they say #northcarolina is a purple state, but it’s more like a bimodal “flaming red” AND “ice blue” state depending on where you are
imo the blue parts feel far more liberal than any part of #seattle. i debate if that’s because the south is just more superficial about everything, or if people in seattle simply don’t talk to literally anyone so we don’t actually know if it’s a liberal or conservative area
Got caught in the rain today, and waited out the shower under a rhododendron. Not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes. Entertained myself watching a crow across the street, looking picturesque in a blooming dogwood.
How much does it cost Sound Transit to opearate the fair compliance program, including staffing? How much money have they recovered from the "fare evaders" since they reinstated the program back in November? In Japan, I think nothing when a train conductor comes to my car and starts inspecting the tickets. Here, as soon as I see a fare enforcement person onboard, I feel like vomiting.
does anybody in seattle wanna trade for my librem 5 linux phone + 3D printed phone case + nexdock + laptop carrying case? i'd reckon that's at least a $1,500 value
in return i'm asking for the following in good condition: a 1TB OLED steamdeck and recent-ish (like within the past five years) modern laptop with good specs (at least 1 TB memory, 32 gigs RAM, and ten hours of battery life) that i can put linux on
i'm down in federal way rn if you'd wanna meet up here, or i'll be in the city this saturday for pride and can bring it then
The #Seattle public library catalog, computers, website, and ebook checkout are currently down after a ransomware attack. They're still manually lending paper books while it's sorted out.
"In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 25 — just one day before we were prepared to take our systems offline to conduct planned maintenance on a server over Memorial Day weekend — the Library became aware of a ransomware event affecting our technology systems."
Anyone know why Seattle Public Library's website is offline? They had a banner up on Friday about some maintenance that was due to happen this weekend, but now it seems like all their DNS servers are down too. 😬
Today we did a 20 mile ride out to a beach on Oslofjord.
I really need to stop and take more photos as it's hard to put into words how much more pleasant biking is in Norway than the US.
The bike infrastructure is better than Seattle but most importantly the car drivers are far more aware of bikes and I almost never feel like I'm in a dangerous situation. #BikeTooter#bikejoy#seattle#norway
Come next Saturday (6/1) is the crazy “run-the-loop” full #marathon#race held at #UniversityOfWashington’s historic #DrumhellerFountain: one loop is 192.37 meters, so the full course requires running 219 loops! Race starts at 5:30am 😟 and we're supposed to flip the direction every hour!
This afternoon's #Seattle Reign FC match against the Washington Spirit at 4:30 p.m. PT will be broadcast locally on KONG-TV and stream for free on KING 5+ and NWSL+. http://king5.com/watch
I have a #PyConUS / #Seattle “missed contact" question; I spoke to a Tammy who was at #PyCascades and PyCon US, and we talked about GitHub's contribution graph; if anyone knows who that is, can you put her in touch? Thanks!
Okay so with no show stoppers appearing, I've dropped Greater Northshore BIke Map 1.2 - Late May 2024, which shows bike infrastructure and adds preferred non-infrastructure routes between the Seattle and the new Eastside 2 Line Bike Connector maps.
It covers Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, Juanita, parts of north Redmond that the 2 Line leaves out, and a decent chunk of unincorporated NE King County.
Next up will be a revision of the MEGAMAP, a map that pastes together the Greater Northshore map and the two others into one big poster-sized beast.