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Rare week (thanks wildfire smoke and tricky camp drop off) where I’m moving around by car and not on the bike at all :(. Silver lining: wide legged pants! Long dresses! Backless sandals!

F this guy ‘The detective reported the man told him he “feels fire is powerful (and) beautiful,” and that arson “is an easy crime to get away (with).”

Spokane arson suspect tells prosecutors he started 25 other firesBy Wednesday, detectives had corroborated evidence indicating he started at least four of the 25 fires he had described, prosecutors said in a memorandum.www.seattletimes.com

Cleansing air coming in off the Pacific. Move faster, please, says the Eastside.

PSA. If you type in Hebrew w/the default Hebrew keyboard layout, you know that the quotation marks look different and don’t limit a search to an exact phrase. After yrs of frustration, I learned that if you switch keyboard input to “Hebrew-PC” you get back the right quotation marks. You’re welcome.

No surprise: people like taxing the rich

Income tax backlash? Nowhere to be seen for WA DemocratsIt's long been radioactive in Washington politics to push for an income tax. So would there be backlash for Democrats in Tuesday's voting? That's a big no.www.seattletimes.com

Thanks boating supply company for making an outdoor tote bag with daisy chain loops and clips on one side for easy anchoring to a vertical surface, eg the back of a monkey bar seat. Additional cargo capacity unlocked (namely, to drop in a backpack) when kid is in the seat. #carryshitolympics

Striking how much better air quality is on the Puget Sound side of Seattle vs the Lake Washington side rn

New anti-e-scooter rhetoric just dropped: they get in the way of combine harvesters

Signs I am an elder millennial: my research happy place is with a laptop but in a library in which books are physical things that can be taken from shelves and lined up on a carrel.

I could have driven 25 min each way to drop kid off at camp and been back in an hr. Instead I biked 40 min there, then biked 10 min to the train, then read a novel for 30 min on train then biked 10 min home. Yes nearly two hours (can’t make time for this every day), but nearly all of it enjoyable.

More wind, every year. Please.

Boat storage gear: good for solving unusual bike storage problems, like finding a waterproof storage concept to attach to the back of a monkey bar seat to have additional rear cargo capacity while kid is in the seat.

This must be it

Darn

#bike people. I want something to cinch wide leg pants that is very easy to put on and which also works with wide legged cropped pants (so it cannot work only at ankle). What you got for me?

Seattle Seafair (and every festival that thinks flying warplanes overhead is all in good fun): damn you for making me explain to a student from Gaza in my office why she was made to wake up from a nap in a panic thinking she was back in Gaza.

Architects who don’t consider the need for future maintenance (and cities that hire them) should be cursed. “Some of the building’s air-handling units were essentially built into the structure. They’re aging…but they won’t fit through any doorways so replacing them will mean tearing down a wall.”

Seattle’s infrastructure needs billions in repair. The library is just the startThe city estimates it needs about $6 billion for maintenance and new construction. Seattle City Light needs more. But one of the most dramatic examples is a landmark.www.seattletimes.com

🎶 it’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎵

All set up for bathketball

What “automotive item” did I order from Amazon? Turns out the item thus classified was a bike handlebar bag. @thewaroncars.bsky.social