you had copies for eccc / know you don't usually have a store setup online for stuff like that

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

sketches of characters from The Pitt

the Pitt………

April Fools used to actually be fun 20+ years ago. Now though, we live in a dystopian reality where baseline stress is already at the absolute max just trying to navigate daily life. My bandwidth for forced internet and corporate tee-hee nonsense is completely zero.

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Digital artwork of characters from Howl’s Moving Castle as tarot cards The Star, The Moon, and The Sun

the celestial spread - the star, the moon, and the sun 🌟🌙☀️