Brandon der Blätter
currently looking for a software job in Seattle, WA or remote!
they/them
interests: ⚙ 20th century tech, 🏘 leftist local politics, 🌲 nature, 🎮video games, 🎞 old movies, 🍽 cheap restaurants, 🗺 exploring
volunteer at @connectionsmuseum.bsky.social
- 39% of paris residents cycle regularly seattle is 3%. the number of people biking regularly in paris is equal to the *entire* population of seattle this is why leadership matters. bruce promised not to lead with bikes. and so we don't. and we won't.
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View full threadSheesh we’re only 8% off from Paris? I’d call that a success
- I’d say it’s more fair to compare Seattle’s 17% (a few times a month) than 30% (a few times a year) to Paris’ 39% (“cycle regularly”)
- we live in data privacy hell www.404media.co/license-plat...
- joke’s on them I ride a bike
- In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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View full threadi am autisticly required by the titanic autism community to point out if the ship HAD hit head on, it wouldnt have sank.
- thank you for validating me, I have to be honest even to my detriment
- The Market now is so quiet and pleasant. I was not ready for how strong the smells are there. It was great to smell flowers and good food without the agony of car exhaust. It left a lasting impression
- 'Vastly more walkable': After decades of debate, Pike Place Market soft-launches car ban www.knkx.org/transportati...
- I really hope it’s something people get used to and then have huge pushback if they ever consider going back to cars
- Just vibes and smooth rides to Saturday’s big show - catch the Sounder train or Link light rail to the stadium and skip the parking hassle. 🎶🧬🪲 Find the full special event Sounder train and 1 Line schedule here: www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-...
- I saw event parking today for $65. I don’t care how rich I become I never want to pay that much to park a vehicle for a couple hours
- This is the purest distillation of American car culture I’ve ever seen.
- dear Etiene’s wife, please don’t kill me with your SUV when you have your next seizure on the road. sincerely, a cyclist
- my Costco haul on #BikeEverywhereDay
- A dude on Facebook is trying to explain to me that driving a fuel efficient car is more environmentally friendly than biking because *wait for it* biking requires eating more and the environmental impacts of those calories outweigh the impact of producing, transporting and fueling a car. Amazing
- does he need a physics lesson? cars weigh way more than bikes and take way more energy to move also e-bikes
- It's fun to read Seattle's state legislative agenda from 2009 and see what happened and what didn't.
- I wonder how many have died from cars because we didn’t implement congestion fees in 2009
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- did they cut any multi billion dollar highway expansions?
