Kristin Fitzsimmons

Coder, transit taker/enthusiast/advocate, watcher of silly TV. Cilantro is gross. [she/her]

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

Every day.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

I asked @FedExHelp for some written confirmation that they had corrected the problem that results in them redirecting my packages to the wrong address, and he asked me if *I* wanted to write something down. 😭😠

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

Recommendation to my apartment- and condo-dwelling friends: avoid buildings that are using the Fetch package delivery service, if at all possible. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

I’ve got a barely used external frame pack, some rain gear, and travel toilet paper. Looking for places to donate. 🙂

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@Amtrak He tired himself out and/or drank himself to sleep. Blissful quiet. ☺️

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There’s a loud mostly unmasked drunk white dude on this Cascades train, and @Amtrak has done zero about it. Non-stop from Portland. 1.5 hours of loud.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@LeahLibresco @indyfromspace This was already addressed earlier in the thread.

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@fatherqueerest Not North Seattle, but the deli in Tower 12 on 2nd Ave does decent breakfast sandwiches, and I think they’re $6-7. A very recent discovery of mine.

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@daihard It was the headline that really made me see red - which, as I understand it, she probably had no control over?

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The last two Seattle Times articles I’ve read (“bike-lane-building-binge” and the one about Woodland Park) have made me want to throw my phone across the room, so I think it’s time to give up ST entirely.

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@daihard Michelle Baruchman, iirc.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@kcmetrobus @seattledot @mlbaruchman At least the headline displayed here is more responsible than the “bike-lane-building binge” headline. Paris built many times that in the last 1.5 years.

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@BrockRides @UrbanistOrg @seattletimes @MikeLindblom This project has been a surprise to almost everyone I’ve mentioned it to. They know about the park, but they didn’t know the road is going to be wider.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@holz_bau @seattledot I biked this on a low traffic Sunday and it made me a bit shakey. 😕

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

Just heard a too loud car set off someone’s car alarm downtown. Walking around today, definitely seems like during the pandemic, a lot of dudes treated themselves to expensive mobile noisemakers. I saw a Maserati that was painfully loud for *blocks* away. WTF.

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@walkingriver @IKnowSoftware @shanselman I like debugging exercises (similar idea, I think - real-world & no tricks).

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@pushtheneedle Pretty 😍

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@NomeDaBarbarian …and also that having been told what and when, they can actually get up and do the thing without needing to coax/trick/guilt/etc. themselves into doing it.

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@SheRidesABike Same. I am going to eventually hit a limit of people telling me "but Seattle is so much better than other US cities!".

[Kristin Fitzsimmons @knothead02]

@SheRidesABike If it wasn’t so zero sum on both budget and space, I’d be ok with the EV enthusiasm. But, it’s “oh sorry we ran out of money to finish that bike lane, and whoops, now there’s an EV charging station in the way so we can’t finish it.” 😭

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@seattledot @CityofSeattle Great! During the week too, please. Like most of us asked for in your survey.