Paulrus of West Bumblefrick
@paulrusof.bsky.social
Chasing the shiny bits in the dark. Punishing my legs for not being rocket packs. Passionate about density, transit, walkability, and cycling infrastructure.
Recovered “avid cyclist”. Big YIMBY.
Seattle, Capitol Hill, but I’m not cool. He/him.
Recovered “avid cyclist”. Big YIMBY.
Seattle, Capitol Hill, but I’m not cool. He/him.
Pinned
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
So much of the way people vote is on the continuum of “I like the way things are” to “I want things to be different”, with very little thinking about how to get to “different”.
Mix in greed and entitlement and bigotry and fear, and you get things like Brexit or Trump.
Mix in greed and entitlement and bigotry and fear, and you get things like Brexit or Trump.
February 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM
So much of the way people vote is on the continuum of “I like the way things are” to “I want things to be different”, with very little thinking about how to get to “different”.
Mix in greed and entitlement and bigotry and fear, and you get things like Brexit or Trump.
Mix in greed and entitlement and bigotry and fear, and you get things like Brexit or Trump.
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
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you’re allowed to scribble and make art that has no other purpose other than to be bad
July 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
you’re allowed to scribble and make art that has no other purpose other than to be bad
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Despite wide public support for the Millionaire's Tax, 30k people have signed CON on this legislation getting its first hearing this Friday, outnumbering those in the PRO column four to one. It's really easy to sign PRO - do it now!
Sign on PRO for WA's millionaire tax
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
CSI
app.leg.wa.gov
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Despite wide public support for the Millionaire's Tax, 30k people have signed CON on this legislation getting its first hearing this Friday, outnumbering those in the PRO column four to one. It's really easy to sign PRO - do it now!
There are millions of train fans on Bluesky who don’t get access to @amtrak.com’s social media prowess.
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 AM
There are millions of train fans on Bluesky who don’t get access to @amtrak.com’s social media prowess.
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Ridership on Seattle's Link Light Rail continues rising amid the system's many expansions, helping Seattle have the strongest year-on-year ridership growth of any major metro area in 2025!
Link ridership rose more than 27% in 2025, and its two lines will be connected in March!
Link ridership rose more than 27% in 2025, and its two lines will be connected in March!
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Ridership on Seattle's Link Light Rail continues rising amid the system's many expansions, helping Seattle have the strongest year-on-year ridership growth of any major metro area in 2025!
Link ridership rose more than 27% in 2025, and its two lines will be connected in March!
Link ridership rose more than 27% in 2025, and its two lines will be connected in March!
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I'm makin' a withdrawal. Gimme all my Bitcoins, ässhole.
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I'm makin' a withdrawal. Gimme all my Bitcoins, ässhole.
Fascists fear rules and regulations almost as much as they fear a strongly worded letter.
February 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Fascists fear rules and regulations almost as much as they fear a strongly worded letter.
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Such a great poster, keep punching.
February 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Such a great poster, keep punching.
Outside of tweaking some details, this is exactly how cars/trucks and driver licenses should work.
Big Car/Big House America is founded on insulating the people who have and want those things from the actual costs of them.
(Also extends to Big Gun/Big Cop America)
Big Car/Big House America is founded on insulating the people who have and want those things from the actual costs of them.
(Also extends to Big Gun/Big Cop America)
Introducing Sunny’s class three drivers license program.
(If cars were regulated like bikes)
(If cars were regulated like bikes)
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Outside of tweaking some details, this is exactly how cars/trucks and driver licenses should work.
Big Car/Big House America is founded on insulating the people who have and want those things from the actual costs of them.
(Also extends to Big Gun/Big Cop America)
Big Car/Big House America is founded on insulating the people who have and want those things from the actual costs of them.
(Also extends to Big Gun/Big Cop America)
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
Years ago I was part of a group ride to Sea-Tac where one person rode a tandem and we picked someone up.
It was a blast but also a total shitshow I would never ever attempt without a large group. The cycling infrastructure at the airport is non-existent, and for miles around it, bad.
It was a blast but also a total shitshow I would never ever attempt without a large group. The cycling infrastructure at the airport is non-existent, and for miles around it, bad.
Surely, the lack of pedestrian and public transit infrastructure at airports is one of the *most* absurd aspects of car dependency. From coast to coast, it's just taken for granted that if you're going somewhere and you can't take your car, you MUST use a taxi/rideshare or get someone to drive you.
February 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Years ago I was part of a group ride to Sea-Tac where one person rode a tandem and we picked someone up.
It was a blast but also a total shitshow I would never ever attempt without a large group. The cycling infrastructure at the airport is non-existent, and for miles around it, bad.
It was a blast but also a total shitshow I would never ever attempt without a large group. The cycling infrastructure at the airport is non-existent, and for miles around it, bad.
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Dr I am sad. Aid me?
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!"
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me!
- The Pagliacci Sequence
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Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!"
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me!
- The Pagliacci Sequence
September 13, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Dr I am sad...
Dr I am sad. Aid me?
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!"
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me!
- The Pagliacci Sequence
D...
Dr.
Dr I-
Dr I am-
Dr I am sad...
Dr I am sad. Aid me?
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!"
Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me!
- The Pagliacci Sequence
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social, @criminalerin.bsky.social, @jdcmedlock.bsky.social, why are you following someone who bullies people who are struggling financially and ask for help paying bills and rent?
February 4, 2026 at 6:13 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social, @criminalerin.bsky.social, @jdcmedlock.bsky.social, why are you following someone who bullies people who are struggling financially and ask for help paying bills and rent?
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Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
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hence my pithy formulation:
car problem is cop problem is gun problem
car problem is cop problem is gun problem
February 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM
hence my pithy formulation:
car problem is cop problem is gun problem
car problem is cop problem is gun problem
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all this country's problems with violence, fascism & oppressive policing are inextricably intertwined with "car brain"
law enforcement out of control- charging people who impede traffic during a protest with “false imprisonment” of the drivers.
In the Bay Area, local prosecutors have charged student protesters who participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations with felony-level charges that critics are warning are setting a dangerous template for law enforcement responses.
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
all this country's problems with violence, fascism & oppressive policing are inextricably intertwined with "car brain"
The kind of tree and affordable-housing destruction that the pro-tree, affordable-housing-only crowd is weirdly silent on.
Huh, I wonder why? 🤔
Huh, I wonder why? 🤔
This should be getting a lot more attention but this road widening will plow over 91 homes in the apartment building just to the east of this interchange. We are bulldozing housing in a HOUSING CRISIS to save cars a few seconds @kromandavid.bsky.social @seattletimes.com
Seattle's current plans call for this...abomination...at the south end of the Ballard Bridge but Rep. Julia Reed, with input from Councilmember Strauss, just submitted a state transportation budget request to signalize the intersection.
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The kind of tree and affordable-housing destruction that the pro-tree, affordable-housing-only crowd is weirdly silent on.
Huh, I wonder why? 🤔
Huh, I wonder why? 🤔
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Listen to the poets.
February 3, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Listen to the poets.
These were also the rules I was taught learning to shoot with a .22 rifle whose butt had been broken and taped back together when my stepdad’s father shot a raccoon in a tree, and the raccoon ran down the tree and up his leg, and he golf swung the rifle, clubbing it in the head.
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
These were also the rules I was taught learning to shoot with a .22 rifle whose butt had been broken and taped back together when my stepdad’s father shot a raccoon in a tree, and the raccoon ran down the tree and up his leg, and he golf swung the rifle, clubbing it in the head.
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A bakery called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Kneads
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
A bakery called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Kneads
Me crossing 24th Ave E on E Interlaken Blvd to get to the 520 Trail/Lake Washington Loop
February 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Me crossing 24th Ave E on E Interlaken Blvd to get to the 520 Trail/Lake Washington Loop
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Turns out you don’t even have to build it for them to come.
You just have to stop NIMBYs from throwing endless arbitrary barriers to building more.
You just have to stop NIMBYs from throwing endless arbitrary barriers to building more.
After adopting housing reforms that included eliminating parking mandates and increased density limits throughout the city, Bothell has seen a major jump in pre-applications for residential projects.
Average number of units entering pre-application over the past 5 years: 580
In 2025: 1000+
Average number of units entering pre-application over the past 5 years: 580
In 2025: 1000+
February 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Turns out you don’t even have to build it for them to come.
You just have to stop NIMBYs from throwing endless arbitrary barriers to building more.
You just have to stop NIMBYs from throwing endless arbitrary barriers to building more.