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Living life on Capitol Hill. Transit and urban planning nut. Insta: flyguy84

Seattle, WA
Joined March 2009
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Aaron J retweeted
if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and i see your tesla loudly flip in the air and destroy my serenity, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher
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Aaron J retweeted
It's really annoying how every few years the entire country is like "hmm, maybe Republican leadership would be better. Oh, no, no they're not." Like can't y'all just learn and remember instead of dragging us through this shit?
Trump approval (ages 18-29 only) Approve: 18% Disapprove: 78% —— Net Approval 🟤 Sep 2025: (-36) 🟤 Jan 2026: (-42) 🔴 Sep 2026: (-60) —— Generic Ballot 🟦 DEM: 64% 🟥 GOP: 29% NYT/Siena (A+) | 9/8-13 | LV
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funny that swedish .org isn't some website about the swedish language, but instead a hospital in Seattle and zoo .org isn't some kind of inter-zoo governing body, but just the Seattle zoo Seattle has a lot of primo domain names due to microsoft etc adjacency in the 90s
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Aaron J retweeted
Excellent, given that it’s been over a decade that we’ve known we’d have a station and growth center here, I’m sure Seattle already upzoned around it, right?
🚈 Next stop: Pinehurst Station! September 30, we’re opening the doors to our newest Link station — and our very first infill station. Pinehurst will bring new connections to north Seattle, making it easier to get to the people and places that matter most. We’re celebrating with the community on opening day! 🎉 Check our website for details as we get closer: soundtransit.org/pinehurst
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🎶 The biggest American soccer match you've ever seeeeen is in Seattle! in Seattle!!!! 🎶
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Aaron J retweeted
the walk score of my apartment is 95. the walk score of the house my grandma thinks i should buy in the suburbs is 12. twelve. the nearest grocery store is a seven-minute drive. no thanks i'll take my $1,800 one-bedroom where i can stumble to coffee in my pajamas
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Because a decent chunk of Real Estate in this country relies on cheap gas. Its only accessible via car, and because of its low density its built far away from real job centers. This means that the value of these properties would tank if the price of gas/energy rises to the point where commuting from these places costs more than the saved value of moving out here to own these homes
Idk why gas prices are so culturally salient in america. You could drive an hour a day and it probably comes to less than $3k/year. Is it because they put the price on billboards along the road?
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lousy Smarch weather
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americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape
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Aaron J retweeted
Capitol Hill Super Bowl victory party
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Now overlay the political party affiliation map. I think some things will become clear.
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Can the evil people start dying instead?
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Aaron J retweeted
Easy to see why, as a millennial, I've become more liberal the older I've gotten When I was a college freshman, Bush won the presidency. Since then, Republicans have been wrong on every major policy issue of my adult life: Launching wars, voting rights, torture, LGBTQ+ rights, taxes, social services, COVID, healthcare, school lunch for children, vaccines, ICE, and immigration. Every single one
"People always drift right as they get older"... Nah mate, Millennials put a stop to that shit
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It’s important to note that most global unrest in the past 5 years has been caused by 3 70-something white boomer losers desperate to stay out of prison.
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I hope 2026 will be better than 2025 🙏 First week of January:
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Why are the fake news accounts overwhelmingly on the right? Macedonian teenagers in 2016 found that Trump supporters were the most gullible audience. "The American right, especially the emerging MAGA ecosystem, was simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue...It’s a niche where people are willing to follow a random, anonymous account and treat it as a trusted voice on everything from elections to vaccines to border security – boosting its content to their friends as well." Now you see what I mean by low human capital. Trumpism isn't the rise of an ideology as much as it is the mobilization of stupid people.
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Buying and controlling media platforms. Firing commentators. Canceling shows. These aren’t coincidences. It’s coordinated. And it’s dangerous. The @GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time.
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Found the tweet for this one.
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Trump is shutting down suicide hotlines and planning on repealing the ban on asbestos. He’s a fucking marvel villain, what is this shit???
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