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@modernminstrel.bsky.social
Never far from the ocean. Man of many interests. #LFC #WelshRugby Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Maps, Music, Planning and Design, Transit, Native Plants, Kayaking…
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A list of perfect albums start-to-finish for discussion:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
Led Zeppelin I (1969)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1970)
Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust… (1972)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
Led Zeppelin I (1969)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1970)
Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust… (1972)
Every bit of new train news makes me smile.
September 17, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Every bit of new train news makes me smile.
@swmessenger.bsky.social
This automatically made us think of you.
If you do any in-stores in Seattle for the next Keeper of the Lost Cities book, my daughter has a full set of paperbacks she is loving to death. She will sheepishly be asking you to sign every one.
This automatically made us think of you.
If you do any in-stores in Seattle for the next Keeper of the Lost Cities book, my daughter has a full set of paperbacks she is loving to death. She will sheepishly be asking you to sign every one.
Oh, and you never need to apologize when you bring us a book that's been absolutely destroyed by reading. For writers, that's like you showing us your Velveteen Rabbit. If you love a book so much that it's falling apart? That is an enormous compliment, and any writer should be happy to sign it.
September 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM
@swmessenger.bsky.social
This automatically made us think of you.
If you do any in-stores in Seattle for the next Keeper of the Lost Cities book, my daughter has a full set of paperbacks she is loving to death. She will sheepishly be asking you to sign every one.
This automatically made us think of you.
If you do any in-stores in Seattle for the next Keeper of the Lost Cities book, my daughter has a full set of paperbacks she is loving to death. She will sheepishly be asking you to sign every one.
I love west coast Amtrak! Having now ridden every North-South stretch between Bellingham, WA and San Diego, CA @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov, even before the new trains going live, gets my vote for friendliest employees AND best food though.
Srsly, the Amtrak employees I’ve interacted with are the best & we should fund the shit out of US passenger rail
September 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I love west coast Amtrak! Having now ridden every North-South stretch between Bellingham, WA and San Diego, CA @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov, even before the new trains going live, gets my vote for friendliest employees AND best food though.
@michaelharriot.bsky.social has a knack for summing up the whole discussion with one sentence.
Pick up his book, Black AF History, to learn SO much more.
Pick up his book, Black AF History, to learn SO much more.
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
September 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
@michaelharriot.bsky.social has a knack for summing up the whole discussion with one sentence.
Pick up his book, Black AF History, to learn SO much more.
Pick up his book, Black AF History, to learn SO much more.
I missed the #LFC match, but am enjoying the banter immensely. @ajynwa97.bsky.social @yorkshirered72.bsky.social @krugashlfc.bsky.social @anfieldsmustard.bsky.social @lpoolmike.bsky.social @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network @elaineynwa.bsky.social
I love you all. Please don’t ever change. 🤣😂💦
I love you all. Please don’t ever change. 🤣😂💦
September 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I missed the #LFC match, but am enjoying the banter immensely. @ajynwa97.bsky.social @yorkshirered72.bsky.social @krugashlfc.bsky.social @anfieldsmustard.bsky.social @lpoolmike.bsky.social @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network @elaineynwa.bsky.social
I love you all. Please don’t ever change. 🤣😂💦
I love you all. Please don’t ever change. 🤣😂💦
Today I learned that “normal” Philly cheesesteak recipes don’t include peri peri sauce. I feel so sad for so many of you out there.
#RecipeSky
#RecipeSky
September 15, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Today I learned that “normal” Philly cheesesteak recipes don’t include peri peri sauce. I feel so sad for so many of you out there.
#RecipeSky
#RecipeSky
After school activities are back!
Riding the ebike up to pick my daughter up from school, then around for dance, jump rope, etc. is my favorite part of every week.
#WestSeattle #CitiesForPeople
Riding the ebike up to pick my daughter up from school, then around for dance, jump rope, etc. is my favorite part of every week.
#WestSeattle #CitiesForPeople
September 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
After school activities are back!
Riding the ebike up to pick my daughter up from school, then around for dance, jump rope, etc. is my favorite part of every week.
#WestSeattle #CitiesForPeople
Riding the ebike up to pick my daughter up from school, then around for dance, jump rope, etc. is my favorite part of every week.
#WestSeattle #CitiesForPeople
September 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
It’s amazing how many more smiles you get from strangers in Seattle when you’re willing to smile at them too.
Every walking and cycling trail in this city is a particularly good place to experience this. I recommend everyone get out there and enjoy them.
Every walking and cycling trail in this city is a particularly good place to experience this. I recommend everyone get out there and enjoy them.
The “Seattle Freeze” didn’t start with you, but it could end with you! :)
September 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It’s amazing how many more smiles you get from strangers in Seattle when you’re willing to smile at them too.
Every walking and cycling trail in this city is a particularly good place to experience this. I recommend everyone get out there and enjoy them.
Every walking and cycling trail in this city is a particularly good place to experience this. I recommend everyone get out there and enjoy them.
First trip on the C Rapid Ride with my ebike today. I haven’t ridden the full new waterfront trail up to Interbay yet or visited Cafe Hagen - Waterfront since it opened so here we go. Happy Saturday, all!
#Seattle #CitiesForPeople
#Seattle #CitiesForPeople
September 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
First trip on the C Rapid Ride with my ebike today. I haven’t ridden the full new waterfront trail up to Interbay yet or visited Cafe Hagen - Waterfront since it opened so here we go. Happy Saturday, all!
#Seattle #CitiesForPeople
#Seattle #CitiesForPeople
Make a band edible:
Stonefruit Temple Pilots
Stonefruit Temple Pilots
Make a band edible:
Angine de Poutine
Angine de Poutine
make a band edible:
Brian Jonestown Moussaka
Brian Jonestown Moussaka
September 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Make a band edible:
Stonefruit Temple Pilots
Stonefruit Temple Pilots
@amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov Our family is planning as much regional vacation time as possible via these new trains through Q1 next year already. We cannot wait!
When do we get new swag, stuffies, and pins?!
When do we get new swag, stuffies, and pins?!
Amtrak will start running the new Airo trainsets on Amtrak Cascades on September 30, according to a WSDOT presentation happening right now at the Puget Sound Regional Council.
September 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
@amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov Our family is planning as much regional vacation time as possible via these new trains through Q1 next year already. We cannot wait!
When do we get new swag, stuffies, and pins?!
When do we get new swag, stuffies, and pins?!
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trying to look like i’m still enjoying myself even tho my social battery ran out ages ago:
September 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
trying to look like i’m still enjoying myself even tho my social battery ran out ages ago:
Missed today’s match and cannot wait to get home so I can throw it on and catch up on the fun. It seems like you all had a good time. #LFC
September 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Missed today’s match and cannot wait to get home so I can throw it on and catch up on the fun. It seems like you all had a good time. #LFC
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I love how @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social will take an idea from 3 CMs to spend $400,000 on an out of state public safety consultant as an ironclad plan that the entire council supports and the mayor needs to respond to and then just uncritically print false info that Erica has to fact check.
"I'll say that fatal shootings in 2012 were 211, and in 2024 there were 541. And post-pandemic, it increased exponentially," Rivera said. None of these things are true. There were 26 fatal shootings in 2012 and 55 in 2024.
September 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I love how @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social will take an idea from 3 CMs to spend $400,000 on an out of state public safety consultant as an ironclad plan that the entire council supports and the mayor needs to respond to and then just uncritically print false info that Erica has to fact check.
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Want to know what one of the most effective types of programs is for preventing youth from getting involved in crime?
I’ll give you a hint. @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson and her City Council supporters got it done in time for the 2026-27 school year.
#Seattle #SPS
I’ll give you a hint. @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson and her City Council supporters got it done in time for the 2026-27 school year.
#Seattle #SPS
September 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Want to know what one of the most effective types of programs is for preventing youth from getting involved in crime?
I’ll give you a hint. @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson and her City Council supporters got it done in time for the 2026-27 school year.
#Seattle #SPS
I’ll give you a hint. @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson and her City Council supporters got it done in time for the 2026-27 school year.
#Seattle #SPS
You know what remains amazing? Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Little Women.
Plus, I’ve seen them all so many times I can close my eyes as the pain comes and goes without really missing anything.
Plus, I’ve seen them all so many times I can close my eyes as the pain comes and goes without really missing anything.
#ChronicPain and #ChronicIllness friends,
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.
September 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
You know what remains amazing? Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Little Women.
Plus, I’ve seen them all so many times I can close my eyes as the pain comes and goes without really missing anything.
Plus, I’ve seen them all so many times I can close my eyes as the pain comes and goes without really missing anything.
Tiffany Aching, and I Shall Wear Midnight in particular, is Pratchett at his absolute best.
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
“Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”
“Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
September 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Tiffany Aching, and I Shall Wear Midnight in particular, is Pratchett at his absolute best.
While I’m looking out my window at the garden:
Pavers, plant stakes, ceramic pots, dry-stacked masonry, retaining walls, pickaxes, shovels, garden forks, rakes, spades, draw saws, hori hori/knives, axes/hatchets, hammers/mallets, chisels, whetstones, rasps/files, bolts/screws, wrenches, pliers, etc.
Pavers, plant stakes, ceramic pots, dry-stacked masonry, retaining walls, pickaxes, shovels, garden forks, rakes, spades, draw saws, hori hori/knives, axes/hatchets, hammers/mallets, chisels, whetstones, rasps/files, bolts/screws, wrenches, pliers, etc.
Name old technology that still works perfectly fine.
September 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
While I’m looking out my window at the garden:
Pavers, plant stakes, ceramic pots, dry-stacked masonry, retaining walls, pickaxes, shovels, garden forks, rakes, spades, draw saws, hori hori/knives, axes/hatchets, hammers/mallets, chisels, whetstones, rasps/files, bolts/screws, wrenches, pliers, etc.
Pavers, plant stakes, ceramic pots, dry-stacked masonry, retaining walls, pickaxes, shovels, garden forks, rakes, spades, draw saws, hori hori/knives, axes/hatchets, hammers/mallets, chisels, whetstones, rasps/files, bolts/screws, wrenches, pliers, etc.
I was pulled out of presenting to an organization-wide best practices group about a major process improvement project I had just completed and walked down the hall to a conference room where HR was waiting to tell me my position had been eliminated.
How did you get laid off?
September 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I was pulled out of presenting to an organization-wide best practices group about a major process improvement project I had just completed and walked down the hall to a conference room where HR was waiting to tell me my position had been eliminated.
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I counted so many kids yesterday that seemed like they were on some of their first rides. What a world-class venue for safe cycling practice! I hope some of these kids grow up to be voting cyclists in 15ish years.
Just spent a bit of time on LWB to do some informal demographics. By my count ~60% of the park users in the 4-5pm hour were under the age of 18.
September 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I counted so many kids yesterday that seemed like they were on some of their first rides. What a world-class venue for safe cycling practice! I hope some of these kids grow up to be voting cyclists in 15ish years.
#WestSeattle friends,
Does anybody know where Husky Deli gets their focaccia? They’re closed for their son’s wedding this weekend and I’m craving chicken pesto, artichokes, and provolone with some really good bread.
Does anybody know where Husky Deli gets their focaccia? They’re closed for their son’s wedding this weekend and I’m craving chicken pesto, artichokes, and provolone with some really good bread.
September 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
#WestSeattle friends,
Does anybody know where Husky Deli gets their focaccia? They’re closed for their son’s wedding this weekend and I’m craving chicken pesto, artichokes, and provolone with some really good bread.
Does anybody know where Husky Deli gets their focaccia? They’re closed for their son’s wedding this weekend and I’m craving chicken pesto, artichokes, and provolone with some really good bread.
The 3 metropolitan areas I’ve lived in the longest, in the order I’ve lived in them. Go figure.
September 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
The 3 metropolitan areas I’ve lived in the longest, in the order I’ve lived in them. Go figure.
#ChronicPain and #ChronicIllness friends,
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.
September 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
#ChronicPain and #ChronicIllness friends,
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.
What are your comfort watch movies when you’re feeling wrecked?
I’m laid up and made the mistake of trying to rewatch Sixteen Candles, so now I need something significantly less offensive to correct for that.