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moira

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

She/her :blobcatheartlesbian: ex-software dev now writing words for money, fun, and/or survival. I like new people but may be too busy to follow back.

Republicans have campaigned on killing me and mine my whole life, so "Democrats are just as bad" crap gets a fuck off and an unfollow.

I write long-form on my Federated blog at @solarbird. If you want to support me or this instance, have my patreon: http://patreon.com/solarbird

https://justmytoots.com/@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

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lowqualityfacts, to random
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Look, I get it. Jack wants the freedom to sport that godawful beard and Twitter is genuinely the only place where wannabe billionaire simps won't roast him for having facial hair that somehow screams "white supremacist billy goat".

moira,
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@lowqualityfacts this is a high quality fact but I’ll allow it

moira, to ai
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big oof

_L1vY_, to random
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Complete my "collection"?

The hell have I been looking at to get this ad? 😂

moira,
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@_L1vY_ I don't know

but I want to go to your parties

RickiTarr, to random
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If people would just send me pictures of their homemade bread, I would both appreciate it, and be full of bread lust.

moira,
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@RickiTarr how about some baguette?

moira, to MountainBiking
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RELEASE CANDIDATE 2 of the Greater Bike Connector Map, built to link the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside Rail maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.

Printed at 300dpi, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm.

NEW IN RC2:

  • Added note "very difficult" to part of Tolt Pipeline Trail.

  • Added steepness indicators on Goat Trail Road/NE 178th.

  • Added steepness indicator on short path from Burke-Gilman to 61st Ave NE.

CONTRIBUTORS:

  • Erik H on Facebook (Bothell)

  • @sip (Shoreline)

  • @MHowell (Commentary, Tolt Pipline Trail)

Corrections desired.

moira, to cycling
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I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on

and that also gave me the space to add back the west seattle bridge detail so I did that too

and a little cleanup why not

anyway it's 722x656mm or roughly 28.5"x26" now at intended print resolution (300 dpi because that's a standard here)

I really think and hope I'm done with this version, now that I know this thing has legs I'm kinda like "whelp now time to do it over again with proper tools" so that maintenance will be easier and alignment won't be such a bear and a half

project:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap

megamap:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/blob/main/MEGAMAP%201%20-%20May%202024.jpg

moira, to MountainBiking
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NPR today:

"Like to bike? Your knees will thank you and you may live longer, too

New research shows lifelong bikers have healthier knees, less pain and a longer lifespan, compared to people who've never biked. This adds to the evidence that cycling promotes healthy aging."

https://press.coop/@NPR/112472610793939542

moira, to random
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moira, (edited ) to MountainBiking
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Hey people who follow me but mute my boosts -

Release 1 of the Greater Northshore Bike Map is NOW! Full res version is downloadable, it's like 600mm/24" wide printed at 300dpi and connects the Seattle and 2 Line Connector Eastside bike maps.

Enjoy:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/05/03/greater-northshore-bike-map-release-1/

moira, (edited ) to cycling
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Okay! New map! The attachment is the first representation of dataset 1.1, using a lot of dotted green lines (as per the Seattle map legend) to show non-bike-signed routes commonly used by people biking.

(It's not full resolution because Mastodon shrinks it.)

It also includes a couple of actual bike-supporting routes I missed in dataset 1.0, and a lot more dirt/loose gravel trails, particularly in unincorporated King County and on the northern Eastside. But there's bits of adds everywhere.

The dotted green is experimental. Feedback is definitely requested.

Full resolution is at Github, select the map labelled "EXPERIMENTAL":

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

moira,
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One thing working with the version 1.1 dataset is telling me is that if there are some pretty obvious-seeming ways that an un-notated map would tell you to go... but the heat data says nobody does that.

And that's the value of including these green dashed lines, because ... that lack of heat data says there's a reason not go do there.

moira, to random
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anna’s thyroid pills are apparently HETERO pills but thank fuck that part isn’t working

moira, to MountainBiking
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I'm calling this a preview but it's a pretty solid version of MEGAMAP 1.2, using the 1.1 rev 4 dataset, which is the latest.

Anybody wants to look at it, it's on my maps Github, click on PREVIEW MEGAMAP:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

moira, to glitchart
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o noes the street fell over and became a streeterfall

moira, to cycling
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full-height doors for scale

moira, to cycling
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RELEASE CANDIDATE TIME

Revision 1.1, Dataset 1.1 rev 4, Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map.

This version adds heatmap-sourced non-bike-infrastructure routes that people use anyway as a new class, in Seattle-style green. Think of them as demand paths.

I think they're worth adding because they tell people: yes, people use these fragments of infrastructure; this is how they connect together. This is where people actually go.

Also more dirt trails, a little more road-level infrastructure - minor stuff - and an improved legend.

The attached is at reduced resolution because that's what Mastodon does. But it's okay.

Feedback desired.

moira, to Seattle
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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.

You can find it here:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap

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.

moira, to mastodon
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I learned something today! xD

moira, to cycling
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good, even with the glue seams from assembling four tiled sheets, it folds pretty well into a reasonable size (4 3/8 by 6 1/2 inches / 11 by 27 cm)

I mean, not that anyone’s going to use it that way, but it’s nice to know it works.

The folded up map, at its smallest size

moira, to cycling
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Whelp, here's a second proofing release of the vector-graphics based map re-implementation.It's substantially finished now I think? I made a couple of very small path corrections since the last proofing release and this one has text copy and icons and a legend.

If anyone's up for helping me verify it against the last bitmap release, that'd be appreciated. That version is as always at https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

moira, to art
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o hello

moira, to Seattle
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woah okay not much with the naked eye but the phone is getting some colour

moira,
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STRANGE OBJECT IMAGED IN THE IMPERIAL VORTEX

futurebird, to random
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I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

1/

moira,
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@futurebird There was a real "left libertarian" movement. A lot of it was queer, and a lot of it died before AZT.

The survivors and most of the rest of it either went to the Democrats for survival, with a few going anarcho-leftist of one sort or another.

That left the "right libertarians" who no longer had to bargain with the left and, well, we know how that went.

moira, (edited ) to art
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Nothing like hanging the thing and just looking at it to make you think about what needs addressing

(Yes this is the previous, narrow version - not the absolute latest. it’s what I have printed out.)

moira,
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things I need to do differently on Greater Northshore: my double line separation needs to be more consistent. they get too close in places and that’s bad.

also I need a better tool but I don’t know what. something like illustrator that preserves objects. but not adobe shit because yikes money.

moira,
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I patched it. Using prints from my less good printer which is why the water colour is different. But via scissors I was able to make the different colour mostly mean salt water vs. fresh so that’s something?

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