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Tucker Cholvin

2 years

Pulling into U District station on @SoundTransit light rail, the conductor gets on the mic to yell “SIR, YOU CANNOT BRING THAT COUCH ONTO THE TRAIN” at someone on the platform. 30 seconds later:

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

5 months

You laugh, and yet:

The Needling

@TheNeedling

5 months

SDOT Admits It Always Thought ‘Vision Zero’ was About Getting to Zero Pedestrians:

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

9 months

Time for my least popular perennial opinion:

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

9 months

The Washington State Legislature's 2024 session starts today! Lawmakers have just sixty days to advance their priorities, which include a lot of potential housing bills. Catch up with our housing bill preview:

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

fascinated by the DC DMV's editorial choices to make the sample CDL guy have a wild last name, 6'4", and...hot?

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@tuckerhimself

3 years

Gay urbanism meets travel Grindr: a @TheWarOnCars + @GAYTOWNS69 love story

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@tuckerhimself

2 months

I’m so glad the Blue Angels allow Americans to experience a little taste of the war zone conditions we perpetuate in other countries from the comfort of their own homes

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Once again I am thinking about how the Chinese run high-speed rail service from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance longer than DC to Chicago, in under 4 hours. Train service does not only “make sense” in the Northeast, we are just hobbled by small imaginations.

John Arnold

@JohnArnoldFndtn

1 year

If Amtrak were funded by the market, it would spend its entire capital budget in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic, where train travel makes sense. Instead, it's funded by Congress, so creates inane plans like this.

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@tuckerhimself

11 days

The city?? Did a good thing?? It’s fun???

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@tuckerhimself

1 month

SEATTLE BRIEFLY NATIONALLY RELEVANT, EVERYBODY DRINK!!

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

East Coast gays have been everywhere except the United States

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

I have never felt more like a celebrity than last night, when I was the only passenger boarding the @Amtrak_Cascades in Stanwood, WA. The train pulled up, the conductor climbed down, and said "You must be Tucker!" 🥲

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

My unhinged, extremist opinion is that the Puget Sound region should have more of these.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

buses in DC starting July 24:

Zach Israel

@ZachBIsrael

1 year

“Metro will mount automated cameras on buses serving select routes in DC. […] Metro anticipates that the Clear Lanes project will be ready to roll out in Fall 2023, with a 45-day warning period beginning July 24, 2023.”

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

A year has passed and I still miss my 6'4" sample CDL king, Thomas Alexander Herculano de Carvalho Montalvao Machado

Jordan Pascale

@JWPascale

1 year

New D.C. driver's license design features the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

I have rarely been prouder to be from Seattle

Kat Abu

@abughazalehkat

1 year

Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

If you are the person who anonymously sent me an illustrated history of Seattle transit, and you are a single gay man, please reach out to redeem your offer of marriage!!

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@tuckerhimself

5 years

~𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨~ The sidewalk is for everyone 🚶‍♀️🤸‍♂️ The bike lane is for runners🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ The general travel lane is for bikes, scooters & their friends 🚴🛴🛹⛸️🏇 Cars are banned 🚫🙅🙅‍♂️🚫 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

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1 year

I hate that I feel this way, but there is a certain relief I feel when this problem reaches the East Coast, because this has been happening regularly to the western US for six years now, and has been largely ignored in national media.

Gary Hershorn

@GaryHershorn

1 year

Maybe the worst air quality New York City has seen in a long time as a smokey haze shrouds the sun as it rises behind midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building, Tuesday #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #haze @EmpireStateBldg @agreatbigcity #sunrise

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2 months

Metro is bringing back the bus serving my street after a four-year suspension. I shared the news with my neighbor, an LGBTQ senior who is adjusting to living with a disability after a fall. He’s excited, so am I. transit matters so much! Thx @KingCountyMetro

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

4 years

I'm going to pass out

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

@SecretaryPete

4 years

Roads aren't just for vehicles—they are for people.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Tragically the Mayor's office has deleted our Tall Veteran King Thomas Alexander Herculano de Carvalho Montalvao Machado. But his hotness lives on:

Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

fascinated by the DC DMV's editorial choices to make the sample CDL guy have a wild last name, 6'4", and...hot?

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@tuckerhimself

6 months

the team that can't paint any crosswalks seems to have a lot of time to paint over literally anything else

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@hannahkrieg

6 months

Appears that SDOT painted over the words "no funds for genocide" and "Let Gaza Live" on the mural that Jewish advocates painted at @JVPSeattle 's "Seder in The Streets" yesterday.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

3 years

Actually, ~*this*~ should be the maximum size of a truck you can drive without a CDL

Rabi Abonour

@rabonour

3 years

This should be the maximize size of a truck you can drive without a CDL

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

1 year

On our first day in Tokyo, I got very excited about trains and then we (accidentally) visited a shrine to the local god of traffic safety. Things are going as planned.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

4 years

The Mayor Pete twitter squad has found and glommed onto this tweet, and I'll all say about that is that it's a lot more pleasant than when the Bernie people do it

Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

4 years

I'm going to pass out

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

1 year

still recovering from this exchange with my Airbnb host:

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

ugh he's also an organ donor AND a veteran. support the troops y'all

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

this is the future liberals want

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

4 years

I changed my name in Joe Biden’s database to “daddy” and it’s going to be the only thing that gets me through the 2020 campaign

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

I was ready to be a Good Voter and soberly consider the cases for and against this levy laid out in the voter's pamphlet the other day. And then I saw Tim Eyman's name in the "no" column, cackled maniacally, and voted for the levy.

jseattle

@jseattle

2 years

King County voters deciding on $1.25B Crisis Care Centers levy Proposition 1

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

1 year

After waiting 30 minutes for a train that never came, me and the other gay on the platform looked at each other, nodded, and split an Uber to the airport this morning. @SoundTransit - we have to do better than this.

SoundTransit-Alerts

@Alerts_ST

1 year

1 Line trains are single tracking between Capitol Hill Sta Station and Stadium Sta until further notice.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

Little-known fact: the reason so many gays are into public transportation is because of Barbra Streisand's highly multimodal journey in "Funny Girl"

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

10 months

Tell @seattledot that we need complete streets: it's time for protected cheese lanes on E. Madison Street! 🧀💨

jseattle

@jseattle

10 months

Happy viral video New Year: 2024 begins with First Hill BASE jumpers, E Madison TJ’s gouda roll

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

When ur boss says “post more train content”

Becky Nelson

@beckyheartsfood

2 years

@tuckerhimself More train content

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

3 years

I use light rail to: 👴🏻 Visit my 93-year-old grandfather in Northgate 🥖 Get incredible banh mi in the International District 🍆 Get drunk at gay bars on Capitol Hill, as god and @GAYTOWNS69 intended

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1 year

@PopulismUpdates we call this the Gaytriarchy

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Ladies, if he: - is always running late - only shows up once per day - is 1,377 miles long - says he "knows a place" and then take you to San Luis Opisbo, CA ...that's not your man. That's the @Amtrak Coast Starlight.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

1 year

How do we unleash these cute little monsters on all the golf courses in Seattle that should be housing

Carl Kinsella

@TVsCarlKinsella

1 year

i just looked up 'javelina' and let me tell you golf is not winning a PR war against these guys

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4 years

The National Monument to Jenga nears completion

PoPville

@PoPville

4 years

Elsewhere in Park View

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@tuckerhimself

9 months

@FairfieldPolice @wrychrd @henrykleeKTVU Why do you choose to infantilize the people driving the 4000 pound vehicles, while treating kids on bikes like adults?

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

A little late to the game here, but I ran a marathon this weekend, and I forced myself to smile for every camera. Please clap.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Wrapped up the summer with one last overnight backpacking trip to an old fire lookout this weekend.

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@tuckerhimself

10 months

Everyone: Why do we have an intersection as dangerous and dysfunctional as Denny and Stuart in the core of the city? @seattledot : STB! IDK! IDGAF! 🤪

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@tuckerhimself

1 month

Conversation on Fire Island this weekend: Me: "...because I'm really interested in transit and housing policy, so –" NYC gay: "We get it. You're gay. We all are."

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@tuckerhimself

4 years

Every time I stay at my dad’s house, my stepmom’s usually remembers to set out the Gay Hand Soap by the second or third day

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

5 years

Most excitingly, Jack Evans is now eligible to begin receiving parking tickets @PoPville

Tom Sherwood

@tomsherwood

5 years

#Breaking . Veteran Ward 2 DC Council member Jack Evans resigned today, stepping aside in the face of an almost certain Council move to expel him Jan. 21st over ethics issues that have dogged him for two years. @kojoshow @wcp .

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11 months

There is a 100% chance that George Santos will appear on Dancing With the Stars in the next three years

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

More backpacking fun: I spent eight days hiking 93 miles around @MountRainierNPS on the Wonderland Trail!

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

I love Seattle, and Seattle loves me back.

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@tuckerhimself

2 months

I feel… excited??? To be a Democrat??? Is it 2008?? Am I about to start planking???

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@tuckerhimself

10 months

Say what you want about Timm’s leadership in post, but if I had @DowC and @MayorofSeattle big-footing me and screwing over expansion every day, I don’t know how motivated I would be to stay either.

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

10 months

BREAKING: Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm is leaving her post Jan. 12 after a short 16 months on the job, officials announced Tuesday afternoon.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

#bikedc double whammy: I got to ride the new @bikeshare e-bikes on the new(ish) 9th street cycle track! Both are great. 9th Street should not have taken eight years to happen.

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@tuckerhimself

4 months

Begging policymakers ( @kcexec ) to realize that getting people to ditch their cars in favor of a diesel bus is still better for the climate than fancy e-buses

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

4 months

A new auditor's report says King County Metro Transit may not meet its 2035 goal for a zero emission fleet. Here are the challenges the agency is facing.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

@teoarmus Thank god someone is finally giving these older white people a voice, they have been silenced too long

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

The LGBT agenda: Let’s Go By Train!

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

I’m on a silver line train! To Dulles! With a first class ticket! Truly, miracles are unceasing.

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@tuckerhimself

5 months

All I need is for @SoundTransit to run the Sounder North at about 180 mph and it’s just like I’m in Japan. (Thank you @Uwajimaya for the delicious train treats!!)

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

5 years

I'm the Transportation Director of Fucknutsville cc: @gaytowns69

Asawin Suebsaeng

@swin24

5 years

Did Politico do a placeholder headline and forgot to delete it from the SEO or something

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@tuckerhimself

9 months

I got the stat wrong. We're a $725 billion economy. I don't care about citizen legislators.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Happy Friday from Edmonds, WA, where the rich NIMBYs are running scared from missing middle housing.

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@tuckerhimself

2 months

@SomervillePD of the many hilarious things about this, I love that you're trying to track this guy down five weeks later

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

7 months

Seattle in a nutshell: 👍 We will happily tear down the historic building in the photo on the left to build a new pleasure palace for rich people 🙅‍♂️ The now-vacant, former bank in the photo on the right is HISTORIC and MUST BE PRESERVED rather than become housing.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Spent four very fun nights backpacking solo in the Alpine Lakes - and got to try the local rapid transit system! ❄️🛷🍑

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

We strategically timed this backpacking trip to miss all of your Taylor Swift / Above & Beyond concert Instagram content.

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Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

A bit late, but over the weekend I had a great new personal best time in a half marathon at - 1:26:34! 🏁 I was super happy coming over the finish line:

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

world pride has really been helpful for identifying which gays in my social feed have the disposable income required to go to Australia

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

I stopped my my dad's house yesterday and I'm happy to report that my stepmom is still putting out the Gay Soap in observance of #PrideMonth2023

Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

4 years

Every time I stay at my dad’s house, my stepmom’s usually remembers to set out the Gay Hand Soap by the second or third day

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Today in urbanism, the @UW Drumheller Duck Ladder is hard at work supporting working moms:

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@tuckerhimself

4 years

🔮 BOLD PREDICTIONS ✨ 1. It will be very nice today and tomorrow in DC 🌞 2. People will go outside🚶‍♀️ 3. There will be angst and drama about "crowded parks" 😱 4. This could be avoided if @MayorBowser and @DDOTDC closed streets to cars and created space for people 🤷‍♂️

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Me every time I walk into a @SoundTransit light rail station and the arrival boards still don’t work, year after year

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Update: it’s still sunny in Seattle.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Spent a great week rafting 88 miles of the Grand Canyon and not thinking about cars, politics, or Twitter.

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@tuckerhimself

7 months

Happy Friday, gay transport twitter. Here are some planes on trains in Seattle, WA, to bring joy to your TL.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

There are a lot of words to describe the state that @seattledot has left E Madison St in during RapidRide construction, like “dangerous,” “insane,” and “unbelievable.” But there’s only one word I use when biking up or down it, which is “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck”

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

I am in San Francisco this week, and I am trying to convince myself not to visit this famous site of cinematography / public transportation / international relations:

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@tuckerhimself

5 months

As Pride begins, let us take a moment to reflect on what makes this month truly special: Keeping your VCR super-duper clean.

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@tuckerhimself

2 months

@DopeJars420 “Cottage Lake, WA”

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Some personal news – that's actually personal! I've joined the board of the Keepers of the Patos Light after working as a lighthouse docent this summer. Job #1 : Writing and placing an op-ed from our President on the LH's 130th anniversary. Check it out!

Patos Lighthouse celebrates 130 years of accomplishments | Letter | Islands' Weekly

Submitted by Denise Wilk, President of KOPL

www.islandsweekly.com

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

I know that place!

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@tuckerhimself

5 years

@DCPoliceDept @charlesallen It feels a little weird that a government agency is lobbying the Council from its official account?

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Also, apropos of nothing: Earlier this year I dated a guy who made fun of how often I wear green - my favorite color. And now every time I wear green, I get to think - fuck you!

Tucker Cholvin

@tuckerhimself

2 years

The LGBT agenda: Let’s Go By Train!

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

I will never really top Halloween 1997, when my sister went as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and I, a nerd, stayed on theme by going as the State of Kansas.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

Love the little details 🌈 in @KingCountyMetro 's map of bus reroutes for today's Seattle Pride Parade! Take the bus and Link light rail to celebrate #Pride today!

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@tuckerhimself

4 years

Tomorrow will bring a ton of news stories about crowded parks on a sunny day in DC. Today's crowded trails and parks were very predictable. @MayorBowser still hasn't acted to create more space by opening up streets for people, but there's still time and we still should.

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@tuckerhimself

3 years

pleased to announce that i am now the owner of a le creuset dutch oven, and now identify as upper class. see you at martha's vineyard!

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@tuckerhimself

8 months

Being gay is when a twink you went on a date with to see "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" six years ago adds you on LinkedIn on Valentine's Day

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@tuckerhimself

5 years

People in my neighborhood are complaining on Nextdoor about getting tickets from a traffic enforcement camera for rolling through the intersection without stopping completely, two blocks from an elementary school. Folks...that is the point.

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1 year

Today, in an astounding new depth of self-parody, i agreed to go on a date in Tacoma at least in part because I can take the @SoundTransit Sounder train to the date

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@tuckerhimself

3 years

I feel bad for working Americans who are paying higher gas prices because they're stuck in a crappy system that makes them buy a car and drive everywhere. I don't feel bad for people paying more at the pump bc they bought a $50,000 truck that they drive as the sole passenger.

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2 years

Riding @Amtrak , with my little bag made out of old Amtrak seats!! Love you, @Amtrak_Cascades

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@tuckerhimself

10 months

Seattle queers when you mess with their nude beach:

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

10 months

BREAKING: Seattle is canceling its proposal to build a play area at a beach park long known as a nude hangout.

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2 years

Being gay is merely the process of continually finding out every week that two people you went on dates with are now themselves dating

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

Went cross-country skiing this weekend on the old railroad bed for the Milwaukie Road railroad, which featured these incredibly kick-ass observation cars. Skiing is great but I'd like these back in service, too.

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5 years

Hey @DDOTDC , I noticed all the great new bulb-outs/flexpost action this morning on my run through @BloomingdaleDC @anc5edc this morning—they're a massive safety improvement for runners like me in the neighborhood. Keep it up!

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

When will Tucker Carlson be held accountable for besmirching the already-troubled name of Tucker

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@tuckerhimself

4 years

I have reached the "haranguing dumbasses I went to high school with on Facebook" phase of the pandemic. I acknowledge I may be late to this phase.

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

@gramsofgnats The federal government said you can have this or Medicare, and good news we already picked for you

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@tuckerhimself

1 year

That said, I reserve most of my derision for politicians in Seattle and Washington State who A) do nothing when air quality is horrendous, and B) think the answer to climate change is widening highways. (Hi @GovInslee .)

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

If @MayorofSeattle is serious about "bringing back downtown" he should bring back the best part of downtown: The Starbucks that used to be on the 40th floor of the Columbia Tower, and which you could just waltz into anytime - that shit rocked.

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@tuckerhimself

2 years

@hoosteen share the full phone number

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5 years

@TexasTribAbby For your reference:

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