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“We’re still talking about the same streets,” said the Seattle Streets Alliance Executive Director Gordon Padelford. Namely Rainier Avenue, Aurora Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Lake City Way, and Fourth Ave South, which are areas already flagged by the Seattle Department of Transportation as hot spots for injuries.

“And the ingredient that’s been missing has not been a lack of ideas or commitment from SDOT, it’s been a lack of political will.”

Specifically, he said, making tough changes to streets that might inconvenience drivers, but ultimately increase safety.

Seattle Department of Transportation and the advocacy groups are saying the same - that there needs to be street revisions to better protect pedestrians, but there’s a lack of political will.

Hopefully with the new mayor Wilson comes some changes on this front. It’s been a few months and maybe this’ll be brought to her attention sooner than later.

I was a mess of a person during my divorce. After 15 years of being forced to stay closeted and having found myself waiting on an ungrateful man in the hopes of some love being returned, I was ravenous for love and attention and fun. And when you're a bisexual woman at the height of your sexual prowess, well, things can get messy.

I started dating a bisexual man and I helped him come out of the closet with a lot of love and acceptance. We had so much fun dating others together and exploring sexually. I also knew deep down that the relationship wasn't going to last a long time - too many issues like knowing he dated other women even though he never found them attractive just because he wanted sex, his lack of care for having safe sex, and his alcoholism to name a few.

My own issues of actively going through a divorce and being emotionally unavailable due to that would also doom the relationship.

It felt terrible to finally break it off with him. We're still in the same friend group and he's spiraled a bit since our breakup. It's always sore when a relationship fizzles out.

Threesomes always make me feel like I'm walking on clouds for weeks after - so much fun, so much pleasure, so much dopamine lol

Friend breakups can be so painful! I'm sorry you went through that, especially her harsh words for you later.

I’m an older millennial and I go through phases a few months at a time - content with listening to old favorites and ravenous for new music.

Usually the genres are the same though. Punk, riot grrrl, grime, alternative hip hop, indie. Searching for new artists within those genres usually yields satisfying results for my tastes.